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Bidens Are Apparently Concerned About the Polling Numbers · 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, Tuesday morning, nineteenth
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day of December. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. It's less than
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a week now till Christmas. We were talking about it being a week away
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yesterday. I mean, here we go downhill, quick slide happening quickly.
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Got to get the shopping done, gotta get whatever travel plans organized. If
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you're doing that, you got to start wrapping stuff, all those things.
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It's we're in clutch clutch time. Now. This is it, you know,
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final to a two minute warning just sounded. Here we go. We're
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into it. Let's talk for a little bit this morning about First of all,
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I want to get to this talking about a couple of things relating to
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the twenty twenty four election in a second. But before I do that,
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I want to talk just for a minute about Jonathan Majors, the actor who
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has appeared in Marvel movies. He has appeared in Creed three as the you
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know, the bad guy and the guy that Creed has to fight in Creed
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three. Uh, and then he was all set to be the next big
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phase for the Marvel Universe. He would be the new the new big bad
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villain, cag the Conqueror, right so, and he's already played versions of
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the role on TV shows, the Loki Shows, the two seasons, it's
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just one show, but the two seasons. Uh the ant Man movie,
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the latest of that, the Quantum Mania, ant Man in the Wasp,
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Quantum Mania. I want to just dismiss the Wasp. That's my friend,
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Evangeline. I don't want to dismiss her. Uh So ant Man in the
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Wasp Quantum Mania. He's been in all that playing this role and uh,
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you know, he's the face of this guy. And there's always do different
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variants of the same version of this character. And that's one of the themes
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that they're doing in the Marvel Universe. And I'm not just saying it to
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be nerdy. I'm just pointing out the fact that they're doing this multiverse thing
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and they got all these different versions of you know, the same person more
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or less, they're just different worlds. And it's just that idea that you
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know, in this world he's you know, an Egyptian king, and in
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this world he's an inventor. And in this world he's I don't know already,
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from Back to the Future whatever, I don't know every different possible infinite
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universes. He could be all of those things, right, and he's all
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They all have the same face because it's that same guy playing all of them.
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And there was even a scene in the ant Man in the Wasp Quantum
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Mania movie where you see them all together the Council of the Kings or whatever.
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So this guy, Jonathan Major is the actor. As he was facing
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charges. Now they charge just came up. A while back. This girl,
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Grace Jabbari, accused him of assaulting her in a car I guess a
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private car they were getting a ride in, and she finally had charges filed
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against him reckless assault the third degree and harassment. Two week trial was going
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on. There was a point during the trial I guess where the guy driving
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the car said that, in his opinion, he wasn't looking, but he
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felt like that girl was hitting him or something. Now he couldn't say that
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he saw it, so I didn't think that was probably going to be very
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useful in all of it. Anyway. He was found guilty yesterday after four
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hours of deliberation. So Marvel has released him. Apparently according to reports from
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his contract with them, sentencing for this guy will happen in on February sixth.
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A couple things just to process in all of this, and just Ross
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Kramer, the attorney for Grace Chabari, said that they were gratified by the
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guilty vertict and hoped it would inspire other victims of assault. So there you
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go. He did plead not guilty and then had the trial and all that.
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So he was found not guilty of intentional assault of the third degree and
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not guilty of aggravated harassment the second degree. So there you go. Now
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what was what did was he found guilty of found guilty in the third degree
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assault and harassment, but I guess the other charges were not okay, so
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sorry, and I'm not fully up to speed on some of these things.
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When these celebrity trials happen, most of the time, you just assume they're
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not going to be found guilty. That's what I do anyway. I assume
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they're all just not going nothing's going to happen. And that's just kind of
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where my brain goes to. Right at the beginning, you just kind of
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think, yeah, something's going to happen, and I don't know what's going
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to happen when the actual happens on February six. I guess he gets to
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have a nice Christmas at home whatever, and then I don't know what.
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I don't understand the timing on the sentencing, but that's always interesting to me.
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Get some kind of affairs in order or something. I don't know.
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But anyway, a couple of thoughts here. First of all, we went
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through that phase in history, the me Too movement, where this kind of
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thing was certainly we were on high alert of this kind of behavior, and
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there was a period you know, Supreme Court justices and all where it was
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just, hey, if a woman says that something happened thirty years ago or
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whatever, and you don't even she didn't have to be able to remember what
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happened or no other witnesses. She can just say it and you have to
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assume the guy's guilty. So it's interesting to me that it took them this
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long, based on that to actually release him from the contract from you know,
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basically Disney, that's who he's working for as part of Marvel. But
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I'll say this, I think this is the right thing to do. I
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mean, I think that they let the trial play out, and I know
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that the Writer's Guild strike probably helped a little bit as far as delaying any
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production on things moving forward. But now they are challenged with what you know,
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what do we do? Now? What do we do? This is
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what you do. You recast, That's what you do. That's simple.
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It's what they should have done with Black Panther. I understand Chadswick bo Chadwick
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Boseman beloved, but they should have just recast. There's no reason to think
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that a guy who's played a character two or three times in a movie is
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not recastable. They are. You hate it and you feel bad Chadwick Boseman.
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It's not like he was the only person capable of playing the role in
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the first place. Cast someone else and move on and pay tribute to him.
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I mean, that's what you have to do. I don't know what
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Star Wars is about to do when they continue the Ahsoka story, but Ray
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Stevenson passed away and they have to figure out what they're gonna do about his
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character in the movie because in the show, I should say, and movie
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moving forward if he was going to be around for it. But that's what
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you have to do. You just recast and you move on unless you're gonna
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see g I am and they don't want to pay him in any way.
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That's part of what this whole strike thing was about. So you recast and
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you move on. I feel like if they had done that with Black Panther,
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the movie would not have played like a giant funeral service for a real
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person, because that's kind of the way the second Black Panther movie felt to
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me anyway. I don't know, didn't think it was all that great.
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Didn't think the first one was as great as everybody else did. I thought
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it was pretty good, but not great. I like Chadwick Boseman a lot.
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He's been in a lot of things that I really like, and you
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know, he's not irreplaceable. I didn't understand that. So that's what you
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do, Jonathan Major's you replace him immediately, start finding someone else to play
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him. And you're doing multiverse, Say this is a different version where he
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doesn't look like that guy, or you know, you're Disney, go back
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and cgi the new guy's face and all the other shots where the Multiverse kangs
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are or whatever. Anyway, that's just my thoughts on it. But that's
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something that's happened. But it's interesting that they didn't quite pull the trigger on
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that. They didn't say right away, we're getting rid of this guy.
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They waited. I think it's good to wait. I think that's the right
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thing to do. Not everybody gets that flexibility and understanding and compassion and empathy,
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but he got that so good. I do think it's the right thing.
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I think that's what they should have done all right now. On the
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subject of a couple of things relating to politics, and this is just reports
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that are coming out. Washington Post had a story yesterday about the Biden campaign.
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There seems to be a split according to inside sources that are speaking under
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anonymity. Remember when when Trump would have one of these people that would say
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something from inside the White House and people, oh, he's got problems.
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There's people talking. You can't do that. These people are talking, they
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want to get him or whatever. And in this case, it's it happens
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sometimes, and it's if reporters have sources inside and they're able to protect those
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sources and not not you know, have them revealed. And sometimes you know,
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you get Congress wants to know who are your sources tell us they shouldn't
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have to do that. Well, according to the reports from the inside sources,
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there's a split now between the Bidens, the president and his wife and
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I guess the people running the campaign or the staff in the White House or
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whatever. And the Bidens apparently are starting to be concerned about the polling numbers,
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and many experts that have helped with campaigns in the past are saying they
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should be. They should be very concerned about where this is headed. They
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feel like they're pacing for a Trump win and getting back into the White House.
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They feel like that's where this is heading. And they want the strategists
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that are working on the campaign to start to say, hey, this seems
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like maybe this is where this is headed. And they don't seem to think
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that. They seem to think that the polling numbers are not accurate, and
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then that's not how this is going to play out. Even some of the
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I guess the Biden sorry two thousand and eight strategy teams celebrating that win aniversary
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of that got together and I guess they were talking and the same kind of
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source deal where people are saying, look, it's looking bad, right now
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Trump's going to win all these battleground states and Biden is going to be in
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the you know, shooting fish in a barrel kind of deal. This is
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not going to end well for everybody, and they're concerned. But the problem
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seems to be that the Biden's staff seems to think everything's just fine. And
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I don't know how it could be. The polling numbers are bad for Biden,
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and Americans are fed up, Americans are frustrated, Americans are feeling like
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that the White House isn't listening to them. I would think, and maybe
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this is part of the deal, and we could spend you know, the
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next at least six months starting to do the things that most Americans, at
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least anybody left of center to I mean, even if you just go left
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of center to right of center, that middle ground people that are going to
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help you win the election, if they started to do the things that those
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people are asking for. Shut the border, shut the border, stop letting
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people in, stop the senseless shut down, and discouraging attitudes and behaviors towards
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our energy here in America. Do everything you can to get us back to
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energy independent. Stop trying to fight the climate wars that you can't win.
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It's too early to try to win it, and all you're doing is hurting
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Americans. So stop trying to fight that fight now, start accepting the fact
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that the majority of the problems with our climate comes from the Sun, the
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giant nuclear reactor in the sky that's having an impact on other planets at the
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same proximate rate as us. Ah, but it's different for us. We're
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doing it ourselves. I forgot and I'm not saying that there's not issues.
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We got issues. There's a climate issue, but you're not fixing it by
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making forcing people to drive cars that run on a battery that charges because with
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coal like that, you're not going to fix the problem. Let's stop and
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close the border and get all the people who came in illegally and send them
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home, any of them that you can just send them home. That's what
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people kind of want. They want some sort of like who are all the
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people that just came in and got to just say yeah, you're here,
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and go and attach yourself to the teat of taxpayers. That's what people want.
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They want inflation not just to slow down. They want something that's going
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to give them impression at least that prices might go back down. They're not
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that they might at the very least maybe through I don't know, fuel production.
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That's one way to get prices down a little bit, right, That's
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one way to do it. But they're not listening. They don't care.
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They want to keep doing their thing. They want to do it as long
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as they can, because, you know, maybe they got a year and
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a month to do it. I guess that seems to be maybe the attitude.
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I don't know. Also, on the subject of the former president,
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back to him for a minute, so I saw some reports. I didn't
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even hear what the quotes were. I didn't hear what they were, but
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I just couldn't help but sort of laugh to myself at how absurd this is.
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But reports that Trump, some of his verbiage now that he's out campaigning,
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sounds very Nazi Germany. I saw a headline today that said that I
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was at the gym. They had different stations on and CNN was one of
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those stations, and the CNN report were saying, oh, the former president
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sounds like Nazi Germany with his verbiage. You know what sounds like Nazi Germany?
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The like that's genocide of the Jews that we're hearing on college campuses in
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America. That's the most Nazi Germany thing we've heard in America in a long
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time. You know, you want to say that something that Donald Trump is
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saying sounds like Nazi. He's not saying that. He's not saying that at
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all. You know what sounds like Nazi Germany when you ask the professor,
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I'm sorry, the president of universities or professors in many cases, hey,
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is this hate speech when they're calling for genocide of the Jewish people, including
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students on your campus. And they say, well, it depends on how
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they say it. Who do they say it too, How did they word
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it exactly? It could be protected speech, may not even go against our
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handbook. That sounds like something that would have happened in Nazi Germany. Running
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the education systems, it seems don't seem to have a problem with it.
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That kind of hate, that kind of anger, that kind of ignorance,
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all of that, they don't seem to have a problem with that. And
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that sounds more like Nazi Germany than anything Trump's ever said, probably anything he's
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ever thought. Right, they want to just take anything that's been said and
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say, well, this sounds like Germany. This sounds like Nazi Germany.
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Hitler, it's very Hitler s the whole genocide thing of the Jewish people,
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So for twenty twenty three, US consumers on average say that they expect that
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they'll spend about eight hundred and seventy five dollars on gifts this holiday season.
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That's coming from the National Retail Federation, the NERF, you know, that's
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what the cool people call them. They say, However, it looks like
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people will end up spending probably twice that. A recent survey found that US
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consumers will actually spend about sixteen hundred and fifty two dollars this holiday season.
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So yeah, they say they're aiming low, but they'll end up spending more.
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That's nice, though, I guess, well, it's one of two
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things happening there. Either it's nice because they're finding more people to buy gifts
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for, or that everything costs twice as much. Maybe that's why. I
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think that's probably what it is. Don't you think, ah, do you
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get the same gifts every year? Reason survey found that the majority respondents say
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that they have a traditional gift that they give either to someone or that they
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receive every year during the holidays. Many of these gifts lean towards practical items.
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Top ten recurring gifts that people tend to give or receive, and this
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I'll go do the top ten from the bottom. Pajamas that makes sense.
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Probably need a new pair. I don't know how much. If you you
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know how you wear them out or what the situation is. Underwear, I
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know how those get worn out. Skin products, a toothbrush, self care
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items, books, makeup, beauty products is at number four. Something that's
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homemade, A gift card or money at number two, and at the top
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of the list is a candy or chocolate. Two of the people that typically
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get candy and chocolate for me every year have let me know they do not
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want candy or chocolate for Christmas this year. So I'm making things a little
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harder. No, it's not my kids. It makes things just a little
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bit harder. So when you have the traditional gift that you typically give someone
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and they say I don't want that gift, You've got to be creative again.
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You got to start over and try to figure it all out. And
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that gets a little complicated, but we'll work it out. We'll figure it
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out, all right. They say that singing Christmas carols is good for you.
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A new study found that singing Christmas carols together isn't just about tradition.
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There's a health factor to it when you do it with other people. Especially,
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it releases feel good hormones, helps you bond with people and lifts your
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spirits. So, you know, get out there and sing some Christmas carols.
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No, door to door depends on where you live. You might not
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want to in some neighborhoods, or some cities, or some just parts of
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cities in general, so be careful, but you can get out and try
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to sing some Christmas carols and feel good about it, release those good hormones
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and body Also on the subject of kind of cheesy things, so seeing Christmas
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carols is a cheesy thing, but it feels good. But kind of cheesy
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Holiday movies apparently are also kind of good for us. You expect them to
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be cheesy and predictable, and that's why people watch them. And this is
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according to doctor Pamela Rutledge. Media Psychology Research Center says you would almost be
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disappointed if they weren't a little cheesy and predictable, because that's why you're there.
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You're there for the feel good movie. This lower stress reinforces feelings of
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hope and renew all the things that Christmas is supposed to bring. I think
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it probably also would fit. I'd love to ask doctor Rutledge. It probably
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kind of fits in that wheelhouse too. Of if you watch a show that
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like a TV show that you've seen before, and you rewatch it, you
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know, on rerun, and you think, I don't have to fully pay
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attention to it, there's something kind of calming about it. I guess I
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don't know. That's just my theoryal maybe one it's fine, that's whether the
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homework. I'm assuming that's what they mean by the cheesy movies, those kind
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of feel good movies. All right. So apparently there's a debate that's being
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discussed on social media about whether or not when you eat soup it has to
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be hot or not room temperature. Some people are eating it that way.
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Some are eating soup directly out of the can. So basically, I guess
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this is a thing some people are just they take a can, they open
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it up, and they just start eating it straight out of the can.
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Progresso has become aware of it, and they say that their soup is fine
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to eat out of the can. They said in a statement, the primary
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reason to heat up can soup is to enhance the flavors and help you keep
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warm when it's cold. There's nothing unhealthy about eating a cold can soup.
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There were foods when I was a kid, spaghetti O's or memory steat that
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right out of the can, you know, as a kid, not always,
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but sometimes, And I just you know, as a kid, you
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just I want to eat this, and it was good when it was cold.
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I didn't care, didn't bother me. That's kind of weird for adults
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to be eating soup out of a can. I'm assuming though, that whoever's
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debating this on social media is probably not advanced in the adulthood area. It's
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probably just barely an adult. That's my guess. Not to say that you
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can't eat cold soup out of the can if you are an advanced age adult.
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And I'm talking middle aged, I'm not necessarily talking senior. I'm just
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talking I do only you make my age is doing. I was not a
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lot of people my age doing it. That's what I'm getting at. That's
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