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Another Trump Ally Falls · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Wednesday morning, twenty fifth day of October. I'm West Thanks for joining me.
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Did I say it real country Wednesday morning? I think I did.
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Comes out every now and then. I don't know. Maybe I sounded all
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the time. I don't know that I do. I've had people before.
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There's no way you were from Georgia. You should hear me talk about college
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football or occasionally words slip out food some foods when I talk about them.
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I don't know, I am, it's just a radio thing. That and
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having a real close friend in high school who was from Wisconsin and teased me
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all the time about my thick accent back in my middle school days. Back
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then we called it junior high. But anyway, let's jump into a Wednesday
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morning. I don't know where we're at with the Speaker of the House thing.
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All I can tell you is this, and I don't know currently where
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we are with this. Here. Here's here's what I know. Republicans decided
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rather than I guess, I mean my impression of what they were doing with
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the secret ballot, the super secret ballot that they decided to have and they
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said, we're going to get in the nominees. We're gonna narrow it down.
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We're gonna finally pick one candidate that will be the guy that will be
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or gal. It was all men, though, the candidate that will pick
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from uh and then we'll we'll and then then we'll get in there and we'll
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all vote for that person. Well, they did the secret ballot, and
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then they came up with a candidate, and then that candidate said, I
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got to drop out because there's a five people who say they won't vote for
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me. That's not enough votes for me to win. There's no reason to
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move forward. And then they started the process of trying to figure out another
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candidate last night. Don't I don't know where we're at currently. Here's what
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I know. The reason for having the secret ballot, I think I suppose
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was to stop the embarrassment of the over and over again vote publicly where everybody
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can see what's going on. That last time when they voted McCarthy in,
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it was just it was it was sad, it was over and over.
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Democrats turned it into a very partisan like, oh my gosh, can you
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believe And the only person who's getting all these votes is our guy, Jeffreyes,
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and we're all voting for him because that's what we do. Not one
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of them decided to be funny to vote for Elmer Fudd or something. They
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just all voted for him because they wanted to be able to say he's gotten
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more votes to be Speaker of the House than anyone in the history of the
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country. See, they turned it in their direction, and I guess could
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for them. They figured out to manipulate and put a spin on something that
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means nothing. Those votes mean nothing. He cannot be Speaker of the House
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unless he gets Republicans to vote for him. So that's the reality. So,
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as I talked about yesterday, this whole stalling process of just eating up
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the clock where Republicans have opportunities to get things done with control of the House.
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How much longer they'll have control of the House, we don't know.
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We don't know what's going to happen next year, we don't know what's going
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to happen moving for We have no clue how long they but they have it
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now and they should be getting business done now. I have applauded the fact
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that Republicans have differences of opinion I have. You've heard me say it as
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recently as yesterday, and I'll say it again now. I think it's great.
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There's not a lot of that on the Democrat Party. If one person
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would vote for Elmer Fudd or whatever, then you could go see there's something.
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There's at least one that's having fun with it. But no, they're
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all voting for Jeffreys because they want to tally up those votes and say,
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look at how many votes he's gotten to be Speaker of the House. And
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I guess they think eventually, you know, it's going to wear people down
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and he should get it. But my question here is why are you having
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a secret ballot and then telling everybody that it failed. Why are you having
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a secret ballot and getting it down to one person with five people saying I'm
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not going to vote for that guy, and then telling everybody that it happened.
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That's not a secret ballot. You haven't spared the embarrassment. You've made
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more of a spotlight on it. You've brought it to everyone's attention that Republicans
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still aren't organized and still don't have it together. That's what you've done again.
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So you accomplish nothing by having a secret ballot. You've accomplished absolutely nothing
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by having a secret ballot. There's no uh, there's no benefit to the
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secret ballot. If the result of the secret ballot is that they still don't
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have anyone and they're gonna have to start over. And I guess they started
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over yet last night. I don't know. If they start the process over
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again, then why I just wait, wait until you know who it's going
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to be. There was a period of time yesterday where it was like,
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Okay, well it's going to be Emmer, that's going to be the candidate,
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and then he dropped out very soon after that. So that's why I
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say, I don't. I don't know where we're even at right now.
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I don't at recording time, I don't know where we're at. Maybe they
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figured something out. I don't have a clue. I know that Donald Trump
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doesn't like him Emmer. I know that there's five Republicans who don't like him.
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I do think at some point they have to make a decision. I
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know who I think it should be. But I'm not going to put any
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any of the energy out into the world. I'm just gonna let it play
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out. I don't have any influence. I have one person there that I
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have communicated with in all of this process from the beginning, our guy on
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the inside. But that's it. That's the only thing. That's all I've
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got, And I don't know where things are with all of them right now.
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So we'll see how all of this plays out in the maybe today,
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I don't know if they worked it out. Maybe they worked it out this
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morning or last night. I don't know. I don't know where they got
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to. I just know that the Emmer thing is just kind of hanging,
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isn't it. It just reeks of a stench in the air that they got
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that close but couldn't work it out. And you know, the one positive
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at least with Emmer is that you know he at times when he's real serious,
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he looks like bookmedian Brian Reagan. Sometimes just when he had the white
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hair, it's a real serious, stern face. I don't know. Speaking
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of Trump, we've had Jenna Ellis is the latest part of his legal team
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that has now taken a plea deal, and we'll be providing testimony against Trump
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moving forward. Meadows is one who's in there. There's a handful of these
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deals that have been taken. Ellis I think, took a five year of
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probation, five thousand dollar fine, and agreed to testify in the in the
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basically against Trump. She gave a tearful apology. She talked about how she
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was someone who was hired to do media talk with me. I was one
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of those members of media. I think she was on on with me two
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or three times, and some during the election process, some post and she
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talked about the election results and in the information that she had. But she
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basically said the information I was given by attorneys in various you know, folks
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representing Trump turned out to not be true and I believed it and I should
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have done my due diligence, and I apologize and all of those sorts of
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things. That was part of her apology. But that's where we are now
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in the case against Donald Trump. Is this, this process of trying to
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keep him off of the ballot for Republicans continues on and with each one of
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these lawyers that this happens with, each time, it seems that we're a
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step closer to maybe Trump not being on the ballot. I don't know.
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I don't As you're starting to stack up all of these witnesses, and these
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are all the people who were close to him, and they're all being offered
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pretty sweet deals. I mean, I guess I would question whether or not
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if someone was offered a plea deal that involved, you know, five years
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in jail as long as they testify against Trump. But giving somebody a pretty
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sweet like five years probation, five thousand dollars fine, and you got to
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testify against Trump or you got to at least testify in the trial, that's
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I mean, it seems like one of those deals where you're kind of going,
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this is a pretty good deal. This is a really good deal.
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And I understand that's the essence of those negotiations, of those plea deals,
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is you got to make it a sweet plea deal so that you can win
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them over to your side. Right. So it seems as more and more
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starting to stack up against Trump. The possibility is there, and I think
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some of this might be playing into the whole situation with the Speaker of the
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House because you get people that are you know, very loyal to Trump or
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not loyal to Trump. Part of I guess why Emmer was blown out as
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Trump did not like Emmer. He called him a globalist rhino and said it
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would be a tragic mistake if they put him in as Speaker of the House.
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And I guess if at least five people took it seriously or possibly took
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it seriously, I don't know. I don't know what the how the landscape
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was before and after Trump's comments, But there are some who basically said,
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I won't vote for Emmer and matter what. And you know, that's something
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that they ran into with this whole situation. So Trump's legal problems, most
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of them seem like they're all very frivolous. Most of them just seem like
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attempts at trying to make something stick to him, trying to go after him
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for the purposes of discrediting him. They seem very much like the impeachment,
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both of them, really and the impeachments. And here, as they start
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stacking up witnesses and possible witnesses against him that were formerly part of his inner
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circle, start to wonder, are there going to be enough teeth to this
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to actually convict him? And it's convicting him enough to keep him off ballots
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in some states, Will it work? Will it happen? And if it
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does, as I've pointed out here a number of times, if they can
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get Trump off the ballot and then someone like Rond de Santis becomes the Republican
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nominee, who you know, for a long time seemed like the only person
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who had a shot at catching him and passing him. I know, there's
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been some others trying to make a name for themselves, a name that's hard
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to spell, for one, right, I mean, it's just just call
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it what it is. I mean, that's who the other vivid Ramaswami is
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someone who has been really making a name for himself. Not everybody can pronounce
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it. I'm not even sure I'm pronouncing it correctly. But there have been
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a couple of others that had potential. They kind of are hovering around in
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that second and third place spot and just kind of circling and waiting and trying
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to see it. It's almost like a holding pattern, right, is it
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vivec Ramaswami. It was Vivek for a while, and then someone came in
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and got I guess the correct pronounce of the correct emphasis there Vivic anyway,
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So, uh, if that's the case, if it is possibly Ronda Santis.
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And I've said this before, I don't think there's any way Rond De
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Santis runs against Joe Biden. Joe Biden will be pushed aside. That will
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be the end of it. He will not be the candidate. If it
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is Ronda Santis, it won't be a DeSantis Biden ticket. I just don't
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see that happening. I don't see Kamala Harris being the nominee either. I
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mean, she had a dreadful run at the Democrat nomination. Nobody takes her
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very seriously. She's not been to say that she's not been a good vice
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president, it's just to say that she's just kind of been a vice president.
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She hasn't been someone that people have gotten behind, that people have liked.
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You can say what you want to say about Mike Pence. He has
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people who are very loyal to him. I don't know how many people are
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really very loyal to Kamala Harris. Would they be if she were the candidate?
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Sure, I don't see that happening. I don't think there's an excitement
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about Kamala Harris to be the nominee. I do think if they can find
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a way as they get close to the Democrat convention in Chicago. It definitely
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would seem more likely that they would push Biden an Harris aside. Again,
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I know there's people that say, oh, they would try to get Michelle
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Obama. She's been pretty vocal that she doesn't have any interest in it.
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Oh they could get Oprah, they can get the Rock. There's so many
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people that they could get that would just be And if we just start turning
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this into a high school, you know, King of the Prom or whatever,
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it starts to get silly, right, It starts to get silly if
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you're just naming people that people they are, probably you're not naming people that
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could actually really do the job of that group. Certainly, Michelle Obama would
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be most qualified to actually do the job because she saw it done. She
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was a first lady. But you know Trump wasn't especially qualified, but he
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got in there and did it right. So I do think it would be
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Gavin Newsom. And I do think that Democrats would potentially push Biden and Harris
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aside make way for Gavin Newsom. And is it just a weird coincidence that
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there's been talk about, Hey, we're going to have DeSantis and Newsom debate
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each other. One of them is a candidate, the other is not a
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candidate. The other says I would would not accept the nomination in twenty twenty
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four for Biden, I would not accept the nomination instead of Biden, that's
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not going to And that's what Newsom said on TV. I heard him say
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it was after one of the debates, the most recent debate. Would that
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still stand if they were saying Biden's not quality? He can't do it anymore.
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He's got too many cognition issues. He can't be the candidate. So
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if that's the case, does he change his mind? He said during the
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interview that same interview that he hates a liar, and he said that DeSantis
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was a liar because of something that he said during the debate, and he
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hates a liar. And then he said he would not be the candidate.
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But I kind of feel like that is kind of hovering out there. And
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again, this means Democrats would effectively be the ones choosing both candidates. They
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would be the ones saying this is who. We're not going to let Republicans
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pick the one that they want to pick, and we're not going to let
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Democrats stick with the guy that we have. We're just going to skip the
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whole process of a primary on our side and we'll just name who the two
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candidates are and move forward. And I think that's still a possibility that's still
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hovering out there. And as these witnesses are starting to stack up potentially to
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do Trump in and keep him off ballots or whatever it is, get people
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going, well, he's a convicted fella, and I can he be president?
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It seems more and more likely that there is a possibility at least that
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five hundred O dccolumbus dot com More West Carol Morning Show. Right after the
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break, Well, we're inching our way closer to Halloween, and there's some
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good news for the trick or treaters as apparently, according to a new survey,
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ninety eight percent of American homeowners say they'll be handing out sweet treats this
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year Halloween. That means only two percent will you know, keep the lights
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off, pretend not to be home, or plan to hand out, you
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know, stuff that kids don't really want. So so this is kind of
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a weird survey, isn't it. I don't think the stats can possibly be
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right. But if they're saying that of the people who are going to hand
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things out, ninety eight percent say that they'll be sweet, that means two
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percent are doing raisins and you know, pencils and stuff like that, toothbrushes.
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Even that sounds high. Ninety eight percent of homeowners say that they're going
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to be handing out candy, handing out sweets. I don't know if I'm
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buying that. That seems like a lot. I don't I'm pretty sure that
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ninety eight percent of the people that I know don't hand out treats at Halloween.
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That stat seems very, very out of whack. According to the twenty
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twenty three holiday retail survey from I don't know how you even say this Deloitte,
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people are really looking forward to spending. Consumers are expecting to spend an
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average of sixteen hundred and fifty two dollars on holiday related purchases. That's up
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fourteen percent from last year and beating the average of fourteen one hundred and ninety
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six dollars they spent in twenty nineteen as pre COVID. But it's not just
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gifts. People are going to spend money on decorations and home furnishings, and
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also you know food, because keep in mind you're comparing the statistics. At
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sixteen hundred and fifty two dollars is probably like one thousand dollars worth of stuff
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in twenty nineteen. Right, I mean inflation has hit us all hard,
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hard, right between the legs, right in the old marbles. That's what
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inflation has done for us. Fake meat like Beyond and impossible, had their
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moment, but it seems the trend may be on the way out. Doesn't
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mean vegans and vegetarians will be eating real meat again. According to the Whole
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Foods Trends Council glad they have a trend's Council, the biggest food trend in
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twenty twenty four be plant based foods made with actual plants, so veggie burgers
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made with the real veggies, nuts, and seeds rather than vegan fake meat.
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I like when they put meat in quotation marks. That is one of
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the words you do not want to see in quotation marks. Sausage, I
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think is the top of the list you don't want to see, or gravy
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in quotations, A handful of words. Pretty sure. On the old Wes
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and Jess cast I did with my friend Jesse Gibson. We covered the words
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you don't want to see in quotation marks on the Wes and Jess cast podcast
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many many moons ago. Anyway, they say that rather than a vegan meat
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designed to look and cook like the real thing, that you're going to be
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eating real vegetables. More likely to be doing that if you're ordering I mean,
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that's probably better. I know that those like the frozen veggie burger patties
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and meats and things. Some people think, oh, this is definitely healthier.
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It's just that it's not. You know, red meat doesn't mean it's
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really healthier. It's healthier, and then it's an alternative to that maybe,
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But I don't know how much healthier it is, depending on which one you're
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buying. But obviously, if you're eating more vegetables, that's probably healthier,
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you know, unless maybe you're somebody who needs to eat red meat, or
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maybe you just really like it. Right, If your Halloween decorations include pumpkins
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displayed outside your house, it's a matter of time before squirrels and other wild
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animals in the neighborhood will dig in and enjoy the meal and they say,
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while leaving you a big mess to clean up. There are ways, though,
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that you can prevent it from happening. You can spray the pumpkin with
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an animal repellent. That seems a bit excessive getting an animal repellent. Another
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thing you can do is cover the pumpkin and vaseline, or sprinkle cayenne pepper
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or crush red pepper flakes all over it. If you have a dog or
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a cat that sheds, you can take the loose fur and spread it around
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the base of the pumpkin. Dogs and cats are natural predators to squirrels,
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and the furs likely to keep the little pumpkin pirates away. Or you can
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urinate on it. No, it doesn't say that you probably could, I
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would think. I mean, that's what I thought this was headed when if
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you have a dog or a cat, it was gonna say, spread their
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urine around it, and that'll scare them away. But no, just the
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fur doesn't have to actually be urine. You don't have to you don't have
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to get the urine involved. You don't have to do that at all,
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not at all. Hey, one quick tip. I want to offer this
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as a suggestion because This is something that I saw online and I thought,
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I'm going to give this a try, and I did and it was effective.
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This week I mentioned Monday it was my son Jake's birthday, and I've
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made his cake this year. We have a thing. And this is not
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in any way to discredit people who buy cakes, because you could buy some
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fantastic cakes. There's some good bakeries out there. But we Jill grew up
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an household where her mom always made sure to bake a cake at home,
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and we just decided that that's something we would do for our boys. We
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would bake a cake at home and most of the time as a kid we
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had My mom baked cakes when I was a kid. At some point along
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the way, sure probably some cakes got bought or a family member made one
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or whatever, but in this case, we've tried to keep that tradition going.
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So far, so good. Well this year I was on the baking
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Responsibilities and they say, if you want to make a box cake taste more
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like a cake from a bakery, you add one or two extra eggs to
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whatever the instructions say. You replace the water in the recipe that when you
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med to the mix with milk, preferably whole milk. I did not use
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whole milk. I used one percent because that's what we had. And then
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they say to replace the oil with the equivalent amount of a butter and then
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you make bake the cake and that worked. It was really good. I
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mean maybe I'm just a master baker and I don't know it, but the
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cake turn out really well, very moist, very good, and it was
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a chocolate cake. So just for what it's worth, that could help you
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extra egg or two milk instead of water and butter equivalent of whatever the oil
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ingredients are, and then you mix that up. It looks a little it
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almost looks like chocolate mouse with the chocolate cake, but it begged really well.
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It's good cake. So just passing that little tip along for you.
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