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Follow the Science Even When It's Inconvenient · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show Thursday
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morning, at thirteenth day of July. Hi, I'm Wes. Thanks for
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starting your day with me. Or whatever time of day you'll listen. I'm
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gonna assume maybe it's in the morning. I don't know for sure. Either
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way, thanks for tuning in. And let's just jump right into it,
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shall we. I mean on this Thursday the thirteenth, which to me is
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definitely worse than a Friday the thirteenth, right because at least on Friday the
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thirteenth, it's Friday. That's something that my good friend Scott Miller and I
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have tried to convince everyone for years, and people freak out and break out
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there tristadeca phobia or whatever it's called. I'm not a phobiaologist. I don't
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know. I don't know what it is. I think that's how you say
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it. But anyway, Thursday the thirteenth got another day to go. It's
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not Monday the thirteenth would be the worst though, right, unless it's on
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a holiday. All right, let's let's jump into this as we're learning a
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little bit more about what it means to follow the science as now a Republican
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led select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, learning more information from some of the
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scientists that were involved in what seems more and more obvious, more and more
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apparent as we go, a cover up of the lab origin for COVID,
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basically saying many of them admitting that this is quite a bit of a political
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move to avoid problems and issues with China. A number of scientists have spoken
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up about this, and they basically say that they were employed fatally flawed science
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to avoid blaming China for the COVID nineteen pandemic. They did not want anyone
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to suspect that COVID came from a lab. And that's when you remember the
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now infamous paper that came out and said, no, no, no,
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this has a natural origin, doesn't have anything to do with a lab.
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It couldn't have come from a lab. And all of you people who think
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that this came from a lab are conspiracy theorists. Okay. Subcommittee's words to
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describe their conclusion of their study on this is that this is the very anatomy
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of a cover up. Okay, So let's just talk a little bit about
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what it means to follow the science. And we heard a lot of that
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from doctor Fauci, and when anybody challenged him on anything, he basically asserted,
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to question me is to question science, declaring effectively that he is science.
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Can't question him, can't challenge him. His opinion is everything. His
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opinion is the opinion of science. We have this very distorted view now that
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the way that we conduct science is you get a group of scientists together,
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they come up with a consensus and they tell everybody, this is science.
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Now believe it because we say so. We've gone through a number of these
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over there. The other day I mentioned, I mean, there was a
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time when, you know, a consensus of scientists believe that the Earth was
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the center of the universe. Everything rotated around the Earth. A consensus of
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scientists at the time, I believed that. And suddenly if you started to
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step up and it doesn't seem right, we all seem to be moving around.
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You know, that really large hot nuclear reactor in the sky. Maybe
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it's the very center of our own I don't know, solar system, maybe
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not the universe, but it seems much more likely than everything's rotating around us.
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Just just kind of you know following the science. Ah, you can't
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say that we have a consensus. We've had a number of consensuses or the
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consensus, my Latin is not great. We have a number of things that
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we've been told there's a consensus on as a consensus on at the time it
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wasn't climate change, it was a global warming. There's a consensus on that.
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No one else disagrees, No other scientist disagrees. Well, here's some
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scientists disagree. Well, they're conspiracy theorists. They're their quack jobs. They
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are not reputable scientists because they're not in the consensus. Right, you get
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become disavowed as a scientist. You don't agree with us and we're right.
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So if you don't agree with us and we're right, that means you're wrong.
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And we've seen quite a bit of that, haven't we. We've seen
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a lot. We see that TV shows like The View or A Real Time
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with Bill Maher is a handful of these shows that they come on. I
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guess some of the others, like I think Drew Barrymore has turned political for
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some reason, and they do these shows where the premise of the show is
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we're gonna bring in somebody that's gonna talk with a panel that the audience is
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on the side of the panel, and if they agree with the panel,
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the audience is going to clap and they're gonna give this very strong affirmative reaction
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to what they say. And if they disagree with the panel, the audience
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is gonna boo. They're gonna hiss and boo and scream and whatever, and
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that's going to send a very strong message to people watching at home. The
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panel's right, the person opposing them must be wrong because we see it.
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You can hear the affirmations of those feelings, right, That's what's there.
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It's why a lot of these times when you see a show when they have
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a group of people. Fox even has one. They've got their show The
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Five, and one of the people on there is a liberal. They try
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to have at least one liberal on there. It was Horoldo for a while,
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and they've had some other people, but ultimately, you know, this
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kind of they kind of gang up on them. I don't think they do
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a lot of ganging up on them on that. But there's no audience to
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scream and jeer and whatever. There's no audience there to affirm what is supposed
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to be the right message that goes with it. So this consensus notion.
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Sometimes for us, we'll toss out the window any idea of maybe, I
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don't know, actually following the science, because God forbid, we upset China
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by holding them accountable or asking them to be accountable for what may have been
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something created in a lab there for whatever reasons, Because God forbid, we
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start following that path, and then maybe I don't know, find out that
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it was made as a weapon or whatever. I don't know. Do we
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know why they made it? Not definitely, do we know for certain they
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made it? Starting to look that way, we have a number of things
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that we can start asking questions about and wondering why we were paying a lot
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of money to someone in the US to deny it. I mean, if
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this subcommittee is correct, then I suppose we should hold everyone accountable, shouldn't
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we? Including anybody that was an American that was involved in trying to cover
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it up. I mean, I think they should be held accountable, shouldn't
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they, Especially if they declare themselves to be science. If they are science,
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and if they are in fact, you can't question them, you know.
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I mean they're the high final word, if that's what they are by
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their declaration, and then they end up telling us something that's just not true.
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And if we have any reason to think that they knew it wasn't true,
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shouldn't they be held accountable? Yes? So when did we stop actually
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following science? Because consensus isn't science taking something that's been scientifically sound for tens
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of thousands of years and just deciding one day we're going to change this part
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of science. This is the way it should have been all along. Okay.
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For example, I don't know how many thousands of years has it been
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pretty much established that there were two main genders two two. They still use
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it, by the way, in I don't know zoology, right, they
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still do it with animals. They still sit down and they say, this
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is a male bird, this is the female bird. This is the way
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the male bird and the female bird court one another so that they may have
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relations. Oh, okay, that's how that works, all right. Now.
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This is I don't know, a male hyena, and this is a
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female hyena, and this is how they court in one another so that they
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may have relations. It's still the way it's discussed in nature there's no talk
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of, you know, gender being something that's potentially fluid. That's not something
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that's I don't know. Maybe there are scientists somewhere. There probably are,
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but this notion that we're just going to throw all of that out the window
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without any actual science, we're basing it on, Well, this is how
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we feel, this is how some people feel, this is the way it
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makes us feel. We want them to feel safe and comfortable. So we're
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going to go with this. I've said many times I don't care how anyone
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wants to live their life as long as it doesn't affect someone else's life.
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Go be you, go do what you want to do. But the day
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that you tell me that I have to agree with you on whatever you think
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about it, that's when it becomes challenging for me. When you tell me
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that I have to use a word like they in place of a word like
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he or she, When our very language tells us what they means, and
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that it means more than one person, it's challenging. My brain isn't wired
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to look at a person and refer to them as they, even though I
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guess I did just say them, but because I was using it as a
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gender neutral m So where they got this from? So the idea of saying
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that he or she has to be called they, and if I slip up
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and I say he or she instead of they, and then someone gets very
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upset. You can't do that. It's because my brain isn't wired to speak
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in that terminology. That way, I can do my best. I don't
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want to offend anybody. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. I'm the
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last person who wants to hurt someone's feelings. We've done this with a number
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of things. We do it on the subject of abortion. How about it's
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just a clump of cells, and when you remove that clump of cells,
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you're not really killing a baby. It's just a clump of cells. Okay,
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is it just a clump of cells? If you want to have the
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baby, well no, then it's a baby. So if you want to
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keep the clump of cells in your mind, it's a baby. If you
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don't want to keep the clump of cells, then it's not a baby.
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How does that work exactly? How can you just decide mentally whether or not
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the unborn clump of cells in your body is or is not alive. You
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get to decide that based on how you would like to see the pregnancy end,
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either with a child born or without a child born. So based on
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what you see as the end result, that determines whether or not the clump
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of cells is a child. Because a pregnant woman gets murdered, some one
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gets charged with two homicides, the unborn baby is also considered a murder.
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But if you don't want the baby and then you decide it's a clump of
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cells and we're going to end it, then it was never a baby.
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It's very confusing, and again science should tell us something, shouldn't it.
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It's the whole notion of how do you define a woman? Why are we
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having a hard time defining what a woman is? Even if we're going to
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say that there's twenty five other genders or however many we're up to now,
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Even if you're going to say that, why is it hard to decide what
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a definition for a woman is, what a definition for a man is,
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what a definition for each of those genders is. Why is that difficult?
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Why is it difficult to say that a man cannot have a baby, because
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if a woman transitions into a man, and as a baby. That's not
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a man having a baby, because what you're really trying to say is that
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a person born with male genitalia has now birth to baby, and that's not
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something that's possible. But we all understand when we see a man that used
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to be a woman who now has a beard and is living as a man
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gets pregnant and has a baby, everybody knows what's happened. But the headlines
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will tell you man has child. That's not what happened. Someone who's transition
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into being a man has had a child. There's something about the verbiage,
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there's something about the wording of it. But again, this comes back to
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the follow the science, right, Is it really that difficult just to follow
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the science. Here's another one. Remember when it was just global warming.
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Remember when we were told we're all going to die. Global warming is what's
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gonna end up killing us all, and we won't make it into the late
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nineties. The whole planet will be a ball of fire by then, And
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then it wasn't, and then no, by twenty ten, it's going to
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be a ball of fire and we're all going to be dead. No,
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no, no, by twenty twenty we're all going to be dead and a
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ball of fire. And it got especially interesting when when you started to hear
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that global warming was going to cause an ice age, and then they said,
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well, because it's getting cooler, Well that's what's going to trigger global
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warming is going to do that. And they said, well, no,
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we're gonna stop calling it global warming because it does sound dumb to say that
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global warming is going to cause And I remember they made that movie. They
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made that movie where the whole planet was covered in snow and ice. Right,
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everything just froze over and the whole planet was just frozen solid. And
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they said this was caused to buy global warming. And you think, I
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don't want to explain this to me, give me some science. It's going
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to explain to me why the planet is going to get so hot that it's
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going to freeze. I don't think that's how it works. I don't understand
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how something can get so hot. And they said, no, no,
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no, Now it's we're going to call it climate change because it can fluctuate.
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It can get hot and then it can get cold. It gets hotter
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and colder, and we go from one extreme to the other, and it's
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you know, maybe like ten years it's like hotter and then it gets cooler
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for about ten years, and overall it's getting warmer, and we really don't
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know why. We have some explanation for some of the reasons of it,
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but we've only really been keeping up with temperatures since I don't know, around
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the Civil War. It's not like we've been keeping records of temperatures for thousands
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of years. To compare it to no, we got like one hundred and
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fifty years of it, right, something like that. We got about one
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hundred fifty years of quasi recorded temperatures, and some of those are early ones
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weren't all that accurate. But if you change the name of and you go,
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well, now we're gonna call it, we're gonna call it climate change,
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because you know, it's gonna get hotter, then it's gonna get colder,
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and it's gonna get hotter and colder and hotter and colder. Overall,
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it's getting hotter, but about every ten years, I don't know, is
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that like a solar cycle? What happens every ten years solar cycle? So
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yeah, there's a big some question that we're in. We're in solar maximum,
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right, now and when people walk outside they say, oh my gosh,
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it's so hot. You can tell things are just hotter than they ever
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were. This is the hottest it's ever been. Oh my gosh, it's
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never been so hot. It's actually not been here. I mean it's hot,
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it's definitely hot, but it's not it's not the hottest it's ever been.
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I've felt hotter. I'm gonna be honest, I've been a lot hotter.
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They go, what it feels like a hund two? Somebody said that
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yesterday it feels like one hundred and two. I can think of July's in
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the last i don't know, ten fifteen years where it was one hundred and
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two and it felt like one hundred and eight, one hundred and nine.
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I remember those. You remember those? Yeah, So I don't think this
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is the hottest. I mean spring was pretty mild. We got a mild
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spring for a change. And again I'm not poo pooing any of this.
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Go be you, go be whatever gender you want to be. Go.
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Don't ask me for money. Don't ask me to fund billions of dollars so
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we're going to fix the planet. Don't ask me for that, But go
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study it, try to figure out why gradually we're slowly moving up by point
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two degrees every five years or whatever it is. I don't know that that's
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going to mean we're gonna die. I've already heard these people saying, Oh
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my gosh, Georgia and Florida, it's gonna be too hot to even live.
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You're gonna be to go outside and breathe. You're gonna have to move
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to the north. We're just I don't know, we're in solar maximum now,
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and I don't know eight years or so they're gonna start going down again.
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That's what they do. They kind of fluctuate. It's not completely solved,
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but that's part of it. Some scientists say no, no, no,
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it doesn't have anything to do that consensus. We say it doesn't have
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anything to do with that. And I'm not a climatologist. That may actually
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be the word climatologist. I actually almost got one correct just by stumbling my
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way into it. So yeah, let's follow the science. Let's follow the
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actual science, and let's follow the science when it's hard. Let's follow the
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science when we have to stand up to China. Let's follow the science when
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we have to stand up to the extreme people on the far left that say,
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I know what science really tells us, but we're gonna say it's this
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many genders. It's okay, you can stand up to that. It's possible
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to stand up to science. Stand up four science. I should say the
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people when it's hard and when the people that oppose you don't want you to
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do it. It's possible to stand up for science. Follow it. You
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can follow the actual science. You can follow the science and decide, okay,
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well, if we decide that this is when life ends, then this
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is when life begins. If when a heartbeat stops, that means life ends,
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right, it's usually the consensus consensus. Can we say that when the
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heartbeat starts, that's when life begins? I mean, is that a fair
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book end for what life is? Well, that's you know, that's one.
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You've got all these six week five six week abortion bands because that's what
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people are saying, Well, we're going to follow that. That's the science.
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You can't follow the science. That's too early for the mother to know.
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They can't possibly know. Well, what are we doing? Are we
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following the science? Are we following the convenience? And again it's about standing
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up and following science, even when it's really hard and even when it's really
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inconvenient. So are the scientists involved in this what the subcommittee calls a cover
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up, the anatomy of a cover up, specifically how they referred to it.
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Are they going to hold these people accountable? I guess we'll find out.
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beginning November twenty twenty four, the Hallmark Channel is hosting a special Christmas cruise
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Booking open to the public beginning on July twenty first, So if you want
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Got to get in there quick. Now, wouldn't it be great if
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they made a Hallmark movie about somebody who meets on this cruise. Wouldn't that'd
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be a nice story. It's summertime and we have the occasional pop up thunderstorm.
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It's always a possibility that it's going to happen. And the experts reminding
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folks that there are some precautions used to take play you should take during thunderstorms
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when they take place, and just reminders like basic stuff that you've probably heard
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since childhood. Don't take a shower or a bath during a lightning storm because
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it is possible that lightning can travel through plumbing. They say stay off landline
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telephones if you still have one of those. But here's the other kicker.
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You're if you're on your cell phone and it's plugged into the wall, and
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that would be bad. You know, that's just like a landline at that
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point, and you know, don't go under a tree to hide from a
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thunderstorm. They tend to like to strike high objects like trees and things,
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so and it is possible to get hit twice the same spot. So just
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something to remember because it's a popular myth that it doesn't strike twice in the
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same place. So there you go. The Dollar Tree stores, remember they
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had some controversy because you know, everything's a dollar, but then it started
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to be in a dollar twenty five because of inflation. Inflation hitting everybody.
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Well, now they're going to start having items for two dollars, three dollars
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and even as much as five dollars at the Dollar Tree because they're expanding inventory,
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a lot of it in the grocery section, so that means higher priced
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items. Now, I doubt it has anything to do with inflation. That
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couldn't have anything to do with it, right, But when items went up
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to a dollar twenty five, the CEO of the company, Rick dry Ling,
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said that the negative feedback was short lived, and beginning this past May,
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they started offering pricier items in select stores, items like meats, breads,
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ice creams. The initial reaction to the higher prices has been negative.
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The company says that the items account for twenty two percent of their sales though,
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so I guess in spite of the negative reaction, they're they're doing well
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twenty two percent. That seems like a lot for the sales. And finally,
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why do you work out? If you work out? Is it because
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physical appearance will? According to the twenty twenty three Wellness Index from Mind Body,
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people today are exercising for mental well being rather than how they look.
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In twenty nineteen, the same survey found that losing weight and maintaining weight or
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