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Words Can Be Harmful, and Some Can be Very Harmful · 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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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, twenty
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third day of October. I'm West Thanks for joining me. I'm the father
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of a fifteen year old as of this morning. How about that? How
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does that happen? I don't know. I mean, I know how it
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happens, but it seems to happen fast, doesn't it all of a sudden
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fifteen? I don't know. It did feel like he was fourteen for a
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really really long time. It did feel like he was fourteen for about three
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or four years. But I don't know. I think that's just because mentally
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I have this thing where I think maybe it's the even number years. I
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don't know, but I start saying that my kid is older than they are
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a couple months before their birthday. I guess maybe that's what it is.
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I don't know. I don't know what that is. Didn't do it for
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this one, waiting till now to say it. But yes, I am
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now the father of a fifteen year old and I've got an eleven year old.
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It's closing in on twelve very quickly. So anyway, all right,
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let's jump into Oh I want to mention this too, because over the weekend,
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actually yesterday, we went to the Pumpkins at Callaway and had a really
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good time. That was a fun experience. We had not done that before,
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and it's and we've got friends that say, oh, it's better than
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Fantasy and Lights. I don't know that. I would say that they're different
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and unique in their own way. Some of the things are similar, some
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of the attractions are similar. But I mean, certainly somebody's entitled their opinion
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of that. They think it's better, they're certainly allowed to think it's better.
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But no, we had a good time. It was just fun to
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go. We didn't not enough time with the mini golf and the black lights
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glowing the dark mini golf, I would have loved. We played like half
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a game and then we got other stuff to do. We got to go,
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and the kids are like, no, we need to stay, but
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we pulled them away and went into the other things. But really good experience.
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I guess this is the final week for it, and it wraps up
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on Sunday, and of course then they transition into the Fantasy and Lights mode
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there, so I don't know how much it takes to swap over. I
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know it's a lot of lights that they've got to get ready, and I
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would imagine that the trolley pathways are probably already pretty decked out, the halls
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are probably decked, but no, the whole setup from I guess the pumpkins
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over to the Christmas setup probably a pretty elaborate, but probably a pretty quick
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process, because again it's similar areas, there's similar, similar things that you
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have there. But anyway, we had a good time and I encourage you
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to check it out if you had an opportunity, If if Callaway's your thing,
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and if you enjoy fantasy and lights and you also enjoy Halloween, this
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is a good combo there for you. And they're not paying me anything to
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say that. I'm just telling you we had a good time as a family.
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All right, let's uh, let's jump into this. I want to
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talk about something that has been eating at me this weekend. And some things
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really continue to eat at me after a period of time. And there's something
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that's been bothering me for a really long time, and it's reared its head
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again kind of in a different direction, and I thought I would talk about
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that this morning. This concept that words said by people. I mean,
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that's who says words, right, I mean, that's who I know.
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AI, I guess now says words, So I guess that's not exclusive anymore.
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But words from people that they say, and they it's the eighty five
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people on Twitter that seem to run the show and dictate everything. But the
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words that people say have an influence on behaviors of other people. And I'm
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talking about very specific things that are said or have been said that people say,
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well, this is going to cause whatever the thing is that they want
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us call the worst case scenario, and there is a worst case scenario for
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them. Now, sometimes I do think that words have a direct correlation on
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events. There's a reason you're not allowed to walk into a crowded building and
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yell fire when there's no fire. That's not okay. Apparently, if you're
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in Congress, you can pull a fire alarm, which is the equivalence of
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yelling fire and a crowded building. And you know, there's a lot of
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confusion about what the culpability should be for that, but that's another story altogether.
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But if you run into a crowded building and you yell fire. It
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may cause people to run into each other, knock each other down. It
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could cause injuries, it could cause problems. You're going to inconvenience the fire
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department. Who's going to possibly be pulled away from an actual fire. Again,
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things that could have happened when somebody in Congress pulled a fire alarm.
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But that's not really what I want to talk about today. But there is
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a cause effect with some things that you say. Okay, sometimes there are
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when someone says that they don't believe that there's more than two genders, right,
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and they say that people that are born one gender should be identified as
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that gender when they go to the bathroom or whatever the process is. There's
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people that say that, and then other people say, well, your words
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are causing suicides in the gay, lesbian and trans community, that your words
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are causing suicides in that LGBTQ plus community, And I don't know the breakdown
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on cases of I would imagine someone shouting at someone a member of their family
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and calling them names and making fun of them and discrediting them over and over
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again for the purposes of trying to keep them living a life that they want
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them to live. Rather than the life that that person wants to live.
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That I'm sure could correlate to suicide. Not just people in your home,
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people in your life, people that are friends, or people that clearly aren't
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your friends, or people that are around you on a daily basis that you
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know talk down to you, and that could happen. Certainly, someone saying,
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hey, I believe there's two genders. I don't know that there's a
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direct correlation between saying that and someone saying, you know what, these people
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don't believe that there's more than two genders. It's I need to in my
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life. I don't know what the direct correlation is. I'm sure there's science
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and numbers in it, and this isn't the specific complaint that I've got.
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I just know that we hear that. We've also heard that when Trump supporters
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who were in Washington and not necessarily at the Capitol but just somewhere in in
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the city in DC that were shouting, you know that we were they were
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gonna fight for Trump, fight for Trump. So there were people saying that
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fight for Trump. There were groups saying that. There were people on social
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media saying, we need to all fight for Trump, we need to all
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shout fight for Trump. That was a thing. Those people, some of
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them, even the ones that weren't in the Capitol, have either been charged
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or persecuted or you know, dragged in of Congress to answer for words that
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they said, because there were accusations that saying fight for Trump caused people to
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go into the Capitol building and fight with police officers. Right, even though
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most of the footage shows overall largely peaceful protesting. I mean, there were
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incidents, certainly, but and not to justify it. My question is if
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someone was on Twitter and I don't know Idaho and they said, hey,
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people should go to the Capitol and say fight for Trump, and people are
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accusing those people of inciting the riot. They were trying to incite a riot.
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They were trying to create this problem at the Capitol and when any sort
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of fighting took place, they should be held accountable. There's people that have
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been saying they should be held accountable because they said fight for Trump. There
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were people that were at the I guess near the Lincoln Memorial and they were
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shouting there fight for Trump. Those people not at the Capitol building, some
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think they should be held accountable because they say your words cause actions. I
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don't know that if someone's shouting fight for Trump is literally asking them to fight
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for Trump. And there's been connections. There's been people saying, well,
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that's similar, isn't it, to a number of politicians that have said,
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like Maxine Waters, you know, she said they get in their faces at
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the gasoline stations and the restaurants and things, and basically saying to you know,
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to intimidate people, and she was calling for that. Now that seems
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to be more of an action, like if someone is saying we're going to
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all shout fight for Trump versus someone saying, hey, go actively get in
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people's faces. And then when people get in people's faces, if that lead
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to a fist fight, full on fisticuffs, if you will, or an
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accident or someone getting harmed or injured, I wouldn't think that could possibly be
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blamed for it. There seems to be a possible correlation to that versus someone
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saying, hey, fight for Trump. But anyway, I'm not here to
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talk about Maxine Waters. I'm not here to talk about you know, fire
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alarms being pulled. That's not the focus. My focus is the news agencies
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who erroneously reported about the quote unquote bombing of the hospital in Gaza, blaming
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it on a rocket that came from Israel, because that's what they were told,
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and they just sort of ran with the story. A blast in the
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parking lot next to a hospital in Gaza, and CNN among others reported it
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ran with the story and said, here's what happened, Israel bombed hospital.
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Well, the Israeli military said, not so fast. Here's what we have
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to show you that says that the blast came from the parking lot. It
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wasn't the result of something. There's no crater. You know, normally a
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rocket gets fired and it lands in a parking lot, there's going to be
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a crater instead of just an explosion there. The shrapnel didn't match up with
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Israeli shrapnel from any of their weapons. And even our own government has intelligence
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information that says, wait a minute, this is something that was fired from
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the parking lot by someone that was there in the area that was firing it,
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trying to fire it at Israeli forces. But news agency reported otherwise they
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didn't have evidence. They ran with it. We have members of Congress who
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Rashida Talib among others, who cried about How can they blow up and kill
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children, innocent children at a hospital. And it's just simply not what happened.
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It's not what the evidence shows happened. Don't those words cause actions?
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Haven't those words caused more people riding in the streets have it those were around
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the world. Haven't those words caused people to hate Israel? Haven't those words
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caused more anti Semitism? That's a bigger problem than someone saying, you know,
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hey, let's all tell everybody we're going to fight for Trump. There's
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no direct correlation. I don't know if a single person who said I heard
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them say fight for Trump. So I went to the Capitol and I started
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a fistfight. There's a number of people who were at those rallies and shouting
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things about Israel, calling for more violence against Israel, more hate for Israel,
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because irresponsible reporting from news agencies, for irresponsible reporting from members of our
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Congress. So I guess what I'd like to know is where are the calls
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for their punishment, Where are the calls for them to be held accountable and
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responsible for this? We have a president, former president, and a front
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runner, likely Republican nominee, who is running for election, who is the
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political opponent of this current administration, whose Justice Department is going after him,
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and one of the things they're going after is his trying to overturn the election.
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And what happened to January sixth at the Capitol, that's what they want
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to get him for. They tried to impeach him for his words, or
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they did impeach him. They tried to. I mean technically they impeached him,
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but I think it was a sham of an impeachment. But they just
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wanted to check a box. Look, he got impeached twice. What a
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disgrace. No president, That's why I say tried. They did impeach him.
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They impeached him for something else that they knew they had no chance of
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prosecuting him for. But they just wanted to check the boxes. Look,
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he's been impeached twice. What a disgrace. But it all relates to words,
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things that they say that he said that caused what happened at the Capitol,
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because they said his words led to those things. So more violence,
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more deaths, more harm around the world, more instability, more potential for
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a third World war. As we have now two significant wars that we have
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some involvement in and we certainly know that things are always potentially going to get
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worse with China Taiwan, that's certainly there. We keep looking at it.
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We've been watching China ever since Russia invaded Ukraine and attacked Ukraine. So if
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these words from these media outlets, some of them, by the way,
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I don't think have even retracted them. I was looking at what CNN has
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tried to explain. We haven't been able to verify all this, and countries
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expressing horror, it's one of the words they used on the CNN story.
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Other countries have expressed horror, and you know, basically for blaming Israel for
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something that there's there's just no evidence that Israel had anything to do with.
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You know, what does sometimes happen is terrorists knowing that they don't have to
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really follow the rules of war. They're terrorists. They might go near a
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hospital and fire a weapon because they know that the other side can't fire back
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because it's at a hospital. So again, if you're firing weapons from a
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hospital or from a school, the parking lot of a school, you can't
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express shock horror when there is some sort of retaliation. If that had happened,
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because you're hiding behind innocent people, You're hiding next to innocent people.
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It's cowardly and let's be honest. Terrorists they can't fight a clean fight,
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they can't fight a fair fight. They can't follow the rules of war because
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they can't win. You have to crash airplanes into a building to get the
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world's attention, because you can't just throw rocks at the US from the Middle
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East and make a difference. So you have to do that in order to
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be heard, in order to be seen. CNN knows this. We have
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members of Congress who should know this and should know that they should be skeptical
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when the reports come in that in spite of the fact that there's no evidence.
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When you have people who hate Israel reporting that Israel blew up their hospital,
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this is not responsible reporting and it's not responsible wording coming from members of
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Congress, and they should be held accountable. These words do have an impact
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in a big way on the stability more like instability now going on in the
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Carol Morning Show. Right after the break well, Taylor Swift's movie or whatever
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concert movie, The Era's Tour is number one at the box office. Again,
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we're at that period where you know, horror movies tend to do pretty
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well this time of year, and there's a couple of those that are you
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know ish that apply for this year in the top five for the weekend.
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But your number five movie on the list this year is the re release the
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thirtieth anniversary of Nightmare Before Christmas, and I'm not I love it. It's
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great, but when it's re release is four point one million in fifth at
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the box office, that's not a good weekend overall. And your top earner
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is thirty one million. Killers of the Flower Moon, the Martin Scorsese movie
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opened in second place twenty three million, and they actually said that's better than
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they expected. The movie's really long, apparently, and that makes it hard
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of money. It was one of the issues with The Godfather back in the
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day, The Exorcist, Believer five point six million, Paul Patrol The Mighty
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Movie four point five million. It's a big drop off from second place to
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third, and that's something they've been experiencing with movie theaters since COVID. It's
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just kind of the way things are, all right, let's jump into a
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couple other things. This applies. We're pushing our way towards Halloween, a
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little over a week away. Would you buy a house that someone died in?
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According to a new survey, seventy percent of people said that they would
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have no problem buying a home where someone had passed. Thirty eight percent went
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as far as to say that they would be fine buying a home where someone
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was murdered. Twenty five percent said that they would buy a house that they
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knew was haunted, and twenty eight percent said that they would buy a home
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that the neighbors were afraid of. That could be nice. It keeps the
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pop ends down if people are afraid of it. I guess I don't know.
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It's not I mean, I know they sell you have these stories.
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They say you have to tell somebody if someone was murdered in the home or
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whatever. I don't know if that's true. They say that in movies or
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whatever. But do they have to they have to report if someone was murdered
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in a home. I don't know how that works. This isn't really Halloween
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related, but it has the word, so I'll to say it. But
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there's apparently of something that female frogs do when they're trying to, I guess,
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get rid of other the male frogs, and they ghost them by playing
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dead. Scientists are studying this behavior in frogs and found when female frogs play
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dead and they do what's called tonic immobility, it's not just a ward off
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potential predators as they previously thought. It's a way to get rid of male
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frogs who want to mate with them. They just play dead. So and
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apparently male frogs not into that and they move on. And you know,
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so it had the word ghost in and I thought it was good for the
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week leading up Talloween. How about this. You know you got those kitchen
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magnets that you put on your refrigerator, Well, apparently they're becoming a thing
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of the past because high end refrigerator manufacturers say that a lot of customers prefer
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finishes that don't support magnets on them. Spokesperson for Electrolux told The Wall Street
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Journal that magnets would take away from that premium look of higher end models.
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So if you don't want to shell out for a pricey fridge, you don't
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have any to worry about. Bottom tier fridges still have the old school magnetic
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doors. I think we'll stick with the magnets. We like to get the
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on vacation kind of look at it and remember that vacation, remember that trip.
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Or you look at the magnet and you have no memory of where it
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came from. I think that's what some people do. Or if someone gives
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you the magnet, you might not even remember who gave it to you,
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but they were thinking of you. That's what's important. And finally, if
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you want to cut down on red meat, maybe this could be motivating for
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you. A new Harvard study found that just two servings of red meat a
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week could increase could see they put that word in there, could increase your
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risk of developing type two diabetes. Are finding strongly support dietary guidelines that recommend
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limiting the consumption of red meat, and this applies to both processed and unprocessed
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red meat, according to those researchers. Now, my question is is this
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one of those deals where eating the meat itself causes the likelihood of type two
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diabetes increasing, or is this one of those deals where they say if you
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eat red meat, then you probably eat lots of desserts. You know,
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eat lots of sugar. So I guess that's my question because they do that
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sometimes they say, ah, you drink that aspartame and it causes you to
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get diabetes and you're put on weight, and you go, how is that,
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Oh, you're more likely to eat desserts and ice cream if you because
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you think, oh, I had that fake sugar. So I can just
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you know, satisfy my sweet tooth with pure cane sugar anytime I want to.
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I mean, well, then if you just have the aspartame and then
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you don't do that, then you're not gonna put on the weight, are
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you. Well no, but people tend to, so we blame it on
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that. I guess it goes back to the beginning of the show, right,
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you got the words cause problems. So I don't know, I haven't
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really broken into this story. I'm just I'm just telling you. They say
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that there's a link. Previous studies set a link between red meat consumption and
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type two diabetes risk, and they also said that it could cause a number
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of other problems. You know, there's other issues that they are concerned about
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that go with it, cardiovascular kidney disease, cancer, dementia, and all
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those sorts. Of things, and again I don't know what the connection is
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specifically to the red meat. The other bit of good news I can tell
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you about this is that the ground turkey sometimes can get the job done,
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you know. And I don't know. I don't know who the study is
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on. God, I'm not expert. I'm not a meatologist, but I
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can tell you this. If you can substitute it, it's probably better.
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But don't take my for it, because you know, I still eat some
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red meat, as you know. Sometimes I do the ground turkey, sometimes
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I do the red meat. That's just how it goes. Uh. That'll
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