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Weaponizing the Justice Department Against Trump's Allies · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 2: out those interviews there as well. Okay, a few things
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to today. First of all, I
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  Speaker 2: saw this yesterday afternoon, this headline that came through, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, wow, this certainly seems like something that we
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  Speaker 2: should be concerned about. You know, something that should be
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  Speaker 2: on our radar, and it's something that we definitely need
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  Speaker 2: to have concerns about, because what happens... is we play
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  Speaker 2: this little silly game sometimes where we act like it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter when our side does something wrong and that
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  Speaker 2: the other side is the only side who could be
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  Speaker 2: found guilty of doing something that is out of line
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  Speaker 2: and inappropriate. And for whatever reason, we just kind of
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  Speaker 2: look the other way and just let it ride. I
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  Speaker 2: try to cause them like I see them. And I
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  Speaker 2: know sometimes I probably miss and I probably don't hit
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  Speaker 2: where people want me to hit. But I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to point out the fact that we have what's and
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  Speaker 2: I've also said this for a very long time. And
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's become common for people to point
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  Speaker 2: this out because I've heard other people point it out.
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  Speaker 2: And but not I didn't hear him do it before
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  Speaker 2: I did it. I always have to clarify that because
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  Speaker 2: I like to tell people, you know, when I'm not
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  Speaker 2: listening to other podcasts and shows, and when I'm not
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  Speaker 2: watching certain news hosts on TV, and it's not even news,
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  Speaker 2: they're opinion hosts. But when I'm not listening to those things,
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  Speaker 2: it's because I like my opinions here to be my own.
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  Speaker 2: And I've tried to do that for a very, very
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  Speaker 2: long time for you. And sometimes, certainly, there's some overlap.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to take credit for this sentiment. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just telling you that I was saying it before I
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  Speaker 2: heard anyone else say it, and then other people have
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  Speaker 2: said it. And, you know, ideas like this are, I guess, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, music. You know, you can kind of get
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  Speaker 2: inspired and you can hear it. So anyway. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: just pointing out the fact that folks on the left
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  Speaker 2: have this game plan that they do where they do
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  Speaker 2: something that's horrible. You know, it's criminal or unethical. And
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  Speaker 2: they do it. And they do it for a little while,
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  Speaker 2: and then I don't know. It's almost like a kid
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  Speaker 2: who's guilty of something, and then they don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard anybody say this part of it. But if
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  Speaker 2: you've got kids, you know that sometimes your kid can
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  Speaker 2: do something, especially when they're younger. They can do something,
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  Speaker 2: and then they kind of get away with it. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they're just kind of slipping by, and they start to
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  Speaker 2: get uneasy and uncomfortable, and then they fess up to it.
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  Speaker 2: And they were clean. They had gotten away with it
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  Speaker 2: and they were clean. But then something happens. Maybe it's guilt.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they start wondering. I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: They just kind of start to feel the heat a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. So they either blame somebody else or they
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  Speaker 2: fess up to it. Now, you know, in politics, there's
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  Speaker 2: not a lot of fessing up to anything. You got
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  Speaker 2: to go through the whole depends on what your definition
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  Speaker 2: of is is. And then borderline, hey, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: get impeached and then I'm going to get convicted and
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  Speaker 2: And then maybe you fess up and you go, all right, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I did in fact have sexual relations with that woman.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it takes to fess up to things typically.
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  Speaker 2: But in this particular example or this example that I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting to, it's one of those things where they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to fess up to it, but maybe they think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't want somebody to realize that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing it and we're going to accuse us of doing it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to blame the other side. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to say that they are, in fact, the ones who
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  Speaker 2: are doing this thing that we do, and then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to do it. And the best example
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  Speaker 2: I can give you is, hey, Donald Trump targeting political opponents,
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  Speaker 2: and he's using the Justice Department to do it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I would just like to point out to you that
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  Speaker 2: while Donald Trump had another administration and he was president
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  Speaker 2: for four years and then he wasn't for four years,
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  Speaker 2: The lion's share of the attacking political opponents happened during
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration when they were specifically going after Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump and all of his allies. And they were setting
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  Speaker 2: things up so that they could make him look as
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  Speaker 2: guilty and as criminal as possible to make it harder
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  Speaker 2: for him to get reelected. That's what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: That was the strategy. That's exactly what they were doing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the way it all played out. And then
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  Speaker 2: as soon as Trump wins again, partly because of this
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous action that was taking place, they turned him into
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  Speaker 2: something more than just a candidate by making some American
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  Speaker 2: people who were left of center and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people in the middle whose vote was up for grabs go,
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  Speaker 2: why are they going so far to make him ineligible?
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  Speaker 2: Why are they trying to get him taken off the ballots? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what is it that's going on here? And it made
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people go, you know what, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to vote for this guy. They arrested him. He had
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  Speaker 2: a mugshot. The mugshot became part of the rallying cry.
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  Speaker 2: And then they tried to kill him. Who exactly tried
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  Speaker 2: to kill him? Some people questioned. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people who don't want it to be the people involved,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to ask questions, and that's fair to
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  Speaker 2: ask questions. We should ask questions, but we shouldn't go
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  Speaker 2: too far down the conspiracy hole. But I digress. The
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  Speaker 2: point is, they said it was Trump who was trying
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  Speaker 2: to go after his political opponents, and that's what he
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  Speaker 2: was up to. And then all of a sudden, out
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  Speaker 2: of nowhere, the.
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  Speaker 2: Letitia James' team has now been accused. Now, she specifically
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  Speaker 2: was not named in this, but in an email that
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  Speaker 2: went out over the weekend, the New York Assistant Attorney General,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Weisenfeld, some are saying could be the whistleblower of
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  Speaker 2: the year. That's the way it's worded in the New
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  Speaker 2: York Post, where I'll be quoting some of this from.
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  Speaker 2: But he called out the abuses of power from Team
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General James. Not specifically her, but he basically says
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  Speaker 2: that they're burning through significant public taxpayer dollars to target
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  Speaker 2: convenient public enemies. That's his words. That's from the quote
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  Speaker 2: from the email that he sent out over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It was sent out to 2,000 staff in the state's
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  Speaker 2: attorney general's office. And he basically says, in his opinion,
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  Speaker 2: they should be targeting rampant nonprofit homeless shelter fraud and
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  Speaker 2: anti-Semitic crimes in and around the synagogues. Yes. And he basically,
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  Speaker 2: without implicating Letitia James, but he said that the Investor
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  Speaker 2: Protection Bureau chief Shamiso Maswaswe told him to target Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump himself, Truth Social, and Hewlett Packard, who had a
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  Speaker 2: DOJ-approved merger, without bothering to first find a credible reason
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  Speaker 2: for targeting the organizations and individuals. That sounds like it's
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  Speaker 2: targeting political opponents, doesn't it? Letitia James, one of those
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  Speaker 2: people who was part of the lefts, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get him. She ran for attorney general as someone who
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get him. That's my goal. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: promise you. I'm giving you my word that if I
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  Speaker 2: become the attorney general for New York, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: get him. I'm going to find something to get him with.
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  Speaker 2: That's what that was it. That's the whole thing, right?
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  Speaker 2: And that according to Weisenfeld, he does in fact believe
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  Speaker 2: that Mos Wasway is listening to the boss, Letitia James.
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  Speaker 2: Which shouldn't be a shock because, as I just said,
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  Speaker 2: that's something Letitia James ran on. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump if you vote me in. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to do for you. you don't even have to
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  Speaker 2: do that in New York. You just say, I'm a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm running for attorney general. You're going to get in.
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  Speaker 2: But that was something that she made a big deal about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get him. So there you go. And
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  Speaker 2: so they did it. He got reelected. They said he
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  Speaker 2: was the one doing it. And because, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: were going after some network TV stations that were letting
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  Speaker 2: things run wild on a bias towards the left. So
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  Speaker 2: when Trump said, well, he didn't even say it, the
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  Speaker 2: FCC said, you're not allowed to do that. Like, this
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  Speaker 2: has to be an unbiased thing. You're here to represent
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  Speaker 2: both sides. You can't just go after a political opponent
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  Speaker 2: and use a network TV station to do that with.
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  Speaker 2: That's not allowed. That's not okay. And they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: he's targeting. The president forced them to do it, and
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  Speaker 2: they're targeting political opponents. That's what they're doing, because they
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  Speaker 2: don't like what Jimmy Kimmel had to say when he
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  Speaker 2: suggested that the First Lady would soon be a widow
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  Speaker 2: after Donald Trump has had multiple assassination attempts.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple. And lots of conversation about how he should die
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  Speaker 2: and celebrities and holding up, you know, mannequin heads and
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  Speaker 2: saying it's Donald Trump and those kind of things. Johnny
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  Speaker 2: Depp questioning when the last time an actor killed a
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  Speaker 2: president and those kinds of things. Interesting that he's putting
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  Speaker 2: Trump in the same category as Lincoln by doing that because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the left pretends that Lincoln is not a
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  Speaker 2: Republican at all. So, yeah, then this happens and it's
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  Speaker 2: right back to them going after Trump and allies because
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  Speaker 2: that's something that they feel like they can do, that
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  Speaker 2: they can fight. I've said this before, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's important that we talk about this every now
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  Speaker 2: and then. Because I do think it's important, and it's
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  Speaker 2: something that Rush Limbaugh used to say a lot about
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  Speaker 2: how you have to be actively conservative. You have to
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  Speaker 2: be actively pushing for that, and you have to be
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  Speaker 2: actively exercising and practicing those fundamentals that make you a conservative,
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  Speaker 2: that make you a constitutionalist. I know I'm probably adding
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  Speaker 2: some words to what he said, but he stressed it's
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  Speaker 2: important that you're actively focused on those things. You can't
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  Speaker 2: let things slide. You can't say, hey, we shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: people spying on us all the time. We shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: the ability for police to just spy on us all
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  Speaker 2: the time and then say, but, you know, some cameras
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  Speaker 2: around would probably be good because it would probably only
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  Speaker 2: be used for good things. That's not really practicing what
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  Speaker 2: the founders wanted. They didn't want, we're going to give
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  Speaker 2: on this because there's no way it's going to be abused.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's going to abuse this one. This is just one
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  Speaker 2: that they'll only use when, you know, Like a TV
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  Speaker 2: host mom disappears. And if we had these cameras around,
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  Speaker 2: we would have been able to find her. That's a
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  Speaker 2: horrible tragedy. It's a horrible situation. Everything about that is bad.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to fix it by having more cameras around.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not. That's not the way to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't give up liberties that you're never going to
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  Speaker 2: get back. You're never going to get it back. So
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  Speaker 2: you have to be actively... Being conservative is what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be actively pro-freedom. You have to be
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  Speaker 2: actively pro-self-government. That's our responsibility. You have to be. The
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  Speaker 2: difference in that and what the left does is they
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  Speaker 2: say you have to be actively pro-revolution. They feel like
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  Speaker 2: we're constantly in this state of revolution and that they
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  Speaker 2: say you can't Relax. You can't just sit back and
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  Speaker 2: enjoy life. You have to be constantly doing their bidding.
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  Speaker 2: You have a politician like AOC who is going to
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  Speaker 2: run for president, but she has said, no more brunches.
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  Speaker 2: You have to keep the fight. You have to stay
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  Speaker 2: in this constant state of revolution. Again, I'm paraphrasing, but
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  Speaker 2: this is what she said. There's no more brunches. And basically,
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  Speaker 2: there's no joy in life. There's nothing but staying this
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  Speaker 2: active fight and doing all the things. Now, she didn't
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  Speaker 2: specifically call out what you're supposed to do in this
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  Speaker 2: particular speech, but we know the things that she supports.
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  Speaker 2: But they want you to be the pawns because AOC,
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  Speaker 2: during COVID, was going on vacation. She was going to
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  Speaker 2: Florida where she didn't have to wear a mask to
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  Speaker 2: go to the beach. See, the queen... gets to do
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  Speaker 2: what the queen wants to do. But the pawns are
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  Speaker 2: expected to be in a state of constant revolution. And
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  Speaker 2: someone like Letitia James, you know, she's not a queen
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  Speaker 2: or a pawn, but she's, you know, some piece on
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  Speaker 2: the board. Maybe a knight. I don't know. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 2: what she is. Maybe a rook. I don't know what her,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what her chess piece equivalent, a bishop, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: We'll say a bishop. But that's what she's doing. She's
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep this constant state of revolution. We're in
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  Speaker 2: rebellion at all times because we have to fight the
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  Speaker 2: system that oppresses everyone except white people, specifically white males
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  Speaker 2: and white women who support life, you know, and Christians.
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  Speaker 2: They can do that for you as well. And again,
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  Speaker 2: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're taking a GLP-1 drug to lose weight, you
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  Speaker 2: may have people in your life, maybe even people close
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  Speaker 2: to you, family and friends, who are telling you that
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  Speaker 2: you're taking the easy way out. According to psychologists, the
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  Speaker 2: reaction is surprisingly common and found that people who lose
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  Speaker 2: weight with GLP-1 medications are often viewed more negatively than
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  Speaker 2: those who lose weight through diet and exercise alone. Some
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  Speaker 2: respondents even describe GLP-1 users as lazier or less disciplined.
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  Speaker 2: Experts say the stigma comes from long-held beliefs that weight
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  Speaker 2: loss should be achieved through willpower alone. So while GLP-1
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  Speaker 2: drugs are changing how people lose weight, they haven't changed
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  Speaker 2: the way society thinks about it. I have come quite
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  Speaker 2: some distance from where I was initially on this because
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  Speaker 2: just covering GLP-1 drugs in a media standpoint, I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you that initially it was like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 2: something that people who have diabetes need, and people are
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  Speaker 2: using it as a weight loss drug, and it's causing
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  Speaker 2: people who need this medication for their diabetes aren't able
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  Speaker 2: to get it. That was the first stigma that came
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  Speaker 2: from it. And then soon after, and so there was
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  Speaker 2: a negative connotation to begin with for people that were
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  Speaker 2: using it just for weight loss. And then as the
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  Speaker 2: trend started to really catch on and the supply caught
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  Speaker 2: up with the demand, certainly seems to be something that's
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  Speaker 2: helped a lot of people get healthier. I do know
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  Speaker 2: some people who've lost weight and then stopped using the
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  Speaker 2: drugs and put the weight back on. That's an unfortunate
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  Speaker 2: side of all of this, but that's what a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people deal with that lose weight in general. And
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  Speaker 2: there can be some complications in your life that mean
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  Speaker 2: you just can't use willpower alone. So I say you
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  Speaker 2: got to cut some people some slack. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I do understand when some people are really fighting every
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  Speaker 2: calorie every single day and they see someone that is
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  Speaker 2: able to do a shortcut. I get it, but everybody's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: got their own circumstances going on, don't they? Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like your life is on autopilot? Well, according to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: new talker research survey that was done, the answer is
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: probably yes. 82% of respondents said they feel like they're
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  Speaker 2: living life on autopilot, just going through motions every day.
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  Speaker 2: The average person reports hitting an energy slump at about
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: 248 in the afternoon. More than 70% say they're so
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  Speaker 2: busy they often skip or delay meals. Some of us
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  Speaker 2: just forget meals. That's a weight loss trick. You just
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: forget the meals. You go right through them. And I
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: don't always do it, but I do sometimes. The packed
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  Speaker 2: schedules are also taking a toll on hobbies, exercise, mental health,
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  Speaker 2: even time with loved ones. Nearly half of respondents say
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  Speaker 2: that they're not fully present during meaningful moments, suggesting that
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  Speaker 2: for many Americans, the challenge isn't just fatigue. It's about
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: actually finding time and energy to enjoy life. Got to
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  Speaker 2: get on top of that. Because clock eats slowing down,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: my friend. So, you know, you got to get on
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: top of it. If you're planning to give your room
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: in your home a fresh paint job, Green is apparently
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the color of the year for 2027, specifically grounded. It's
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: a deep, earthy green shade. It blends mossy and olive
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: tones with brown undertones, giving a natural outdoors-inspired feel. Bayer
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: says that the color changes throughout the day as lighting shifts,
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  Speaker 2: appearing fresher in the morning, warmer by evening. Company says
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  Speaker 2: the choice reflects growing interest in nature-inspired design, richer earth tones,
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  Speaker 2: and home interiors that feel comfortable, warm, and connected to
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  Speaker 2: the natural world. Also sounds like a way to sell
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: more paint. You know? It's what it sounds like. It
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: just sounds like it's an opportunity for a paint company.
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  Speaker 2: To sell more paint. This idea of having a color
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: of the year and things like that. Lego has broken
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the record for the longest set. Longest set? Is that
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the right wording? Set that it's ever produced. Oh, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: get it.
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  Speaker 1: Long. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Executor Super Star Destroyer from Star Wars. I
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  Speaker 2: read this a couple days ago and I forgot and
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  Speaker 2: I thought that's a weird way to word it. But
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  Speaker 2: I remember now why it's long. Because it's Star Destroyer.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of the LEGO Star Wars series, the recreation
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  Speaker 2: of Darth Vader's flagship. Star Destroyer measures 53.5 inches long.
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  Speaker 2: That is almost 4.5 feet. 6,130 piece model set is
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: so massive that the LEGO design team had to come
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  Speaker 2: up with a new outrigger system for extra strength to
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  Speaker 2: anchor the exterior panels. The Destroyer does not come cheap.
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  Speaker 2: Goes on sale October 4th, just in time for Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: for the low, low price of just $ 800. So maybe
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Spider-Man will be putting that together in a movie someday soon.
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  Speaker 2: That'll do it for this Tuesday edition of the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening.
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