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So This Impeachment Inquiry Is a Waste of Time? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Thursday morning, twenty ninth day of February. I'm Wes, thanks for joining
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me. Yeah, it's leep Day. How about that. No, it's
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not a holiday for jumping. Sleep Day, that extra bonus day we get
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once every four years, you know, three hundred and sixty five and a
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quarter days. That quarter day has to come out somewhere just to make it
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all right where we're here on this Leep Day. And don't you just love
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the fact too that we get the leap day, we get the extra day
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in an election year. That makes it extra special, doesn't it. We
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always get that extra day and we got presidential elections. Just one more day
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for campaigning, one more day for mud slinging, one more day for digging
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in the dirt, one more day for bickering with each other. I will
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say this, and I think this is one of those unique times in history
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that we have where you have an incumbent president that I think most of the
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people that I know that voted for him have no loyalty to him. They're
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loyal still to the party, not to him, and they know that they're
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having a very hard time defending him. Right now, I don't know of
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a lot of people that are openly saying, boy, I can't wait to
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vote for that Joe Biden again, I just don't. I haven't had experienced
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that. The people on social media been mighty quiet. Now I've done a
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pretty good job of you know, it's just unfollow. I don't unfriend,
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but I unfollow. I just get to the point where there's just some things
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I don't need to hear. I don't want to hear it. I don't
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want the temptation. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not one of
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those echo chamber people. I can hear other people's viewpoints. My issue is
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I don't want to hear things that are very wrong and be tempted to jump
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in and say eh. And I've gotten better about that in the last like
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ten years. I was a time boy I would have jumped in there and
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started throwing swings uppercuts. I would have done it. Now it's the dumbest
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thing ever. So I understand that it is possible to not do that without
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hiding the post. But I don't want to see, like when people do
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post things that are so dumb, it's so hard not to say something.
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It's just difficult. You feel the need. There's something in you. I
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don't know, there's something deep down, and it can be difficult. And
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it's not just about politics. It's about all sorts of things. There's sports
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posts, there's Taylor Swift posts. I wrote an interesting article yesterday, by
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the way, suggesting that maybe the reason for the fake relationship with Travis Kelcey
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is that he's her beard. I don't know if there's any I don't know
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anything about this. Apparently there's a whole subculture of people who call her galer
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Swift and say that sometime in the next ten years we're going to find out
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the truth about Taylor Swift and who she loves and all that, and honestly,
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none of that matters to me. I'm not saying that even in this
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context to be gossipy. I just thought it was interesting that I have my
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theories and this other person has their theories. So but there's a lot of
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stuff that is just out there, and it's discussions, it's bickering, it's
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fighting, and I just don't I don't need that in my life. So
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I just either unfollow those people still be their friend I like finding out when
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you know, periodically dropping in saying what's going on in their lives. And
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if I see some thing, if I see the name of a political candidate,
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you just kind of blow by. Sometimes sometimes I read it. It
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just depends. I do like to get some idea of where people are and
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what they're thinking. But sometimes what people write just makes you sad. You
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know, it's difficult, and I don't want to be in that world of
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things being sad and frustrating if I can help it. I like choosing when
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i'd like to dip my toe in the pool rather than having just the bucket
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of ice water dumped on me. Anytime I try to go on social media
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and check in on friends and see what's going on, that's all. Or
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you do the pause for thirty days. That's great, by the way,
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when you get to like October and you hit that thirty day pause on seeing
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post from them, that can be you know, really quite refreshing. It
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can be really really quite good. But the number of things that you see
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and hear that you just go oh, or you're not paying attention at all.
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So I can say, but I haven't seen very many people that have
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been you know, there's still some that go, oh boy, that Donald
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Trump what a jerk or whatever, and that doesn't necessarily like Believe me,
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the people that don't like Trump, the tweets and the things. I get
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that, I understand that that's not my favorite part of him. Some of
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the things that he does and says it can be overly aggressive to me.
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Sometimes they're right on point. He's saying exactly what needs to be said in
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that circumstance. As you know, if you've listened to me over the years,
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I've never been the Trump apologist, you know, with a blanket brush.
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That's not me. There's things about him I like. I like the
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way he governed the country. I like the fact that, you know,
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at the end of the end of the day, I had more money in
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my check, my wife had more money in her check. We were able
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to do things with our money. I say this all the time. I
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just would like the opportunity to be able to do with my money what I
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want to do with my money. I don't like someone taking my money,
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telling me it's their money, and then giving it to someone else. I
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don't like that. I'd like to skip the middle man, and if I
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want to support a cause. I like the option to be able to do
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that. We do that now, we could do it more. We were
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able to do it more. We were able to buy and have money for
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things that we needed. That right now, that's not there. It's a
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different presidency right now. And I know you can say national debt, there's
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a few things in there you can make cases for and all that, But
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overall, I like the idea of us finish in the month, finish in
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the week, finish in the month, finish in the year, a little
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more money that we earned still being hours, right, That's what I like.
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But anyway, I don't know a lot of people that are still on
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I don't think they were ever really on the Biden train. I know they're
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not on the Harris train. I know people that kind of pretended at the
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last minute. And and and this is why I bring that up, because
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I think when we got into the point where people were actually going to vote,
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they were they were saying that they liked Harris, but they didn't like
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Harris. Nobody likes Harris. Really. I don't know that. I don't
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know that she likes herself. I really don't. I don't I don't understand
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what all that is. I just don't get it. I don't get it.
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She probably likes herself just fine. I don't know. She didn't get
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She didn't get much support when she was running for the Democrat nomination, so
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I don't know that even she voted for herself. That's why I question that
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did anyone vote for it? Did she get any support? She was the
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first one out, So I just think that we're going to get that last
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minute come October. There'll be the people jumping in there if it is still
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Biden, and I don't know if it will be. I don't know.
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I told someone yesterday. I feel like, if nothing else, we've had
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the exposure, like they've pulled back the curtain on us and showed us that
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our presidents probably aren't really doing much. That's what they've given us. Now
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with this presidency, we have now seen the great and powerful ohs. We
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understand the way it works. Our presidents apparently just you know, watch college
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basketball or I don't remember what George W. Bush's thing was, but we
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know Obama liked to watch college basketball because he would pick the brackets right,
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and he was all he was. He spent a lot of time, and
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he watched the Sopranos, and he watched a bunch of TV shows, and
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then Trump, I presume ate a lot of McDonald's, but you know they
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don't like him because he actually was in there going, oh, there's no
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man behind the curtain. It's me. I'm the man behind the curtain.
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Get out of my way, and if you don't like it, I'll just
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fire you and I'll get somebody else, which I think is how it should
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be. I don't know what point it all changed, but that's how it
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should be. And then now we get the guy. He's probably watching Murdersery
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Road or Matt Locke or whatever, fine quality TV shows. You know,
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maybe he's getting caught up on his Golden Girls. He's binging it. There's
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a joke that I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to go
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there anyway. So the curtain's been pulled back and we now know. And
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now speaking of things that people just post on social media that are dumb,
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or that people say in public that are dumb, we got some really dumb
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stuff that's getting said. And this was already starting. We had already dipped
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into this water a little bit. But yesterday I saw it again the Hunter
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Biden testimony. We got the impeachment stuff going on. They're doing the inquiry
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into whether or not they should do the impeachment and all that stuff, and
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of course in the middle of all of it, we had a number of
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people that are actually part of this committee that's supposed to be there listening and
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questioning, and you know, on Biden's side, I suppose some of the
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Democrat lawmakers that were there, they just left while Biden was Hunter Biden I
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was still being questioned and by Republicans, and they just walked out because they
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wanted to have a press conference. You know, you can't miss the press
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conference. It's like having that perfect staged kiss at the Super Bowl with Taylor
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Swift and Travis Kelcey. They don't always catch that. I remember when the
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Manning brothers that wasn't a kiss. When the Manning brothers talked and they couldn't
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quite get the microphones in the right place. That's a pretty big moment.
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You know, Eli has just won a Super Bowl. Now both brothers,
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they've won back to back. This is a big deal. And Eli has
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beaten Peyton's arch nemesis, you know, on the field in Tom Brady Undefeated
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Patriots. He goes down and they couldn't even get the microphone in the exact
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right place for what they were saying to each other. They had to ask
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later. But with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey, it was like, you
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know, a state age in a Disney World. Everything was perfect. So
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they couldn't pass up the press. I sorry, that's my last time.
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I'm going to talk about Taylor Swift for a while. I'll try at least.
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So they came out press conference and they spent their time and the usual
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characters. Eric Swalwell, we all remember his uh you know, he had
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that lady living with him from China. You know she had he had that
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lady. He had that you know, spy Q spy living with him.
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Uh. And uh, of course AOC was there. She was the one
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that was doing a lot of the talking. Oh, this impeachment is absurd.
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This impeachment is ridiculous. It's a waste of time, it's a waste
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of you know, all the we went through this with all of them.
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It's a waste of time, it's a waste of taxpayers dollars. It's just
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Republicans playing politics. They're just throwing dirt. They're dragging an average citizen off
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the street and asking him to take account for things. And it's just for
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the sake of smearing a presidential campaign. Seriously, this is your defense of
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Hunter Biden. Hunter and Biden, who, by the way, has a
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very storied criminal past. No one's questioning whether or not Hunter Biden is himself
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a criminal, right, And I believe in second chances and third chances,
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and I believe in as many chances as it takes. But when you're you
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know, cashing in off of who your dad is and have been doing that
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for a long time and have been kicking money around and all these things,
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is this when you it's when you think, I don't know how many chances
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you're supposed to get. I mean, part of how you get second and
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third, and fourth and fifth and one hundred chances is you got to come
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clean. That's what they're trying to give him a chance to do, right,
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give him a chance to come clean about all that and what's going on
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with his dad and what's been going on with his dad. But they're saying
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that Republicans are doing this unnecessary impeachment inquiry. Remember the two times that they
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impeached Donald Trump, just so that they could say he'd been impeached twice.
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The first time was we're doing it because when we campaigned, we promised you,
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we owe this to the American people. And it wasn't to the American
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people. It was to half of the American people. It's for the people
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who voted for Hillary Clinton and were still you know, just still sore,
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you know, still hurt. I think the term is butt hurt. They
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were still butt hurt. I was trying to set off. I wanted to
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say that they were still butt hurt. And that's who they were doing it
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for. They weren't doing it for the people who voted for Trump. They
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were doing it for the people that had stayed loyal to them. That's who
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they did it for. They weren't doing it for justice. They weren't doing
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it because it was the right thing to do. They were doing it because
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they promised that they would do it, whether they had any evidence or not.
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See, they were fulfilling a promise. We told you we were going
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to do this, so we have to do it. And then of course
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he's acquitted and you move on and then on his way out of the White
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House and you start getting into January sixth and things, well, we're going
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to do it again because they wanted to be able to say, well,
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he's been impeached. What a disgrace. Not many presidents have faced impeachment trial.
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But he has, right, he has. We got him. Ha
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ha oh. No president has ever done it twice. We're going to do
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it a second time, and we know there's zero chance of actually convicting him
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this time, but it's important for the sake of again, I guess,
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just for the people who didn't vote for him, we got to honor our
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commitment to smear him. They do it again just so they can say the
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only president who's been impeached twice, and he's been in peace twice because they
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don't like him, that's it, Not because there was anything really to charge
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him with. Not at the time. They've come up with some other things
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to charge him with. Now they like the fact, oh for indictments,
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how many presidents have done none. You don't do that. You don't do
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that to political opponents. So now they're accusing Republicans of doing this just to
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smear Joe Biden. That it's a political move during an election year, and
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they're dragging Hunter Biden's good name, I guess through the mud to try to
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forcing him to go in and testify after at first, remember he just didn't
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show up. So they're dragging his good name through the mud, dragging it
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through the crack, dragging it through well, anyway, the other kind of
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crack. It's bad. It's bad. So they seem to have forgotten about
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the two Trump impeachments, the motivation behind the Trump impeachments. And I've said
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this before. I have said this before two people that have worked on political
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campaigns, and then I've heard of them say the same thing on TV shows
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later when they told me, oh, I'm going to be on Fox Newslater
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and I was like, oh, check that out, And then I hear
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them say back what I said. If you want to know what Democrats are
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doing or have done or guilty of, just listen to what they accuse Republicans
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of doing. Just listen to what the accusations are, and they'll tell you
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everything. They'll tell you their strategy, they'll tell you their game plan,
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they'll lay it all out for you. Keep in mind, there were encouraged
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encouraging words from Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden not to accept an outcome of an
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election if Trump won again, don't accept it. I shouldn't have. I
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didn't want to, but Barack Obama talked me into it. So I accepted
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the outcome and I moved on. She didn't move on, but she said
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that was the plan. The plan was for Joe Biden not to accept the
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outcome of the election if he lost. That's what she told him to do.
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Now, whether he was going to do it or not, who knows.
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But laid it out for you, didn't it As they start saying,
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oh, you got to you got to accept the outcome. If you don't,
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it's the end of democracy. But they were going to do the same
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thing. They lay it out for you. They tell you what their plan
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is, or what their plan was, or what they're actually doing, all
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of those things if you just pay attention, yesterday was pretty telling. Laid
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com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, legendary stand up
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comic Richard Lewis has passed. He had a long fight with Parkinson's disease,
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It's especially sad because if you are still and you didn't give up on Curby
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your enthusiasm. He's in the final season, so that's currently in progress.
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Very close friends with Larry David and I think Jerry Seinfeld, I'm sure as
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well. I think they're all part of that same kind of crew. And
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you know, sad, sad that he's gone. He was a legend,
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absolutely a legend. Take anything you want to say about is anything he's done
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socially or whatever, and put it wherever you want to. But as far
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as stand up comics go, the guy who's a legend influence on a lot
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of comedians and Parkinson's. It's affected members of my family. I've got a
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friend who is dealing with a couple of friends dealing with Parkinson's and it's awful
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and just some sad news there. When it comes to food, apparently people
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would rather have comfort than gourmet new survey found seventy percent of Americans would choose
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comfort food over gourmet meals and if they could only choose one kind of food
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for the rest of their life, and when it comes to the time for
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the comfort food, they comfort food was the thing. Spaghetti was at the
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top of the list, fetedicini, alfredo, mac and cheese. We're all
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in the top ten entrees people would pick as their comfort food for life.
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Other top picks were pizza and burgers. All right, so let me ask
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this, and I completely agree with this. This does not surprise me at
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all, and this is exactly where I am. The occasional very fine gourmet
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thing sounds great, Try something different, try something new, depending on what
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it is. Saw it a number of times on TV shows where you see
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the you know, Charles Ingalls try snailses cargo for the first time, or
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Andy Griffith somebody try I'm not into that. I don't need to do that.
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That's not gonna go over for me. But trying something that's very fine
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dining on occasion. But my question for you is this, If this is
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true, and I do believe it to be true, have you noticed the
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excessive number of things on Food Network or any of those channels where they're they're
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not showing you like you got the occasional show a pioneer woman. She comes
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on and says, here's how you make a steak, Here's how you make
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some good mashed potatoes. Iran, Those are the best mashed potatoes, the
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best macaroni and cheese. Here's how you make some tacos, brisket tacos.
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That all to me fits in the comfort food category, right. Almost all
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of the other programming on there, and I know you got the occasional thing.
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You got diners, drive ins and dives. That's great. I think
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that fits in there as well. But most of the programming on there,
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the Bobby Flays they're going to show you how to cook squid or something,
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and it's like, what are we doing? People don't need to learn how
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to cook squid. Who needs to know how to cook squid at their house?
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They can look that up online. That's a very specific thing. Who's
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