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Oppenheimer and Government Set Ups · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Tuesday morning, at
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twelfth day of March. I'm west thanks for joining me. Working our way
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into the week, moving on through. That's what we're doing. I wanted
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to quickly address a couple things Oscars related, and I am not a huge
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fan of the Oscars. I used to be. If you've listened to me
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on the radio or here over the years, you know my story on this.
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When I was a kid, I used to love I love movies,
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I always have and I used to love to watch the Oscars with my mom.
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That was a thing that we did. We would watch the show,
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we would talk about it, we would you know, just have a good
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time watching it. There was just something fun. It's that connection to kind
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of old school Hollywood for her. For me, it was all kind of
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a new experience. And we know what all of the award shows have become,
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and we know really what they always were. You understand that, you
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accept that, you realize what it is, and it's easy to at its
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very base make fun of it because it's just a bunch of people patting each
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other on the back, going hey, good job, you did something.
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Now I did something, and why we did something. When you look at
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things for their overall realistic importance, you know that none of it really matters.
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Who wins the championship in college football doesn't really matter. I know,
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you're not supposed to say that who wins the Super Bowl, it doesn't matter,
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the World Series, none of that really matters in the great scheme of
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things. We're selective about the things that we choose to still give relevance to.
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And it's a lot easier with certain things to give them relevant than others.
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It's easier for us to say, well, my loyalty to this particular
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football team means I'm going to continue to have interest in them moving forward,
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no matter what the circumstance is. You tell yourself, well, I want
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to continue to like them. And then if it was an NFL team,
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maybe the existence of the you know, second national anthem, because apparently now
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in some sporting events we have two national anthems. We don't, but at
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certain sporting events we do. Maybe the fact that you had to when you
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watch maybe the NBA, you were forced, you were subjected to see all
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of the Black Lives Matter messaging that came up on uniforms and on courts,
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and I guess some of that still does. I know some of the football
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programs still have it on the backs of their helmets, and they still have,
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you know, different messages, which the messages themselves aren't necessarily a problem.
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It's just the nature of what decides which messages are allowed to be displayed,
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which ones are quote unquote okay, safe space type messages. I went
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through a thing here with this show at one time where you're not making people
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feel safe. We're going to take down some of your shows. They don't
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make people feel safe. You go through that sometimes in this world that we
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live in. So you got some messages that are allowed to be put on
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the backs of uniforms and helmets, and you've got some messages that aren't allowed
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to do that. You can take a city street during the twenty twenty election
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and you can paint Black Lives Matter on the street. You can't paint something
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about Trump, or you can't paint something about Blue Lives Matter. Any of
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that stuff not allowed. You're only allowed certain murals, you're only allowed certain
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things that you're allowed to express that's what's weird about our world. So we
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take things and for some reason we just let it keep happening. Understand why
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we continue to allow it to happen, but we're allowing it to happen.
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I want everybody to be aware of the fact that we are, in fact
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allowing these things to continue to be what they are. But I digress back
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to my point. There are things that we understand they don't really matter.
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We put an importance in them mattering. For some reason, we set back
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and we say, well, we're going to like certain things that we like
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matter, but the things that we don't like matter, and that's the reality
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of it. We can be high and mighty from our perch and look at
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the Grammys or the Oscars or whatever and say, ah, it's just nothing.
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But these people do in their thing and it doesn't really matter. But
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sports don't matter either, They really don't. We're learning more and more how
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little sports matter. When biological men are allowed to compete against women and dominate
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and people just act like that doesn't matter. It's okay, why were they
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going to do it? And I know you have to be people that are
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standing up for Riley Gaines and others that are actually standing up on behalf of
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women athletes, and that's great. That's the fight that matters, because who
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wins and loses in competitions should matter. The message that's there, that's forced
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into it and injected into it shouldn't be important to us. Should be important
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that if it's about competition and it's about sports, then the true winner should
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be able to win. The true underdog should be able to come along and
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potentially pull the upset. It shouldn't be about which pop singers at the sporting
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event. And this is also true of award shows. There should be a
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format where you can say, hey, these are the five best movies based
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on people in the movie industry, these are the movies they think are the
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five best movies. And then they're all going to vote on which one is
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the best movie of the year. And that should be basically the way it
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goes down. It shouldn't be about which movie had some sort of social justice
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message to it. It shouldn't be about the messaging. It shouldn't be about
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the message that's printed on the back of the jersey or on the back of
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the helmet. It should just be about what's the best movie was the best
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movie that was made that year. That's what it should be. It's not
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really any different. And I know it's easy to say, but I like
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football. I don't like movies. The award shows for movies. I like
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certain movies, and that's fine. Everybody doesn't have to care about all of
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it. There are people that watch the Oscars that don't care at all about
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college football, or don't care all about sports in any capacity, and that's
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fine too, that's all okay. No one is forced to like all of
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those things. With that said, the Oscars, it's supposed to be let's
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pick the best movies, and we know they don't do that anymore. There's
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a lot of things that come into play. Now. You have to have
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so many people that are on the crew or in the cast ors representations of
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different groups for it to be even considered for the award, which of course
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is absurd, but again, that's the policy that they put in place.
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That's what they're gonna do with it. I watched some of the show this
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year. There was a point where I used to really get into it and
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I would make predictions, and then I realized I don't even have to watch
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the movies to make the predictions accurately. It's that easy to guess. Occasionally,
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you have a movie that wins and you think, I don't know that
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that was the one that they really wanted to win, wasn't the best movie,
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and I don't know how it won. Crash is an example in a
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year when it seemed pretty obvious Broke Back Mountain, which wasn't a very good
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movie, was going to win, and somehow Crash won and people lost their
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minds. Crash wasn't a great movie. It was better than Broke Back Mountain,
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but you know, I did watch both of those movies, and you
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know, I didn't know how Crash won. But most of the time it's
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pretty easy. And I'll give you an example this year, looking back through
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the list of the you know, ten major twelve major whatever we're up to
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that they consider sort of major categories. Now, I think I've seen three
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of the movies, three of the movies, and I was able to accurately
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guess every single winner in those categories, every single one, just by here's
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the movies that people are talking about, here's what they're talking about as possible
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winners. They lay them out for you. It's pretty easy. You can
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just kind of guess. You get a feel for what's out there, you
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get a feel for what some of the critics say, it's not hard.
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When people say, look, I've predicted the winners, it's not hard to
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do. And in the past ten years, I think I've missed maybe one
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winner of the Major. At one time it was a Major ten. Now
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they've added sort of the animated and there's a couple that they had in there.
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They kind of fall into that major category now. But every year,
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you know, if you're able to predict nine of the ten major winners for
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that long, in many cases without seeing the movies, that's kind of flawed.
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When the football season starts and you go, eh, Chiefs are going
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to win the Super Bowl, it's pretty easy to predict it. As the
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momentum starts to build and Taylor Swift starts showing up to games. Are you
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surprised when the Chiefs win the Super Bowl? I mean, you shouldn't be,
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but it seems easy to just kind of see where this is all headed.
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I don't think that this NFL is necessarily rigged. I think we got
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some issues with gambling and all that stuff, But that's another issue for another
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day. I thought Oppenheimer was a fantastic movie. It's one of the best
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movies I've ever seen. It was excellent. It's long, absolutely, But
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from a filmmaking standpoint, Christopher Nolan is a master storyteller and he did a
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great job with Oppenheimer. I like the way the story was told. I
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couldn't tell you any of the truths and realities behind the people involved in their
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real life dramas that they went through. I can just tell you that I
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watched very good actors and an incredible storyteller and a director put together this masterpiece
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of a movie, and it won seven awards the other night, deservedly.
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So I also saw Barbie. Barbie is a social justice movie, and I've
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talked about why I think Barbie should be insulting to women and not something that
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makes women all cheer and take their daughters to see it. But I'm not
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a woman. You do your thing, You be you if you want to
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watch a movie that talks down to you in a way that says, we're
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gonna assume, we're gonna have to put it this way to you so you
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understand the message clearly. Instead of just telling a story and letting you figure
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out the nuances of it. Well, that's fine. I didn't make it
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that way. I just observed that that's the way that it was made.
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I also saw the Holdovers, and I believe that's the only three that I
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saw, right, that's it. Still knew that Emma Stone was gonna win
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for Best Actress. That wasn't a shocker. It wasn't anything tough to predict.
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I don't remember the actress's name that won for the Holdovers, but she
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was great. Not a big shock that she won in that category. Robert
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Downey Junior, Killian Murphy certainly deserved to win. They were fantastic in Oppenheimer.
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Okay, But what Oppenheimer did was remind us of something. Yes,
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it's the story about the guy who led the team that created the bomb.
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Yes, he had ties with Communist Party members, he believed communism was the
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way to fight fascism in the world, all that sort of stuff. Was
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he a member of the party, I don't know. I know what the
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movie tells you. I don't know. Was he helping Russia as they were
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trying to develop a bomb? I don't know. I know what history says,
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I know what the movie says. I don't know. I know what
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was laid out for us in the movie. I know the way it was
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presented to us masterfully by the way it really was. The storytelling again,
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superb Christopher Nolan. I don't know that there's a better director working right now.
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He's unbelievable and finally wins an Oscar for Best Director, and he and
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his wife win as producers for Best Picture. Fantastic. Even if al Pacino
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did drop the ball on the presentation the other night, I'm seeing it with
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my eyes. Oppenheimer didn't even understand what happened. I think he thought that
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all the nominees were going to be there, and he pulled it out and
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just read a name, and suddenly it was like, Oh, that was
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it, that was the one. What we got was a movie that told
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us that, yes, it's very possible for the wrong people to conspire to
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go after and attack someone for political gain. We've seen it play out in
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twenty twenty four, late twenty twenty three. We've seen how corrupt politicians can
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get together and coordinate things. They can put a story together, they can
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suppress information, they can create a narrative and put it out there was this
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movie made to lay out, hey, here's how they could go after Donald
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Trump. Certainly not, certainly not now. A lot of people have commented
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over the years. I remember Rush Limbaugh used to talk about the way Christopher
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Nolan inserted a lot of very conservative ideals in his movies. Does that make
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him a conservative? I don't know really anything about Christopher Nolan's politics. It's
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not important to me. There probably is some information out there in the world
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that you can see and understand what he thinks and believes. But I remember
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rush Limbaugh talking about basic conservative ideas that you sometimes would see in Christopher Nolan's
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movies. But I don't think that that's what he was doing. I do
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think it's a movie that's telling this specific story while also telling us how easy
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it is for those in power to corrupt information, to plant information, to
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work the media, to work public perception, and attack someone because they don't
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like them, because there's a grudge, And at its core in the movie,
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that's part of the narrative that tells us why you have folks going after
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Oppenheimer. There's a grudge. I don't want to give a story away.
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There's a grudge, there's a hostile grudge there, there's revenge that needs to
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take place, there's I wonder what was being said in this conversation. I
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don't want to tell any of the plot points in case you want to watch
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it. But my point is he lays it out for us. And I
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always find it interesting when a movie or a TV show, even a comic
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book tells us here's how they could go after someone, here's how they could
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do it, and then we go, it's what they're doing right now.
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This is what they're doing. But we're supposed to look back in history and
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say, isn't it a shame that they did this to Oppenheimer, But we're
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not allowed to look at it now and say this is horrible, this is
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criminal what they're doing right now to someone who's running for president. Just a
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reminder, No former president has been indicted before this way, no former president
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has, or a candidate now the presumptive nominee has been attacked this way.
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We got to stop him. We got to get him, We got to
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keep him from being able to run for president. We have to stop him,
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no matter what we have to do, even if we have to suppress
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information. Even if the January sixth Committee suppressed evidence about Trump pushing for those
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ten thousand National Guard troops to protect the capital, even if we now have
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evidence that that happened Liz Cheney and the Committee, we're still not allowed to
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step back and say, maybe this hype, maybe this witch hunt, maybe
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this McCarthy esque attacks and screams of insurrection, or just a way to keep
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a guy from being president again, because they're still mad at him, they
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still have a grudge against him, they still hate him, they still have
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the derangement syndrome, they have all that, and they have to try to
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keep him from being able to be president again, to take away your ability
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to vote for him, all those things. Oppenheimer was a great movie.
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Laid out a lot of story for us, laid out a lot of these
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kind of scenarios where we can say, hey, here's some of the things
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that can go on behind closed doors. So, in the storytelling format of
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Oppenheimer, the things that Robert Oppenheimer witnessed himself in color, all the things
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that happened in scenarios where he wasn't there or a conversation was being had.
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Maybe he was there, but it was off in the distance and he couldn't
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hear what was being said. Anything that was sort of third person was black
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and white. So the question we now have is, we don't really know
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now that we've survived a couple of days since the time change, and this
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is a struggle, struggles, real struggle was very real yesterday. It's still
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very real today. Folks are starting to get into that mindset of spring and
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summer and all those things, and we're working our way towards spring break and
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those sorts of things. But can you believe that, I mean, we're
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almost you know, we're almost halfway through March already, don't. I don't
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know what's going on, but people are starting to get into this spring cleaning
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mindset.'tis the season for the spring cleaning. So new surveys at eighty
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percent of those that responded said spring cleaning helped them feel more in control of
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their lives and help with their well being. Fifty four percent said it boosts
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their mood. Forty nine percent that it reduced stress, some said it increase
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their focus, it helped them with organizing their thoughts, and forty five percent
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said it was good for their physical health just to do that. We're looking
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forward to what will be a spring cleaning moment for us, and once our
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kitchen is finished and we had some progress yesterday, we got more workers coming
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today, we have a ceiling, We've got some progress on our walls.
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Our kitchen is starting to come together. But once everything is finished, we
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can move everything back into its place in the kitchen. As we start to
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decide, now do we need this, do we not need this? What
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are the things that we can eliminate? But sadly we want we will to
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do that for a few more weeks hopefully, and then maybe by April we
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can have our spring cleaning and get that done. All right. So this
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is a thing, apparently, that is you can look out for if you
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notice someone that you know that all of a sudden they've got freckles and you
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can't figure out what they didn't have freckles before, They've never had freckles,
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Where did the freckles come from? Well, there's a broccoli freckle trick apparently
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where I guess some women. I guess some men too, But some women
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they're putting a bronzer makeup on a freckle on broccoli to make freckles. They
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put the bronzer on and then they dab it. They just tap it on
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their faces and sort of blend it in a little bit, and it gives
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the appearance that they've got freckles. And this is something that apparently you can
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look out for in the coming months as we get closer to summer. As
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someone who's naturally freckled. I don't know how I feel about this. Well,
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I can tell I feel about it. I don't care, but I'm
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passing on the info that maybe it's a trick if people want to add freckles,
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if we can make freckles cool again. I don't know. Were they
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ever cool? I don't know, but apparently people think they're cool enough to
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want them. I guess. Oscar Meyer is prepping for grilling season by ditching
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meat and working in a new line of vegan hot dogs that will roll out
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in time for summer. According to a press release, oscar Meyer's bun Length
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not hot Dogs and not Sausages will make their first appearance later this week Anaheim's
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Expo West, considered to be the super Bowl of natural, organic and healthy
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food. Oscar Meyer promises that the dogs will have the same texture as their
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regular product and even adorned with the painted on grill marks. And they have
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the pta seal of approval. That doesn't make me want to buy them more,
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you know, but occasionally it is nice. I think occasionally it's nice
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to do something that's maybe just to take a break. If you've been eating
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a lot of meat and you wanted a hot dog, I don't know why
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you would want a hot dog in that circumstance to go with, I don't
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know. I'll try one if they're available, and I'm feeling guilty about all
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of the meat that I've been eating. But those things all playing out are
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very unlikely. Every single one of those things is unlikely. Speaking of vegans,
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a vegan donut shop in Long Island is getting slammed for basically reselling.
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According to some they're reselling things that they bought from a Dunkin Donuts location.
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Some of the customers said, wait a minute, we're getting regular donuts instead
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of vegan donuts, and then others are saying, hang on, you're buying
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them from Duncan, doubling the price and selling them to us. Michelle Siriani,
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the owner of the vegan bakery known as Savory Fig, got called out
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by customers who noticed that the questionable pastries looked straight off at Dunk and Rack,
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and some of them even had the Duncan d sprinkles that come. You
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know that's a pattern, right. Sirianni denied selling regular donuts of any kind,
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but one local store bought an ingredient testing kit and found the formula was
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straight from Duncan. So I don't know, is this really clever or stealing?
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Lying? I don't know where does this rank in all of it.
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I mean, if you do it and get away with it, I mean,
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I'm not advocating selling something that's not vegan to people who want to eat
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vegan food, because that's you know, you're lying, then definitely. But
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if you're buying donuts from one place and selling them at a higher price,
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I mean that's kind of clever, isn't it. I mean it's yeah,
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it's dishonest, especially if you're marketing that you're making them in house. But
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I mean, if all you're doing is saying, hey, here's a donut
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enjoy. Yeah, it costs twice as much as duncan. But aren't they
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tasty? Aren't they? Delicio? I mean, there's a way to sell
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it, not technically be lying. That'll do it for this Tuesday edition of
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