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Justified Hate Through Activism · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, sixteenth
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day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for starting your week with me.
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A weekend that featured sort of annular solar eclipse on Saturday. Maybe you got
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a peek at it. We got a few peaks at it here in the
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Chattahoochee Valley area, and I think that was the case of much of the
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country that was hoping. I'm excited that I have a very dear friend named
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EJ who lives in San Antonio. He was able to get a look at
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totality. His son took a photo and shared it with me, and he
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and I communicated a little bit. I said, this is the best I
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got here, and he said, oh, I got to get you the
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picture of my son took and he sent it and it's a great photo.
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But it's one of those things that I have not experienced totality before, where
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you know, you get the you know, absolute pitch darkness. And when
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I say totality, they had the ring of fire in this particular one.
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It wasn't everything didn't go pitch black so but they they got to experience that,
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I guess is the better way to say it. But I've had,
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you know, my good friend doctor Sean Cruz and told me, at some
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point you have to, you know, be at the point of totality.
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It's worth making the trip. So may maybe maybe in April, because there's
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another one coming in April. But anyway, folks that were going to get
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that ring of fire, I guess I had a lot of disappointment in that,
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you know, clouds were blocking their view of that, and a lot
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of folks here experienced that, but there were moments where the clouds broke for
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us and gave us an opportunity to see it. Was just kind of bizarre
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to me as I'm looking at it and there's people like walking in my neighborhood
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that I would say, oh, did you get a look at the eclipse?
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It's visible? Now, what are you talking about? Is an eclipse
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today? And I had some of the glasses that I was able to share
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with them and say, well, have a look sunglasses. Not okay,
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by the way, there are a lot of people saying get your sunglasses and
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go check it out. No, no, that's not good. You don't.
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You don't want to look at it with sunglasses, maybe through clouds.
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It wasn't so bad, but it's not a good idea. That's not good
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advice for people. So that has has come and gone and we are into
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a new week here together. I hope you survived your Friday the thirteenth,
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because, you know, a lot of Jason Vorhees pictures popping up on social
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media, a lot of things to be concerned about with that Friday the thirteenth,
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if you're superstitious. If you're not superstitious, you're you know, managed,
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just mine, No big deal, not a problem. We kick off
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the week together. Oh. Another thing that happened to me over the weekend,
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and it kind of leads into what I want to talk about today.
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But yesterday I was in the store and I noticed someone wearing a T shirt
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that basically referenced it. And I'm going to try to summarize it because it
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was. It was. There's a lot there to digest, but it basically
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was one of those things referencing how it's not enough to it's not enough to
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not be racist. You have to fight racism, right, and that that
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mantra has been floated around for a while now, and it's concerning. It's
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concerning to me, and I understand for some in spirit what they're going for
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there. But that leads me into what I want to talk about today.
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And I want to follow up on something that I said, because after having
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conversations with a couple of people just reflecting on they were defending something that I
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talked about, and uh, you know, basically you know, reached out
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to me and said just on the on this particular topic, and I respect
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what they're saying with it, and I hope my my comments were not I
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guess they were at least close enough to being a little more stepping on toes
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that I wasn't trying to step on. That's the best way I can say.
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But I was talking about what I think is kind of an unnecessary thing
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that people do when they go on their social media and they put up there
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you know, I support Israel, or I support Ukraine, or I support
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and I'm not saying that there's there's no purpose for that. What I was
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trying to equate it to is when people say that thoughts and prayers are pointless.
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And to me, if I tell you that, I'm going to pray
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for a group of people, or for you, or for a scenario.
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I feel one I should do it, and two that it's far more effective
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in there being something positive to come from it than just posting a photo.
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I'm not discounting the value and showing support for something. I just think there's
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a lot of people who do it and feel like that's it. That's all
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I've got to do. I changed a picture. My profile picture has a
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you know, a picture of an Israeli flag. So that's it. That's
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all I've got to do. And there's not really a lot of people doing
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that, by the way, and that was one of my other comments.
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A lot of people who felt the need to show the Ukraine colors but not
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necessarily show their support for Israel. And there's a few reasons for that.
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I know that there's a few reasons for that, but I do think it
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is important that as a society, as a people, as a planet,
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that we need to let people know that evil does not stand. And I
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have said I'm not going to talk a whole lot. I didn't talk a
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lot about Ukraine. I did kind of early on because I was very disgusted
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with the fact that in paying Still after the conflict started, the war started,
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we were still purchasing fuel from Russia, which was inevitably blood money.
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We were helping to fund the war and the attacks on Ukraine, while at
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the same time saying, oh, we can't let this happen. I do
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feel like we have done a lot of things that have supported what's happened with
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the attacks on Israel, and I think there's been a lot of bad decisions
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that we have made. There have been a number of bad decisions that we've
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made that have helped lead to that, including also where we've purchased fuel and
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oil from around the world. So to me, it's I can't sit here
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and give you the daily updates on what's happening with the conflict because the essence
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of this type of show is that you might be listening to it in a
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week or three days. I can't do commentary on it. And what I
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would like to address is something that ties into this idea of this T shirt,
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this concept that it's not enough to just be against racism. You have
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to be proactively fighting racism. We've been told this about a number of things.
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It's not enough to not be homophobic. You have to be pro LGBTQ
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plus vocally, you have to express it. You have to screen it from
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the rooftops. You have to let people know because if you don't, you're
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not doing enough. It's not enough to accept people as you're equal and live
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your life. You have to do something that ultimately does breed more contempt and
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potential racism or hate down the line. That's where I feel like the problem
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comes in. It's one thing to me to continue my life of saying the
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differences that I see in other people in my daily life are things that I
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can celebrate because I don't have contempt or hatred for them. I don't find
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them to be evil or disgusting or disturbing or any of those things. I
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just see them as people and I can celebrate the things about them that are
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different, and that's fine. That, to me is the ultimate push for
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equality and harmony and everything in the world that we've claimed that we want.
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But the people who want to breed contempt and breed hate and breed racism,
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they want to force people into being activists about it. They want to say,
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you have to do the following things. It's not enough that you are
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my friend and you support me as a person if I'm in the middle of
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transitioning of my gender. I was told by someone that I know who was
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in the process of transitioning that it's not enough to not say anything. If
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you're quiet on social media about it, not just be their friend, not
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just continue to be their friend. If you're quiet about it, then you're
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part of the problem. Okay. This wasn't said directly to me. It
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was set in a message that was sent to a number of people that included
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me, because it was obvious that I wasn't on social media screaming from the
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rooftops about gay rights or LGBTQ plus rights or transitioning rights. I've said on
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the show many times. I've said to anyone who's asked me about it,
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you do whatever you want to do. You be you. It's the best
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thing I can do. This is the best way that I can respect you
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and love you and appreciate you is just to tell you you do what you
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think is best for you. I know what I think is best for me.
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I have a code that I live by in my life. It ties
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into my faith. That is what I live by, and part of that
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includes me loving everyone on the planet, everyone, even the people that I
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disagree with. That's part of the code of what I live by. That
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is from the mouth of the person that I choose to follow in my faith.
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So that's who I am. But I don't have to be an activist
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in order to be the best person that I can be. You can't convince
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me of that. You can't tell me that I have to do something,
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because what we do is we end up breeding more contempt for it. That's
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what ends up happening. And I think the people who want it to be
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activism understand that if you're willing to be an activist, you are going to
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breed more contempt for it, which will cause more need for more activism.
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And activism is a way of getting you to fall in line and particular political
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party, that's what they want. So whether it's race, whether it's sex,
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whether it's LGBTQ plus, whatever it is, whatever it is, religion,
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sports, teams, whatever it is that causes us to be so mean
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and nasty to one another, and we get into certainly politics, So we
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also get to this point where because we feel like we're right, and this
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is part of what the activism does because you think you're right, then it
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becomes okay to cross certain lines with other people. So as soon as you
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feel like I'm right, then I'm justified in saying the things that I think
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are okay to say, because being hurtful or nasty doesn't apply anymore because I'm
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right. This also applies to the people by the way that they're specifically talking
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about, the racist people, the homophobic people, the transphobic people, the
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sexist people. They feel that whatever it is that they've decided is right and
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just in their minds, then it justifies all of the hateful, nasty things
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that they do to other people. But this also applies to the people who
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want you to be an activist. It also applies to the people who want
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to tell you that it's okay to call somebody a fascist because you disagree with
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them. It's okay to compare people to Hitler because you disagree with them.
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We have politicians that are you have a lot of conservative politicians are saying,
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hey, we stand with Israel. We have a kind of a mixed bag
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on the left about how to handle this whole thing with Israel. They don't
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really know. Some of them have been vocal and said we stand with Israel.
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Some of them they they can't quite figure out where they're supposed to fall
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in line when it comes to constituents, where it comes to people, because
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again they view Israel as not necessarily the good guys, not necessarily the good
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guys. So they have to figure out, well, where do we stand
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on this? How do we because we've said and done things in the past,
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and we don't really know where things fall with Israel, So we don't
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really know where we're supposed to be in this conflict. And that's the thing
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is we have people who have justified the attacks on the Jewish people. That's
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something that's gone on for a really long time. Right. We have history
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books. We have one, this one particular book that you may have heard
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of, best selling book of all time. It has a lot of information
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in there about the Jewish people and the history of things that have happened to
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them. So if you've got people who say it's okay to do these horrific
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things that have happened in the name of Israel bad, they've justified it.
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They've convinced themselves the Jewish people have to be eradicated. So we're going to
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do these awful things, and yet here in the US we haven't gotten to
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the point of not quite right. We haven't gotten to that stage of it
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yet, but we do have this growing animosity of if you don't agree with
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us, or if you're not actively working with us as an activist, you're
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the enemy. And a lot of things, hateful things have been justified in
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the US in the name of political activism. A lot of things, riots,
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riots during presidential elections, really shady stuff going on during elections. I
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mean, you could sit there and say all day, okay, well,
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the last election was fair, the outcome was just. The outcome was what
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it was supposed to be. But there was a lot of shady stuff going
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on. We know there was shady stuff going on, and people have justified
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it. Indicting a former president who was running for president and who is the
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likely candidate for president as a Republican is justifying doing that. I mean,
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that's what's happened right now. They've justified doing it because they don't like him
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that much. They don't want the American people to have the opportunity to vote
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for him. I know, that's not dropping people over the wall and letting
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them grab children and murder them in front of their parents. I'm not saying
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that. I'm just pointing out the fact that once you have gotten to a
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point where you look at someone else and you have justified that they are the
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worst people in the world, or the worst person in the world, or
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the people who are supporting that particular person are awful and terrible, then you've
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you've opened the door to allow terrible things to happen regularly. You've opened the
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door for terror, terrorism, which is what's happening, and it happened during
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our presidential election, people riding in the streets in the name of activism because
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you've justified it. Hey, these people aren't doing enough. It's only fair
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if we get ours. Critical race theory tells us where it draws the line
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for us. One side very racist, the other side can't be racist.
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I've still seen people recently posting about how it's only white people can be racist.
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What is that that justification alone? And by the way, all white
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people are racist? To follow up with that, in some way, right,
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they've had all of these advantages, they've had all these things that have
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made them so much better off than everyone else. Hey, that's a conversation
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you can have. Doesn't make all white people racist, doesn't, doesn't at
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all. But once you justify it, once you justify that, then you've
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justified all the horrible things that you could possibly think of or not even think
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of, unjust horrible things to do to other people. Once you've decided that
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the Jewish people deserve this, then you can do the unthinkable. And that's
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what they've done, and that's what we're facing now. And we're also,
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now, by the way, in a position where we don't know who's coming
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to this country. They've declared jihad on all of us, anybody who's supported
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Israel, anybody who vocalizes it. And that's one reason people don't want to
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put on social media that they support Israel, because they're concerned, what does
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that mean? Does that means someone's going to come after me? Who's come
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in the country over the last few years. We don't know. We don't
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have a clue who's here or agent's already in place for some kind of an
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attack here. I hope not, I pray not. Can't help but feel
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like that's already in place, though we know that based on what we saw
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with Osama bin Laden, and nine to eleven. Long term planning is a
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strength when you're hiding in the shadows and when you've justified all these horrific acts.
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So is it possible that we have agents already here waiting, planning,
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coordinating. Absolutely, especially if we don't know who's come in and we don't
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know what their intentions are when they got here, and if we've just allowed
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it to continue to happen. People who've justified in their minds what they're going
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to do and how they're going to do it is okay because we're the enemy
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to them. The Jewish people are the enemy. So they did this unthinkable
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thing. Could it happen here? Seems easier if they've just been able to
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come into the country and be ready to go. We can't let ourselves be
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pushed into this justification against each other. We just can't. We're there,
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We're long past that. We're not to the point of killing each other actively.
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We're not. But could we get there if we continue to let the
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animosity grow and let the justification for things grow. I mean, it's possible.
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West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, Suzanne Summers passed away yesterday,
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one day before today, which would have been her seventy seventh birthday.
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She'd been battling breast cancer, for advanced aggressive breast cancer for a very long
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used to find a way to work her into the shows by just having Chrissy
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call in. But a successful show there. Later she had other successful series
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on TV. But Susanne Summers dead at seventy six yesterday and today would have
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been her seventy seventh birthday. The family was there with her to celebrate her
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birthday, and she didn't quite make it to the birthday, but at least
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the family, I guess was there and able to gather with her before she
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passed. So all right, so let's talk about We've talked a little bit
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about work and the folks that are still able to work remotely versus people who've
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been asked to come back into work. So once upon a time when people
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were just going to work, the commute was just part of the experience.
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Then you get a couple of years of not having to commute, and then
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suddenly it's become very glaringly apparent what it cost you to commute back and forth
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to work. A survey of hybrid workers found that days when they are in
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the office, they spend about fifty one dollars thirty six dollars more than what
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they would spend if they work from home. Biggest cost lunch sixteen dollars for
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meal on average, followed by the commuting cost of about fourteen dollars. And
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they say breakfast or coffee thirteen dollars, parking, things like that that they
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would have to do when they go into an office. I guess in a
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larger city, more proof that a I will be everywhere. Dominoes and has
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announced plans to use an AI assistant to help make pizzas. I don't know
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where how this is gonna work. I don't know, but it seems I
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mean, I don't know what the AI is needed for. I mean,
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what does it need to do while it's actually making the pizza? What do
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you need artificial intelligence for you tell it the ingredients you want on it.
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It should just make it right. Isn't that the way it should work.
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I don't really understand what would be necessary for the AI to come in as
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a factor. Oh, I don't think you want to have these two ingredients
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together. Well that's what I ordered. Just make the pizza. I mean
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a person could have done that, but they don't do that. You order
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the pizza, they make the pizza. That's what it should do. I
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don't know. I'm curious to know what AI exactly would come into play for
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it. Have you heard of the Omad diet. No, it's not,
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Oh, you're mad because you're hungry. I don't know. Maybe it would
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be you probably would be hungry because the Omad diet is the one meal a
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day diet, and the idea is that eat you eat all of your calories
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for the day in a one hour time period. It doesn't have to necessarily
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be one meal, but you know, you're just kind of packing them all
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in for that one hour. It's really extreme intermittent fasting, and you don't
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eat for twenty three hours a day. Proponents say it not only leads to
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weight loss, but to better health overall slows your aging process and it that's
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kind of a simple set of rules. You just figure out what your one
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hour timeframe is and I guess eat like crazy. I mean I would think
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that eating I don't know, two thousand calories, what are the recommended amount
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in an hour? I mean you could do it if you were eating unhealthy
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foods if that was the goal, But if you're trying to eat healthier,
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that might be a challenge to get to the two thousand calorie mark. I
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don't know, Yeah, I don't know. News in the upscale town of
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Saddle River, New Jersey just hit the market with the cost of ten million
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dollars. Says that it's kind of a bargain when you consider the insides are
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covered with gold leaf forty seven thousand sheets of the stuff. A Dan and
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Shari Funch, both beauty industry executives, built the mansion about twenty years ago.
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Made sure to include must haves like a beauty salon, not one,
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but two pubs, and the most impressive thing, the overwhelming amount of twenty
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two care gold. It actually costs sixteen million dollars, but Dan Funch said
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he listed the house for less than he put into it because he built the
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house for his wife and family's enjoyment rather than the return on investment. So
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if it's got you know, sixteen million dollars worth of stuff in it and
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they're selling it for ten million, I mean you're losing money if you don't
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buy it. Right. That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show.
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