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Politicians Have Platforms, Too · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, ninth day
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of August. I'm west thanks for joining me. Working our way through this
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week, and kids, I guess most of them are back to school.
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I think there maybe a couple of schools in the area that aren't back at
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it just yet, but we'll be getting back there before the week's over,
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maybe beginning of next week. But we're pretty much getting there for this area
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of the country, and I know there are other parts. I've got friends
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in North Carolina. They got another couple of weeks I think before their kids
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go back, so we can kind of all breathe a little bit easier.
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Getting through Yesterday is always the tough day for me. It's that first day
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when the kids are back and just going through the whole routines and the motions
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again, that's where I get my stress is from. And then of course
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pickups. Pickups are the worst first day pickups from school or the absolute worst.
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And we survived that. We got through that yesterday, so that's done,
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and now it begins all over again today and all of the chaos of
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the morning routine will be getting underway here very soon in the Carroll household this
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morning. But we'll get through it and get them on through this first week.
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And I guess there's a lot of adjustments. Both of my kids are
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starting new schools, so that's new, and they have to go through the
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whole routines of getting adjusted to the new schools and things. One in high
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school, one in middle school. We're familiar with the middle school. It's
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my high schoolers previous school, so we're familiar with it, but he's not,
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so he's learning it as a sixth grader, and my high schooler is
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learning a whole new process altogether at that level. So it's a lot and
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we're getting through it. And I know we're not the only ones. There's
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a lot that are dealing with it. But this, I guess, is
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the one time that we'll have our kids both beginning a new school at the
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same time because of how far apart they are spread out. I do have
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a little rasp in my voice. I've not been well for a couple of
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days. I think it's finally starting to get better, I hope so,
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but I do feel like I'm maybe losing my voice. I'm not sure what's
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going on with that. Part of that is that I've done a couple of
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interviews this week for the dragon Con pregame show and really excited now. And
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I told you I would tell you who the guests were once I had done
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some of the interviews. I have a few more in the works, but
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one in particular that I am happy to announce that I did yesterday is a
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Phil Lamar, And because of what's going on with the SAG after strike,
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I'm not going to go into the resume of Phil Lamar. I will just
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say to you that he is a very successful voice actor and actor. He
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has done a number of projects. He was on a long, long time
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stint on a sketch comedy TV show. He also has done a number of
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video game characters and characters throughout animation. And had a great time talking with
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him yesterday. I met him years ago at dragon Con, maybe ten years
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ago. At dragon Con, I just went over and told him I was
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a fan. In general. I think his work is fantastic. The movie
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roles that he's been in, and he's been in a few and he's one
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of those people that when you see him. You may not go right away,
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hey, I remember that guy, But there's one very infamous role that
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he was in in a movie that was nominated for a Best Picture, Oscar,
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and a very significant role in that movie, and that may not jump
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straight to mind, but once you realize who he played in that movie,
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you'll go, oh, I got it now. So he's he's done a
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broad range of projects and various roles on animation features over the years, and
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I had a good time talking with him about that. And in case you're
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not fully aware, the strike that's going on, the sag After strike,
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part of what the performers, the folks involved in the strike, they're not
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able to talk about any work that they've done that's considered struck work. So
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any work that they've done that falls into the category of projects that they did
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as part of their union, they are not able to promote those things.
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And that's just part of the strike that's going on. And I'm as out
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of respect for what they're going through as they're doing interviews with me. I'm
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following their guidelines for that. So I did an interview with him without talking
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about at least in the interview, without talking about the work that he has
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done, but there were a few projects that we were able to talk about,
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including a stage show that he did with Paul Rubens. He took the
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role of Cowboy Curtis in the stage production of The Pee Wee Herman Show,
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which is something that Paul Rubens did as Pewee Herman prior to movies and TV
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shows, and then later it eventually became the stage show after the days of
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his TV show were done and they took it to la in New York and
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they did these shows. Will Phil Lamar stepped into a role previously played by
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Lawrence Fishburne in Cowboy Curtis, and he did that. I got to see
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that show, the New York Show, and he was great, and we
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got to talk about that because that's not considered struck work, and we got
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to talk about something that he and I have in common, which is he,
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for a while was working with NASA TV to do a show Asked the
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Astronomers, and he does did in that show what I do in the Made
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of Stars podcast. I talk to people who understand all of that stuff a
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lot more than I do, and I ask questions on behalf of the listener
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and that's the role in that. So we talked about that, we talked
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about his career, the career trajectory, some mutual friends that he and I
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have, and all of that will be part of the Dragon Coon Pregame Show
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that will premiere the weekend of August twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Various radio
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stations around the state of Georgia plus like a hundred plus stations plus will also
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have it on the DragonCon Pregame Show podcast and you can hear that interview as
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well as interviews with many guests who will be back this year. Yesterday they
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announced Cooper Andrews, who I interviewed a few years ago and he will be
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back, as well as George de Kay also going to be there, Jason
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Marsden, and just some of the interviews that you can check out there on
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the dragon Con Pregame Show podcast wherever you hear this podcast and our dragon Con
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I got a few more interviews. I don't want to say who they are
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yet until I've recorded them, so I'll just leave it at that and we'll
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run with it. I talked yesterday about the I know that we have this
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mixed feelings. Several people have mixed feelings about the US women's national team when
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it comes to their early exit from the World Cup. Some people very disappointed
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and angry that anybody would be happy that they're out. Some people are just
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gleeful that they're out of the tournament because of a number of issues, politically
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motivated protests and things that some of them have done. And then there's many
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who are kind of in the middle. They feel a little conflicted about pulling
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against the US in a tournament like this, and it is it's it's difficult.
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It was difficult for me. Early on, I was hoping that they
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would do well because they were chasing this three peat. But as time went
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on, you start to realize, my gosh, they're going to be They're
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already had been kind of obnoxious about some things, not all of them.
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My heart breaks for a few of them. There's some on that team.
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Julie Ertz, for example, is someone that I you know, you saw
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her crying after the match and how disappointed she was, and she's moving on.
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She's not going to be playing anymore. She's been an absolute warrior for
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that team and someone that Americans can be proud of overall in every possible way.
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She's She's one of the athletes that we saw with her hand on her
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heart and singing the anthem for people that that's important for. And they were
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a handful of them on the team that were that way. So I know
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that there's people who have these conflicting attitudes about pulling against them or not wanting
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them to do well. I wasn't pulling against them. I really wasn't.
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I wanted to see them succeed, but I also knew what it meant if
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they did, in fact win again, we'd never hear the end of it.
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I don't think we're going to hear the end of it anyway, because
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I don't think they're going anywhere. I happen to notice there's an article on
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the Blaze dot com written by Jason Whitlock, and I often tell you that
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I don't usually read or listen to comments from other people, but I wanted
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to see his take on this exit from the women's team, and he goes
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into great length talking about the fact that Rapino, in particular, Megan Rapino,
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who most would say had no business on the team. He feels that
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she sort of bullied her way onto the team because he didn't feel like she
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should have been on the team. She was getting ready to go out anyway,
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she's done, she's played her last match on the national team, and
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he felt like that she cost maybe some younger talent and opportunity to be on
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the team and participate in the tournament. And he also basically says that this
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toxicity that she brings, he feels that ESPN is partly the blame for that,
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for feeding it and fueling it, because he basically said that, you
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know, they've done a lot to highlight her activism and things, and his
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question that he asked in this article is what exactly has Megan Rappino done to
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promote social justice that that's tangible, And he points out she's just very much
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a hashtag sort of social justice warrior. That's all she does. And a
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lot of Americans are they feel like by hashtagging something or jumping in or maybe
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changing their profile picture to you know, a picture of France or a picture
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of Ukraine or whatever is going on in the world at the time, they
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feel that sharing that somehow makes everything better. And it does something to make
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it better. Does it show solidarity? Sure it does, but does that
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actually make anything better? When tornadoes hit Tuscaloosa and various Auburn graduates or Auburn
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sports fans basically said that, you know, they change their profile pictures to
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say, you know, Alabama strong and we support Alabama. It's a nice
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gesture and it certainly looks good. But if they're not supporting i don't know,
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through a blood drive, or they're not supporting financially through the Red Cross
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so that they could be there to help out, does it actually make things
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better? How is it really improving things or is it just giving this impression
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of feeling better. Now we know that folks on the left are very critical
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when folks on the right say that they're praying for somebody who's been through something,
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and they say, well, what good is that? That's not going
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to do any thing. So it's the same sort of criticism, except two
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folks that believe, and they believe in something, and they believe in the
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power of prayer. To them, that's the ultimate thing that you could do
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for somebody, is you're actually playing praying for those involved. You're putting your
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own desires and your own interests aside for the purposes of putting someone else's interests
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first. That's the ultimate type of prayer, right, That's the example that
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we're supposed to follow for those who are God fearing Christians. That's the ultimate
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thing. Is you're putting the needs of someone else ahead of yourself in theory
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at least. Right, So, when the left says that prayers are empty,
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they certainly should see that hashtags are extremely empty because the hashtags mean nothing.
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They mean nothing at all. Now, I'm taking the ideas expressed here
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and I'm gonna move away from Jason Whitlock's whole speech that he made that he
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laid out in this article. But he did reference a few of the hashtags,
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the black Lives Matter hashtags or stop asian a hate or protect trans lives
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or fight for immigrant rights that we're on t shirts and things that she wore
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over time. And I don't know how anybody who can say that prayer is
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an empty gesture for someone but support a T shirt that says that I often
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say this and I don't mean to offend anyone. I certainly don't mean to
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And people are they have every right to do whatever it is that they want
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to do. But sometimes I see a car and on the back of the
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car is a little rip message for a family member that they've lost. Now
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to them that means something. Right, they've put it on their car,
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they're expressing something with it. For me, I don't see that really as
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the gesture that the person is. It's not something that I would ever do,
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but I would never be critical of them for doing it because I know
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that it means something to them. A hashtag like this really doesn't even do
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that. So we've got three, you know, different types of gestures here
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on this spectrum. We're talking about praying for someone, putting a sign on
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your car that says rip, we miss you, and then just a hashtag
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that shows, oh my gosh, we're all unified in this support of this
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thing. And I think that's a good representation because to me, praying for
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someone and yes, doing things on top of that would also help. But
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if you're trying to motivate someone to change a law based on a knee jerk
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emotional reaction, then no prayer isn't going to get where you want it to
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be. Hashtag is where you think you're going to make that kind of progress.
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So as we look at people like Megan Rapino, and we look at
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Lebron James, and we look at many athletes, and those are just two
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that come top of mind because they've been two that have been very vocal about
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the need to express themselves on their platform that they have. And I've said
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this yesterday on the show, and I'll say it until I can't speak anymore,
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which could be soon if my voice does go out. But this idea
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of someone having a platform, this idea of someone having some sort of a
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soapbox to stand on, well, not pulling for them to win championships or
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not pulling for them to stay in their sport or stay in the league,
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is one way to make sure that they lose that soapbox, something that causes
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them to lose that platform that they cherish so much. Now, as Megan
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Rapino going anywhere, I doubt it We're never going to not hear from Megan
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Rapino. She will be around. She will be probably involved in some sort
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of soccer coverage moving forward. I could imagine that I could see her sitting
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on panels to talk about soccer, all sorts of things. She's not going
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anywhere. But she does go out of this tournament knowing that she missed a
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goal that could have been the one that won the tournament. And that's not
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something to celebrate from a sports standpoint. It's something to say, well,
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she's you know, losing that aspect of her platform because of a failure that
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she had. It doesn't mean we have to find joy in it. That's
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something that she's gonna have to take with her for the rest of her days.
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Some people are really enjoying it. That's not something I find joy and
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I don't find joy when someone loses their job as a soccer player that played
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in high school and has played you know, rec league and coached at kids
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over the years, I don't get a lot of joy out of seeing someone
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miss a shot like that. I mean, if someone had to miss it,
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it might as well have been her, right, I mean, that's
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what she wasn't the only one that missed. But I do sort of feel
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that way. I'm glad it certainly wasn't Julie Hurts that missed it, So
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there is that side of it. But I do think that some of these
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athletes and their platforms, it's reminiscent of the people who just always run for
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president, isn't it. There's a lot of people who ask the question,
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why are some of these candidates even running when they know that they have absolutely
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no chance at all to win the presidency? And I don't want to say
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any names, there's a few that are in the race and you just can't
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help but think, what are they doing? Why are they there? And
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I think it's part of it's a way for them to have some sort of
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a platform. That's what I think it is. Because they're certainly not running
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because they think that they're going to win. I don't think so. I
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mean, is that a possibility. Do we think that Asa Hutchinson? Sorry
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I did say one. Do we think that he thinks that he's going to
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win? I mean, someone must think that he's got a shot. There's
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got to be somebody in his campaign that's at least saying it out loud.
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Whether they believe it or not, I don't know. And it's not to
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disparage Asa Hutchinson, but is it a reality Is it some reality check that
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maybe Asa Hutchinson needs to go probably not going to win, but this at
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least gives me a platform. It gives me an opportunity to raise money so
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that I can travel around and meet people, and maybe someday in the future
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I might be able to run. I don't know. I don't know what
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the goal is. But it's reminiscent of these athletes, isn't it when they
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think that people need to hear what they have to say. Do we need
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to hear what every politician that's running for president has to say? Probably not.
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They do have an opportunity to say it. And it's interesting there are
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people that say, well, Robert Kennedy Junior shouldn't be out there expressing himself
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because we have a candidate on the left and we know who the candidate's going
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to be. But Megan Rapino and Lebron James don't tell them to shut up
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and dribble. They need to be out there expressing themselves. Well, isn't
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that kind of the same thing. Isn't that something that they should have the
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opportunity to do. Now, I'm not expecting Robert Kennedy to end up being
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the nominee for Democrats. I don't think that's where all of this is headed.
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I don't think there's any way they would ever let that happen at all.
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But it is similar, isn't it That we have people that are running
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for president looking for this platform so that they can get up and express themselves
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and hoping that they connect with enough people to make something happen. In the
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meantime, we know that Megan Rapino will move on to whatever's next. She'll
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find some way to get out there and express her views on her platform,
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as they say, and it's going to continue to happen with actors and actresses,
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especially many of them that are affected by this strike. They're not working
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at the moment, so they're looking for opportunities to express themselves and say what's
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on their mind. And then of course these political candidates that are looking for
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any opportunity any way at all to get out there and get their message heard
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and hope maybe that somewhere down the line they're going to have some kind of
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this week and a study was conducted to find out the best cities for cat
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lovers, and research says that the ten best cities for cat lovers Atlanta,
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Georgia did make the list. They were at number eight. Fort Collins,
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Colorado, Savannah, Georgia. Also in there Atlanta eight, Scottsdale, Arizona,
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Richmond, Virginia, Saint Louis, Santa Rosa, Las Vegas, Knoxville,
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and Orlando where the top ten cities. And this was based on access
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to animal shelters, vets, cat friendly housing and pet stores. And I
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guess Orlando is the place to be if you are a cat lover. And
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I guess yesterday was International Cat Day. The next time you go to a
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job interview, and if maybe if you get an opportunity you get handed an
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actual coffee cup, not a disposable cup, but a coffee cup, there
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may be a little bit of a test going on when you get that coffee
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cup as part of your job interview. There's a former managing director for Zero
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Australia. His name is Trent Inness, and he revealed in a recent interview
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that he did a coffee cup test to weed out job at candidates. He
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says that he wouldn't hire anyone who failed the coffee cup tests and believes it
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reveals more about a person than any interview question. So here's the deal.
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He said, I always would take interviewees for a walk to one of our
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kitchens, and somehow you always end up walking away with a drink. He
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said. Then we take a walk back, have our interview, and one
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of the things I'm always looking for at the end of the interview is is
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the person doing the interview want to take the empty cup back to the kitchen.
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And he says, you can develop skills and knowledge and experience, but
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it really comes down to attitude. And the attitude that we talk about is
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the concept of wash your coffee cup, so you might be getting tested on
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things other than just interview questions. I always find the interview questions not always
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as revealing because I think people are kind of braced for certain interview questions.
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This coffee cup thing, it's a little sneaky, but I do think that
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it is in fact a way to get some general idea about maybe that home
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Finally, we'll do one more. According to a new report, the
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average US household spends about twenty forty six dollars a month on bills. In
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some states that number much higher, and based on the report's finding, which
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cable internet, the ten most expensive states to live in. They're not going
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