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Biden Better Than Reagan? Yeah, Well, You're an Idiot · 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. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, twentieth
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day of February. I'm West Thanks for kicking off your work week with me.
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I assume this is the kickoff of your work week because many had the
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day off yesterday, not everyone did. I understand that. I know that
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a lot of the kids around the country got the day off, maybe got
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an extra long weekend for some. I know that some of the schools in
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the Chattahoochee Valley area got Friday off as well, so that meant for a
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bit of a longer weekend. A year ago, my family decided, Hey,
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let's take President's Day weekend and let's go to New Orleans. So we
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did that. That was my wife's suggestion. She's got a very dear friend,
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well we have a friend, but it's one of her closest friends who
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happens to live in New Orleans. And she said, let's go see Dorothy.
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And we said, okay, let's go see Dorothy. I've always wanted
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to go to New Orleans. At some point, let's go. I think
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it was I don't think it was actually on the road. I think I've
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told this story before that we were on the road as it happened, but
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it was pretty close to us leaving that. I went, wait a minute,
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is Marty Garraw going on in New Orleans that weekend? And Jill said,
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oh, yeah, yeah, but we're not going for Marty row No,
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but it's going to be going on, yes? Is that going to
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be a giant pain in the butt? We'll be fine. We had a
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good time. We had a really good time and got to get a little
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sampling, little taste of what Marty Gral is about without having to get too
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into it. You know. We did go to Bourbon Street, Jill and
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I did at night just to see what the show was about, you know,
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just to see the show. And it was not a good show,
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but we did it. It's one of those things you go. It's a
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bucketless thing. And I equate it to this when we when we were there
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and we were discussing whether or not we were going to do it, and
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Jill kept saying, you're talking about going to do this like you really want
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to go, and I said, it's not that I want to go,
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it's if we were in New York and it was New Year's Eve, and
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you know, right outside of our hotel, there's people gathered to watch the
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ball drop. I think we should, you know, check it out.
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I wouldn't go to New York to watch the ball drop. I wouldn't do
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that on purpose. But if I was there and it was happening outside,
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I'd probably wander down there and check it out. Now, no, you
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can't just wander down there. There's a lot of checkpoints and you basically can't
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go to the bathroom for something like twelve hours once you got I know people
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who go, I've heard all the guidelines and rules. We once were at
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Disney for New Years and you know New year celebrations. And I this was
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many, many years ago. I was a much younger guy, never really
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thought about going to Disney for New Years. We didn't go for New Year's.
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We went to Disney because we thought this would be a good time of
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year ago. We have time all from work, it's between Christmas and the
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start of the year. Let's go. And we did, and we realized,
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oh my gosh, this is one of us is like the number two
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place for people to go for New Year's to celebrate the start of the year.
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I didn't know that. I didn't know. We had a good time
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though. It was fun kind of being in it. I wouldn't have done
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it on purpose, but we did it. We were there, we stuck
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around, we hung out. That's how I treated the whole Marty Grass thing.
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So we did that check the box. Would never want to do it
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again. I mean to be there for Marty Grass, that would be fine.
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I don't have a problem with that. I wouldn't necessarily go to Bourbon
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Street again, not in the evenings, not during Marty Grass. No need
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to do that. We checked that box and we got out of there very
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quickly. We didn't last very long now, Dorothy said. We lasted a
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little longer than she thought we would. But it was a pretty quick turnaround
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before we were because she dropped us off and we were like, can you
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please come get us now? We're done. We're finished, We're ready to
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come back to your place. We're done. So that was a year ago,
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though this year no big travel plans. We didn't go very far.
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We just spent some time with family and that was it. That's what we
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did. I was President's Day yesterday and I want to talk a little bit
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about presidents, and then I got another thing I want to talk about.
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And we'll see, we'll see how we get into this. But there's a
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and we talk about this from time to time. I guess every year around
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this time they do this evaluation and the twenty twenty four Presidential Greatness Projects Expert
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survey that they put together polling one hundred more than one hundred and fifty history
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and American political science scholars, people that you would call an expert, and
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they were asked to rank all of the presidents. And every year they release
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their rankings. And here we have the rankings for the presidents based on what
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these experts have to say about them. Now there's some interesting things. There's
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a couple things in here. You go, this is about right. I
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mean, I would assume it's not a big shock that Abraham Lincoln is at
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the top of the list. That doesn't seem like anything. And I think
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pretty consistently is you know that's where he lies now this particular I guess ranking
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that happens. I don't know that they do it. Let me see,
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do they do it every year? I know that they rank it base on
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periods of time. But anyway, I don't want to say the wrong thing
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if they don't rank it every year. So it looks like the last one
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was was done. They ranked them between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four,
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and twenty fifteen in twenty twenty four, So there's ranges of these things.
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I guess maybe that's the best way to value it. Maybe they do it
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annually, but this is how they break down the rankings and changes. So
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Lincoln pretty consistently been in the top spot. FDR. They have at number
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two George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Truman, Obama, Eisenhower,
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LBJ. Kennedy or your top ten, my personal all time favorite president
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James Madison at number eleven. All right, and then I'm going to mention
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a couple more in here, because we got William Jefferson Clinton at number twelve.
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John Adams is at thirteen. Now here's where we can start to because
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you're probably wondering where a few presidents rank, Like maybe you're wondering about Ronald
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Reagan. He's at number sixteen, a president, by the way, who
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won an unbelievable landslide reelection in nineteen eighty four, something that will probably never
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ever see again unless we continue to have to use mail in ballots, and
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then maybe maybe we could see that again. I don't know. George HW.
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Bush was at nineteen. Jimmy Carter they've got at twenty two, which
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is I think interesting scrolling through. Okay, George W. Bush is at
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thirty two. All right, that may be all as far as the ones
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you're wondering about, But we'll get to dead last Donald Trump. They've got
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Donald Trump in absolute dead last place. Now I did skip one that may
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be worth mentioning because he's the current president. You may be wondering, well,
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where does he rank among all of these people, because some would probably
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argue that maybe he could be dead last, or that maybe Carter could be
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dead last. I know you're not supposed to say that. In Georgia,
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Joe Biden, current President of the United States, they've got at number fourteen,
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two spots ahead of Ronald Reagan. It's laughable to the point of almost
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putting you in tears. But then you have to really consider who these political
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science experts are and who these people filling out this survey might be. They
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basically say that the greatest accomplishment of Joe Biden is that he beat Donald Trump.
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Yeah. Now keep in mind, currently, based on the polling right,
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he is currently four years ago has a lower opinion. The American people
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have a lower opinion of Joe Biden than they did of Donald Trump four years
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ago. But they say, and there's two professors I guess who were responsible
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for the survey, Brandon roddinghass Or House maybe and Justin Vaughn. And they
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say Biden's most important achievement maybe that he rescued the presidency from Trump, resumed
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a more traditional style of presidential leadership, and is gearing up to keep the
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office out of his predecessor's hands this fall. So not only are we having
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some this is very loose. You could say, all right, if you
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think that America was in danger by having Donald Trump as the president, you
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can make a case that he saved the country from Trump. If you hate
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Trump that much, all right, that's fine. I don't know that you
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really give Biden the credit for it. He didn't really do anything. It's
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not like he won the White House through campaigning. It's not like he won
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the White House through something spectacular that he did during the election. Cycle.
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That's not how he won. He won by just hiding. He hid,
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He laid low. He you know, didn't put his head up to get
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whack am hole. That's what he did. He laid low, resumed a
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more traditional style of presidential leadership. Sounds to me like they're basically saying that
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he learned to listen to the people behind the scenes running things. And I
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know we're not supposed to say that those people exist, but I think we
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all kind of see that playing out right now. And I think we kind
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of see that it played out a little bit during the Trump presidency because Trump
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didn't want to let those people do that, and he wasn't afraid to fire
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people, or he wasn't afraid to run people off or I don't know,
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custom out of public. He didn't care. He wanted to run things.
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Wait a minute, I'm the president who says you get to make the decisions.
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And I think it was Barack Obama who was president and on this list,
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you know, in a very sweet and healthy spot that he is ranked,
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I would think, maybe a little higher than you might think, large
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at number seven, largely because even he admitted he wasn't able to get a
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lot done as president because Republicans wouldn't just let him do whatever he wanted,
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and that led to people being called racist and name calling and all these sorts
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of things. So I don't know. I mean, he got Affordable Care
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Act, right, That's what he did. Obamacare, that's the signature thing.
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And it almost went away. It would have gone away. It was
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very close to going away. But John McCain didn't didn't do the right thing
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and help the American people out and help him keep health care affordable for you
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know, the people who've been putting money into health care for a long time
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and having health insurance and being responsible. But anyway, I realize that's a
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blanket thing to say. I know there's some people who just couldn't afford to
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get health care, to get health insurance, but for the people who were
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have had it ever since they got a full time job. I can barely
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afford to go to the doctor now, I can barely afford to go.
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But the assumption, of course, is that I'll continue to go and when
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I pay, and continue to pay ridiculous premiums that used to be much more
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affordable, helping somebody else out. Don't get the option of helping someone else
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out. It's taken from me goes through bureaucrats, and a little bit of
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what's taken from me helps some people out. Anyway, didn't mean to go
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down that hole. Just pointing out the fact that Barack Obama higher on the
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list, then maybe you would think, all right, so getting back to
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my but oh, I mentioned Obama because even he, I think in his
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book, didn't he point out the fact that they were just happy when they
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got to pick whatever they got to eat. A lot of decisions got made
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for them. He's probably would say he's talking about, you know, what
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they had to do day to day, where they had to go. But
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it does kind of seem like it might be an explanation for what's going on
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in the White House now. Decisions get made for you. It's out of
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your hands. You don't really get much call in all of that. But
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anyway, and gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor's hands.
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This fall, it's not what it looks like, it's not where things seem
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to be heading, but it could happen. I'm not going to say I
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told you. I don't make predictions anymore. So that's their assessment. They
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think that Joe Biden has done a great job record inflation, stomping the middle
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class down as far down as they can go. The Green New Deal,
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which is you know, was hidden in this Inflation Reduction Act, but they
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managed to squeak it out there on us the border completely out of control.
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But these are all things that this tells you. These experts, quote unquote
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experts think that what's going on at the border is a good thing. These
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experts think that inflation is great. They think that you know, stifling our
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economy for the sake of this environmental crisis that's you know, twenty year environmental
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crisis that's been going on much longer than twenty years. They think that's the
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way to go. They think that's the right kind of leadership. They think
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people running the White House, running the country from the shadows is the right
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way to go. That's what they think, and they're happy about it.
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So this tells you everything you need to know about it. Let you know
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that these are the people that are running things. Is it a shock that
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they don't like Donald Trump? Well, of course it's not a shock.
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Nobody would think that that was overly shocking. But to think that they hate
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him so much that just by beating him, that makes you a better president
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than Ronald Reagan. That makes you a better president than Ronald Reagan. And
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I'm just out of curiosity, and I mean, I'm not going to dive
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too deep into some of this, but I'm just going to sit here for
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just a second and say, Okay, we know where Trump is. He's
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dead last, but we'll just go We'll start at Biden at fourteen. Biden,
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Clinton, Kennedy. Yeah. I mean that those three, being as
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high as they are, that have been involved in some sort of scandalous activity.
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Now Kennedy, of course wasn't so much necessarily anybody saying that they were
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assaulted. But when you think about Clinton, how many women accused him.
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Biden has at least one accuser who says that he assaulted her. I always
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like to point that out. I mean, you'd look at the last five
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presidents and you say sixty percent of them have had somebody if you count Trump,
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you say sixty have I had someone accused them of some sort of inappropriate
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sexual conduct conduct. George W. Bush and Barack Obama are the two that
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don't have that in their in their history. They don't have that, so
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and I mean it would really be I'm not going to go to the George
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H. W. Bush, Remember he had somebody said that he would make
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you know, he's very very senior, make inappropriate jokes or something. It's
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just kind of being a creepy old man. But I don't think that qualifies,
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does it? If we go that far back. We'll just stick with
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the last five and you say sixty percent of them have had some sort of
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accusation against them, and two of them, Clinton and Biden cracking in that
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top fourteen. I just think that's interesting. I'll blow the Kennedy thing out
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because you know, I mean, they're scandal and all kinds of stuff with
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that family. But there you go, fourteen and twelve and how many total
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accusers in that. I'm not going to count them all up, but there
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you go. So yeah, happy day after President's Day. I hope,
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I hope you continue your mistrust of people that get to make things like this.
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well, do you know how much money your partner makes, seems about
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ten percent of people in serious relationships have no idea what their partner's salary is.
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According to a new survey, other financial secrets people seem to be keeping
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from some of their significant others, thirty eight percent say they keep their savings
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secret, thirty two percent hide how much debt they have, twenty nine percent
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don't share where they spend their money, and twenty seven percent aren't upfront about
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how many bank accounts they have. Now I realize you have to kind of
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break some of this down a little bit. Serious relationship, long term,
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serious relationship, married. I know some married couples that don't share their banking
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accounts. I guess they may know how much the salaries are that they make.
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I have never asked them that question, but that's in interesting that I
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guess one in ten say they don't know their salary. And I don't know
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if it's because they just are oblivious to it, or if it's because their
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partner won't share the info with them. A new study set to find out
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the priciest pizzas in America have determined that New York City is the most expensive.
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I don't think that's a shock. As of the beginning of twenty twenty
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three, a typical New York pizza was hitting customers for an average of thirty
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three dollars and sixty five cents for a one topping pie. Despite the price,
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New York holding on to its national reputation for best pizza, Denver not
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far behind, and for what it's worth, Americans prefer New York style pizzas
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to Deep Dish in Chicago fifty to thirty eight percent. So there you go.
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If you're looking to meet some one, you might want to scrap the
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dating apps because apparently running clubs are where it's at, especially if you're into
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trying to meet healthy people. But I suppose you yourself have to at least
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have some interest in being a healthy people yourself, right. It also would
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help widen your social circle and give you an opportunity to interact face to face.
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And basically, they say it's better to meet someone for the first time
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six am on Sundays rather than late night on a Friday night. It's a
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good point, especially if you're the kind of person who likes to be awake
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at six am on a Sunday versus spending late nights. I like it if
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you know people that are in the running community. I am not. My
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wife is. I can tell you this. They're good people. That's the
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other good side of it. They tend to be at least. I guess
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you can't just blindly paint them all with that brush, but they tend to
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be really good people least. So there's a Seattle man who has offered up
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His name is Ben Keenan, and he has offered up this just as something
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to consider, and it's an interesting idea to float out there, and he
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has floated it out there. Now. He says he is not personally planning
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to do this, but I guess as a Seattle resident, he is thirty
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one years old, and he says that his expenses are about four thousand dollars
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a month where he lives. And he did some research and he found that
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all inclusive resorts in places like Mexico the Dominican Republic would actually cost him less
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to live there. He even found a cruise ship that he could live on
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for less than that for a month. And he points out, I guess
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that you basically would need to work remotely to be able to do this.
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If you were going to move to one of those places, and it's I
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guess something maybe to consider. I don't know that. I mean, the
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idea of living on a cruise ship may sound great temporarily. Maybe the month
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of doing it might be fun, but I don't know that that would be
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something that you'd want to do forever. But some people maybe would enjoy the
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idea of doing that. So in recent years, Miami Beach officials have tried
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to minimize the mess when spring Breakers show up during the month of March,
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and it hasn't been working, and they've still had to deal with a lot
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of crime and lots of arrests. Well, this year, Miami is taking
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another step and announcing that a new publicity campaign that Miami Beach is breaking up
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with spring Break, adding the message, Hey, spring Break, we're over
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and they're not kidding. They say there'll be a flat one hundred dollars parking
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rate in city garages and parking lots during the week of March seventh and tenth.
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In March fourteenth to seventeenth, there'll be a double towing rate of five
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hundred and sixteen dollars charged for non residents. Officials are telling visitors to expect
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curfews, security checkpoints, and bagchecks will be in place for anyone hoping to
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enter the beach. The police chief there guy named Wayne Jones. He says
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that people can expect license plate readers, DUI checkpoints, and more police in
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South Beach than you've ever seen before. He says, it will be difficult
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to get here to our city, and once you get here, the expectation
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will be that you play by the rules. So there you go. It's
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interesting that a city can become fed up with the behavior of people that have
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come into the city that don't really belong there, but they're just coming in
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for short periods of time causing problems, and it's they can come up.
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I mean, this strategy sounds great. I hope it works for them.
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If this is really what they want. Can we implement this in other cities
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where people are showing up and causing trouble? Hey, Chicago, maybe there's
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ways you can keep the people there from I don't know. It would be
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hopeful, wouldn't it. It would be nice if we could start cleaning up
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some of our great cities, because I don't see that really happening anytime soon.
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