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Trump Looking for Votes in Blue Cities · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning,
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twenty fourth day of June. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me back at
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it, rolling into this final week of the month, and had a nice
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week off last week. I told you before the last couple of shows,
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before I took the week off, I'd be taking a little time with family.
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We did a big, old, old fashioned road trip checked out Mammoth
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Cave National Park in Kentucky. That was fantastic. I highly encourage that trip,
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especially if you're kind of in the area already. I mean, we
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went as a destination. That was our goal. We wanted to go there,
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we wanted to see it. It lives up to the hype. We
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had a great time. They're hiking, checking out the caves, exploring the
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caves. There's no spelunking to do that, but you can explore. It's
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the largest cave system in the world. Pretty cool stuff. We did that.
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We did some other touristy things around Kentucky, including but not limited to,
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visiting the city of I'm going to say Louisville, because at no point
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was it king Lua. I know the people in Louisville will get really upset
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and worked up that you don't say Louisville. I guess when you're there,
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you can say Louisville and make them happy. We only got corrected once on
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our trip by someone who made it a point to make sure we knew it's
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Louisville. If we decided here in Columbus that we were going to be Columbus
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and people came in and said, hey, Columbus, and we said no,
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no, no, Columbus. I mean, it's about that ridiculous,
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isn't it. But they can call it whatever they want. Anyone that's there
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is certainly entitled to their pronunciation however they would like to do. That.
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Knock yourself out doesn't mean that we have to do it. We can say
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louis whatever we want to do, we can say it. Why not Louisville.
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Whatever you want to say, you can say that. It's up to
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you. We went with Louisville, but we went there. We checked out
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the Louisville Slugger Factory and museum that's there. That was great. They don't
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call it the Louisville Slugger. I don't think maybe some people do. I
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don't know. We had a good time on our vacation. We enjoyed it
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overall. Highly recommend. You know, that's where you're at. A few
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issues with where we stayed, you know, more issues than what you normally
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would accept. But we were in a position where, you know, we're
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like eight hours from home. It's it's not like we could just pack up
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and leave. Plus we took our dog with us. One of the things
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we like to do on our vacations is we love the opportunity to take our
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dog. He likes to hike, he likes to explore. He wasn't allowed
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to go inside the caves, Mammoth Caves, but we took him exploring around
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that area as much as he could. So you're eight hours from home at
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minimum. Takes a lot longer when you're driving it and you're stopping and doing
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all the necessary restroom breaks and refuelings and feedings and all that stuff. But
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eight to ten hours, you know, just to get home, but you
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know you're there with your pet, and it's not like you can just go,
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well, we're just gonna go find a hotel in the random middle of
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nowhere in Kentucky and one that also accepts pets. It's a little more of
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a challenge than that. But so we were just kind of stuck with the
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accommodations that we had. It was disappointing, but otherwise we had a good
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time. We ate some food, we got, we went to some restaurants
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that were new to us, some places that were new to us, and
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we just had made some memories. That's what you do on vacation, making
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those memories. And the Mammoth Caves were interesting enough that our kids, who
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one is officially a teenager, one is practically a teenager a couple of months
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away, they enjoyed Mammoth Cave, so that's important too. So we had
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a good time, all right. So let's get into a couple of things
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because there's a few things we have to discuss. We're in this exciting very
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early in the game debate week. Presidential debate coming up this week, so
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we have our first opportunity to see which of these two guys running for president
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has the mental capacity to do the job. I did see at one point
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over the break, as we had a birthday for former President Trump and some
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of the network's news networks CNN in particular, very critical of the fact that
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Trump's team and Trump himself downplayed his birthday, didn't make a big deal about
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it. I guess at one of his appearances, his speeches, people started
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to sing to him and he kind of dismissed the whole thing. Oh,
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he doesn't want people to know he got a little bit older, that he
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is also an older guy, and it's not just Biden who's the older guy.
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Keep in mind, the Biden camp has been ignoring birthdays for a little
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while. Now. This isn't a new tradition. They've blown right past a
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couple like they didn't even happen, So this isn't something brand new. Trump
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didn't just invent that. By the way, I don't know if anyone at
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a certain point politically where they want to bring up and call attention to their
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age. But I know that some of these networks that are being critical of
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Trump played the game for Biden and didn't really play up his birthday at all.
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But another thing that took place, and this is where I'd like to
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spend a little bit of time this morning, and that is talking about the
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fact that we have basically a campaign in progress. We have two different campaigns,
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two very different campaigns in progress. One of them is overall the you
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know, just kind of wandering around campaign. We have a current president who
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we can see the sign that things are not quite where they need to be
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mentally for him, you know. And I say this all the time when
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people kind of make jokes about the mental acuity or lack thereof of President Biden,
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I stress this. I don't find it funny at all. I find
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it very sad. I have a number of family members who had issues with
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dementia or Alzheimer's and it's not a laughing matter. It's unbelievably sad, and
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it's unbelievably devastating for a family. It's one of the hardest things that I
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have ever had to experience, and I've had to experience it multiple times with
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people that you care about, people that you love, and it's horrible.
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It's not funny. Now. The comical using that word in a very loose
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way part about the fact that we have a president who seems to certainly be
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there, and anyone denying it is denying it, you know, through their
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blue colored glasses, if you will. The comical side of it is that
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we have people who think that this is someone we should be voting for to
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continue to be president of the United States. I don't personally think he's up
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to the job now, and I don't know that he's been up to the
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job since he was elected. I don't know that he has been up to
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the job since he was nominated. I think in twenty twenty he wasn't capable
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of doing this job. I don't think he's been doing the job. But
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that's my opinion. I think other people are doing the job. I think
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that when Trump was president, there were a lot of people who were upset
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because he didn't let other people do the job. He said, I'm president,
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I'm going to do the job, and this is what I was elected
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for. I wasn't elected to be the puppet. I wasn't elected to just
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sit here and let somebody else run things. And I think we've had a
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number of presidents who've been more than happy to just let people run things,
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and I think we have one right now. So I think it's comical when
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people say he's up to the job, he's not. We see him wandering
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around, we see him confused, we see him, you know, shaking
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hands with invisible people shaking the same person's hand over and over again, forgetting
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that he's already done that. The verbal flubs are embarrassing. We're an international
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family here, and keep in mind, because of social media, everybody really
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is kind of international. They whether they have international family or not. But
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we're an international family here. I have friends and family overseas and they'll ask,
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eh, how did you feel about that? And you have to give
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them an answer, and sometimes it's just a sigh and an eye roll,
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and you go, I don't know how to answer it. I don't know
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what to tell you. It's been the case since the first time I went
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overseas and I had people asking me about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky? What
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do you say? How do you answer the question? I had to answer
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it several times, how do you feel about that? And the number of
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people that I know that are overseas, and I'm speaking specifically of Australia that
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said to me on my last trip in twenty nineteen, end of twenty nineteen,
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beginning of twenty twenty of Donald Trump, we hear horrible things about him,
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but we can tell you this, when the US economy does well,
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our economy does well, and right now our economy is doing better than it's
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done maybe in my lifetime. And I say to them, then, yes,
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we're doing very well, and they said, we can tell you.
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Don't have to even tell us that because it definitely rolls downhill for us.
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And I knew people who hated that were down there that hated Donald Trump still
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do. But the reality is, if your best option against Donald Trump is
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someone who is probably very far along in the dementia process, you have to
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at least consider rethinking things because you have to ask yourself, is it better
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to have someone who at least was good for the world's economy, or is
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it better to have someone who's done horrible things for this economy taking credit for
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things that they didn't really do, and doesn't seem to have the mental acuity
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to do anything about it, especially not for four more years. So we
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have a campaign that is based again on just kind of laying low, not
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doing a whole lot. I know he's doing the job, maybe, but
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I know you say, well, he can't be out campaigning so much.
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He's doing the job. Other president's campaign while doing the job. It's part
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of the job when you're running for reelection. But it also helps if you're
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not responsible for actually calling the shots or doing the job, if someone else
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is responsible for that. And then we have another campaign. We have a
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campaign that is a former president who has been attacked by the justice system that
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is part of the current administration. A former president who has been indicted multiple
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times now convicted, and nobody really knows what he was convicted of or how
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he was convicted on something that the statute of limitations had run out on a
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misdemeanor charge. It was somehow elevated to a felony. It doesn't really make
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sense to most people. They just hear felon And that's what the left wanted,
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that's what the Justice Department wanted. The It may be not fair to
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say the full I think I think that's true, but I think it's at
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least safe to say that when you have a district attorney that ran on I'm
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going to get Trump. That's what he wanted. He wanted to get this
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felon thing lumped in there. But when you are going after your political opponent,
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how much do you think we're gonna hear about this on debate day coming
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up? But when you got someone that is just going after your opponent,
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and then you've got a former president who is having to deal with that and
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is out campaigning as best he can, because some of these charges are designed
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to keep him from being able to campaign, to prevent him from being able
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to go out and do what he needs to do as someone running for president.
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And he's going to places like Deep New York, Philadelphia. He just
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went to Philadelphia and people said, my gosh, what is he doing in
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Philadelphia? And some on the left say, ah, he's just trying to
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go in there and steal some of that black vote. What he's trying to
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steal enough of that black vote so he and become president. He'd get enough
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black vote away from Joe Biden and he can win the presidency. Hearing that
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from folks on the left, that's what he's trying to do. What's wrong
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with that? Isn't the job to be the president of the United States of
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all people? Joe Biden promised us he was going to be a uniter in
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chief. Remember that, I'm going to be a uniter in chief. I'm
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going to bring everybody together. I think Barack Obama promised that too, And
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then every time someone voted against something he wanted to do, everybody cried racism
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and foul because they don't want him to do it. They don't want him
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to get any credit for anything because he's black, mixed race. But uh,
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and I did a whole thing about that the other day. You want
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to go back a couple of shows, listen to that. But you know,
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the growing sentiment that I think should be legitimate that no, we should
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call people that are mixed race mixed race, and we should call it shouldn't
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be this old school, back to the slave day's idea that you are black
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because you got to drop a black blood. But anyway, now for me
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to make the decision, that's just my opinion on it, and I think
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that the people that are starting to make that case it should be heard because
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I think it is a very racist thing that we're continuing for some reason.
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But anyway, so if we have someone running for president that's not just going
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to take any voters for granted. It's not just going to be a we're
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just going to assume that all people who look like this are going to vote
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this way. Remember when Joe Biden said that it was that Charlemagne guy whatever
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that morning show, and I don't say that that's silly end of his name
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and all like it. But he told him, you're if they might not
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vote for me, you ain't black. You're thinking about voting for Trump,
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you ain't black. And that falls right into that, doesn't it. That's
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been a sentiment now for a while. You have to vote Democrat. If
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you're black, you have to vote Democrat. If you're Hispanic, you have
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to vote the way that we tell you to. Women should vote this way
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because of abortion. They should vote this way because Trump is horrible or whatever
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it is. And they're surprised that women might actually there might be women who
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say we're more conservative. There's more to us than that, and believe it
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or not, there are some black people and Hispanic people they are also conservative.
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Think back to two thousand and eight when California voted down gay marriage.
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In two thousand and eight during the Obama run. Why did that happen Because
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there were a lot of black people who had not voted previously that said we're
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going to show up and voted this election because this is important. And they
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went Barack Obama, Yes, game marriage, Nope, don't agree with that.
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And then what happened. Hollywood said, We're going to start making some
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movies like Moonlight and TV shows like Empire. We're going to change the way
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they think about this. We can't have that. We need some solidarity on
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this. It's worked, Blackish. That was another one. Reprogramming got to
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get you thinking a certain way. The left has said now they have to
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try to reprogram the way some of these Republicans think, the ones that want
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to vote for Trump again, So, what a concept and what a bunch
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of blathering idiocy to say he's just trying to pull some of that vote away.
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That's the goal win the election. If you take enough votes away in
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a state like Pennsylvania that was close probably will still be close, then yes,
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pull enough votes away that might decide the election. Why would he not
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go to Pennsylvania and talk to anyone there that will show up and hear him
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speak and say, look, I want to represent you, I want to
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do for you what hasn't been done for you in sixty years, what hasn't
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been done for you? And all the time that you've been promised things are
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going to happen for you, and now you're being told again and again it's
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worse than it's been in sixty years. And if you've been getting the vote
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of groups of people and you're not making things better for them, why would
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they continue to vote that way? So, yes, I think it's smart
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for a presidential contender, a candidate to go to Pennsylvania, to go to
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Ohio, to go to Florida, to go to Virginia and North Carolina,
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and go places where you don't just take the votes for granted, go to
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New York, go to California. Is he gonna win those states? He's
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probably not gonna win California New York. But he definitely should be campaigning in
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Pennsylvania. Shouldn't he in Philadelphia? Absolutely? And you know what, Joe
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forty five hundred o dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show right after the
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break. Well, if you have a bad back, some experts are starting
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to say taking pills might not be the answer, but it might be a
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little bit of exercise, just walking regularly. Researchers in Australia say that regular
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walks can ease the discomfort of back pain and prevent future issues. Study participants
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who worked up to walking at least thirty minutes a day, so that's a
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work up starting slow, but building up to that, so about thirty minutes
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a day, five times a week, had their risk of recurrent back injury
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decrease by about thirty percent. That's pretty good. Anything that can involve cutting
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out pills for some sort of exercise that as long as it's actually helping you
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with your problems, that seems like that should be a positive thing, right.
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A new survey found that people aren't happy with nine to five businesses.
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Instead, they want more places open twenty four to seven. Survey found that
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people want their grocery stores, pharmacies, and doctor's offices to be open around
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the clock. I think doctor's offices open around the clock are called hospitals.
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The seven places people think should be open twenty four to seven grocery stores,
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pharmacies, doctor's offices, post office, banks, the dentist, and auto
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shop or mechanic. A couple thoughts on this, and I mean, I
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understand maybe longer hours, but I don't know about twenty four to seven.
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Do you need to have a dentist office? What's happening at a dentist office?
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You know that they need to be open, like you have the occasional
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patient, But if you've got a good dentist, like my dentist I had
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an accident with a tooth and he was at the beach and he's like,
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I'm loading up the kids right now. I can meet you in the office
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in four hours. And I said, no, no, no, no,
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we can deal with this later. I don't want you to jure vacation
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early. He's like, well, you know, I can be back.
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And I said, you don't need to do that. If you got a
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good dentist, they're going to come and meet you there anyway, right And
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I don't know a mechanic open at three in the morning is that necessary?
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I mean, I know there's emergencies that come up, but there can't be
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a lot of them happening then. But anyway, how about this. The
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Parliament in the country of Wales has introduced legislation that would make it a crime
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for politicians to lie. If it passes, it would be the first country
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in the world to impose criminal sanctions against lying politicians. Ah, this sounds
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it sounds like a good idea, right, keep them honest, but also
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sounds like it could be a complete disaster because how do you prove that they
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knew that they were lying? Whereas you take somebody that I don't know,
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says I didn't know any thing about gain a function research, and then you
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get emails that prove that they did, and then they go, I don't
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remember that, I don't recall, I don't know. And then you say,
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well, you know, maybe you knew more than you say that you
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did. But how do we prove it? It's hard. It's not easy
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to prove it at all. All right, let's talk about pets. Let's
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talk about if you have pet insurance. You're one of those people with pet
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insurance for your dog or cat. It was a big thing for a little
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while. It was really catching all a lot of people doing it. Well,
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if you have a policy with Nationwide, the insurance company has announced that
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around one hundred thousand policies will be dropped due to inflationary pressures and other factors.
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So basically, the cost of veterinary care has gone up enough it's so
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expensive. Nationwide determined that it's no longer financially sustainable for them to keep many
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of their policies. So for many of the one hundred thousand pet owners who
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will be dropped next year, it means that they'll have to find a new
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insurance provider. However, those who have pets insured for many years and now
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have older dogs with health conditions, it'll be much more difficult for them to
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get coverage. How about the like policy you can keep it? Can we
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come up with one of those? For this? Probably not good news and
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the war against AI. McDonald's has scored a big win for humans in the
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battle fast food giant kicking aiut of the curb, but it's drived through lanes.
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McDonald's intoed a two year partnership with IBM to test out AI ordering kiosks
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at over one hundred restaurant locations where computers took voice orders from drive through customers.
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McDonald's did not say whether the AI kiosks sped up the ordering process or
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if it accurately filled orders, but they've made the decision to remove the kiosks
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and return to human workers for now. At least, company plans to explore
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voice ordering solutions more broadly. Though. All right, hamburgers to hot dogs,
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most people probably muster, but apparently mayo is actually growing as a popular
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condiment on hot dogs. They say that the flavor of the mayo taste differently
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adds a creamy flavor to the hot dog and says, basically, just a
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way to change things up a little bit. I'm gonna say this, okay,
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And I'm very much a mustard guy. I've said this before. I'm
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a spicy brown guy. That's the way I like to go. If I've
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got if that's available. If it's not, I'll go with this traditional yellow.
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But I was at a concert once, okay, up in Duluth,
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Georgia, and I was at the Gwinnette Center and they had at their concessions
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area. You get your hamburger, you get your hot dog, you go
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over where the condiments are. They had lettuce and then they had pickles and
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all the stuff that you might get on a burger part of the condiment area.
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And I remember getting a hot dog at this particular show and it was
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a large, you know, like bun hot dog, and I thought,
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it's a lot of bread to this thing. But what if I put mayo
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and lettuce on my hot dog? And it was delicious? And that made
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me realize that people, the snobs against mayo on hot dogs have clearly not
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tried this. And I had did pickles lettuce. It was almost like eating
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a hamburger, but it was a hot dog, and I'm just telling you
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should at least consider it. That's all I'm saying. What season is the
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best season for food? Most people seem to think it's summer. Cookouts,
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barbecues, you know, probably throw in something like beer or whatever on a
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hot day. But a survey found seventy percent of respondents said foods just taste
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better in the summer, and they threw in ice creams and watermelon, lemonade,
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hot dogs with mayo, perhaps corn on the cob, topping the list
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of foods that people say are just a little more delicious this time of year.
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And finally, latest travel trend is women only, adult summer camps,
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outdoor adventures, arts and crafts, bonding, wine community. All that stuff
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makes sense, doesn't It makes perfect sense. That'll do it for this Monday
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