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Let the Courts Decide the Election? · 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. Thursday morning, fourteenth day
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of March. I'm West Thanks for joining me. We're a little bit closer
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to having our house back to normal. I'm just passing along little updates along
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the way because I told you a while back that we had issues with a
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leak with our dishwasher in our kitchen. I don't know if I told you
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the specifics, but we had a leak and it caused some damage to our
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floor and subfloor and cabinets and we had to have a lot of work done.
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We live in a very old house. I don't think it's quite on
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the National Registry or anything, but it's an old house and when they started
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to do work on it, they found some you know, deep within the
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walls of it, there was some lead. You know, it's an old
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house. They had some lead paint back in the day or whatever. I
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don't know, but they had to gut the kitchen and we're in the process
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of finally getting our kitchen somewhat back to normal. And all I can tell
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you at this point is this stage of the game is that we now have
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walls and a ceiling in our kitchen, so we got that going for us.
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That's where we are right now. We have walls and a ceiling.
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There's a floor. The floor still has to be repaired. It's interesting,
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isn't it That all the work that's gone into it to this point and the
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original problem, which was the floor, is still to be dealt with.
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It's still got to be the other stuff. I mean, we're well on
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our way now. I think today they're coming and they're going to do some
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painting. They got to do the sanding and the sheet rock and all that
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stuff, and then they'll start painting the kitchen and then you know, the
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floor, I guess, then the cabinets, and we'll just roll on through.
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They'll get everything somewhat back to normal. This whole week, though,
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we've been dealing since Monday or Sunday night. We had to take out our
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temporary sinks we had in place. We had and I say sinks because I
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got a really good deal on the temporary sink and it was I got two
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of them for the price half the price of the original one I was gonna
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buy. So I got two of them and that way. We're still kind
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of working out of a double sink as best we can, so that's been
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a plus because typically when you've got the temporary sink, you don't end up
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with a double sink. So we've had that that's been great. But we
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haven't had that all week. We're working without it, so it's been rough.
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No real means to cook, means to clean up. It's been a
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lot of takeout stuff. We had a plan of something we were gonna heat
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that we had in our freezer yesterday and that just didn't work out. So
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I ended up with some cereal and some leftovers for dinner as best we could.
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That's all we could do. We're getting by hopefully, though we can
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see some idea. Maybe we'll have the sinks back in place. Looking forward
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to at least being able to reconnect the stove, you know, I want
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to be able to do that. We're trying to get to the point where
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we can cook and we can clean up, and that's great. If we
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can do that and have walls in the ceiling, that would all be fan.
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We've got the walls in the ceiling, so I know they can only
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do so much until they get the floor fixed, but we got that.
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The other big news in the family as Luke started a new tennis season yesterday.
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I mentioned a while back I volunteered to be the coach for his school
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club tennis team. That was months ago, and that went really well.
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Kids did well well and they won their twelve U championship. That was great.
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So there's a new season that's happening with Corda here in town and they,
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you know, Luke signed up. Some of the other kids that played
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in the league that we were in before signed up. There's a new kid
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that Luke played last ninety one. It was a close match, went to
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a tiebreaker. Luke pulled it out in the end. It's exciting, it
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was fun, it was good, good time. Proud of him. He
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said, I'm glad I've waded that kid now and not later, because that
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kid's gonna get really good by the end of the season. The kid they're
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all beginners, relatively new, and he's like, the kid got better,
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and the kid got better over the course of the match. Now he does
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have to play him again later just because of the way the season the league
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set up, but it's you know, he'll play him again. I don't
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know, four weeks, three weeks or something, so and who knows how
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that's gonna go next time. Hopefully Luke will also improve over time. So,
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but that's what we've got going on around here, getting ready to go
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into this Saint Patrick's Day weekend. I'll talk about it, I'm sure a
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little bit tomorrow. But just be careful. I know Saint Patrick's Day is
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on Sunday this year. Just be careful out there, remember there are you
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know, it's always great to have your best option. Option one A is
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you know, don't put yourself in a bad place to begin with. That's
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the first option. If you're going to have a beverage, have it somewhere
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where you don't have to drive at all. After you know, that's your
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first option. Your second option is make sure you've got somebody with you who
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can drive you around that's not going to be drinking, and you know,
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don't drink to the point that you know you're out of control. That's also
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a good good choice. But with uber and lyft and taxis and options,
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just know, don't do anything stupid this weekend. You always feel like it's
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it's a challenge for UH people just to make a plan. I don't know
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why. I don't know why they don't have a plan. I don't know
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why they think don't think things out, But it's it's a holiday that people
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like to have beverages. We're not so much a beverage family. We're more
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of a we just want to make soda bread in our oven in our kitchen,
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maybe a shepherd's pie you can pop in the oven and you know,
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get the get thee the potatoes on top, you know, just right.
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You wanted to have that little crispiness about them on top, and that's our
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tradition. We'd like to be able to do that. Hopefully, maybe just
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maybe, I don't know, maybe I'm being ridiculously over optimistic about that.
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But a couple of things happened yesterday and it's worth noting, and it happened
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this week. We know, we went through uh watching the Democrats grill Robert
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Hurry, the former special counsel who looked into the Biden confidential documents case and
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ultimately decided that Biden would not be it would not be in their best interest
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to pursue the case against him, in spite of the fact that it was
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pretty clear that he'd broken the law. He was aware of the fact that
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he'd broken the law. But ultimately, when he made his final decision about
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not prosecuting, he laid out the president would probably be difficult to convict.
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He comes across as this pleasant, older gentleman that doesn't remember certain things from
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his past. He sort of laid that out as a reason to not pursue
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this, and a lot of people said, well, wait a minute,
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you just said he was guilty. Why didn't you pursue it. Democrats,
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however, looked at it and said, well, no, no, no,
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you're just you said he's not guilty. They threw that out, and
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they said, and yet you wanted to attack him and throw some red meat
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to the Trump supporters and say that Biden has memory and cognition issues and all
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those sorts of things. So there's that, the politicizing of every aspect of
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all of this, all the way through. We know there have been a
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number of things that have happened historically. I'm going to reference one in particular,
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and it's that whole what about mentality that comes up. Both sides do
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it. Both sides I think should do it because I think it's fair when
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someone says, well, what about when they say Trump, you know,
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oh, he's got all these women that have made these accusations against him,
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harassment or assault or rape or whatever. And then what about Bill Clinton?
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What about the woman who had accusations against Joe Biden? What about? Oh,
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you can't play what about it? You can't play that game. You
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can't do that. But that's exactly what happened with these documents. You can't
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play what about? You can't do that, And both sides are going to
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do the what about game. It happens, and it's fair to do it.
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You should do it when it's appropriate. It should be something that's discussed
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because both sides play that game. Well, what about when Trump did it?
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What about Trump's charges against him? Because what we're seeing is and we'll
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go back to I want to go back to the two thousand election. This
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is what I'm getting at. Well, before I do that, I want
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to mention also that we're getting closer to the ruling on Fawnie Willis or Fanny
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Willis. I hear both. I want it to be Fanny, but I
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think it's it's funny the judge in that case is getting ready. He says
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maybe by tomorrow there'll be a ruling about what's going to happen with her in
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that case and whether or not she could be removed. So all that's hopefully,
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they say, going to be worked out. But six of the charges
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against the former president Trump and co defendants were dismissed yesterday, and this is
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee and basically saying that it was paper thin
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application of the prosecution, and he said that you have to have more substance
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in those six that were dismissed, and that Trump still has some other charges.
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Obviously there's still some significant charges in there, but basically he laid out
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that, you know, six of these forty one or whatever charges, uh
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and Trump didn't have the adequate information to even be able to defend himself as
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well as the UH, the co defendants and all that. So that was
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another step towards and it's just six. Obviously there's still plenty more charges to
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go, still plenty just hanging in the balance. And then we've got this
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whole mess with with TikTok trying to figure out well, should TikTok, you
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know, owned by the Chinese Communist Party by a byte dance, you know,
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should they have as much say as they seem to have in the US,
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with the ability to advertise and to you know, be able to have
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an influence on our elections. And this is all playing out in court,
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This is all playing out in Congress. This is all. But I specifically
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want to reference the court cases because go back to two thousand, twenty four
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years ago, we had an election, George W. Bush versus al Gore.
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And you remember the election. You may remember it was a long time
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ago. But I think everybody, if you just say the words hang in
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Chad, they're going to know what we're talking about. But the election happened,
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and at one point the state of Florida was called for al Gore.
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They took it away and then they basically it got down it was too close
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to call, you know, they said, this is they can't even call
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the state of Florida. They're going to start recounts. This is going to
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be a mess. Ended up having to go you know, internally there in
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the state of Florida, and the ruling had to be made and George W.
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Bush won by winning Florida, he won the presidency. You know,
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some people called it a stolen election. Some people said, it's a shame
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that they're letting the courts decide the outcome of this election. It's a shame
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that they would dare allow the courts to be ultimately the decision maker in this
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election. Why won't they let the American people decide and their votes. Why
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are they stepping in and having any sort of an influence on the outcome of
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this election. That was a great question back then. Obviously it wasn't really
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the same as what we're dealing with now, because now it certainly seems that
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we have a lot of folks on the Democrat side that want the courts to
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decide who can be the candidate for president. They want the courts to tell
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you who you are allowed to vote for, and they want the courts to
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make a decision on who should get the opportunity to run for president. That's
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what they want. They want the courts to decide the outcome of the election.
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If they can get Trump out of the way, then maybe, just
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maybe they can get rid of the guy they don't really like in Biden and
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get him out of the way. I don't think that Biden is really the
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problem for them, Like I think that they still think Biden is kind of
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and I don't want to say this. I feel it's a little disrespectful,
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but I don't necessarily think. I'm not saying words from my mouth. I'm
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saying that I believe and I'm not going full shadow government here, but I'm
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just saying I think the people whoever it is that gave him like thirty eight
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red bulls to give the State of the Union the other night, if you
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want to get the campaign speech aka that was supposed to be a state of
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the Union, whoever loaded him up with the red bull and wrote the speech
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and told him here say this, and is you know, pulling the strings
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while he's watching Mattlock. Whatever it is, And it's no offense to Mattlock.
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I love the Andy Griffith. I'm all about the Andy Griffith. I
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used to watch Mattlock as a kid. That's not what an old soul I
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was as a kid. I used to love some matt Lock and the Andy
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Griffith show. So and I still love the Andy Griffith Show. I don't
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really watch Mattlock anymore. Maybe I should go back and revisit that. Now
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that I've done with a little house on the prairie again, well, now
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I'm closer to actually being an old soul. But whoever's making those decisions,
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I think probably views the president as a useful idiot. I don't think they
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want him to go anywhere, but I do think that they know he's their
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best bet to beat Trump. If Trump wasn't there, they could bring in
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somebody else, give him an opportunity, maybe to stretch that out into eight
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years, just like I think Trump. You know, people talk about,
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well, who's his VP pick going to be? And Trump is realizes I
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think that if he wins, his VP has a really good chance at being
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president after if he picks the right person. And I think he likes the
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idea of possibly being the king maker. I would right. I think you
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know who wouldn't like that, that opportunity to be the one to say,
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look, you come in here with me if I win this election. The
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way it's starting to shape up in various swing states, I know Pennsylvania is
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one that's closed. Trump has a two point lead I think in one of
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the latest polls that's within the margin of error, So it's really too close
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to call. But there's a note Wisconsin, Trump's pulling ahead, Trump's pulled
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ahead, and George, I know it, says it's too early to call
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all that. Who knows what the polls. I don't know we've gotten the
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right information on any of that. But isn't it interesting in twenty four years
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we've gone from don't let the courts decide the election, let the voters decide,
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to let's take it away from the voters and let's hand it over to
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the courts quickly. I want to mention Ron and Janet Smith. Ron says
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that he listens to the show every day and that recently I mentioned the fact
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that there was a family that was doing candlelight dinners with their kids, and
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I said that, you know, it was something that people could try.
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And he says he and his wife have been doing They've been enjoying it.
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And he said that I want to read his exact words. He said,
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it was a nice idea. Now my wife and I do that during our
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evening meal. Thanks for the idea, and he said, move to Columbus
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and retired to the Poconos and still listens to the show every day. So
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keep up the good work. Thank you. I appreciate that. That's nice
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to know that you've incorporated that, and that's exciting. We try to do
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versions of that. We like to eat out on our deck. Right now
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it's all covered with pollen and it's hard to even access the part of our
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house that lets us go to our deck because of what's going on with the
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kitchen. But we really like having like a lowlit meal out on our deck.
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That's nice, But we've got to this weekend. I think it's going
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to be clean up the pollen weekend and wait for more of it. I
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don't know if we're going to get to that point where all of it's going
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to be out and done, but we can do our best with it.
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But anyway, thank you, Ron, and I appreciate you reaching out.
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Right after the break, how many cups of coffee do you drink a
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day? Well, the National Coffee Association says the average American drinks three cups
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of coffee a day, and the Food and Drug Administration says that that's enough
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caffeine. They say, if you're consuming other caffeinated beverages throughout the day,
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that definitely would be the case. The FDA says the limit on caffeine should
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be four hundred milligrams a day. That's the equivalent of about four cups of
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coffee. Consuming more than that could put yourself at a risk of caffe caffeine
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intoxication, which, depending on how much you can, could result in effects
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ranging from feeling anxious and irritable to more toxic effects like stomach issue, heart
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problems, and death. You definitely don't want caffeine intoxication, partly because it's
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kind of hard to say when you're reading it quickly. Airbnb hosts cannot put
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security cameras inside their property anymore. If you've ever stayed in Airbnb, sometimes
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the people who own the place want to put cameras inside. We're not talking
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about the cameras on the outside, ring doorbells and those kind of things.
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Security on the outside not affected. However, as of April thirtieth, cameras
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will no longer be allowed in the interior of Airbnb rentals. If a host
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doesn't comply, they could have their listing an account removed from the website.
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So I always think it was weird to have a camera inside anyway, just
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a little weird, and I happen to have some friends who have not necessarily
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Airbnb, but they have some first hand experience with some rental properties with cameras
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that also involved automatic doors that could be unlocked on Wi Fi. Very questionable
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things happened to them on their trip. They're wondering about a door that got
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unlocked. I just think some of those cameras, I mean, I get
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it for security purposes, but also has me a little anxious about any of
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that. Now, security at your home, that's great. You need that
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security while you're on vacation. And I mean, what's next. You're gonna
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put them inside a hotel room? No? No, And I mean they
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didn't necessarily think we're gonna put them in bedrooms and bathrooms. And I understand
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with a hotel that might not be the case. If it's a suite,
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you could have it in the in the living area, but anyway, it's
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just weird. So Airbnb getting rid of that from their rental properties. So
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it seems that Hollywood's obsession with remakes and franchises is not what people want.
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They want new content. A new survey done by two B found that seventy
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four percent of millennials and gen zers prefer to watch original content rather than redos
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or part twos, threes or fours. Seventy one percent of respondents also want
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content produced by independent and small time creators. The same percentage says they want
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diversity and representation reflected in their content. Well, of course they do,
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especially if it's a remake or a redo. Right, everybody likes when they
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go back and change things drastically, just for diversity and representation. I wonder
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who was surveyed for this particular survey, just curious, what would you like
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to be remembered for? For you would think some people would say fame and
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fortune, Not so much. A new survey found that at the end of
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their lives, people would rather be remembered for their creativity. And they said
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they like to be remembered more so than intelligence, wealth, humanitarian efforts.
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And they said that seventy nine percent of those surveyed consider themselves to be creative,
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yet seventy two percent said they wished that they engaged in creative activities more
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often. Overall, seventy five percent of those surveyed said their creativity is a
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reflection of their personal brand. This was especially true for gen Zers, who
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were surveyed ninety four percent said creativity was part of their brand. You know
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who some of the people were from the past that are have been remembered for
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their creativity. People who've sculpted statues probably were excited at the thought of their
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statues being up for people to see for thousands of years. And then,
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you know, sometimes people get confused about roles with people in the past and
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they start ripping statues down. Gotta get rid of the statue of Abraham Lincoln.
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What a horrible human being. I didn't even know who they know who
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he was. They got confused, but they wanted to take the statue down.
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Sometimes things like that happen. But creativity, I think that's a good
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thing to be remembered for. And yes, I think anybody who's creative probably
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feels like they're not being creative enough. That'll do it for this Thursday edition
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of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank you for listening.
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