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Twenty Is the Magic Number · 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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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Monday morning, twenty second
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day of January. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me, working our way
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through the month of January. How's it already almost February? I don't know.
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It seems like it just started. The year just started, didn't it.
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We're just watching Green Day on TV and getting mad about it. I
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don't know what happened. It's amazing, isn't it. Green Day goes on
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TV, they take a slap at Trump, everybody gets mad. All of
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a sudden, they're on a tour, kicking off a tour, and everybody's
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all about it. They're all excited about watching green It's a great show.
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I've seen Green Day. I didn't pay to see Green Day, but I
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did go see Green Day. And then but the fact that they just push
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some buttons got everybody all worked up, got everybody all fired up. Who
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knew that Green Day, who has always been very liberal, would hate Donald
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Trump? Who knew such a thing. It just seems so out of nowhere,
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isn't it? So here? We are we're pushing our way towards election
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day. I know it's less than ten months away, so we've got to
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prepare ourselves for that. We have to brace ourselves for the onslaught that's coming.
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And I know we got New Hampshire about to happen. We got it's
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all starting to shape up exactly the way they've been saying it's going to shape
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up for the whole time. The questions that we really have at this point,
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it comes down to the whole Fannie Willis thing, Fanny Fannie I've heard
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both. I like Fanny better as a name for her, but I think
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she says Fani. I don't really know or really care, to be honest,
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there's a certain point where some people you feel like I should try to
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get it right, and some people it's just not important. And she's got
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a number of now accusations that she's going to have to somehow account for,
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other than at her church where she said I'm a black woman, I make
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mistakes or whatever she said at church. But we'll see if and we may
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talk more about that in the coming days and weeks, because February fifteenth,
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I guess, is the big day for all that. But that aside,
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I want to talk about the World Health Organization because the election, there's a
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lot that's kind of hanging in the balance. Well, it was definitely a
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lot hanging the balance, but there's a lot hanging in the balance when it
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comes to how this election will be conducted versus how the election four years ago
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was conducted. And I say that because four years ago, at this point,
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we were we didn't even really know what was coming yet when it came
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to the pandemic, we had no clue what was coming. We were in
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that phase of like starting to pay attention to what was happening in other countries.
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We were paying very close attention to Italy and France. We were watching
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that very closely, but we didn't really know exactly what was happening. Trump
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was getting ready to ban travel from China and those sorts of things. All
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that was at one time that was called races. Then later that was called
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now that was the right thing to do. But anyway, there was just
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a lot of confusion, There was a lot of uncertainty. All of that
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was getting ready to start. We just didn't think we treated it like we
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did the others. We treated it like you know, the bird flus and
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the pig flus and whatever, all that stuff, right, the mad cow,
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every bit of that. We just treated it like that, it's no
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big deal, it's not gonna happen. And then suddenly it was right here
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and there were people dying, and it got really serious, really fast.
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But we were still really confused. We didn't know what to do. And
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as it went on we started to understand the people that were in charge were
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telling us things that maybe weren't the best thing to do. We had people
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on the left saying, you can't get the Trump vaccine, and then as
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soon as they took over and Biden and Harris changed their whole tune. No,
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no, you have to get the vaccine. Everybody has to get the
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vaccine. There were Trump supporters who, for some reason thought Trump didn't want
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them to get the vaccine. I never really figured that one out. But
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Trump's the one who did the expedite of the vaccine, got it to market,
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got it to where people could use it. He took it, and
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for some reason people were like, Trump doesn't want us to take it.
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They got really serious about their anti vax part of that with Trump. They
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associated it with him. I don't know what his current stance is on it.
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I don't know, but I think a lot of us have had time
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to process what happened, how it happened, and start making our own decisions.
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A lot of things we were encouraged to make decisions out of fear.
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And that's what I want to talk about today, because fear is a big
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motivator when it comes. Anger and fear are the things that we often get
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motivated to make rash decisions with. I've talked about this a lot. I
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know some interviews that I've done with politicians over the years, and a lot
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of times we finish up and I'm not pointing fingers at any particular one,
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and I highly discourage you from trying to guess which one. Some of these
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people I know better than others, Okay, and I'm not necessarily talking about
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them. It's just some people that I've talked to that will say, very
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candidly, this is the game, now, this is the dance. You
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upset them, you make them angry, or you get them afraid, and
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that motivates them to show up on election day. All right, That's just
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what happens, and that is a motivator. It's also a motivator to get
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people to push politicians and policies to the forefront that are going to do certain
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things that maybe aren't always in the best interest of the nation. You know,
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we can talk about the world, we can get into that, but
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for now, let's just focus on American interests. There are things that we
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don't look out for our own interests, and we look out for other things
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with fear. Climate change is a big one. Climate change is one of
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those things that twenty years we're gonna all be dead. Twenty years, there'll
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be no polar bears, twenty years, there'll be no ice caps. Twenty
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years, California won't exist, twenty years, Florida will be gone. All
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these things that they just say everything's in twenty years. It used to be
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twenty years there'll be an ice age and we'll all die. And then it
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was twenty years where the whole planet's going to be on fire. And every
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time the twenty year mark arrives, comes and goes, it just it fades
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away. Something about the number twenty. There's always something about this number twenty
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that I think motivates us. And I don't know, there has to be
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like a focus group that sat down somewhere at some point and said, twenty.
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That's your sweet spot, that's your number. Twenty years. What about
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in five years, when it hasn't really progressed that much, We'll push it
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back to twenty again. It's always twenty years away. Twenty is always the
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thing that we have to be terrified of. Well, they're in Davos now
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and having their annual it's all fly planes into this place and tell everybody why
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they private jets and why they shouldn't be driving cars that aren't run on batteries
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that are way worse for the planet than old fashioned gasoline cars. But anyway,
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they're having it. That's what they do. They get together and they
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have these meetings, and then while they're there, they're talking about, Oh,
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we got this climate crisis, was it? John Carey's daughter, Oh
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my gosh, we're in so much trouble. I don't know that I heard
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her use the word twenty, but I'm pretty sure somewhere in all of everything,
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twenty is that magic, scary number that we have to all be terrified
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of. We have to be just very afraid of twenty. Right, We
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just have to know that twenty is the point where we're all in big trouble.
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So they used fear in twenty twenty. There's two twenties in there.
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They used fear to get us to change the way that we did elections.
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They used fear to get us to a point where we would say, you
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know what, we're going to focus on these drop boxes in places, and
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we're going to focus on a number of different ways that people can vote.
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And there's a lot to be questioned, there's a lot of confusion, there's
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a lot that people still want them to be held into account for what happened
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during that election. The election happened, it was certified, and Joe Biden
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was president. That's everything. Even the people who dispute it at some point
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have to get to that point where they say that's what happened. And that's
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that you can argue and say he never should have been the president, he
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never whatever. And there's still people who think that Al Gore another person who
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liked to tell us that in twenty years we were all going to die,
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it should have been the president stead of George W. Bush, Right,
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But the reality is it denied. All you want, it happened, You
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move on, and that's where we are now, So now we have to
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be concerned about what's going to happen this year in this election. I told
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you a couple of months ago, they were talling, oh, there's a
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new virus in China, this mystery virus that is going to work its way
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into the States, and they were starting to freak out about it. And
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I told you, then, don't be surprised if we don't get to a
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point where there's no way we can have this election unless we go back to
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drop boxes and you can't go in in person, and you're gonna have to
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mail it in, and they're going to have to send I don't know,
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homeless people around door to door to try to talk senior citizens into signing their
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vote over to them and they'll fill out the ballots. Forum or whatever was
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going on in Texas a few years ago, or twenty sixteen to be specific,
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not just a few years ago. I guess we're looking at eight years
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ago now. So let's talk about viruses and how they could play out,
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because apparently at this going on in Davos, World Health Organization now a World
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Economic Forum, said that there is a and they've been talking about this for
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a few years I think twenty twenty one is when they really kind of started
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cooking this up. But here we are, twenty twenty four, an election
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year in the States, as we're being told, oh, there is a
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hypothetical virus that's out there that might get us, and we need to be
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very concerned. It doesn't exist yet, but it might exist one day.
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And this hypothetical virus. Are you ready? It's twenty times deadliervan COVID.
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It's twenty times deadlier than COVID nineteen twenty. Oh, that's really scary.
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It's that number. I'm telling you. They had people sitting in a room
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and they were like, Okay, how scared would you be? I told
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you it was ten times, ten times more dangerous than COVID nineteen And they
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were like, oh, we'll fill out our form. Okay, that's not
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scoring great. How about if we said it was fifty times it's really I
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thought that would score higher. It doesn't. What about twenty Ah, it's
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our number, that's our number. Twenty once again wins out on the fear
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factor. Twenty times deadlier. Now it's not a real virus, it's not
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a real disease, it's not a real it's called disease X. It's not
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real. It does not exist, but it could be twenty times deadlier than
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COVID nineteen if it did exist. Could be that's what we need to be
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concerned about. And they want world leaders to sign the WHO Pandemic Treaty so
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the world can be ready for disease X. You know, the one that's
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twenty times deadlier even though it doesn't exist. It's twenty times deadlier if it
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did exist, up to twenty times deadlier. They love that twenty don't they.
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Maybe if they told us that the disease was twenty years away. No,
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they're not going to do that. They got to get us scared about
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that right now. So this is the deal. If this other virus that
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did exist in China had made its way here or still does, I don't
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know. I don't know how that's going to play out now. Maybe it's
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gonna almost get here and then, like you know, Taylor Swift will stop
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it or whatever. I don't know if she's going to come in and magic
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powers hands and make it go away, her and Travis Kelcey and then it's
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just gonna go away. I don't know. All that could still happen.
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Okay, I'm still waiting to find out what her role is big picture wise
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in this twenty twenty four election. She has one. We're gonna find out
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what it is. I don't know what it is yet, but it's coming.
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But if that thing had made its way over here, a couple of
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things would happen, right Because think about twenty twenty Trump everything was going great,
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we all had money in our pockets, everything was going great. There
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were people who hated him. Those people were the ones that pounced and actually
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said on social media, this is our chance to get him, and they
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seized it. They saw COVID as that disaster, that tragedy that they could
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pounce on and find a way to get rid of Trump with it, and
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they did. They utilized everything in their power that they could to get rid
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of Trump with COVID. And they said, oh, he didn't handle it
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well, he didn't do his due diligence. And Biden said on TV the
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number of people that he let die with COVID, no one should be president
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of the United States if they let that many people die while they're president.
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Now, since Biden's been in office, more than that number of people have
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died of COVID and that's not I mean, that's just that's not the early
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numbers. That's not the you know, Governor Cuomo, sticking all the elderly
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people in nursing homes in the same place, breathing the same air and dying.
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That's not a lot of the bad decisions that got made initially concerning hospitalization.
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That's not that. This is the prolonged time in office realizing I guess
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because they're not talking about that. And when he got asked, hey,
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you still feel that way, should you step down? Of course he doesn't
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want to step down. He's changed his tune on that. Well, he
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doesn't have a tune. That's part of the advantage of being a president that
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no one ever really holds into account as far as press conferences or briefings.
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He doesn't have to do that stuff. He's allowed to just watch Matt Locke
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and Murder She Wrote, and Highway to Heaven, whatever he's doing, and
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then you take a nap, and that's all he's got to do. Go
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on vacation again. I'm all for presidents going on vacation. By the way,
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I don't have any issues with them taking vacations. It's a tough job.
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They should take vacations, but you should also have a press briefing where
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people can ask you any question that they want to ask you. The press
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should be able to ask, and it's not scripted, and you don't know
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the answers, you don't know who to call on, and those sorts of
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things. But anyway, so if that virus were to get here now and
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cause the kinds of problems and complications to our economy that happened in twenty twenty,
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you would definitely expect folks on the right to say, well, wait
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a minute, you're not handling any better than we did. You're not handling
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this any better than Trump did, So why do you get to be president
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again? See that argument then would backfire on them. Would So what do
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they do now? World Health Organization has given us a hypothetical made up doesn't
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exist disease. It's twenty times more powerful that an actual than COVID nineteen,
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which is real. They've come up with this art and I guess that's what
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the X is. I mean, I was never great at the old algebra,
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but you know, you throw the X in. I assume that's why
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it's you know X times which is twenty X equals twenty. I thought X
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equal ten, That's what I thought. But Roman numerals. I don't know.
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I was better at Latin than I was at algebra. But anyway,
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so we got this made up disease. It's not real. But if they
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can get us scared, and they can get us to sign over our rights
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as a nation to the World Health Organist, why would we do that.
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A lot of what they told us to do during COVID was not right,
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wasn't good, wasn't the right decisions. It wasn't what we needed to do.
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So they want us to sign it over so they can be prepared so
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that they can control people, can manage them. That's the word they used.
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The head of the World Health Organization said, we lost many people during
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COVID because we couldn't manage them. They could have been saved, but there
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was no space, there wasn't enough oxygen. So how can we have a
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system that can expand when the need comes? And it's through this treaty.
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It's what's the commitment going to be. I don't know. I didn't really
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dive into this. What the expectations are for the US versus everyone else.
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But I assume it's like all the other treaties where climate treaties, where the
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US is expected to pay for most of it or a lot of it or
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whatever. So I assume it's in that vein, right, Don't you think
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that's probably where it's all headed. He says. The Pandemic Agreement can bring
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all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced, and all the
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solutions into one. That agreement can help help us to prepare for the future
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in a better way. This is a common global interest and very narrow national
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interests should not come in the way. Very narrow national interests, So be
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afraid, be very afraid. It's twenty times more powerful. It's not real,
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it doesn't exist, but it's twenty times stronger, even though I don't
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understand how is this possible? Twenty that's the one in the focus group.
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and the report indicated there would be consequences for workers not willing to return to
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the office. A third of companies said that they would fire workers who didn't
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return to the office. More than half said they'd consider reducing a worker's salary.
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Sixty three percent of the company's company surveyed said that they believe going to
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the office will improve work culture, while twenty nine percent said that working at
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the office will reduce burnout. This seems drastic when we have this hypothetical fake
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disease out there that's twenty times more powerful than COVID nineteen. Why would you
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want people to come back in the office when there's a chance that a fake
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disease could come just like a wave over our shores, like a tsunami of
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death. It doesn't exist, but what if it did. Why would you
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want all these people back in the office. That just sounds irresponsible, doesn't
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it that. I'll do it for this Monday edition of the show. Thanks
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