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Now We Know Why · 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. Monday morning, eighteenth day of
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December. I'm West Thanks for joining me. One week until Christmas Day.
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You're on the clock for the last minute Christmas shopping. Now's the time to
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get it done. This is the week, this is it. You gotta
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this week on the weekend. Christmas Eve is Sunday. We're a week from
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Christmas Day. There you go. I want to take a quick minute and
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talk about the Nutcracker for a few reasons. First of all, if you
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are someone who came to the show, thank you. If you came to
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the Mother Ginger tea party event, thank you. We had a really good
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time putting on the show this year. This is my fifth year that I've
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done it. I've really enjoyed the role of Mother Ginger for a number of
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reasons. And it's kind of easy to just go. Well, you go
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and you perform, and you know you're there on stage and you get an
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audience reaction, and that's great, and that is part of it. I
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love the immediate response. You don't get that necessarily in radio. You don't
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get it, and TV you don't get it, and a number of things
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podcasting, you don't get the immediate response. Some of you message me throughout
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the day or you know, in a week, I hear from you,
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and I appreciate that. I like hearing feedback. Sometimes it's to point out
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that I said something real dumb, misspoke or something. Sometimes it's to confirm
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my suspicions about a thought, or to add thoughts on something that I've said
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before. Sometimes it's just hey, love the show this morning, all those
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things. But that's not immediate. It's not standing on a stage in front
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of a live audience and getting a laugh or getting cheers or whatever that may
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be. So I have a few experiences with that over my career, and
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this is one of those where it's just different. It's different in so many
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ways, and I have really enjoyed the time of being out of my comfort
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zone, the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented dancers. First of all,
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the Columbus Ballet putting this show on the school there with the school kids,
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they're just I've watched some of them grow up in five years. I've
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watched them go from these little kids that played the girls who run out from
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under my dress, and now they're you know, young adults, are in
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high school and they're dancing at a whole different level. They were good then,
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they're amazing now. So that's been this you know, I'll say sorority
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because the character that I play in the show is a female. So I'll
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say it's been a great to be in this sorority with these these kids.
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And it's not all girls. There are some boys involved in the show,
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and then the professional dancers that come in, like from the Georgia Ballet or
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elsewhere, they're just they're they're fantastic and good people, good to spend time
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with, and it's just it's great to be part of this tradition for so
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many people this time of year, because that's what it is, and the
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holiday itself is about tradition, and the holiday itself is about all those things
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that Christmas is, you know, it all comes together and this fun experience
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to be able to be a part of. I've got friends that have come
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to shows once just to see me, and all of a sudden, now
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here they are five years later, still coming back show after show because they're
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just hooked. And I like that that makes me feel good, and I
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appreciate that I do, and I know they're not just there to see me.
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Maybe I was the introduction to this tradition that is the Nutcracker, but
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now that they're coming every year, they're there for the experience and for the
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show, and that's fun. This year was also an extra unique experience with
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it because the Columbus Ballet invited three of the area sheriffs to be a part
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of the show. Two of them I've known over the years professionally interviewed them
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on radio or I guess I've done a number of formats in person in some
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cases with them over the years when we talk about breaking news events, whether
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it's severe weather, tornado damage, some sort of just any number of things
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that you'd have a breaking news sort of scenario for, or just having him
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on to discuss things like I don't know when you know Sheriff Mike Jolly had
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some infamous signs up in Harris County, but but Mike Jolly, Harris County
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Sheriff, the Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor, and Muscogee County Sheriff Greg Countryman,
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who I have not interviewed before, but loved meeting him, getting a
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chance to talk with him a little bit, and uh, just good guys.
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And this was great that they did this to support the Columbus Ballet and
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I appreciate that. And they're you know, lending their time to this and
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helping to get some extra exposure for it. That's in the wheelhouse of you
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know what I'm there for. So it was nice to have some others that
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were there to help get some different eyes on the show and more new seats
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filled by different people. So that was great. We really appreciated them and
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I made sure to thank all three of them for being a part of it.
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So had a great time. The tea party event on Saturday was a
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lot of fun. I tried my best to in this role of mother Ginger,
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giving her a voice for the first time ever. Tried to entertain the
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kids that were there and let them have a good time, and then tried
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to also make sure the adults were having a good time. And you try
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to dance that fine line of a movie like Shrek. Heard someone say,
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and you just that's kind of it. You know, you want it to
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be entertaining for the kids, but also let the adults kind of have the
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inside jokes and know that they're also being spoken to as well. So I
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had a lot of fun this year with all of it. I'm exhausted this
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morning. It's been a long, long week that wrapped up for all of
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us yesterday with the matinee show, and my body is very sore from carrying
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around a very heavy dress on stilts for again more than I typically do,
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so yes, my body is wrecked. And I want to also just acknowledge
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the security team at the River Center. Two of the ladies that were working.
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At one point, I was so exhausted and everyone had left for the
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day on Saturday but me because I was in full makeup and I didn't really
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feel like driving around in my mother ginger over the top makeup. And they
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made sure that I had access to a couch in the building that I could
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take a nap on, and that was very kind of them, and I
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appreciate that a lot. And whoever there is cleaning up the glitter out of
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the shower in my dressing room again, I apologize. I mean, it's
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my fault, but it's not my fault. There's only so much I can
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do, and I tried to get as much of that dealt with as I
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could. But anyway, had a great time. And you don't have to
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hear me talk about the Nutcracker for like a year now and then it'll come
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up again at some point, maybe like eleven months, ten months, maybe
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nine something like that. But again, thanks to everybody who came out and
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supported the show and anybody that it took the time to come up. I
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know some of my regular listeners were there. I saw some of them in
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person. That was nice, and it came up and talked to me after
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the show and that was great. Got some photos with them and things like
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that, So that was awesome and I appreciate that a lot. So thanks
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for supporting the show. Thanks for being a part of this tradition now,
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and if you come back again, then again, you know, if I
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was your gateway into this. And then a lot of people that I'd seen,
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not seen at the show before that just came because they, you know,
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hadn't been to the Nutcracker and now they're hooked. And I like that
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a lot. So I did have one kid almost take me down. Part
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of this role is that I come out on stage and I have kids under
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my dress. One of them bumped me, well, one bumped me in
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rehearsal twice and it wasn't I wasn't really close to going down yesterday's show,
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I got bumped as I was going out, and I really came close to
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going down, and she felt so badly. And it's like, this is
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a team thing. We're working in synergy, right, We're all going out
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here together. And you could have bumped me because I was going too fast,
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or because someone else was kind of in a spot you needed to be
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in while we were walking out together. That all of that's part of it.
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So I wanted to make sure she knew that just causing me to stumble
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a little, I didn't really you know, I mean, my life flashed
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before my eyes, I would be honest. I had a moment where I
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thought, oh my gosh, I'm going down on stage, but managed to
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to collect myself and we managed to I think from that point on we slayed.
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It was amazing. It was great. I like slay in that capacity
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because you slayed. And then it's also fits in the Christmas thing. I
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want to talk for just a second, getting into a topic for today,
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because it's just kind of interesting to me, and it's one of those things
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that it just sounds about right, and it's not a big shock, and
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it's just interesting to me. The way there are certain things that news wise,
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they kind of happen and then you think, well, this is interesting,
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and then something else happens down the line a year later or whatever,
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and then you go, oh, well, now this is really relevant.
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Now this is really important, and you think okay, And in some cases
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it's really just a matter of months. Remember back about six months ago,
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we were talking about the Affinity celebrations for graduates that were happening at a certain
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college that rhymes with Harvard. So it basically was their own special graduations for
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and I'm reading that the names that they gave the graduations Latin X graduates,
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which of course is a term that no Latin American person actually really uses.
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Not many, very few. I won't say none, it's not many,
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because it's a slap in the face of a really beautiful language. Right.
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So the Latin X graduates, the Indigenous graduates, the Arab graduates, the
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graduates with disabilities, LGBTQ plus graduates, and black graduates. This was what
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they were putting together because and they did, I guess because they wanted to
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have affinity celebrations, student led staff supported events to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments
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of graduates from historically marginalized communities. And that goes on to say, these
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university wide celebrations provide an opportunity for graduates to honor those who have helped them
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achieve their milestone while centering on their cultural traditions and values. And it tied
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into their Office for Equity diversity Inclusion that you know, went belonging, right,
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they got to add that belonging now too, all right. So when
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we talked about that six months ago, and we talked about the divisive nature
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of all of that and those things, one of the things that jumped off
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the page and still jumps off the page is a certain group that was excluded
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from this. There's a group that's just not part of this. And now
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that we know that, you know, the president of the university doesn't seem
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to think necessarily that if Claudian Grazern Gazer name, while testifying in Congress,
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basically saying that if there were calls for genocide of the Jews, as it
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protected free speech and gay said, it can be depending on the context.
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Uh yeah, there's a Jewish students not part of this big event, this
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big celebration of marginalized peoples from over the years. It's just interesting. It
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is just interesting, isn't it, Because you know this idea that you can
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call for the killing, the genocide of a group of people, and I
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mean historically, you could make a case, I would say, maybe the
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most historically marginalized group of people in the history of the planet. You could
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make that case. They weren't part of this at Harvard. I wonder why.
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I wonder what about them caused them to not be part of this.
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And then you go, well, who's the president at Harvard? And you
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know, it's the person who says that it can be protected free speech to
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call for the murder of all of them. It's just interesting the way those
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things sometimes circle back around. It's out there, and then sometimes it just
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kind of circles back right, and sometimes it's there. Sometimes it's just there.
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It's like an apple on a tree ready to be picked, and you're
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just like, man, they planted the tree, they grew the apple,
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and now the apple there to be picked. And they've even provided us the
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latter. I don't know where I'm going with this analogy, but my point
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is, should we be surprised that the Jewish students at Harvard were not included
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as part of this? I don't think there's a whole lot more to say
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about it. I mean, students on campus calling for the genocide of the
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Jewish people and saying, you know, it could be protected speech, just
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calling to murder them, that's all, and then not thinking that it's important
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a blossom Mayam or Amy Fairfowl or whatever. Miambiolic has been released as the
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second host of Jeopardy. You know, they were running with two hosts.
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Remember they had this whole thing. They had that Alex Trebek guy forever,
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and then he passed away and they said we're gonna get a guy to replace
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him, and then he made some joke or I don't know. There's always
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some reason. There were a number of things. And then people didn't want
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Maambiolic because she said that she didn't give her kid all the vaccines that they
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were supposed to give or whatever it was. And they said, ah,
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we can't have her. Well, she ended up getting it, but as
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a as a secondary host, they also had Ken Jennings, who is you
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know, one the ultimate great Jeopardy Champions. Ever, there's a couple of
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them now whatever they call them Grand Champions or so they had two of the
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hosts and sometimes it would be her, sometimes it would be him. But
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it's the idea behind that, I think, in itself seemed confusing because if
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you're watching Jeopardy and then one day there's one host and then the next day,
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it can be confusing. Why not just have one host? So ultimately,
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I guess someone made that call and they desired that Kenny Jennings would be
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the host and Maambiolic would be released. And she said, for for continuity's
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sake, that's the decision that they made. They decided to go with Ken
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and not her, and that's that. So she's she's done. She won't
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be hosting anymore. With a week to go before Christmas, have you checked
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out this idea of people just kind of slacking off at work, maybe not
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putting in a lot of effort. Maybe they weren't And you know, a
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nutcracker performance that took you a week long days rehearsals and all that. Maybe
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that's the case, but I think there's a lot of people that this week
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there's not going to be an overly productive week. It doesn't feel like it's
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going to be not for everybody, And that's kind of makes sense. I
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mean, we're at that phase of it and there won't be a whole lot
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of work probably done between now and the beginning of the year. They get
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some scenarios where people are trying to, you know, maybe get one more
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sale in or get things ready for the start of the year, or they're
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trying to get their tax right offs all situated. I don't know all that
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stuff, but we're knocking on the door of the new year. So yeah,
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expect work productivity to slow down quite a bit because just a reality,
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we're getting close to the start of this travel stretch for people are going to
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be traveling, and the TSA is reminding people that if you're packing a suitcase
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and you have gifts in the suitcase, you need to make sure that they're
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wrapped, whether they're checked or carry on luggage, and they say using gift
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bags to hold your unwrapped gifts will help expedite screening. They say, we
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know it's disappointing when travelers have their gifts unwrapped before they make it to their
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destination. However, when an item triggers our alarm our, officers must resolve
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the issue and make sure the item is in dangerous or prohibited on board an
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airplane. So they recommend gift bags or boxes or simply wrap your gifts when
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you get to the destination. So that's just a heads up if you're going
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to be flying, that is something that you can do. So there you
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go. I was talking about holiday traditions earlier and they say that, you
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know, when it comes to an important thing for parents, Seventy five percent
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of parent surveys said that they follow the same holiday traditions they did when they
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were kids. Seventy eight percent said that they believe it's important to uphold the
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traditions they experienced when they were kids. This same survey has said that parents
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were Seventy seven percent of those parents that were surveyed said that the holiday season
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is just as magical now to them as when they were kids. Forty six
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percent said that gifts are more exciting to them now than they were when they
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were adults. So that's nice. It's a nice thought. I like that.
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And yeah, the tradition aspect of it, I think is a big
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part of all of that. So there you go. If you've got a
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December birthday, you know, they all say that this is not a good
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time to have a birthday. A study now officially confirming it, showing how
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much December birthday babies are shafted. The average person not born in the month
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of December says they receive an average of six gifts on their birthday, but
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those born in December said they get an average of four. So that means
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the average December born person and we'll miss on an average of one hundred and
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sixty birthday gifts in their lifetime. They got it down to that much.
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Knowing exactly how many are pretty close to how many. So that's interesting.
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It's not fair, but it happens, you know, and chances are maybe
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depending on what time, and if it's close to Christmas, you know,
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you're probably not going to be in school. At least you got that going
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for you. That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show. Thanks
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