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Dems Attack Johnson's Character... Because He's Too Christian? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, first day
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of November. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. Helps when you push
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all the right buttons. Here we are November Christmas music. It's everywhere.
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I did see something yesterday that I haven't really seen. I mean, I'm
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aware that there are fall decorations, and that there are I guess Thanksgiving themed
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fall decorations. I saw a lot of them going into stores yesterday. I
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saw the Halloween stuff getting significant excuse me, getting significantly smaller. Morning hiccup.
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That's not normal. I guess it's the coffee. The section of Halloween
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stuff had really dwindled down pretty small, and the candy had been moved to
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areas where they were trying to get people to grow. But as they were
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coming into the store, I guess, and the all of the Walmart in
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particular, I had to make a quick run in there yesterday, and I
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just saw a lot of fall themed decorations. To me, it seemed like
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more than usual. And I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you
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can tell me I'm wrong. I'm not really sure, but to me it
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seemed like there were a lot more than I'm used to singing. But I
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know people will often complain, They'll say, why are we doing the Halloween
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transition straight into Christmas? When it comes to music on the radio, I
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worked in I worked for a radio station for a long time that was one
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of those stations. I worked for another station that would just around Thanksgiving start
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mixing in the occasional Christmas song and then you know, up until actual Christmas
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Day when we would play you know, all Christmas music for eighteen hours or
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whatever. So I've been on that side of it too. From a programming
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standpoint, I preferred that. I'm just saying, just from as you're the
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one picking the songs that they're going to play on the radio. I preferred
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that for the format I was working for. Now the stations now that do
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it, and are probably already doing it this morning, it works for them.
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They're trying to get you to listen right up until well, there's a
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point the way radio ratings work in some markets, at least here in our
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area, there's a few more weeks of the ratings period to go, and
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they get into Christmas music as early as they can, hoping that it will
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shift your attention to those stations and you'll get the little diaries and fill them
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out. That's what they're hoping that you'll do, because there's a point where
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it doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter if you're still listening once the diaries
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are turned in. After that, it doesn't matter. So they're trying to
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that's part of why it happens so early, and there is a sense in
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stores of trying to get you in the spirit of shopping. It's fine,
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now I can really give you all the behind the scenes stuff. Not a
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lot of people talk about the diary aspect of it. But the stores want
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you thinking Christmas. They want you in there thinking about Christmas. They want
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you shopping. They want you looking for maybe a gift while you're in there
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thinking ahead. They want that mindset there to make you feel that urgency to
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get your shopping done. Because obviously we know now that we're in November,
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Black Friday looms. For those stores. It's big. It's you know,
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the day it's Black Friday. It's black because it's the day they get into
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out of the red for the year in some cases. So that's what the
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focus is, and that's what they're trying to do. But today it's really
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they're trying hard to just get you to think about their radio stations today a
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little bit more, just for a few more weeks, is what they're trying
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to do. Uh, that's just the reality. We had a trigg or
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treating last night. I you know, we we got started really at about
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six, a little after six. I know some areas were doing it at
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five, and we we were with friends and not our neighborhood, another neighborhood
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with them, because they invited us to come with them, and we uh
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did. It was a new neighborhood for us, one we hadn't hadn't treated
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in before. But I kept my tradition going and I know you you uh,
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And it started initially under the spirit of anything for a laugh, and
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also knowing that if I kept doing it it would eventually really embarrass my kids.
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We're not really there yet. I think there was a point one year
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where they kind of rolled their eyes and we're like, are you still doing
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this? And this year they were excited about what are you gonna do this
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year? But at some point I I just decided I don't remember exactly when
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it was that I would start basically, especially if I wore a costume maybe
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to our We go to a Halloween party every year with friends as well,
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and I thought, well, if I can just convert whatever the costume is,
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or a costume that I already have into like a female version of that
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character, sort of a you know, a lady version. So one year
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I had a Superman cape and a Superman shirt and they thought, oh,
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you're addressing a Superman. And then when we got there, I pulled a
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blond wig out of my bag and I was Supergirl. You get the idea,
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and at some point your kids enjoy it and then at some point they're
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going to be embarrassed by it. We haven't hit that point just yet.
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I thought this might be the year, but it's it did not, or
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they just don't care and they find it funny. This year I or Halloween
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party costume. One year it was I built a several years ago, I
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built a cardboard pac Man costume that I that I made, and uh,
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I for the Halloween party, I went as pac Man. For trigger treating,
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I was Miss pac Man. I put the bow on and you know,
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went out as Miss pac man, so you get the idea. That's
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the spirit of what I do. Uh. This year, our Halloween costume
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for the party was as the the Ingles family from the Little House on the
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Prairie. So I needed to come up with something that was kind of separate
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because that, you know, I could have dressed in, you know,
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the prairie dress. Jill wore a prairie dress and was my angles. I
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could have done that, but I thought, no, I'm gonna stay.
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I'm gonna go with the Barbie theme this year. So I wore a NASA
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T shirt and I went as astronaut Barbie, put on my blonde wig and
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pink sunglasses. And the kids liked it. They thought it was funny.
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So it worked and a few there were a few Barbies we saw while we
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were out trigger treating, and I couldn't convince the young girls dressed as Barbie
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that I was, in fact also dressed as Barbie. But I tried.
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I did my best. I did have one kid come up and say,
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wait a minute, are you Barbie? So that was good. One person
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got it on their own. So here we are on a Wednesday morning,
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the first day of November and making our way this is now it we're over
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the last real hurdle before we get into full holiday season. I know it's
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a few weeks, but it's coming up fast. Couple of things I want
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to talk about this morning. I saw a few people that were commenting,
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and I've heard a few people that I know say that they're optimistic now that
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Republicans are on the path that Democrats have taken where there's some unity there,
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and they think the indication of that is the selection of Mike Johnson as Speaker
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of the Ows. And this relates to some degree to something that I've been
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talking about, because I have acknowledged the fact that it is unique that Republicans
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don't do this sort of mindless sheep thing where they just all vote for the
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same thing. They all get told to show up in a white dress at
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the State of the Union, so they all wear a white dress. They
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get told don't applaud for certain things. If one of them does, they
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get a dirty look and chastised. And I'm sure there's elements of that that
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go on behind the scenes with the Republicans, but it's pretty clear that's going
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on with Democrats. There's a certain set of things they're expected to do.
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I know that there are a handful of Democrats that break away, and I've
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talked about that. You know, you've got the squad, and a lot
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of times they do dictate where things are. They're some of the ones first
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to show up and they're all white at the State of the Union. And
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then you've got you know, the occasional you know, Joe Manchin or Kirsten
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Cinema who's not a Democrat anymore but still caucuses with them, still votes with
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them and some things. But they were two that you know, stood firm
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and helped the country for a while. Eventually, you know, we get
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to the hidden green New Deal inside the Inflation Reduction Act. But you know,
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for a while, they stood firm for a while, they did what
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we needed them to do as a country. But there's not a lot of
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that. There's not a whole lot of that. Republicans have those occasional moments
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too, where it seems like everybody's on the same page. Hey an opportunity
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to repeal aspects of the Affordable Care Act Obamacare, and then you get you
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know, the old Maverick and I mean, it's just so frustrating when you
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see John McCain be the guy who stops it from having this opportunity to be
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at least partially repealed or elements of it repealed. But that's what Democrats were
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looking at with Joe Manchin, That's what they were looking at with Kristen Cinema.
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I don't think anybody on the Republican side chased John McCain into a bathroom
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and harassed him while he was in there trying to use the toilet. But
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that's what happened with Kirsten Cinema. Because you know, if you chase a
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sitting member of the Senate into you know, the Capitol building and run them
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around and try to harass them while they're in the bathroom, there's nothing No
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one seems to have a problem with that. There's nothing offensive or problematic there
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that's that's not considered. That's just people protesting, expressing their rights. That's
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all that is. But with Mike Johnson and we went through the votes,
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before we went through the votes, obviously for McCarthy, we know that that
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was that was painful at times to watch, at times, it was interesting.
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At times, it was interesting to see the way it was playing out.
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And then we got to the phase where they threw McCarthy out. They
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basically called the shot to begin with. I think Gates was one of the
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ones who said, I'll vote for you, but when it becomes time I
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feel like it's time, I'll be happy to jump in and remove you.
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And and that's ultimately what happened. So we went through a few potential Republicans,
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we went through some options that were there. We went through Scalise,
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right, we went through Jordan. There were names floated around and we thought,
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oh my gosh, some of these guys could be solid picks. And
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ultimately, in the behind the scenes vote, the private vote, they came
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up with, you know, options that ultimately didn't hold because they felt not
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conservative enough. And then they decided on Johnson. And I talked earlier in
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the week about what SNL did to, you know, sort of mock him
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and his family, because this is a now it's become the character assassination we've
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already seen. I guess Jen Saki on her show make fun of his Christian
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values. He's a Christian fundamentalist, and this is the kind of thing that
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they just get off on extreme Christian conservatism, right, So they're looking it's
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always character assassination, doesn't matter who it is, doesn't matter what they've done,
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It doesn't matter if I mean, you look at somebody like Mike Johnson,
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what is the character assassination that you're going to go for with him?
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Oh, he's just too religious, he's too Christian to be a Republican Speaker
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of the House. That's what they see. This is a story after story
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after s and it's one of the things that they want to make sure that
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you know. If you're someone it's a whack a mole scenario. If you
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pop your head up, they're going to whack you down. It doesn't matter
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who you are, you can be Think about John McCain, who, by
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the time he passed away, by the time he had his funeral, was
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beloved, absolutely beloved by folks on the left. I know people who would
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never have voted for John McCain for anything, would have spit in his face
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when he was running for president as a Republican. Once he died, suddenly
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it was like, well, he was a good guy. He was one
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of the guys who wasn't afraid to cross the aisle. And that's different than
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the way they approached Joe Mansion, isn't it. It's different than the way
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they approach Kirsten cinema. They try to threaten her and scare her and terrorize
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her while she's trying to go to the loo. She's trying to go to
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the bathroom and do one of two things in the bathroom, and they're harassing
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her and trying to scare her and intimidate her. Imagine that. I know
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we talked about this before when it happened, but just imagine you're a female
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senator. I mean, anybody, but especially Let's just try to play this
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game. Let's try to think about what it must feel like to be a
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woman senator and have people chasing you into the women's bathroom to scream at you
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and yell at you and harass you because you didn't vote the way they wanted
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you to vote for something. How would that make her feel? I don't
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know. She's probably done interviews. Maybe she's disgusted. I don't know.
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But it is different, isn't it. They see, oh my gosh,
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that McCain. He voted our way a couple times. Boy, he wasn't
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afraid to cross the aisle and help us out When Cinema and Mansion do it.
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They're dirt, they are the devil, They're evil. And of course,
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ultimately Sinema left the party. She didn't want to be identified with them,
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not if that's how they were going to treat her and how they were
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going to vocalize their thoughts of her, how they were going to outwardly express
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their disgust for her. So this is the character assassination for Mike Johnson.
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He is he's just too Christian, he's too conservative. He's too Christian conservative,
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too fundamentalist. See, when they can't say anything else, they throw
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fundamentalists because that sounds bad, doesn't it. Anytime you can throw the word
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fundamentalist in the mix, it just makes it sound so much worse. Extreme
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right wing fundamentalists they can say that. I mean, I don't think i've
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heard anybody call him hitler yet. I don't think I've heard any of that.
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But you know, it's just a matter of time. It's just a
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matter of time before they'll find some way to associate him with I don't know,
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any sort of extremist position, because this is what they do. But
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Republicans, maybe you're starting to see the opportunity to light. And maybe this
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is what they're afraid of, is that maybe now as Republicans have all decided
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to vote together for him and move forward and they've done that, that maybe
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they can get together and this can be a benefit for lowering taxes, This
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could be a benefit for the economy. I mean, this is what we
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need. Need a very staunch conservative Speaker of the House. That's what we
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need. And yes, it is possible to have a conservative Speaker of the
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House that will cross the aisle and work with a Democrat president if the Democrats
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are willing to do that. Think about what happened with Newt Gingrich and Bill
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Clinton. Think about the positives that came from, you know, crossing the
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isle at times, or they were able to get some things done. I
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don't know that this is going to be the right mix. I don't know
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that the fundamentalist Christian news, why is that so bad? Why is it
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so bad for somebody to be an outspoken Christian, an outspoken person of faith.
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I understand if that's not what your moral compass is, and you think,
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I don't want him pushing his religion on me. But you know,
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big picture wise, once upon a time you looked at somebody and said,
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Wow, this person is a already pretty sincere and genuine Christian. They probably
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are going to be at least have some sense of morality. They're going to
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have a moral compass that they're going to live by, and you know,
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generally speaking, that's usually something we can all work with. As long as
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they're not being in a you know, a putting themselves in a position where
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they're forcing their religion on somebody. As long as they're not doing that,
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why wouldn't that be a positive? Right? I mean, why wouldn't somebody
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look at that in the light and go, hey, this is probably at
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least somebody who we would hope walks the walk that he talks. So maybe,
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just maybe if he does that and looks out for his fellow man,
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looks out for others, and can do his job as a conservative, can
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look back to what the Founders intended, can look back to what the intentions
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were for what we refer to what the Founders referred to as you know,
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inalienable rights, god given rights, and there's a number of those right those
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god given rights, not government given god given rights. This seems like it
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should be a positive. But for some reason. Of course, Democrats see
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it as a negative. They want to bash him because he dared to poke
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his head up. They've done it with candidates, They've done it with it
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doesn't matter men, women, children of candidates, sometimes adult children of people
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who have nothing to do with the campaign of Mike Johnson. They've gone after
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his son and they've questioned that, tried to make that into something. But
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we'll see, we'll see if this is going to be a rallying point for
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Republicans. Can they all stick together and get some things done? That will
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dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. Well,
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today is probably a day where you, if you didn't already do it last
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night, you probably at some point today will be having some of your kid's
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Halloween candy, whether they're aware of it or not. In some cases it's
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you know, you're pretty blunt about it. You refer to the parent tax
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when it comes to candy. While at hubs survey found sixty percent of parents
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help themselves to their kids Halloween candy, and chances are they're taking Reese's Peanut
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butter cups. Apparently that being the most popular Halloween candy, and I think
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parents like it a lot. I know kids like it a lot. I
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have one that's not a big fan of it, and at one point last
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night he actually handed me a Reese's peanut butter cup that he got from some
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house and immediately added it to me because he wasn't going to eat it.
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So yeah, I mean, the parent tax is real, and I think
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it's only fair. You just all have to be careful and paste those kids
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on it. That candy can last quite a while, and we do have
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some very sweets heavy holidays still coming up. I mean, this is one.
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We got two more that are going to involve lots of candy and desserts
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and things. So you got to try to help pay them. You don't
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want them to be too much, you know, write this first couple of
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days if they didn't already just kill it last night. According to statistics,
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Americans spent about three point six billion on holloway candy Halloween cans this year,
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three point six billion more than one hundred years ago, right, because you
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know that didn't become a thing one hundred years ago or until after that.
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They just gave out fruit back in the nineteen twenties and thirties. But now
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if you give somebody an apple or grapes instead of candy, you know,
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you might get egged or your house toilet papered. So anyway, but three
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point six billion was about how much they expected to spend this year on Halloween
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candy. I mean, that seems like a lot of money. That seems
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like a lot of money, and it's I mean, if you've got a
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lot of people that are buying the king size stuff this year that did that,
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you know, then that adds up quickly. But if you're still just
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getting the fun size stuff for the little pretzels in the bag or whatever.
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Anyway, A new survey found that fifty six percent of respondents say that they
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or spenders splurging for things they really want. Thirty four percent so that they
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were savers who won't buy something until it goes on sale or when they really
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need it. Ten percent fell somewhere in between. So which do you think
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is the happier group the spenders? Spenders said they were happier with their relationships,
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their work life, their personal life, even their financial life. Eighty
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two percent of spenders said that they are good gift givers compared to sixty six
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percent of those who save. Yeah, I'm definitely on the saver side,
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and I don't I'm not ashamed of that. I think you have to be
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frugal. There are times when it's okay to splurge, but there's also times
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when I think you just put that little effort in you can find a good
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deal. Right. Speaking of parent taxes, there is a restaurant in Georgia,
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Blue Ridge, Georgia that is basically expecting you to have well behaved kids.
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It's up in the Takoa area. Tacoa riverside restaurant has made a name
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for itself by adding additional charges written on the menu. There's a twenty percent
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surcharge for parties larger than six, a three point five per six surcharge if
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you're paying with a credit card, and a fifty dollars fee for adults unable
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to parent. The restaurant's owner, Tim Richter, says that he implemented the
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charge a few years ago, but never actually added the charge to a bill
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until a couple of weeks ago, when a group of nine kids dined in
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his restaurant. He said, we want parents to be parents. This isn't
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the first restaurant, of course, to have a bad behavior surcharge, as
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it happened in Singapore a year ago when they did a ten dollars screaming children
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surcharge. Yeah, so I don't know if it's really going to come up
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very much, but it's the fact that it's on the menu. It reminds
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me of a skit on or a bit I guess game on Impractical Jokers.
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They would do it. See if they could just put a random surcharge on
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a bill and see if the people would just accept it. So all right,
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it's we're into some people will start decorating for Christmas right out of the
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gate. So apparently, I guess with Barbie being popular this year, get
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ready for a lot of pink Christmas things, pink miss if you will,
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and shoppers are I said, they've set seen a lot of pink holiday decorations
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and stores, pink Christmas trees, pink reindeer, pink snow globes, pink
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wrapping paper and ribbons. So this will be a big year for pink,
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all thanks to Barbie. And this article has a lot of those Santa clauses
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and pink nutcrackers and pink. It's a lot of pink. I mean,
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you know, it's a reason to get you to buy See, this is
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the savor in me coming out. It's a reason to get you to buy
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more holiday decorations. That's ultimately what they're trying to do. All right,
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