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Republicans Are Staying Out of the Way Right Now · 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. Tuesday morning, ninth
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day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. A lot of
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people thought, maybe, just maybe by this point we would know who the
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Trump VP pick was. I talked a little bit about all that yesterday we
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start talking about the you know, state of residency and whether or not that
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means Donald's and Rubio were out or if they have to declare themselves residents of
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a different place. I'm sure they've looked into all of that. So if
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one of them is the pick, and Rubio seems to be kind of a
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lot of people talking about him, and maybe the top three with vance Bergham's
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name is getting thrown around a lot. I don't have anything against Doug Burghram.
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I just don't know. I don't know. That's just to me,
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kind of a strange pick. But it doesn't mean he's not a good pick.
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I don't. I don't know. I got nothing against Governor Doug Burgham,
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I don't. I just thought that would be a strange pick. Now,
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he did well in the primaries, he represented himself well, and built
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up a little bit of a following. But anyway, a lot of people
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thought by this point we might know who the pick is. There was talk
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about maybe it happening is somewhere closer to the debate and now the try and
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of course it looks like we're going to know either by the end of this
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week or early next week. It's got we're getting, you know, butting
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up to the the r n C the convention. So by that point,
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surely I don't think they're going to save the announcement for that night. I
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don't think they can keep that a secret. And that's one of those things.
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You get the momentum, you make the announcement, and then you get
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to bring them out with you, you know, once and then you get
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to do it again at the convention and all those sorts of things, so
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you take advantage of the opportunity to help it be a big deal multiple times.
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I mean, you could you could bring them out at the convention and
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go, oh, it's a surprise, you know, WWE style. You
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could do that if you want to. Trump is a WWE Hall of Famer.
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But the reason apparently the pick has not already been made is because or
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announced, maybe the pick has been made, who knows. But the reason,
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according to the Trump campaign team, is that Democrats are eating themselves.
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They're destroying themselves from within, and they are basically doing all of the bad
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pr work for Republicans, and they're just staying out of the way. They
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don't want to do something that is going to take attention away from the fact
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that Biden has time after time after time here lately, and I think it's
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gone on for quite a while. Most people seem to think that but made
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himself look bad, made himself look in capable of doing the job, made
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himself look like a bad candidate. And that's kind of one of those things
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that if you're Republicans, you kind of stay out of the way. Let
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them continue to do that, let people continue to question, should Biden be
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the candidate, Should Kamala Harris be the candidate? Should they bring in someone
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completely different out of nowhere and bypass the vote of the Democrat registered voters.
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That seems to be interesting to me that that's even being discussed. So that
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convention is still like another month to go for that little more than a month,
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so they got time to figure out whatever it is. They're going to
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try to do as they do their convention in Chicago. And remember we had
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all this talk back when it was announced they were going to do it in
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Chicago, and it was like, Oh my gosh, are they going to
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get him to step aside and get to you know, one of those Chicago
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z owns. We're gonna get Michelle Obambar, We're gonna get Oprah, We're
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gonna get somebody to come in and quote unquote, save the democracy, save
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the country and now. And that's coming up, you know, five weeks
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whatever it is before that, so you know how that plays out. We've
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talked about that at pretty great length. The interesting part about that to me
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and I haven't really talked about this yet, but I feel like it's time.
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I think there's a certain point where Republicans can say it should Biden be
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the candidate? They can ask the question, should he be the candidate?
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And is he capable of continuing to do the job. There's a couple of
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things that I think that Republicans should avoid doing. One of them is I
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think they should avoid trying to get Biden to step down now and the talk
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about oh maybe he should go ahead and step down. I don't think that's
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a good move. I don't I don't think that's what. I don't think
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that's a strategic A sound strategic move to do is to push him out for
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a number of different reasons. And I don't know that that's even really an
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option. But the people that are starting to say, oh, you know,
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twenty fifth Amendment and all that talk, I don't think making Kamala Harris
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an unelected first ever woman president is the right move. I do think that
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that day is coming. I do think that one day we will have a
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woman elected president the United States. I don't think that it just should be
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done just to go, oh, we're just gonna vote a woman in just
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to do it like. I don't think that's right. And I don't think
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just handing it off is the right thing to do either. I think much
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like Americans, and I was going to say black America, but it's not
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even fair to limit it to that. I think Americans. As much as
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I didn't like Barack Obama as a president because of policies and because of a
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number of other things nothing to do with his race, I watched his inauguration.
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I was excited about just the fact that hey, this is something that's
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happening. It's historic, and I appreciated it, and I think America deserved
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the opportunity to see that play out in an election, just like I think
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America deserves to see a woman run a campaign, get the votes, win
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the White House, and you know, whether you vote for that woman or
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not, that America deserves to see it play out that way. I don't
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think Hillary Clinton was the right candidate for a long number of reasons. And
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I do think that she was kind of pushed to the forefront because she got
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pushed aside for Obama eight and she was pushed to the front of the line,
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and she was just a bad candidate. I think that was what it
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was. But at some point a woman will run for president. I don't
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think it should be Kamala Harris. I don't think that she should be the
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one that people rally around and say, yes, this is going to be
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our candidate. I think she's a bad I think she's a worse candidate than
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Hillary Clinton, honestly, But I do think that women and America in general,
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just like my statement, I almost wanted to say Black America deserved it,
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and they did Black America deserved to be a part of electing Barack Obama
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to the White House. And I think America that supported his candidacy, that
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wanted him to win, I think that they deserved to see that. Didn't
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like him as a president, didn't like him as a candidate, didn't vote
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for him. That wasn't me, but the historic nature of it, I
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think was deserved. And I think that when a woman who is ultimately the
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nominee for one of the parties again and is the right one, the one
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that makes the most sense for the country, actually has all Americans in mind,
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doesn't you know, discourage and discount half of the voters, calling them
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deplorables and all that stuff. If you get the right candidate, I think
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that America deserves to see it happen. And at some point we're going to
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see a Hispanic president, We're going to all of those things are going to
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play out. We're going to see you know, Asian Pacific islander president.
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At some point, it'll happen. All of those things deserve to have their
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time and to play out. I don't think it's one of those things that
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we should be, you know, just forcing it in there and I don't
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think that we should have Kamala Harris become president, let Biden step aside,
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just so she can have a better advantage as we get closer to election day
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in November. I don't think that that's right. I have questioned I don't
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know that I've said this on the show, if I've said it out loud
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or not. But I've questioned whether or not if Trump beats Biden, if
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Biden's the candidate and Trump wins, and we know that Trump is going to
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be sworn in again in January, I've questioned whether or not Democrats would encourage
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Biden to step aside so Harris could be the first woman president. Just have
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him step aside, Let her have the reins for a month or whatever,
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a couple of weeks, just so she can say, look, I'm the
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president, I was sworn in, it's official. We know that those sort
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of tent pole things are important for Democrats. They don't want Republicans to get
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certain things. It's important to them. Joe Biden went out of his way
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as a Senator to make sure that George W. Bush was not going to
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be in a position to have a black get on the Supreme Court. Bush
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was putting that in place. He was trying to make that happen, give
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that an opportunity to happen. Biden blocked it. There was a Hispanic man.
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This was before we had a black woman or a Hispanic woman on the
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Supreme Court. And George W. Bush was trying to put that in place,
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and Biden said no, and this is not something we're going to allow
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to happen. Ted Kennedy said, this is our thing, this isn't their
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thing. We can't let them do this. We have to make sure this
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doesn't happen. It's a ten pole things. They like, the identity things,
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they like, the tribalism, they like all of those things. So,
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as you know, I think if Republicans are in any way encouraging Biden
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to step down from the presidency, I don't think that's good. I don't
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think it's good strategy wise. I don't think it's good for the country.
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There's a number of things that I think that's a problem with. But I
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think anybody that's doing it right now is just trying to do it to challenge
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Biden's ability to do the job, which I get. But there's a line
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there. You got to be careful. You're not pushing it trying to say
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that Biden may not be competent to be the candidate. That's one of those
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things where you can raise those questions now, but that needs to become the
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strategy after their convention. That's when you really go hard with that. Once
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he's the candidate, once they have committed to him, then you go after
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is he able to do the job. I think some of that talk will
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die down a bit because we're going to get a little bit closer. I
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don't know it'll die down, it'll die down from some places. Obviously,
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we're going to hear a lot of that at the Republican Convention. We're going
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to hear some of that whenever the VP pick is in. As of recording,
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right now, we don't have a VP pick yet. Biden hasn't stepped
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down. I almost feel like I have to say because it almost feels like
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some of that stuff could just happen at any minute. Doesn't look like we're
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going to get a VP pick until closer to the week Friday, maybe definitely
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by the weekend, I guess, or into the weekend we'll get the VP
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pick. And so many people have asked me, do you think it'll be
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dot dot dot? Do you think it's and I don't know. I think
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Vance is a really good pick. I think he would be great. I
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think he would be an excellent vice president. I think Rubio would be a
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great pick. I saw someone saying, oh, Ben Carson, they're digging
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that name up out of nowhere. I think because Trump followed Ben Carson on
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truth social in the last week, is that just is just to follow him?
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Is that some sort of a tip of the hand again, like Doug
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Burgham, I don't hate Ben Carson in any way. If that's the pick,
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that's the pick. I just think that would be a strange one.
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I think either one of those guys would be strange picks. I do kind
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of right now, say poor Christinome. I think she was a definite heavy
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favorite in all of this until she wrote the book about killing the dog.
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I mean, that's not what the book was about, but she really went
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into detail about you know, oh, I had to put this dog down.
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And again, we did a whole couple of shows where we talked about
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this. It's not so much that what she did was not something that a
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lot of people have to do when you have a dog that's aggressive and a
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dog that has hurt other people. But it was just a strange thing to
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put in your book as you're getting ready to possibly become the vice presidential nominee.
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Made people go nope, nope, nope, nope, don't like her,
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don't want her, can't be her. And she just blew it out
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of the water. And I haven't heard her name come up in a long
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time. So maybe by the end of the week we know who it is.
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And at that point, some of the talk about I don't know.
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I think Biden's competency, Biden's cognition, Biden's ability to be the candidate that's
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going to continue to be a thing all the way up until the convention.
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I just don't think that. I think Republicans can challenge it, they can
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question it. I just don't think that they need to actively be the ones
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to push him out. I don't think that's the good strategy. I don't
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go hard after him once he's officially the nominee, when he accepts the nomination,
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that should to me, that's when you really say, look at all
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the gaffes, look at all the things that he's done, now, if
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Republicans honestly think they have a better chance at beating Kamala Harris, Poles don't
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seem to say that, which is strange. But I do think that the
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polls probably would indicate that people would be excited about someone different. Again,
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back to the tent pole thing, back to the a woman of color,
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right, that maybe would be enough to give a little bit of spark,
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a little put a little you know, put a little sizzle in the pan.
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I don't know, I don't know what it is that's going to try
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to ignite that campaign, you know, a little sizzle on the stake.
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What's the expression he used to work for somebody who always oh, you got
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to put some sizzle on that. I love that expression. The cult of
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personality. Joe Biden certainly doesn't have it. I don't think Kamala Harris has
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it. But she's got more of it than Biden, you know. I
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mean, got a couple of knickknacks here on my desk. I've got a
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little pac Man plush that I just squeezable thing. It's got more charisma than
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Biden, So it's not difficult. I'm not talking classic Biden, talking current
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Biden. Not in the current one. I'm not talking old school Biden.
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He had a lot of charisma. It wasn't always good. Oftentimes it was
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sexist and racist and all sorts of things, but and creepy at times.
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It was really creepy, but at least had charisma. So I don't think
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that's the right strategy. I think Republicans should start. They should understand we
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break. Well, if you were planning to write a check while shopping at
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Target, you better do it fast. The days are numbered as the re
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tail giants saying they will phase out the option of accepting checks. They say
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that extremely low volume is the reason for the phase out. I guess a
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lot of people don't write checks. I mean, I gotta be honest with
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you. I don't remember the last time I saw someone write a check at
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any of the retail stores like Target or even Walmart, even buying groceries.
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I probably maybe at publics I've seen someone write a check. Maybe I went
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in on the day that seniors get the discount or whatever. I think,
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maybe and it was definitely, at least on appearance, someone who would have
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qualified for the senior discount and they wrote a check. I didn't know that
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there were very many people doing it, and obviously there's not but enough that
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they would actually have to make a point to say, we're not going to
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do this anymore. The fifteenth, so you got less than a week,
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right that you can still write checks at at Target stores nationwide, they say
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nationwide, only about five percent of all transactions are paid for by check,
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down, almost eighty percent from twenty years ago. That seems like a high
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number for twenty years ago. It definitely even five percent sounds high for twenty
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twenty four. But if you're gonna do it, you should get it done.
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And then you know, maybe think about cash or you know, maybe
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a credit card, a debit card something. I don't even do debit cards
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at stores. I'm worried about someone stealing my info. I'll just use a
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credit card of some kind and just pay it off every month. That's what
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we do. Earn them, Miles, Baby, earn them miles. All
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right, let's talk about alcohol. Having just one alcoholic beverage a day can
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shorten your lifespan by about two and a half months, according to an expert
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on alcohol and longevity claims. Doctor Tim Stockwell of the Canadian Institute for Substance
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Use Research allow me a moment to try to see ci su R told The
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Daily Mail that people who drink a lot more than that five drinks a day
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or about thirty five drinks a week. That's five a day time seven.
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I can do that math on the fly says that they could that could take
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two years off of their life if they have thirty five drinks a week.
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It says alcohol is our favorite recreational drug. We use it for pleasure and
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relaxation, and the last thing we want to hear is that it causes any
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harm. It's comforting to think that drinking is good for our health, but
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unfortunately it's based on poor science. I guess my question is, how about
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all the studies that say a glass of wine is good for you that would
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contradict this right? So, I don't know if this breaks it down by
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type of alcohol or I don't know, or is this one of those deals
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where you know, you get the coffee is good for you, coffee is
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bad for you, so you go with the coffee's good for you study.
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I mean, that's what we do. That's what we do for everything.
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We go with the one that we like. This one is not one that
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we like necessarily, unless it's someone in your life that's having thirty five drinks
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a week and you might want to tell them they should tone it down a
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little bit. You could lose two years of your life. And if they're
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doing that while eating hot dogs, man, they're in trouble, all right.
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You probably never thought, man, this cup of noodles is something that
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really needs a sweet fix. I like the spicy ones, and then I
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like to put extra serracha or put siracha in there and then add extra siracha
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to it because I like them hot. Never thought, boy, do I
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need these things to be sweet? Do I need dessert versions? But that's
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happened before they've done that. But currently as the cup of noodles, is
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it just called cup noodles? I thought it was cup of noodles. Maybe
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I'm having one of those moments where I miss remembering it. I guess it's
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just called cup noodles. Anyway. They're rolling out a campfire s'mores flavor marshmallow
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chocolate and Graham cracker noodles. I guess I don't know. It's weird.
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They call it the perfect campfire Treat. It's a limited edition campfire s'mores ramen
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noodles in sauce with natural and artificial flavors. It says on the packaging,
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so hey, knock yourself out. That's your thing. You go for it.
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You be you. I don't want to stand in the way of you
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be And you do you put sunscreen on your pet? Some people do,
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and apparently it's something that maybe we should be doing. I thought the fur
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covered all that. Literally. A new survey says fifteen percent of pet owners
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put sunscreen on their pets in the summer, and fifteen percent also make sure
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the pavement, whether pet is walking, isn't too hot. That should be
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a higher number. We should be really making sure that not walking on hot
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pavement. Okay, I don't know about the sunscreen. I'm not an expert
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on that. I do know this. The hot pavement is not good.
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And how about this as shift over to cats, I guess it says pet
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owners. I was just thinking dogs, but I guess this is another pet
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story. A new ozipic style drug that helped overweight cats drop five percent of
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their body weight in four months. Is around. It's a small animal obesity
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expert Alex Jerman, who says that dogs could also be treated and could get
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their shots before they pile on the weight, just in case. A twenty
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twenty two survey found that sixty one percent of America's cats and fifty nine percent
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of our dogs are overweight. We've been managing our dog who got a bit
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you feel like they got to be hungry and they got to want to eat.
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And our previous dog you just put the food in the bowl and he
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ate when he was hungry, and he stayed slim. Our current dog says
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may I have some more please? And finally, researchers at the University of
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Beijing in China, well, of course that's where it is, are using
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special cameras to take pictures of heat coming off of your face. The thermal
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and can't even identify if you might have certain health issues just using how much
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heat is coming off your face, or maybe it tells you whether or not
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you've been putting sunscreen on your pet. I guess that would be another valuable
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use for it. That'll do it for this Tuesday edition of the show.
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