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A Biden Ally Says He's Considering Dropping Out But White House Says Not True · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, eighth
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day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Coming out of
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a busy period for holiday travel. We'll talk more about that coming up after
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the break in the show, but we'll dive a little bit into some of
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the travel info as far as this year, they call it, I guess
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maybe the busiest Fourth of July travel ever some reasons I guess for that.
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We'll jump into that coming up in just a little bit. And the fireworks
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stopped, I think they're still going this morning. Oh how many? How
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many fireworks do people buy? Now? I mean, I get we're saying
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that it's it's a tough economy right now. I don't know when fireworks are
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always buy one, get one hundred free or whatever, But good gracious,
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how many are we buying now? What's the Are we not at any point
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running out? Do we just have a constant supply of them? And is
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it unlimited? Are there free refills? How do we get the fireworks to
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stop? They were still going last night and daytime fireworks don't get me wrong.
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If you're going to launch fireworks outside of maybe like nine to eleven on
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Independence Day, and I think that should be the window. I think we
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should have a nine to eleven window for shooting fireworks on Independence Day. For
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New Years you know, like maybe nine to you know, even eight,
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you could start shooting them at eight. Really it's dark then in the wintertime,
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so maybe for New Year's Day you go or New Year's Eve you go
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in today eight until like twelve thirty, and that's it. We're done,
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pack it up, let's go, we're done. I'm i talking about professional
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firework shows. I'm just talking about the people doing it around. That should
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be the window. Don't you think we should give people some sort of an
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idea of we're not going to start before this time, take your dog out,
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and then it's over you. Everybody can go to sleep now. And
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I think eleven o'clock for Independence Day, that's when it's time to wrap it
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up. Let's move on. There's no reason to keep shooting them. But
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the daytime ones, I just don't understand. What are we doing with the
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daytime ones? I don't know. I mean when I was a teenager,
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I remember some friends came over and I had some bottle rockets and we went
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to this nearby construction site and it wasn't really a construction site as much as
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it was just, uh, they'd cleared some land for what would eventually be
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a construction site. That makes it a good but to call it a construction
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site makes it sound like there's structures already going up, and there weren't.
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It was just a giant cleared clay area for where some things would eventually be
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built. So we went there and we shot some fireworks during the day,
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just goofing around as kids. But I'm talking about the big stuff that's being
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fired up in the neighborhoods during the day. I don't understand that. You
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know. The whole idea is that you know, in the night, the
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nighttime sky, the colors pop, and you can, you know, celebrate
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independence or the birth of our nation or whatever you're celebrating. I don't know.
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I don't know. Boys and I watched the Patriot that was part of
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our Independence Day. We were going to do it on the fourth and then
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we just ran out of time. Just we were we had something. We
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we went went swimming with some friends and then just the day just kind of
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happened. We had a lot going on, and then on the fifth again
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swimming with friends, and but we had some time late in the day,
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so we watched Independence Day. For first of all, it's been a while
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since i'd seen the movie. I mean, I've seen bits of it off
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and on, because if it's on TV, I'll watch it. But I'd
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forgotten how long the movie was. And I know that it's I know it's
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violent. That's the essence of you know, there's a lot of tough stuff
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to take in. It is recommended. I think they say, I know
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it's R rated, but they say fifteen and up. It's probably the age
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you want to I've got a very mature twelve year old, almost thirteen year
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old. He did fine with it. He didn't have any issues with it.
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There was some stuff in there, a couple of scenes that you just
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kind of go, you know, you might not want to watch this part,
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and he didn't care. He knows it's not real. He understands it's
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a movie that's kind of how I was as a kid. So everything seems
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to be okay. That they watched it, but they liked it. They
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both liked it. A lot. We had watched, you know, Pennance
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Day, I would say in the last ten months or so as a family.
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I don't know that Jill had ever watched it. The boys had not,
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So we watched that and they said they were trying to compare the two
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as far as like. But the difference is one based on real events,
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the other not so much, you know, That's the difference, but not
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that the Patriot is a true story. Elements of it are, you know,
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He's based on a composite of various real people. And anyway, so
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we did that and that was part of our you know, rolling out our
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Independence Day weekend celebrations. But we're back at it here on this Monday morning,
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getting back to it. A few things I feel like we should discuss.
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There were rumors, I guess over the weekend that according to this unnamed
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source, they say that President Biden has been discussing with at least one person,
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one friend or aid or somebody somebody apparently that they say that he's very
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friendly with and said that he has to make sure that the American people know
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that he's able to continue in his role as president, otherwise he may have
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to consider stepping down from the nomination, from accepting the nomination from the Democrats.
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Now the Biden White House has said, no, that is not the
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case. That is not true, and you know, nothing could be further
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from the truth. That is not what is happening. That is a false
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story. It wouldn't surprise me if either was true. Either way, I
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would believe either of those scenarios. I think it's interesting that we have this
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leak. We have these leaks that come out and they seem to be almost
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strategic leaks sometimes. Remember when Trump was president and we'd get these leaks from
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people insiders, insiders in the White House, in the cabinet, in the
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Oval office. There's somebody in there that is leaking all of this information about
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Trump. And there's oh, can you believe that someone on the inside said
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that Trump said this. No one else heard it, no one else will
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admit that it was said. But there's a leak. Someone on the inside
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has this very valuable information, this very valuable information that would make Trump look
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a certain way, and we have it for you. We can't confirm who
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it was. We don't even know who it was. We just know that
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it was someone on the inside had this information, or you know, how
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about oh we got a leak about the Scotis decision about Wade. We already
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know what's gonna We got some insider info and there's only a small handful of
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people that it could be. But we have found out what the decision is
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going to be, and we've got the inside scoop on it from this leak
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on the inside, and oh, we're going to find out who it was.
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We're going to really investigate and tell you who it was that leaked this
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valuable information. And then nothing. They never never tell you who it was.
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And I think it's interesting when we have these leaks in certain situations,
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but have we had any White House leaks until now? Is this the first
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White House leak in this administration? I don't remember any. Maybe there were,
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My memory isn't what it used to be, but I don't remember any
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White House leaks since this administration took over and all of twenty twenty one to
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present. This is the first one that I can recall. But it is
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a big one, and it's interesting that it kind of could be, you
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know, strategically, somebody trying to push Biden out, somebody trying to make
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people think there's a real possibility this is going to happen. Another been calls
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for it, rather five six out of ten. I don't know how many
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members of Congress have now, I know at least five have called for him
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to not take the nomination. And we talked a little bit last week about
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what all of this could mean and just to kind of recap it a little
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bit. If he decided not to take the nomination, it almost certainly has
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to go to the vice president, to Kamala Harris, who's basically they kind
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of unofficially but officially said that she wouldn't appreciate being bypassed for a white man.
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You know, she wouldn't appreciate me and bypassed for anybody, but especially
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not a white man. So she's gonna be hard to get rid of.
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And there's a few reasons, and we talked about this. I guess wednesday
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she is on the ticket, one of the two. Biden or Harris has
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to be on the ticket for them to use the fundraising money for the campaign.
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You can't say you're raising money for the Biden Harris ticket and then get
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rid of Biden and Harris and then bring in like Gavin Newsom and then suddenly
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he gets to use their money. That's not how it works. It's raising
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money for the Biden Harris campaign, not for just the Democrat candidate. Now
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when you start talking about packs and super packs and all that stuff, that
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becomes different. But just the money, the war chest, if you will,
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they need to keep Harris on the ticket. And I don't think she
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would be anyone else's vice presidential candidate. So the next question would come like,
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if he were to step down and she became the candidate, Well,
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how do things look? Well, a few polls have come out just they've
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started this process of how does she staff against Trump? Some of the polls
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say he still wins, but he doesn't have as much of a potential lead
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as he has currently over the current president Biden. So is she going to
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make a difference? Would she possibly be a difference maker? The one thing
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that I would say that she probably would do. I think she's going to
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get more folks on the right, and I would say right of center,
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even maybe slightly left of center, a little bit more concerned. I don't
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know that anybody that fits in that group would in any way consider voting for
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her. I do think that we have folks on the left that would suddenly
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have someone that they could say, well, now we're talking, now we
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got a candidate, we can get excited about it. It's not an old
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white man, it's somebody different. I think that they would also completely bypass
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a lot of baggage that she has. I think there's some that are gonna
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want to hear the baggage, and they're gonna have to starting. She's got
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a lot of baggage. There are things about her that a lot of folks
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don't know. But if you really start digging into her past, it's gonna
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be interesting. I don't know how this pans out. It's some of those
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things are things that you don't necessarily want to bring up. There are things
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that you maybe don't want people to bring up. But she was a very
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bad candidate for president during the primary season. I think she was the first
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one out. She was one of the first ones out. She just didn't
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do well. She didn't debate well. She attacked Biden and just was immediately
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like you're out, You're done. She had doesn't have a record of anything
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significant to hang her hat on when it comes to her time as vice president.
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She is not accomplished. She didn't have any big kind of you know,
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things to hang your hat on. So there's been some talk about whether
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she would be that candidate to kind of get people excited, because, as
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I've pointed out here on the show last week, people aren't excited about Biden.
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They're just not. They seem okay and content to go with him because
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they still think he's the best chance to beat Trump, but they're not excited
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about him. There's not people that I haven't seen anyone posting online. I've
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seen more people posting online, boy, you Republicans and you're Trump and he's
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so bad and all that, and hey, I saw that from a few
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people, Dear Republicans, you've sold your soul. And I thought, do
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Democrats next? Can we do that one next? Rattling off all the things
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that have changed and you've allowed to happen to your party. Because this is
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just as many on the left as there are on the right. You could
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make that case all day for both sides. You could do it with libertarians,
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hey, independence what happened? You could do that with everybody. So
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I've seen a few people say, well, what if it was Harris and
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Gavin Newsom well, as a few people pointed out that doesn't work because they're
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both residents of California and that can't happen. And I know there have been
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Republicans talking about Marco Rubio. There have been Republicans talking about Donald's in Florida
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as well. There have been people that said, oh, wouldn't it be
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great if we could get potentially Ronda Santis on the ticket again. Donald Trump
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resident of Florida, right, mar A Lago, he lives in Florida.
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So we're talking about that's three people that have been named as oh, well,
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these could be and it would take one of them someone moving their residents
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out of the state of Florida for that to happen. So it doesn't mean
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that Newsom and Harris can't end up being on a ticket together. It's just
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a little complicated, especially when you are, in fact the governor of California.
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It would be tricky and it would be complicated. He's not the only
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name that's been thrown around, but he's certainly one of the more high profile
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names that have been thrown around. Because you know, I told you for
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a long time, I felt like if Republicans did not put Donald Trump forward,
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and it was not going to be Trump. If it was DeSantis.
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I do believe Gavin Newsom would would have been the pick for Democrats if they
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could have gotten Biden a step aside. I still think that if it was
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someone other than Trump, that would already have happened. The decision would have
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at least been pushed in that direction, and we would have heard some more
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talk about it. But I don't know if it would have officially been the
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case. But let's think of a minute about Newsom and his record and what
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we know. Florida, I'm sorry, California has struggled with. Florida is
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a different beast. Florida is a state that's doing very well. When you
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start talking about any of those guys from Florida, Florida has done well.
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California has not done well. California high taxes and they're still struggling just to
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pay the bills and keep the lights on. It's high crime in places,
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lots of homelessness, and a need for federal moneies for various things. So
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I don't know that two people from California would be a good idea anyway.
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That doesn't seem like a good plan. I would think if you were going
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to try to come up with a way to move somebody out of a state
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and double down on it, Florida would be the better pick. But you
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know, I don't know. I don't know who ultimately Trump is going to
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pick. A lot of people have asked me, who do you think it's
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going to be? And I don't know. I really I don't know.
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I've heard some interesting potential names that I've heard brought up. I've seen a
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few people that they say, oh, it's going to be this one or
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that one, and I think, I don't know that. I like a
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couple of them, but it's always a possibility. There's a couple of very
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interesting things that could play out on the VP pick. But the bottom line
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here is the Left is going to have to keep Biden and or Harris on
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the ticket for a few reasons if they can somehow convince him this mystery source
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on the inside in the White House, it seems to be trying to tank
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things for him. And if that's the case, and he can't and I
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don't know that he's done some interviews, He's done appearances and interview and appearances
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that still haven't gone well, so if it's not Biden, it almost has
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to be Harris. And then the question is the VP pick would be and
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where things go from there. But I'm still not convinced Biden's going anywhere.
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I feel like this is he's in it for the long haul. They feel
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like he's the one guy who's beaten Trump, and they feel it's like going
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if you're gonna be putting a team together, right, if you're putting a
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team together to try to take down the Tom Brady Patriots, and Eli is
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somebody that you could pick, you might go, well, we'll take Eli.
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He's done it twice. That might be the one to go with.
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You know, that might be your best option for taking him on in a
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super Bowl. It's not a great comparison, you know, because there's a
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few other factors that play there. But anyway, so we'll see. We'll
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see in the coming days who or how Biden is planning to rehabilitate his image
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and where things continue to play out with this potential changeing ticket and if it's
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even a real thing. And I still I'm not convinced that Biden's going anywhere.
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Show right after the break. So they've called it if not the most one
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of the most busy travel weeks ever for an Independence Day a week, I
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can believe that it's the only thing that may have been a little bit more
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advantageous. And I guess you go to time when it's on a Wednesday,
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but it's also kind of I think Wednesday it's a little more tempting to take
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the two days before off and the two days after off. I think it's
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kind of automatic for a lot of people to just take the Friday off if
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it's on a Thursday, or the Monday off if it's on a Tuesday.
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But they also say that, and this is according to the experts, the
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reason a lot of people took last week off is a lot of it has
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to do with folks that still are working remotely, so perhaps they were able
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to get a little bit more of a head start when it came to the
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travel and doing a little bit of work, you know, from wherever they're
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going on their destination. So I hope, you know, if you were
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able to get some travel in and some rest in. Now, how about
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this? And I thought this was an interesting stat I saw this where apparently
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there or a number of people, according to a Harris Poll, sixty one
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percent of folks, at least in gen Z and Millennials, they think that
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employers should shut down their organizations for the entire week of July fourth. Only
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thirty two percent of gen xers and boomers agree with that. Fifty six percent
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of gen Z and Millennial workers believe that working during the week of July fourth
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should be taboo in work culture. I guess it's just all the patriotism that
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they're dripping with. You think that's what it is. Thirty three percent of
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gen X and Boomer workers feel the same way. Fifty three percent of gen
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X I'm sorry, gen Z and Millennial workers say that I barely get any
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work done over fourth of July. The survey finding that gen Z and Millennial
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employees say the week off would make them more productive, inspire them to put
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in more effort in their work and take on more responsibility in the work place.
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It says, what would employees be willing to do to have the whole
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week of July fourth off? Sixty two percent of gen Z millennials surveyed said
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that they would make trade offs for their workplace to be closed on July fourth,
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compared to twenty nine percent of gen X and boomers, thirty three percent
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of gen Z millennials said that they would take a salary cut if the company
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closed for the whole week of July fourth. Salary cut, Now that's it.
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I mean, can you just, you know, take some unpaid time
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off? I mean, that's what that would be, wouldn't it? Just
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enjoy? Now here's what's interesting about this as an idea, as a member
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of gen X that was not polled, or they didn't attempt to pull me.
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As far as I know, I don't really answer my phone. I
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don't know how they would have asked me. I don't answer my phone if
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I don't know who it's who's calling. That's the first trick. But think
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about it in these terms, and I guess, and I know it's not
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exactly, but it's kind of close to that halfway point to Christmas. You
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know, they call it Leon Day back on June twenty fifth. It's noel
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backwards because it's you know, the halfway point to Christmas from June twenty fifth.
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So I guess. And because so many people, and we're not talking
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about obviously the folks that work in emergency services, we're not talking about folks
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that work in retail, but for many people with office type jobs, there's
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that opportunity to get the entire week Christmas into maybe January two off, right,
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So it kind of in a way makes some sense if that was happening
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at sort of, you know, the halfway point in the year. I'm
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not completely sold on it because I do think especially when we now have the
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Juneteenth holiday and we now have obviously Independence Day that's been there, but those
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are two holidays, is that you can kind of coordinate some time off if
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you do it right, depending on what day of the week where those holidays
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fall. But it's an interesting concept. So and I guess over the Independence
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Day holiday a lot of folks were grilling not just on the fourth, but
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over this past weekend. And here's something and it's only available in the UK,
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but it's an interesting It got my attention. I'll say, maybe it's
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not interesting to everybody, but it's from the Hines Company and it's in the
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UK, very limited edition in the UK. I do have some listeners in
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the UK, thank you, by the way, and maybe this is something
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you want to check out, but it's a limited edition. Hinds every sauce,
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And it's basically every sauce that Hines has blended into a single bottle,
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fourteen different varieties of ketchup, mustard and mayo. And like I said,
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for now, at least it's only available in the UK, but they potentially
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could do something like this elsewhere. Here are the sauces that are combined.
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Now, some of these we don't have here in the States, at least
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I'm not familiar with. They've got a burger sauce, a garlic sauce,
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a oly sauce, a smoky bacon as sweet chili chip sauce, saucy sauce.
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Yeah about that, a mayo Racha mayo, must truffle mayo, garlic
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and caramelized onion mayo. Never heard of that, curry ketchup, pickle ketchup,
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smoky bacon ketchup. Put all those together, whip them together, stick
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them in a bottle, and that's every sauce. I haven't tasted it.
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I can't tell you that the idea I wouldn't try it, because I would,
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I'd give it a shot. Might be disgusting, but I'd at least
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give it a shot. That'll do it for this Monday edition of a show.
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