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Two More Weeks of Taylor Swift Football Talk · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Monday morning, twenty
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ninth day of January. I'm less thanks for joining me as we work our
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way a little closer to February. Blew right through that first month, didn't
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we We just blew right through it. I hope you took a minute to
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breathe, because it just happened. It's basically done. We're getting ready for
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a marathon, a Groundhog Day in a couple of days. That's where we're
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at. And we're now closer to the super Bowl, which is happening on
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my birthday this year. My consolation on and I'm not excited about the super
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Bowl at all. And there's there's one reason that I'm not excited about it,
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and it's the Kansas City Chiefs. Now. Let me just cover a
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couple of things here. Full disclosure. I'm a longtime New York Giants fan,
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and I don't like I don't like the I don't like the Cowboys,
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I don't like the Eagles, I don't like the Commanders or you know whatever.
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For a long time, they weren't called the Commanders, so you know,
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you have to remember that, and the rivalry was a different team,
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you know, different name at least, So the consolation in having a Super
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Bowl that it doesn't that has a team that another team that I just I'm
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just sick of it, you know, just being honest, and good.
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Good for them, for they go to the Super Bowl all the time.
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They just do it all the time. They're loaded, they seem to find
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ways to win, so good for them. But the consolation for me is
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that the three teams, like last year it was the Chiefs in the Eagles,
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and I had to pull for the Chiefs because I just can't pull for
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the Eagles. I couldn't pull for the Cowboys. I couldn't pull for the
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Commanders. I just can't do that. And a weird dynamic. My brother
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Matt is a lifelong Raiders fan. He hates the Chiefs, so last year
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we were on opposite sides of kind of the same deal there. So I'm
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just I just want to say this. There was talk at the beginning of
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the season, and I've talked about this a little bit here. I've talked
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about it over on the n QLN podcast that I do. It was talk
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before the season started, there was a guy who said, if you notice,
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the super Bowl logo will have colors in it that will tell you basically
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who's going to win the Super Bowl. And this year's logo it's a purple,
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mostly purple logo with a little bit of red at the bottom of it.
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And this guy said that the you know, the scripted phony NFL was
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telling you without you know, just brazenly letting you know it was going to
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be the Ravens over the forty nine ers in the super Bowl. And then
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you get to that point where they're the top seeds and it seems likely that
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that could very well play out. And last week, you know, it
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starts to play itself out where you go, oh my goodness, those two
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teams are still around, those two teams are still in it. Those two
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teams are in a situation where you know they're able to maybe make it to
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the super Bowl. And I ask myself, like, how much could this
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be a coincidence. I'm not one of those people who thinks that the NFL
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is scripted. I'm not. I don't think that. I do think that
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we have situations where it gets a little suspicious with referees. I remember back
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in the day, there was a stretch for in the NBA where I remember
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thinking, we got officials that are getting involved in these games, and it's
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pretty clear that something's not right. Like I didn't know what it was.
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I didn't know if the NBA was rigged. I didn't know. Let me
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find out later. There was at least one ref in particular that was,
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you know, kind of being leaned on to do certain things and and forced
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to make outcomes and games, you know, fouling guys out and things like
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that. So is it possible now that gambling has become such a prominent part
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of the NFL, is it possible that we have referees in these type scenarios?
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Yes, or they're players doing it. They get caught all the time,
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you know. I'd like to think that referees aren't doing this, but
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at the same time, it's kind of the same if players are getting caught
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doing it. I mean, it seems like it's possible that we have officials
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that are, you know, involved, but I you know, you can't
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just assume that that's always the case. There were a couple of games this
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year that I had no stock in and I thought, this doesn't seem right.
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The Browns and the Colts was one game that really stood out for It's
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just a lot of weird calls that were happening, didn't seem to really be
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a penalties, and they were just happening in these weird situations and dynamics.
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But anyway, so having this guy make this accusation at the beginning of the
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season that the whole league was rigged and this is how it was going to
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play out, I thought that was weird. I thought that was, you
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know, bold, and then it starts looking like it might play out obviously
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that's that's not the super Bowl. But we got and I saw people,
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yes, evening it's not rigged. The NFL is not rigged. Yay Chiefs.
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People that never pulled for the Chiefs before suddenly now they like the Chiefs
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because they're caught up in this Taylor Swift stuff. And all I would say
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to you is this, I'm not saying again that any of it's rigged.
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I'm really not. I'm not making that call at this point. I'm just
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I don't know that you can say that by the Chiefs getting into the Super
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Bowl that it proves definitively that the NFL is not rigged. Not with all
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the Taylor Swift now she's gonna be at the super Bowl. It's just one
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more reason for people who don't really watch football to watch football. And that
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brings me to my point today, which is this. And I know people
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that got into another little bit of like, I don't gamble, not anything
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of any significance. I don't even like small gambling. It's just not for
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me. I don't know. I feel like it's possible that if I started
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down that path, I might not be able to control myself. I know
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people that have done that. I know people that have gotten caught up in
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that world. I have, you know, people in my family history that
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we're caught in that world and his Phoenix City story style historically. So I
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just I don't think that it would be good for me to even entertain that.
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That's just kind of where I'm at. So that just to be clear.
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And look, people that gamble, they gamble like right, it's you
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want to go to Vegas, you want to go to Atlantic City, you
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know, you want to go to you know, Mississippi, go go nuts,
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you do your thing, you be you Okay, do I buy a
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lottery ticket every now and then, Sure, for the fun of the game.
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Have I Have I been to a casino before? Yes? Would I
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ever go into a casino and say I'm ready to, you know, get
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advances on all my credit cards for the hopes of dreams that I'm going to
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hit it big? No, No, I wouldn't do that. There's a
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certain point where you go, I can do this, I can have a
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little fun and that that'd be the game of it. And there are people
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that treat some of the fantasy football leagues that way, that treat some of
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the you know, mild I guess gambling on games that way. So and
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more power to you. Maybe I could do that with with sports, but
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it just it doesn't interest me. It's not something that I want to do.
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So I also find fantasy football to be one of those things for me
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that puts you in a position where you're going to be forced probably to draft
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a player or pull for a player that's not on one of the teams that
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you like. You know it laying it out there as a Giants fan,
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I don't like the Cowboys, But what if I had to draft Dak Prescott
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onto my team, and I had to hope that he got six touchdowns and
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for me to win a game, and I don't want to do that.
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I like sports being what it is. For me. It's sports is interesting.
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You got your team, you got their rivals, you got the teams
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you like, you got the teams you don't like. That's enough for me.
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I got players that I like, I got players that I don't like.
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You know, that's just how it is. So I've never gotten into
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fantasy sports. Never doesn't interest me. Really, I get it to some
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degree, but I've had people tell me, uh, it just makes it
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more interesting, makes it more fun to follow the game. It makes it
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more fun to to, uh, to follow what's going on in the league
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when your specific team isn't necessarily playing, you know, it gives you something
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else to watch, something else to pull for as you're trying to, you
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know, follow multiple games going on at the same time. And I'm gonna
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be honest with you, that's not something that I need. I don't.
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I don't need that. I can I can watch, I can enjoy a
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game. I can sit down and watch the Browns and the Colts play and
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hope, you know, fully hope that it's gonna be a situation where you
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know it's fair and the referees and officials aren't involved in all of it.
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Like I can watch that and and enjoy the game. So it doesn't have
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to be, you know, some extra thing that's gonna make me say,
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you know, I need uh something to make it interesting for me. And
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some people do that with gambling. They say, well, I, you
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know, I put a little money on the game, and that way I'm
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a little bit more interested. I don't need that personally. I don't need
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that to make the game more interesting for me. I also don't need Taylor
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Swift involved to make it more interesting for me. I know that it seems
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anybody that has this attitude or opinion or feeling is getting bashed and in the
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minority right now. But I don't think that we need this for the Super
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Bowl to be interesting. People were gonna watch it anyway, but now this
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is going to be the focus. We're going to have this whole focus,
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as if there was nothing else to talk about with the game. So we've
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got this other dynamic of how many different times are we going to see Taylor
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Swift during the game. That'll be one of the gambling things in it.
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How many times will they show her up in the booth? You know,
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what is she going to be wearing, what is she going to be doing?
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All this stuff? Oh gosh, I'm just taking so the people that
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are saying, well, it's not rigged, clearly it's not rigged. I
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think that this is a part of the game that they're they're excited about.
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I think that the NFL is probably really really excited about the possibility of,
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you know, wearing out this conversation about Taylor Swift and just constantly letting us
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hear about what she's doing and what her involvement is in it and all that.
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And I'm just sick of it. It's it's gonna make me have less
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interest in the game. I'd like to just be able to watch it.
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I'd like to just watch the game play out and you know, pull against
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the Chiefs and and all that, because I don't I don't want to see
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them win again. But I don't, you know, I don't necessarily,
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I don't know anyway, I'll watch the game. I don't have to gamble
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on it. I don't have to see Taylor Swift. I don't have to
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do any of that for me to be able to watch the game. None,
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None of that really needs to to happen. But I don't know that
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it's making a definitive answer that the that the game is is not I don't
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think it's rigged, but I don't think that's necessarily confirming anything because this is
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kind of the best case scenario for everybody involved. And I do still think
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that there are plans for Taylor Swift to be a big part of this,
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uh this election cycle. I do. I think that she's obviously been very
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outspoken in the past about her politics. We know, we know who she
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votes for, we know which letter is next to her name when she picks
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up her ballot, so you know, I just, uh, I just
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feel like this is all a big setup for that. This is all a
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big you know, getting her as as much attention as possible. So anyway,
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that's my thoughts on it. I'm just I'm just over this notion that
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we have to have something besides the game to make it more interesting. When
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when did football become something that wasn't good? When did the Super Bowl need
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this to make it more interesting? You can't just have the Chiefs and the
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forty nine ers in the Super Bowl and that be enough? Like, why
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is that not enough? Why is that not enough for us to you know,
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just be able to enjoy the game, to just be able to watch
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the game and enjoy the game. And you know, it's a pretty you
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know, you got a team that's been the it team. Now you've got
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a team who's historically, you know, one of the winningest teams in Super
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Bowls. Why is that not enough? Shouldn't that be enough for everybody to
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just be able to enjoy it and watch the game? I think so,
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I think it should be. I mean, it's a pretty awesome storyline.
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I think the uh, I think the pretty story for the forty nine ers
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is a way more interesting story. You know, the mister irrelevant, a
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guy makes the league minimum as the quarterback. He's you know, ridiculously underpaid
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for what he does and his value to that team. Why is that not
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a bigger storyline than Taylor Swift? That's what I don't understand. But anyway,
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so we'll we're you know, we'll have a couple of weeks. Now,
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we'll get to the Super Bowl, and we'll hear a whole lot,
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a whole lot about Taylor Swift, and it's just it's just gonna be ridiculous,
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That's what it's gonna be. But good for the Chiefs, good for
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the forty nine ers. We'll we'll see him in a couple of weeks,
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and I'm just already sick of thinking about Taylor Swift leading up to it.
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West Carol Morning Show right after the break. The box office this weekend,
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the Beekeeper was number one, with a just commanding seven point four million dollars.
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Boy, these box offices many are they are back? Aren't they?
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Uh mean? Girls almost there in second place seven point three million, Wonka
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Migration and anyone, But you, I know, it's it's January. People
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typically don't go to the movies in January. But these are still ridiculously low,
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just ridiculously low numbers. And I think people are just happy to wait
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until they can watch movies at home. I guess I don't know. I
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don't really know what the whole scenario is for all that. Did you see
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this? I guess it's been moving around on social media. Actress Jessica Bill
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talking on social media about something that she does that I guess some people think
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is weird. And I'm going to tell you right now, I'm in I
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don't necessarily quite it doesn't sound like I do it as much as she does.
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But I am a big fan of multitasking in some scenarios where you typically
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don't think the multitask. So let me explain. Jessica Bill likes to eat
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in the shower. She likes to uh, you know, while she while
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she's cleaning herself. She says she likes to eat shower appropriate items cereal,
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yogurt, popsicles, drink her coffee or tea. She says those are all
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appropriate for her shower consumption. Uh. And she's explained that she thinks it's
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a great way to multitask. She has a shelf in her shower and that's
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where she keeps the food and beverages so that she doesn't get water in them.
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So let me let me just say this. I don't I don't do
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a lot of eating in the shower. I have eaten in the shower usually
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if I'm in a hurry. I do take a beverage in there with me
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from time to time. I don't know I haven't taken like a hot tea.
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I'm sure that I've had coffee in the shower as a time saving device.
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I've taking uh, you know, water like a cold water because you
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know, you can drink hot water in the shower. Who wants to do
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that? I've taken a coke like Jill once said, why is there an
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empty coke zero bottle in here? So I don't do it a lot,
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and I typically do clean up after myself. I just forgot on that particular
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occasion. But I am an advocate, an advocate for like, we have
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a shower speaker in our shower. You know, sometimes I talk on the
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phone when I'm in there. You know, they don't have to know.
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It's not a video phone for crying out loud. It's just a speaker.
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Sometimes I get a what's that noise? I don't know, I don't hear
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anything. And then some people you just tell them I'm in the shower.
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It's all right, don't worry about it. So anyway, So I'm with
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sometimes a part of how that all works. And that age sounds about right
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for those things to start happening. You know, I probably started to think
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about a little bit more at that point, maybe a little bit older than
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that. But I got another milestone coming up, and I'm starting to,
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that guest speaker. It's it's a different take on it and that they're able
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to enjoy. I think that's pretty neat. I mean, you know,
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it's kind of like it's one of the it's a different version of what's going
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on in Hollywood. Part of the striking was, you know that people wanted
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to not have their AI being used. George Carlin's AI is being used to
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and his family does not like it. They're not happy about it.
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They don't think that he would have approved, and their that fight now.
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So but this is very different. I mean, this is being able to
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pass on, you know, some sort of lessons or you know, it's
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an AI. You don't know exactly what the answer would have been, but
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it is kind of an interesting I mean, there's a lot of people that
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they could do that with through history. Finally, if you've you know,
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there was a lawsuit we talked about the lawsuit where basically someone was suing Reese's
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for not having the shapes of their peanut butter cup candies like the seasonal ones.
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They're not looking exactly the way they were packaged on the package you know,
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they had eyes on them, and the real ones didn't have eyes on
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them. Well, perhaps a more concerning problem is there Valentine's candy, which
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is a heart. They've got the Reese's pink hearts, and you know,
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you take it out of the package, if you're holding it right side up,
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it sort of looks like a pink heart. If you flip it upside
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down, it does not look like a pink heart. In fact, it
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looks a lot more like part of the male anatomy. So I think people
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are kind of if they're buying it, they're buying it to be funny.
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Now I think that's probably the other side of it. But they look like
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something that would be hanging off a trailer hitch. You know what I'm talking
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about. You've seen those hanging on the trailer hitches. So anyway, we'll
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see if they continue to market their pink heart Reese's candies in future years.
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