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Relax, It Doesn't Mean Anything · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, seventh day
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of December. I'm West Thanks for joining me. We are inching our way
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towards the weekend. We're close knocking on that door, making our way a
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little bit closer. If your weekend plans, by the way, were by
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chance to go see a movie, and to go see it at the Peachtree
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eight Theater, I got bad news for you. They've closed it down permanently.
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It's gone. It's an institution that one hurts. I know, people
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just really aren't going to the movies, and the numbers that they used to
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the box office dollars show that the disappointing box office turnouts for a number of
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movies have shown that now doesn't mean they're all not doing well. Some movies
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have done well over the past few years. But COVID changed a lot of
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things, and one of the things that was drastically changed, I think was
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people's desire to just you know, catch movies when they hit streaming later.
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There are still occasionally these movies that are experiences that you want to go to
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theaters to experience and see on the big screen. I'm gonna be honest,
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I used to be a big fan of seeing movies in theaters. Peachtree eight
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was the home base for a while. That used to be the theater,
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right, that was the main one before you know, the other two came
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along, the other two big ones in town. But and it's a special
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place me, my brother for me and my brother worked there for a very
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long time, and I've known I've got many friends who have worked there over
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the years. So it's it's sad to hear that it's been closed down.
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It doesn't surprise me. I know the theater was pretty run down, and
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it was I know that they were. You could get discount tickets and things
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there, maybe a little bit cheaper than some of the others. I don't
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think they quite had all the bells and whistles of the other theaters. But
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at one time that was the place that was the theater to go to to
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watch movies. I watched a lot of movies there over the years, and
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it's just sad, sad to me to know that it's gone. And I'm
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sad for the people who work there that cared about the place. A lot.
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My brother being one of them, I know he cared about that place
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a lot. So you have to if you've had them set on your amc
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app as your favorite, as your favorite theater to go to when you buy
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your tickets, you're gonna have to take that one off. It's not there
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anymore. You need to pick a different one. You're not gonna be able
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to get any movies there moving forward. It's sad, sad day. Maybe
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they'll come up with a use for that building. I hope, I hope
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someone will come up with a use for that building. All Right, so
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let's talk about a couple of things. First and foremost. I want to
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talk about Taylor Swift being named the Time magazine Person of the Year. Okay,
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now, I'm gonna tell you that that happening means absolutely nothing to me.
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I made that clear the other day on Tuesday. I was talking about
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that, and when you look at some of the other options that were on
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the list, you know that one is there was some real slap in the
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face potential people to be named in there. I think that one is a
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bit of a slap in the face, but only because it's just dumb.
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I mean it really is just dumb. And I've had people say, oh,
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I gotta be a Taylor Swift hater. It's not that I'm a Taylor
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Swift hater. It's not that at all. I appreciate Taylor Swift for what
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she's accomplished career wise. I really do. She has become she and I
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should say the people around her and I know people that were part of her
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support system over the years, and kudos to them. I mean, this
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is a win across the board for all of those people. It really is,
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because she was not anything other than you know, this up and coming
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country music singer that slowly worked her way up the up the pecking order,
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if you will, until she got to a point where she became this pop
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culture phenomenon. Good for her on so many levels in so many ways,
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good for all of them involved the company. And you can hear if you're
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maybe listening to this podcast on iHeartRadio. I programmed radio for iHeartRadio for a
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number of years before I started getting into talk and Taylor Swift was an artist
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that we played when she was getting started and in the early days, you
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know, she went to she was like everybody else she came I think she
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did a She did multiple shows in the area, Chattahoochee Valley area, and
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she worked all those shows. She did all her meet and greets, she
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did all of her kissed babies and shook hands and all that stuff, and
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earned a lot of that fan base over the years as someone who programmed and
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played her music and made choices to play music. See, there was a
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time when each station had a person that made a decision about whether the music
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was going to be played on that station or not. One person made the
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decision about all the songs played on that station. Consultants sometimes were involved,
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and maybe they made the decision for you, but if you were the program
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director or the music director, you probably had the final decision on being able
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to make, you know, unless they handed over that control to a consultant.
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Now there's like, I don't know, twenty five thirty people that make
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those decisions for all the radio stations across the country. It's really hard now
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to get if you're an up and coming new artist. It's a lot harder
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than it used to be because you used to be able to work it on
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a local angle and maybe go into a smaller market and get your songs played.
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Now you're really I mean, there's still some scenarios where that can play
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out. But it's tough now. I mean it's you know, most of
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the stations are owned by you know, a couple of companies, and it
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makes it really difficult to get your stuff played. So to become this phenom
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in this time, and I'll tell you the formula. The formula for Taylor
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Swift was that, in a lot of ways, she got very cozy with
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iHeartRadio, and she did a lot of shows and events for them, And
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as far as I know, they still when she puts out an album and
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she releases a song, they play her song every hour on the hour.
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You're going to hear it twenty four times a day, and within the first
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week, the song's automatically a hit. I mean, right out of the
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gate, you're getting the radio play that you need for it to be a
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hit song. It just happens right away. So that's that's part of the
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package. And then to get to the point where you can put on a
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concert and charge you know, you know, the cost of a of a
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Hyundai for people to go to the show. You know they're going to shell
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out that kind of money to come watch you perform, and you go,
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well, I'm not going to do a regular two hour concert. I'm going
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to do a four hour concert or whatever. And it's worth the cost of
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a car. You know, it's worth that. And if you convince people,
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and it's supply and demand and being someone who supports the free market all
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of that. Good for her to be able to accomplish that and to have
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that, and good for her fans that support her for that. I'm mentioning
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it not because it matters, because it doesn't matter. And this is what
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I'm trying to make a point today. When it comes to this Person of
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the Year for Time magazine, this is the ultimate it doesn't matter. I
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mean when you see these in other years and they name people the person of
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the Year and you go, my gosh, how did that person win?
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Or really that person er I don't like them, or whatever it is.
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This is just letting you know that it's like American Idol. It's popularity contest
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of some kind. There's pr people involved. Whoever sat down at some point
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and said, we're going to pretend that Taylor is dating Travis Kelcey and that's
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going to be a little charade we're going to do for a while, at
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least through you know, a good chunk of the football season, maybe ride
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it all the way through to the super Bowl. Whatever it is. But
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it's all sham, it's all fake. This is for paparazzi and for attention.
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She does, she her tour, I guess is over. So this
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is a way to stay in the limelight for a while. Probably could have
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had some influence over this decision by time. This could have been the thing
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that pushed her over the top. Any of that. I'm just telling you.
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None of that's real. But it's enough, I guess, to get
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her this and if this is an accomplishment as a pop singer, former country
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singer, slash phenom, good for her, good for her, you know
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whatever. But this is not something that when you see a politician for a
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party maybe you don't like, or you see a politician that you do like,
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and you go, look at that, my person, my guy.
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They won. It doesn't really didn't win anything. It's as arbitrary as deciding
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who gets in the college football playoff. There's a set of guidelines, and
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if you meet the guidelines, and ultimately there's an eye test to it and
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Taylor Swift met the eye test. Okay, So if anything, maybe I'm
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a little surprised that the Trump prosecutors didn't get it because that was a group
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that was being considered to possibly win this. So she didn't win anything.
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It's just one of those things. It's like what the Oscars are now.
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There's a time when a movie won Best Picture, it probably was at least
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one of the best movies that was out. The guidelines for Oscars now is
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different. You don't all the guideline list is completely different than it used to
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be. One time, you just said, is the movie good? Do
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people like it? Does it have an artistic value to it? Now there's
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all these other guidelines. There's the you know, you have to have a
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certain number of people that are non white that worked on the film. You
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have to have a certain number of people that maybe represent the LGBTQ plus community.
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There's just other guidelines that go with it and makes it harder for a
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movie to win that would have won ten fifteen years ago. And that's just
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what the guidelines are there in place. That's what the rules are. That's
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what the rules are. You can be upset, you can say that's not
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fair, it's not right. It shouldn't be that way. And you know,
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the best movie should win, and I would argue that that should be
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the case, but those are the rules that are in place. So that's
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what the Oscars means now, and that's what this Time Magazine award means.
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It's not really about being the Person of the Year. It's like winning a
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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You don't win it, you buy
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it. You buy your way into it, and ultimately that's what happens with
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this Time Magazine thing. So people that were all bent out of shape about
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it, it's not a big deal. It doesn't matter. That's what I'm
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trying to tell you is it doesn't good for her, good for everyone involved.
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In fact, I got a friend I need to text who used to
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work very closely with her, and I need to say, hey, congrats.
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Goes good for them that this happened. But it doesn't mean anything.
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There's no reason to be worked up about it. There's no reason to be
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overly excited about it. The Taylor Swift fans. There's you know, twelve,
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thirteen, fourteen year old girls that are probably going to buy a magazine.
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That you mean, they actually print magazines. So there's that, all
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right. The other thing I want to talk about today, it's a little
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bit more important, and there's not a whole lot to say about it other
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than yeah, of course, and that is this this supposed news story.
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I guess I don't know. To me, it doesn't really qualify as news
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at all. But it was a big news story yesterday. It was a
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big deal. It was a big honkin deal yesterday. And that was this
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news story, if you will, about how former President Trump said while talking
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with Sean Hannity the other night on this forum that they were doing in Iowa.
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Okay, this is you know, Iowa prep that was going on,
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and while they were there, Sean Hannity asked him a question about abuse of
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power, and the former president responded by again making one of those campaign promise
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sort of statements. I'll let you hear what he said and what the discussion
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was, and then we'll talk about the reaction to this. I want to
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go back to this one issue though, because the media has been focused on
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this and attacking you. Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight you
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would never abuse power. As retribution against anybody except for day one, except
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what he's going to praise, except for day one. Meaning I want to
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close the border and I want a drill. That's not all. That's that's
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not that's not retribution. I'm going to be. I'm going to be.
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You know, he keeps I love this guy. He says, you're not
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going to be a dictator, are you? I said no, no,
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no, Other than day one, we're closing the border and were drilling,
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drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not all right. So that's the
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statement that was made. Now, I was at the gym yesterday morning and
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I do about forty five minutes on the elliptical. It's not a brag.
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I'm just telling you that for time reference. It's a little bit of a
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brag. I do forty five minutes on the elliptical. That's my thing before
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I hit the weights. So my forty five minutes on the elliptical. They've
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got the you know, the TV screens up where you can see them while
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you're on the machines, and for the entire forty five minutes, this was
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the topic that was being covered on CNN Fox, I could see a TV
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they were covering Israel in the war MSNBC they were on something else, probably
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Taylor Swift or something. I don't know. They were on something else.
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I think they were on something about the Speaker of the House. But CNN
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was laser focused on this talking about Trump saying Trump says he'll be a dictator
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on day one. So it's a very very severe misrepresentation of that. You
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just heard it. You just heard what he said. Did he say that
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he like he's going to be a day like he's going to make himself like
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Stalin, like that's what he's gonna do on Did he say it that way?
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I think he just made the point that he'll be dictator like in that
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he's adamant those are the first two things that he's going to do on day
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one. That's the way I took it. I think it's a severe misrepresentation
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of what he said to say that Trump promises to be a dictator. And
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they talked about this for forty five the entire time that I was on the
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elliptical. This was the story that they were focused on, and it just
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set on the screen Trump promises to be a dictator or some verse of that,
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and they talked about, and they brought in all these people and they
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were I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I could see that they
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were on their van. Jones and others were on there talking about how Trump
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was going to be a dictator, and I mean, you heard it,
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you heard it, You understand what he's saying. And the subject the conversation
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was about whether or not he would abuse power with retribution. That's what the
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question was about. He did reference the dictator part because some people have said,
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oh, Trump wants to be a dictator. What is more dictator like
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to say, I'm going to close the border and I'm going to drill and
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you know, get the oil flowing again in America. Or we're going to
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keep someone from being able to run for president because we don't like him,
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we don't think they should be able to run for president again, and we
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want to bury them, just absolutely bury them in charges so that there's no
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way they'll be able to run again, or that people won't be comfortable voting
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for them. Which more dictator like? I mean, I'll wait, I'll
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give see a in plenty of time to cover that. They're not going to
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cover it, but they were all over this. They felt like this was
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the most important thing to cover with this this particular topic. So we know
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that's not what he said. We know that's not what he meant, but
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they found a way to pounce on it. Now. I guess the real
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question is is this Trump, you know, fueling the because you know last
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night's debate and again everybody's still talking about Trump the focus. No matter what
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happens in the debates, Trump is still the one taking up all the oxygen
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in the room, and those networks that don't want Trump to get it seem
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so focused on making people like they're trying to make people think that Trump is
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pledged to be a dictator. That's what he wants to do. He wants
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well, if you feel like an age your memory is going, we
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have a solution. It may not be great. I don't know. If
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you like it, maybe it's a great idea. If you don't like it,
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it's there. It's an option. Maybe you can learn to like it.
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But the next time you have sushi for lunch, they say you go
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a little heavier on the wasabi. There's a new study from Japan that found
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that the spicy green could boast could boost your short term and long term memory.
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Researchers have known for a long time about the many health benefits of was
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sabi, including having anti inflammatory or even anti cancer properties, but for the
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first time they're seeing a link between with sabi and memory, and have witnessed
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a dramatic change in the improved cognition of the studies participants. Somebody sends some
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sushi to White House just as a suggestion. All right. When you fly,
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there are often if you're especially on long flights, sometimes concerns about not
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being able to eat if you don't pack snacks. I know there was an
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ad, one of those you're turning into your parents' ads, progressive or whatever,
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where they make fun of people for packing snacks. You're an idiot if
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you're not packing snacks. All right, I said it. It doesn't make
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you your parents. I don't know. I'm not turning into my parents because
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I can tell you, well, I don't know they would pack snacks.
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They would, but that doesn't make me turning into my parents. That just
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means I'm being economical, but United Airlines as a solution that they've come up
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with, they'll have self serve food stations on some of their planes. The
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airline is introducing unlimited grab and gohst snacks on its new fleet of air Bus
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planes. The kiosks will only be available for flights longer than eight hundred and
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one miles. The first offerings include snack mix, undercover, chocolate, quinoa
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crisps, and fruit bars. The only beverage on the menu will be bottled
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water, so if you're looking for something besides that, you're gonna have to
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pay for that, I guess, or at least for alcohol. They may
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still provide you with a soft drink or whatever. But I'll say this,
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and I have experienced this type of thing on a Quantus plane, which was
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or a couple of Quantus flights, and maybe even a I'm not sure if
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we did this on the UH on the Virgin International flight, but yes,
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this is the way to go UH and this is it's great And the first
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time I experienced this was on we had one of those large air Bus planes
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and you were able to just get up, go get the snacks you wanted.
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You could get as many as you wanted, take them back to people
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in their seats if you're traveling with others. That was nice. They just
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refill them. You could tell them they need to be refilled. It was
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all great. Now I assume the uh some of the airlines that are partnered
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up and things, so Delta, I guess may do that kind of thing.
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Your Virgin's doing it. So anyway, it's been. It was good.
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The times that I had that available to me, it was great,
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and it was nice to be able to have that. So that's good.
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I like that they're they're doing that, and it's also maybe just following the
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flow of like self checkout and all those sorts of things. I don't know,
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do you have a go to comfort food when you get sick. We're
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getting into that time of the year for people getting sick, and now that
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people are not so sure on the COVID shots, maybe they're not quite so
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sure on the flu shots. I don't know. We did our flu shots
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recently, but there are definitely people that have a go to comfort foods.
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Takes less than thirty minutes for people, they say, to start feeling better
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after having their favorite sick day comfort food. A new survey says this.
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It says, according to the survey parents with school age kids, they found
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that the top sick day comfort foods were soup, broth. That's the same
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thing, isn't it, crackers, popsicles, stew, and pasta and those
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were on the list of favorite foods for people when they're sick. Anything bland
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is fine. You want something that's kind of bland. Crackers high on the
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list around here. You know, do a banana, Start with the half
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a banana, work the whole thing. Yeah, And I like salty stuff,
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French fries. I don't like it too much grease, but I do
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like French fries. And of course my mom's chicken noodle soup. Can't go
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wrong with that, all right. And finally, with Christmas fast approaching,
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the jolly old Elf getting ready to make his stops. Well, there is
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a site called lawnstarter dot com and they have put together their list of things
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that you need to do to prepare your home for Santa to be able to
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come and safely deliver his gifts and move on. According to their checklist,
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to get your home Santa ready, they've laid out a cost for it as
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well. For reindeer on the roof, down the chimney, everything. So
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here's what they've got. It includes fixing the roof, cleaning the gutters,
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sweeping the chimney. Now what do the gutters have to do with it?
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Sweeping the chimney, baking your chocolate chip cookies, buying a gallon of milk,
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and having carrots for the reindeer. Their estimated costs, they say for
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