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It's Total Eclipse Day! · 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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when you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, eighth day
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of April. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. It's eclipse day.
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This is the twenty twenty four eclipse day, not the twenty twenty three eclipse
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day, which is important to note because a lot of people have been asking
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questions, why is this different than what just happened like six months ago,
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And that's a great question. The difference would be that it's an annular eclipse
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versus a total eclipse. What's the difference, you ask, I'm so glad
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you keep asking these important questions. When you think about the moon and its
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orbit and where it is in relation to the Earth, there are periods of
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time where it's a little farther away, not a lot little farther away.
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You hear people talk about, oh, it's a super moon, or the
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moon is closer to the Earth right now, and it looks bigger and all
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those sorts of things. Well, that's because it is a little closer at
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times and a little farther away at times, therefore making it a little bigger.
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So when it passes between the Earth and the Sun. When it's a
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little farther away than that particular type of clipse is called an annular eclipse,
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and it basically creates that ring of fire effect. You see more of the
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Sun around the Moon, and you get that particular effect that happens versus a
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total eclipse when it's a little closer to the Earth and the Moon is a
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little bit bigger and it's enough to block out the light and you can get
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that moment of it completely making everything dark. We won't have that full effect
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here in Georgia, not in the Chattahoochee Valley area, not I guess in
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anywhere in Georgia. For us, it'll be about seventy eight percent. So
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they'll be about twenty two percent of a light and a few things that are
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worth noting. And I've talked about this a few times. Doctor Sean Cruisin
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and I talked about this on Made of Stars podcast, same place you get
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this show, you can hear the Made of Stars podcast. But we talked
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about this on Friday. We did a special Friday show, largely because Sean
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was very busy. He was heading to Texas to get ready for today.
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Where at last check, and I need to double check now. But you
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know, not good weather in the forecast for Texas. I feel badly for
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the guy. He went all he planned a year ago, a year ago,
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a year out. I booked his place where he's going. He'll be
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in Waco, Texas, and maybe the weather will cooperate and he'll get a
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chance to see the eclipse. Otherwise, in totality, otherwise he's going to
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be looking at some just dreary skies and a lot of rainfalling, and that's
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a bummer. That's not good. I think we're in decent shape for being
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able to see it. I think mix of clouds and sun, and that
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means we'll probably get those moments where we may get a few clouds in the
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way, they'll pass out of the way and we'll get some time. So
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this is the final total eclipse that will be visible here until twenty forty four.
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So that's why this is special, and that's why it's a big deal,
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and that's why a lot of people are talking about it. So it's
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worth noting a few things. First of all, staring at the sun is
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never a good idea. Okay, unless you're wearing the proper protective gear.
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Things that do not constitute proper protective gear are sunglasses, No, even a
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welder's mask. No. They used to say that. I remember when I
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was a kid, And No, there's still some UV issues that go with
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it. Now you might get some varying levels of protection from it, but
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you could damage your eyes very badly if you just stare up at the sun.
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Is it worse to stare at the sun during an eclipse than it is
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normally? No. Certainly you have more visible sun when there's not an eclipse.
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Therefore it can do more damage to your eyes. And that's the reality,
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right, That's what you have to understand and realize. You don't want
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to stare at it. You want the proper graded glasses, or you make
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the pinhole viewer, which does work. It feels like, oh my gosh,
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I'm back in elementary school if I'm making a pinhole viewer in a cardboard
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box like a cereal box. But it gets the job done. It lets
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you safely look at it if you don't have the proper glasses to look at
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it. The Coca Cola Space Science Center will have some activities there in the
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on the facility on the premises. I think they get started around one one
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thirty and it'll go until the eclipse is over all right, with totality happening
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around happening around three o'clock for us, which won't be a it'll be seventy
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eight percent of totality for us. So that's basically the outline for today.
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If you're listening to this show in the few cuture and you're going back,
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it's already happened. You missed it. There'll be some pictures, lots of
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pictures online. I'm sure you'll get chances to see it. So that's the
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deal. That's what's going on today, and yes, it's going to be
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a lot of news, a lot of discussions about it over the course of
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the day. And again if you want to hear Sean and I talk about
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the eclipse. And also there's a devil comet that will be you'll be able
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to see it today. I guess once things get blocked out quite a bit,
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you'll have an opportunity to see the devil comet somewhere near the eclipse.
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Just pretty exciting and it's not really a douvil comet. It's got an actual
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comment name, but it's got devil horns on it. And that's why I'll
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get called the double comet. And as Sean pointed out on the show,
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and I'll let you hear him describe it. But just imagine, you know,
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two thousand and three thousand years ago, staring up at the sky and
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seeing the eclipse happen, and if a devil comet was in view, you'd
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be concerned. Thankfully, now we understand a little bit better about exactly what's
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going on when it comes to the eclipse and the devil comment, and we
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know it just it just looks like the comment. It's just got little things
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sticking up, that's all it is. It's not actual devil horns. It's
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not the devil. It's not the end of the world. We don't think.
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But I guess we have to wait and see. Just kidding, I
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mean we do, but you know, So that's it today. That's what's
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going on today. Another quick bit of maintenance. I want to talk about
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the Columbus Comic Con that happened over the weekend here at the Trade Center,
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and I want to this. I talked about this event on a number of
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different shows last week, and one of the big disappointments was that Lufarigno had
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to cancel and was not able to attend the event. I asked a number
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of questions from a number of people about that, and they just said that
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he canceled. That was really all that they knew about it. They didn't
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know if he was sick or what was going on, but that he wasn't
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able to attend for a couple of reasons. That was disappointing. I know
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people who had paid for some things to see lou at the event, but
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those happened at those conventions. Sometimes I did get to hang out with my
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buddy Ross Mark Kwan from The Walking Dead and the show Invincible and the Avengers
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movies and Ross and I back in twenty twenty one, I interviewed him for
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the Dragon Con pregame show, and that particular year it was Ross, my
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friend Rob Paulson, Felicia Day, and a certain guy named William Shatner.
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Right, that was all part of the show that year, and we won
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an award at the Gabby Awards, and I was able to actually take the
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award to Ross, and you know, he and I got a picture together
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with it. If I can get Shatner to take a picture with it.
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We'll work that out, but that was pretty fun to be able to do
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that. And back when it happened, I sent him a text picture of
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the award and he's like, look what we won, and he was like
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congratulations. I'm like, no, no, no, you are also a
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winner at the Gabbies and he's like, oh, oh, I see my
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name on there now and it's like yes. So anyway, we caught up,
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actually did a little interview. I'll have that available soon in a couple
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of formats we did. I don't typically do video interviews, but we did
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some. We did a video interview over the weekend and just super nice guy,
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just great with his fans, great with people that came out to see
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him. I highly encourage you. I don't know if they've announced yet.
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They haven't made it in out. Maybe this is breaking news. They haven't
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officially said it, and I don't want to jump the gun on saying it
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on behalf of them. But I feel comfortable saying it because he told me
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that he'll be at dragon Con this year Labor Day weekend, so that's another
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chance for you to go and meet Ross, see him, photos with him,
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autograph, merch things like that. Does a lot of voice work,
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so there's a lot of different merch that people were bringing up to get him
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to sign, which is pretty cool. But really had a good time catching
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up with him as always. Nice to have him here in Columbus for an
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event like that, So that was great and the folks that came out.
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I haven't seen a breakdown on the numbers of how many people were there,
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but I think it was a nice turnout. Okay, let's talk about Dwayne
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the Rock Johnson. That's another kind of a decompressing thing from the weekend because
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he was obviously a big part of WrestleMania. Fortieth anniversary of WrestleMania was over
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the weekend. I guess it was a two night event, and this is
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kind of one of those things. I've talked about this before. I'm kind
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of like Forrest Gump when it comes to professional wrestling. I'm fully aware of
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it. I watched it as a kid. I have a favorite wrestlers,
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certainly from when I was a kid. There are wrestlers that I really liked,
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and I watched it as a kid. I don't I'm not in any
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way knocking anybody who does watch it. I just don't. It's not something
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that I have time to watch myself. I don't watch very much wrestling.
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I just occasionally I might kind of, you know, if there's some big
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event like WrestleMania, you kind of dip in see what's going on, and
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then that's about it. But there've been a number of times over the years
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because of what I do professionally, where I've met wrestlers. I've been at
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wrestling events. I've been in the ring for wrestling events. I judged a
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diva's bikini contest once, go figure. I also got knocked out in the
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ring once by my good friend Miller Robson after I beat him at arm Wrestling.
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He just didn't didn't appreciate the fact that I want, I guess,
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and the deal was he was gonna We had championship belt that was loaned to
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us by Dusty Rhodes, yes the American Dream, and his son Cody Rhodes
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was part of Wrestlemanian this whole thing with the Rock over the Weekend, But
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this particular belt, we had decided it was going to be the arm Wrestling
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Championship belt, and whoever lost was going to present the winner with the belt.
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Well, he presented it to him. He knocked me out in the
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ring and got a nice little attribute, a nod if you will, from
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Rick Flair. It was a good night. Also happened to be the night
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that Stone Cold Steve Austin left the WWE. He quit after his match that
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night with Rick Flair, and I saw him quitting. I'm like Forrest Gump.
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I just stumble into these things and happened. I helped get the Iron
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Chic and Hult Cogan to talk again after decades of not speaking with each other,
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and they patched up their feud that they had with one another. And
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those kind of things just happened to me with wrestling. And it's strange because
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again I don't really watch wrestling, and that's why I say I'm like Forrest
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Gump. I just stumble into things. Anyway, So last night, and
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I guess over the weekend because it was a two night deal, Dwayne the
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Rock Johnson, who was part of this WrestleMania Anniversary has at some point,
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I guess. As part of promoting the event, did an interview with Will
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Caine from Fox News, and he says that he's got some buyer's remorse,
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that's not the term he used. He says he's got some regret for getting
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involved in the twenty twenty election cycle. He said he had regret endorsing Biden,
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and he said that the whole thing caused an incredible amount of division in
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our country. He said the endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was
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one I thought was the best decision for me at that time. I thought,
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I'm in this position where I have some influence, and I felt it
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was my job then to exercise my influence and share this is who I'm going
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to endorse. And he says I was then the most followed man in the
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world and am today, and I appreciate that. But what that caused was
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something that tears me up in my guts, which is division that got me.
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I didn't realize that then. It just felt like there was a lot
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of unrest and I'd like things to calm down. He also said the takeaway
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after that was that it caused an incredible amount of division. I realize now
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going into this election, I will not do that. My goal is to
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bring this country together. I believe even that, and that there'll be no
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endorsement in the selection. So he also went on to say that you know,
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it'd be between him and the ballot box when he does the when he
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actually votes, and that he's not going to be talking about it, and
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he says he has no intentions of running for president. At some point,
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he says, I'm not a politician. So that's been a speculation for some
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time because there's been a lot of question about whether or not he might fall
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unto the category of a conservative, whether or not he is in fact a
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liberal Democrat, what would he run as some people thought maybe he would support,
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you know, a more conservative candidate, so a few people kind of
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surprised him when he supported Biden last time. I get that there are a
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lot of people that maybe might normally be a little more conservative that would have
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not wanted to support Trump. I understand there is a bit of that that
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certainly comes into play, but it's interesting to hear that there's a few There
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have been a few, I think that have come out, few celebrities that
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have said that they're not getting involved in this this election cycle, they don't
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want to be involved in it, and many of them it has to do
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with that buyer's remorse. There's a lot of people that have Buyer's remorse with
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Biden, So it will be interesting to see if and when. I know
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that there's some that absolutely hate Trump and that they would vote for Satan himself
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over Donald Trump. I know that that's true. I know that there are
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some people who feel the same way about Joe Biden, but it will be
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interesting to see if there are in fact, has been speculation. I've said
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it here that I feel like at some point Taylor Swift will chime in on
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this election. We were all assured that's not going to happen. That's a
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big conspiracy theory. I feel like if it does eventually happen, then people
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are going to say, ah, you you kind of forced it into happening
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by talking about it. It would have never happened if you hadn't brought it
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up. And it's like it's gonna happen, or it's gonna happen. I
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don't know. I don't know if it's gonna happen or not. But she,
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again, much like Dwayne the Rock Johnson, has a lot of followers,
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has a lot of influence. Her concert ticket is hotter than ever.
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She can pretty much say you will pay me ten thousand dollars a ticket if
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she wants to, and people will pay it. They're paying insane amounts of
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money to see her, and her popularity is higher than it's ever been,
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So yes, she would be a prime person to get involved if they can.
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I don't know what got the Rock involved four years ago. I don't
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know how that all came to be, but I would think following by that
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logic, we could very well see this particular thing happen again. Always a
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possibility, always a chance. I know they say it's not gonna happen,
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but with the Rock out of the picture and a lot of followers and him
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just saying, look, I mean, he's clearly not going to tell everybody
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who he's going to vote for. That's what he says. Can you read
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anything into this? Does it tell you anything if he's not going to say
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that he's supporting Biden again and that it's got to do with division. I
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mean, some people, yeah, they were promised that he was going to
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be a uniting president and he hasn't been. Okay, he just hasn't.
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He hasn't done a lot for the people who really put a lot of stock
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in Biden, as a president, he didn't do a lot for them.
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They feel betrayed, they feel hurt, they feel upset. The people who
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don't want to vote for Trump, it's for different reasons. It's not a
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buyer's remorse situation in most cases, not on a big public level. How
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many celebrity endorsers of Donald Trump. I know that there's not a lot of
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them, but how many of them have turn around saying, eh, no,
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I can't vote for him anymore. And I think when you see that
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there are people suffering, that there are people that are just not able to
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pay the bills. You hear about seniors that are retired that are having to
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go back to work in their late seventies or their early eighties because they just
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don't have the money saved up that they thought that they needed to retire.
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And four years ago, five, ten years ago, they had enough money
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to retire, and then of course COVID happened, and we didn't get an
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opportunity to recover from COVID. We got double and tripled down on to the
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point that people are having to go back to work or get second jobs,
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and it's just put people in a bad place. And then there is the
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division, so we'll see how it plays out. I know we're getting inching
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our way a little bit closer to election day and things are only going to
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More West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, I've talked a bit
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about the construction zone that is my kitchen in my house. We're a little
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bit closer today than we were the beginning of last week to getting things done.
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But one of the things that you do when you're doing some kind of
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a big remodel often is start looking at different ideas for colors, and we
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settle on a color, and then you see it on the wall and you
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go, is that the color that we picked? Sometimes that's what happens well.
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Sherwin Williams. The Paint Company has released their list of most popular colors.
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They do it every year, but now, for the first time,
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or any color that is personal, not just popular. I don't know that
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this is going to help the kingdom gold, but we'll see. I mean
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maybe by shining no news or bad news is good news, or no news
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So maybe so I don't know, maybe this will get so sort of attention
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for the color, and maybe they'll Have you heard of the April theory.
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It's basically that the month of April has a positive vibe that comes when the
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month comes. They say, we just feel happier and more upbeat in the
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month of April, which I guess makes some sense as things get longer and
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temperatures get warmer, close a little lighter, more colorful, and they say
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that, you know, outdoors more colorful. That'll help wanting people to be
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outside and enjoy things. So I guess the whole notion of just spring rejuvenates
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everyone. I don't have the overall positive vibe when it comes to spring like
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that, because yeah, the plants are all trying to kill me, and
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it constantly feels like I'm being choked out from the inside all the time.
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It's like that Marky Mark movie with all the plants and trees trying to kill
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everybody. That's kind of what I experience in April. So you know,
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give me, you know, months that don't quite have as much pollen and
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trees just trying to commit homicide in my house with me and my oldest son.
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It's just the way it goes, all right. They say you can't
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change a person, but a survey of people in relationships found to whopping ninety
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percent of them believe that they have improved their partner, from how they keep
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things cleaner in the home to the TV show that they watch, read listen
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to the foods that they eat. I think it's safe to say I feel
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comfortable saying this that Jill and I have improved each other. I think that's
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fair in a lot of ways. I certainly eat healthier, I certainly exercise
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more than I would if not for her. I think she's learned that it's
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still great to be a planter like she is, and I've learned to accept
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that planning is the better way to go most of the time. But I
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think she's done a lot better when it comes to spontaneity for things sometimes on
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our vacations that we do a little bit better when it comes to kind of
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just kicking our feet up and not having to be quite as organized. I
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think that's been a positive for both of us. So yeah, I would
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agree with that. I think ninety percent. What's wrong with the ten percent
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that says that they haven't had that experience. I don't know that'll do it
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