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Who Said Anything About the Kitchen? · 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. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, sixteenth
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day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. We are zipping
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on through this week, zipping on through the last full week of school for
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many kids in the area, as they'll get ready to wind things down officially
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next week. Some I guess maybe you're finishing up tomorrow. My kids will
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be doing some version of school next week. I don't know how much of
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it they'll be doing, or exactly how much productive work. It's interesting that
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in some cases they took finals and things like weeks ago. I don't really
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know what the last few what they exactly they've been doing the last few weeks.
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But anyway, so we're getting to that phase of things. We're also
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working our way through the New York Trump trial. We had a little bit
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of an intro. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on this trial,
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but I did want to comment on just a couple of things, well,
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one thing in particular, and it was interesting. I thought that a
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couple of days ago, when the White House Press Secretary was asked a question
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about the trial and was asked about whether or not the Speaker of the House,
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Mike Johnson, appearing and speaking at the trial was appropriate. She offered
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this as an answer, And it's interesting. It's got a lot of people
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saying, well, finally we're getting an honest response about this trial from someone
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in the White House. Now, I just I want to make sure because
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everybody realizes this, and it's a kind of a tricky thing that someone like
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me has had to deal with over the years when you work in media and
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you do interviews with various politicians and things, and those should be kicking in
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here soon for me in the next couple of months. By the way,
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it's been a little while since we've done a very many of those. But
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but there's a there's a divide between the staffs. When when you are the
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sitting governor or you know, member of Congress or the president, you have
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a staff that works for you doing the job of what your particular job is.
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Okay, you have a staff, you have a you have a press
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secretary whose job it is to talk about what you're doing as the president of
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the United States. Uh. Then he has a campaign staff and they're separate
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Okay, you got one staff, you know, they're on the payroll of
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the American people. The other staff, they're their campaign that comes from,
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you know, the payroll of I don't know, China, Russia, whoever's
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whoever's paying for that. I don't know. I don't know who's paying for
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it. A lot of celebrities. If you go to the movies and you
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pay to watch a movie, I guess indirectly, ultimately you're paying for it.
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And that's true with you know, music and all of it, going
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to concerts, paying eight thousand dollars to watch somebody saying, you know whatever,
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It's just kind of all part of it. And that's fine. That's
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just the way it works. I think about it sometimes whenever I'm spending money
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and I try to figure out, well, is this the best place for
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this to go? You can't always do it because sometimes, you know,
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sometimes you just want to go to Disney World. Sometimes you just want to
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go there and enjoy yourself and have a good time, and you can't focus
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entirely on, oh my gosh, how much of this hamburger that I'm buying
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here is ultimately going to go to Joe Biden's campaign I mean, it's in
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the back of my mind. That's just the way my brain works. Anyway.
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They have two different staffs. They have one that works for the American
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people, they have one that works for them the candidate. You're not supposed
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to represent one or the other. You have to be very careful about which
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one you're doing. I have reached out before to the official press person for
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candidates before and said, look, I need to get in touch with the
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other one and then they can give me the contact info. But that's you
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know, yeah, it shouldn't be me, It should be that guy.
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But they can't set it up. They can't be part of it. That's
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just the way it all works. Okay, got it all right? So
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now White House Press Secretary got asked a question about Mike Johnson showing up at
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the Trump trial and gave this, I think, really honest answer about what
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the trial is all about. What was it appropriate for Speaker Johnson to show
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up at the trial of the former president today? So look, I can't
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speak to don't want to comment obviously, as this is related to twenty twenty
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four elections, and I can't speak to the Speaker's scheduled that is something for
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him to decide on it. So, if it's supposedly just a trial about
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justice and the truth justice in the American way, why can't she speak about
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it. She should be able to give any kind of comment on it.
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She should be able to speak on what the White House thinks about it.
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But she's given us this really honest answer, hasn't she It's related. This
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trial is related to twenty twenty four elections. That's what it is. She
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should be able to speak about it all she wants. This doesn't fall into
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that category of something that someone from the other side should be talking about.
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No, she has every right to speak about it. A number of folks
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went on to Twitter. Bill Haggerty from Tennessee the motive need I say more?
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Stephen Miller, a Trump advisor, says, that's why they call a
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confession anyway, some of the party calling it saying the quiet part out loud.
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Yeah, I mean that's kind of a slip. I think that's very
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much an accidental confession that's come out there, and that's just how it goes
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sometimes. Another quick thought, and I just wanted to bring this up because
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I just can't help but feel like as more student protests have happened. There's
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been more people with Palestinian flags, more people disrupting graduations and ceremonies, more
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saying things that in any other universe three months ago, six months ago would
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have been called anti semitic. Suddenly is now just seems to be okay.
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It's still not, but we're in this position where for some reason, we're
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just kind of as a people, it seems to just be allowed to slide.
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And I don't know that anyone has given a decent explanation for why it's
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still being allowed to slide, and why this particular hate speech is just being
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allowed. It's so it's so bizarre because if this was any other group,
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I can't help. But for most any other group, I can't help but
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feel like they would shut this down much faster. I know some schools are
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shutting it down, but I just can't help but feel like maybe it would
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have been shut down a lot faster, and some of this stuff would never
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have been allowed at all. But I guess one of my questions I've got
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about all this, and I think this is what scares me just a little
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bit. It scares me, first of all that antisemitic rhetoric has been allowed
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anywhere on college campuses that Jewish students are allowed to feel intimidated, made to
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feel intimidated. This type of terrorism that's happened in places. Now understand this.
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Not all of it has done that, absolutely not. Not all of
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it has done that. We have had definitely in the US and at these
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universities, there has been simple, basic I think misguided because I don't really
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know what they're trying to accomplish here. I get confused about what exactly their
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goal is. I think they could do more if they wanted to go to
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Gaza and protest or get involved whatever. I feel like, if that's what
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they wanted to do, then maybe they could have more of an impact on
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it. But there have been some people that are just saying, look,
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we just want what's fair to the Palestinians. All right, that's fine,
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that's not inherently anti Semitic in its own right. All right. There is
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a group and it seems to be growing, and it certainly does not seem
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to in any way be grassroots or organic. It seems to be funded.
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It seems to be heavily funded by someone in groups. So I guess what
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I get concerned about other than the obvious concerns that are there is or we're
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going to have this point in history where like sixty or one hundred years from
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now, people just get to go back and change the whole story and say,
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nah, it wasn't the folks on the left, it was Republicans.
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There was a switch. We had a switch in party affiliations, and back
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then those people that were doing all that would have been considered conservative Republicans and
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all their racism. There's just there's a history of doing that. We have
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this thing where you can just change history if you want to and just say,
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nah, there's a switch. There's a big change in all of it,
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like a really oversimplified explanation of something that's way more complicated than that,
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and you could just change it and say not Republicans just going to have to
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eat it. They're just gonna have to sit on it. As Fonsie would
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say, I want to talk about Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas
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City Chiefs. Oh my gosh, talk about a change in how things have
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gone when he's playing for the Chiefs and Patrick mahomes a guy who can do
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no wrong. He can throw an interception and they'll call it the greatest interception
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ever thrown. He's got Travis Kelcey on his team. Oh my gosh,
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that guy's living the dream, isn't he. Now? Harrison Butker, who
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has been outspoken. He's a Catholic, he is a conservative, and he
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was asked to speak at a Catholic college north of Kansas City. And you
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would think, based on the headlines that I've seen about his speech, which
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could not be more exaggerated in what he said. So basically he said at
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this speech, this is at the Benedictine College. This is a Catholic liberal
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arts college in Atchison, Kansas. He was asked to speak. This is
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back on May eleventh, a few days ago, and he started, he
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said, it's safe to say that over the years, I've gained quite a
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reputation of speaking my mind. And then he basically said that referr Now.
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He did say some stuff about the Pride movement. He did talk about that
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encroachment of sort of wokeness into and I'm paraphrasing it, but into religion into
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our schools. He did reference Pride. I understand we have some folks that
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have he criticized Biden. I understand if you're part of the Pride community,
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you're not gonna like those things that he said. I get that, I
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understand. But they also now have accused him basically of saying that women need
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and I've seen headlines that said he said women need to stay in the kitchen,
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that he said that he attacked working women, and that he said women
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should stay in the kitchen. Here's what he said to the women graduating from
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the school. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the
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world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most
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excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I
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can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to
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say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife
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and a mother. That's what she said. That was translated into get in
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the kitchen. He said, I'm on. This is more of what he
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said. I'm on the stage today and able to be the man I am
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because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I am beyond blessed
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with the many talents God has given me. But it cannot be overstated that
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all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class
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back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and
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embrace one of the most important titles of all homemaker. I don't hear anything.
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I don't hear anything in there that says get in the kitchen. He
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added, I've seen firsthand how much happier someone can be when they disregard the
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outside noise and move closer and closer to God's will for life Isabelle's dream of
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having a career might not have come true, But if you ask her today
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if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without
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hesitation and say no. He didn't say anything about getting the kitchen, not
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at all. He basically said men need to step up for their families.
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He said, the absence of men in the home is what plays a large
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role in the violence we see around the nation. Be unapologetic in your masculinity,
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fighting against the culture of the emasculation of men set the tone of the
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culture. And he said, do hard things, never settle for what is
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easy. I didn't see anything in that at all. I didn't hear him
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say anything about stay in the kitchen. I've seen multiple headlines say that he
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encouraged or he told women to stay in the kitchen. It says the NFL
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says they don't agree with his views at graduation. I'm assuming this is probably
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largely about his comments about pride. Anyway, they say in some of these
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headlines they say his his comment was even more bonkers than you think. Anyway,
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It's nuts. They can say whatever they want, they can get away
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with whatever they want, they can call it whatever they want, and they
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can use their headlines. I saw one online news source that basically had that
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he was telling women to stay in the kitchen, and they've since changed the
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headline and it now says that he congratulates women graduates and says most are excited
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about motherhood. That's what he said. That's exactly what he said. He
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didn't say stay in the kitchen. There was no reference to make me a
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sandwich, or stay in the kitchen, or you know, you need to
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smile, none of that stuff. None of that stuff. It's all considered
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inappropriate and offensive and all that. But now the headlines that are referencing the
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fact that he was blasted for it, that's fine. There's some people that
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feel that way, but he was speaking to a very specific audience at the
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college. He didn't go to Harvard and make this speech. He didn't go
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to I mean, Jerry Seinfeld was just a duke and he got yelled at
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and heckled for being Jewish. So it's a you know, I would think
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a couple of things should come into play. Know the audience of your speech
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and to the school, Know who your speaker is. You see, Jerry
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Seinfeld is going to be there. You got a problem with Jerry Seinfeld because
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he's Jewish, don't go, don't listen to the speech. Maybe get up
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and excuse yourself during the speech, or maybe that's what they did. I
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don't know. I just know he got heck hold and it's nuts. So
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anyway, a guy who has become, you know, one of the best
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kickers in the league, a guy who statistically is you know, helped his
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team wins two Super Bowls. Now, I guess he's been there for two
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Super Bowls. He went played at Georgia Tech. What a big what a
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big shocker that they would take his words, twist him out of context and
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try to make it seem worse so they can't just let it be. Whatever
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he said about the Pride community about Pride Month, and they like to go
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Pride Month has been celebrated since the thirties, not to this level. I
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mean, it's not what it's been the last twenty years. It's a little
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different. You really can't take it back to the nineteen thirties. You can't
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take it back to you know, World War two. You can't say that
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they were really celebrating pride back then. Maybe it technically existed, I don't
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Show right after the break. Well, it's that time of year, a
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lot of folks graduating high school, graduating college, moving on to that next
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phase in life, looking for a career, and of course many are starting
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to become more and more aware of how AI could affect their career choices.
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So maybe you should, I don't know, do a little research on what
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jobs might be more in demand over the next ten years or so. Well.
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According to go Banking Rates, they say the following jobs are future proof
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and high paying and they all actually benefit from AI. At the top of
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the list is accountant than an editor, a healthcare professional, creative professionals that's
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in the arts, music, design, writing, all need human perspective.
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For those social workers, trade workers, human resources teachers, cybersecurity professionals,
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I would think that would be higher on the list. Actually, and project
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managers, so career options that maybe are not quite in as much danger when
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it comes to AI taking away those jobs. Hey, the kids have better
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It's probably called Harry Potter. Eighty percent of the parents surveyed said that their
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child inspires them to read more. So that's good. I like that twist
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and more attention around the country. It's young workers who are really pushing hard
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for it, and according to a new survey, they insist it would result
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in more productivity. The survey from CNBC found that eighty one percent of workers
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between the ages of eighteen and thirty four believe a four day work week would
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boost their company's productivity. Just nineteen percent said it would decline. Some companies
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have been testing it out, and early reports have shown that it did in
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fact strengthen employee performance and reduced burnout. Some companies have even begun toying with
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some European companies, including companies in Germany, Belgium, Portugal and the UK,
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have been trying out the four day work week and say so far the
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results have been successful. I've been an advocate for this, but under a
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slightly different perspective. And remember I actually questioned whether or not we could do
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the three day work week because my thinking was now a lot of this has
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changed because of inflation, all right, but I you know, years ago,
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five years ago, maybe I was talking about this because my idea was,
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as people were demanding that the minimum wage double, my thinking was,
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cut the work double the minimum wage, cut the work week down to three
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days a week, twenty one hours a week. Then you got four days
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a week that you can either get another job that's what you want. You
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can actually have two full time jobs. You could have two twenty one hour
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a week jobs at the new doubled pay rate, or you got four days
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a week that you can go out and you know, spend your money and
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contribute to the economy. That was my thinking. I wasn't thinking that all
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of this stuff. This is all about product at COVID, I guess,
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and that sort of trickled down of that effect. But anyway, a new
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close. I am not a workplace ologist or anything. I don't have a
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degree in it. I can't tell you what's the right move, and I
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don't know what it would do overall. I can't say it and then say
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it has to be done, because I don't know what it would do to
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the world, what it cause the world to implode. I don't know.
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I don't want that to happen. I just lobbed it out there as an
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idea on this whole I want a double minimum wage, That's what I was
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with safety, and that's more important than just low ticket prices. And
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I've been on both sides of that. I've been on the I'll pay a
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little bit more to get there safely or for a little bit more comfort because
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it's a long flight. And then I've also you known the really really cheap
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my vacate. It was a work trip, but it got me to my
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work trip and then it got me back home. So that was successful.
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So I think there's a you know, sometimes there's a time and a place
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for spirit is all I'm saying. That'll do it for this Thursday edition of
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