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Common Sense and Traditional Families · 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, twentieth
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day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Still got a
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little rasp in my voice. I didn't realize I still have that this morning.
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When you first start speaking for the first time of the day. You
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hear it sometimes back in the day, you know, when I had a
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radio partner, we would talk quite a bit before the show, and I
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would be aware. But when this is the first time I'm hearing myself speak
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this morning, anyway, it's still there. We've got this lingering thing that's
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been going through the house for a while. We're all mostly better, but
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there's just still these little things. Jill still has a weird taste in her
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mouth. Clearly, I've still got this. Jake still got kind of a
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nagging call. If Luke just powered through it. He's doing just fine.
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He's doing all right. And I don't know remember the last time I gave
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an update on our kitchen that's been going on, the saga that started back
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in October. We made another small step towards getting our kitchen done, but
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we're still not even close. We're still like a month out at least.
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So that's the latest on that. And I'm not telling you anything new.
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Nothing's really happened in several weeks. We've had very little progress in several weeks.
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But maybe within a month. I mean, I don't know, maybe
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by July this will all be resolved. It's just one of those things.
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It's just kind of the way the process where people told us, you're doing
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a big job inside your house, it's going to take a while, and
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we thought, not this long. Surely not this will be done, you
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know, maybe by Saint Patrick's State. No, no, it's not.
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But anyway, but there's nothing really to update other than we've made a small
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step. So that's another thing we got going on. We just have a
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lot going on. Jill's got a certification thing for work she's doing. That's
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been going on our kitchen, everybody getting sick. The end of school.
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And by the way, if your school wrapped up last week, like if
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it's done and you don't have to take your kids to school this week,
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congrats, I guess I don't know. Some people have to deal with childcare.
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So that's a hassle in that regard, and quite a few in our
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area where we record. We'll be wrapping up tomorrow as the official final day
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of school. There's still some other schools that'll go I guess through the end
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of the week and maybe some into the following week for at least part of
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it. However, I do feel a need to address and I mentioned the
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Columbus State grads, the university grads around, but we got a lot of
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high school grads that everything just happened into last week and into the weekend.
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And congrats. This is that first big milestone that you get to in life
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as you sort of transition into adult I mean, that's what's happening. Now.
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You got to figure out what to do. Is it trade school,
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is it university? Is it just rolling up your sleeves and getting a job,
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is it traveling? Taking a year off? All those decisions that have
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to get made. Some have already begun, the process of maybe starting a
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family. Maybe starting a family and looking to do all the things that you
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do when you start a family, you know, the kind of things that
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gets people really mad at you. If you want to have a kind of
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a more traditional family, what used to be viewed as traditional I don't know,
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you know, families. I don't think you're even allowed to call them
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traditional families anymore. It's the whole dynamic has now changed. And we'll talk
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about Harrison Butker again and just a little bit, because that will continue on
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and that's part of what I want to talk about this morning. But congrats
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to the graduates. We went to a party yesterday for one of my favorite
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kids, one of that you have friends that their kids kind of become like
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almost like a nephew, you know, because you're close to your friends,
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and and this is I guess this is probably the first of one of the
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first of those kids that was like, this is like my nephew. And
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he's now graduated, and that really kind of hits you. It makes you
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feel old. I remember, you know, holding him by the wrists and
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spinning them around in my front yard over and over and over again while they
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were visiting in it again again. And now he's a high school graduate and
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getting ready to start college, which is just wild. It's wild. Time
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is a thief, but it gives meaning to life without time and this doesn't
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mean anything. Our lives have little to no meaning that's not true. I
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mean, our time here on earth is what gives it some sort of significance
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as far as the limitations on it, I guess that's the expression. I
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know they go with the top and they say it it has no meaning without
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time, and it's very important. Without time, without death. That gives
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our time more meaning and more substance to it. It gives us more time
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to do the good things that we should be doing in our lives. And
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it gives us more time to spend with our family, whether they're old school
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traditional family or whether they are you know, non traditional family. So I
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have been talking now for a lot of the month of May about the things
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that sort of force us to throw our hands up, some of us where
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we just say, what are we doing? What is the problem? What
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is the what is the issue? We look at what's been going on at
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the border and we say, why can't this be resolved? It was sort
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of resolved during the last administration. People weren't just flooding across, coming across
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as much as they could, as much as they wanted. There were attempts
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being made. Remain in Mexico was a big one. The idea that someone
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would come from a country in peril, in danger, their lives are in
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danger, and that they would have a need to come as a refugee to
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another country for protection, for asylum, some sort of asylum seeker, that
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they want to come and feel safe and be safe. Right, That's that's
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a thing. That's a thing all around the world. But the standard practice
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for that has been, you know, you get to a country where you're
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safe, and that's where you hang out until you can request to go somewhere
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else if that's what you want to do. It's never been the practice,
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you know, once upon a time least to just say we want to go
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to America. We hear that the current administration is just going to take care
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of whatever we need. We're going to go to America, and we're going
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to go through countries where we're safer than we were in our country of origin,
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Mexico being certainly one of them. Anybody coming in through Canada, come
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on, come on, stay put right if you want to try to make
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the case, but Mexico, I don't even know that you can make the
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case that if someone's coming from a place where they're a refugee, unless they're
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stopping in Mexico City and getting wrapped up in drug cartels. I think they're
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probably safer and better to stay put in Mexico. That's kind of been the
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assumption as people have just been using Mexico as a bit of a stepping stone
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to make their way into the US, because, by golly, they just
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want to be in the US. This is the dream to come here and
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be here. And I have, you know, a decade or so for
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people to try to figure out what to do with them. So what are
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they doing with their time here? Some of them are looking for under the
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table work opportunities to get paid and in some cases send money home. In
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some cases just looking for a way to better their lives while they're here.
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Hey, that's great. It's not legal, but you know, that's great
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if you're looking to try to better your circumstance. That's the whole idea of
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being a refugee of an asylum seeker, right, is to try to better
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your circumstance. If you're part of the group that's come here to commit crimes
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and attack police officers and sell drugs and just mooch off of the government and
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off of taxpayers. And when I say off, the government, I mean
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us, because the government is just taking our money and handing it out,
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doling it out to people, and that doesn't seem fair. It doesn't seem
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fair to anyone involved. It doesn't seem fair to anyone earning it. It
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doesn't seem fair really long term to peace people who are being allowed to take
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advantage of it. But we look at that and we say, this isn't
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fair, This doesn't make any sense, this isn't fair. We look at
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some of the DEI initiatives and we say, as people are starting to push
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for diversity, equity and inclusion, and they say, well, this equity.
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I think most of us are comfortable with the idea of inclusion. I
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don't think anybody's got any problems with that. I don't think anybody's really got
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major issues with diversity. But when you take equity and you start talking about
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equity of outcome, that's where people say, wait a minute, how do
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we guarantee equity of outcome. We're guaranteed life, a right to life,
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liberty, and pursuit of happiness. There's no guarantee to happiness. I talked
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about that. There's a billboard I've seen around town that just says and it's
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again it's a billboard, it's a short message, but it says, you
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know, life, liberty, happiness, like that's what we're promised, and
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it's not. That's not what we're promised. Our founders didn't promise us happiness.
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Our founder has promised us a right to life, to liberty, and
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the pursuit of happiness. That's the part where we have to step up and
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do our part. It's almost as if these founders were very intelligent and had
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some understanding of what human beings tendencies would be, and they understood. Being
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scholars and students of history, they understood. So we look at people that
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think there's a guaranteed right to happiness and they say, don't get it.
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We look at the lack of empathy, and we look at the greed that
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well, it's not even so much greed. Greed is part of it,
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but it's really more envy. Right. The lack of empathy and the out
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of control envy are also major problems. Don't get me wrong, there's elements
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of greed, but I think greed. We get accused of greed by people
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who want to let envy flourish, right, they want people to look at
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what other people have and say, why don't I have that? And then
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we have a government who says, I'm going to be the one to provide
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that to you. I'm going to take it away from the people that have
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it, those greedy people that have it, and I'm going to take it
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from them, and I'm going to give it to you. And that's how
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I'm going to take care of all of your needs. And we're going to
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start promising you things that we have no real authority to promise you, but
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we're going to do it because we're in this state of revolution. And people
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look at that and go, what are we talking about here? What's going
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on? How is this being allowed to happen? And then we look at
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Harrison Butker and I talked about this on Thursday last week, and this is
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the field goal kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs who gave a commencement speech in
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a private Catholic university and while he was there, he talked about how his
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you know, his wife made a decision to be a homemaker, to be
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a mother, to take care of kids, and then he imagined that a
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lot of those students, those Catholic students, the females, and he said,
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some of you are going to go on to have successful careers. Some
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of you are going to go on, you know, to have these amazing
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careers in the world. And then he also said, I would guess a
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lot of you are going to want to be excited about marriage and children you'll
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bring into the world. And people lost their minds. Now, I understand
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that folks on the left are going to take offense to some of his comments
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about pride and the LGBTQ plus community or whatever his specific words were on that,
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but the focus for some reason has really been primarily on his comments about
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marriage. And he didn't say anything offensive about marriage to most people, to
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people who look at the border and people who look at all the things that
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I just ran through and say, I don't understand. What are we upset
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about? What is the problem? Because yes, there are still women in
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this country in the world that say, I'd like to be a mother,
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I'd like to be a homemaker. I'd like to do this incredibly taxing and
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difficult and rewarding job that is being a homemaker and being a mother. I'd
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like to do this. And yes, some of The women who do that
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are college educated women. They go to school, they get a degree,
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and they decide, this is what I'd like to do, this is the
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role that I'd like to take in my family dynamic. They're allowed to do
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that, and this is someone saying, hey, some of you are going
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to decide to do that, and that's great. Now as the many on
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the left blew up and they're offended and upset. And by the way,
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most of the people in attendance at this school, it was an ovation in
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celebration of all of his comments. There were a handful of women there who've
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been singled out. I don't understand people got all excited about what he said.
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That surprises you. It amazes me that people don't understand, Like when
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we look at the border, the common sense people, we look at the
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border and we go, why is this being allowed to happen at the border,
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And folks say, I don't understand why you would want the border closed,
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And we're like, because we want people coming in that are contributing.
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We don't want people coming in forcing us to contribute more. That's the concern,
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right, or people that are coming in forcing us to contribute more.
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So, that politicians and bureaucrats can use our tax money to buy votes for
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one party or the other. Shouldn't matter. It really shouldn't matter who it
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is. It's like looking at the Trump trial and it's like saying, you
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know, it's okay because it's Trump. We don't like him. It should
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matter to everyone that this is happening to a front runner really right now by
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according to the polls, as even the judge acknowledged in his New York case,
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possibly the next president the United States again, a former president, possibly
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the next president. And people look at it and go, yeah, but
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he's terrible. We can't let him be president. So we got to do
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this to him. We're common sense. People say I wouldn't support this no
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matter who it was. Why not just let the voters decide. Let's don't
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interfere in the election. As we've talked about election interference. So people that
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are looking at this comments about marriage and saying, women don't want to do
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this. Guy's telling women they need to stay home. There were headlines talked
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about this Thursday. I saw headlines. I saw a Yahoo Knew story that
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I think was finally changed that said he was telling women to stay in the
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kitchen words he never said. It's not what he said. That's an interpretation
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of what he said. An opinion article on it. But honestly, it's
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just not true. It's not accurate. That's not what he said at all.
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Well, now there's a couple of leftiests that are coming in to support
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him, including Whoopee Goldberg on The View, who basically said, if we're
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going to support the right to speak, if we're going to say that an
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athlete has the right to speak their mind, we have to support athletes,
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even the ones that we don't agree with. We have to support Colin Kaepernick's
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right to say things that make folks on the right uncomfortable. Then we have
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to support Butker's right to say things that make some people on the left feel
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uncomfortable. You don't have to agree with people, you just have to give
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them their right to speak. What a novel idea. It's almost like the
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founders put that in the Bill of Rights for a reason. Bill Maher,
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who has his moments, let's be honest here. Lately, he's been saying
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a lot of things as one of those people who's been I think kind of
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as the left has pushed things further and further to the left. He's found
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himself closer to the middle than he used to be. And he commented on
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this, and he basically said, this is a quote from his show on
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Friday. Again, I don't agree with much with this guy, but I
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don't think the thing he said, some of you may go on to lead
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successful careers in the world. Okay, that seems fairly like modern but I
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would venture to guess the majority of you, we're excited about your marriage and
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the children you bring in this world. I don't see what the big crime
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is. I really don't. And he said, and I think this is
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the part of the problem that people have with the left. Lots of people
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in this country are like this. And he's saying, some of you may
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go on to lead successful careers, but a lot of you are excited about
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this other way that people everybody used to be. And now can't that be
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a choice too? He asked. Then he said, and I feel like
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they're very put upon, like there's only one way to be a good person,
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and that's to get an advanced degree from one of those a whole factories
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like Harvard. It's a great line that's such a great line. It really
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is. And he basically just said, he said, I think it's very
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ironic that people are saying, you know what, in my world, you
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know, we like the women who stay at home and just have babies,
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and the college kids and young people find this absolutely abhorrent. Abhorrent, he
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says, But they're demonstrating for Hamas, who will make that the law.
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So he says, it's not just an opinion in Hamas that you stay at
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home and have babies. They will enforce you. That great point. Great
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point is people are and we're hearing some reports. I read an article about
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some people who've been infiltrating some of the protests and they say, yeah,
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it's it's just to hang out. People don't even know what they're there to
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protest for. They're just there to hang out. But that's another thing that
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people are going, Wait a minute, Since when has anti Semitism been okay?
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Since when has it been all right to stand up in the name of
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exterminating a people? When has that been okay? Why is that all of
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a sudden a thing that's just in America? And I told you last Thursday,
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I worry that someday in the future, they'll just pull the old switch
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aroun Hey, that wasn't us. Those were those Republicans, you know that
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all switched. Those people who are doing that then are Republicans now or what?
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Whatever they're going to do, they're gonna play that little game and completely
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streamline history and make it exactly what they need it to be to fit their
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narrative so that they cannot be held accountable for anything that happened prior to the
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Civil War and really prior to I don't know, civil rights movement and all
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that, but anyway, Yeah, so as this is another one of those
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areas where I just I don't get it. I try, I try to
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understand when somebody comes to me and says, hey, these are the reasons
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that I think this should be legal, and it's something I disagree with,
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and I go, well, i'll hear you out, and I can hear
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them out, and I can usually kind of understand where they're coming from,
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even if I don't agree with it. I can at least hear where they're
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coming from. What is the problem with this statement from this commencement address?
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I don't understand. I still don't get it. I need someone to explain
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to me what he said about women in that section that's so offensive you want
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to talk about the other stuff. I get some of that. I understand
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why people would be offended. I don't understand here what would possibly offend anything
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right after the break Well, I don't know if you've heard, but apparently,
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according to reports, there's some fast food restaurants, including McDonald's, getting
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ready to cut down on the free refills when you buy one of their soft
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drinks, removing the self serve from it, I guess from a lot of
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locations, and they say that it's coming. It'll be a little time,
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but eventually it's gonna happen. I guess they have to do some remodeling and
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reworking of some of their system but I always thought that was an easy way
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for them to not have to have an employee handling that particular part of the
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job. But anyway, so apparently that's coming. Well, McDonald's has something
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here that's kind of interesting. They've added to their menu in some locations,
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I guess beginning on Tuesday, and I don't know how many locations it will
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be in, so I guess I'll tell you to check around town before you
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go there. But apparently McDonald's is now adding a Grandma mcflurry to their menu,
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the Grandma mcflury. This sounds like something from an April Fool's joke.
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If this wasn't, you know, twenty days deep into May, I would
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be suspicious. But the Grandma mcflury vanilla soft serve ice cream blended with chopped
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candy pieces that are supposedly representing the candies that Granny often kept in her purse.
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I assume that's peppermints and butterscotch, and those little candies that taste like
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strawberry. Those were actually good. Not the peppermints. I got nothing against
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any of them, but the little ones in the little strawberry pack. I
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like those things anyway. So be available for a limited time and apparently starting
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tomorrow, so that'll be your first chance to try it out at some locations,
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and I don't know how many locations, but there you go. I
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mentioned the high school graduates that are getting ready to enter the next phase,
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and apparently Coworking Cafe. I guess this is a website put together their list
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for the best cities for gen Z to find summer jobs based on job availability,
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flexibility, health benefits, easy commutes. Here's what we got Rochester,
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New York, Charleston, South Carolina, Everett, Washington, Hartford, Connecticut,
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Syracuse, New York, Springfield, Massachusetts, Saint Louis, Cleveland,
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Richmond, and Burbank, California. I guess the closest for us here would
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be Charleston, South Carolina, which is number two on the list. So
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that's pretty good, right, all right? I like this, you know,
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yolo fomo joemo. How about this new feelings based acronym fau po.
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And that's fear of people's opinions when you care too much about what other people
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think about you and you're not being your real and genuine self, you know,
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like Harrison Budker who just says what's on his mind and that's that,
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and people freak out. According to psychologist Michael Gervais, who came up with
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a concept and wrote a book about it, these are some of the signs
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that you may be suffering from fau po. If you check your to appear
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important or busy, You laugh at a joke that you don't find funny,
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You drink at a party, even when you don't want to drink. You're
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dealing with ordering anxiety at a restaurant, so you don't hold up with the
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hold up the line. You stay at your job because your boss is still
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there. I'm sorry, you stay late at your job because your boss is
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there there. You want them to think that you're working extra hard. Lying
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about your age at work in an industry run by younger people, and pretending
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you've seen a movie, TV show or heard of a band that you don't
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know who that is. Those all sounds like things that would count as faux
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pos, right, fear of people's opinions. You don't want them to think
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less of you because of you know, your not being whatever it is that
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you think they want you to be. I guess so I like it.
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I like this faux po. I think we need to get this out into
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the out into the ether. This is a good one. That'll do it
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