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Golden Participation Trophies · 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, Tuesday morning,
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ninth day of January. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Depending on where
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you're listening, you may be dealing with some rough weather today. I don't
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usually talk a lot about weather because in the nature of podcasts, you're not
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necessarily listening first thing in the morning on the day of the severe weather.
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You could be listening to this weeks later. So, but if you are
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listening to this and there is severe weather going on, if you happen to
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be listening to this today, just be careful out there. Got some areas
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that are going to be dealing with some pretty bad weather over the next day
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or so, depending on where you are. And then I guess we got
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some more potential later in the week around in the southeast. Just be careful.
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We're at that time, we're in that phase of things where you could
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get these storms, you could get some really cold, icy stuff. Potentially
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that's not really what we're dealing with here on the ninth of January, but
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just we're in that phase of things kicking off the year. So the other
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thing that's happened now that we've kicked off the year is the latest episode of
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the Golden Globes. I say episode, it's I mean it's an episode.
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It's episodic. It happens every year, for possibly every year. I don't
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know. This is arguably what many critics are calling the worst Golden Globes that's
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ever happened. That's an accomplishment. I mean, you don't want to be
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known as the best of certain things. In the best bad episode of the
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Golden Globes would be pretty bad. Does this give us any indication of where
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some of the other award shows are going for twenty twenty four, I don't
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know. I can tell you this though, we're in a phase where it's
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all about mediocrity inclusion, mediocrity by a way of inclusion, I guess,
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diversity and inclusion and getting a host that honestly isn't his mainstream popular I think
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is maybe they thought he was, but again they went for someone in Joe
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Coy that I think they thought, well, he's going to have a certain
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look about him, so he's going to give us a check mark with the
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diversity, inclusion and look, if you're funny. That's great. If you're
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not able to put together this type of you don't have this experience, you
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don't able to put this kind of monologue together and have it not just absolutely
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bomb right in front of you, then maybe you shouldn't have been the pick.
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Maybe it's like picking a president of Harvard. You should get someone who
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kind of knows what they're doing and has the resume for it. I like
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Joe coy as a comic. I've watched Joe koy do stand up before and
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he makes me laugh. Sometimes not so much, but for the most part
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he's pretty funny. Not so much on a Sunday, and I did not
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watch. I'm just going to process a little bit of some of the highlights,
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if you will, and the overall just I think state of where things
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are for Hollywood. And this isn't a big shocker. It's very reflective of
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what we've been talking about for the past few months, at least when it
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comes to Disney and the fact that now Universal had this huge monster hit in
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the Super Mario Brothers movie. And you know, there was a a moral
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to the story, right, There was a lesson in the story. There
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was a positive message to it, but it wasn't a woke message. It
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wasn't some sort of a message that's trying to tell you how you're supposed to
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think, or how you're supposed to act, or how you're supposed to vote,
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or any of those things. And that seems to be what's weighing down
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many of the other movie studios. So this is what we got a Golden
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Globes. It's being lauded for the diversity in the winners, even though a
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lot of these projects aren't really mainstream projects that people have seen some of them,
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sure, but not all of them. I'm not really going to do
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a major breakdown in the winners because, honestly, this is no longer a
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competition about being the best at something. This is no longer about having the
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best movie. It's no longer about having the best TV show. That's not
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really what it's about. Although when you see Oppenheimer win and you go,
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well, it probably was the best movie of last year. A little bit
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of a shock that Barbie didn't win it. Barbie won some weird category that
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they just made up, I guess, presumably to try to give an award
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to Taylor Swift. I don't know. But she didn't even win that one,
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although she was a big part of the focus for the night because she
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will be. As I told you, get ready, it's gonna be a
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lot of Taylor Swift this year, all the way up to election day.
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Brace yourself for it, because there's going to be a lot of that.
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Part of the monologue for the show was Joe Cooy making some jokes about Taylor
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Swift, cutaways to her, and then they did a cutaway to Taylor Swift
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and she took a sip of a drink. She didn't end up winning this
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weird category, but you know, certainly they have to, you know,
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bring her up, They have to talk about her, they have to give
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her attention, which don't get me wrong, for the new category, and
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I mean this new weird category that ended up going to Barbie, I guess
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because Barbie didn't end up winning in the picture category, which many thought maybe
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it would. But anyway, Taylor Swift was certainly a big, big focus
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for where the show was going to go for the night. And award for
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Cinematic in Box Office Achievement, and it sounds a lot like a participation trophy,
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doesn't it, But that's appropriate now that Hollywood is really just all about
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participation. So why not take an award show designed to award or reward the
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best in the industry and turn it into a giant participation award show. That's
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what they've become. See, we thought they were already there, but now
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it's gotten worse because now even the Oscars have guidelines. If you don't have
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UH, you can't even be considered in some categories like Best Picture unless you
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have a certain amount of DEI credits. You have to have a certain number
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of underrepresented groups participating in making the movie, whether it's on screen or behind
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the camera or wherever. See we said for years there was a danger in
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youth sports in school that participation trophies. We're gonna make us weak. Participation
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trophies, We're gonna make us not strive for exceptionalism. I'm gonna damage the
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meritocracy. Right, it were right, Look at this. I mean,
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in the broadest of biggest of stages in theory, it should be. But
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nobody watched. A viewership was down. I think if people were planning to
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watch, a lot of them tuned out in the first few minutes when they
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saw Joe Cooy make us series of really awkward, badly written jokes and then
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blame his writers for it. Could have just said, hey, my jokes
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aren't working, but decided no, to blame the other writers. I guess
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an attempt to dig his way out of it and to also be funny.
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I don't know. But the reality here is the participation trophy. Mentality is
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very much all around us, and it's now made its way in a very
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big way. I mean, you can make the cases been going on for
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a while, but it's worse now than ever, as some are applauding this
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terrible award show for the diversity that was represented. And it's not about how
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good the award show was. It's not about how many people tuned in for
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it. It's just saying, hey, the right people won based on dot
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dot dot. That's it. Not based on who did the best job,
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not who was making the best project, the best movie, the best TV
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show. No, I don't even know of it. Some of the winners
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people even know who they are. They just look at them and went,
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well, that's good that they won. They should win. Representation is the
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participation trophy. That's what we're doing now. Does it matter? No,
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it doesn't matter. They're making the award less and less significant. Every time
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I tune into an NFL game and I see referees make the same four or
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five bad calls over and over again on a game winning drive to hurt the
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team that's trying to come back and win, it makes me care about that
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a little bit less. I still like sports, some sports, not all
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of them. Baseball is still great, even though you know, the pitch
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clock and all that silly stuff came along. But I don't think that was
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specifically about trying to have an in influence on the outcome of the game.
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But if you think referees in their incompetence doesn't have a big impact on how
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games turned, I'm not talking about these people that, oh, they're paying
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the refs, that's silly. Nobody's paying the refs. If you say that
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you don't know anything about sports. Maybe in a little league game somewhere a
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referee got something, maybe in a high school something, you know, you
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want to talk about it. At that level, there's mate, but no
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college football the NFL. That's not happening. That's silly, that's ridiculous.
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Now a referee is gambling on games Eh, maybe I don't know. I
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don't know how to explain some of the really bad calls that happen when I
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watch games. But if you want to make that case, that's different.
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But let me ask you this. Just as the NFL is getting ready for
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playoffs this weekend and the Detroit Lions should be the number two seed in the
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NFC, they're number three because the referees took a game away from them and
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gave it to Dallas, who's number two, and they have the tiebreaker against
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the Lions. Also had an impact on how the division finished out. The
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Eagles could have ended up winning the division, but Dallas wanted and got the
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two seed and arguably the easier first round game. I think it's pretty solidly
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the easier first round game. But who knows. Dallas doesn't always win in
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the playoffs. We know that, so who knows how this all shakes up.
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But one single call had an impact on that, One single really bad
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call had an impact on that. So as decisions are getting made about how
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movies are being made and how movies are being awarded and rewarded, in these
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scenarios, the overall quality of the product goes down. The movies aren't as
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good as they used to be. The TV shows aren't as good as they
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used to be. They're not as must see as they used to be.
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They're just not. And now, on top of all of this, even
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before the announcement was made, before the Golden Life, I can't blame it
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on the Golden Globes, but the announcement was made that the director of the
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new Star Wars movie, which is effectively going to be Episode ten, even
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though it's not really episode ten, that's not what it is. They're moving
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on and they're telling more of ray story, and they decided it's going to
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be focused on females, and the director will be a woman who has no
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experience directing Star Wars movies at all. But she's applauding her selections, saying
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it's about time. It's about time that a woman is directing a Star Wars
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movie. This will be the first time that that's happened, and she says
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that this is about time that this is happening. See, it's not about
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who the best person is to direct the movie. It's about representation. It's
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about trying to get the participation award, right, That's what the goal is
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that is the objective for all of it. It's about participation trophies, it's
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about trying to make sure that we see certain faces doing certain things, and
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some studios just don't care. You would think that Disney maybe would have figured
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it out, considering I just told you not long ago, they were released
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their annual report, and if you remember, the annual report said that they
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were aware of the fact that politics was having an impact, and it was
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having a negative impact, so they doubled down on it. I guess,
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or maybe they had already made this selection. I don't know what the reasoning
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is, but they've selected this director who is poised to make a movie that
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people are probably going to boycott because it is not going in the direction that
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many Star Wars fans want. I've made this case many times before. Star
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Wars had a fan base from the very beginning, and some of them that
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enjoyed the movie, the original movies, the original trilogy were women. They
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liked them a lot. They loved Princess Leiah, they loved what she represented
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in the stories. And now the goal doesn't seem to be let's make a
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great movie. It's really about trying to I guess make men uncomfortable, right,
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It's about making men uncomfortable. It's about trying to make movies that they
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said initially were going to be The goal was to give young girls somebody to
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look up to, like that's something that they wanted to do. Now in
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hiring this director, Charmine obeyed Chenoi, who has said publicly, I like
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to make men uncomfortable. And now some are saying that that was taken out
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of context. But you either said it or you didn't. I don't really
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know what other thing that you could be, uh, you could be doing
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with it. But some are saying, well, why would they have a
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problem with this director. Maybe she's a great director for it, Maybe she
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would be great. Think about some of the movies that we've had come out
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in the past, the mediocre movies that have come out or bad movies that
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have come out. Disney needs a hit, Star Wars needs a hit.
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They all need a hit, and they're setting themselves up for another Participation award.
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Look at what we did, look at who we hired, look at
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why we did this, and how great we are for doing it, when
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they really just need to focus on making a movie that the fans want to
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see, and the fans will be excited to go see and then start introducing
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to nations to the movie through that, And if they don't, we're going
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to get more of this Golden Globe nonsense, more mediocrity, more participation trophies,
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and just settling, settling for mediocre projects. And that's not what we
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need to do right now, not in America, not in movies, not
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Show. Right after the break, well, did your significant other join a
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gym as part of a new year's resolution? You know a lot of people
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are doing that. They got to get fit now, right, this is
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the beginning of the year. They ate a bunch of stuff, a bunch
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of garbage over the holidays. You know, we all did it in some
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capacity. So is your significant other in a gym now and trying to get
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fit? Maybe you're not doing it, or maybe you're not able to do
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it because schedules don't work out. Well, just a heads up. I
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mean, I'm not going to talk to you about the security of your relationship,
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right, I'm not going to tell you that I'm just giving you a
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heads up that apparently the relationship experts say that gyms are a hot bed for
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a potential affairs, especially in the month of January. According to she calls
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herself a sex expert, Jessica Leoni. She says research shows testosterone can spike
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from up to four sorry for up to an hour after heading to the gym.
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This behavior can have an extraordinary effect on your sex drive, and that's
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why gyms are a hotbed for a fair seekers in January. She goes on
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to say that you should become suspicious if your partner suddenly becomes obsessed with a
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gym and is spending lots of time there. Is that what people do in
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January. You know, I've been going to gym for a year and a
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half, almost two years now, regularly consistently since maybe like March or April
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a couple of years ago, and this is the worst month to go to
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the gym. Just a heads up. It just is. This is when
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there's so many people there on machines and you're just one of these people going
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to stop coming? When are they going to get out of the way so
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I can do what I want to do here and not have to wait on
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a machine that they don't really know what they're doing when they're using it.
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Anyway. So, speaking of holidays, let's jump to Valentine's Days, and
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we don't have a White Castle here in the Chattahoochee Valley area. We have
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Crystal instead, but you may be familiar with the White Castle products White Castle
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restaurants have. They're doing their annual Valentine's Day dinner is thirty years. They've
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been doing this at White Castle store Sert Protisting locations will become the Love Castle
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on Valentine's Day for a fine dining experience with a hostess, server and holiday
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decre to go with a meal consisting of sliders, chicken, rings, and
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fries. Reservations are required, as you would expect at White Castle. If
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you think your sweetheart would like a romantic night at White Castle, you can
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reserve a spot open table dot com And I guess I don't know what the
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nearest White Castle location, Probably in the Carolinas somewhere, maybe North Carolina.
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That's my guess, all right. So on the subject of fast food,
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we do have Taco Bells here in our area. If you really like Taco
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Bell, but you just don't like that inconvenience of having to travel to Taco
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Bell or having to have it delivered to you by someone. Well, Taco
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Bell has partnered with craft Hindes to create at home cooking kits so you can
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make your very own Taco Bell meals right there in your home. The kids
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come into varieties crunch Wrap Supreme or Chipotle Chicken Quesadia. Both will be sold
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at Walmart locations and online. Each kit comes with all the ingredients you need
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except for the meat of your choice. You'll have to provide that yourself.
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They also come with instructions to help you make it, just like Taco Bell.
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So let me just lob this out there. Okay, I have a
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problem with this. This is great good, that's what you want. I
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don't want to crunch Wrap Supreme, and I don't want a Chipotle Chicken quesadilla.
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I don't eat a lot of Taco Bell back in the day, absolutely
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not these days. I'm just this isn't necessarily a testimony about Taco Bell.
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It's more of a testimony about me and just some of the decisions that you
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make. Okay, So that's full disclosure on that I do shop at Walmart.
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I've got a system to most of my grocery shopping or you know,
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the products that you need on a weekly basis. Once upon a time,
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I avoided self checkout, didn't mess with that. I didn't want to do
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that because I at one time when I was in high school in my college
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days, I worked in a grocery store and I hated the thought of putting
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somebody out of a job by the customers having to come in and ring things
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up. And then COVID happened, and then I learned to embrace it because
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I didn't want people touching my stuff anyway. I don't really like that anyway.
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I don't want to eat anybody touching anything that I want. And you
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know, I may buy the second item on the shelf, not the first
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one kind of person, because it's less likely do being touched by a customer.
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Yes, someone had to touch it to putting on the shelf. I'm
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aware of that anyway. So if you go to the Walmart store and you
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buy a crunch Wrap Supreme kit, and you go to the self checkout,
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and you you see where this is going, you do you check yourself out
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and then you go home and then you make your own taco bell and then
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you eat it. So there's you're they're cutting all kinds of employees out of
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this. It's affecting a lot of jobs. What do you think, it's
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really hitting everybody on a number of levels. That'll do it for this Tuesday
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