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Maybe It's About Money · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Friday morning, fourteenth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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First and foremost, I want to say thanks to my friend Mike Norris.
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Norris Heating and Air took care of getting the AC back on in my
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home and in my studio. I did the show yesterday, just baking,
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Just so you're aware. I did the show and I could have I don't
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know, babe, brownies or cookies or something on the counter in my studio.
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Not a lot of room for a cookie trade, but you get my
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point. It was hot, as Nellie would put it hot in well,
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he would say her. But in here it was hot and had been for
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I don't know, like a day, all over a day. And I'm
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not really sure when the free on week fully kicked in, but we had
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an issue with the free on. It's not cheap, by the way,
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when you need free on for your home cooling system, it's not cheap.
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Now, your car not so bad. That's a different kind. That's a
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whole different process. Putting it in your home. It's it's an expensive gas.
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You have to have it though, if you're going to cool your house
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down. But that aside, the cost of it is not you know,
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that's just the cost. That's what it costs everybody. But anyway, we
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have it thanks to Mike and Norris Heating and Air. So I they're an
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unofficial sponsor of today's show, So I do appreciate Mike getting over here and
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getting it taken care of. And Mike's actually the person who put the unit
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in my house many years ago, so appropriate to call him to come and
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fix it. Well, it's not, you know, it was just hit
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a free on leak. Something was going on in there. So he took
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care of that. He got me some free on and it's cool. This
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morning. We were starting the day feeling fantastic. So again thanks to Mike
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I mean there's a lot of people having issues with their units, right,
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they are working hard, and they probably need I don't at the very least,
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I'm kind of a tune up or clean up or something. But they
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stopped putting in cold air in your house. Mike can jump right on it.
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He was quick, quick diagnosis. He was all over it. Man.
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He knew. He knew he was bringing free on out of the truck,
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he was carrying it to my unit. He knew without even looking at
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it, he knew what was going on. I appreciate you, Mike,
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as always. All right, let's talk a little bit this morning. I
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talked yesterday about this whole because I've been asking questions yesterday, I was asking
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questions. The past couple of days, we've been talking about stuff like women's
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sports and why and this whole transgender thing. I guess that was a couple
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of days ago, talking about Megan rapino Is, she's saying that she would
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welcome transgender athletes into onto the women's soccer team. She says she would do
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that, and uh, you know, even if it meant knocking a biological
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woman off the team. She says, that's the right thing to do.
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That's what everything, that's how things should go. That's where things are heading.
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But here's here's a couple of things to talk about. And one of
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the things I questioned in that is why haven't we had a professional team or
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some sort of a national team that has just said, you know what,
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let's go ahead and find us some guys that are gonna say that they're transgender,
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and we're gonna we're gonna put out on the court, on the field,
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whatever, on the pitch, and we're just going to go dominate.
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And I've asked the questions sort of rhetorically about why exactly that hasn't happened yet,
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And I've asked it rhetorically a few times, and because I mean,
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I say it rhetorically because I just don't think. I think there's a number
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of reasons that it hasn't happened. However, I think now we may have
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a legitimate answer for it, and I think the legitimate answer actually comes from
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something that's just happened recently that involves the US women's national team. Before I
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get to that, I want to just point out the fact that, in
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spite of what you may be hearing, Okay, you may be hearing that
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most Americans want transgender women competing against women in sports. You may be hearing
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that, but polls don't show that, and they don't show that by a
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large margin. We're not talking about fifty one forty nine say that they should
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not, and that it's that close. That's not where we're at. Gallup
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has released a poll or sixty nine percent of people who were polled opposed transgender
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athletes being able to compete with those of their gender identity in instead of their
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biological And let's be honest, we're talking about men competing as women, biological
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men competing as women. Now here's the other thing is the issue has actually
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lost support, because in twenty twenty one it was sixty two percent. Now
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it's sixty nine percent, So there's quite a bit of support has been lost
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on the issue over the last two years. Twenty six percent said they support
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transgender athletes competing against those of their chosen gender identity. Thirty four percent said
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the same thing two years ago. So that's the other change that's happened as
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far as this transition. You like that, don't you? So the Gallop
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Pole there's more stats from this found that people who believe changing your gender is
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morally wrong up fifty one percent, up from fifty one percent two years ago,
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now fifty five percent. I think that's a that's a separate issue,
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and I know it kind of all relates to this, so keep in mind
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it's their similarities. As far as this topic I understand why they're polling that
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along with this, but the reality here is that what's at stake, and
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I think what a lot of people are starting to I think people are already
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there, but I think more people are starting to realize that there are now
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victims in this that are being told not to be victims and not feel like
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they're victims. I get we do have some complications. We've always had complications
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with the transgender issue. It's always been tricky. I've said this before,
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and I'd like people to consider it at the very least, if you say
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you must use the bathroom of your biology of birth. I understand why people
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feel that way. But I also understand why a person who has trans transitioned
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their gender from say male to female, they look like a female, Okay,
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And there are many that do have transition and they really and truly.
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I'm not talking about the people who work in the administration or whatever and steal
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people's clothes. I'm not talking about luggage at airports. I'm talking about people
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who've actually made a commitment and said this is now how I'm going to live.
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So if that's how you're going to live, would it not look strange
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to see a woman in a dress in appearance walking into the men's room and
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using the urinal. Yes, that would be. That would seem strange to
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me. If I'm in the men's room and a woman steps up next to
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me at the urinal, that would be I don't use urinals typically, not
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normally, not what there's going to be people in there. Just being honest,
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I'm a stall man. I prefer my privacy. I like my privacy,
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and all of these reasons. Now, I think are more reasons to
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appreciate and enjoy your privacy. But my point is, I think it would
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look strange. I think it could be. I know we have other issues,
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and I know people say they'd rather someone look a little strange out of
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place in a bathroom than have the risk of a child seeing something that they
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shouldn't see. They don't want a young girl to see a quote unquote woman
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walk in and flash themselves in the process of trying to go to the restroom,
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because apparently that's become a thing. Is just the flashing, and nobody's
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supposed to do anything about it. Children can just see things in some places,
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and it's just, you know, we only want to be a felon
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anymore. Let's make that a misdemeanor. Let's drop that down to a lesser
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charge. So I do think it's a little more complicated if you've got a
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kid who is you know, the parents want them to do this, and
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they're doing it, and they live somewhere where it's they're able to, and
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not necessarily even chemically, they're just You have a boy that wants to live
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as a girl, and they go to a new school, no one there
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knows them. They show up at school, my name is Sally. Okay,
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Sally it is, and then suddenly Sally is expected to go that everybody
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thinks as a girl is now suddenly expected to go into the boys room because
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Sally used to be Mike. That's complicated. That's that is tough for a
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kid. That's one of the sides of it that it's very that part of
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it kind of gets swept aside. You know who else has been swept aside,
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though, is actual women and girls competing in sports that aren't able to
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succeed at a high level. When a track star or a swimmer comes along
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and absolutely dominates the field. The question was, well, these girls that
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are now women. These I'm sorry, these athletes that are women now are
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girls that used to be men or boys, but they're living as women.
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They have a right to compete and they should have a right to compete with
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other people like them. That's the argument. And they're victims if they're not
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allowed to. So that's a little different than the bathroom. I mean,
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it can be similar if it's a young kid. We're talking about two ten
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year olds running a race at school. I've known some ten year old girls
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that were faster than some ten year old boys. But it is a little
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different. Right, you go through puberty, you become a man who then
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transitions into a woman. Then we're talking about advantages and people for ten Oh,
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there's no real advantages. Even Megan Rapino says, there's no real advantage.
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There's no advantage whatsoever because people aren't doing it every day. Why aren't
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they doing it every day? If they were, If they were doing it
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every day, then we would say, oh, well, that's clearly an
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advantage. But they're not because it's not a real advantage. And I've been
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asking, I asked, I think wednesday, why why haven't we seen it?
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So the US Women's National team getting ready for the World Cup, and
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yes, I'm gonna watch all of this societe. I'm still gonna watch.
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I like to watch and play sauger the US national unless they get out there
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and really do something that makes me not want to watch, but I'll watch.
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They won at the SPS the Arthrash Courage Award because they dared to challenge
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the system and say we deserve equal pay to the men's team. Even though
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men's soccer generates billions of dollars billions, women's soccer generates not even hundreds of
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one hundred plus million, one hundred and sixty million dollars, So the pay
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you would think would come out of exactly what the interest in the sport is
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and how much revenue is able to be generated. Is it fair that the
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women's team in America is so much better than the men's team typically and does
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so much more for the sport and for the game, yet doesn't generate the
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revenue that the men's side does. That seems odd, But there's a lot
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of people who won't be watching the women's national team. There's a lot of
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people who just aren't going to get into it. They don't care, and
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then they're not going to watch, and there's no chance of them watching.
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It's not going to happen. There's some who will watch. Remember, we've
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been getting a big push about why don't men support the w NBA, Why
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don't they do it, Why don't they watch it? And again, w
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NBA players don't make nearly as much as NBA players, They just don't.
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It's not a lot of interest. The stadiums aren't packed. The initial thought
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was, oh, women are gonna go watch this, they're gonna get into
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this sport and they're really going to support it. And when that didn't happen,
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they turn to the men and said, well, why aren't you guys
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supporting it, when in reality some men do not many If they did,
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those stadiums and arenas would be packed. So when you look at the interest
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in women's sports versus the interest in similar men's sports, and you realize that
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the revenue. Now, the women's national team did their revenue fight, and
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they were trying to help others do their revenue fight. Is it fair for
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them to expect other sports to change too, or expect other countries to change
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how they do things as well? And I think we found our answer to
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the question, why don't men put on a wig Ladybugs style? Remember that
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Rodney Dangerfild movie. Why don't Vanessa Shaw who was in that movie. By
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the way, it's going to be a Dragon Con this year. I want
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to talk to her about Ladybugs. It's because she was in the movie hocus
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Pocus, and they're going to be doing a hocus Pocus group. But Ladybugs
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put on a wig and go compete. Put on a wig and compete in
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the you know, in soccer, put on a wig and compete in the
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NBA. I would argue that maybe the reason that's not happening in the w
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NBA is because they're just not making any money. I think male athletes maybe
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see other opportunities if they don't make it to the NBA. I think maybe
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they see opportunities where they're able to go to other countries, They're able to
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compete in other leagues. There's other other options for them that are probably still
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paying better than the WUNBA. It's just the reality. Other countries would be
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happy to take some almost NBA players and let them go over and compete,
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and they get to compete in Greece, or they get to compete in Australia
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or wherever they get those opportunities. So do they want to make the commitment
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of this is now how I'm going to pretend to live my life if they're
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not really committed to it. But I think if you have enough actual transgender
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athletes that are good at a sport and they decided to all get together and
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compete on a team, they would dominate. Imagine if we had eight Leah
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Thomas's competing in swimming, eight Leah thomas is at the university level, they
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would probably finish the top eight and there would never be an opportunity for a
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woman to actually win at that level. It just wouldn't be an option.
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They might squeak into that eight spot or the five spot or whatever. But
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if you got eight that are as good as Leah Thomas, if you've got
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sixteen, they don't make it into any of the final heats. I mean,
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that's what it would take. Sixteen and then they're completely eliminated from having
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any opportunity. They're out of the last two heats. You're done. You
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get out there, you swim, you go home. There's no chance of
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you winning anything. If you got sixteen as good as Leah Thomas. It's
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the reality pushing them right out of the way. But I think money,
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money is ultimately the answer to most of this stuff, isn't it. Doesn't
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it have at least a big part in it. It's money. They have
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the opportunity to continue to live as men and make as much or more money
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than what the w NBA players make, and they don't have to. But
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I think it is still going to happen. I think you're gonna get somebody
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who's going to do it to prove a point. I do think that's coming,
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and people are going to discount them and push them aside, and they're
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going to call them bullies and transphobes for doing it. They're going to call
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them all sorts of things. That's where that's heading, and it's just a
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matter of time before it happens. But I do think that's ultimately the reason,
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isn't it. I mean, this Arthur Ashe Award kind of shows us
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it's about money, isn't it. It's got to be a though money.
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West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break well, we got a big
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shocker. The White House cocaine investigation has ended with no leads. They keep
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telling us hundreds of people went through there, and any one of them could
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have been the person who left behind that bag of cocaine and the storage cubby.
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It's heavily trapped effect and anyone could have done it. There's no evidence
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to suggest that. You know, they have a video, they have nothing.
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They have no evidence to narrow it down to who it might belong to.
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It could be any of those hundreds of people. There's no fingerprints,
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there's no there's no evidence of any kind, nothing that wouldn't link anyone.
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I would like to know, can we ask just a few people. There
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are a handful of people that we could just say, can we rule out
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so and so like? Can we say that this person definitely wasn't there or
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is it possible? And that may not be fair, but I'd like to
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know if we can roull out a few people. I mean, if we
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can rule out then Hunter Biden had been in there, then we could say,
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Okay, well then it's not him. I don't know if we're able
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to do that. Can we can we? I mean, I know it's
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it's not fair because he's he's you know, secret Service protection. Nobody's really
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checking him. He goes in. That's what I've heard, so, you
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know, I mean, it's hard not to go. Maybe. I'm not
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saying it's him. I'm just saying, you know, maybe shouldn't we at
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least be able to rule them out or try to rule them out. I
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don't know, I don't know how that works exactly, but I would think
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that maybe we could try to just rule them out. I don't know,
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but a big shocker, right. They have nothing. They've got nothing for
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us. Somebody took cocaine in the White House, left it in a weird
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spot, and they got no no leads, no possibility. Ay, the
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new Mission Impossible movie is coming out this weekend, Dead Wreckoning Part one?
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Is that what it's called? Um, I'll say this. I watched the
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first few Mission Impossible movies. I enjoyed them, maybe like three of them,
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and I didn't watch the rest until later. And then one day in
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particular, I think it was after I had a surgery or something and I
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was home and oh, we watch these and they're all pretty consistently good.
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I mean they're not all great, but they're all pretty consistent. It's a
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pretty good franchise. I know Tom Cruise isn't for everybody. I get that,
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and I understand why. I know that there's specific reasons that some people
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won't watch Tom Cruise movies and they don't want anything to do with Tom Cruise,
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and I get it, and that's you know, it's probably fair.
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But he puts out a consistent product, doesn't he. I mean, I
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feel like he's putting out like at least a consistent product. I don't know
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what all of the I don't know why all of the reasoning is behind that.
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I know that he can run really really fast. We see that in
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all of his movies. When's the last I wonder what the last movie he
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was Outsiders? What was the last movie he made where he didn't run really
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fast like sprinting. It's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? But he sure
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does it. Hey, what's America's Sweatiest City? I was talking at the
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beginning of the show about how hot it was in my house because the AC
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wasn't working. Oh, we had a We were the sweatiest city in this
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house for a couple of days. Again, thanks Nora's heating in air.
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But there's a dating website called my Dating Advisor. They gathered data, they
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say, based on humidity, population density, two hundred largest metro areas in
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the country, and they ranked them in order of sweatiness. They're top ten.
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Oh, Montgomery, Alabama isn't the top ten. We got Jacksonville,
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Florida. This is going reverse order, Jacksonville at ten, Laredo, Texas,
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Cape Coral, Florida, Montgomery, Alabama at seven, Houston, Tallahassee,
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New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Corpus Christi, and Orlando, Florida being
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the sweatiest. Now I do wonder is Disney considered part of that? I
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mean, I don't know how that works exactly. Are they considered part of
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Orlando? Because I would think just the people sweating at Disney should put that
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area pretty high on the list, right, I Mean, that's that's up
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there, just the sweatingness alone. Other cities from the area, and I'll
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just mention a few because we do have a few. Columbus doesn't place on
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the list anywhere, but Savannah's at twenty six, Augusta forty five, Atlanta
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forty one, making sixteen, all right, Mobile at thirteen, and Huntsville
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at thirty two. That's just kind of scanning around and I think I hit
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most of the others. Jacksonville was at ten, yeah, Gainesville twelve.
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Okay, it's trying to make sure I hit all the ones kind of in
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the area. Charlotte at forty two. Now keeping scoring, it feels like
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I'm calling Bingo numbers. I'm not calling Bingo numbers like that, like commercial
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with the Lady Bingo. Have you seen the burger king in Thailand that offers
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a burger that I twenty slices of American cheese but no meat. It's a
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cheese burger, but it's a giant pile of cheese. The sandwich costs about
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three dollars in American money in Thailand. No ketchup, no pickles, no
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mayonnaise, not any meat. It's just a giant pile of cheese. And
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apparently Thailand a large portion of the population is vegetarian, so they're down with
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it. They're like, just give me a bunch of cheese and not vegan.
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Obviously it's vegetarian. Give me a whole bunch of cheese and two pieces
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of bun, and I'm down three bucks. Let's do this. It's strange.
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It's a lot of cheese. I mean it's like a block of cheese
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between two pieces of meat. That seems like a lot. I mean,
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that's a lot of cheese. But anyway, it's got people on social media
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talking about I don't think that's gonna help. It's not like people are on
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social media going, I gotta go to Thailand and buy some cheese between two
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slice This is a bread. I don't think that's gonna help. That's not
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helping anybody. All Right, that'll do it for this Friday edition of the
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