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Some Free Speech Is More Free Than Other Free Speech · 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 Carol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twenty
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third day of August. I'm West thanks for joining me. Working our way
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through this week of it's a weird week. It's a weird week in August.
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To me, it is because we obviously have Labor Day next weekend,
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so we get through this week and then we have the holiday weekend on the
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other side of that, and I know the holiday weekend is kind of the
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unofficial start of fall for a lot of people, where it's the end of
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summer and you know, you go, well, technically there's a astronomical end,
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but you know, we look at things by the calendar, and September
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usually typically is when we start to look at the fall. I know,
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the weather yesterday was ridiculous and it's hard to even think that we're knocking on
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the door of fall already. But I did see some leaves on the ground.
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I'm not sure, and I noticed him yesterday for the first time,
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and I'm not sure if those leaves fell because we're hitting the autumnal cycle right,
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I don't know if it's or if they just burned to a crisp and
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fell on the ground. I'm not sure what happened yesterday, but I did
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notice some leaves down. So we are getting to that phase of our seasons,
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whether we can accept it or not and want to go by the you
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know, well, astronomically, it doesn't happen until you know the equinox.
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Stars. But we're we're winding down with just you know, a week and
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a half left really of August of that, you know, calendar wise,
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when you look at the calendar and you start talking about seasons, and as
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I'll probably that up Friday night, so it'll be ready to go by the
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time the show will air on and it'll be longer form on the podcast,
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So what you hear on the radio will be shorter. Well, you hear
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on the podcast will be longer. That's the way it works, all right.
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So let's talk about this uh incident that happened in California over the weekend.
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And oh, I know, we got the debate tonight, by the
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way, and we'll talk more about that later in the week. I you
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know, there's a lot going on with the debate. There's a lot still
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going on with the Trump indictment, their stuff going on with you know,
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there've been setting bonds and bail and all that stuff. So but well,
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we'll talk more about all of that as we get towards the end of the
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week. Right now, I want to talk about this incident over the weekend
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because I haven't talked about it yet, and it's a woman, an athlete,
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Sophia Laurie, who was a college athlete, and she was invited to
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speak at an event where she was going to talk about women in sports.
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You can probably already see where this is going. This was in California,
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so you probably guess where this is going. But she was just talking,
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trying to talk, I guess, advocating for women's rights, women's rights in
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sports, their rights to play sports, their rights to compete in sports.
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And she wanted to specifically address the fact that she did not feel and she
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does not currently feel that women, young girls will have the same opportunity as
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women coming up in sports because she's concerned about biological men competing in sports that
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were intended to be for biological women, and she specifically was addressing biological girls
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and biological men. She says, as she started to speak, she was
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cut off, and then I guess later she was cut off again. Librarian
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finally told her to leave and that if she didn't leave, the whole meeting
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was going to get it shut down. This is according to Sophia Lorie,
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who was giving this. She posted this on x you know, it's the
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social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and the librarian kept saying, basically,
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you're mis gendering. You were talking about men and women's sports, and
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I guess they kept shouting out to her that in the state of California,
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trans women are recognized as women by California law, and that's the case.
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So let's let's talk about that a little bit. First of all, it's
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amazing to me, and it should be horrifying to every single one of us
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that we do have people in our country who aren't allowed to speak the mine,
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they're not allowed to have a different opinion, they're not allowed to exercise
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their First Amendment rights because there is another group of people who thinks that their
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opinion is more important and their opinion is more valid. The very fact that
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this issue of women competing in sports has now become an issue that is protected
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in some ways because you can't talk about it. So it's protected by a
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California law. And there's a few other states I believe that have similar laws
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that say that you can't miss gender. A person. A trans person is
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the gender that they are transitioning into or have transitioned into. So a trans
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man is a man and a transwoman is a woman according to this law in
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California. Okay. And I'm assuming that this librarian is speaking the truth on
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this law. I've seen this law pair of raised before. I don't want
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to be one of those people who says that the law is that, you
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know, not completely, not completely what it really is. I don't want
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to be disingenuous with it, because that's what's been happening in Florida and Georgian
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places that don't say gay stuff that they've been using to attack Ronda Santis because
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nothing about that law was about not saying gay. Okay, we we know
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that here, I hope, But that's not it's just disingenuous. It's lying.
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I mean, it's it's a misrepresentation about what the law was intended for.
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So this particular law, as I understand it, and as it was
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shouted to Sophia Laurie, who was speaking at this event, that California law
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says trans women are women, and that therefore she's breaking that law and violating
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that law when she's referring to biological men playing sports with women or biological boys
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playing sports with girls biological girls. I guess so according to that, the
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law ultimately will shape the way this particular issue gets discussed. It wasn't so
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long ago that there were fights to get women the opportunity, the funding,
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and the ability to play sports the same as boys being able to play sports.
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That was something that was a hard fought battle. Imagine a scenario if
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you will that I just think women's right to vote. Okay, so fighting
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hard for the right to vote and then finding out later that men who had
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transitioned into women had the right to vote twice. Okay. I know that's
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not an exact tit for tat kind of comparison, but I mean apples and
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oranges a little bit, but there are some similarities. Maybe it's it's two
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kinds of citrus fruit, you know, Maybe that's what we're getting at.
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It's not quite apples and oranges. We're talking, we're talking about two different
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kinds of citrus. You know, maybe we're comparing, you know, like
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a nectarine to an orange, right, maybe something like that. So I
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don't know I'm reaching for this metaphor. But my point is the very fact
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that not so long ago, this was a real fight. It was for
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funding. It was for funding in schools, colleges, universities, middle schools,
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high schools. This was a fight to make sure that female athletes got
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the same opportunities that the male athletes had. You couldn't just say boys are
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gonna play basketball and football and baseball and soccer, and the girls are gonna
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do cheerleading. And if one girl wants to try to make it on one
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of those teams, god bless her, We'll give her a chance to try
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to make the team. And if we have a no cut policy, then
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yeah, you're gonna get some girls on the team. There was a fight
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to make sure that that wasn't the way it was. There was a I
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mean, a real fight. It makes me think, and I know that
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this is a bigger stretch I think. But you know, I say all
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the time when we feel like our liberties are just being handed away all of
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our liberties when we feel like things like our first Amendment right is just being
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given away. Because in this situation, when the loud people in a room
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shout down a person who's trying to speak and advocate for girls rights in sports,
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ultimately she has to surrender and walk away. She's got to just leave
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the room and walk away, even though it's a public library, which she
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should be able to be in and speak, but she's got to walk away.
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She's ultimately got to admit, Okay, my First Amendment right isn't the
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same as yours. It's not equal. Think about what that would mean to
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our founders. Think about the people who fought in the American Revolution, the
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actual patriots who fought and hoped that we would achieve something special here, and
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our founders who decided we need this protection. We need this ability for our
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citizens to be able to say anything they want to say and have it protected
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anything at all. But instead we've entered this society now where we say,
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if it's bad, if it's racist, if it's sexist, if it makes
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me feel a certain way, if it's offensive, then you can't say it,
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even though in principle you should be able to say those things. I
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say that without being an advocate for those things. I don't like to say
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things that make people uncomfortable. I don't walk into a room and say,
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what can I say to make this room go real awkward, real fast.
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I don't do that. That's not my goal. That's not my intention.
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The idea of walking into a group of my friends for the sole purpose of
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just talking about politics, it's not necessarily something I want to do. If
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I walk into a room of friends that I know what their politics are and
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we're there to talk about politics, that's one thing. But just to walk
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into a gathering of people blind and just start talking about politics, that's awkward.
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I don't want to do that. That's not what I want to do.
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Now. Did Sophia Lorie know that she was going to be speaking an
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event that there was going to be some issue and contention. Maybe probably so.
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But that's what she was there to do, was to speak on behalf
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of people who aren't able to speak up. Imagine what her founders would think.
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You just you know, you don't. Their First Amendment rights are more
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port than your First Amendment rights. I was just talking with a friend the
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other day about this, about this very thing, and I talked about this
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on the show not long ago. It's not illegal to be dumb. It's
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not illegal to be racist. It's not illegal, not with words, it's
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illegal to do racist things. In some circumstances, it's illegal. You know,
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you can't do hateful things. It can't be considered a hate crime,
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is what I'm getting at. But if somebody wants to speak up and talk
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about any sort of offensive thing, most of them it's protected. They have
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a right to do it. But what's happened with states like California that have
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this in place. When it comes to mis gendering people being offensive or considered
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hate speech, It all depends on the context, doesn't it. If you
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walk up to a person who's living their life as a woman and you happen
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to know that they were biologically born a man and nobody could really tell the
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difference, and you out them, I would think that could be considered hateful
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and it would be just be nasty. That wouldn't be fair. It's not
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a nice thing to do to another person. Never. But if you're just
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standing up for the rights of girls that would like to compete in sports,
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I would think that that would be protected. I would hope that that would
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be protected. But apparently that's not the case. That's not protected. That's
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not something that you're allowed to do in a state like California. You don't
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have that right. It's not an option for you to walk in and say,
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hey, girls have a right to play sports. We just fought for
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this. Why are we handing it away? Why are we giving it away.
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We're supposed to fight for those things. We're supposed to fight for the
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things that we've earned and that should be available to us, Like free speech.
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We're supposed to fight for that. We're supposed to stand up for it
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and fight for it. But when you stand up for it and fight for
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it, you got to be careful where you're doing it, because if you
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happen to be anywhere near I don't know, the Nation's Capitol building, if
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you're outside in the streets somewhere and someone walks past you and they go inside,
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you might be in trouble. And all you were doing is trying to
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stand up and be heard. And no, it's not illegal to say that
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you think that the presidency was stolen. It's not against the law. It
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wasn't against the law. When Hillary Clinton felt that way. It wasn't against
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the law, when Al Gore felt that way. It wasn't against the law.
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When John Lewis said it many many times over the years he spent most
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of the last years of his life denying elections. It wasn't against the law
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when Stacy Abrams did it. It's not against the law, but being associated
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with it in some way because it's something that you wrote on x slash Twitter,
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it's something that you said to someone in the street before they went inside.
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It's a scary time. This is someone who was standing up for girls
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rights, standing up for women's rights to compete in sports, something that you
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would think we would all be behind. But somehow the people who make sense,
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that have common sense about this issue or pushed aside for people who are
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just being loud about it. The people who have nothing else to do while
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these events are taking place, and they show up and they protest and they
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argue it, and maybe they even travel state to state. I don't know.
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I don't know where these people come from, but there seemed to be
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everywhere, and they seem to be always the loudest voice in the room.
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And the loudest voice doesn't necessarily mean you have all the rights. It just
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sixty nine thousand in July of twenty twenty one, workers with college degrees now
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expecting a salary of at least ninety eight thousand, six hundred dollars a year
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to accept a new job. Wow. And you know there's that old adage.
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It's all a big cycle, but it's interesting that is a lot ninety eight
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thousand, six hundred to accept a new job. If you've got a college
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degree, all the more reason you need to go to college. I don't
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their lunch boxes. Okay, just for a second here, I love peanut
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butter and jelly sandwiches. By the way, I had peanut butter and jelly
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sandwiches for lunch yesterday. As a matter of fact, I do Apple is
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my go to jelly for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'll do the
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others. I like strawberry, I like grape, I'll go through many of
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the different flavors of jelly, but apple is my go to. The thing
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about coffee creamers, and I know there's different ones, and there are different
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people with different tastes. I understand that, But to me, the best
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kind of coffee creamer is the one that tastes like cream. That's just me
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and I understand not everybody shares that. And then you can throw in a
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few things that will also enhance the coffee flavoring. Right, You can throw
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in a butterscotch coffee creamer. You can throw in a pumpkin spice coffee creamer.
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You can throw in French vanilla, you can throw there are a number
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of different things that you can put in the coffee creamer that will still let
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it reasonably taste like coffee and enhance it a bit. If you start throwing
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in like ham sandwich into your coffee creamer, I don't know that that's gonna
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be. And I know peanut butter and jelly is different than a ham sandwich,
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but it's that's just a bit. Isn't it a bit much? A
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peanut butter and jelly coffee creamer? Now I realize unless I actually tasted it,
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I can't fully speak on this. I will say this and I do.
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As a kid, I grew up doing this. We would make toast,
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we would put peanut butter on it, and then we would we would
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dip it in coffee. Now I didn't drink coffee as a kid, but
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we would dip toast in coffee. Peanut butter toast in coffee. I still
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do it as an adult sometimes, so I do like the peanut butter taste
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with coffee, but typically it's with toast I have and I will admit this
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I have before when I make Jake off and will I have just a peanut
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butter sandwich for lunch. And if I make his lunch in the morning,
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I'll put my little bit of creamer or milk in my coffee and I will
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usually stir it with the knife that I used to make his peanut butter sandwich.
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So again, it's getting that little bit of coffee, a little bit
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of peanut butter flavor in my coffee. But peanut butter and jelly, I
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just that doesn't seem to be a good idea. I'm guessing maybe that's the
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origin for it. If you've made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and you're stirring
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your coffee with that knife. Maybe I don't know. Finally, people who
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wake up in the morning and they're cheerful and they're just obnoxious, turns out
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they're actually happier. A study done by the American Psychological Association found that early
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birds are happier and more successful in night owls. They also tend to be
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more proactive, get better grades, are better at anticipating and minimizing problems,
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and are at a lower risk for depression. So you know, those are
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all good reasons to get to bed earlier and wake up earlier. You know,
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those are all good reasons. But you know, binge watching a show
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until three in the morning, that's a good reason to stay up late too.
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It doesn't really affect all those positive things. Does it give you better
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grades and make you more proactive and better at anticipating in minimizing problems. It's
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probably opposite of that, because it says you want to watch another show and
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then you hit it because you're not anticipating and minimizing your problem. So I'm
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just pointing out you can watch more TV, or you can get up and
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be productive and do all those positive things according to this particular study. What
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are the folks that American Psychological Association no anyway, that'll do it for this
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