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And After Three Weeks, There Is a Speaker of the House · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twenty sixth
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day of October. Hi, I'm Wes, Thanks for joining me. Hey,
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we got a Speaker of the House again, only took three weeks,
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but we have one three weeks of dead wasted time, just absolute dead wasted
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time. Nothing accomplished, absolutely nothing, dead wasted time. But what have
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we gotten on the other end of it? A Speaker of the House that
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many say is one of the more conservative members of Congress. Okay, I
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mean that's what they say. I don't know who decides this. They give
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them points based on I don't know, they liberty points. What do they
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call it. He's liked by Trump, he was Matt Gates's guy. Matt
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Gates really seems to be kind of running the show, isn't he? So
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few things? Let's just quickly roll through this because, as I voiced,
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I had concerns about the fact that it was such a waste of time.
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I mean, there's a limited amount of time in theory that either party is
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going to have control of a house or both houses, in this case,
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a house for Republicans, and eventually the other party will take control of it.
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There tends to be a pendulum swing, and that's how it goes.
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So while Republicans had have but had control, in the midst of having control,
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they decided to oust a speaker, speaker that was elected after a ridiculous
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number of votes in the first place. It became very clear that the Speaker
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of the House then and McCarthy was not going to really be the Speaker of
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the House as much as he was somebody who was just holding a place until
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someone who was very close to Trump, like a Matt Gates, was going
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to step in. And Gates warned everybody he called the shot. He basically
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told us this was eventually going to happen. Anyway, He's got a lot
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of authority, He's been handed a lot of authority. He is, in
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a way, I guess, sort of you know, working on behalf of
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Trump. Who, hey, the nominee in the last election, head of
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the party, all that stuff. I mean, the favorite to win the
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nomination. Whether he gets to actually be the nominee or not is all being
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decided. And well I've gone through that at great length. Whether Democrats will
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allow him or be able to stop him or whatever it is at all in
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the process of happening, so kind of new to this process. Really.
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Twenty sixteen is when Johnson got into Congress, so he hasn't been in a
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long time. He's not one of these, you know, people who's been
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doing it for you know, one hundred and eighty years. We have a
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number of those, especially in the Senate. Right, we had a Speaker
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of the House who was that at one point, right, So, I
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mean, I think that's probably a positive. I think I certainly think having
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sort of a new face and some new blood, a few people kind of
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going, I don't know who this is. The people who knew it was
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probably followed Trump very closely because he's been talking about Johnson for a little while.
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But now the party says they're united. I wish that they had handled
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all of this business privately the first time and figured out who the nominee was
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going to be, who go through this stages after stage after stage of voting.
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I wish that they had actually had their private meetings to decide the nominee
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and kept it private and not aired all the laundry in the process of that.
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But now we have a speaker. Now they can get busy beginning to
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actually start doing what they were, you know, voted to do. They
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were elected to govern, and they were elected to be our House of Representatives.
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So give them a chance now to do it. This is what it
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gives them to actually have a Speaker of the House. So now second in
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line, he's the guy, he's number three. I don't know that this
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is who I thought the candidate was gonna or the speaker would end up being.
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I really thought that Byron Donald's had a real good shot at it,
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But I don't know. I think Republicans might have other plans for him.
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And I don't know where all of this goes moving forward, But there you
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go. That's what we have for now. And I don't know if at
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any point we're going to get into a power move where Johnson could be thrown
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out. I don't. I hope that's not where this is all headed.
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So, uh, that's that's the Speaker of the House. Now make it
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official, and uh we can maybe hopefully get busy with moving forward with with
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governing. That's that's what we'd like to see. We'd like to see this.
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Uh, we'd like to see this begin the process and let's get the
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budget under control. Let's get the money that we're sending to uh, you
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know, for foreign eight, for Ukraine, figure out what they're going to
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do there, how they're going to handle that process and and get get moving.
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So three weeks without a speaker of the House, so the second longest
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period the house to go without a speaker. There was a you know,
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interim speaker who was running things, but now it's officially so there we go.
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Other topic I want to talk about today is the subject of bud Light
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and the UFC and UFC is the Ultimate Fighting and Championship. Sorry I didn't
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say what S stood for and now. So back when they were kind of
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getting started, Budweiser Anheuser Busch came in and spent some money as a sponsor
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for UFC in the early days. Many folks feel like that was a big
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part of helping to get UFC off the ground, and I'm sure it was
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a big part of it. But a lot of money coming in from a
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major beer brand and that was the sponsorship for the company. Over time,
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a few things happened. First of all, I guess Modello became the sponsor
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of UFC, and of course I guess seven months ago. Was it really
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only seven months ago? It feels like an a turn, It feels like
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years ago now. But the folks at Anheuser Busch decided to partner up with
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a transgender activist named Dylan mulvaney, and they put Dylan mulvaney on some cans
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and sent the cans to Dylan mulvany, who showed them on social media and
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said, look what I've got. What proceeded to happen after that, which
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could only be described from a marketing standpoint as an egregious error, not understanding
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who your brand is marketed towards, not understanding who your target audience is.
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Some say it was an attempt to try to bust up the stereotypes of the
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old frat boy image that a beer company like bud Light or Budweiser was marketing
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towards, and an attempt at trying to bring in younger people, bring in
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someone who is a social media influencer and activist, and obviously trying to,
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let's be honest, pander to the LGBTQ plus community. And what proceeded to
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happen from there, you know, the company this once major brand in the
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American ether just absolutely collapsed. Marketing people were fired and blown out. There
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were billions of dollars lost, shareholders lost a ton. It was an ugly
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mess. It continues really to be an ugly mess. As Boycott's reigned supreme
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across the country. It was one of the few times in my lifetime that
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Republicans said, or conservatives really not just Republicans America, said we're going to
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boycott something, and then it actually seemed to do something. It seemed to
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make an influence on what was going on. Now, there's still people who
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were bloodthirsty about it. They still feel like there should be absolutely no coming
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back for this company. They want the company dead and buried. Now,
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I've said before, one of the problems with that for conservatives or for Republicans,
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I guess at this point is that Anheuser Busch donated a lot of money
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to conservative causes and candidacies and things over the years. They donate to both
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sides, but they tend to vote more to conservative causes. So in boycotting
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them, obviously, this was an opportunity for Republicans that were counting on donations
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from them to shoot themselves in the foot. Now, Yeah, I think
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that if people decide that a boycott is worthwhile to punish a company for doing
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something really stupid, then I think people should you exercise that right to boycott.
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I'm not a big boycott guy. I'm not a big fire of them
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guy. I do think that if an actor is fired or loses their job,
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or is called, you know, stupid and insensitive and blank phobic whatever
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it is, for saying or doing something, and they lose their job and
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they lose their career and all of those things, I think if someone on
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the other side does the same thing, that the same thing should happen to
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them. I don't think it's fair that anyone loses their job for something that
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they tweeted twenty years ago. I don't think anyone's twitter around twenties. I
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don't think anyone should be punished outright for making a mistake, and especially not
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in the world of comedy. Like I don't think that somebody who makes an
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attempt at making a funny joke and the joke falls flat and gets deeped insensitive.
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I do think there's some things that it doesn't surprise me when someone says
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it and they get punished. A comedian makes a joke and someone says,
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oh, that's anti semitic. They shouldn't be allowed to do comedy anymore.
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A politician like I don't know, maybe rascheated to leave I don't know,
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says something that sounds anti semitic. Report repeat something in the news that did
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not happen at a hospital in Gaza, and it's not the same sort of
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repercussions as it. It's a very different thing that we do. I do
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think folks that are into elected positions, you know, should be held to
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a higher standard. I do, but I also think that there has to
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be some sort of justice involved in the process. Someone can't just be attacked
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because they don't want them to be in office anymore. I don't think that's
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fair either, and I think that's what's going on with Trump. But my
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point is the company has suffered a lot. Now bud Light has come in
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and spend one hundred million dollars on UFC on a sponsorship deal to buy back
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into UFC. I gotta be honest, and I know that there's still some
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people calling for the boycott to continue, and they're saying now to boycott UFC
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as well, and people are just saying basically that this is an attempt at
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them, trying to now scratch the back in return, they're trying to help
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bail out the beer who helped get them started in the first place. They're
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trying to help save them. I kind of my question here, I guess,
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And there's a few thoughts on this. And again I'm not a necessarily
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a boycott person, and I've said that that's not really my go to.
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My go to for me personally is I do believe that there's a point where
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you can punish a company or a person, but then they have to get
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some sort of an opportunity maybe to get back in good graces, right,
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And I'm not necessarily saying that, but like should have been boycotted or should
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continue to be boycotted, or should not or any of that, I don't
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that's not my place to say. I guess I do kind of question whether
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or not maybe this should be seen as a victory. Is this a win
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for the conservatives that boycotted because UFC is kind of like the opposite of you
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know, the Dylan mulveny can I mean, is that not the extreme opposite
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for what they're sponsoring. I mean, you're talking about saying, hey,
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we want to be we want to work with a social media influencer, this
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activist, and it's a it's a man who decided to live his life as
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as a girl, not as a woman, but as a girl, right,
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so that versus putting a lot of money one hundred million dollars into UFC.
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And it's a masculine, it's more masculine than in most sports. You
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know, you could make the you could have at one time made the case
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for football. I don't know. Maybe college football you can make the case
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for it. I don't know. I don't know that you can make the
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case for football at all. I don't know what the I mean, maybe
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rugby is the you know, that's still it still seems to be a sport
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of testosterone and hits. And I don't know, I don't know if the
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referees are saying it's rugby. But you can't push that guy down, land
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on him. That's nuts against the rules. We're gonna call past interference until
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it starts to have an out depend the outcome of the game, and then
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we're gonna stop calling it because we don't want to get involved. And if
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we do call it and it terms the outcome of the game, well then
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that's gonna be the Super Bowl, and everybody's gonna get really upset about that.
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Well half the country and the other half won't care. That's the way
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that plays out. It's a very testosterone laden sport UFC and I mean,
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I guess it's worth just considering. Is this a win for the people who
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are boycotting? Is it time to move on? Some say no. I
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know that there are some that will not, that will never stop until Anheuser
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Busch is just completely gone. Like, I don't know what they would need
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to do to get back in good graces. I'm not much of a beer
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drinker. I'm gonna be honest. All of this has had minimal impact on
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me personally. I'm not much of a beer drinker. I certainly am not
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a high end beer drinker. Right So for me, I've been at parties,
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not lately, but I've been at parties where they had Budweiser. I've
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had some in the past. It's been a long time since I've had I've
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had many beer. I'm not a big beer guy. It's just the reality
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I'm not. I don't drink much of anything, to be honest, I'm
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much more of a Coke zero guy. That's where I am. Okay,
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that's me. I will have a you know, a beverage in a social
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setting. My preferred would be, you know, just a good Irish whiskey.
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That's what I'd like. But I just have, you know, maybe
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one glass. I might have one, you know, drink and then you
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know, then I move on to water or you know, coke zero or
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whatever. That tends to be my pattern for things. This beer thing hasn't
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had a big impact on me personally, but it's had a huge impact on
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a very large company in America. Is it time to move on? I
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don't know the answer to that question. I really don't. I'll tell you
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my opinion, but this is a case where I'm just kind of waiting to
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see what happens. I'm very curious to see what happens. Will America ever
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forgive bud Light or is it going to take that next generation to grow up?
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The Dylan mulvaney generation to grow up. And I don't know if you
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can count the current the actual age of Dylan mulvaney or the age Dylan mlvany
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is living as as a girl, not as a woman, not as Dylan
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mulvaney's current age, but as this you know, I'm a girl. I
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don't even know how old Dylan Mlvaney says, is the actual age that my
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girl ate her girl age? Right? I don't know what that is.
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I don't know where we're at on that, so I don't know. I
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mean the part of me that feels like if the people whose idea it was
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to do the Dylan Molvaney cans they don't work there anymore. Uh. Is
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it time for conservatives to say, well, you're going to start supporting our
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causes again, including the Ultimate Fighting Championship because they seem to be on board
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following up from the previous topic of beer and not specifically a bud light,
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let's talk about other types of beer. Uh. There's a company in
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Charlotte, North Dakota called Noda Brewing and North Dakota Noda and they say that
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if you're going to be pairing beer with Halloween candy this year, they've come
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up with a system, they say helps you to maximize your beer and candy
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enjoyment. I'm assuming this is for adults, I would hope. So they
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say that skittles goes well with your IPAs. Okay, candy corn and pumpkin
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ale, that sounds great because they both are disgusting. Kit cat and wheat
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beer, Now that's a good one. I was saying, I hadn't had
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a beer in a while, and the last beer I had was a wheat
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beer. That sounds good to me. Sour Patch kids and a juicy ipa
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and a porter with Reese's peanut butter cups. All right, Yeah, the
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KitKat and the wheat beer sounds like the better combo of those out of there,
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because that's too I don't know that I would have them together, though,
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I don't know. I guess I could give it a shot, see
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how it goes. But White Castle's fast food chain rolling out fry cook robots
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across the US, well, at least the places that have the White Castle.
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We don't have them in the Chattahoochee Valley area. We got crystal instead,
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don't we. A says More and more locations of the Hamburger chain have
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order accuracy. The fries cook in the basket, they flip out, They
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probably salt them. I don't know what all they do. They just cook
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French fries at the White Castle, That's what they do. According to a
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are losing fifteen dollars a month to depreciation, finance charges, fuel, insurance,
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and other related costs. That number is up about twelve percent from last
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year. How about that, So it cost you twelve thousand dollars one thousand
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dollars a month basically to own a car and have it. Mark Cuban,
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who is insanely rich, obviously, says that he does not spend money on
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a driver. He drives himself. He's a billionaire. He drives himself around,
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which I mean, I guess that's your few. You're a billionaire.
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You can do either way, he says. He also doesn't pay for cleaning
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services. I guess he doesn't want a housekeeper or anybody in his house.
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He says he values his privacy. I get that. I do. I
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would think though, if you just had a driver, that was like,
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if you're a billionaire, you could pay somebody on you know, salary.
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I'm gonna get you to drive me around salaried. You're gonna be my housekeeper
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like Alice on the Brady Bunch. You're gonna be around, You're gonna help
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out with things, and you're gonna keep your mouth shut. You're gonna sign
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these papers that basically say that you'll you're not gonna and I can have my
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privacy, right, That's what I would do. I guess I don't know.
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I kind of get the whole. I don't. I don't like people
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in the house that I don't know. I don't like that at all,
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not at all. That's one of my things. I just I don't want
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anybody in my house that I don't I don't know, And some of them
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I don't really want in my house. I'm just saying there's just a reality
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to that. Just some of them I don't want in my house. That'll
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