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Beating the System with Extra Outrage · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twenty seventh
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day of March. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me midweek. Another wet
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day yesterday here in the Chattahoochee Valley area. And is it me or has
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we We've been going through this thing where it seems like every rainfall is there's
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like nine inches every time. It's just over and over every time, these
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heavy rains that come in and they're sustained, and it just seems like a
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lot. I don't know how much we got yesterday, but it feels like
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this is about the fourth or fifth one we've had, like in the last
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month. It's it's been a lot, a lot to it. And I
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suppose we're probably still technically in a drought. We're always in a drought,
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no matter the circumstance, just always in a drought. I don't know that
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we are currently. Haven't heard anybody use the word drought a little while.
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So maybe the I don't know, twelve inches thirteen inches of rain we've gotten
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in the last month, maybe that would have been enough. I don't know
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when you go through enough flood warnings, you would think maybe, just maybe
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you wouldn't necessarily be in a drought at that time. Well, yesterday was
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the day as the DJT stock, that's right, the Donald Trump's stock which
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went public. He had a big day. He had a really big day
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for his stock. Now he of course needs to come up with one hundred
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and seventy five million dollars and I don't know, seven days or so whatever
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it is, And that's that's, you know, with the the bond was
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reduced and it kicked back, kicked the can I guess down the road for
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another ten days, which is now down to about seven or eight whatever it
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is. And this stock primarily, I guess, made up of Trump's supporters
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that were purchasing it, people that wanted to be a part of helping him
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out while investing in him. And this and I guess in general, the
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expectation is is that as the campaign goes on and he gets closer to potentially
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becoming president again, that the stock will continue to go up. Now,
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part of the concerns for this amount of money by folks on the left is
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that he's ultimately going to use this money to you know, pay one hundred
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and seventy five million dollar bond, and you know anything else he needs money
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for. He had that ninety one million he needed for that defamation suit.
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So all those things, all those things that he would use this money for,
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and they're upset because he has figured out another way to beat them at
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their own game. That's what's interesting about all of this to me is well,
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he can't use the money yet. That's their concern. I'll get to
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that in a second. But it fascinates me how he is able to do
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things beat their little game and then they get angry about it. So here's
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what needs to happen for him to be able to use it. It's going
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to take because normally they wouldn't. He wouldn't be able to use that money
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for a while, right, you can't just immediately take oh the stock's done,
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well, we're going to cash in on it and six months or whatever
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it is. But the thing is is that the board there at his company
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is able to decide they can vote and allow him to do that ahead of
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time for a special circumstance. And as a number of the networks that hate
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him and people that hate him have pointed out, well, the words made
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up of his supporters, people that like him, people who want him to
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be president again, So of course they're going to vote for him to be
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able to use that money. So I don't think that's necessarily going to be
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the issue. That doesn't seem to be something that will be a problem,
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But as I guess. Zachary B. Wolf with CNN points out in an
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opinion article that he wrote, Trump's dj T stock creates a unique new ethical
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nightmare is the name of the article, and he basically goes on and says
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that, you know, he needs to be able to cash in. He
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doesn't know that he's going to be able to cash in the profits on this
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soon enough that he's able to use it for the one hundred and seventy five
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million, But he points out that the board is made up of Trump people,
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so he thinks, well, that probably is going to benefit. He
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also points out the fact that, well, I guess. In this article,
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Matt Egan with CNN says that it's not like the Trump Truth social is
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a hugely profitable company anyway, not entirely untrue. It's different than the other
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social media companies. He doesn't have as many users as the other big companies.
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He doesn't create the kind of revenue that they do. And they even
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point out that he's selling bibles, the fifty nine nine Bibles that you can
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buy through Truth Social is another thing that you can do. God bless the
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USA Bibles. Again, if that's what he wants to do, and he
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wants to sell the Bibles for his company for a profit, then he should
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be able to do that, right. So the question ultimately becomes one of
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what happens should he win the White House and all of these people then get
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an opportunity to have the stock go high, right, and he gets an
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opportunity for the investors to make a bunch of money off of him winning the
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White House, And how there becomes some issues of ethics and all those sorts
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of things. This is something that they're concerned about. This is something that
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they are in fact worried about. They're worried about the fact that he seems
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like even when they win in some of these cases, he kind of finds
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a way to circumvent whatever it is that they're trying to do to him.
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They wanted to take away some of his properties so that they could embarrass him
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they wanted to expose maybe he doesn't have as much money as he says he
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does, maybe his properties aren't worth what he says they're worth because he can't
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use them to get the money that he needed. The four hundred and fifty
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four million back when it was that amount, he said, I'm not going
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to be able to do that, and ultimately they were able to appeal that
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and get it down to the one seventy five so, and then if he
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was able to put some of his properties up as collateral, they wanted to
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then turn around and find a way to take that collateral, take those properties
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away from him. That's what they wanted to do. And he's continued to
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figure out a way around all of this and not be in a situation where
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they're going to get away with whatever it is that they're trying to do,
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and they don't like it. Frustrating to them. They can't stand it that
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he's figured out a way to do this. That's what he does. He
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works through the system. Remember when they wanted his tax records, they wanted
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to show how much money his businesses and that he personally were paying in taxes,
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and it debates. He talked about I use the system that's in place
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to pay as little tax as possible. What you're wealthy, I'll can you
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not pay taxes because there's codes in place that enable people, business owners and
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citizens in some cases to get less taxes that they have to pay. And
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they talked about him like he was doing something that was insane. And then
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they wonder why from a business standpoint, someone's able to help make things a
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little better, a little smoother, a little more profitable for people when he's
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running the country with the economy because he knows how to work those systems,
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he understands they're in place. Why would anyone who owns a business that has
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an opportunity, or a citizen, if you're just regular you listening right now,
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if there's an opportunity for you to get a tax break, why would
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you not take advantage of that tax break. They wanted him to say it
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to admit, Uh, look, he doesn't pay as much taxes. He
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doesn't pay his fair share of taxes. It's been this long long standing thing
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for Democrats where they act like people are supposed to just want like it's some
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privilege to pay as much tax as you possibly can, because they want the
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money. They want to have the money and be able to say, we're
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going to give it out to the people we want to give it out to.
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We want to give it out to people who've supported us. We want
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to help out people that do what we ask them to. They toe the
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line, they do what's expected of them, they get the shot. I
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don't know. They do what we want them to do. They follow the
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rules, and they come to us with their hands out, please, sir,
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may I have some more? And we want to have some more that
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we can give them. That's what they want to be able to do.
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And they act like everyone's supposed to. Just want to pay as much tax
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as possible. Again, tax money. It's not their money, it's our
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money. They take it from us and do with it what they choose to
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do with it. Unfortunately, that's the way it works. That's what happened.
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And then they talk about it like it's their money and it's our great
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privilege to give them that money. And I say this all the time.
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I don't want to spend too much time on this because I want to go
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back to Trump in a second, but I do feel that giving of our
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time, giving of our money, giving of services. That's a great privilege
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that we should have. That's a joy. That's something that we should be
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able to do in a way that we see fit. We should be able
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to do it and help others and experience that joy of actually giving it to
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others. We should be able to do that. That's taken away from us
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through a lot of these channels. Okay, we don't get that chance to
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help someone personally. We don't get that chance to help someone personally, even
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privately as an anonymous donor, or give money through our church. Sure,
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we're probably still giving money to church, We're probably still donating our time.
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But do we give as much as we would if it wasn't being taken away
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from us? Would we have the opportunity if we weren't taxed so much to
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help other causes and more causes? I say we would, And I say
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that that joy is taken away from us when our government takes money from us
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and gives it to other people. We don't get that firsthand experience of it.
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And a lot of people don't give as much period because they know they're
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already giving a lot. I feel like I'm making donations to charity when I
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go to the doctor. I've had a sore throat, and I hope you
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can't hear it, but I've got this thing in my throat even when I
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swallow, it's there, and it just happened. But I've had this and
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it's allergy related, I'm sure. But at one point it was so sore
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and so bad, I wanted to go to the doctor. But I thought
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I used to be able to go to the doctor for like fifteen bucks.
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It's all it costs to go fifteen dollars to go to the doctor. I
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would have gone to the doctor already. I would have done it day one
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and it was really bad, I would, let's go to the doctor.
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Now it's a lot more than that. It's a lot more than that,
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and we pay high premiums just to get it at the level that it's at.
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But it's a lot more than fifteen dollars that we're paying. And I
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feel like every time I pay it everything less than you take the fifteen dollars.
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Everything more than that that I pay, I feel like is me making
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some sort of donation to taxes, to some somebody. It's some sort of
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donation anyway. So back to Trump, he always finds a way. He
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finds a way to work the system, or you could say beat the system.
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That's fine too. He finds a way to earn what he needs to
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earn to make it work. That's what he does. He's done that as
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a business owner. I know he's had issues in the past. He's had
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some failures in business. He's had some lawsuits along the way. I understand
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that. But really he's figured out a way to beat the system and people
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are losing their minds over it. My question is, when you have a
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family that's currently in power and a son in that family who has gotten money
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through questionable means, why why isn't their concern about that? Where was the
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concern that they have about truth social and the DJT Nasdaq stock Where was the
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concern when Hunter Biden was selling those terrible paintings to people that they didn't even
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have to identify themselves because it was art art. They figured out a way,
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they figured out a system to do it. Where was the outrage then
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they were working the system. You know, if you buy a painting,
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you don't have to divulge who's buying the painting. You don't have to do
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that go through an art dealer, somebody can they basically give I don't know,
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the Biden family a million dollars for a painting because they're bought some art.
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They bought some art. They didn't buy access to Joe Biden. They
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didn't buy access to the vice president or eventually president or candidate for They didn't
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buy any of that. What do they buy? They bought a piece of
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art? Well, who bought it? I don't know. We're not allowed
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to tell you it's art. They figured out a way to beat the system,
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a very clever way to beat the system. Should be changed. That
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doesn't seem right when there's political ties to all of it. But they found
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a way to beat the system. Where was the outrage? Where was the
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outrage from CNN? Where was the outrage from MSNB? Where was that outrage?
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Hey, this guy figured out a way to beat the system and sell
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access in some way to this family. Where's the outrage about the money that's
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come for who knows what jobs that hunter Biden's had, for what reason,
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with what experience? Where was that outrage? They get upset when Trump does
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it, not so much when someone else does it, and it's finding ways
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little in some cases, you go, well, this is you know,
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above board ish. When it comes to selling art, you can say,
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well, why did Trump, you know, not pay all the taxes that
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he could have had the opportunity? Why would he? Where's the outrage?
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I don't know. I don't know where the outrage was. When is Hunter
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Biden still selling art? I don't know. I feel like they messed up.
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They should have kept that going. That seemed like a good scam that
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they were running. I mean, a good business opportunity, not a scam,
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a good business opportunity. If you're going to call what Trump's doing now
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a scam, you might as well call that a scam. But to me,
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they figured out ways, both of them, figured out ways to beat
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after the break. Do you feel like you belong to your own generation?
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Some folks claiming to be old souls or young at heart say that they don't
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belong in their generation, especially millennials and gen zers. According to a you
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gov poll, fifty eight percent of respondents say they belong to the generation that
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they fall into birthwise, twenty seven percent feel that they belong to a different
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generation. Typically just one one just younger or just older than their own According
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to the survey, while eighty six percent of baby boomers consider themselves part of
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that generation, only forty percent of those born since eighty one identify themselves with
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the generation that they were born into. I'm proudly a genic X guy.
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That fits me. It does in every possible way I was. I mean,
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I feel like I had a few years. There's some aspects of the
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millennial thing I kind of get, but not all of it. Gen X,
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I think represents where I'm at pretty well. All right, You've heard
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it before a million times. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Well, apparently there is some actual science that goes along with it, and
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it basically relates to pre and probiotics, gut health, and according to a
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scientist and dietitian, eating apples is the way to go to boost all of
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those things. This is doctor Emily Leming, who says apples contain fiber,
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and particularly a probiotic fiber called pectin that feeds your gut good bacteria. It
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also contains plenty of polyphenols which have a probiotic effect on the gut microbiome.
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Those are some big words. Leaming took a bite out of the whole,
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the whole probiotic supplement Craze, saying you don't need to take a probiotic supplement
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if you're already well and just generally want to support your gut microbiome. She
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says what you eat has a far bigger impact than taking those. So yeah,
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apple a day apparently is good for your gut. As they say,
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let's talk for a minute about vegans. A study was done. According to
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experts, they say the most vegan friendly cities in the US. You're not
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going to be surprised. I think I wasn't to hear that Portland, Oregon
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was at the top of the list, followed by La Orlando, Asheville,
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North Carolina, New York City, Austin, Texas, and Philadelphia. All
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Right, and then I've got this vegan story that made me laugh that I
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saw the other day, And it's not funny. I feel badly for the
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person involved, but it's also just comical. But it relates to a Japan
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Airlines flight when a passenger who had requested a vegan breakfast and when the breakfast
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came, all that they got. This was on japan Airlines. I have
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to make sure to stress that it was a banana and a pair of chopsticks.
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That was the whole meal. A banana and a pair of chopsticks.
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What do you need the chopsticks for exactly? I don't know how you would
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eat a banana with chopsticks. That's that's just weird. I don't know how
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that would work. Banana is kind of a complete food in its own right.
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The only question you have is do you hold the stem part or the
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non stem part. You know, most people hold the non stem part.
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I think animals in the wild, chimps and monkeys, they hold the stem
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part. So I don't know which is the right way to do it.
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It's you could debate it like the toilet paper thing, until you are blue
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in the face. There's no example in ever where eating it with chopsticks is
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important to all of it. And finally, chips Ahoy cookies have now been
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around more than sixty years and apparently there's a change coming, a bit of
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an update, if you will. Spokesperson four Chips A Hoy explains that the
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cook is about to have a new improved recipe that'll give it improved texture and
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just the right amount of chocolate chips. Sabrina Syrrant, the senior director at
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chips Ahoy, says the company spent more than five thousand hours creating more than
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sixty new recipes, and at the end of the day, they went with
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a recipe that kept what customers liked the most, including a nice balance of
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chocolate to cookie, and worked to make that cookie even better. Gotta be
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careful when it's a long time beloved, Formula asked the folks a coke,
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you start messing around with it. I don't even know. Is there an
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option to go back to classic chips ahoy if people don't like it, I
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don't know. I don't need a lot of them, I'll be honest,
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So this isn't really affecting me. I'm just concerned that if I wanted to
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go back, was it Jerry's dad on Seinfeld? If I want a chip
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a Hoy, I'll have a chip a Hoy. You know, That's kind
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of how I've feel. I just wanted to taste I guess the way that
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I remember. That's all That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show.
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