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Two Big Wins for Trump and a Win for Johnson · 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. Thursday morning, ninth day of
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May. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me, getting on into working our
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way towards the weekend. We've got Columbus State Universities hooting ceremony tonight and then
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graduation tomorrow, and looking forward to being a part of both of those events.
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This is the first time they've had me do the hooting ceremony. Excited
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to make those announcements tonight and then tomorrow call some names as students walk across
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stage and graduate, and just looking forward to it. Always look forward to
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it. The voice of Columbus State University academics. That's what I do.
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That's it's one of the things that I do. Busy day yesterday and a
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lot of stuff went down, a lot to cover. I guess, first
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and foremost, we should probably talk about the fact that the Speaker of the
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House will stay as the House rejects Marjorie Taylor Green's attempt to send Speaker Johnson
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Pagan. We've talked several times about this. I've talked about this a lot
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really over the years, and I just just to reinforce and restate a couple
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of things, and I think it's important to to to revisit this sometimes.
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Typically Democrats are kind of they're they're locked in lockstep. They they know what
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they're supposed to be saying, they know what they're supposed to be doing,
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they know what their overall message is uh to each other and to their supporters.
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They know exactly what they're supposed to do, and they do it.
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They know that if they want the support of the party, if they want
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the support of each other, they will do what they're supposed to do.
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We're seeing a little bit of a break from that right now with the protests.
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As we're seeing again members of the Squad, and there are a few
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that stand out a little bit. When people like to call people like Matt
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Gates or Marjorie Taylor Green, you know, some of those alt right Republicans,
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it's interesting to me that we don't get a lot of conversation from those
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same people that call the alt right Republicans that reference anybody from the squad as
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you know, this alt left liberals, these pro I don't know terror I
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mean, is that what we're doing right now? We're pro terrorism in some
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of these cases. I'm not just talking about saying, hey, give Palestine
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their chance. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people
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who are supporting the leadership there right now that happened to be you know,
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Hamas. I'm talking about those people. But anyway, so we're seeing a
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little bit of a break from that. You know, typically they do.
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And then you've got, you know, the occasional Joe Manchion Kirsten Cinema that
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steps up and says, I'm not going to go with the crowd. I'm
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going to stand up for what the people in my district that or my state
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that asked me to do this. So I'm going to do what I'm supposed
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to do. It happens from time to time, not always, it happens
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from time to time, but overall, democrats kind of work as a cohesive
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unit. It's like the borg, that's what they do. They kind of
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all have this this is what this is what we stand for collectively, and
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then occasionally somebody tries to push everything a little bit further to the left,
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and people have got to make their mind up about exactly what they're going to
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do about it. And if their voters are going to stand for it the
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next time they're up for election. So there's that. But Republicans, it's
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a wide range of different thoughts and opinions. You have the rhinos, you've
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got the right of sinners, You've got the you know, extreme right conservatives.
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You've got some of the more moderates in that group. So you get
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these moments where there is this opportunity for some of the maybe more conservative I'm
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not going to say it, but the ones that get labeled with this alt
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right nonsense, they say, hey, you're not doing what we want you
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to do as the speaker. What we the reason that we put you in
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place? So we're going to you know, we want to do what we
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did already. It's already happened once before with McCarthy. So here we go
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trying to do it with Johnson, and the House has rejected it. So
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that's done for now until next time or whenever, I don't know, but
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that's the That was big news late in the day yesterday. The other big
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news is we now have we know the infamous cases against the former president,
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including the one that led to the mugshot that has become kind of a symbol
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for a lot of people, for you know, the campaign, it's become
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a symbol for somebody who has been oppressed by a justice department that is in
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power, that does not like him, that does not want him to be
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a candidate for president, and that's the case against him in Georgia. Well,
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now looks like there's going to be a review. Will Fani Willis still
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be the DA if this thing even goes forward, Will her team be involved
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in it? Now? It seems very unlikely that the the Democrats plan to
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get this trial happening during this campaign so that one Trump can't be out campaigning
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like he wants to. We're already seeing that going on right now in New
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York, but keeping him off the campaign trail, and you know, potentially
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trying to. The goal was to just get him some kind of a conviction,
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if they could call him a felon, that's the goal. Well,
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now it looks like this won't happen before the election, probably not in twenty
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twenty four at all. It's an interesting development, but it's not the only
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development of interest, because we have another case that is now going to be
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pushed back, probably into twenty twenty five, and that concerns the documents,
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those secret documents, those confidential documents that he had in Florida. There's going
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to be a review on case, and it looks like that's not moving forward
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before the election. It does not appear, so it looks like that will
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be a twenty twenty five case whenever it finally goes. So that's two big
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wins for the former president yesterday. Two fewer opportunities for the left to get
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their goal, which is to, you know, just get him one conviction.
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One felony conviction is what they want. They want to be able to
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just oh, my gosh, this guy's a criminal, and you're going to
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vote for a criminal. How could anybody vote for a criminal? How could
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anybody do that with all these horrible things he's been accused of doing. I
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suspect once we get outside of this election cycle, these cases are going to
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have so much less relevance it won't matter. It's going to be really unimportant
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once we get past November. Now back to this subject of the current trial
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that's going on. As we have the more testimony and more importantly, more
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scrutiny over the testimony from Stormy Daniels, as she a lot of folks that
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are kind of diving into what she said, how she's changed her story from
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the past. And you even have her former lawyer who says, not only
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is her story different than what it was, but he's also saying that she's
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guilty of some of the things that Trump is being accused of. That attorney
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name that I'm sure that you know, Michael Evanatti, who is currently in
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jail. He's currently I'm doing time right, and he for federal crimes,
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and he says he would be happy to testify on behalf of the Trump campaign.
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He told The New York Post last month, I'd be happy to testify
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in the case. I don't know that I will be called to testify extortion,
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tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement, other federal offenses. That's what's what
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he's serving for. By the way, when I talk about federal crimes,
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he says of the Trump case, there's no question the trial is politically motivated
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because they're concerned that he may be re elected. This is all to the
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Post. If the defendant was anyone other than Donald Trump, this case would
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not have been brought at this time. And for the government to attempt to
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bring this case and convict him in an effort to prevent tens of millions of
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people from voting for him. I think has just flat out wrong and atrocious.
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I'm really bothered by the fact that Trump, in my view, has
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been targeted four cases. Is just over the top. And I think there's
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a significant chance that this is going to all backfire, is going to propel
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him into the White House. Depending on what happens, this could constitute pouring
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jet fuel onto his campaign. He also said that Stormy Daniels was going to
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say whatever she believes is going to help her out and put more money in
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her pocket, and he said that he wished he never met her. Stormy
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Daniel's lips are moving. Then she's lying for money. There's a joke there,
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There's a there's a couple of jokes there. I'm not gonna go there.
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I just, uh, that's that's all, you know, that's all.
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That's all. That's all I'm gonna say about that all Forrest Gumpett,
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and that's where I'll stop there. So I guess the you know, the
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question come down to. Now that she's she's changed her story about her encounter
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with Trump, and apparently, according to Avinatti, there's some case some concerns
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that he has because she they wanted to pay her, I guess to make
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a documentary. At some point somebody wanted to pay her. And they were
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concerned about you know, typically you don't get paid to be in a documentary.
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They say that takes away you know, then you become an actor.
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You're not just a participant in a documentary. You've got, you know a
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little bit something else in the game. And they wanted to keep it quiet
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because she owes money to Trump from a defamation case, so she owes him
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hundreds of thousands of dollars. So they wanted to pay her, you know,
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in quiet, secretly on the side, so that you know, that's
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again that's that's not okay, that's not okay, and that basically they wanted
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to, you know, do some of this. And I guess there was
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a book deal or something to do with a book deal. They were trying
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to move the money around on that. This is according to Avinatti, who
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said he would be like he didn't wishes he'd never met her. It says,
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when her lips are moving, she's lying, and then he would be
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happy to testify on behalf of the Trump case. Again, you start getting
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into a thing where you're saying, Okay is going to bring in, you
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know, a disbarred lawyer on his behalf, and that certainly doesn't seem likely
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at all, but he might have an interesting counter. When it comes to
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all of the Stormy Daniels testimony, it's it's still one of those strange cases
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where we're looking at Stormy Daniels to bring us some sort of truth. We're
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looking at at Stormy Daniels to somehow be the person to come in and for
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no other real reason than to basically, you know, get all this story
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out about what she says was her encounter with Trump that according to them,
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you know, he paid to keep that story from getting out. And now
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the story, I guess, is different than what was originally the story that
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she wanted to tell. As she's saying that she blacked out or whatever it
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was, she doesn't really know what happened, She doesn't really remember the encounter.
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How does she know the encounter happened? I guess that's another question that
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needs to be asked. How does she know what happened if she doesn't remember
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it? I guess that's another question. But maybe I'm asking the wrong questions.
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I don't know. I ask a lot of questions, and sometimes I
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feel like I'm just asking the wrong ones because the answers that I get don't
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always make sense, and they're always you know, I just throw up my
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hands and I go, I don't understand. Why why is this being allowed
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to happen? And if just think about if this judge had really looked at
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her testimony this week and said, you know what, this jury shouldn't have
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heard it. It's time to call a mistrial. This case would have also
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not happened before the election, and that would have been another major strike.
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So I don't know how close we really were to that happening. I somehow
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doubt there was any real likelihood of that happening. What I do know is
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that most I think unbiased judges in most states would have probably said, you
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know what, this is time for a mistrial, and that would have been
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that. But obviously, because this is a witch hunt, and now it's
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become even more even more important because those other two cases are not going anywhere
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more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break well, with the Memorial
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Day holiday coming up, that's the unofficial kickoff of summer. We got schools
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getting ready to let out, and then of course we roll into that holiday
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at the end of the month, and then we kind of go with that,
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you know, Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. That's the window
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that's sort of viewed as the summer holidays. A lot of grilling takes place
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during that pero, starting with really once the weather warms up enough to do
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it, which we're there, but really, once we get into that Memorial
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Day weekend, a lot of grilling takes place. And now, with just
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weeks to go before the unofficial start of summer, Oscar Meyer announcing that they're
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launching a new line of stuffed hot dogs packed with cheese and spices. They
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loaded Wieners come in a variety three different varieties cheese, chili, cheese,
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and jalapeno cheddar, and they'll be in grocery stores this month, just in
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time for the unofficial kickoff of summer. An Oscar Meer spokesperson says, our
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ambition is to spark smiles and be the indisputable leader in taste, which is
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why we reimagine the iconic Oscar Meyer Wiener to meet the evolving preferences of our
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consumers, whether seeking a spicy twist or a pop of creamy cheese. We
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strive to feed fans appetite. The cheese ones aren't new. I've had them.
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I've had them many, many, many years ago. I don't remember
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the last time I had a cheese hot dog, but I know that they've
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been around, so that's not new. Chili cheese and jalapeno cheddar interesting.
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I'd give them a try. I mean, why not. I'd give them
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a shot. Sounds interesting. Just another one that you have to remember when
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if you've got kids that are picky about cheese, which we do, you
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have to make sure you know which ones are those on the grill and which
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ones are just the regular ones, because I got kids that wouldn't touch the
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cheese ones for anything. When you leave a tip for a service rendered,
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do you leave what you want or do you leave what you're expected to leave.
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According to a new study, more than half of American consumers say they
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feel like they're often guilt tipping and leaving more of a tip than they want
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to. Part of the reason is consumers are constantly presented with tip jars and
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credit card screens asking if you'd like to add a tip. Researchers found that
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the average American overtips about thirty seven dollars and eighty cents per month. That
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comes out to roughly four hundred and fifty three dollars a year in guilt induced
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tipping. A third of people say they are often asked to tip for a
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service they normally would not tip for. Men are more likely than women to
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say they feel pressured to leave more of a tip. I've done like a
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whole show on this, and I can tell you the credit card companies are
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the ones that like having these tip options on these machines. The employees of
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course like them too. But keep in mind, if you're paying with a
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credit card and the machine is saying, hey, would you like to add
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a tip for something that you normally wouldn't have added a tip for, they're
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interested in their four percent of that tip. That's the way that works.
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So yes, if they can figure out a way to shame you or guilt
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you into giving them that four percent, they are happy to take it.
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They will be more than happy to take it. They're excited, Hey,
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here's another food story. A new teen spending survey found that Chick fil A
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is the favorite fast food restaurant of teens. Chick fil A got sixteen percent
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of the vote, followed by McDonald's at ten percent, Chipotle Really at nine
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percent, and Raising Canes at four percent. We ate at Raising Canes when
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we were in New Orleans last year, and Luke has not stopped talking about
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it. So he's not quite a team yet. He's almost there, and
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he's pretty excited about someday eating at Raisin Canes again. I know that there
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are some locations in Georgia, they're just not near to where we are,
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So there you go. Penske Truck Reynolds has released its annual Top Moving Destinations
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list based on one Way Truck Reynolds. For twenty twenty three, the top
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ten cities people moved to Houston, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Charlotte,
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North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, Vegas, Dallas, Orlando, Austin,
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Tampa, and Jacksonville. So we got some pretty conservative areas there.
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Pretty conservative, I know we got. We got cities in Texas. I
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mean that. I'd say that I realized that Houston and San Antonio aren't the
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most conservative of cities. But when you start thinking about big state wise,
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and then I know North Carolina's in there. But you know, anyway,
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it's a battleground state, right, It's a battleground state. And Flora and
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Georgia with some representation in there. Again, Atlanta not a conservative city,
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but has a conservative governor. So there you go. That'll do it for
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