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So It's Debate Day · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twenty
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seventh day of June. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. It's debate
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day. We're getting an extra early debate for this presidential election. Normally these
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things come a lot later, but they needed to do one a little sooner
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because now everybody votes really early. I mean they did at least four years
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ago. Some people voted early and didn't even know they were voting early.
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They just voted early, unbeknownst to them. In some cases. It's unfortunate
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and it's sad that we've now got this questions about election integrity that are still
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looming. They're still there, they're still lingering. But we hope that states
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have gotten things on track, least the important ones, the ones that maybe
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ultimately decide the election. It certainly feels like Georgia's got things in order,
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we hope. I mean, can we expect election night and the morning after
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there to be Fulton County saying, oh, well, there's a water leak,
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there's a water main, and we had a bunch of ballots that we're
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in a storage bind nearby, and we're bringing them in now because of that
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water leak or whatever. I don't know what they say. They just say
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stuff and then you find out later there wasn't even a water leak. I
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don't understand how a lot of this stuff works. I've been encouraging for you
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know, four eight years whatever. Basically, I think we should in Georgia.
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I think none of the counties should turn anything in until Fulton County turns
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in. I think if Fulton County wants to turn in their ballots, you
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know, six days after the election, that's when everybody should do it.
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They should wait until they turn them in, and then everybody else turn them
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in. That's what they should do. See how long we can stretch this
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waiting game out. Everybody have a leak. If one has a leak,
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they should all have a leak. That's what I think. All Right,
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it's a bit much. Let's talk about tonight's debate because it's it's game on
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and it's happening here in Georgia, and the folks from Fox and Friends apparently
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are in town. At least one of them is right. We got at
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least one of the crew here in Town at ruth Ann's going to be I
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don't eat, maybe eating some. I know they got the Trump meat loaf
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at ruth Ann's. I don't know if that's specifically on the menu for this
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morning while they're doing Fox and Friends. I highly recommend the red velvet pancakes.
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That's what you want to go for at ruth Ends. That's exactly what
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you want to go for at the more time for But there's a lot of
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folks in Columbus jockeying already, probably this morning for position man. They want
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to be in their spot. They want to try to get somewhere where a
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camera might point in their direction or whatever they're they're doing it. You know,
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we had this Fox and Friends. You know they do they come around
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and they do breakfast with Friends, and they did it in uh at Fortsun
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and I think at two Night Cafe two nineteen, not too long ago.
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I guess that was during the primary season of things. So and Lawrence Jones
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is the person that'll be here or is here. You know he's here,
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He's been here, I guess a little bit. We had him over for
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dinner last night. We had tacos. It was good. Thanks for coming
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by Lawrence. We're uh, we're gonna be uh, you know, keeping
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an eye on that this morning, just to see as they pop in and
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out and who might show up on the old television this morning, because you
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know, you gotta gotta that's that's gotta get in there, gotta on the
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got to get on the news this morning. It is exciting. It's exciting
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when they come to town. It was exciting when they were, you know,
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in forts, and it's exciting now. And I think people in Columbus
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are excited to get their opportunity to speak their mind. And this is you
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know, Ruth Ann's. When former President Trump was in town famously, they
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got to share the you know, they're doing the Trump family meatloaf recipe,
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and you know it's got some people. I'll never eat there again. I
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will never eat it, Ruth Hans again. And then some people are like,
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yeah, let's eat it Ruth Ann's. It's interesting the way that sometimes
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you know, people will boycott and they'll say I'm not gonna eat somewhere because
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of politics. However, and this is just an interesting way things play out.
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When people say I'm done with Hollywood, I'm done with Disney I'm done
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with you know, whatever movie studio or streaming service people. What is wrong
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with you? Why are you winning and complaining because they are liberal and you're
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a conservative and you don't want to use them anymore. But if it's you
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know, a restaurant, locally owned restaurant here in town, people are going
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to boycott ruth Ann's because they serve Trump meatloaf. That sounds like a good
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sounds like a good use of your boycott powers. I mean, you,
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you be you, You do what you gotta do. Uh. And I
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always find it so strange the boycotts anyway, because you know, I don't
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think conservatives do boycotts very well. They did it to the Anheuser Busch,
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they did it to bud Light and certainly put a hurt in on bud Light,
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but they don't do it well. In most areas. Conservatives has this
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thing typically and it's kind of been a historic way of things where they say,
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we like what this company is doing, so we're gonna support it.
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And then of course on the left it's like, we don't like what they're
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doing. We're gonna, you know, make sure that they lose their house.
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We want to make them homeless. That's what we want to do.
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We want to tell everybody where the owner lives, and we're going to make
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sure that nobody can go there and eat again, that's what we're gonna do.
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It's a weird it's a weird way that we do things. But anyway,
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so, uh and I mean we as as a country, as a
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people, I'm not part of the docks where people live thing. I don't
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understand the point of that. Uh So let's talk a little bit about the
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debate. What do we can we expect tonight? I think people have a
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general idea of what to expect. It kind of feels like fight night,
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you know, it has that sort of remember back when, uh, boxing
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was a big thing. I mean, I know people still watch boxing.
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I understand that, but there was a time when boxing was a big thing.
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Boxing isn't a bad place now, and it's so bad that you got
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I don't know, is it Logan Paul or Jake Paul, one of those
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Paul brothers. Logan Paul, I guess is boxing Mike Tyson. They've had
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to delay the fight. But that's not a good place for boxing to be
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in. If that's the biggest fight options that you can have right now,
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because back when boxing was in its prime, it was a Mike Tyson fight
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and you would watch to see if he actually knocked someone's head off. You
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know, you wanted to see whether or not he decapitated another human being with
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a punch. That's what you were watching to see. That was the weird
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gladiator thing that we were doing back then. It was like, how how
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quickly will Tyson knock someone out of the ring, knock someone out that's never
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been knocked out before? Poor Leon Spinks? Did he ever recover from that?
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That ninety one second fight? So that used to be a thing.
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You know, fight night was a big goal. Now of course it's it's
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MMA, and you know, they have their fights, they have their their
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events, the big deal and it's a big deal and people will watch that.
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But I don't even think that's as popular as it used to be.
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It's still a big deal. So I guess that's more the fight night that
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we can maybe expect tonight. It's gonna be more of an MMA. I
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don't know. I don't know what we're gonna get exactly. I know what
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we'll probably get. It's gonna be, you know, name calling. It's
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gonna be Trump trying to speak loudly enough on stage that even though his microphone
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is off, you can still pick him up on maybe Biden's microphone. I
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think Biden's gonna come out. He's gonna be jacked. He's gonna be on
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some he's gonna be like a lot of B twelve shots or whatever. He's
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gonna be juiced, not in anything illegal, He's gonna be juiced on something
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legal. He's gonna be really he's gonna be loaded up on Red Bulls and
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B twelve shots, and he's gonna be ready to go. He's gonna come
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out swinging. And this is gonna be a question of can he can he
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go the distance? Can he go the twelve rounds? That's gonna be part
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of the question. And how quickly can Trump get him stammering? And that's
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probably one of the strategies I think we may see play out. We'll see
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Trump just trying to get Biden flustered. Neither one of them is very good
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at just being quiet while the others speaking. We've learned that they've got a
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whole bunch of rules in place, things that you can and can't do.
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But the biggest one, of course, is this idea that they're not allowed
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to speak when the others having their turn. It's going to give us an
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opportunity, I guess, at least to hear them speak. I think that
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potentially could work to Trump's advantage if Biden is struggling to find his words,
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which is always a possibility. I kind of think there's a few things that
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could possibly I feel like Biden has kind of a potential ace in the hole
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for it. I don't think he'll use it, but I think it's certainly
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an option if he wanted to. But just imagine if he started the whole
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thing offering to pardon Trump right on the gate. You know, hey,
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you got the felony convictions. I'm going to pardon you. Here's the paperwork,
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I've pardoned you already, You're pardoned. That would be interesting. That
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would be sort of a moment, right, that would be And they're not
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allowed to have props. I guess, so I can't do that, but
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he could tell him that he did it. It's not going to happen,
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but it would give himn opportunity to mention the felony without looking like the guy
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bringing up the felony, and then he'd have an opportunity to kind of look
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like the nice guy. Hey, you got a raw deal on this.
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Let me pardon you. Is there any chance that would happen tonight. I
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don't think so. I think they like to be able to say, hey,
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he's going to go to jail, and they want they want blood.
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I think it would upset a large portion of the Biden voter base if he
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did it, But I think strategically it might be a good idea. But
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I don't know. I'm not an expert. I'm just asking the question.
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I'm not a strategist. I don't predict who's gonna win them, and I
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don't really have the strategies. I think it would be a good move on
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his part, I don't think he would do it. Something else that I
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think might be a good move, and this would be for Trump, is
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you know, ask some basic questions. They're not supposed to talk when it's
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the other's turn, but you know, maybe finish out, you know,
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your answer to a question, and then get to the end of it and
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say, and a question for President Biden, what's two plus two? You
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know, what's a name of color that starts with R. You know,
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some kind of question that might you know, if he doesn't answer it gives
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Trump later a chance to go he couldn't answer it. If he does answer
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it, he's playing right into Trump's hand. That's a Trump move. Get
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people rattled and flustered. If he answers it incorrectly, you know, then
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I think we got to start asking some other questions he doesn't know, like
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the shape that has eight sides. If he can't do that, you know,
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kind of stuff cover in kindergarten. If he can't do that, then
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you know, that would certainly be some ammunition that would be great for campaign
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ads moving forward, because the campaign ads moving forward now are going to largely
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be about the felony convictions. I don't know, I don't and then we're
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going to see lots of shots of Biden roaming around and not knowing where he
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is and who's handy's shaking or shaking a curtain or whatever he's doing. It's
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going to be a lot of that. I forget. The con is a
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comic that's got a line where he says that Biden looks like a rumba roaming
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around. I forget which one that said it, and he does not mocking
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him. I'm not making fun of his condition. And I've said this many
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times before. If you haven't heard me say it, you know, I've
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got family that's had dementia, family that's had Alzheimer's. It's not funny.
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The condition itself is not funny. What's funny is that there are people that
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are itching to vote for him again because they don't like mean tweets. They
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don't like the things that, in some cases greatly exaggerated things about Trump that
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upset up. Trump has done his share of creating problems for himself. He's
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done that, but some of the things just aren't accurately represented. This whole
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thing, you know, Charlottesville, this whole thing of you know, we
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had some good people there and we had some bad people. He says that
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the white supremacists that were there good people, and that's not what he said.
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That's not exactly what he said at all. I mean, it's not
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an accurate representation of what he said. But they exaggerated things. They talk
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about that video we talked about a couple of weeks ago that someone made and
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had some reference to the Third Reich in it. In the background. It
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was a World War Two themed newspaper that had some stuff in it, and
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they were using it as a background for this video that they made, and
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you know, it was portrayed seeing it spent a lot of time telling everybody
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Trump wants to bring back the Third Reich. That's not what he said.
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So there's a lot that's been exaggerated on his behalf. So I don't know.
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I don't know which of these we're going to see tonight. Is it
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possible that one of them is going to stay civil? Is it possible that
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they both will? It doesn't seem likely. I would think it might be
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in his best interest for Trump just to since he can't use the strategy of
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just firing off anything he wants at any point while his microphone is muted,
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might be a good idea for him to be just a little bit more poised,
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a little more controlled. Does he get a look like a bully if
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he goes after Biden and makes Biden start stammering? Is he going to,
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you know, look like the mean guy that's just picking on the little kid
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on the playground. Maybe I think some of the Trump bases probably wanting to
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see it play out that way. I don't know. It certainly would be
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mean in picking on the kid on the playground if he started asking him how
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to spell uh, you know how to spell cat? You know one of
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those that would that would look bad. They wouldn't have a good optics to
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it. So I don't know. I don't know what we're going to see
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tonight exactly. I think we all have a general idea. Is anyone's opinion
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going to be changed tonight? Probably not. I mean, is I don't
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know how many people really and truly are swayable at this point. I think
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we got a pretty good idea of where we're going. I know there's some
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undecided I get that. I know there's some that are just saying, ah,
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you know, I'm gonna vote for RFK Junior. I don't want to
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get into a situation where I'm even casting a vote for either one of these
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guys at all. It is interesting that there's still people that are, you
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know, playing up the age of both of these guys, one of them,
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you know, a few years older than the other, and is you
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know, he's significantly further along than Trump. He is much much further along
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in the battle over cognition, and Trump's not showing any of that. Trump
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still seems lively, he still seems on top of it. Does he say
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dumb things sometimes? Yeah, because he doesn't necessarily speak straight off of a
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prompter, that's not what he does. When you're just reading Q cards and
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prompters, it's easier to sound more together. When you're just kind of winging
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it up there and saying as it comes to you, then you're more likely
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to say something that sounds way off the mark. It's part of speaking live.
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It happens. I've done radio TV, I do this. I've done
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a number of things where you see, I've spoken in front of thousands of
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people, tens of thousands of people. And anytime you speak live, there's
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an opportunity for you to say something really stupid. There's an opportunity for you
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to say something real dumb. Now, when I'm recording something like this,
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I have the opportunity to go back and fix it. But when you're just
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speaking live in front of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people in his case,
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you know you're in a situation where, yeah, you might say something
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that comes out dumb, might say something that doesn't quite come out the way
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you wanted it to. Does it come out does frizzle fazra? That's different.
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I can tell you what America is in one word. Frizzle Frazer,
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frizzle frasa. That's that's bad. That's not the same thing. I'm not
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talking about. Where you say something and you get a little flustered on how
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you're describing religion. But when you say we the people and all the stuff
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and the things, you know, that's got a different look to it.
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It just does. It's got a different look to it. We'll see how
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it goes at Ruth Ann's this morning, and we'll see how it goes for
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the debate tonight. It should be entertaining, it should be interesting. I
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can't imagine that this is not popcorn material tonight, and we'll see how this
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first debate plays out and whether or not we might get a second one.
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five hundred O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the
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break, let's talk about loose change if you're still carrying it. I know
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a lot of people are using cards, they're using their phones to pay for
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things, but change is still a thing. Some people still collect it.
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Maybe you're doing the thing where you round up your purchase. Did that the
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other day somewhere and they said, you want to round that up? And
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I went sure, just to keep the change from you know, having to
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carry it around, and plus it was for a good cause. So you
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know, your loose change has a tendency sometimes fall out of your pocket,
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or maybe make it inside the washing machine as a few places that it could
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turn up. But apparently most loose change eventually ends up in the trash.
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That is the place where it most often ends up if you're loose track of
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it. Waste Management Company in Bucks County, Pennsylvania says that it has collected
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ten million dollars in loose change that was thrown in the trash over the last
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seven years. What um And they say that Americans actually throw away about sixty
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eight million dollars a year in loose change. According to environmental services company Reworld,
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that's a lot of change. That's a lot of change. Ten million
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dollars they have reclaimed over seven years. That is nuts sixty eight million a
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year. So you know, maybe keep up with that loose change, that's
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all. Or if you don't want to keep up with it. You could,
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you know, put in my trash can. Just swing by my place
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and drop it in my trash can. I'll be happy to take care of
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it for you if you can get to ten million at least. All right,
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So you drive your car rum and you get a warning light pops up
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on the on the dash Do you know what the warning lights are mean?
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Apparently a lot of Americans don't like the one that has like a circle with
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an exclamation point in the middle of it. You know what that one means?
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So that one has to do with your a break warning light? I
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guess is what that is? According to a new Pole. I don't know
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the exact symbol they're talking about, but this is according to Newpole. Some
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people thought that the exclamation point inside the circle means that the fuel is low.
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Two thousand drivers were shown dashboard warning symbols, and less than forty percent
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said they felt confident in their ability to correctly identify each point. For the
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record, mine doesn't have that because I drive a nineteen ninety six vehicle,
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So I don't know what a lot of the new lights are. That's my
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problem. But I enjoy driving a nineteen ninety six vehicle. It's a truck.
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Sixty three percent correctly identified the check engine light. That's not good.
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I know what that one is. I have that one even on my my
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ninety six truck. Seventy two percent know what the tire warning light means,
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sixty five percent know what to do when the oil warning light comes on,
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and seventy one percent so they can recognize the simple warning them that the hood
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is open. That's sometimes the one warning you that the hood is open is
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actually the hood just kind of flopped back on you. You know, that
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can happen sometimes. So there's that. If you are looking to land a
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new job, new great job, they say, get better at your golf
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game. See right now. Good golfers are sought after in finance, consulting,
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sales, and other industries, recruiters saying that's because in the era of
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remote and hybrid work, business on the golf course is back. Executive recruiter
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Sean Cole says he gets so many requests to find great golfers that he puts
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candidates handicaps in the info packets he submits to clients. Golf alone can't get
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you a great job, He says, but not playing golf can hurt you.
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How about that? So you need to need to get to that golf
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game together if you want to land a great job. I mean, at
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least say that you can play golf, whether you can or not. And
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I guess suppose you could bluff your way in and then you could say,
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I got a shoulder problem, I can't play golf right now, and then
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I would probably you know, keep you from having to go out and play.
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I just hope the interview doesn't take place on a golf course. Who's
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your best friend? If you said a parent, you're not alone. A
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survey found that more than fifty three percent of Americans said that a parent is
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their best friend. The survey of people over forty also found fifty eight percent
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of respondents that they feel closer to their parents now than ever before. Maybe
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that's got something to do with the fact that apparently a lot of these kids
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are, you know, living at home. You know, they're still living
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at home, and they're we're talking yesterday about that, right and they got
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no prospects, no training, no nothing. They're just living at home and
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you know, kind of I guess playing video games all day and they're kind
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of retired and they're just living that life. I guess that'll do it for
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