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Back From KSC · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twenty fifth
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day of July. Hi, m Wes, thanks for joining me back at
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it back home this morning. Got in late last night and we had a
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just a quick trip down to Florida, quick trip down to the Kennedy Space
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Center. And as I told you before I wrapped up last week, last
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week's shows, I teased it, talked about it Monday before we headed out
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on Monday, and anticipated might miss a couple of days shows, which we
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did because we were there at the Kennedy Space Center for a couple of things.
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You get an invitation to go to Kennedy and cover an event, a
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special event. You know, if you can go, you take it.
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You know, you take advantage of the opportunity. And I appreciate the invitation
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to come down and cover the Artemis Artemis two. This is the SLS core
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stage arrival. This is the rocket that will take human beings up around the
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Moon and bring them back to Earth next year. That's the next stage for
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this, that's the Artemis two mission. Artemis three will be you know soon
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after that after that. This is a test flight, a test mission.
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It's a crude test mission that they'll take around the Moon and come back and
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then Artemis three, after making adjustments and things that they learned from that mission,
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the plant twenty twenty six. There have been some reports that could be
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as late as twenty twenty eight. I don't know that you put a bookend
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on how late it could be, but officially, you know, they talked
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about twenty twenty six, you know, after next year's trip around the Moon,
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and they've talked about whether or not, you know, that is the
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year that we will actually put boots back on the ground on the Moon.
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There's a few things about Artemis two that make it special and make it significant.
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Obviously, being able to take humans back to the Moon is a big
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step, but it's a stepping stone towards Mars, and that's one of the
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things that is you know, in the future, that is one of the
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objectives, that is one of the goals, that is what they're hoping to
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do. So what was this particular event that was going on the core stage
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for the SLS core stage for this rocket. This is the ultimately going to
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be the rye that they take and it was constructed over in the Gulf Coast
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in Mississippi, and then they sent it to New Orleans. It was put
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on this barge, this Pegasus barge, where it was shipped then around Florida
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and arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday. So doctor Sean Cruisin and
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I. He's the executive director of the co Cola Space Science Center. If
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you listen to me on the radio over the years, if you listen to
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the Meida Stars podcast, you know everything I'm about to tell you. But
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Sean is an astrophysicist. He's a professor. This is what he does for
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a living, and his passion comes through when you talk to him in person,
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when you hear him on the radio or on the met of Stars,
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you know exactly who he is and what all this means to him. And
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he and I have been doing a version of Mate of Stars on radio or
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podcast for seventeen years. We lose count how long it's been. It's been
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a really long time, about seventeen years since O seven that we've been doing
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that. And you know, our friendship has grown to the level that we
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just you know, can nerd out about something like this together in a big
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way. And when we started talking about making this trip, we've talked about
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doing a number of trips like this with the Maida Star Show, and you
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know, we did one about eight years ago. We went down to Kennedy
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and did some interviews and saw some cool things and got to experience a lot
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of really cool things. And part of it was and I talk about Sean
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being a professor at Columbus State University, he's also the executive director of the
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co Cola Space Science Center. That is, you know, sponsors our shows,
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sponsors our coverage of dragon Con pregame show every year, our coverage of
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dragon Con each year, and they're doing it again this year and I appreciate
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that. And then Sean and I do Made a Stars this podcast. Our
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radio segment was always on Thursday. We released Made a Stars on Thursday.
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So later today I'll have ready for you a show that he and I started
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working on on Tuesday after our day one at Kennedy Space Center. And that
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was the day that this course stage arrived there at Kennedy. And then yesterday
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was the day that they actually took it out, you know, of its
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casing there in the on the barge looked like a cigar coming out of one
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of those old metal cigar tubes. And then they actually put it into the
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VAB where it will be housed for a while as they prep it for the
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next you know, stages of all of this as they get ready for the
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launch that's scheduled for next year. So that was all part of our day
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yesterday, along with several other interviews. Those interviews will be part of next
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week's Made a Star Show, so we were really excited to get an opportunity
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to do that and you know part of today's show. If you listen to
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the Made a Star Show, you're gonna hear me talk with Doug Hurley,
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who it was one of the Bob and Doug were the two astronauts that went
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up on the SpaceX Falcon rocket to the International Space Station that crew first crewed
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mission up there, and that was a test flight as well. He was
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also on the last Shuttle mission, so it was a very great interview,
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great opportunity to talk with him as he was one of those guys that was
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part of that torch passing there. And then also Matthew Ramsey, who was
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the mission manager for Artemis two and great talking with him. Got some more
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time with him yesterday, just just kind of standing around talking to him and
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watching him watch this giant rocket come out of this tube and just being there
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with him while that was happening and getting his take on it and what a
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big day it was for him. But it's a series of big days for
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them. They just have one big event after the next. It happens as
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they get closer and closer to the launch. But being there for that one
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was very special for us to be able to be there and experience that.
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So that'll be part I made a Star show today. We'll have that ready
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to go for you a little bit later this morning. I do want to
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shift over and talk a little bit about We've had a few things that have
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taken place since Monday show. And we knew as of Monday morning that the
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president was not going to be a seeking re election anymore. He was stepping
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down. That was kind of where things were left off. There was a
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lot of speculation about who the candidate was going to be, and now we've
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gotten into this position where we're starting to hear maybe by August seventh, there
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would be a virtual you know, a delegate official nomination for the vice president
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for Kamala Harris. Everything seems to be heading in the direction of that happening.
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The endorsements had all come in, everything, you know, there's a
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couple that I guess still haven't come in that people are waiting to see if
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she's going to get the full support of everyone. What happened last night,
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though, was we had the President actually speak for the first time about how
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he loves America and it was time to pass the torch, and how basically
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he is supporting Kamala Harris for president and he says that he'll finish out his
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term. And there's a lot to process about what he said. And I
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think after we got over the weekend, this just letter basically just saying that
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you know, from him or an email or whatever, it was saying that
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he was going to be getting out of the race. So there's a few
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things that there's a little breakdown on this. I saw reports that there were
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some doctors concerned about this particular live address that happened yesterday and how you know,
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Biden seemed to be without emotion. There's other concerns people talked about.
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You know, it was eleven minutes it was quick and to the point,
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and some questions still continue to be you know, can he finish out this
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presidency? Is he capable of finishing out and keeping the job and doing the
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job until January? He is basically what he wants, I guess, to
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accomplish in in this presidency. And you know, there's a lot of people
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that are saying that, you know, this is a failed presidency. He's
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he's failed the American people in a number of ways, and this is one
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of those failures that he's not that he's basically not able to finish the term
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because he's not going to run again. So just a few things to process
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with all. Oh, and and and then the other part of this is
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that basically he wants to make these changes to the Supreme Court and he wants
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to bring term limits for justices and all these sorts of things. There's a
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lot to digest there and and we'll talk more about that in the coming days,
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because you know, that's that's a big one, and that's one of
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those things I think that you're starting to get. Uh, Basically, when
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an election happens and a candidate that you think like a Hillary Clinton, where
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people say you know, she's she's gonna win. Hillary is going to be
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you know, she's gonna win the White House, and Donald Trump there's no
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way he can win. And then Trump wins the electoral college, which is
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what you have to do to become president. And you know, you have
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a candidate that maybe gets the popular vote but doesn't win the electoral college,
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and people say, ah, the electoral college is outdated, and it's old.
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It just didn't go your way. That's all there is to it.
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And you know, I'm a strong advocate for the electoral college. I think
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it's one of the things that you know, was put in place early for
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us because it gave us an opportunity to say, each vote counts, and
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then each state is going to get a certain amount of representation. That's the
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way this whole breakdown works. You've got your you know, one one is
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based on population. One is based on everybody gets in each state gets to
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senators. And you have a situation where these votes even things out for states
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that are you know, largely farm country that have less population. Because you
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know, if you're just going by the popular vote, you got like twenty
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twenty five cities maybe that are going to decide the election every time. There's
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no reason to even visit any of Middle America other than Chicago, and that's
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not really Middle America, and you know it's part of that Midwest, but
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you're not really you know, that's not that's a big city. That's a
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huge city, you know, Chicago or Saint Louis or some of these places
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that would have, you know, much more control over what's going on than
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any of those suburbs in that area or any of that farm land that you
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have to fly over to go from New York to LA And so there's about
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twenty five cities that would decide everything. Of farmers that own large pieces of
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land, states that have lots of farms don't get representation. But people would
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say, oh, well, the popular vote should have decided it. That
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would be a true democracy, right if that was the case, it would
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just be that vote would make the decision. But this is in place,
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so we have an ability to get everybody's voice heard in that regard. But
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when the election goes to Biden, there's no complaints. I didn't hear anyone
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after twenty twenty complaining about the electoral college. Now we're in a position where
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there was a significant decision made by the Supreme Court concerning Roe v. Wade,
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and it's got folks on the left upset. They're frustrated, and now
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it's oh, we the Supreme Court, it's broken. We have to fix
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it. So that's one of those desperation things that's going on. Now.
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We've heard from the White House a team saying that Biden's health isn't the reason
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for him dropping out, that it's just about his love for America. Okay.
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Van Jones had a tearful statement that he made on CNN during an interview
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where he was just saying, you know, this guy just loves this country
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so much, and that's who he is, and he loves America so much,
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and that's why he would drop out and put the country first. He
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didn't drop out. He was pushed out. He was forced out. You
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can say he ultimately had to make this decision. He didn't make this decision.
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It was made for him by people who are calling the shots. And
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you can't sit back and say, well, thank goodness that he loves America
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so much to do he didn't want to drop out. His wife, Jill
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Abiden, by all accounts, can't stand the first lady can't stand Kamala Harris.
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Didn't want Kamala Harris to be the candidate, but it's pretty clear he
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wasn't going to win. Trump has effectively beaten him by TKO. That's what's
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happened here. So this is another failure on that part. He's either able
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to finish the job and finish his term or and potentially run again, which
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is what the American people voted for. That's what the supporters, that's what
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people who went out and asked for a Democrat ballot voted for in you know,
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millions of people, and they have effectively just canceled out all of that.
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There's no this is a stolen election. And we went through this in
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twenty twenty where people said, oh my gosh, this is stolen and you
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know, the votes of the people aren't being heard and we're getting all these
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and votes aren't being counted properly. Well, these are votes that aren't being
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counted at all. The Democrat ballots for this primary that wasn't really a primary
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because they didn't give him an opportunity to do it, but still they showed
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up and they cast their votes for Biden, and those votes don't count.
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If you're one of the people who cast a vote for Joe Biden to be
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president again, your vote has been canceled out. It's ineffective, it doesn't
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mean anything. They voided your vote. They took that vote away from you.
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They've tried and they continue to try to take the vote away from Republicans
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who want to vote for Donald Trump. They don't want to give people the
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opportunity to vote for him. They've taken away the opportunity to vote for Joe
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Biden. And we hear about election interference. We hear about all these things,
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and that's what's playing out. That's what's happened. So now by all
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accounts, it's Kamala Harris. This is who it's going to be. There's
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a lot of money at stake if she ends up not being the candidate,
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the Trump administration or the Trump campaign. I should say, is you know
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filing you know Federal Election Commission appeals or charges saying hey, this was money
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for Joe Biden, this was for his candidacy. This shouldn't just automatically go
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to her. That will be interesting. I don't know that I can see
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how that's going to be successful. By most accounts, but maybe it will
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be maybe that is something that they may be able to win. I don't
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know. And basically it's looking more and more like Kamala Harris as a candidate
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would just be there to talk about Roe V. Wade, would be there
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to try to help Democrats hang on to the Senate. That seems to be
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what this is all about, more than this is really about trying to win
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the election. Does it mean she can't win, of course she can.
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We learned that in twenty twenty. We've learned that in twenty sixteen. I
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don't know that anybody saw Trump coming. Is Kamala Harris a good candidate?
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I certainly don't think so. I don't think that. I think that this
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is a joke, and I think that having her be the candidate will just
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be a concession that Republicans are going to win and that Trump is going to
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win. But again, I think this is more about just trying to make
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the case for abortion, make the case for I guess, trying to hang
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on to the Senate and doing anything they can to try to hang onto this.
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Plus it gets her out of the way because if she loses, she
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certainly isn't going to be there around in twenty twenty eight when Trump would effectively
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be gone as president and we'd be looking elsewhere. So that seems to be
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where this is all heading. And you know, we're just kind of as
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the American people wondering. So right now, it looks like Republicans are going
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to get a chance to vote for Trump and vote for the Trump Vance ticket.
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But Democrats are the ones who've been shafted on this. They're the ones
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who've been told, No, you don't get to vote the way that you
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tried to vote, you don't get to pick the candidate that you want.
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We're going to make that decision for you, because once again we know better
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com More West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, Well, the
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Summer Olympics starts on Friday. Do you have Olympic fever? Are you getting
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excited about the Paris Games? I'm going to tell you right now. The
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Olympics has different levels of interest in our home over the years, from my
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childhood to present. I can just tell you this. When you marry an
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Australian, they get a lot more into the Olympics, I guess than I
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did as a kid. So we're ready, We're a little stoked. And
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pomped about the Olympics. We try to enjoy it, We try to appreciate
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it. It's nice when the athletes are proud of the country that they're in,
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proud of what the country is capable of. I don't know where all
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that's going to go this year. I hope that people will at the very
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least being different. I mean, I've said before I respect someone's right to
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not necessarily salute the flag or support the flag if that's what they want to
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do. But when you're you know, in a position where you're representing your
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nation in a competition like this, I think you should I mean indifferent if
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you want to go that approach is better than you know, being disrespectful.
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But at the very least, you know, I think indifference is not a
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lot to ask if you just want to stand there and you know, you
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don't have to sing along. But it's just interesting we have countries that have
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far fewer freedoms than we have countries that have freedoms that you know, we
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just kind of the number for is we kind of discard it seems like on
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a daily basis, the things we're willing to just let go, and they
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have those and they're just happy. They're happy to sing and be you know,
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a we're not especially free, but we're going to stand here and sing
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because you know, this is where we're from and that's our country, and
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at the very least you would hope for that. Let's talk about Barbie.
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Barbie unveiling two new additions to expand its collection of diverse and inclusive dolls.
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Oh that DEI for those Barbie dolls, which has always been kind of the
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thing for it. This isn't anything new, first ever blind Barbie and the
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first black Barbie with Down syndrome. Mattel said their goal was to help more
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children find a doll that represents them. Christa Berger, Senior vice president of
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Barbie and global head of Dolls, said in a press release, we recognize
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that Barbie is much more than just doll. She represents self expression and can
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create a sense of belonging. We proudly introduce these new dolls to our Barbie
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Fashionistas line, and it reinforces our commitment to creating products that represent global belonging
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and inclusivity in the doll aisle. This is I think where this belongs,
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you know, I mean, I think there's many other areas where it belongs.
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But if you know nothing about this to me is shocking or offensive.
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This isn't saying, hey, we're going to I don't know, hand over
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the you know, a beloved science fiction franchise to people who don't really know
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what they're doing, solely because you know, dot dot dot whatever it is,
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and then let them completely ruin it and make it where it's not very
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good. But hey, at least it was represented well by large groups of
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people. Quality over just you know, handing the keys to some one who
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doesn't even know how to drive the car. That's the problem. But when
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it comes to Barbie, I think this is great. This is the sort
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of thing that I think this representation is a good thing. That's my opinion.
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That's my thoughts on it. You may disagree with me. All right,
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Let's talk about a restaurant for two. You heard of a table for
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two. If you'd like to dine at the world's smallest eatery, you'll have
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to go to Finland. That's where a tiny shack restaurant seats only two people
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at one table. It's called Kuwapi. I'm not sure I'm saying it right
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because I don't speak Finnish. There's no kitchen since the food is brought in
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from a nearby sister. Restaurant is just a teeny tiny bar that's stocked with
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little those little tiny bottles, you know, bars sometimes have those little bottles
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like you get on airplanes. If you want to eat there, though,
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you'll have to call at least two days in advance, and don't try to
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get a table around Christmas. It's only open in the summer, so I
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mean, can you like at least make an appointment for spring or no,
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it's as open in the summer, so can you I don't know. You
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can't get it most of the year. Then you got a small window that
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you can go and eat. Can you book for the next summer before the
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current summer ends? I don't know how that works exactly. So, and
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finally Fortune magazine is released. It's twenty twenty four list of the fifty best
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places for families to live in the United States, taking into account factors like
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education and health care and quality of life. The city earning the top spot
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is in the Washington DC area. It's the suburb called Silver Spring, Maryland.
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That's followed by Upper Marionne Pennsylvania, Chantilly, Virginia, and Arbor,
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Michigan, Mason, Ohio, Franklin, Tennessee, Lafayette, Colorado, or
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Overland Park, Kansas, Morristown, New Jersey, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire's
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only a couple there in the southeast area, so but Franklin, Tennessee would
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be the closest to US. So uh interesting? The best places for families
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to live in the US. That'll do it for this Thursday edition of the
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show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening. I'll
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