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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twenty fourth
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day of January. M Wes thanks for joining me. Day after New Hampshire.
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If there's a surprise, and I always talk about the surprise is if
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there's a surprise in New Hampshire, maybe it's that Nikki Haley did as well
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as she did, but no major surprise and that as expected. Donald Trump
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the winner, Joe Biden the winter even though there's no delegates up for grow
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whatever that whole situation is with South Carolina, they did not They did not
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do their diligence when it came to New Hampshire and that whole situation anyway,
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he was written in enough. So basically this should be the pathway to victory
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strategy for the President, for Joe Biden, the pathway to victory strategy is
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you don't even participate. Just expect that people are gonna write your name down
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and you're gonna get enough votes to win. You don't have to show up,
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you don't have to campaign. All you have to do is just trust
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that even though you're not really participating in any capacity, you can still win.
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That's easy. It's a piece of cake. Now. I know it's
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not completely fair in that he is the incumbent. Typically incumbents don't have to
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go out and put a lot of effort in. That's not typically how it
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works. You know, normally you're just you're the leader of the party.
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Still right, you're the incumbent. But in his case, this is a
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little different because he won last time without really trying. He didn't put any
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effort in whatsoever. It was all COVID related COVID strategies and just keeping him
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off the campaign trail and keeping him away from people, hiding him away and
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not letting anybody ask him any kind of questions, and that worked. So
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that's why I say, maybe it is just fair to go ahead and lay
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it out there. That's the strategy, hide him away, keep him away
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from any sort of campaign event. Now they did have a campaign event,
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I guess yesterday as Biden and Harris got out and did what they do,
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kind of embarrassed themselves. If their performances at campaign events or in interviews,
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if they were Republicans, they would be laughed out of the country. But
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they get to just embarrass themselves and that's just how they are. She has
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her awkward laugh. He says things that don't make any sense. They did
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lay out what the strategy will be, and we've known that. Again,
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not a surprise. I think this is one of the least surprising election years
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that I can remember thus far, or election cycles. Really, if you
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throw it all in there now, maybe that's could be scary. Is that
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foreshadowing that we're gonna have all these big major twists coming at the end that
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a lot of people are predicting. I don't know, but we know their
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strategy. It's January sixth. Trump's a criminal and at the top of their
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list is abortion. That is going to be the single most important issue they're
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going to push for. And I don't know that it's a terrible strategy because
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it's something that has worked for them. It worked in the midterms, you
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know, in twenty twenty two. It worked there stop the red wave just
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on screaming about abortion. So that's going to be the strategy, and it
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very well, maybe enough, we have to consider that. I still maintain
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that. You know, folks need to remember that the whole reason abortion is
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even where it is is because of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I mean, she's
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the one who made Roe v. Wade go away. She deserves the credit.
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I think that people need to, you know, the people that wear
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the T shirts and that wear the Ruth Bader Ginsburg hats and all the Ruth
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Bader Ginsburg paraphernalia. The stuffed animals they got those A little stuffed doll over,
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it's not an animal. The stuffed stuffed dolls, the toys of her.
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I mean, it should come. They should make one that you pull
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the string and it just says, I made Roe v. Wade go away.
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You know that kind of that's not her voice at all. I don't
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know that I know her voice. I like the old days when Supreme Court
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justices were. They weren't celebrities, they weren't rock stars. We didn't know
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who they were. People weren't showing up at their house. People weren't threatening
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them. They weren't scared to do their jobs. They got they get scared
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and they think, ah, we gotta tell them, can get rid of
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the razor wire because we're scared or whatever. And I think that that was
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the golden ages of it. You know, when somebody was you know,
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hey, this is gonna be the first black Supreme Court justice. That's somebody.
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You know, you go, that's important. Now, this is a
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woman, that's the this is a Hispanic person. You know, well,
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you've had all these for a black woman. Got those are those are significant?
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You know you go through a black conservative is on there, Boo,
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that's what they do on the left. But you know that in those cases,
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you know you kind of go, all right, well that's important.
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But I don't think we should know all. I mean, we should know
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their names just being informed, but people aren't really informed. They know the
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names of the people they're supposed to hate. Boo. I hate you.
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You're nasty, You're the worst. You should refuse yourself from anything involving Trump
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because you're bad. But you know, I like the old days when they
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weren't all rock stars. But we need to take a minute and remember Ruth
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Bader Ginsburg just by not stepping down when Barack Obama asked her to so that
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he could replace her, she said, no, no, no, Hillary
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Clinton will be the one who will, you know, the first woman president,
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will be the one to pick my replacement. And then, of course
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Donald Trump won, and then Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Donald Trump got to
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make the pick and that ended up being enough to get Roby Wade overturned.
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So just to remind her, if you're gonna blame anybody, anybody blame Ruth
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Bader Ginsburg, somebody who, by the way, did think that it should
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have been a state's issue anyway, based on the law. So you know,
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I don't know that she kind of consciously was like, I'm gonna let
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Trump win and then I'm gonna die. But we know that's ultimately how it
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all played out. So I mean, give her credit where it's due,
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especially for folks on the left, you know, that want to call her
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a hero. Yeah, she's a hero. She got it back to a
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state's issue. So yesterday, definitely the Biden Harris campaign stop in Virginia laid
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it out for us. They are going to run on abortion. That's going
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to be the issue, that's the top issue for them. That will be
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the strategy, that will be They'll put all the eggs in that basket.
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You get it. You see what I did there. So sorry, So
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now Democrats refusing to even negotiate in any way on the issue of abortion.
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Some Republicans, including Nikki Hayley, who by the way, had a better
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day than expected yesterday, has been trying to say, hey, we should
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talk about coming up with a national compromise for abortion. If this is going
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to be something that the American people are going to continue to fight on,
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we need to come up with an agreement. I think most conservatives. You've
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got some conservatives that are very libertarian that say it should not be the government's
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role to tell you anything about your health care, including this issue. But
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most conservatives, I think, stand on the side of let's stick up for
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those who can't stick up for themselves and the unborn. But they definitely don't
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want to see like a twenty plus week abortions allowed. And I think that
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most Democrats would say they definitely don't want there to be, you know,
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a four week ban, they don't want a six week ban. They don't
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want those kinds of things in place. There has to be a point there
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somewhere in the middle. And I've said this many times before. I have
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my position on it. I know what I feel is right in what's wrong.
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I know what I think is morally okay. But I do understand that
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this is an issue that you're not going to cut, Like, my morality
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doesn't get to make the decision for everyone else. So maybe there should be
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a point where we put this whole thing to bed and you go, well
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it's twelve weeks, shake hands, you know, spit in your hand,
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shake hands, call it a day, and we're done. But Democrats don't
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want to do that. They want this wide open, where this could be
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something that could be done right up until birth. I mean, there are
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some that may most have in some way advocated or not denounced it that are
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serving. So are there are many that have. I've heard the stat that
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almost all of them are in support of it lasting all the way up to
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forty weeks. I haven't heard them all say it, but I do know
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that keeping it wide open and going back to a Roe v. Wade scenario
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is certainly something that would create that dynamic in that possibility. So if Democrats
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are saying, hey, we have women that don't have abortion rights reproductive rights,
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and you have a Republicans saying let's come up with a compromise, let's
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put it to bed now, and Democrats are saying, no, no,
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that's not what we're going to do. They don't want to resolve the issue.
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They want this to be an election issue. They want this to be
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the thing that may save the Biden campaign, may create a situation where But
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with that said, we know the issues that Republicans are running on. And
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there's something interesting that came out of New Hampshire last night, and I think
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it's really important to just talk about this for a second. Geographically, we
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know where New Hampshire is located. Okay, this is a New England state.
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It's far northeast. This is not a place that is anywhere near the
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southern border of the US. It's not close. There are a few states,
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I mean Maine. I mean, you're gonna really start talking about in
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the in the lower forty eight, right, there's not many scenarios where can
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get further away from that southern border with Mexico. I mean, Main's it,
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right, And this is the this is the biggest issue for voters in
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New Hampshire is the border crisis. That says something that that could be one
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of the most ominous messages to come out of maybe this whole primary season is
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it's getting underway, is that you have people in New Hampshire that are saying
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that the southern border is our biggest problem. And this is what's getting me
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to go to the polls. This is what's getting me to show up and
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vote, and this is what's getting me to vote Republican when I haven't always
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voted Republican. This has got me wanting to support Donald Trump. There's no
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candidate I can think of ever. I mean, i'd have to. This
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is the issue that Donald Trump won on in twenty sixteen. Was the border.
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It was building the wall, it was you know, securing the southern
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border. Now he's got a number of things that he says he wants to
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do, including getting us back to you know, energy independent, but he
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also says, hey, the border will be the first thing that I deal
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with. I'm gonna close it. I'm gonna shut it down, and we're
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going to deal with it. Even Joe Biden is now going, oh,
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I've been saying for ten years, the border's a problem. Do something about
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it. You could do something about it right now, you could do something
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about it today. You could have done something about it yesterday or three years
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ago. But this is not really what the focus is for you, and
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it's definitely not the focus for the people that are telling you what your focus
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is, that's not it at all. So the fact that Donald Trump is
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the candidate that of all time most associated with protecting our border, with securing
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our border, that's that's his marketing strategy that he owns, right, He
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owns that message, and he has basically from the beginning. So if voters
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in a far northeastern state about as far away from the border as you can
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get without getting into Canada is saying, this is our this is our concern,
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this is our worry the southern border. We're worried about the southern border.
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We got to stop this. That's a really good sign for a possible
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second term for Donald Trump. Think about it, Think about what that means,
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Think about what that lays out, Think about the potential that's there for
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that one more quick thing. And this is is still in this realm.
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But you know, I talked this week about the climate and a little bit
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on the climate, but mainly talking about this disease X and all this panic.
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And we got an update on the doomsday clock. As you know they
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every year they do. The doomsday clock started in nineteen forty five, the
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Bulletin and Albert Einstein and other scientists, and they base it on a number
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of things where they decide what the state of the world is. Well,
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the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists updated the clock and they say it remains ninety seconds
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to midnight. That's where it was a year ago. And they say that
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according to the doomsday clock representing armageddon. And they talk about a number of
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issues, a number of potential catastrophic issues this year, they say, wars,
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climate change, or what's keeping the clock moving closer to midnight? Now?
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If it hasn't moved, if it stays where it was a year ago,
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then how can they say that that means things are better? Things are
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great? Right? I mean things are they They didn't get worse. They're
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just a little bit better, maybe slightly better, at least for the climate,
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because we know the wars are worse. So that means the climate part
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has to be better, doesn't it. I don't know. I mean that's
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how I'm looking at it anyway. I just thought i'd throw that out there
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because of this continuing thing about how we're all doomed and in twenty years we'll
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all be dead, or California will be gone twenty that's the magic number twenty
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is nowhere in this though I didn't see anywhere in their doomsday. I'm surprised
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they didn't say we were twenty seconds to midnight, because then it would be
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you know, take your shirt off and run around. That's where we'd be
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at that point if it's twenty seconds to midnight. But thankfully we're still at
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ninety seconds to midnight. So you know, it's still not a good place,
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after the break well, the Oscar nominations came in. And I used to
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really like to watch the Oscars A long time ago, many many many many
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moons ago. I was still watching them, probably even five years ago.
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Even I could see the writing on the wall that it was becoming much less
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interesting, kind of like football now, I mean the NFL once they went
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelcey heavy at just a lost interest in it. I
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actually saw where a friend of mine was critical of the Travis Kelcey and Taylor
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Swift thing, sorry side note and saying that they really hope that the Ravens
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knocked the chiefs out and one of his friends was critical and said he needed
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to turn in his man card because the whole Kelsey and Taylor Swift thing was
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good for the game. And I'm thinking you're criticizing someone telling him turning their
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man card for not being excited about Taylor Swift's invasion of football. I think
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he got that one backwards. But anyway, anyway, the Oscar nominations are
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in, and I guess we're going to finally get the ultimate showdown and the
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whole Barbie Heimer discussion. I remember when the two movies came out the same
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weekend and they were calling it Barbie Heimer Weekend, and I think initially it
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was sort of a hey, what if people go to watch both movies?
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And I'm gonna be honest, I don't know how many people. I mean,
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I'm sure there's some overlap. I just don't know how much of an
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overlap there really is. But Barbie dominated that weekend and was the you know,
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certainly the monster hit opening weekend in the first few weekends it was out,
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But it has been Oppenheimer that has been the movie that has done very
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well in the awards shows, and right now it I guess would be the
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favorite to win Best Picture, and at Christopher Nolan I think is the favorite
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to win Best Director. I think that Killian Murphy is probably the favorite to
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win Best Actor. At least at this point, I think Robert Downey Junior
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is the Best Supporting Actor favorite. So we'll see exactly how it all shakes
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out. We probably won't see it on TV because not many people watch it
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anymore. But ultimately we'll find out who the overall I mean, if one
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had the box office success, the bigger box officer, they were both successful,
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and the other wins the awards, you know, And I think that's
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probably makes it a draw, makes it just part of the fun of all
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of it, doesn't it. So I am a really big, really big
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fan of Christopher Nolan. I like all of his movie, even some of
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his indie movies. All of his movies that I've seen, I haven't been
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disappointed in any and they're all great. So, and I'll be honest,
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I've seen Barbie, but I haven't seen Oppenheimer yet. I will watch it
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soon. It'll be on Max next month, in about three weeks. I'll
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watch it then. But I and partly part of the reason that I haven't
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watched it is Jake is also a huge Christopher Nolan fan, so we'll probably,
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at least if Luke's not ready to watch it, at least three of
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the four of us will watch the movie, with Jill joining us. So
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anyway, we'll see when it comes to actual awards day how all that's gonna
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shake out. If you want better sleep, they say that you should move
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to California. I don't really know how this would work exactly, because I
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mean, is it the weather. I mean, I guess that's it,
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but you would think that, I don't know, with the with you got
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crime, you got taxes, I mean all of the not all of them,
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but a lot of the big stories where it's like people just kicking in
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doors and stealing things. And when you hear stories about Target putting deodorant behind
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locked door, is it They always seem to be in California, don't they.
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I don't know that that would help me sleep so much. But the
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weather, if you're in a place where it's constantly seventy two degrees, I
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guess you could get some consistent quality sleep. But a survey that was done
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state by state and the number one state for getting a good quality night's sleep
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was California, and this had to do with their number of hours they slept
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each night on average, and according to the metrics, California got the best
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sleep the other states at the top of the list, in the top this
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is top five. I don't know that they understand the way lists work because
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they've got six total listed as in the top five, because there's a tie.
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But anyway, you've got there are East coast states South Carolina, New
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York and second and third, Maryland and New Jersey tied for fourth, and
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this says North Carolina and fifth, but that would be sixth, right,
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you got two in fourth, so your fifth one is actually sixth at that
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point. That's the way it's supposed to work. But I know I'm being
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nitpicky, But anyway, you know this whole and see this is an example
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of what I'm talking about with the California thing. And I haven't talked about
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Stanley Cups or anything other than than hockey capacity on this show ever, but
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you know the Stanley Cup craze forty five dollars steel tumblers people just you know,
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I guess tweens wantum teens wantum. Well, a woman in California was
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arrested because she decided to steal sixty five of them, allegedly. I guess
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you have to say that. Police in Sacramento responded to a store where a
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woman was reportedly seen walking out with a shopping cart filled with Stanley cups that
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she did not pay for and started stuffing them in her car. Cops tracked
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her down, pulled her over. They found dozens of the cups in the
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trunk and passenger seat, and placed her under arrest. I didn't know that
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police still did this. Once you leave the store with it and you start
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putting it in your car, I don't they just let you go? I
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guess in not in Sacramento. That's a more conservative area right of California.
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And finally, McDonald's has always had this thing about their cokes, right The
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cokes taste better at McDonald's. People have been saying that for years and years
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and years. And I guess this is a little bit of the breakdown according
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to the reason why. And I've heard a few theories on why, and
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McDonald's I guess is kind of laid out what they do that may be a
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little different now companies have to follow certain guidelines. According to Coca Cola,
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the company, we have guidelines. You're supposed to follow the guidelines, and
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McDonald says, yes, we follow the guidelines. This is the Coca Cola
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philosophy on keeping the taste in quality optimal. Now, McDonald says, they
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following word for word, and they say that per the guidelines, they clean
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out their drink machines with filtered water. They say that they use pre chilled
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water and Coca Cola syrup in their fountain, and then they make sure to
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use extra syrup so that the taste is not alter when ice is added to
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the drink. I don't know if that's different than others. I think that
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may be part of the guidelines. And then they say that they get their
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coke syrup delivered in stainless steel tanks to help guarantee freshness, so that may
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be the difference. I've heard that before. I don't know what the stainless
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steel tanks would how that would affect it, but apparently, but it is
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true, they do taste better there. And I don't understand if that just
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became kind of a psychological thing, or if it's the stainless steel tanks.
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I don't know how that works exactly. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition
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