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America Loves and Underdog · 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 when you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, thirdday
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of June. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Lots happened since Thursday.
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A lot has happened since Thursday. Friday is the day we usually take things
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a little lighter and we do our estrange and bizarre news. And I did
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not want to try to wedge in commentary about the Trump verdict on Friday.
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And I know that you were hearing enough talk from everywhere else in the world
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about it, and that continued on through the weekend. But I thought,
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you know what, Monday is going to be the best chance for me to
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talk about it, and I'll wait till Monday to do that. So I
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wanted to spend a little time talking about a few things. And I know
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you've heard, probably from a number of sources, a lot of commentary about
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what happened. The first thing that I think we need to address when it
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comes to the Trump verdict is it was not a surprise. I don't think
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anyone was shocked or blown away by the verdict. I think everyone knew where
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that case was going, and this, of course, is the Manhattan DA's
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case against Trump in the basically illegal campaign. I don't really know what he
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was convicted of, that's what's so weird, But it relates to a bookkeeping
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error that took place. And basically, it's completely legal to pay for a
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news story that might be detrimental to you. Celebrities do it all the time.
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This isn't something new for someone like Trump to have someone say something negative
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about him, something hurtful about him. And in a case of and I
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don't even know how much of all of this stuff. You know, we
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weren't in the courtroom, but we know from testimony that the lawyer for Trump
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admits to paying for some stories so that they would go away, and Trump
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admits to paying for legal fees for the purposes of whatever was going on,
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whatever was taken care of. I don't even know that Trump is confirmed what
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the legal fees were for. He just said I paid my lawyer and it
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was billed as legal fees. That's the way it was written up, that's
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the way it was charged. So it's a it's a weird case from the
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very beginning, and a few things that we have to take a minute to
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acknowledge. It's not illegal to pay a porn star or a playboy model or
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any of those things, to pay basically to buy their story so that it
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doesn't get printed. That's not a legal. Hush money itself isn't necessarily illegal.
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The question comes down to how was it paid for, did it come
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from campaign money, what was the you know, was there a bookkeeping case
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involved in it? Was there something illegal in that capacity. There is a
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statute of limitations on some of these things, and it's a misdemeanor case in
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most almost every situation, I think, in every situation, but this one.
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And I think it's worth pointing out that there are a few very notable
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politicians who there's a lot, I'm sure, but there's at least two notable
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politicians that have also been convicted of this one. It involved moving some money
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around that was campaign money. I think it was close to two million dollars
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from the Obama administration, and he was fined, The campaign was fined,
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and he found guilty, find and you move on. That's one way that
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it's normally handled. There was a case with the Hillary Clinton campaign and that
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Steele dossier, the Russian collusion dossier and how it was paid for again,
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convicted, fined, and you move on. Not a lot of talk about
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either of those. Not a lot of talk about any other cases where this
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sort of thing happens. It happens a lot with celebrities. It happens a
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lot with you know, someone has some dirt released on them. Celebrity pays
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to get the story taken away, so someone like the National Inquirer or Star
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or whoever can't even pee, can't publish it because someone else owns the story.
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They buy the story, Hey, we're going to publish your story.
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We want to buy it, and then they don't do anything with it,
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and the celebrity ends up being the one who pays to make sure that it
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goes away. When you have a friend on the inside, you're able to
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do that. Sometimes. Conversely, celebrities also are very good. It's saying,
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hey, I want some publicity about my relationship with I don't know a
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football player, and then they say, hey, paparazzi, this is where
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we're going to be eating dinner tomorrow if you want to be there and get
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photos of us together, and they say, you bet, you we do,
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and then they stand outside and they wait for you to show up,
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and they take pictures of you and your football boyfriend, and then you go
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inside and then that's ever. It's all over, all over the tabloids.
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No, I'm not talking about taylorship of Travis Kelsey. I'm actually talking about
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Jessica Simpson Tony Romo. You might not even remember that one, but I
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suppose it could apply you like I did the old switcheroo there on. You
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didn't you. So it's not uncommon to have this relationship when you're famous with
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different media outlets and you try to work the system that helps you out.
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That's what you do. You use it for good publicity, you use it
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to fight bad publicity. It's just part of how things work. And in
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the case of running for office, you know, I don't know what happened
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with the almost two million dollars in the Obama ministry. I don't know where
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that was. I don't know what the story is on that. I don't
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know that we ever found out because it wasn't a big news story when it
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happened, wasn't a big news story as some outlets maybe covered the Hillary Clinton
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thing. That one certainly seems like it was trying to have an impact on
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an election, which is part of what this Trump case was all about.
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Was he trying to have an impact on the outcome of the election, when
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in reality, this entire case against Trump was trying to have an impact on
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the outcome of the election. Because the word felon is being thrown around a
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lot. Donald Trump is a convicted felon, and he is it's going to
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be overturned. I don't think there's any like, just like I didn't think
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there was any chance that he wasn't going to be found guilty in this because
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again we're talking about a case happening in a district where there's almost no support
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for Trump, with a judge who was doing everything he could to make sure
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that this case was very orchestrated, like this was very carefully planned out with
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exactly the way that this case was going to be presented. We all saw
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the stack of papers that was the orders from the judge to the jury,
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and how they really didn't even have time to read it and understand it before
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they had to go in the next room without the instructions by the way,
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so that they couldn't read it over and over again. So not that they'd
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have time to do that either, but quick turnaround, quick verdict. And
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this is what we've got. A convicted political opponent during an election, the
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person who is leading in the polls, the person who, according to the
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polls, if the election were Thursday morning, would be the next president of
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the United States. Again, okay, according to the polls, based on
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the figures in battleground states, based on what it looks like the electoral college
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would be, that would have been the outcome. Now Here we are on
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Monday morning, and Trump's numbers have gone up even more. The fundraising has
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gone up. It's the greatest gift that the Biden administration has given to the
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Trump campaign. They didn't see this coming. He likes an underdog story.
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Who would have ever guessed that Donald Trump would be an underdog story. We
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all love an underdog story. It's why I can't help myself when it pops
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in in my phone and says, oh, check out this golden buzzer moment
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from America's Got Talent. I don't watch America's Got Talent, but give me
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an underdog story. You show me someone who thinks, oh my gosh,
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I'm never ever in my life going to be able to make it on stage
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in front of thousands of people and perform, and not only do that,
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but absolutely nail the performance and have one of the judges on the show give
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you the fast forward around to the next round. You get skip ahead and
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get that moment where they hit the buzzer and all the gold confetti falls down.
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I'm a sucker for that, man. I'll tear up in a heartbeat.
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Right. I'm not a big like. I mean, I have normal
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emotions, like a normal human being. But I can boohoo watching somebody in
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that. I love a good sports underdog story. Love it. I love
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a good sports underdog who doesn't. It's great to see this story of someone
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who I don't want to go, like to the Rudy extreme because I mean,
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okay, Rudy got to play. That's great. I mean that part's
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a great part of the story. You know, kind of some cleanup time,
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kind of some cleanup time in a game you got on the field.
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That's great. I'm not knocking the Rudy story. I'm just pointing out,
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let's just be real for a minute. Rudy didn't come in and you know,
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save the game. I like a good underdog story that involves someone saving
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the game. That's what I like. I want to see that and I
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love to see that. That'll really get me emotional. We love that.
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We like a comeback story, we like it, come from behind story.
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We love those. We love to see someone who you know, things go
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really bad for them and they turn it around. We like that. That's
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just kind of who we are. But we really like the underdog story.
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And you know, I think part of why we love the underdog story is
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because it ties into our origin. It's part of our DNA as Americans.
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We weren't supposed to have a actual win against the British. Are you kidding
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me? How did this happen? I mean, we could go into the
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specifics about why it happened, and largely because of the French. Thankfully,
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the French came in right when we needed them too. Thank goodness. The
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militias were there and we're ready to fight and do whatever they had to do
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and fight outside the rules of war at the time. A lot of reasons,
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but the main thing is is, you know, we appreciate the underdog
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store. We appreciate the aspect of in some cases with these militias. It
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was farmers, it was people that just said, you know what, I'm
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willing to do this because it's the right thing to do and it's worth fighting
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for. Oh, I don't think that doesn't tie into the Trump story.
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Doesn't it tie into the Trump story? So here we go. The Biden
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administration sends a lawyer, right, someone from the Justice Department. A lawyer
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actually goes and kids like, I guess, quits his job. I don't
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really know how he was he on loan. I don't know exactly the story
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here, but he goes and he helps out during the Trump trial. He
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jumps in and says, you know, I'm here to help. I'm here
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to you know, participate. He was with the Justice Department. Matthew Colangelo.
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He was there during the d A. Alvin Bragg press conference. He
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was standing right there over his left shoulder. Michael Colangelo worked for Biden.
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Then decided, no, I'm going to go work for the Manhattan DA's office.
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Nothing suspicious, there, nothing to see there. There's nothing that we
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should think there's any sort of coordinated effort coming out of Everybody said, oh,
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this is coming from a local court. This wasn't coming from the FEDS.
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THEA attorney was one of the DA attorneys was previously very recently there in
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the White House, and I think he was still in the White House.
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When Fannie or Fanny, I don't know, do we decide on a pronunciation.
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This has been a fun time for names. We got Fanny, we
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got that, David Pecker. We've had some fun names at all of this,
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at the very least, we've gotten some fun names. By the way,
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I don't know if you're aware of this, but like in the UK
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and Australia, fanny doesn't mean the same thing. It means here right,
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mean something else, mean doesn't mean in the back, means in the front
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for the ladies, that's just what the term means. So we've had that
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either way, American way, UK, Australia way. We've had David Pecker.
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We've had some good names. We can at least appreciate that, can't
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we. So while they're all meeting at the White House, right they're all
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it's this whole uh, And think about the way political opposition has been viewed
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in other countries. Think about in China or North Korea. Historically, the
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way political opponents have been treated prosecuted, jailed. They want to put Trump
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in jail. That's what they want. They want the optics of that.
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You think that that's not going to drive this underdog story that is America.
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You think that's not going to make more Trump supporters, and it's not going
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to bring some of those folks in the middle, some of those undecided.
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It's gonna bring some youth vote in. It's gonna bring some it's gonna pull
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I mean, right now, statistically, it looks like Trump has pulled a
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lot of vote away from Black America and from Latin America. Right well,
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not Latin America, but you know, the used to say Latinos, used
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to say Hispanic and I was told by someone you're supposed to just say Latin.
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But this was long before the LATINX stuff. But the point is,
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you think it's not going to appeal to those groups, this underdog story.
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You think they're not going to see this as well, wait a minute,
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we understand what this whole message of political persecutions about. We already know Cubans
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know Cubans are Trump supporters, like generally, because they know they really know
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what's going on with this. You think Black Americans don't sometimes look at this
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situation maybe and say they're going after this guy unjustly. They can see that
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a lot of Americans are seeing it. It's right there, it's all laid
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out for you. And the Biden administration is trying to just hand this election
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to Trump. I mean, they're not trying to, but they're doing a
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pretty good job of it. It's the underdog story. Americans love an underdog.
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It's in our DNA. It's in our history when people say I don't
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understand Americans and the guns, it's in our DNA. Militias are part of
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how we won. That's part of our story. You can't just rip that
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away from us. You can't just shed that from who we are. It's
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part of our makeup and the underdog thing, it's part of our makeup.
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You can't shed it. And I don't know that Biden can beat Trump by
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making him an underdog. I don't know that that's going to make him an
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easier target for them. But I know Trump's not going to stop. He's
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not going to go away. He's not going to hand them to the selection.
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He's not going to hand them the Republican nomination for them to try to
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be a part in deciding who gets picked, because if they get to pick
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who's going to run as the Republican, then they can change from Biden.
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They think Biden's the only person who can beat Donald Trump, which is also
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pretty sad about. It's pretty sad testimony to all of this. If they
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all right, we're into June. That means we're into vacation season. And
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maybe you have planned your vacation, maybe it's still something that you're working on.
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You're trying to figure out something to do maybe in the month of July.
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the restaurants cost a bit more than others. So some of the advice that
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subject of staying at the resort the whole time. If you're doing it,
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other people are probably doing it, so just be aware of that. Be
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you're not necessarily doing an all inclusive resort, fancy vacation, maybe you're just
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the way and doing a major road trip. So some things that you should
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be aware of while you're doing a road trip. You're gonna spend a lot
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of time in a car. Just a heads up. Folks that Delish put
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together this list of things you should avoid eating while you're in the car on
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the road. They say fast food can obviously make you sluggish, and you
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while you're driving that might not necessarily be great for you. They say that
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any kind of packaged or wrap sandwiches avoid that. They didn't say this,
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but I would also say be aware of you know, those hot dogs at
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the stops along the way. You don't want to you know, I mean
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I would, just as an example, I would stay away from it.
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But you know, maybe you found one of those places that you can trust
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and you go, you know, when I always get my hot dogs here,
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I don't know but that's me I would avoid it. Sunflower seeds,
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that's not good in a car. You don't want to do that. What
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you're doing with the shells, you don't want to do that. Milkshakes,
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especially if you know you don't handle lactose very well, milkshakes are probably not
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good on a road trip. No, it's just not. Candy can call
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some digestive discomfort and then anything citrus can make you have to go to the
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bathroom more frequently. So just keep that in mind, all right. There
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its. Although if you have to pay for it with cheese its, where
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do the cheese its go? Do you get them back out? Can you
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eat them once they've gone through? I don't know how that part works,
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but it's on eBay you can check it out. And finally, this is
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one of those stories that you probably don't want to hear. It's not great.
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It's one of those, you know, we have stories. Sometimes it's
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say, coffee's good for you, coffee is bad for you, Bacon's good
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for you, bacon's bad for you. We have to pick the ones that
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