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A Testy Trumpless Debate · 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. Thursday morning,
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twenty fourth day of August. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Anything
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good on TV last night? Anything at all? Anything interesting? No?
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Not the new Asoka series that was that premiered on Tuesday night, nine o'clock.
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By the way, excellent. The Asoka series was fantastic, just f
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y. I know they kind of threw us a curveball because they said it
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was going to be on Wednesdays at three am Eastern Time at midnight Pacific.
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That's what they normally do with those shows. But I guess because of the
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strike that's going on in Hollywood, they don't have any new shows on the
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networks. So the Asoka series he's is on Disney Plus, so I guess
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they decided we'll just put her on in primetime. So it's nine o'clock on
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Tuesdays is what they're gonna do. I guess the whole way through. So
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I like that. I like that better than three am. I'm not I'm
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not gonna have at three am to watch it, but I did watch it
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at nine and that felt kind of old school being able to watch a show,
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you know, knowing that other people are watching it at nine o'clock.
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We're all watching the same thing at the same time. That's a sort of
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a different experience these days, isn't it. I don't know that my kids
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know what that experience is, like, I think a matter of fact,
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yeah, Luke walked in the room and said, other people are watching this
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right now too, And I mean he's aware that that's the way TV works
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most of the time, but when it's appointment TV like that, it's not
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always. They're not used to that. That appointment TV mindset is sort of
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I mean, he knows that people watch sports together. I think he's aware
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of that. But anyway, I guess it's because it was Star Wars and
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he's not used to Star Wars being appointment TV that way. But I thought
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that was kind of a unique thing to be able to do, is watch
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it as it came on. Speaking of the strike, and I just quickly
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want to mention the Dragon Con pregame show is coming up on Saturday and Sunday
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one hundred ninety radio stations around the state of Georgia and bleeding over into all
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the bordering states and it's powered by Columbia State University's Cocola Space Science Center.
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I mentioned sag after and the strike because the strike is affecting the way that
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the actors and various not all performers, but particularly actors are able to promote
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things. They're not able to promote any work that they've done in their past
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or that hasn't been released yet that is considered struck work that it's part of
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the strike. So that makes things a little different. And for this year's
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dragon Con pregame show, we have a two guests that are in some way
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impacted by the strike, and one of them primarily known for non struck work,
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the other one known almost exclusively because of struck work. So and the
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way this works if and I've talked about it for a few days, but
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I'll have the show available for radio the dragon Con pre Game Show, and
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then it will be on the dragon Con Pre Game Show podcast available to listen
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to the full length interviews we don't have. We got half an hour to
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do the show on radio, and then we've got as much time as we
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need on podcast, so we'll have interviews waiting for you there on the podcast
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the full length version of the Dragon Con pregame show, and my guest will
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be a Phil Lamar, who is a stage actor done a lot of improv
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work. He is a voice actor in animation as well as video games,
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and then also TV actor and movie actor. I can't mention the name of
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those properties. Technically, I guess here I could, but I'm respecting the
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rules that they're following concerning the strike and how they're handling things, so out
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of respect for them and then doing the interviews with me and appearing on the
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show, I'm not going to talk about the work. But Phil Lamar and
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one of those faces that you go, I know him the voices when if
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I named characters that he'd play, you'd go, oh, yeah, all
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right, I know all that. And I don't know video gamers would know
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the video game voices. But primarily the animation stuff is just fantastic. Okay.
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The other guest that has a little bit of an impact on the struck
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work is Adam Savage from MythBusters, and Adam Savage MythBusters is not a struck
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show and his Adam Savage Tested website is not struck work. Some of the
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other things that he did behind the scenes on projects is and you know,
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large f franchises, the things that he worked on in the past, but
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we don't really go into that in the interviews either. So the interviews are
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a little different as normally, if I have a voice guy, I'm gonna
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have him doing voices. Not the case this time. He does a voice,
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but that's about it. One voice in particular of an impression of a
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celebrity, someone that he worked with on one of the movies that he did,
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So maybe that will help tip you off as far as the movie work
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when you know who that celebrity is anyway. And then also a cosplayer.
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I like to try to get cosplayers on the show, especially if they have
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connections to the Atlanta area. An Atlanta area cosplayer named Angie Starr who is
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a regular at dragon Con every year and got her thoughts on some of the
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cosplays it'll be popular this year and what she's going to be wearing, so
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all that. So again the dragon Con Pregame Show, there's past episodes of
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that annual episodes award winning episode of the Dragon Hunt pregame show on that podcast.
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Wherever you get this podcast, you can subscribe and then that way when
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the show's dropped, the brand new show for this year drops. I hope
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you'll check it out there and you can listen to the other interviews, including
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but certainly not limited to U. And I can mention, you know,
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performance stuff for some of the others, But William Shatner, you know who
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he is, you know what he's been in. Right Ben Mackenzie who an
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actor who has done a been really big on certain phenomen shows. Right,
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again, I can mention what they're on, but I'm following the rules.
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So check it out this weekend radio. And then you have to check your
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local stations for what time because it's different times over the weekend. Okay,
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now here's what we want to talk about. What's on TV. Last night
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was actually the debate Republican debate, and it's kind of it was a tricky
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one. This is a weird circumstance when you get the front runner at the
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eight or not at the debate, the front runner of the current primary not
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there. Donald Trump did not go for a number of reasons. I think
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it certainly was a strategic move in general, just to say I'm not going
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to go because I don't have to and I think that he understands that he
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doesn't have to, and I think you can make a case that by not
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going, he won the debate. It's not to say that there weren't some
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strong performances last night. I think there were a few standouts. I think
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overall most everyone did well. Asa Hutchinson, I've said before, you know,
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I guess I know why he's there because he's just used to running for
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things. I don't think he has a chance, But what do I know.
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I've said that because he was here in Columbus at one point. So
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I'm just I'm gonna run through a little bit of this. And the reason
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that I think maybe you could certainly make the strong case that Trump won is
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because he was addressed as the elephant and the elephant not in the room at
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one point. I thought that was a good line. But overall, I'll
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say there were a couple of Not to say that Asa Hutchinson was a loser
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for the debate, There's nothing that came out of whatever he did that was
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overly productive. Bergham, I think did better than I anticipated. He's just
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cut kind of a Charles Ingles thing about him, doesn't he I'm in a
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small town and we help our neighbors and that's that's you know, North Dakota
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certainly felt a little bit like that. I wasn't expecting anything out of him,
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so to get anything from him, I thought was certainly positive. I
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don't know that Tim Scott had an especially strong night. I was hoping for
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a lot from him. I don't think he did anything to hurt himself other
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than to, you know, get the bell rung on him several times and
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comment I'm from the South, I talk slowly, which got a laugh.
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But I don't know that he had any other than he was just kind of
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on talking points. He's gonna need to change some things up if he's going
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to stick around in this thing. That's just my gut on that. I
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just feel like that Chris Christie was Chris Christie. You know. He did
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what he does well. He did up set the audience quite a bit.
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It's really hard for candidates in this particular race to say anything negative about Donald
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Trump and not expect booze from the crowd. So he and Asa Hutchinson took
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the weight of that. They felt certainly felt that quite a bit. So
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Mike Pence had some moments. He really did have some moments last night.
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He was trying to be aggressive. I think he came across to me a
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little too aggressive. I don't know what the overall consensus is, but to
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me, he came across as too It didn't seem like Mike Pence. I
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felt like Tim Scott was more Mike Pence than Pence last night. But I
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do think that Pence understands now, especially after going through a Trump presidency and
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a run for reelection. I think Pence understands you do have to be more
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aggressive. So I don't know that that's going to hold for him long term,
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but I do think that that will appeal to some people. The fact
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that he was more aggressive. He did draw some booze when they talked about
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the January sixth and things like that. When the subject came up about him
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certifying the election and those things that he drew some booze for his comments on
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that Vivic Ramaswamy. He was exactly I think his advertised high energy, talked
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fast, said a lot, said big things through around words like revolution.
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I think he had a few moments where he sort of suffered the choke slim.
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I felt like even Mike Pence gave him a choke slam at one point
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where he said, we don't have time for a president who's getting on the
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job training, which I thought was a great line. It may have been
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the best line of the night to me, but it surprised me that it
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came from Pence. Ramswammy, though, was not afraid to fight back.
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He is the young guy in the race. He understands that he's he's under
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forty, he's thirty eight years old. I do think that he has been,
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you know, trying to sell this image that he is going to be
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youthful and do things differently. I don't know how that's going to carry over.
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He had a lot of applause last night. He got a lot of
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cheers from the crowd when he was attacked. The people who attacked him booed.
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There were some laughs when it was funny, but Pence's line got laughs.
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But the Chris Christie attacks and Chris Christi focused a lot of his time
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on Ramswammy. Nicki Haley I thought did well. I thought there were a
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couple of moments where she sort of struggled a bit, but there were a
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few points that I think she was strong on think her her lines about abortion
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were solid. She talked about being pro life, but she also talked about
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not demonizing women and putting a push on some of the things. I know,
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the subject came up quite a bit about a fifteen week ban on abortion,
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if that was something that a compromise could happen. You know, I've
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talked on this show about there's a need for a compromise. Whatever the compromise
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is, there needs to be a compromise so that this issue can no longer
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be such a divisive issue. And there were some talk about fifteen weeks,
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and what she said on abortion I thought was positive. I don't know that
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anybody said anything last night on abortion that was overly surprising or shocking in any
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way. And then Ronda Santist, I think that's everybody else. I thought
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the Santists did fine. I don't know that he had. He certainly was
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drawing the most applause with his lines, especially from the beginning and then being
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able to close things out. There were a few moments I thought that the
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moderators and uh from Fox we were especially Martha McCallum, took a few kind
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of shots at him. Well, you know, Governor, you did this,
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which I thought was interesting. They did that to a few candidates last
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night, which just sort of seemed a little bit. It just seemed a
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little out of place for that. And I know their job is to keep
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them in check on things, but a couple of times it just seemed out
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of line. It felt that way at least, But you know, that's
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them doing their jobs. So so de Santis, who was certainly the one
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who needs to make up the most ground. I don't know that he did.
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I mean, I feel like he for people who tuned in that maybe
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aren't sure and they don't know that they're they're going to vote for Trump and
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that they want to support Trump. I don't know how much of those people
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would have been one over. I don't know. I don't know who maybe
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grew their biggest support base last night. And I guess we're going to see
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as the polls start to shift and change just a little bit. Definitely felt
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like, you know, the B squad overall across the board. It really
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did, and Trump would have changed things dramatically on stage overall. I feel
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like DeSantis and Haley and Pence and Ramaswami here probably the legit threats maybe to
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Trump, but I don't even know that that's really that they're really able to
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do that. I think it's possible, and we'll just have to see how
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it goes from here. But it got heated, it got testy. They
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were firing insults. Chris Christy had some stuff in the can. He was
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ready to go. They didn't really go after DeSantis very much. Hailey did
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a few times, but overall they seem to sort of leave him be.
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He was able to stay to talking points at times, which I thought he
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delivered well. I thought he was ready in a lot of ways. But
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again it's hard to think that. You know, as Trump gets ready to
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surrender himself today, he'll be right back in the as they say, taking
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up the oxygen in the room. He'll be right back to center focus of
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everything today. And his timing of surrendering himself today Juliani yesterday. I think
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the timing of doing that today was strategic. And it's hard not to feel
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like Trump wins again for indictments, and here he is the front runner by
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far. And I don't know if anyone did anything really to chip away at
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it last night. I just don't know. And we'll get polling numbers in
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the in the next days and we'll find out. But that's my take.
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That's just where I am on all of it. I didn't feel like anybody
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really blew me away. Again, I liked a Santis. I thought DeSantis
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maybe could have done a little better. I don't think he did poorly at
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all. I just think that some of the others were more aggressive, and
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I don't think de Santis had to be. I think he was ready to
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be defensive and they just didn't come after him. And I don't know if
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he played a little reverse psychology on everybody by saying he felt like he was
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going to get attacked and then nobody really came after him. But it was
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certainly testy at times, and surprisingly, I mean, you expected it out
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of Christie, you expected Ramiswamy to have to fight back, but you didn't
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really expect it out of Pence, I don't think. And as the night
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went on, Ramiswamy got a little more testy, and I think just sticking
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up for himself. So a little ageism going in the direction of the president.
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I think they did focus at least on Biden and his age, and
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I think that it's important. It's not. It wasn't just about age.
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When I say a little ages I'm going on. I was more directed at
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the youth of Ramaswamy, but going after Biden was overall the main focus,
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and I think a lot of the common sense talking points were there for the
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Republicans. But this is just debate number one. We're officially underway now for
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this election cycle, and we got a long way to go till November of
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little bit about COVID whether or not. And there's colleges, I guess universities
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that are pushing for mask requirements on their campuses at various places. Nothing here
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locally, and I don't expect anything to hit anywhere in the Southeast, necessarily,
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not at least here in the Deep South. But as cases are going
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up, there are some that are asking, well, should we be looking
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at this booster that's coming up? And some are recommending booster shots, some
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certainly are not. And you may fall anywhere on that spectrum of someone who
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has gotten shots or hasn't gotten shots, and maybe you did and you're thinking
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I'm not getting another shot. Well, it seems according to experts. They
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say, if you're not a high risk for any serious disease, and you
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don't have a lot of interaction with high risk people, you may be better
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off waiting another month for an updated booster to come out. So they're talking
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about one that's coming later, and they say, if you know, you
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don't necessarily need to get one now, but the recommendation is that you get
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for the XBB one point five mutation of COVID, and they say it will
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give better protection against the currently circulating strains. So again, you got to
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make your decision. That's what I've said now for three years. It's been
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three years. My gosh, you gotta make a decision. You gotta talk
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to your doctor, and you gotta make a decision about what you want to
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do with that. Not everybody has gotten any shots. Not everybody has not
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it's some people haven't missed a shot. Man. They can't wait to get
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those shots. So you know, you do you, like I said,
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if it doesn't affect everybody else, you go do you you go do whatever
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it is that you gotta go do. All right. Halloween obviously a couple
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of months away, and Barbie effect is having an impact on Halloween because yes,
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they say, expect pink pumpkins everywhere, Lots and lots of pink all
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over the place, pink Oween. They're calling it girly Halloween. Alsa.
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I don't know if they're doing Barbie Weeen, but that seems like a possible
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idea. It's oh my goodness, all right, some people wanting to get
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back to nature. Owners of a sunflower field in England have had to ask
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visitors to stop going out into their sunflower field and taking pictures naked in the
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flowers. Siblings Sam Wilson and Net Petley own the Stoke Fruit Farm Hailing Island,
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and they said they had to put up signs asking guests to keep their
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clothes on because there had been incidents of several naked photo shoots happening since the
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sunflower field opened to the public last month. They said a reminder to all
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where a family area, please keep your clothes on in the sunflowers. We
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are having an increase of reports of naked photography taking place. This must not
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happen during our public sessions, please, So I don't know if you can
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put a request in when it's not a public session. I don't know.
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That's a strange I mean, I guess it would be with the sunflowers.
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I can understand the artistic appeal of the photo. I just don't know why
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somebody would feel a need to go into a big public area, strip naked
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and start taking photos. But hey, again, if it didn't hurt other
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people, I would say, hey, you go do your thing. But
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the people who own the land are asking you not to do it, so
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you know, there you go. Convicted felon at Billy McFarlane, who went
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to prison for fraud after ripping off ticket holders for millions with his Firefight Festival
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scam back in twenty seventeen, is trying to fool people a second time.
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Six years ago, he promised a musical lineup with gourmet meals and delivered no
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bands, cold cheese sandwiches. Now he's baking bigger promises with the fire Festival
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two and charging between five hundred and eight thousand dollars for tickets, even though
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he has no bands, books and no location secured. This is one of
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those folly twice deals, right, I mean, are people gonna buy the
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how much did I say? Eight thousand dollars five hundred and eight thousand dollars
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tickets to go? Can't do this? You can't can't do this, not
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