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DeSantis Reminds Bill Maher Democrats Can Be Election Deniers Too · 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 Carol Morning Show Monday morning, a
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second day of October high I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. Whoever is
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listening in Canada, thank you made a nice spike of listenerships north of the
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border. Don't know who you are. I can see what parts of Canada
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you're listening in. Thank you. That's nice. I didn't know we had
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such an outreach in Canada, but I'll take it. And it's not just
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one place, It's spread around. So whoever spreading the word in Canada,
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thank you, God bless you. I don't know what it's a boot,
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but I'll take it. Glad to have you, I really am. It's
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exciting. It's always fun when you get these sort of just random places pop
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up. I understand the appeal in the Chattahoochee Valley. Absolutely. I've got
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friends and you know, North Carolina, friends in Texas, friends kind of
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spread around in the southeast. Those don't shock me. When those at Florida,
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when those pop up and up into Virginia and the DC area. The
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DC area makes a lot of sense. Appreciate those guys listening, especially if
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you know you look like Oracle and you're serving an office somewhere. I appreciate
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you listening. It was an awkward exchange we had at Disney World, but
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I thank you for listening and knowing who I was. That was fun anyway,
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So anybody listening north of the border, we appreciate it. God bless
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like. And I've got Canadian friends, I've got Canadian in laws. I
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don't know that that's any of the cities that No, it's not. It's
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not any of the cities that were Anyway, I'll take it. Thank you.
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Welcome aboard. And apparently you don't feel unsafe, or you wouldn't be
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listening. To throw back to the old unsafe conversation that we were having a
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while back. I want to talk a little bit about Governor de Santis and
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what's going on on the other side of the latest round of debates. And
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I've been talking a lot about one particular topic, and it's the concern that
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I have and it's not specifically about Rhonda Santis. I think Rhonda Santis would
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be a fantastic president. I think he's a great governor in Florida. My
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friends in Florida that are supporters of causes on the right love him. My
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friends in Florida who are not supporters of causes on the right hate him.
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So I can see where there is a definite appeal for him running for office
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for folks that are concerned, folks on the right. And I understand that.
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I see that folks on the left that don't like him. I think
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it's largely because they're told not to like him. They're not looking, certainly
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at what's going on in the state of Florida. They're not looking at the
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positives that are there. We talked about part of that radio and on this
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show when it came to the governor in Georgia. Think back to when Brian
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Kemp was running for governor and Georgia the first time. Part of the campaign
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that was being used against him by Stacy Abrams election denier. That'll come up
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again in a minute, but Stacy Abrams, who and others folks on the
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left were strongly saying that basically it was time for a change in Georgia.
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It was time for a change, we need to do something differently, that
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what we were doing wasn't working and it was time to change. But all
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of the stats for the state, all of the stats for Georgia showed that
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Georgia was in a positive going in a positive direction. Business was good.
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Nationally, business was good. It was voted the best state to do business
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in in the country the US obviously, you know, it was voted one
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of the best places to do business anywhere in the world. When you start
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breaking down what Georgia meant to the US being the top state to do business
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in and the US being amongst the top countries in the world to do business.
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Needless to say, that tells you George is doing something right. But
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ultimately the message was, well, we gotta do something different. It's time
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for a change, we need to do something different. They tried it again
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when he was running for reelection. They said, oh, it's time to
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do something different, it's time for a change. But things were positive.
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We were coming out of COVID with leadership. We were coming out of COVID
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with in a positive direction, with someone who actually showed what leadership was all
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about. So it makes no sense to say, well, it's time to
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do something different. We have to do something different. Let's do something different
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just for the sake of doing something different. It's one thing when economically things
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are tattered right, when we're in shambles and we're looking at inflation, record
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inflation, and we're looking at the fact that you can't stretch your dollar the
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way you used to. I met someone recently who was retired, and he
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was telling me I was very comfortably retired, and now I'm having to look
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for part time work because my retirement is just not getting it done anymore.
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I don't have the money for this economy. I wasn't planning for this economy.
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I wasn't planning for this inflation. I wasn't in a place where this
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was going to work for me. I was not able to continue to function
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and survive. We didn't talk politics. I would have loved to have talked
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politics. Wouldn't have shocked me to find out that he may be leaning in
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a different direction than he was before. I don't know. I don't know
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how he voted before, but he certainly seemed to be in a place where
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he was suggesting that things aren't going the way he thought they were going.
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We'll just say it that way. So it's not a huge shock that,
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as far as governors go, DeSantis was doing the same things that Kemp did.
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He's doing the same things as far as leadership in a time when not
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everybody was able to step up and be a leader, in a time when
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not everybody was able to stay and tall, stand by their convictions and be
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a leader in a time when leadership was tough. It was tough. It
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was really hard. I talked at great length about this when COVID really started
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to shut things down and everything started to become a bigger question mark all around,
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because elected leadership didn't ask for that. Nobody that was running for office
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that was going to be serving during the time of COVID, no one signed
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up for that. No one thought, oh my gosh, this is something
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that might be a reality. We might be dealing with this. So when
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people start talking about time for a change, and that was said in Florida,
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oh well, we need somebody different. Didn't go over well. Didn't
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go over well in Georgia either, and either of those races for Kemp,
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but it definitely didn't go over a re election time. Didn't go over in
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re election time for DeSantis. People were ready to stand with the candidate that
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they were had been standing with the person that they saw as a leader,
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the person that they saw was effective as a leader. I can see RHN
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De santist doing that as president, but he still has a long way to
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go. He's got a giant hill to climb in this battle against Donald Trump.
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But the thing is people have to that they saw something in De Santis
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and what he was able to do in Florida, and they started to raise
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the flags and say, well, he's he's the devil, he's a he's
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a Nazi, he's a hitler, he's the worst person ever. He's the
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only person that might be worse than Donald Trump. And I think we're all
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tired of that. I think we all recognize that there is a problem.
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We have a problem in Washington. We have a problem with our leadership.
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And it's it is when things are bad, it's time for a change,
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it's time for something different. We had something else, we had, something
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was very different than anything that we've ever had, and a lot of people
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just didn't like the personality or a lot of people bought into whatever they were
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told about leadership then and now you have DeSantis, who is you know,
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trying to still hang onto the number two spot, trying to navigate through this
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campaign or trying to run for president with a commanding lead for the person who
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seems to benefit the most after these debates, which is the former president and
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Trump. I don't think Desantist got a fair shake in the most recent debate.
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I think the questions were very loaded against him. I think he faced
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the hardest questions of anyone there. There were a lot of softballs that were
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being lobbed to some of the other candidates. It was they were easy questions.
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You know, it would be like, okay, any other candidate,
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tell us what you think about China. And then de Santis was asked very
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specific, very pointed questions about the state of Florida and the economy and things.
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And then at times he was interrupted while speaking with extra commentary coming at
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what was going on. Stuart Varney, I think, jumped in at one
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point and offered, I'll be oh, no, but in your state it
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is this, and DeSantis was disagreeing with him. So, but I understand
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that if he is going to run as the candidate, if he somehow did
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become the nominee, he would have to face those questions. He's gonna have
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to face a lot of tough questions. There are going to be some questions
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about fracking in Florida, and there's going to be questions about unemployment, and
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there's gonna be some other questions, some very specific aspects of it. But
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I thought he handled his answers to those questions well. But we've been talking
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a little bit, you know, into last week, maybe Thursday, when
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we talked about Democrats are trying to decide who the candidates are going to be.
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They're trying to dictate to you who is going to be the candidate for
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both parties. They know that Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump. They feel
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like he may be the only person who can beat Donald Trump. So they're
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hanging on to him just in case they can't keep Trump off the ballot.
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They're trying their best to keep him off the ballot. It's the ultimate attempt
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at election interference. That's what they're going for. That's what they're trying for,
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and that's what they want. That's what the impeachments were about. That's
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what all of these indictments are really about at their core. Okay, that's
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what they're all about. You can say whatever you want to say about Trump
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as an election denier. All of those things. Now, Rhonda Santis went
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on Bill Maher's show, Who is now? I guess back because the writers
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Strive has now ended breaking news from last week. I don't know to the
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degree they were able to work things out with some of the actors, but
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he went on Bill Mars show. Bill mar even joked with him, things
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can't be going great for your campaign because you're on my show and you wouldn't
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be here if they were going great. But the question came up about DeSantis
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during the twenty twenty elections during the mid terms, I'm sorry, in twenty
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twenty two, during the mid terms, where he was supporting some people who
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were known to be election deniers, and Marr wanted to ask him about that
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not being a deal breaker. How can you support someone who's an election denier.
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Here's a clip of that exchange. So, so that may have been
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Trump lost the election, right, yeah? Yeah, okay, So why
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did you campaign for people because I wanted to see Republicans win key races.
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That's not a deal breaker issue for you. That's not democracy. Okay.
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Well, let's go back to twenty sixteen. Your friends in Hollywood were cutting
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ads telling the Electoral College to vote against Trump in the electoral College because it
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was stolen. They said, Russia stole the election for years. They said
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that, So don't act like this is like a unique thing in modern history
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of the kind of verse. So worth acknowledging the audience for Bill Maher's show,
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they're clapping for Rohn De Santis. Wasn't the first time they clapped a
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few things that he had to say and in support of him. Now,
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I've said, if they can push out Trump, does it mean that they
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think that they can now win against DeSantis. I do think you see somebody
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like DeSantis on Bill Maher's show, because I think there's a growing number of
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people who would like to see Trump pushed out, Biden pushed out, and
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DeSantis running against Gavin Newsom. I think that many Democrats believe Gavin Newsom could
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beat Ron De Santis head to head. That's what I think. And I
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think if Democrats have their way, they're going to push Trump aside. That
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will open the door for Dasantis, and it's going to create a situation where
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they can then push Biden out of the way, Harris out of the way,
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and open the door for Gavin Newsom. I believe that is what they
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hope. I believe that is what they want because they feel like they can
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get him a win, and it doesn't there's no explanation for why they are,
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you know, having him on Bill Maher show. Is that. I
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mean, it's not to say that he hasn't had other candidates on before,
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but that's an interesting I think it's a bold choice for Dasantis, and I
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think good for him. I think he should do that. But it comes
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back to this whole if if Democrats can push Trump out of the way,
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prevent Republicans from having the option of voting for anyone that they want to vote
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for, and then create a dynamic where they can just push Biden away and
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get to the get to a situation where the they're having their their DNC convention
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and then say, well, we don't have a candidate. Now, we're
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not gonna have a no confidence in Biden. We need to put somebody else
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in there. Who are we gonna pick And a lot of people thought,
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oh, well, they'll just pick Michelle Obama. Well, Michelle Obama has
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said repeatedly she doesn't want it. Newsome has said, by the way that
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he hates liars and that he would not be the nominee under any circumstance next
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year. So we'll see if that holds up, and we'll see whether or
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not any of this plays out that way. But yes, DeSantis is absolutely
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right, and he's talking about people denying the results of the twenty sixteen election
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More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. So a German engineer
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has built I guess what you may call the ultimate NERF gun. It fires
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six hundred and eighty four nerf darts in a minute. If you're not like
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my kids and able to do math really quickly, that's about eleven darts a
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can tweak things further and eventually fire up to one hundred darts per second.
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Now currently the record is eleven per second, and he says he can get
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it up to one hundred darts per second. So there's that. A new
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study out of Canada says that adults who overuse marijuana are sixty percent more likely
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to deal with heart failure, strokes, or heart attacks compared to adults who
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don't smoke marijuana or use marijuana. As they say, right, because it
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could apply to other things. It could apply to edibles and all those sorts
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of things. There's been a very long standing thing that's been pushed that there's
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no negative side effects of it. It has none whatsoever. It's all just
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from God's green Earth, and people should just be using it all the time.
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I don't know why. I don't know why that became a thing,
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but everybody just I guess it was the people who wanted to sell it.
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Maybe it's always about money, isn't it. And I understand the medical unfits
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of something like that. I get that, but I don't really understand the
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whole. Like like, I was at a just recently at a I don't
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want to say which event it was. I don't care I'll say which event
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it was. But we were at the middle school championship game for soccer for
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the city for Muskogee County for the city championship game middle school. Okay,
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We're watching the game and then we get the strong smell of someone in the
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stadium was smoking it or at least in a vape pen or whatever. Can't
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get through a middle school soccer game without smelling it. It's just that widespread.
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And they just bring it in and have it there and anyway, and
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and and don't get me wrong, I'm you know me, and you know
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I'm very much in many ways fall under the libertarian category of But there is
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a health concern to this. It's not just and we've talked about the schizophrenia.
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We've talked about, you know, those imbalances when it comes to your
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dopamine levels. And now there's this as far as heart fail, your strokes,
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heart attacks. I don't know they're gonna start. You're gonna have to
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put warnings on the little baggies. Anyway, it's just everywhere. I don't
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like to smell it. Do it. Do it somewhere else away from the
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public. Why don't we do that? Why don't we do it in private?
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Or why don't we do it in our homes? You know, I
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mean people in your neighborhood have to smell it then if you're outside. But
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it just seems like it's everywhere. I smell it every day at the gym.
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Not necessarily people in the gym using it, but they've used it in
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their car. I guess on their way into the gym. I guess it's
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part of their workout. I don't know, all right. A recent survey
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found that seventy five percent of people who play video games say it improves the
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quality of their life. It actually seems low, doesn't it. I wouldn't
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think it would be closer to one hundred percent. Sixty eight percent say gaming
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enhances their relaxation. Sixty seven percent say it improves their problem solving skills.
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Thirty eight percent say it helps them with their soft skill of cooperating with others.
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Twenty seven percent say it makes them happier. It seems low. Nineteen
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percent say they feel sharper and here's some. Nineteen percent of gamers say that
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it helps them with sports okay. Seventeen percent of gamers claim it helps them
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with driving. Oh Wow's that explains a lot. Sixteen percent feel like they're
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cooking is better, fourteen percent say they have a better grasp on physics because
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of video games, and fourteen percent say that playing video games will help them
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have a better chance in surviving the apocalypse. They'll be more equipped and more
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ready. Now, the withdrawals from not being able to play the video games
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will be the first concern. I would think that definitely seems like something that
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should be a concern, doesn't it Just the concern of not being able to
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play videomes only seventy five percent. I would think it would be higher.
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I really do give me Miss pac Man, give me Donkey Kong, and
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I will be happier, more relaxed, have more problem solving skills. I'll
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have better soft skill of cooperating with others. I'll be sharper. It'll help
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me during the apocalypse. I'll know all about fighting giant guerrillas with hammers.
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Me with a hammer, not him. In case you haven't played Donkey Kong,
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I'll be better at sports and driving and cooking and physics and all of
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that stuff. I just want more Donkey Kong and Miss pac Man days.
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