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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day
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when you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, twenty ninth
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day of April. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Something happened yesterday,
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at least it was scheduled to happen. I assume that it actually happened.
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Wasn't there to witness it. I know it was supposed to happen.
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It was in the works, and I assume that it took place, and
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it's got I don't know that this particular incident has got well, let's got
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some people worked up, but a very drastic change has been taking place with
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one person in particular, comedian and an actor who has now given his life
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to Jesus. And yeah, yesterday was baptized. And I'm talking about actor,
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comedian Russell Brand. Just a little let me quickly give a little bit
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of backstory for me and Russell Brand. I've never met him. What I
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can tell you about Russell Brand is when he came along as a performer,
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I didn't care for him, didn't like him, wasn't really a fan.
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I thought some of what he did was funny. I thought some of his
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movies and TV shows and things were funny. I thought some of them were
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obnoxious. And there's just some people that, you know, they can be
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very well liked by most everyone and you just don't quite sit right with you.
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And that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. I've never really understood
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people who think everybody has to like all the same people. I don't understand
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that. I kind of made a joke the other day. I know just
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a handful of Taylor Swift songs, and that's the truth. I don't really
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know many of them. And I've worked in music in some capacity for thirty
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years and it's less in music now than thirty years ago. But that's okay.
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I don't have anything against Taylor Swift. She's doing very well for herself.
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I've joked before, and this is absolutely the truth. She's never said
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anything but positive things about me, So why would I say anything. You
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know, I've made jokes, but why would I say anything that's really negative
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about her? But she's not really. I don't sit back and go,
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man, I've got to listen to that music. Oh my gosh, that
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Taylor Swift. I'm okay with that. That's okay. And people should be.
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There's people, Oh, you gotta like her, you gotta like her
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as much as we do. You gotta like that Lady Gaga as much as
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everybody else. And I just don't. I just don't some singers. I
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don't really care for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in general. I don't never
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liked Kiss. There's just some groups that people like that I don't care much
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for, and that's okay. And that was the case for me with Russell
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Brand. I don't remember at what point I started to appreciate him a little
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bit more, but there was a point where I started to appreciate him,
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and I think it's partly because he sort of pulled back from Hollywood and decided
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he was going to start trying to at least acknowledge the fact that Hollywood was
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an echo chamber. And I'm this was my impression, I'm not using it,
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and maybe he said these specific words. I don't remember how he put
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it. I just remember that there was a point where he started to question
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this mob mentality of everything that Hollywood thinks, that everything that liberals think is
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correct, and that everyone else is wrong. And it felt like he was
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starting to question those things, and he was starting to bring some of that
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to light. I remember one day in particular, and I've told you before,
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I don't watch a lot of opinion news shows. I do watch some
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news just to kind of stay informed on things. I get news from a
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couple of different places, not always the same place. Someone that I do
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find funny and I occasionally will watch, But again, I try very hard
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not to pull I don't want anything I say, and this has been true
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for a long time, anything I say on the radio, anything I say
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here. I don't want my observations to be things that come from somewhere else.
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And I try really hard to make sure that if I do hear something
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from someone else, even that I agree with, I don't want that to
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seep into what I do. I try really hard not to do that,
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and inevitably it will happen. Sometimes I have had things that I have said
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on music radio. I worked on a rock station in my hometown for a
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while, and I remember, really, to me, I thought it was
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a really funny joke that I made about a certain band, and then maybe
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two months later, I heard someone else on the station making the same joke,
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and I thought Okay, I know where he got it. I was
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waiting on some sort of acknowledgment that it wasn't his joke, and he had
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stolen my joke word for word, and he was using it, and he'd
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moved on to other places after that and was still using it. And I
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said something to him once. I was like, you're ever gonna give me
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credit for that joke? And he's like, I couldn't remember where I got
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it from. So you got to give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes,
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right. So anyway, there's a show and it's it's Greg Guttfeld.
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Occasionally I will tune into Greg Gutfeld if I happened to be up now it's
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a little easier that his show moved up an hour and one night in particular,
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I just happened to be kind of scrolling by and I saw that Russell
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Brand was on Greg Guttfeld's show on Fox News, and I was like,
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what is going on here? This is strange And it was kind of all
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part of this, at least eye opening for him, where he was starting
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to question things he didn't seem overly comfortable on there. You could tell it
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was weird. But anyway, so Russell Brand has as he has become more
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open minded the conservative ideals, and I don't know that. I don't know
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if how he qualifies himself or clarifies himself when he talks about his politics.
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I know that he is at least not the diehard liberal maybe that he once
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was, or at least that I used to think that he was. And
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it's a little exciting I like when I hear that. And I also know
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that that means there's going to be trouble for the guy. And there has
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been trouble for the guy, especially now that he is embracing Christianity. There
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have been now some accusations against him, and I guess they have had.
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There have been four women who've accused him of some sort of sexual misconduct and
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these women, by the way to come forward. They were approached by at
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least one, maybe multiple media outlets trying to I guess, dig up some
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dirt about him. I don't know, but he is anti woke, anti
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I guess, elite left mentality, and yeah, now coming out as a
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as a Christian baptized he talks about in a video where he talked about the
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event that was going to take place yesterday he talked about quoted from the Book
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of Galatians, and he basically said, you know, I've got to die
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so Christ can lift through me. And that's the symbolism of this baptism.
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That's what I'm doing. And this is only caused I guess, more flack
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in general for the guy. And he basically said that part of why he
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decided to do this is that it's basically, he said, as meaning dissipates
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in this world. People are looking for purpose and foundational meaning in their lives.
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That's very nicely put. And he basically said it's this is his opportunity
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to leave the past behind and be reborn in Christ's name. And he said
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basically he always thought of Christianity as this. There were two sort of schools
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of it. There was the very old school what he called sort of the
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dusty old school version of it, and then with people singing in Latin.
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And then he said there's also the you know, let's talk about Jesus.
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I think was the way he put it, and that there was sort of
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those two schools of it. And I guess he still says he's trying to
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kind of find you know, he's still looking for things. He's still looking
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for meaning in all of it, but he says he's very excited about his
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decision to become a Christian and to turn to God. This is a quote
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he says. People are so cynical about me, about the increasing interest in
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christian and in return to God. But to me it's obvious. As meaning
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deteriorates in the modern world, as our value systems and institutions crumble, all
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of us become increasingly aware that there is this eerily familiar, awakening and beckoning
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figure that we've all known all of our lives, within us and around us.
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And for me, it's very exciting, so good for him, not
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something that I would have ever thought that would happen. Not as someone again
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who wasn't a fan of this guy. He's winning me over. I don't
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really know everything there is to know about his story. I'll take him completely
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at face value and hope that this is what he's been looking for. I
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know that it should be, and I hope that this is the beginning of
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more incredible things for Russell Brand. Again, not some that I was a
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fan of, but it says a lot about the power and this desire that
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we I think he's tapping into that we have in society that that things just
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aren't aren't what they should be. A lot of things don't make sense,
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and for many that do turn to God. That's about trying to make some
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sense in a world that doesn't make sense. And just to kind of tie
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this in, and I'm going to talk about this more, I think this
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week, because I think that we are definitely and it's what I intended to
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talk about this morning, and I had to transition it when I saw the
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Russell Brand story and I thought, oh my gosh, this is pretty exciting,
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but in a world that doesn't make any sense really right now. And
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I know that probably every generation feels that. I was talking with a friend
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of Friday at lunch with my brother and a friend and we were talking about
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that very thing. I think that each generation probably feels like this is the
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weirdest or hardest time to be alive. And I think about now what it
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must be like for teenagers and twenty somethings that are trying to figure out what
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life even is. And I know it's probably easier for them to adjust to
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some of the things than it is to you know, people like me.
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Anybody in their forties is looking back, going what happened, what happened in
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the last ten years. But we are looking for some sense of true equality,
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true fairness, because we don't have that right now. We have people
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who claim that they're pushing for fairness for everybody, but they're not really interested
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in actual fairness. They're interested in the appearance of fairness, and they're interested
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in trying to convince people that they can provide them an equal outcome. And
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those aren't the same things. It's not about. There's a billboard I've seen
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a few times and it shows a picture of a small child in it,
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and it's a pro life billboard, and it basically says that we're you know,
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and it's paraphrasing it, but it says life, liberty, and happiness.
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And that's not what we're promised in our constitution. We're not promised we're
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promised life. We're promised liberty, we're not promised happiness. Pursuit, yes,
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the opportunity and ability to try to achieve that, but we're not promised
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the outcome. So, and I understand this is a you're talking about a
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billboard, by the way, you see a billboard, and it's got more
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than about ten to twelve words on it. They're not doing the billboard,
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right, Okay, that's just a heads up, just basic billboard one oh
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one. It doesn't need to have a long series. Like you don't want
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to read a paragraph while you're driving down the road. That's not a good
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idea. So they're following that guideline with life, liberty, and happiness,
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you know, the pursuit of happiness. They're adding stuff. You're getting the
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message, so in that sense it's effective. But it's just worth pointing out
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we're not promised happiness. That's not what we're guaranteed in the constitution. Also,
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on a side note that the politicians with the billboards with their faces on
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them, when did this start? When did we I mean, I know
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we've had these before, but this is interesting. And this isn't like the
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mayor's race or anything. These are like city council positions where people going,
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I'm going to stick my face on here. I don't know, it just
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kind of jumps out at me. I don't remember there being a lot of
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that before, but there's a couple of them, and I mean, God
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bless them. Do what you want to do. It's your campaign money,
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you do what you want to do with it. I'm just trying to remember
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when we've had local council seats where people thought people need to know what I
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look like, and maybe they do. I don't know. It's Columbus is
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kind of that way sometimes anyway. So it's a confusing place to be where
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we don't really understand what fairness even means anymore. We almost have issues with
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the basic definition of equality and fairness. I want to do a whole show
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on this, maybe even tomorrow. But it's not a surprise that that frustration
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can lead people to what Russell Brand is talking about. People are looking for
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something that makes sense of all of it, and obviously, for many,
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for thousands of years, for many, that thing that's made sense to them
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is Jesus is Christianity, and that seems to be where it is. There
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have been a few others, We've had a few other celebrities that have done
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this, and you kind of go, wow, I didn't see that coming
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at all. This is a big one. I didn't see this coming at
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all. And I'm really happy for Russell Brand, for the people in his
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life. I know he's taken a beating for it. He's only going to
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take more criticism for this, but thankfully for him, he has found an
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avenue outside of Hollywood that he can continue to do things including pondering about the
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break. Well, you've heard it for probably all your life, and now
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a new study confirms it. You are what you eat. Eating a healthy
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diet helps you to be healthy, go figure, and it does more than
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just benefit your body. According to a new study, what you eat has
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a huge impact on your mind and your mental health. Researcher, that's something
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we need. Maybe we just need to all eat better. What an idea.
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Researchers from the University of Warwick found that there's a profound link between I
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mean, what a person eats and their brain health. Specifically, a healthy,
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balanced diet contributes to better brain help cognitive function and mental well being.
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Makes sense. Don't know why it wouldn't make sense. It's not. I
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mean, if this was a study that said, hey, if he eat
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nothing but absolute garbage all the time, that'll make you smarter, that would
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be a shocking result. If it was nothing but fast food, like the
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more garbage and fat and grease and sugar that you eat, the better your
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brain would function. I think then we would say, oh my gosh,
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this is incredible, this is amazing new results. But no, eat a
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little healthier, eat a balanced diet, do all the things that they tell
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you to do, and then overall you'll be a little better off for it.
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According to this study, I mean, it's not really shocking movies are
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getting longer. I think we've all noticed that, and it's interesting that they're
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getting longer because at least in my opinion and a few studies I don't have
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one to reference right now, but a few studies I've seen talk about the
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shortening of attention spans that we all have. That seems like it's a dangerous
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period for the people who make these long movies, because now as movies are
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growing longer and longer, I don't think people are caring for it quite so
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much. According to a new survey, they're not. The survey found in
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the last sixty days, the average respondent said that they'd watched two movies that
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they felt were too long, twenty three percent said they sat through three or
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more movies that were too long, and that they say the perfect movie link,
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according to the respondents, is ninety two minutes. Only two percent said
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that a movie should be longer than two and a half hours, and just
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fifteen percent want to sit through a movie that's two hours or longer. And
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just for reference sake, all right, let's go with a cut so we
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know Oppenheimer win our best picture last year. Three hours long, Dune Part
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two two hours forty six minutes, Avengers End Game was three hours and one
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minute, Babylon three hours nine minutes, Avatar of the Way of Water three
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hours, twelve minutes, Flowers of the Killer Moon three hours and twenty six
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minutes. That is a whole lot of movie. When you start talking about
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almost three and a half hours of a movie, and if you're watching any
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movie that's three plus hours in a theater, then you also start talking about
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trailers, you start talking about the ads. That's a lot to sit through.
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I mean, it's a lot of movie. And I think back to
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remember Jerry Seinfeld who was being interviewed, and he talked about this a few
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times. But I remember seeing a clip kind of recently of his interview with
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I think it was Howard Stern, and Stern was saying basically, you know,
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the word is, had you done one more season of Seinfeld, you
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could have gotten you know whatever, ridiculous amount of money. And Seinfeld's response
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was, I could have gotten more than that if I had wanted to come
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back, and Stern asked, you know, well, why didn't you?
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And Seinfeld basically said he equated that relationship of an audience for a TV show,
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especially a really popular show. He equated it sort of to the audience
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that you would have as a stand up comic. And he talked about how
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you know, you watch a stand up special, you watch a stand up
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do a long set, and he's like, there's a point where they're all
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in it. You go for an hour, people are in there, you
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go for a hour fifteen and they're like, it was really good. That
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last fifteen minutes not necessary. And that's what he was concerned with. That's
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what he didn't want to do with his show. He never wanted to get
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to that point where he went that extra fifteen minutes too long, and he
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didn't want to do another season if there was a chance of that happening.
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And I think the people making these and don't get me wrong, I guess
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I've only seen of these movies. I've seen two of them, and I
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like them both very much, so, you know, and both of them
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were three plus hours, so I mean, I guess it just depends on
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your personal attention span how much you want to watch the movies. But I
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do think sometimes you're watching it and you go, this is just this should
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have ended like this should have ended twenty minutes ago. I've been there.
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I've seen movies and I've felt that way. Not the case with the two
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on this list that I've seen. But all right, that'll do it for
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