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Red Hat's Ten Commandments · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twentieth day
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of December. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. It really feels like
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it's zipping by, doesn't it. We're working our way towards this weekend.
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Having Christmas on a Monday. It's great for a lot of people because you
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have obviously some built in days off that lead into it. That's great,
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that's fantastic. I think it's rough for folks working retail that will not They
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will really be pushed hard as far as the shopping on those days. Having
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Christmas Eve on Sunday, there's some pros to that. I think that's nice
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as far as if you're doing the Christmas Eve church services and things. But
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it's just sort of a weird placement of things because we're really, i mean,
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we're, you know, just days away now from Christmas. But by
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the time you get into the actual weekend part of this, some will be
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traveling today to get ready for heading out for the weekend. But anyway,
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it's just sort of a strange I mean, it's not strange. It happens
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every however many years, but it happens when it falls on a Monday.
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But it always just feels a little strange to me when it's on a Monday.
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All right, let's jump into our topic for the day, because I
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want to talk about this story. It's another case of a company that has
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ties I guess with another company. This is a company is called red Hat.
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It's a software company. I guess. It's owned by IBM. The
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company was it's purchased by IBM at twenty eighteen thirty four billion dollars for this
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company, red Hat. And the all this on X. James O'Keefe is
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the from the O'Keefe Media Group has what he says is a document that Red
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Hat has issued, and it lays out Allyship commandments and how people should behave
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themselves. They call allyship it's a commitment to accept fundamental truths as it pertains
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to racism. They call ally ship active and consistent effort to use your privilege
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and power to support and advocate for people that have less privilege. Okay,
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and I'm going to roll through these things because this these ten commandments of Allyship
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is I've got some commentary on these things and I want to make sure that
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everybody understands. They basically lay all of racism at the feet of white people
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and the only white people. So here's what we got. The Allyship Commandments,
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your allyship commitments to accept these fundamental truths. It says your allyship colon
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Number one openly acknowledges privilege and systemic racism exists and result in trauma. Okay,
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So to be an ally you have to acknowledge privilege and systemic racism and
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that they cause trauma for others. Number two, never question the reality of
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our black friends and colleagues. It's interesting that it's focused primarily on black and
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white. That's it. Apparently only white people are racists, only black people
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are victims of racism. Based on this, rejects the idea that race is
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political, accepts that white people are responsible for dismantling racism, understands that only
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white people are races. That's number five. These are the ten commandments.
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That's where I honor your father and mother falls by the way, number five
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knows that the black community owes us nothing in this work. As far as
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I guess, Allyship is what they're referring to. Requires acknowledgment and repair of
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inevitable mistakes. Certain words are capitalized by the way mistakes are capitalized in this
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one. Allyship is never rooted in white saviorism, in in case all of
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this falls under that, doesn't it? All of this falls under white saviorism
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anyway? To me, a little bit sees the black community as a group
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of individuals and not as a monolith. All capital letters from monolith and last,
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but certainly not least, number ten does not seek recognition or praise for
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a job well done. Okay, I kind of would argue that this whole
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thing itself is seeking praise. There seems to be a lot of hypocrisy in
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all of this, really, so let's go through a little bit of this
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openly acknowledges privilege and systemic racism exists and results in trauma, as we have
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seen play out a number of times. This notion of throwing privilege at someone's
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feet that they can't disagree with, they can't deny even if they've experienced minimal
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aspects of it. Are there elements of privilege in our society? They go
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in all directions. Really, In certain areas, I would have been afforded
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a certain amount of privilege for certain things in certain areas. I would argue
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that my black friends are afforded the same sorts of privileges in certain other circumstances.
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My Hispanic friends or Latin friends, as some of them asked to be
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called, not LATINX. I don't know anyone who's asked to be referred to
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as LATINX. They would be afforded certain privileges in certain circumstances. My Asian
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friends, we can just keep going right through. There were certain situations where
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you were afforded certain privileges. So I will openly acknowledge that privilege is a
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thing, but not necessarily in the context that they're broad stroking this on everything.
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See in my childhood, when things were very different, we made attempts
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at trying to eliminate these broad brush things in these stereotype situations. We were
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trying hard to say that one we can all just be people and care for
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each other. And it seems like there's for some reason, there's groups of
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people that don't want that, including apparently the folks at whatever this red hat
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company is. And then this whole systemic racism thing that you know, again
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as a society. We've been trying to stomp out some of those things,
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so, you know, trying to push pick at the scab and push racism
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back into the bloodstream as much as possible. That's another conversation, all right.
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I never questions the reality of our black friends and colleagues. I don't
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even know what that means, the reality of them. Never questions the reality
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of them. I'm going to just assume. And again there's not a full
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layout of this document that breaks all these things down, but I'm assuming that
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what they're trying to say poorly there is that, you know, our black
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friends and colleagues. When I say hour, I mean they are because I'm
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using their words have a certain reality that they're stuck in based on this systemic
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racism and privilege. I'm assuming that that's what they're talking about. All right,
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Now, let's get a number three. This is where it starts to
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get interesting. Rejects the idea that race is political. By the way,
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political is the word that's capitalized in this one. Each sentence has at least
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one word. Now, who is this addressing? Because I don't think that
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this is addressing folks on the right. It really seems to me that as
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much as we're hearing from many folks on the left that are starting to really
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feel disenfranchised with the current state of things that they feel like, especially when
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you have a president like Biden who shows up and forgets which group of which
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monolith to use their word, which block of voters that they're addressing, because
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they'll reference to us speaking. Remember when he was speaking with a group of
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Latin voters the Latin Caucus and he referred to them basically as being black.
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And it's sort of this generic thing that really seems to play out where you
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say, well, these are our people, because this is what we tap
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into certain things for them. We want to make sure that they again making
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race political. We want to make sure that they know that we're taking care
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of their needs. Number Four of the accepts that white people responsible for dismantling
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racism. I would say that it is the responsibility of every human on the
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planet, isn't it. Shouldn't we all be focused on trying to dismantle racism
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and not doing things like making lists like this to do the opposite. This
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is mantling racism, isn't it. Five understands that only white people are racist.
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This is unbelievably offensive, and it should be to everyone. It should
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be offensive to every person. Only white people are racist. And keep in
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mind when they talk talk about racism and white people, they will take other
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groups and lump them into white people if it's advantageous to them. Right,
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Remember the whole George Zimmerman thing. Remember the whole Well, there's been a
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number of them, but that one in particular is probably the best example because
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he suddenly became what was referred to as a white Hispanic because it was all
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part of a narrative, a story that they were trying to weave together,
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this thing that they wanted to have. So only white people are racist,
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and I assume that also means people that agree with white people, because if
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only white people can be racist, and if they argue that justice Clarence Thomas
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is himself racist, then that seems to be a problem. But I don't
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know that specifically Red Hat has been calling out Clarence Thomas or anything knows that
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the black community owes us nothing in this work requires acknowledgment, repair and inevitable
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mistakes, again putting all of this on to white Americans or I don't maybe
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around the world. I don't really know. I mean, this is a
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big company. IBM is a huge company, never rooted in white saviorism.
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And again I argue that this is one of the most white saviorism things I
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think there is when you're dumping a responsibility over to say that so white people
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have to fix it, but if they try to fix it and do right
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by Black Americans, they shouldn't get any credit for it, which comes to
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number ten. And again we covered the whole thing about this idea of it
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being a monolith, like you got to see them as a group of individuals,
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not a monolith, which is how the Democrat Party sees Black Americans,
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by the way, as a monolith. It's how they see Hispanic Americans,
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It's how they see Asian Americans. Any opportunity to reference the hate that has
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been thrown at a group, they do that. During COVID, when our
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president made a comment publicly about how the virus, the COVID virus came from
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China, that's when the stop Asian hate stuff started. Oh my gosh,
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he was blamed for every single person that somebody got bumped on a subway somewhere.
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Oh they did it because they're Asian. Stop Asian hate? That was
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a battle cry. How about stop all hate? I mean, yes,
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stop Asian hate. If someone is hating a person because they're Asian, yes
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that should be stopped. How about stopping hate of any individuals. How about
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stopping Jewish hate. That's not something they're going to do, is it.
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That's not something they're going to do at all. They're not going to call
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for those those cries aren't going to happen. This is absurd. All of
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this is absolutely ridiculous. And again I've used this analogy before, but it's
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just picking at the scab. It's trying to keep any healing that might happen
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from from happening. This is about trying to keep the wound fresh at all
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times. And I feel like every time we make, you know, five
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or six steps in the right direction, somebody's arguing for us to take ten
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back the other way. And that's what this kind of stuff is. This
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is ridiculous, and I don't know. I don't know if this is going
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to lead to other possible boycotts or we're going to see boycotts of I being
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I don't know. Some companies have done these kinds of things or had offshoot
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companies do things like this, and eventually they you know, once it was
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found out and it became public knowledge, they reversed course, they changed direction
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on it, which is the right thing to do. Maybe they'll do that,
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but this is pretty absurd that this is being pushed out onto employees at
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five hundred O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the
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break, all right, we're closing in on Christmas. The weekend is coming
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quickly. This is one of those times where it does happen quickly. I
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know, if folks are working a retail job, that's not necessarily the case.
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But if you're, you know, working some kind of an office gig
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and you're maybe kind of a quasi working, maybe shopping online at work,
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that we kind of zips by. I think at least it has for me.
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And we're closing our way in on this weekend, and some folks may
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be starting to travel as early as today. That could be the case.
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But when it comes to gift giving, just a couple of reminders that have
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come out on some of the social media platforms trending topics about gifts not to
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ever give to the woman in your life, and those are they include but
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are not limited to household cleaning supplies. We'll come back to that in a
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second. Anything involving weight loss, whether it's a scale or supplements or you
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know, exercise equipment, and then anti aging skin care products. Okay,
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So here's a couple thoughts on these things. And I would argue that these
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are all gift items that maybe you can get if they've been requested, But
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you don't want to come in. You don't want to come in with a
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vacuum cleaner unless you were specifically told, like I would really like this specific
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type of like a Dyson or something. I want this specific vacuum cleaner that
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I'm looking forward to vacuuming with for many years to come. Okay, I
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would argue that's when it's okay as far as weight lost stuff. It's the
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same kind of thing. If someone says to you, I would like this
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new scale, a bathroom scale that I would like to have, and it
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connects to my smartphone and watch and whatever, then yes, it is okay
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if you're specifically told that, But you need to have all of that in
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writing. That's what I'm saying, No, not in writing, but it
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needs to be recent. This can't be something that they mentioned in March boy
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had like a scale and then you show up Christmas with it and that's not
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good. That's not it's gonna it's gonna probably end bad. The skincare stuff.
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That stuff's expensive, isn't it. I would think if someone's going to
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give you skincare products of any kind, I would I would argue that that
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could be a good gift. But anyway, and this other other traditions relating
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around the Hollow days, whether it has to do with food or rolling into
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the new year, but as far as other potential mistakes they can go wrong.
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They say a survey says that the most common Christmas disaster is burning the
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main course that you're going to have for your meal. And I would argue,
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I would say that's it's on point because you're you're very limited on what
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you can do if you you know, if you had a big feast plan
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for multiple people and they show up and you've burned the food, it's not
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like you got a do over. That's real easy to pull off. Uh.
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So they say burning the turkey, ham roast, whatever your main course
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is, forgetting to supply vegetarian or vegan alternatives, for guests, not having
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enough plates to serve everybody, running out of wrapping paper, not having enough
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seating, not putting name tags on gifts, forgetting what you gift is,
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for who Christmas lights, blowing a feuse that doesn't really seem like it's that
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seems fixable. You know you can, I mean not on the day of
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Christmas, but if the lights go out on Christmas Day and just go buy
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some discounted the next day, being hungover while you're cooking. We'll come back
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to that in a second. Any talk about politics at the table, and
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forgetting to bring a gift as a guest, like you know, bottle of
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wine or something when you show up. On the subject of drinking, though,
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a survey found the average American says they'll drink six spiked eggnogs and estimated
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one point two billion eggnogs nationally. The number a lot higher in Vermont,
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where people have an average of nineteen cups of eggnog. Other survey findings the
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acceptable time to start drinking, they say over the holidays is two forty two
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PM, but eighteen percent admitted in the survey to starting before lunchtime. North
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Dakota is ranked at the drunk at state during the holidays, with an average
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of eight boozy drinks per day per person. An average man the mornings after
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July fourth, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Saint Patrick's Day, and Thanksgiving
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notably prone to hangovers, January first being the peak day for hangovers. On
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the subject of January first, if you're planning to begin the year with a
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resolution to lose weight and eat less and all that stuff. If you're an
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Oreo fan, there's bad news coming because they've decided to launch three new Oreo
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flavors at the beginning of the year. Now, one of them, I
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would say, is probably not necessarily going to affect your diet unless you have
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specifically you eat, you know, maybe have gluten allergies and you've thought,
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man, I wish they had a gluten free Golden Oreo option, because that
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is one of the three flavors. Now, for the average person that just
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eats oreos anyway, and you like the flavored oreos, there's two others that
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will be interesting, and I say regular Oreos, but one of these is
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a Cakester's flavor. Okay, So here's what happens the beginning of the year.
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They're going to launch an Oreo peanut butter cakester. You know those are
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the cake sort of like almost like a little Debbie thing, but it's not
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a little Debbie. It's an Obisco but sort of a soft spongy cake thing.
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And normally they're just chocolate with cream and in this case peanut butter cakesters,
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and the other one is interesting. I don't normally have much interest in
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these flavored ones. I just like Oreo. I like Oreos, and I
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like the Golden Oreos. If you told me I could only eat one or
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the other forever, I would pick probably the Golden Oreos. And I know
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that's a lot of people, oh what, But that's just me. But
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how about this flavor, the black and white Oreo? I think New York
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Bakeries think Seinfeld. Remember they had the episode with the black and white cookie.
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So yeah, they're doing a black and white cookie Oreo style. I
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don't know what it looks like. I haven't seen it. Let's see,
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maybe there's even a picture to go with this. Yeah, there it is.
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It looks like a bunch like the ones in New York Bakeries. So
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here you go. Oh and the cakesters do look good. It's still the
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same chocolate cake, it's got the peanut butter filling in it. So anyway,
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just keep that in mind. If you're into those flavors, or you're
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into oreos in general, that may be a problem for you when the year
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starts, so you have to, you know, kind of plan your New
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Year's resolutions accordingly. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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