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Matthew Perry's Death Is Sad, But Hardly Shocking · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day,
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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Monday morning. It is
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the thirtieth next to last day of October. I'm wes, thanks for joining
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me. All Hallows Eve Eve, whatever it is, I don't know.
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Tomorrow night's trigger treating. That's what it means. All Saints Day a couple
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days away. That's the way this all works. Perfect day to listen to
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that great British pop band All Saints. I don't know the girl band.
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Could you say that? I don't know. You used to be able to
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say boy band, girl band. I don't know what you could say anymore.
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I don't know what the rules are anymore. Let's start with first of
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all, over the weekend Saturday, I was at a Halloween party. My
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friends Mark and Katie have just a fantastic annual Halloween party. It's one of
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the things we look forward to the most every year. It's always a great
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time and it's just a great ensemble of friends. And I don't know.
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There's some of their friends that I barely even know. Some new people that
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I talked to over the weekend for the first time. It was a good
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time. It's always a great time. And the costumes are a main focal
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point for the Carroll family over the years, and we were reminiscing about some
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of the costumes from over the years over the weekend. And one of the
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things that happened while we were there at the party is I get a text
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message from a friend from high school who says, by the way, Matthew
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Perry just died. And it's certainly sad news. It's one of those situations
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where when it's someone who is he's a little older than me, not a
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lot older than me, but he was a little older than me. And
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we know that Matthew Perry lived a hard life once he got famous. I
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mean, I haven't read his biography. I remember all the stories about it.
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Obviously, they did the Friends Reunion show that they did on then it
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was called HBO Max. Now it's called Max. I don't know they're going
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to chose plans to change it to X. I don't know. I don't
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know what the name is. Max is the current name. And we saw
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on that I guess according to him, he had just had dental surgery and
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he was slurring his words. And there was concern about him then. I
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don't know that we could really say at this point now just really I don't
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eve think it's been a year since that reunion. My sense of time is
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gone. But he was he didn't look great. I don't know that at
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this point. Finding out that Matthew Perry died, you know, in his
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mid fifties. I think he was fifty four, I don't know that that
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counts as something that I would say people should be shocked by. I know
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it's sad. I know it's disappointing. Someone who was on a you know,
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massively famous hit sitcom for so long is someone that obviously a lot of
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people have some sort of a connection to. They watched the show, most
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people watch the show. Friends was a huge hit when it went off the
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air. It was, you know, a highly rated send off one of
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the shows I think that got their ending right. And a lot of sitcoms
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just can't stick the landing. They just don't do it. Seinfeld didn't stick
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the landing. It was not good the ending for I mean, I appreciate
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to some degree what the attempt was, but it was off. It was
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way off. It just did not land at all I think in spirit when
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I say because I would have loved a completely different ending for Seinfeld, but
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you know, it is what it is. At least it was the last
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episode when they got bad or jumped the shark or whatever you want to call
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it. Friends got it right. The finale for Friends was really good,
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you know, I mean as good as you're going to get when you've had
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a show going for that long and you've got that many characters fighting for screen
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time. And Matthew Perry as Chandler was certainly one of those prominent people to
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you know, he stole most of the scenes he was in. He was,
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to me, the funniest part of the show. You know, the
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show was well written, the show was well performed. I think, you
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know, I don't know that anybody on the show didn't absolutely nail their role.
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They were all great. But he was a seam stealer, that's what
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he did. And if you watch the show now in reruns, you notice
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things that maybe you didn't notice the first time that they aired, which is,
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you know, his weight would fluctuate and he says depends or he would
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say I guess. He said in his biography that you know, you can
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watch and you can see whether or not he was, you know, taking
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pills or he was drinking a lot. Based on his weight. You could
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just sort of follow whatever his addiction was at the time while he was doing
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the show, and he talked a little bit. I guess in the biography
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and some of the interviews subsequent interviews that went along with it that he pretty
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much said that, you know, when he wasn't getting when he was getting
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laughs on the show, it was the only time that he really was happy,
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and the rest of the time he was struggling. So I don't know
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that anybody could say that this was a shock. I mean, I'm sure
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some people probably, Oh, it's shocking. He was, you know,
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in his fifties. He was young. I've also seen a number of people
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jump to the conclusion, well, he must have gotten the vaccine. And
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I think when you've got somebody who has think about it like this. Okay,
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if you got a car and you don't take care of your car,
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you don't change the oil, you let it run with lots of fluids low,
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and you just don't take care of the car, right, I think
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when something goes wrong with the car, I don't think it's fair to be
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surprised if you're running it without oil in the car and you say, oh,
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the engine overheated and just blew up. I don't think you can't just
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man, I can't believe the engine blew up. I think if you're running
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it without oil or low on oil and it overheats, I don't think you
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could be shocked. I don't think it's fair to be shocked. And I
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think if you're doing that and then the engine overheats and you're blaming it on
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a bad muffler, and I think that's what a lot of people were doing
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with the COVID vaccine, just looking for some connection for it, to say,
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oh, this was the vaccine. And I don't know any details other
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than they said at first that he drowned in a hot tub, and they
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said he was found in a hot tub. I don't know. It may
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have changed even this morning. I don't know what the latest is. I
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just know the guy lived a rough life. He abused his body, he
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admitted as much in a number of ways. I think he struggled, probably
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even while he was saying he was having dental issues. I suspect and I
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think many suspected that he was still struggling with something. Then everyone else on
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the show really seemed to be connecting with each other, and he sort of
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stood out and just wasn't didn't seem to be there, didn't seem to be
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present. But you know, you feel for the guy, you feel for
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his loved ones. It's certainly nothing to laugh about. But I think to
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say that it was shocking is probably a stretch. Anybody was paying attention.
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Now, if you weren't paying attention, you didn't watch the Friends reunion,
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and all you did was watch the show and you moved on. Yeah,
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maybe you were shocked. Anybody paying attention would probably say wasn't overly shocking.
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But we talked about it at the party, and you know a few people
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were like, you know, not a big surprise, and I said,
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yeah, that was kind of my take on it. It's sad, certainly
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sad, but I don't think it's shocking. All right. So there's that,
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and that was a big news item over the weekend. There's another thing
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that I wanted to just touch on briefly, and I'm when I tell you
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that I watched some of Saturday Night Live, I'll uh I'll just don't be
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uh, don't be shocked on that one either, right, don't be overly
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stunned that I did, because there's a specific reason. Nate Bargatzi, the
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comedian, was on the show over the weekend and he was the you know,
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the guest host, and I didn't watch the show live. I was
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in a Halloween party. I did just check out some of the clips,
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some of the highlights from the show on the Peacock app that I'll just show
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you some of the different skits. I guess that they sort of you know,
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glaze from the show. You can just kind of check out a couple
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of those. And I didn't watch all of it. I just kind of
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skimmed it a little bit. I I I like Nate Bargatzi's comedy a lot.
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I think he's a really, really funny comedian who is very outspoken about
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his faith, which I think is great. Not a lot of stuf end
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up comics have a lot of success when they're openly Christian comics. So,
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but he's also not doing material like some of the Christian comics. He's not
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you know, he's not doing shows. I don't think. I think he
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just does comedy clubs. I don't think he's doing shows at churches. I
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don't think he's going to Wednesday night spaghetti suppers and doing shows. You know,
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he's he's going to actual comedy clubs. He may still do an occasional
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spaghetti supper. I don't know. But I like him and I wanted to
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see a little bit of him on SNL. I was curious, and there
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were a few funny things. Memorably there was, and if you want to
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check any of it out, you should just check out the skit where he
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plays George Washington. That's that was the That was the standout sketch from the
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show for me. But there was another thing. And as SNL tends to
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do, uh it's it's certainly not all funny. I mean, it's never
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really all been funny. I think we nostalgically look back at a time when
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we watched the show regular and feel like, well, that's when it was
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at its peak, and I think we're all guilty of that. I know
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I'm guilty of that. But I do think it's not been very funny for
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a while, and it largely relates to the way I think politics is handled
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with it. I did always enjoy late night talk shows and SNL and various
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comedy outlets when they would just poke fun at whoever was in charge, whoever
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was the president got made fun of. It's not funny. They're not allowed
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to do that anymore. That there's this rule in place, this unwritten rule
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that says you can't make jokes about a president if it's Democrat, but you
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can, you know, absolutely destroy them if it's a Republican. And they
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say, well, that's because it's just funnier. No, it's not that
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at all. It has everything to do with there's an unwritten rule. You
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don't want to get blackballed if you go out and go outn't know, lamb.
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They will occasionally do that, but it's not often. So that's the
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main reason I don't ever really watch it. But there was one skit in
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particular that I saw and I just watched a few minutes of it, and
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it related. I guess it was the opening or yeah, it was opening
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of the show, which had a cameo in that right, Christopher Walken came
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out, which you know, I didn't know if they were going to work
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out, and maybe they did. I didn't see the whole show. But
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I don't know if they were going to work in a cow bell thing or
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relating to it being close to Halloween. I didn't know what was going to
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happen. But they had Joe Biden. The guy that does Joe Biden is
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a terrible impression of Joe Biden. It's not funny. Nothing about the skit
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was funny at all. Then they brought in someone who was supposed to be
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the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. And you may not know
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this about Mike Johnson, but we're right around the time that he got married,
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he took in a kid. He had the same sort of deal going
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on as the whole blind Side thing at the time, fourteen year old black
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son that he didn't officially adopt. The family took him in and raised him.
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He has a son who and I assume that when he got married he
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was pretty young. They made reference to that in the sketch on SNL and
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they basically just said, yeah, Mike Johnson has this black man that lives
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with him, and nobody seems to question it, and they were just going
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after him, and they were likening it to the blind Side. Now,
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I think Johnson himself has compared it to that situation a little bit once before,
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But basically they were accusing that there's being something suspicious about the fact that
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he and his wife took in this then fourteen year old kid and helped raise
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him. And there's been some questions over the years, why doesn't Johnson include
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this guy who's now, I guess an adult. Why doesn't he include him
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and his family pictures and campaigns and things. You would think he would want
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to do that, according to them, And the answer that he has given
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is just simply that the guy who was fourteen when he took him in and
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is now an adult, has moved on in his life and doesn't want to
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be included in the limelight in politics. He doesn't want to be part of
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that, which should be enough to make people just leave him alone, right,
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That should be enough, But instead SNL has tried to raise as much
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awareness, and I guess Democrats in general, this is all part of a
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strategy. It's all a very organized thing. Some of the late night talk
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shows, according to stories, used to actually get talking points from various political
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leaders years ago. I assume they still do. It's the same thing as
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when the White House says, we're gonna get all the reporters in and we're
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gonna have a powwow about how you're making the president look bad. We have
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to tell you the ways that we're going to help make him look better so
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that he can get reelected or whatever. And they've done that. It's kind
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of in that vein. So what everybody says, and that was that was
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that was public information. Both of these things were public information that were confirmed.
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I even know which talk show, but I'm not going to say which
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talk show, don't. I don't want to do that. But it was
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common knowledge that one talk show in particular, and in this particular host sort
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of referenced that there were things that they were encouraged to talk about or asked
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to talk about. So and I don't want to misspeak any of it and
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get myself in trouble as all, because I don't know to what level it
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was confirmed. I just know that it was confirmed that was happening. And
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it was definitely confirmed that the White House called in various media editors and bosses
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and networks and things to make sure that they were all making Biden look good.
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So it's an organized effort. And if they're talking about this guy who's
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asking for privacy, he's asking to be out of the public, Like,
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why would they bring him into this? Why is why is it relevant if
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the speaker of the house has a son that he took in didn't fully adopt.
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It's not his adopted son, but it's somebody that he had guardianship over
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and that he took care of, somebody who was in need of someone to
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look after him. He took him in, and the guy grew up and
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moved on with his life. And that's it. He didn't write a book
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about it, he didn't make a movie about it. There's no the blind
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side for him to be upset about. And I haven't seen anywhere that he's
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upset about it. In fact, the very fact that we're talking about him
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now is against his wishes. He doesn't want it to be talked about.
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And I'm talking about the guy, not Johnson. I think Johnson, I
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don't know would probably he's just trying to respect the wishes of his I call
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him his son. I think he refers to him as his son. He
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raised him from fourteen to adulthood. That's not a huge chunk of time.
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But it's a pretty important moment in time, and he and his wife took
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him in right when they got married, right right out of the gate.
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They helped raise him. But here's SNL bringing it up, trying to raise
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these questions about something doesn't seem right about this, does it? What is
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it? What exactly are they implying? I know the tiger went tiger.
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I shouldn't assume that SNL is going to give anybody a fair shake. I
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shouldn't assume that they're going to do any And they don't have anything specifically go
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to go after him on. I guess they'll go after his faith, They'll
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go after his Christian faith. I don't know if they could go after his
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Christian faith bluntly on a show with Nate Bargatzi as the host, right,
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I don't know about that. I don't know. Maybe they could. I
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don't know that he I mean, what's he gonna do? I'm just not
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gonna host. I'm walking out. I don't know. I don't know what
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he's what they would expect him to do. But so this was the area,
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this was the pressure point they're trying to get him on. Is that
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he took in a kid who needed help, who needed someone to look after
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him. He looked after him, raised him to adulthood and send him on
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his way. And they're upset with him because the guy doesn't stand in photos
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or in political campaign rallies with the family because they want him to be there.
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break, well, are we suffering from a loneliness epidemic? According to the
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Glow Meta Gallop survey, nearly twenty five percent of people worldwide, that's more
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than a billion people say they feel very or fairly lonely. Numbers could be
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higher. People in more than one hundred and forty countries were surveyed. China,
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of course, the most populous country in the world, was not surprisingly,
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the lowest rates of loneliness were in older populations, while the highest rates
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were in young adults. Seventeen percent of adults sixty five and older reported feeling
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very or fairly lonely, while twenty seven percent of eighteen to twenty nine year
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old said that they were lonely. That is interesting, isn't it. That's
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a surprise. If you've ever been on a flight and had that battle over
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an arm rest, and if you've done an international flight, that's when it's
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high stakes, right if you were flying on an international flight, especially if
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want to make sure you got it well. Flying co coach, you know
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I did that a number of times in my twenties. Well, there's a
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new invention that could help with this. It's called the Srigami, created by
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a woman named Grace Chang, whose husband is a frequent flyer who always has
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and shaped a little bit like a paper airplane kind of upside down. I
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guess, clips to the arm rest and divides it into two. Each person
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at a nineteen ninety nine price point. Chang says it's a conversation piece,
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and if you bring the sorigami along and offer it to the other person to
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use and they refuse, then you have kind of won the armrest fair and
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square. That's a good point. If they don't want what would be an
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easy way to share it. It sounds to me like they're just conceding it.
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It's all yours, all right. A couple of coffee stories. First
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of all, as you get older, they say, drinking more coffee is
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coffee drinker consumes about three eight ounce cups of coffee a day. The study
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found that those who had a fourth cup have an even more reduced risk of
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I remember years ago there was a woman at McDonald's who spilled coffee in
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her lap and got some severe burns and ended up suing McDonald's because the coffee
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was excessively hot, so much so that it caused a severe the third degree
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burns that went through her skin. I guess bone was visible. It's a
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gruesome story and a lot of comedians made fun of it because it sounded like
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it was a fair far her for jokes, right, but pretty awful story
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for a senior woman. Well, now it's happened again, not at McDonald's
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this time as now a seventy year old woman went to Dunkin Donuts and has
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reached a settlement. This is in Atlanta. She went it through a drive
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through window in the February of twenty twenty one, purchased a cup of hot
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coffee. The drive through worker handed it to her. The lid came off,
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coffee spilled into her lap, and she says that she suffered second third
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degree burns on her thighs growing abdomen required skin grasps. Her lawyer says that
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she still suffers today. Duncan eventually settled and paid the woman three million dollars
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in the settlement. It's a gruesome thing to have happened. And I know
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it sounds like, oh, you spill it in your lap. I know
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they made fun of it, I think on Seinfeld. I know they made
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fun of it on Seinfeld, but I remember lots of late night talk shows
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making jokes about it. And if you hear the actual story, behind the
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MacDonald's story. It's really gruesome and it's not quite what it seemed, I
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