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USWNT Criticized for Not Singing? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, twenty fifth
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day of July. I'm Wes, Thanks for starting your day with me.
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Spent the day yesterday talking more about the Jason Alden song and the controversy around
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that. Is it really controversy, I don't know. People are making it
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controversy. They want it to be controversy so they can try to discount it
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and push it aside, I guess, but it's made it into a huge
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hit for him. So after talking about it Friday, a little bit more
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about it yesterday. I didn't talk yesterday about the Women's World Cup that is
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now underway, and I talked a little bit about some of the comments from
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Meghan Rappino, who was one of the best players in the world old not
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too long ago. She didn't have a great game against Vietnam. The team
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overall a won three O. The women's team won three OH for the US,
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not the performance many expected from them in the first game. And I've
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talked a little bit about the comments from Rapino. She says that she would
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welcome a woman who had been born a man on the team, even if
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that meant taking a biological woman off the roster for the US women's national team.
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That's how much she stands with the trans community. That's how much she
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supports them. Now, I pointed out when I talked about that it might
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be easy for someone who is, you know, like Rapino. This is
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going to be her last time playing in the World Cup for the US national
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team, and she's getting to the point of retiring from soccer. So it's
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probably a lot easier for someone in her position to say, yeah, somebody
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could do that. The up and comers that are just trying to fight for
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a position on the team that might not have gotten a position on the team
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if a biological born male took their spot on the team that had transitioned and
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become a woman to compete. So that was the conversation topic before. But
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now we have another controversy surrounding this team. We're back to talking about the
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national anthem and how people act during the national anthem. We thought maybe this
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was in the past, but this is another one of those issues that they're
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just not going to let it go. They're going to pick the scab and
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when it starts to heal. They're not talking about it very much anymore.
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In football. They're not talking about at all now because it's not football season.
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But I'm not talking about it last season. They haven't been talking about
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it a whole lot in any of the sports, really beget professional sports,
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because it hasn't really they have been bringing attention to it, so therefore there
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hasn't anything to talk about. I couldn't tell you how many NFL players last
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season knelt during the anthem, or stay in the locker room during the anthem,
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or didn't participate in celebrating during the anthem or anything. I don't know.
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I didn't hear any conversation about it, and if i'd heard anything about
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it, I would have tried to ignore it. But I don't remember hearing
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anything about it, and I've told you before, I do think that there's
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a difference between professional athletes and athletes that are competing to honor the US,
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to wear the flag, to be there, to compete on a national team.
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I do think there's a difference. I think a professional athlete is they're
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representing the team that they play for, the city that they play for,
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the fans of that team and I do think that if the ownership of that
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team that they're on says that it's their right as an American to kneel or
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stay in the locker room or whatever they want to do, whatever they want
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to do during the anthem, if that's what they would like to do,
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and the owner supports them in that way, and I think they should have
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the right to do it. I do. I don't think it's in their
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best interest. I don't think it's the best thing to do. I don't
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think it shows a solidarity with other American citizens. I don't think it shows
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a solidarity and appreciation for those who've lost their lives in order to give us
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those kinds of freedoms. But I do think that the freedoms are guaranteed.
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It's a First Amendment thing. That's my opinion. Not everybody agrees with me,
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and that's okay. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't kneel during the
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national anthem. I wouldn't protest during the national anthem. I was trying to
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think once what it would take for me to do that, and I suppose
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there could be things that could happen. They could make me want to be
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so upset with the country. In the current state of the country, I
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couldn't do it to protest the founding. I couldn't do it to protest the
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veterans that have served. I couldn't do that. But maybe there could be
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something in the current And I guess that's one of the things I would ask
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people. Is there something that can happen that can make you say, I
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don't even recognize this country. It's frustrating. I'm actually kind of surprised that
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the people who've sort of hijacked America right now in some corners and scenarios,
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I'm surprised that those people are not pleased with America and that the people who
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feel like the country has kind of been hijacked in some ways are not the
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ones that are protesting. But maybe that says something as well about has it
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really been hijacked to people really feel that way or not. So I don't
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know if they're protesting or not at NFL games, and I don't care,
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But I'm maybe the best part about it is that they're not talking about it.
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Maybe that's the best part because I said during the Colin Kaepernick or deal,
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as soon as everybody stops talking about it, as soon as people stop
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clicking on the news stories about it, as soon as the pregame show,
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stop showing who is kneeling, and stop showing them on the sidelines during the
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anthem. If it's going to be a thing and it's going to cause viewership
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to go down, maybe it's in their best interest not to show it,
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not to talk about it. If people want to protest it, let them
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protest it privately. If people want to be angry and mad and do something,
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let them do it privately. They can do whatever they want to do
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on the sideline. They don't have to participate. Okay, Okay. Now
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with that said, it's different when it's a national team. It's different when
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it's the Olympics. It's different when it's the World Cup and you're part of
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a national team. It should be I think because you're there specifically for a
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purpose. You're representing the country that is helping to put you there. Right,
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that's my thoughts. That's my opinion. Now I've said if they want
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to protest, and they're going to be allowed to protest it by the organization,
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if if that's what they want to do. If if a national team
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says and it doesn't to be US. But if a national team from anywhere
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in the world wants to let their participants not have anything to do with the
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anthem, then come up with a way to do it so it doesn't have
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to be televised, or that it doesn't have to be shown. It's a
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little different in this scenario because it is a competition for a national team,
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and they do show the anthems. So the US women's national team national anthem
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played, and the members of the team, some of them, And I'm
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looking right now at a photo of them, and I see and I'm just
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looking at the team, and I see one, two, three, four,
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I see four in this particular image with their hands on their hearts.
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I can't there's a couple that I can't make out whether or not their hands
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or on their hearts or not. But I saw at least a story that
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just said that, you know, not all of them did it, were
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respectful during the anthem, Not all of them had their hands on their hearts.
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Not all of them did that. I don't see Megan Rapino in this
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lineup, so I'm assuming that maybe she was allowed to be in the back.
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I don't know, so it says there were five players who did,
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in fact put their hands on them. So I'm seeing in this image,
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I see four. So it's the six of the eleven players who stood on
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the field had their hands on their sides or behind their back. And I
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guess, yes, some were allowed not to come out at all. I
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suppose that's part of what they allow them to do. They tell them that
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they're allowed to do that, so they get to stay in the back or
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whatever it is. Now Vietnamese players sang along and hands over their hearts and
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all the things that they did, you know. And I say that the
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eleven players, I guess were the starters. I don't know where the other
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players were. I don't want to say that they were not out there or
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whatever it was. Okay, so we had eleven players on the field,
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the starters. Six of them didn't put their hands on their hearts. Five
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of them did. Now there were people who were upset by that. There
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were people who said, oh my gosh, can you believe it's six like
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hat more than half of the team that was on the field to play did
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not respectfully stand there for the anthem. Okay, that part of it I
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understood there were people that were chiming in on the national team part of it.
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Now, I do think it's best if we just ignored it, that
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would be the best thing. But what was interesting to me, though,
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is that the story went a step further and said that the five that had
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their hands on their hearts, only three of them sang along to the anthem.
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And people are just outraged that only three of the players sang along.
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I don't think you have to sing along, do you. I mean,
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I know we've seen other countries that I think we're forced sometimes to sing along
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with their anthem. Feels like they're getting pressure from I don't know, the
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government. They have to sing along, they have to. I do think
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it's a novelty that we don't force our players to sing along. I do
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think that that's a novelty. I also don't think that it's our obligation.
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I mean, when you are at a sporting event, I assume that when
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they say rise for the national anthem, that you rise and stand up for
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the national anthem. I'm gonna assume that if you're capable, I'm gonna assume
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that you take off your hat. I'm going to assume that you put your
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hand or or your hat over your heart. I'm not going to assume that
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you're gonna sing along. Be honest with you, I don't know that I
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always sing along. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I didn't realize
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it was an obligation to sing along. Now I know. I'm not competing
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on a national team that's been sent there. They're wearing the team USA patch
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on their clothes. They're red, white and blue patch right there on it,
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and they're wearing their hoodies their uniforms, and there's some sort of financial
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support for them to be there. I mean, I would think you would
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sing along, but maybe you don't have to sing along. Is that really
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where we're going to draw the line that they didn't sing along? Five players
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stood there respectfully with their hands on their hearts, six didn't, but only
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three of them sing along. Oh my gosh, I can't believe they didn't
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sing along. I don't know that we should be expecting that. I don't
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know that we should demand that they sing along. It might look ridiculous.
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Well I guess it did look ridiculous with three of them singing and some of
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them not. But have we ever at the Super Bowl have we had the
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You go over it and go buy the players, and you see the quarterbacks
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standing there with their eyes closed, trying to be focused and ready to play.
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To people say that, Oh my gosh, I can't believe that.
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I was going to say a quarterback that hasn't been in a super Bowl,
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just to be funny, but I'm not going to do that. I'm not
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going to pick on Dak Prescott. But suppose that became a thing that became
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the new standard. I'm concerned that this is going to become the new standard.
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We're going to expect every time the national anthem plays, everyone is supposed
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to sing along. And I'll go a step further because I also kind of
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don't understand this. This is going to probably upset a few people. But
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at you know, seventh inning stretch for a lot of baseball teams. I
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know the Yankees do it, I know the Braves do it. I know
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some many teams around the country do it. But they'll sing you know,
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God Bless America. And people stand up for that and they take off their
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heads and put their hands on the heart. You don't have to do that.
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That's not a takeoff your there's no official national etiquette for that song.
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You don't have to do that. I think people do it because there's this
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peer pressure. They're worried that they're going to get the same kind of flack.
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Then people will get about this. And if you're at a sporting event
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and you don't sing the national anthem when it plays, I don't think people
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should be able to give you a hard time. And I just I don't
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think people should be able to give you a hard time for not putting your
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hand on your heart during God Bless America. That's not our national anthem,
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in spite of what we hear. Sometimes there's only one. There's there's been
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one that's been declared the second one, which isn't really official, but there's
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only one, and God Bless America is not a required hat off hand on
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your heart. People do it, though they shoot your looks if you don't
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do it. We were at a Braves game not long ago and I just
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didn't do it. My kids were doing it, my wife was doing it,
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and I thought, we don't. You know, we don't have to,
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but that's what you want to do. I think it's like the people
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that are still wearing masks knock yourself out, wear the mask in the store
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if you want to. I don't care. Doesn't hurt me, doesn't hurt
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me to put your hand on her. But I'm not hurting you playing my
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hand on my heart during God Bless America. How many other songs are we
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going to have to do it for? We have to pay of a certain
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way when we hear amazing grace at a funeral, Like it's okay if you
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want to do it, but do we have to do it? But this
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just goes back to the national anthem and these athletes, I understand, it
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would be wonderful if they were so appreciative and thankful and understood the blessings that
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they have being in the country that they're in, being able to be on
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this particular team, this team that is going for a third consecutive World Cup
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win. That itself is astonishing. They should be thankful that they have that
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opportunity. But I think they are a little spoiled by all of these things.
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You're spoiled by the freedoms that we have. You're spoiled by the opportunity
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you have being on that team with that talent. And yes, there are
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a lot of individuals in that group that make up that ridiculous amount of talent.
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But you could take any one of them and put them on some of
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the other teams and they're not going to see the successes that they've seen.
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So maybe they should be thankful that they're on the field. Maybe they should
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be appreciative that they're they're representing a little bit more. But should we obligate
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athletes to sing along to the national anthem before the game? I think that's
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a bit much. I think it's great. I do like and I'm looking
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at Julie Arts she's singing. I know she's one of the ones that was
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singing, and I think it's great that they were singing. But maybe it's
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just a bit much to ask that they sing the anthem every time. I
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the final stages of summer break, at least in the Chattahoochee Valley area.
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I know we've got some listeners outside of that area, and you may have
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By the way, if you're in the Muskogee County area anyway, let's talk
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a little bit about those last minute vacations and if you travel with a germophobe.
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I know people are they're getting back out there right and they're getting out
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there and traveling finally, and they feel like some of the germs are behind
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us. I do know somebody that picked up COVID while they were on vacation.
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You know, it still happens, But here we go. If you're
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then actually on the plane, the seatbelt buckles and window shade handles are disgusting.
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You touch that right before you eat your meal. Just keep that in
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mind. Let's talk a little bit about work. Apparently, grumpy stayers is
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a new term for people who are unhappy at the jobs but they stay put
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and continue to work there anyway. They're grumpy stayers, so they say,
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basically, they feel like they've missed out on the great resignation and now they're
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cooling job market means they're kind of stuck somewhere and they're staying in that position
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that they don't necessarily want to like. That makes them grumpy, but they
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feel like they got to stay put. So they're grumpy stayers. I know
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grumpy stayers that I worked with many, many of them over the years,
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especially grumpy stayers, really really grumpy stayers. So I don't think this is
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a new thing, but the term, I guess is new something else I
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can relate to. Mark Cuban, he's a billionaire, owns the Dallas Mavericks.
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He's a shark. He's all that a Shark week, by the way,
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but that has not anything to do with the sharks. He agrees with
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you if you're one of those people who thinks that work meetings are a waste
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of time. I think most people who have to attend work meetings think it's
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a waste of time. I think the people who host the work meetings that
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they're productive, or that they're just something that you efficiently have to go through
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and power through and all that. Well, according to Mark Cuban, he
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surveyed said meetings were just distractions from getting their work done. Now, that's
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a twenty nineteen poll that goes back to pre COVID because I can understand when
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you start thinking about people in the era when you were able to work at
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home, you're able to zoom and do meetings that way, and then they
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feel like now if they're back in the office and they're coming back into the
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meetings, that probably really really makes it worse, doesn't it. And finally,
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did notice it yesterday at one point, just because everybody was talking about how
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it was X. Now. Elon Musk has changed the name of Twitter.
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It's his right. He paid like forty billion for it. I think he
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can change it to whatever he wants to call it. I don't know how
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this is going to work moving forward, what the log in address will be.
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He likes the letter X. He's mentioned he likes the letter X.
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I don't know if it stands for ten or if it's an X. I
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don't know. Are they going to still call him tweets? Are they going
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to be x's. I don't know how that's all going to play out,
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but I guess we'll find out in the coming days. But by the way,
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