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No Real Surprises in Iowa · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Tuesday morning feels like Monday morning, January sixteenth. I'm Wes, thanks for
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joining me. The holiday weekend always throws us off a little bit. Anytime
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you get a Monday off, it just makes it feel different, feels a
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little strange. But here we are and it's the morning after as we are
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now officially into election season. We are in I know, we were kind
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of already in it. We had obviously candidates that were vying for the opportunity
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to be part of debates. I mean that part of the election started a
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while back. We had candidates vying to get some sort of airtime of acknowledgment
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as they were working their way towards getting into primaries, getting into this caucus.
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And it's happened. Iowa has happened. And first of all, the
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constant news coverage of how cold it was in Iowa. I get it,
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it was cold and it was going to have an impact on turnout in some
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capacity just because of the cold temperatures. But it's often cold in that part
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of the country this time of the year. Now I know it's been excessively
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cold in a few places. We've seen some football playoff games with a lot
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of snow. One game got rescheduled to yesterday because of how much snow was
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there, so you know they had to. There's been a lot of the
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country that's been dealing with it. And I don't talk a lot weather locally
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here, but we have obviously some very cold weather coming in tonight. It's
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going to be incredibly cold tonight. And if you're listening to this on a
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Tuesday the sixteenth, prepare your home for what's coming in. It's going to
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be cold depending on where you're listening, but if you're listening in the Chattahooche
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Valley area gets colder than what we're used to. We do get this maybe
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a time or two throughout the year. If only we could have gotten some
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snow to go with it, but that's the problem. But just remember to
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take care of pets and plants and pipes. Those are the things that you
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have to be careful about when it gets really, really cold. But we're
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going to get a really cold night coming up tonight. It was cold last
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night, but that's more along our speed right out or close to freezing that
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sort of thing. Anyway, I got tired of hearing about how cold it
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was going to be in Iowa. That got old with the coverage. And
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it was cold, certainly it was cold. But you know, people in
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Iowa, they take such pride in being part of this caucus. They take
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such pride in the way that they do things. Everybody's always has to get
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it explained to him again how the caucus were the purple piece of paper and
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all that stuff. I did notice that there were it seemed at least people
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that I knew that, even ones that didn't technically have any elected position right
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now, that we're going to Iowa to be part of this. That's how
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excited they were. So you can't say that people wouldn't turn out when you
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had people that were flying to Iowa from Georgia to be part of the Iowa
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caucuses. But they happened. And I don't know that we know anything more
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now than we knew beforehand. I think overall, it's about what everybody expected,
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isn't it. I mean, maybe the only shock that comes out of
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it is when it seems that the polling is kind of accurate, or close
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to accurate, or a little off, but close to accurate. Maybe that's
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surprising. Now, I don't know. I don't know. I don't have
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a lot of confidence in polling anymore. You know, we went through you
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know, Hillary is going to win, and then she did not win.
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We went through Trump is going to win, and then he did not win.
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We went through the red wave is coming and that didn't happen. So
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there's not a lot of confidence I have in the polling. I just don't.
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We knew that Trump was going to win Iowa. We knew that there
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was a strong possibility that he was going to win big. We knew that
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they were probably going to call it early, and all of that happened.
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And that's a very strong indicator I guess of where things are, and it's
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exactly where they've been. Nothing has changed, nothing has changed at all.
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You know, you get Nikki Haley having a better showing than maybe she was
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going to probably have a while back. The dissantas voter is also a Trump
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voter in many cases, like a lot of the people that if they did
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not have Trump as an option, they would have gone with Dysantis, and
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DeSantis would have probably won Iowa. I mean, that's that's what we kind
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of see from all of this. That's what the indicators are is that if
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people didn't have Trump as an option, they probably would have gone with DeSantis.
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And I think, you know, you've got all the spin that's happening
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Haley's supporters and Haley's camp trying to say, well, look at a great
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showing that we had, but anyway, nothing has changed. The field is
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smaller. It's a lot smaller than Chris Christy dropped out, but it's smaller
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overall, and we're down to you know, seeing Trump win and win big.
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Isn't a shock. Nothing about this as a shock. The American people
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that are wanting to vote in the Republican primaries largely feel like that this witch
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hunt against Trump, that the using the Department of Justice, a sitting president
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of the United States, trying to keep him from being able to be eligible
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to run for president, something that is unprecedented, something that's never happened before,
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something that is the kind of thing that happens in countries that uh,
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you just look at and you go, my gosh. They're they're they're fighting
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for food, they're fighting for basic necessities in these countries, and they're they're
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using political power to try to keep their opponents from being able to run.
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It's the kind of thing that we just used to think there's no way it
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could happen here, and it's happening here. And that's what the perception is
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from a lot of voters. Is it possible that DeSantis or Hayley or even
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Ramaswami could have had a stronger showing amongst people that would have that are now
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voting for Trump, that did caucus for Trump in this case, Could they
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have pulled some of those voters if not for the Trump witch hunt? If
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you will, Is it possible that they made Trump stronger by indicting him in
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all these places? And that seems to be the case. That seems to
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be what's happened, and that seems to be where this whole election process is
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going forward. Is the American people that supported Trump before maybe they were growing
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a little weary of him, they felt like, oh, he didn't win,
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or you know, a lot I think a lot of the Trump voters
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probably still think that he won in the last election. But any of them
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that we're considering going anywhere else, I think they're only more resolved to support
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him. They're only more you know, resolute. They want to see him
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when just as a big giant middle finger back to bi Well, not just
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as that, but it's partly that. I do think it's partly that.
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And I think this Iowa caucus is no change, There's no This is like
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watching a debate that Trump didn't participate in, except in this case, obviously
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he did participate, and he was involved, and he did, you know,
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go around. DeSantis was in every county. I don't know if he
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was the only one who went to every county, but I know he went
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to every county and that was something that was part of the coverage constantly that
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he went to every county. So do we know anything more now than we
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did? No, I don't know that we do, not, not officially.
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Anyway, there's probably an indication that we're going to see that, you
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know, an indication that it's going to be time. I don't know how
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soon, but there'll be a point where it's going to be time to circle
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the wagons and support Trump. That's that's what Republicans are probably eventually going to
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have to do if any of these candidates think that they have a shot at
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winning primaries where Trump can't be on the ballot. That's not going to really
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mean anything. That won't count for anything. I know that Nikki Haley has
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said that she wants him on the ballot because she can beat him anyway.
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I just think that if he's not on the ballot, people aren't. First
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of all, it goes back to the notion that anybody who is going to
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vote for DeSantis that's decided to vote for Trump, if they didn't have Trump
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as an option, they probably would just vote for DeSantis. And that's if
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they turn out at all. I just don't see that Nicki Haley is going
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to win over very many Trump supporters. I don't know that that's necessarily the
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case. So I don't think we know anything more. I think it's just
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we've just made it official. We've had one official now that this caucus is
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done, We've had one official win for Trump, and that's been done.
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That's happened, And like I said, I don't think that we know anything
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at all any differently than than what we knew beforehand. So that's where we
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are. That's the the outcome of that. Another quick thing I just want
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to share, and this is completely separate to any any sort of political coverage
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at all. This is it's personal and it's something terrible that happened to some
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friends of ours on Friday. We have friends and their family friends and every
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every way. My my boys are friends with with their kids. They have
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a two kids, a daughter who's Luke's age and a son who is Jake's
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age. And they went to school together, elementary school together. The their
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son and Jake went to middle school together and are going to high school together.
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Uh. Their their daughter who is Luke's age, is not at the
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same school as as Luke, but she meant a lot to Luke. Uh
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in elementary school days. Both of them mean a lot to our kids.
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As far as their friendships and and the family. Uh, you know,
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we've known through this period of time. Uh, birthday parties and events,
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they've they've been there, They've been part of our lives since Luke was in
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kindergarten. I mean, that's that's how far back it goes. The it's
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the Sassar family, Eddie and Carra sass Are and their kids. Uh their
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how uh caught fire and burned on Friday and no one was home. They
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were safe. And when I say no one was home, the pets were
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home, but the family, the four of them were not in the house
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when it happened. And it happened early in the day on Friday, And
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I would just ask that certainly, if you know the sass Or family,
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you know the who were talking about, you know the people that we're talking
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about, uh, and if you don't know them that we're we've been in
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this mode of like, you know, what can we do, how can
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we help, and and just praying for them. And I would just ask,
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you know, if you're listening to the show and you're you're a praying
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person, that you would do that for them. I just I can't fully
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comprehend what all that they're going through as far as the pets go. There
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have been calls for people to keep an eye out in the in the area
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where they live for the pets, because they don't know if the pets got
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out or not. I went over the weekend on Sunday to their house and
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just tried to, you know, look for any signs of the pets in
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the house or out of the house. Now, I wasn't you know,
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going into the house myself. It's very much a very burned home. It's
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not a safe place to be in. So it wasn't that I was going
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into the house to look for the pets, but you know, looking in
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windows, trying to get a look with a light in certain parts, certain
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areas, under beds and things. Not something that I wanted to do,
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but something that I felt I needed to do for them. I didn't want
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them to be the ones to potentially find their pets. And it's just one
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of those things that you know, when the possibility of doing this came up,
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it wasn't something that I thought, wow, I want to do this,
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obviously, it's one of those things that you think, well, maybe
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I can do this for them, and it's a way that I can support
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them, And it didn't really hit me. I just sort of numbed myself
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to it, because you can't go into it thinking I'm going to watch this
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and see this look for this, you know, remains of animals sort of
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thing. It's a horrible thought, but it was something that I wanted to
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be able to do for them, and then I numbed myself to it until
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I got home, and then it was sort of that processing of what I
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was there and we didn't find anything, which means that you know, maybe
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the pets got out, and that's the hope that I know that the family
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is probably clinging to. And it's something that you know, people who care
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about them are clinging to. So anyway, they are obviously in need of
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a lot of things support And if you follow me on social media on Facebook,
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I've shared the uh, you know, ways that people can help if
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you're so inclined, if especially if you know them, But praying for them
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is just something that can be done. And I would just say this and
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and I don't know, I don't know any information about what caused the fire
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specifically, there have been a couple of things that have been said, possibilities
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of things. Just have a plan, uh in your home. Uh,
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you know, be be careful about certain things, take precautions and I'm not
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going to run through all the lists of precautions, but and just have a
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plan. Not a bad idea to talk, especially if you've got small kids
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or kids, to talk with them about what what the plan is if you
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have a fire in your home, if you have something that that happens.
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And this one apparently happened very quickly, and again the family was at home,
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but knowing that it's you know, something that could happen, it's something
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that could happen quickly, and it's something that it's just in the moment terrifying,
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horrifying, especially if you're in there all those sorts of things. So
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just doing that, talking with your family, talking with even other family that
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you have. You might have seniors in your life that you need to just
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check in on. Pete. This is a time of year when people are
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using space heaters. This is a time of year when people are you know,
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maybe using I remember as a kid, my dad used kerosene heaters in
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the house. And when you hear about fires. I just heard over the
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weekend about another fire somewhere northern part of Georgia where it was a kerosene fire
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that you know, a heater that that caught fire. So just you know,
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look in on people, look in on people in your life that may
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be doing that if it makes more sense, if they're having an issue with
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keeping their home heated in these colder days, If it makes sense and you're
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able to have someone in your home instead of them, you know, try
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to use an outdated heater in their home, that might be something that you
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can do and but again, just having a plan and keeping people in mind
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that are going through this, and that's all that I would ask. This
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is personal and it's people that I care about a lot, and I just
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I don't want anyone else, obviously to have to go through this. And
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it's one of those things that happens, and there's no explanation, there's no
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understated. You just you have to grieve it and you have to try to
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process it and try to find a way to say, well, at least
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the family got out of the house, they weren't home when it happened,
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and those sorts of things. So anyway, just keep this ass or family
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you've heard people talk about folks being addicted to their phone, but it turns
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out it's not really the phone that they're addicted to, at least according to
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a study, and this comes out of University of Granada, found that it's
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not the phones that people are addicted to, but the social interactions that the
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phones provide. I think that's a that's a fair elaboration on it, right,
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because clearly it's not specifically like if you just have a like a dumb
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phone and you're not doing any texting. I don't think that the phone is
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like your house phone. Nobody's addicted to their house phone, are they.
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I mean, when I was a kid, when I was a teenager,
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you know, we were addicted to the house phone. That makes sense because
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we didn't have cell phones. We didn't carry around a computer in our pocket
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full of social interactions. So I think that, you know, the addiction
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certainly comes in, maybe not even the social interactions, because sometimes it's gaming.
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You know, my twelve year old has a phone that he mainly uses
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for gaming. He's got a few friends that he texts with, but it's
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very much it's a smartphone, but it's a dumb phone. He doesn't have
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a lot of capability on it. There's not a whole lot he can do.
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His first phone was like an old jitterbug phone, not a real it
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was like that. But we upgraded him a little bit to a phone where
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there's a few games that he can play on it, and he's excited about
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that. So it's not so much the social interactions for him. I think
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it's more that the apps and things that are on the phone. But I
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appreciate the sort of being able to kind of expand on the idea that you're
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addicted to the phone, that it's not actually the phone, it's really you
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know that you're addicted to what's on the phone more so than just the phone
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itself. Specifically, did you survive Friday with your New Year's resolutions? If
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you made it through the holiday weekend and to hear on Tuesday morning, if
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you're still keeping up with your resolutions, that's a good good sign because this
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past Friday what's considered Quitter's Day, the second Friday in January, it's when
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people are most likely to give up on their resolutions. Twenty three percent of
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Americans admit that they did not succeed in accomplishing their resolutions, and a study
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found only fifty five percent of participants stuck to their resolutions for the whole month
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of January. That's typical. So if you did, if you made it
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through the weekend and you're still keeping strong with your resolutions, that's a good
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sign. You might be able to make it to the month. You got
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to get a couple months in. You got to get to that point where
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you're just like, that's what you do, now, that's what you do.
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I had a situation where Marie Condo, the expert on like downsizing and
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organizing things. I was watching an episode of her show. It was a
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huge mistake. I never should have done that to begin with, because you
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realize what a hoarder you are when you watch that. But she she had
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an episode and she was showing the proper way to full your clothes to maximize
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your space, like in your dresser, and she showed the right way to
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fold underwear, and I thought, well, I can do that, and
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I just started doing it, and of course Jill said, you're never like
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that's not gonna last. You're not going to keep doing that, and like
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it almost turned into like just to spite her, I'm going to keep doing
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it forever, not really to spite her, but just to show her I
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can do this. And I don't know if she's played like this is a
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game that she's played with me. I think she tried to do it with
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other things to get me to do things that I wasn't gonna do because I
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don't. I guess it's the randomness of the underwear that made me do it.
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But I still do it. That's how I That's how I fold my
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underwear now. It's just the reality of of how I do it. That's
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what I do so and it wasn't necessarily a New Year's resolution. It's just
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that's what I do now. Yeah. So you know, coming up February
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eleventh, that's it's a Super Bowl Sunday, right, It's my birthday also,
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so think about that when you're watching the Super Bowl. But the twentieth
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edition of the Puppy Ball will happen on Animal Planet, and this year it'll
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have something they've never had before. A four legged assistant referee. I don't
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like the legged should just be four legged, shouldn't it, joining Danish shrainer
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on the field to officiate the action will be a like a mixed dog.
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Is a b Shon Frieze poodle? Some of these dogs, I don't know
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how to say them. Whistles the dog's name, it's appropriate, is it
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b Sean Friezee? Uh So. The shrainer, who is actually fostering Whistle,
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admits that Whistle is a terrible at calling penalties and instilling respect from the
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players. She gets walked over, sometimes literally, but she's sure cute.
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Puppy Bowl twenty will feature a record one hundred and thirty one pups from seventy
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three shelters around the country and we'll kick off before the Super Bowl at two
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