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We Need Something Besides Anger Motivating Our Actions · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Monday morning,
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thirteenth day of November. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Monday the thirteenth.
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If I've said it once, I've said it well more than once.
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I mean, I've said it several times. Monday the thirteenth significantly worse than
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Friday the thirteenth. It's Monday, that makes it worse Friday the thirteenth.
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At least it's Friday. Saturday the fourteenth is coming. Put your trisc at
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phobia aside. It doesn't matter who can have a phobia of triskets. You
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know, they're delicious. It's a delicious snack. Not everybody likes them.
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Not everybody likes the trisc it delicious triscut crackers. They're not paying me to
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say that, So why am I still saying it so much? Oh?
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Because I was talking about trisc at phobia, which isn't really what it's called,
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but it's fun to call it that anyway. Monday the thirteenth, be
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careful out there, watch out for black cats or whatever. I don't know.
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We're here on a Monday, kicking the week off where just I mean,
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this is the final full week before what will be Thanksgiving Week next week.
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I know I keep talking about it, but I do feel it's important
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to remind folks that it's coming up very quickly. It is important to remember
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that. So because you're already hearing words like black Friday. Uh huh.
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You know you're hearing about that already everywhere I go. I saw that Black
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Fridays already started. They're just out of control with the black I mean,
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give us a Black Friday on Friday, don't make it on Thanksgiving. Don't
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make Black Friday on Halloween. That's that's a whole different deal, isn't it.
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Shouldn't that be different? I don't know. I want to talk to
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you this morning about anger. We have been dealing with a few things here
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in the Chattahoochee Valley area, and I know we've got another thing that's coming
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up. As I hear there are plans for a protest of some sort that's
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coming this week. We've seen the protests or the whatever protest I guess is
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what it is. I don't know. I don't know how we really qualify
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what constitutes a protest anymore, because in some cases, you know, a
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protest, you stand out and you show your disapproval of something just in volumes
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and numbers, and people may speak and that may be it. But that's
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changed a lot. I mean, it's in some cases it's gotten very violent.
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People get angry, they want to hurt somebody or something, They want
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to destroy property, and that's how they show their disapproval of whatever it is
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they want to protest, and they feel like, now we've got this god
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given right to destroy something, a vehicle, a business, whatever it is,
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anything involving the police. I don't expect that to happen with this particular
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event that's coming up this week here locally, but it certainly has a number
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of people concerned, and apparently this is a pro Palestinian event that's coming up.
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I hope that this particular event is peaceful. I hope there's no hateful
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rhetoric. I hope there's no anti Semitic remarks. I don't know exactly what
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to expect from it, but I do know that there are people in the
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area that are part of the Jewish community that are concerned, and they should
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be. I feel like that is something that should be cause for alarm.
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When we were in the midst, in the throes, if you will,
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of the twenty twenty the election cycle, and there were protests happening around the
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country that were getting violent, there was talk then about potential violent protests happening
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here locally. It was it was a concern. I think there were some
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protests. I remember there was one where there were about ten people that were
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there, and they tried to make sure as they were as they were covering
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it, some of the pro left media outlets, one in particular, was
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trying to make sure that the photos captured all ten of the people in it
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in a way that it made it look like there might have been hundreds of
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people, but there weren't. There were just a handful of people. And
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they were all told you can protest, just don't cross the street and block
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it. You can't do that, which was one of the main strategies of
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many of these protests. The event that's happening this week, and it's one
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of those things where I'm conflicted on saying too much about it because I don't
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I want to encourage anything to get wild. I don't want there to be
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two hostile groups squaring off in this particular location. But people are concerned,
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and I think there is reason to be concerned when you see what's going on
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around the country. And I know that we have also another thing that's been
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going on in the area that's caused a mixture of emotions. And that,
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of course, is the handling, and that's to me, the way to
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word it, the handling of the Bubba Copeland mayor Bubba Copeland story. And
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I still maintain that when the original article was written, there was no news.
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The original article as it was written was poorly done from a journalism standpoint
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in that one, it was very gossipy. And two one of the criticisms
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of the behaviors of Bubba Copeland, as they said, well, he was
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on message boards posting photos of people who at the time were underage and trying
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to suggest that this boy and his sister were actually the same person who had
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transitioned and they were, you know, one in the same person, and
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he was encouraging people to do that. And if you missed out on all
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that story, and there are people who aren't familiar with it. I talked
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to someone over the weekend who had no clue any of this had happened.
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And it's sort of funny because we're in our own little bubbles, we're in
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our own little echo chambers sometimes and we just sort of take for granted that
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people have heard these sorts of things, and when I hear that someone isn't
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aware of it, I'm a little jealous sometimes when I think, Wow,
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they're living life. They're not focused on this. And it was a very
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gossipy story from the beginning. It's turned now into I think even more gossip.
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But just quick overview reminder is we had a couple of weeks ago,
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at the beginning of the week a blog quote unquote news blog. I guess
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it's a news outlet. I mean, I don't know. I mean,
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we got a child in the area that does the news, and people are
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turning to a child for the news. That's usually something that comes from anyway
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other news sources. It's not really you know, getting scoops, I guess,
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but maybe maybe the child does. I don't know, But we have
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this news outlet that published the story and it was basically saying, Hey,
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the mayor of Smith's Station and pastor at First Baptist Church in Phoenix City cross
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dresses in the evenings and writes erotic fiction and you know, post pictures of
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himself online as this supposed transgender curvy girl all gossip. I mean that part
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of it was. But in doing so, they said, oh, and
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also he posts the pictures of these kids saying that they were the same person
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and had it was a transgender boy that became a girl, okay, and
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that it's the same person. But in the article it had pictures from the
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whatever was or it was posted Reddit or wherever the original story came from.
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So eventually I think the parents of these two kids reached out to this outlet
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and said, why is the picture of the kids online? And they went
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out and I guess they blacked out the faces of the kids, and to
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me, neither face should have been visible to anyone. I don't know if
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it started with just one visible and it was the one that was over eighteen.
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I think they both were visible at first, is what I was told,
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But I don't know. Point is, there was no reason to show
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that. And one of the criticisms now by people that are you know,
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anti Bubba or the one saying, well, he put these pictures out there
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and it's dragged this family into the mess. True, can't argue with that,
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But right now the family is getting most of the attention because of this
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news outlet that posted the pictures and people were able to see them. So
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it's not quite as cut and dry. And there's also been a lot of
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accusations. Well, I hear that more stuff is going to come out,
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and I hear that more bad things are going to come out. Just from
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a journalistic standpoint, you wait for those bad things to come out, and
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that's part of the story. That's just from that side. I know that
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there were some media outlets locally that said, we're going to wait until something
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happens. If he loses the position of mayor of Smith's Station, it's definitely
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news. Then if he's fired by the church, that's news. Then just
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outing him as someone who likes to dress like a woman in the evenings and
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calls himself, you know, Brittany, whatever the name was, it's gossip.
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I mean, that's old school, classic gossip is what that is.
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So I still maintain that. I know there's a lot of people that this
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has become a national story. I've seen some of the you know, there's
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a couple of those guys that do these, they get into here's why you're
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living your life wrong. There's a couple of those guys and they've laid it
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out. Oh, he was sinning by what he was doing. And you
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know, some sins are worthy of news, some sins or not. I'm
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not making a case about why being a pastor and doing what he was doing
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was Okay, That's not what I'm here to do. I'm just pointing out
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the fact that it was questionable to put it out as a news story.
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Some people are angry both sides. People that are feel like Bubba taking his
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own life was the result of this story being published originally are angry. The
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people who say, no, Bubba's actions were what made him go to the
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point of taking his own life, they're angry. And obviously there's the occasional
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person who hasn't heard about it. And I mean, I just, you
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know, like I said, I'm jealous that they're living life and not caught
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up in it because some things, I don't know how much people should be
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caught up in it. But back to my original point, we have this
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protest coming and we have this feeling this almost you know, when you can
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smell rains coming. We have that smell in the air now of what feels
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like and I know we've had this before, but it feels like there's a
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world war brewing, and we don't want that. So we're a little afraid,
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and we're angry and we're frustrated. And you know, we have this
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local story, we have this local protest that's coming, and it all ties
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into these emotions that I'm talking about. Well, I've talked for quite a
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while over the years, especially since twenty twenty, about politicians that feel like
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if they can get you angry, then they can get you mobilized to vote.
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That's why many of these protests. And we'll probably see that this week
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if the protest actually happened and if people actually turn out, and I don't
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know if they will, but you'll see there's going to be someone there inevitably
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registering people to vote. Right, There's going to be someone there trying to
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get people registered to vote. Hey, you can make a difference. They
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vote Democrat. You can make a difference in this go Palestine, vote Democrat.
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That'll be there. There will be someone there doing it. There was
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someone there trying to sign the ten people up that showed up in twenty twenty.
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And I go back to a story that I've talked about a few times.
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See Democrats now with abortion. They complain that a lot of states now
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have women that don't have very many abortion rights, they don't have women's health
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care, and they're concerned, they say, about these women, and they
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want to make sure these women have rights. And there are folks on the
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right now saying, hey, this is the time for us to discuss maybe
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a national compromise on this. Let's come up with how many weeks we think
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that we could push through, and let's put the whole abortion debate to bed
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come up with a national solution to this. Democrats don't want any part of
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that. They want to get back to Roe v. Wade. They want
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to get back where it's the wild West. I guess some of them are
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trying to get whatever their agenda is. And Republicans are at a point right
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now where they're saying, we can solve this. It's been handed back to
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the states. We can come up with a way to make it national and
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move forward. I don't know that that's really attainable, but it feels like
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now is the time when a conversation can be had, but Democrats don't want
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that right now. They want people mobilized. They feel like, if you're
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angry about abortion and you can be a one issue voter, they can get
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Biden reelected. That's what they think. You're not going to look at the
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economy. You're not going to look at inflation, you're not going to look
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at the state of the world right now. You're not going to look at
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our energy problems. You're gonna look at one thing, and one thing only,
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and you're gonna go abortion. Let's make that the one thing. That's
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what they feel like. Some of them still push the environment and say that's
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the one thing and that's really a big part of the source of a lot
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of our economic problems right now. That and you know, they pounced on
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pushing through a green new energy deal, green new deal that they wanted after
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COVID at a time when people just didn't have it, they didn't have the
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money for it, people were already suffering. So anger motivates folks to get
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out and vote. Republicans do it too. They want you to be angry.
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Oh my gosh, they got to take your guns away. You better
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get registered to vote and protect the Second Amendment and all these sorts of things.
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Oh, that's there. Both sides want you to be a little afraid
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and a little scared and a little angry. I mean, it's just the
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reality of it. So what good have you ever done when you were angry?
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What good has come from anger? I mean, I'm not talking about
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maybe the occasional incident where you know your family is under attack and you've got
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to protect yourself. But I think even that's not so much anger as it's
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adrenaline, isn't it. I'm talking about anger. I'm talking about two neighbors
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that are fighting, just bickering and fighting, and you see it happening,
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and you think this isn't going to end. Well, I've been there.
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I had one of those neighbors once who just wanted to fight, and I
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didn't understand why. Still don't really understand why he's passed away. Now I'll
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never get that answer, but I still don't really understand why. But it
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happens. You see it on TV when there's just two random people fighting.
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Someone attacks somebody for no reason, just smacks them around, and you think,
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what's happening in the streets. Why is this happening? And we get
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scared when we see that, we get scared, we get concerned. I
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saw two people in a parking lot this weekend that were in their cars shouting
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at each other. And I still don't know why they were fighting, but
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they were fighting. They were angry. What good's going to come out of
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this conversation as they're shouting at each other? Does it ever end with some
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sort of positive result. I don't know of a time that that's happened.
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And I think about this, and I'll get a little religious on you here,
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because I was thinking about this yesterday on Sunday, and I was just
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thinking about is there a positive that comes from being angry? And as a
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politician, you know, you get fiery, you get worked up, you
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tell people, hey, you better do something, But that's trying to generate
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a net gain for them in getting everyone else angry. But when you see
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churches where there's a pastor in the pulpit and the pastor's angry and they're screaming
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about equal rights or they're screaming about something that's in the news that they say,
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you know, should motivate you politically. I grew up in a church
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that was, you know, very conservative and politically they wanted you just dialed
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in for certain issues. Abortion was one of those issues. And that's been
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you know, legislation has come along to make it less less easy for churches
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to do that kind of thing. They're not supposed to do that. Some
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churches still do, though typically it's on the left. When you hear the
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Jeremiah Wrights and things screaming and shouting, and I think about that really angry
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sermon that he had and he's you know, kind of shouting down. We
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all remember that what he said and why he said it. But from that
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standpoint, can you really be in a church preaching angry? I mean,
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is that going to get you a message that's going to come out that's going
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to be a positive one? Can leadership in any capacity just be angry all
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the time and shouting down the other side and shouting down the issues. It's
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just something to think about as we navigate through our day and through our week.
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Just should we be angry all the time? Should we be afraid all
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the time? I try on this show to just ask questions I don't want
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to tell I owe you on this show, what you're supposed to do and
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how you're supposed to see things. I reflect on things. I'll give you
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my take on it. I'll give you my perspective on it. But I'm
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not going to tell you that you need to be angry and afraid. I
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have before, certainly, And gosh, fifteen how many years have I've been
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doing a news talk as a format. I did music for a while,
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but you know, fifteen years or whatever it is, sixteen, I guess
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sixteen years of doing news talk. You know, I've certainly come into it
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with some fear, some trepidation, some anger, frustration. I've had that,
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and I will have that. But if your message just comes from anger
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and it comes from fear, I don't know that you're going to really have
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the message that you're trying to convey. I try not to do that,
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and I certainly don't even want to tell you what you're supposed to think or
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how you're supposed to act. I have before. I've certainly done that when
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I felt like, you know, there's a lot on the line. I
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think there's a lot of the line in his election coming up next year.
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We're less than a year from it. Now, there's a lot on the
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line. But I also know that we have to take a breath, take
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a beat, think about what we're doing, think about the things that matter,
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put our focus in that. Put our focus in the things that matter
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to us. Can we just vote off of one issue? I mean,
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if you're only going to vote on one issue, shouldn't that one issue be
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something like the economy. Shouldn't that be your ability to pay your bills and
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you know, do what's best for your family. Shouldn't that be the one?
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Like one a focus, put away all the other stuff and just hope
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that the economy being on track is going to help the other things get better.
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I mean, by just taking that step back, just taking a breath,
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isn't that going to make a difference. Isn't that going to help us
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all come to a logical conclusion about how we should vote or what we should
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do, because we can't just shoot from the hip anymore. We can't be
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angry and mad all the time. It's not going to change. Sadly,
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this doesn't make me angry when I say it. I'm frustrated it's not going
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to change. But I know, but if we could just make small changes
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for a handful of individuals. Maybe there's some hope for us, and maybe
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you can check that out if you want to know if your new relationship has
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any staying power, if you think it might last. There's a new test
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that's gone viral called the Bird test, that you can use. So they
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say to your significant other or potential significant other. You say something like,
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hey, there's a woodpecker on the tree, or oh, look a cardinal,
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and if the person asks you about it or gets up to look at
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it, then they pass the test. But if they say nothing, do
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nothing, and they say who cares? Or it's just a bird or whatever,
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then there's a sign there that that relationship doesn't have staying power. It's
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not about the bird, it's about whether or not they're interested in what you're
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talking about. Kind of interesting. Now. I would not say that this
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would apply it to older relationships, long standing ones, because quite frankly,
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uh, maybe they're just tired. That could be the case. I don't
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think this would work with married couples. That's just my theory on it.
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