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You Can Do Something About it · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Monday morning, sixth
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day of May. Safe DeMaio, you're keeping it going. I don't even
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know there may be a Star Wars Day continuation. I know it's May the
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fourth and Revenge of the fifth, don't there may be a six I don't
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know. I didn't look that up. I usually kind of, you know,
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it kind of peters out for me once we get past the especially if
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it's over the weekend. I did watch a lot of Star Wars. I'm
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gonna be honest with you, I watched a lot of Star Wars over the
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weekend. Sometimes it's just kind of on in the background. Sometimes I'm as
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I tend to happen, I get drawn into it when I've just got it
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on, maybe just a scene or two as I walk away and come back.
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You know, the way people watch things like NASCAR or the draft whenever
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they have the NFL Draft or whatever sports after watching I think that's the main
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one that they have on TV, right the NFL one. So yeah,
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I watched a lot of it both days, And be honest with you,
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a lot of it both days. Probably not going to surprise you if you
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know me at all, no big shock, none whatsoever. And yes,
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I dipped into a little bit of the show, like there were a couple
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scenes that I wanted to revisit on a few shows Mandalorian Ahsoka, even book
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a Boba Fett and some of the movies you know did a New Hope in
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its entirety. Every year, I kind of watch a different one. I
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think last year Rogue one, I think is what I watch. Anyway.
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I know you were wondering that, but I'm just offering that up. The
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other big thing around the Carroll household for the weekend is we've had some sort
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of a bug running through and you may be able to hear it a little
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bit my voice because I'm the latest to get it. We don't think Jiel's
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got it yet. We're trying to keep her from get it. The boys
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and I have been trying to keep our distance, and interestingly enough, there
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was a day last weekend where Jill had some had a work event, she
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had something for work she had to do, and the boys and I went
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out to eat and got a friend who works at the restaurant treated us to
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a dessert, one of those shared desserts. I don't even know if it
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was something that was on the menu. I guess it is, but we
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were brought a dessert to the table to share, and the three of us
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all shared it. You know's you get your spoons and there's you know,
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brownie and ice cream and things in there. So we did. And then,
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of course, once Jake got sick very soon after that, we figured
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it was just a matter of time for all three of us, and it
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has been. So maybe Jill will avoid it because she since COVID, at
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least she's not sharing spoons with anybody. I mean me, but not any
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in this past week. You know, she and I would share a spoon
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if we were out to dinner, just the two of us, But she's
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not getting into it with the kids in school and all that. That ain't
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happening. She's too much of a germophobe for that. So anyway, we've
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been dealing with that, and I hope whatever this is, I assume it's
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going around. I don't wish it on anyone, So just be aware.
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We don't know what it is. I don't know that I would put it
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under a heading of COVID or anything like that. It's just been starts with
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a little stomach thing, and I've even had a little bit of a little
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dizziness. I don't know that it's under the vertigo category or whatever. The
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boys didn't complain about that, but and they both brought some food back up.
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There's no easy way to say that without it sounding gross. I haven't
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done that in twenty eight years, so it's been a long time for me.
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But it's not a surprise if that's a normal symptom of whatever we have.
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And it didn't affect me, but anyway, it started to get me
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as of yesterday. So I've got a little bit of a rasp and I've
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been coughing a little bit and all that stuff. So anyway, I hope
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you're able to avoid whatever that is and you know, get on with your
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life. But apparently there's a few things that are going around out there which
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stinks. You get to warm weather there at the end of school, they've
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only got a few weeks left and then all this kind of just jumps on
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them. But anyway, maybe the upside is I think for the most part,
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they're past most of the end of school stuff. Jake still got something
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later in the week, but Jake had it first and he's the one who's
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pretty much over it by this point, and the rest Luke and I are
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kind of dealing with it. But anyway, so today I want to talk
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about just a couple of things, because I talked last week quite a bit
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about common sense things and those things that frustrate us, the thing that really
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just don't make any sense. I mean, there's a lot of it.
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We look at whatever's going on with the border, the things that seem to
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be the most obvious about what's happening at the border and the people that are
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being allowed into the country, and the explanation that makes the most sense to
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anyone paying attention just relates to and I've talked about this. I talked about
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this some last week, but it relates to letting people into the country,
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not really holding them under any sort of account for being in illegally, giving
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them time to produce offspring so that they can eventually settle and stay, encouraging
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them to fill out the census so that they will be part even though they're
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not official in the country, they don't live here officially, they're not legal
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and they can't vote, but giving them the opportunity to participate in representation,
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because if you fill out the census, then you you know, you're helping
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some politician in some way by by doing that, and I say, you
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don't vote. But in some cities, in some states there are I guess
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mainly cities they're they're allowing non citizens to vote in elections at the local level.
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None of that really makes I mean, it makes sense and that you
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understand that's why they're doing it. None of that makes sense to the average
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person that says, why is any of this even being allowed to happen.
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And it's frustrating because I like to think that as a citizen, the people
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who represent me, right, my representative for where I live should have My
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representation should be equal for where I live, just like the people who live
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in an area where I mean, you got someone who's filling out a census
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and if they get some sort of reps present because they happen to be there
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and they're not a citizen, something seems out of balance there. And a
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city that people get to vote if they're not a citizen doesn't make any sense.
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It's frustrating. I don't understand how that works. It's a lot of
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things that don't make any sense. But if you say this is why the
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border is in the condition that it's in, people say, Ah, you're
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a conspiracy theorist. You are just throwing out those conspiracies. You're throwing out
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those replacement things. You're a xenophobe, you are expressing your desire for white
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supremacy and all these sorts of things. And I'm going no, I just
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I want it to be fair for everybody. And if somebody wants to come
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in, go through the way that the legal people have gone through. Ah,
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but they didn't go through the legal way when they first came here and
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stole it from the people who were here. Well, it's a different place.
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It's a different world we live in now than when the first settlers came.
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We're going to all acknowledge that, and we're gonna have to say this
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is where we are now versus what was happening then. There's a lot more
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people on the planet. Now this is different. It's a lot different.
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There are a lot more people involved now in not just it was supposedly maintaining
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what the early settlers and founders eventually worked for us here in this country.
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But anyway, it's frustrating, doesn't make sense. But I would like to
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offer as we start a new week, because that was mainly what we talked
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about loud. And that's just one example. But this is another area where
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I've noticed there are people who themselves are frustrated about things, and sadly,
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when I'm witnessing and I know where everybody lives in either an echo chamber or
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they've got a small sampling of what's going on in the world, that my
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small sampling is reflective of what's going on in the country I do. I
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just hope people are carrying this on to fruition because it's one thing to look
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at the border and say, why are people being allowed to come in the
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country, Why is that? Why is this become a thing like it was
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a thing? And then we had, of course Obama, we had the
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cages, remember the cages that happened during the Obama administration, the Obama Biden
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administration. The cages continued on until Trump was president, and then they blamed
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him for it and pretended that Obama Biden had nothing to do with it.
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And then but the border was much more under control. It's not going to
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ever be a perfect system, but it was pretty it was humming. It
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was humming. Things were going well during the four years of Trump, and
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then as soon as Biden got in, people showed up wearing Biden t shirts,
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Biden Harris shirts. They're here, Hey, we're here. They told
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us to come on back. We knew we couldn't come before. Now we
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can come. We know we're going to get whatever we want once we cross
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on it. That's the message that was relayed. That's the message that got
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to all parts of the world. Now we got people with all sorts of
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intentions coming in. And it's one thing when you look at it and you
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say, I don't understand what's going on. And it's another thing when you
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say, hey, these are some logical reasons why this might be happening,
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and I just laid some of those out. But there's a difference between.
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First of all, there's a difference between not even being aware or thinking it's
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a problem. There's also the people who understand what's happening and are encouraging it
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because they feel like it's advantageous to a political party that they support. Two.
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That's two. Then there's the people who just go, why is this
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happening? I don't understand. Then there's the people who aren't afraid to say,
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this is why it's happening. I think we're all seeing it, we
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all understand this is what's going on as And then there's you know, there's
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just people who just do whatever they do every day and are oblivious to all
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of it. In some ways, I'm a little jealous. It's unfortunate that
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happens. But in some ways, when people are oblivious to all of it,
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and they're just going to work, coming home and that's it, and
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then they you know, play candy Crush or whatever. They nothing I'm picking
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on candy Crush. I'm just saying, if they're not paying attention to anything
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going on in the world, and they're just you know, like they're in
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the matrix, they're just the batteries in the machine. But I digress.
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The thing that I'm witnessing now and I overheard it a couple of times last
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week and it was pretty interesting. A couple of scenarios. I mentioned.
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One where I overheard a conversation between two people that were just having a conversation
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about something that was topical in the news. I have now since that moment,
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had a couple of times where I've overheard people talking about how expensive everything
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is and they're frustrated. They're frustrated. And this wasn't someone that I would
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have normally thought they're going to vent about it out loud, you know.
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This was somebody who is just absolutely fed up with it. This is someone
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who it seemed like normally they wouldn't have spoken about it. But I think
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we're hitting that breaking point for a lot of people, which is encouraging to
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me. But my concern is the people who don't get that they do have
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an opportunity to be a part in fixing the problem. So this was a
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conversation I overheard between and this I was in a business. There was a
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person who was some sort of manager, and there was an employee, and
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there were a couple of other people standing around, and the conversation came up
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about how expensive everything was, and they were venting, I'm not going to
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say the name of the business. They were venting about the cost of things
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even in their own business, and how expensive it is just to buy things
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at this place where they work. And the employee said to the manager,
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and our salaries aren't going any higher, and I can't afford to even shop
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here was ultimately the message. The manager then said, you know, when
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I got promoted, I got a fifty cents an hour raise and that's all
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I got to be a manager. So I'm with you, and I overheard
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a couple of other people in different scenarios having similar conversations just in the last
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couple of weeks, and it's encouraging that people are starting to really notice it.
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We hear it on the national level, we see news stories at least
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from a couple of news channels. Some of the news channels would never acknowledge
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it. They think everybody is just happy, they're loving life. But I'm
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hoping, I'm hoping that people will take note of the fact that there is
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something that they can do. November's coming. In fact, the first thing
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that we can do starts this month. You know, once you start getting
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into opportunities to cast votes in primaries or cast votes for I don't know for
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or against things like splosts, we have to do things that stop putting extra
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burden on ourselves. We have to start doing things that are taking away the
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extra taxing on us. You can look big picture at what's happening in the
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country and why there's a need for us to take control at the very least
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over what's happening in the country from at a taxation level, at an inflation
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level. We have to do something to make a change. Starts with what
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we can't and we're going to it's Columbus, Georgia. We do this show
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here out of Columbus, and I can tell you right now they could propose
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fifty splosts, fifty cents on every dollar spent, and people would continue to
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vote for them. At some point, maybe there would be a breaking point
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and they would say that's enough. We should have already hit that's enough with
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what we're voted to tax ourselves on. But the current one, again is
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an education one. They say we have to get this East bloss We're going
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to have to do this. We need to support the schools. If we
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don't do it, these schools are going to suffer. And in most cases,
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you work off of a budget. You work off of a budget,
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and you say we have to do things within our budget. But this is
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an opportunity to ask taxpayers. We're just people that show up and buy things.
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Doesn't have to be local taxpayers. People that come into town. I
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know that sounds great. Hey, someone comes here because oh they're going to
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get on the dirty, disgusting river and raft and some people do. I
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don't think it's as many as they want you to think. But there's people
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that come here to do that, okay, And when they come, they
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spend money, and if they're going to be taxed that extra penny on every
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dollar that they spend, okay, well that's great. That's tourism dollars.
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That's how that works. No reason to put it on ourselves. We're tied
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for the highest tax rate whenever we go to the store for anyone in the
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state. We don't need to do this anymore. There's an opportunity to get
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rid of one of those pennies. Alleviate this suffering just a little bit that
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we're dealing with with inflation. Alleviate it just a little bit, give ourselves
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back some kind of control on it, and let them know we don't have
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to do this every single time. Let this be something special. Hey,
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we need this one thing, so here's an opportunity to do it. Well,
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let's hear it out. Doesn't have to be an automatic. Yeah,
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we're going to give you this every single time. We will. That's what
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we do. They have their hearings, they go through the formalities of it,
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and people look at you like you're a dog. You're the lowest of
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low You're the dirtiest human being on the planet. If you don't want to
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do this and support our kids, they've already they're telling you, here's what
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we're going to do in each school, here's what the money's going to buy.
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And the teachers, of course go, well, we have to do
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this, we have to do If we're not, we're not going to get
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these things. I remember one year a friend of mine who's a teacher told
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me which person who worked in his school was going to lose their job if
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the SPLOSS didn't pass that time, and they'd already been told that's what it
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would be. It was personalized, and you wonder why it passes every time.
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There's a number of reasons that get factored into it. Then we can
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look ahead to November when we have an opportunity to, I don't know,
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maybe get our energy back under our control within the US, get an opportunity
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to we're not good. The prices aren't going back down, right, that's
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not going to happen. And they say, well, inflation has slowed down,
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doesn't mean that prices are dropping, doesn't mean things are getting better in
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that regard. So to the people that are finally starting to realize it,
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and if you hear someone just sort of speaking it out loud or even muttering
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to themselves, why is everything so expensive? Might be your opportunity to just
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say, hey, just think about voting a little differently in November. If
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you voted for the current administration that's making it so bad. If they say
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to you, I didn't vote for them, I voted for the other guy,
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the one that they're trying to prosecute and throw in jail, then I
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say, well, you know, you got to keep that up. You
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got to keep it up. That's our best opportunity. Our best opportunity is
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going to be to go back to the way things that were. And that's
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where you start. You start at the top, and you start also by
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I don't know, not doing things to bring more taxes and inflation on yourself.
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Morning Show. Right after the break, well, did you do any yard
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work or gardening over the weekend? Did you participate in Naked Gardening Day.
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Apparently that was a day on Saturday. So I mean, if you saw
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anyone naked gardening, just know that maybe that's why they were doing it.
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I mean, maybe they do it all the time. I don't know.
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Maybe it's a regular thing where you live. But perhaps they were just participating
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in World Naked Gardening Day. And there's actually some cities where it's more likely
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to happen than others. I guess the nearest on this top ten list to
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us would be Asheville, North Carolina. Kind of doesn't surprise me there at
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all. Miami at the top of the list, Philadelphia, New York,
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Austin, Asheville, La Pasadena, Albuquerque, Orange, California. There's an
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Orange County. I don't know that I knew there was an Orange and then
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Pittsburgh. It doesn't seem like a very Pittsburgh thing, but I haven't really
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spent any time in Pittsburgh. So there you go. I hope you and
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it was Saturday was more than just a naked gardening day. It was obviously
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Star Wars Day, May the fourth, yesterday, Sinko Demayo, so it
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was a couple of reasons to celebrate. Maybe some blue milk on Saturday,
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maybe a margarita or something yesterday. I don't know. I don't know how
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you celebrated, but there you go. We all know benefits of exercise and
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maybe naked gardening. I don't know that there's benefits to it, but there
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might be. I did do some yardwork, but I was fully clothed,
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thank you very much, even where gloves would I do yard work, and
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and and a hat because you know you want to protect yourself from the sun
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and all that, so an excessive amount of clothes, I assure you.
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You can ask my neighbors. But the benefits of exercise and they say those
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that really get you huffing and puffin are the ones that will actually help you
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live longer. This is coming from a study from University of South Australia OI
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which found that CRF cardio respiratory fitness can lower the risk of early death and
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chronic diseases by as much as twenty percent, and people with high fitness levels
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out of forty one to fifty three percent lower risk of premature death from any
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cause compared to those with low fitness levels. CRF is a measure of how
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well your heart lungs and muscles work together to supply oxygen to your body during
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exercise. According to the studies, author and professor of exercise and sports science
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Grant Tomkinson, no doubt referred to as Tomo. I'm sure that somebody calls
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him that, just based on my experience with the Aussies. They say the
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message, he says, the message is quite simple. If you do a
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lot of huff and puff exercise, than your risk of dying early or developing
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disease and the future is reduced. If you avoid exercise, your health may
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suffer. It all seems like common sense stuff, But I don't know that
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everybody approaches all these things with common sense. That was the main theme of
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all of last week and a little bit for today. But I mean,
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it's common sense is something that just seems to have escaped us, and then
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we seem shocked when we don't do the thing that fits under common sense,
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and then things don't quite go the way we thought they were for some reason.
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All right, we know we're already getting it got pretty warm here over
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the weekend, and they say, as the temperatures are getting warmer all around
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the country, even further north, people are starting to partake in cold adult
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beverages. Probably did yesterday, I guess maybe, especially if you did a
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frozen margarita or something. Well, apparently now there's the arrival of a new
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spritzer called the Pickle Spritzer. Can. Cocktail maker Sprint Society launched a limited
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edition Pickle Spritzer last summer, sold out in just three days. I think
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Now, if they sold out in three days before, they're probably going
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to go fast. So if you want to have a Pickle Spritzer, good
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luck. I hope they made more this year, because, quite frankly,
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that would be good business. I don't understand the extreme limited edition. I
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mean, I get it if you want to create the demand and make people
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feel they need to buy it, but you want to make enough that you
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can, you know, sell them and make a nice profit, right.
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I know. The idea of businesses making a profit is something that our current
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president finds offensive that administration is like, how dare these businesses try to make
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a profit? But there you go. That'll do it for this Monday edition
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