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Why Is It Important to Me? Why Is It Imporant to You? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, seventh day of
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February. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me zipping on through this week?
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Aren't we just flying by inchin a little closer to her? A week away
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from Valentine's Day? I hope you're all set for that at this point.
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I've said this before, and I offer this just as a tip, as
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a kind piece of advice. I'll probably say it again before next week.
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I just lobb that out there for you just so you can hear it,
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process it, do whatever you got to do, because it does take a
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little bit of forethought. If you haven't already organized something, if you've already
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made plans for Valentine's Day, that's great. But and I've said this before
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in my home, I'm very blessed in that Jill does not expect me to
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buy her anything extravagant for Valentine's Day. Everybody says it's a trap. Don't
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don't believe it, and that's not the case. That's not where we are.
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Don't We don't play those little games. I know that some couples do,
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and I'm thankful I've been in relationships in the very very distant past thankfully
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that I don't have to worry about that stuff anymore. But I've been down
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that road, but not in this case. Jill and I have a very
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set way that we do things for Valentine's, that we make sure that we
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make the day special in some capacity. We just don't go for anything overly
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extravagant with purchases. We just don't go down that road. I want to
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lob this out there to you, though, because many people do, and
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we don't knock anyone that does. You're certainly entitled to that if that's what
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you want to do. So I just lobbed this little bit of advice to
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you, and it's free. It's one of the many free services I provide
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here on the show. You find out if you don't already know the wedding
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flower, right if you're married or you know, everybody knows, you find
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out what their favorite flower is. That's great, but typically with the wedding
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flower, and this is great for anniversary as well. But you find out
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the wedding flower if you don't already know it, and it may take getting
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a photo out of the wedding album, and you take it to the florist
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when you're getting the flowers for Valentine's Day or the anniversary, and you say
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I want I want some of these. You just point at it and you
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say, this is the flower I want, and uh, and then that's
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what you get, and they like it because they know that you paid attention.
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And then you get the florist to tell you the name of the flower
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and then make a note of it somewhere so that you don't forget it.
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And then and then they love that you were paying attention, right, They
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love that you were paying attention. And you don't have to even tell them
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that I gave you this bit of advice. I mean, if you want
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to, I'll take credit, but I'm I'm not in this for the credit.
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I just want I want you to know then I'm here for you.
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I'm available for you for these kinds of bits of advice. That's all.
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Here we are on a Wednesday, and I want to talk about something.
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It's one of those topics that it comes up from time to time. It
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comes up because of a movie casting or a TV show casting, and it
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ends up being one of those little things that people kind of squabble about on
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social media. You know, they just they it's not a real fight.
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I mean they kind of fight. You get prodded and provoke. And it
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kind of ties in a little bit with what's going on with the Oscars and
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the Barbie movie, a little bit of that, but not specifically that.
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It also relates a little bit maybe to I don't know, super Bowl and
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Taylor Swift. Maybe a tad, but not a lot. I'm not going
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to spend a whole lot of time on that today. I may talk about
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her again before maybe tomorrow, maybe a little bit Friday, I don't know,
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probably some after Monday, because I do suspect she's going to fly in
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a private jet back to the States to be at the super Bowl because you
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know, she wants, she wants to be seen, she wants to be
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on TV. All that, and I'm not faulting anybody for that. But
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is it worth sacrificing all of your principles and your creed concerning environmental issues to
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do that just to be seen on TV? I would argue, no,
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that should not be what someone does. But again I'm an and not if
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that's what you're screaming about. I wouldn't have a problem with anyone just doing
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it, but if someone tells me it's like when al Gore was popped for
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having the highest electricity bill anywhere in the state of Tennessee, and he said,
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oh, well, I buy carbon credits to offset it and buy those
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from the company that so he was just you know, moving twenty dollars from
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one pocket to the others what he was doing. Well, here's an idea.
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Turn off the lights, shut off the power. If you care about
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the planet, if you think that we're all going to die in twenty years,
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just shut everything off. Maybe just have one little lamp on, one
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led light lamp on in the room that you're in. That's all you need.
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Maybe you when Tipper in the other room, that's two lights. That's
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all you need. Don't run the heat, don't run the electricity. Just
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if they're cold, wear jackets and you know that proves that you really care.
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And it would show that Taylor really cares about the environment. If she
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stays put in Japan and just watches the Super Bowl on TV like everyone else,
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I think that would say more about her environmental stance That's just my thoughts
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on it. But anyway, who am I to judge? But what I
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do want to talk about is this casting thing with movies because and I say
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it relates to the Taylor Swift thing, and it relates to the Oscar thing,
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because we're in this identity thing and we're in this thing where we're like,
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people are being called sexist if they don't support Taylor Swift being at the
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super Bowl. They're being called sexist if they don't want Margot Robbie to win
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the Oscar, which she was not nominated for for Barbie and the director of
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the movie who had, by the way, a movie that grossed over a
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billion dollars, right, anybody would be happy to have that. In most
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circumstances, you just go, oh my gosh, it's a movie about a
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toy. Ultimately, it's a movie made to sell toys. Because don't kid
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yourself, g I Joe, Transformers, Barbie Lego movie, even Battleship,
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for crying out loud, it was about selling toys. That's really what it's
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about. All those cartoons from my childhood, a lot of them with the
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same names. They not Battleship, but they were about selling toys. You
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know, they came up with you know, in some cases they came up
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with a cartoon just for the purposes of trying to promote and sell the toys.
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In some cases, the toy was there and they said, the kids
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don't even know what this is. We got to come up with a reason
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for them to even care about the toy, and then that's what they did.
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So it's about selling toys ultimately. Now people said, oh, Barbie
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is more than that. It's not just about selling toys. It's about a
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message. Well, yeah, it's a message. They beat you over the
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head with it. They repeated it over and over and over again. They
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said the word patriarchy a thousand times in the movie. That and Barbie,
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you know, the first ten minutes of the movie, you heard the name.
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Barbie said, I don't know. It was like the F bomb at
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the beginning of pulp fiction. It was a lot. It was excessive in
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both counts. Anyway, So you get called sexist if you're not in full
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support of those two things, and then you get called racist or sexist or
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transphobic or homophobic or whatever whatever name it is if you're not all in for
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a either a gender swap or a race swap of a character in a movie.
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Specifically, it's coming up a lot in Disney movies. And what ends
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up happening. And I've noticed this is we first we get the reasoning behind
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it is because representation matters. That's what we get told. Representation is important,
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you know, Okay, And then they say, and then they like
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to show us when a trailer comes out before the movie, whatever it is
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the project, they show us in the true like the trailer comes out,
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and then very soon after that, we get a video of a child,
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you know, usually a small kid that's whatever race is now represented, and
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that kid's going, oh, they look like me. And then that's supposed
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to really sell us on why it's so important when we see that, right,
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that's supposed to be the thing that makes you go, wow, it's
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about time that that kid got to see somebody who represents them. But anyway,
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that's and that's a thing that happens. And then the people come in
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and they say, hey, they point out, hey, you know this
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character is supposed to look different than that. You know, James Bond is
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written in books to look a certain way. And then when you change him
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that's going against the source material, and people say, wow, the source
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material can be whatever we want. And back then that's all they were going
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to write is whatever they've got, you know, which is true. But
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in some cases we get into this deep, deep weeds of you know,
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should Cleopatra look this way? Should Cleopatra be black? Cleopatra was Greek,
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so should she be black? Should hercules look a certain way? And then
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people get oh, why do you care? Why does it bother you so
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much? Why is it important to you? And that's the important question,
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isn't it. And you get asked why does it matter? And the response
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should always be yeah, why does it matter? Why is it so important
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for I mean, if it doesn't matter, then why is it so important
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to do it at all? I mean, if the character is only being
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done a certain way for a reason, then why do you get so upset
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when someone calls you out for that particular reason Because it's pandering And they don't
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want you to call them out for the pandering. They don't want any reference
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to it. They don't want you to acknowledge it in any way. They
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just want you to go along with it and just say, ah, this
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is important. We should all be on board. And it's not just that
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we should be okay with it, we have to support it. People are
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upset if you don't go to a movie to support it, if a movie
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that comes out like the Remember a few years ago they put out a gay
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romantic comedy that we were all supposed to go see, and basically we got
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chastised for not doing it. We didn't support it, We didn't go to
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the theater and watch the movie. And by not watching the movie and supporting
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it and spending our money on it, we were being homophobic. See,
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it wasn't enough that it was important that this movie gets made and gets released
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in theaters and that people can see a movie about gay characters and it's a
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gay romantic comedy. No, it's that we're supposed to go and support it.
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How far does this go? Keep in mind, we've started to hear
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things over the years. It said, well, I think I think straight
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guys should want to date trans women. I think straight women should want to
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date trans men because they're men now or they're women now. And if you're
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straight, you should want to date people that are, you know, your
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opposite sex, even though sex is a construct right, they come up with
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that that they say, So keep in mind, it's not just about the
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importance of being able to do whatever it is that they want to do,
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whether it's taking a property and changing the race or gender of a character,
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or making a movie that tells us how stupid men are and how the patriarchy
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is horrible, and with absolutely no nuance. It's not cleverly written. It's
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just saying it over and over and over again. To us. It's not
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just about the fact that people should be able to live their lives and be
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who they want to be. It's not just about the fact that, yeah,
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maybe a young girl does see a black little mermaid and it makes her
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excited. It's not just about that. It's about your forced participation in it.
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And this goes back to what I've said many many times ago as a
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conservative, you're allowed to do whatever you want to do. You're just not
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allowed to force me to participate. You're not allowed to expect me to be
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attracted to a man who now lives his life as a woman. You're not
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allowed to ask me to do that. But we do get asked to do
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that. We get asked to just accept the fact that they are who they
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say they are. And that's true with movies. We get asked is to
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say, look, a little Mermaid could be black. Why not. It's
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a fictional character. Let her be black. And for the most part,
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I think most people just say, you do whatever you want to do.
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You can't force me to go see it. Well, if you don't go
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see it, then you're racist. If you don't go see it, you're
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offensive. You're not supporting that little girl that's crying when she sees someone who
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looks like her. If you don't support the studio that's releasing the movie,
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then you've been offensive just by not supporting it, by not giving them your
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money. They can manipulate us for money, They can manipulate us for power,
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They can manipulate us for control. But only if we give into the
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the break, well, shamrock shakes are back at McDonald's, just in time
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for Saint Patrick's Day. So if that's your thing, get your shamrock shake
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now. It's like you know, they come this time of year and then
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you get the occasional McRib when it shows up. I'm gonna be honest with
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you. I don't think I've ever had either one ever McRib or a shamrock
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shack. Maybe I've tasted a McRib, I don't know, but I definitely
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haven't eaten an entire one, and I don't even know that I've ever tasted
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as shamrock shake. Speaking of food, Tennessee is officially Hotslaw Country. As
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Tennessee State Legislator Kevin Raper filed House Bill fifteen ninety seven proposing that they designate
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Hot's Coleslaw as the official state food of Tennessee. He also proposed a second
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bill that would declare the town of Cleveland, Tennessee, his hometown, the
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official Hotslaw Capital of the state. And basically, it's you know Slaw with
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mustard, vinegar, and hot pepper mixed in the whole mix. And Cleveland,
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Tennessee hosts a Hotslaw festival on April sixth. So I mean, you
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got to be known for something everybody can't be known for the scrambled dog.
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Right, if you got an idea for a new whopper burger, King was
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slash MDW for Million Dollar Whopper or contest rules and specifics. So twenty somethings
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apparently are all about getting their rest. According to a report from The Wall
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Street Journal, young adults are prioritizing sleep and understand the effect that it has
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on their health. This involves twenty somethings, believe it or not, data
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showing that in twenty twenty two, those in their twenties reported getting an average
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of nine hours and twenty eight minutes of sleep. I don't know the last
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time I got anywhere closed. I was probably sick. It's an eight percent
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increase from the eight hours and forty seven minutes of sleep they averaged in twenty
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ten. This explains why many young adults have bedtimes between nine pm and ten
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pm, even on the weekends, and they say that the earlier bedtimes changing
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businesses as well. Yelpsa's restaurant seatings between four and six pm make up thirty
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one percent of reservations. I think that might have something to do with US
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folks in the gen X category, and that's up nineteen percent. Back in
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twenty seventeen it was at nineteen percent. Reservations between six pm and midnight have
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declined significantly. I wonder sometimes if it has to do with the fact that
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they're looking out to get more sleep or are they spending just more time,
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you know, trying to be you know, influencers online, because I think
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that involves not necessarily being I don't know, some of the activities that people
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are able to just do at home around the house, or you know,
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they're being creative with things, some of them are at least being creative.
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And finally, which country has the sexiest accent? According to a survey done
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by the Language learning at Babel, the most attractive language in the world is
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Italian, and according to Babel language teacher Noel Wolfe, there are certain characteristics
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of Italian that may contribute to its appeal. The rise and fall of pitch
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in spoken Italian can create a musical quality, which some people find alluring and
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attractive. The survey found the most direct accent is German and most polite is
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the Queen or King's English. Whatever they still say the Queen's English? Is
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it now? The King's English? I don't know what you're supposed to say.
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