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Why Is Stormy Daniels Testifying? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, eighth day
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of May. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. O Cho DeMaio.
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I told you yesterday I was gonna do it again. We'll find out tomorrow
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if we keep it going beyond that. I mean, eventually it's just time
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to let it go. Isn't it just go? I don't know, just
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full on let it go. That's what you got to do eventually. Right,
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we're here and I'll talk more about this later, but we got like
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a bug running through the house. Everybody has now had it in some capacity
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and some of us still dealing with it. Touched on that, but I'll
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talk more about that coming up at some point after the break. I want
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to talk about the motion yesterday, the team requesting that a mistrial be declared
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based on the testimony of Stormy Daniels during this hush money trial. And I
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remember when they talked about her testifying in this before her testimony came out,
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or she gave her testimony and we were informed of what was being said.
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I just remembered thinking trying to imagine a scenario where she would like, if
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this was someone else, if this wasn't such a high profile case with so
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much hanging in the balance, would this be allowed to happen. There's no
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benefit at all in having her give testimony in this particular trial. This isn't
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about the encounter. It's about whether or not the money that was paid,
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like, where did it come from, what was paid, how much was
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paid. There's been some testimony about money being used for legal fees, But
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the question here isn't about did Trump have an affair with Stormy Daniels. That's
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not even what this case is about. But in classic political move strategy,
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this is what's happening. Is they gave her a chance to come in and
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testify and talk and basically, according to the Trump team, give a completely
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different count of what even happened. So let's talk about what's really going on
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here now. First of all, I would argue that the DA and this
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whole team, all of the strategists involved in this, the political strategists for
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the Democrats, they knew what she was going to say, and I think
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that they absolutely wanted to get all of this out there. So think back
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to when this payment situation was even in play. Democrats say Trump was trying
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to protect himself, specifically from the Christian Republican Christians, the folks on the
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right that would have found problems with the fact that he would have cheated on
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his wife if the story got out. And one of the things that you'll
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hear in coverage of all of this is it's not illegal for someone to work
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with some of the different like tabloids and basically say, look, if a
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story comes along about me that's trashing me, and you buy up that story
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that would be helpful to me, and then we'll have an arrangement on this.
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Obviously, the question then comes who's paying like and that typically would happen
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with a lot of celebrities. They have that in play. We've heard those
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stories for decades. Someone comes along and they've got some dirt on some celebrity
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and they take care of it. There have been accusations about a number of
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really big name celebrities, really big name celebrities, and stories that supposedly were
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going to come out, they bought them up, They kept them from happening.
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It's just kind of how things happen. It's like Ray Donovan, you
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got somebody a fixer who comes in and basically takes care of this for you.
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So the accusation for the left and all of this was that Trump used
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campaign money obviously to pay for this kind of thing, and that it would
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have been very damaging for him had all of this information come out. So
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there's a few things going on here. First and foremost, they've weaseled away
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to make this case, figured out a way to to bring it back from
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the dead. Okay, statute of limitations and runout. It should have been
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a misdemeanor. It's the same thing Hillary Clinton paid a fine for back as
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relating to that dossier, the Russian collusion dossier. So she got away with
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just paying a fine. You move on, it's misdemeanor. Everything's over.
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Everybody clears out. That's not what they want. They want, first and
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foremost, get him to be a convicted felon. To challenge anyone that would
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vote for a convicted felon for president? How could you possibly do that?
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Will that take away some votes? It probably will. It's not going to
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take away any votes from folks on the right. Could it take away some
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votes from folks in the middle, Maybe they voted for Biden last time.
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They're thinking about Trump. Now they're thinking about the economy, and they go,
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but I'd have a hard time voting for a felon. That's what they're
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hoping for. Okay. They know how important we've talked about how important those
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votes of those students on college campuses, the protesters, the rioters, all
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of that. They know every one of those votes is going to be important
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if they can shave off a few here and there from Trump by saying,
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oh, he's a convicted felon. They want to be able to ask him
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all that. They want to get him in anytime he's available for any kind
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of questions. They want to ask him about him being a convicted felon if
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they get to a situation where a debate happens. Don't know if that's going
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to happen or not, but they want to be able to ask him.
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They want to be able to fire out that convicted felon they want to ask
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him about. Don't think when we get if we get to a debate,
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don't think we're not going to get to a situation where it's going to be,
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oh, you know, you were impeached twice, convicted felon. By
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all accounts, this is something that will eventually, if he's found guilty,
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it will be appealed, it'll be thrown out because this has become a complete
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sideshow. It really was from the beginning, but now with the introduction of
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Stormy Daniels in the mix, this is their opportunity to get this Stormy Daniel
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story out there. See, when the story was purchased the rights to it,
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she couldn't tell her story. Now she's told her story a few places,
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but it's been a different story. As of yesterday, it's a brand
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new story. According to Stormy Daniels. She says that during this encounter with
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the former president, this was before he was president, that she blacked out
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during it, and she noted that no protection was used and that she felt
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Trump was because he was so much taller than her, physically larger than her,
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there was a power dynamic there. During the testimony, she said,
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I think I just blacked out. I was not drugged, I was not
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drunk. I just don't remember. I told very few people that we actually
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had sex because I felt ashamed that I did not stop it. And she
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went on to say that after sure the relate after the sexual encounter, she
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said that she always made sure they met in an open place, in a
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public place. She did not want to have another encounter with him anywhere where
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it was private. So what exactly is the benefit in this part of the
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story as it relates to this trial, other than trying to get this new
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message out there to sort of, you know, make it a little shady.
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Trump attorneys telling the judge that she talked about a consensual encounter with President
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Trump and that she was trying to sell and that's not the whole story,
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the story that she told today. But now that we've heard it and it
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is an issue, how can you unring the bell? And said, this
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is the kind of testimony that makes it impossible to come back from not even
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talking about the fact that we're talking about somebody who's going out and campaigning this
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afternoon. He says, this has nothing to do with the reason why we're
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here, Your honor. She testified today about consent about danger, and that's
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not the story she was peddling. Sorry, that's not the story she was
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selling. And then he went on to say, I don't think anybody anybody
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can listen to what the witness said think that this has anything to do with
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the charges, and that the entire testimony is so prejudicial that you run a
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very high risk of the jury not being able to focus on the evidence that
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actually does matter. Now, the judge says, as a threshold matter,
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I agree, and that there were some things that probably would have been better
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left unsaid. Having said that, I don't think we're at a point where
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a mistrial is warranted. What would it take? What would it for them
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to get to a point of there being a mistrial if not this? Because
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everything that the Trump attorney said there is true. First of all, the
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only reason to bring her out there is to throw out these extra accusations as
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it pertains to feeling in danger, as it pertains to you know, questions
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about consent, about her blacking out, She doesn't seem to really. She's
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giving this very vague like maybe I blacked out, I don't remember, I
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don't remember what happened. All those sorts of things. They're not going to
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get to him. It doesn't I don't think there's anything they could do that
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would get him to a mistrial. This is about making sure that people are
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aware of this story that was you know, they tried to get rid of
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eight years ago. This is what they're saying. Hey, they tried to
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get rid of the story. We're going to make sure that the public gets
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a chance to hear this story. So this is what they want. This
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is It doesn't have anything to do with the case. This is a ridiculous
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turn for all of this. So now she's changing her story. The story
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is out there, and they're not even going to consider any sort of a
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mistrial in spite of the fact that, as they say it perfectly said too.
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Even in just a normal case, this would be one thing. But
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now we're talking about somebody who wants to go out and be able to campaign.
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Oh yeah, by the way, and a series of gag orders in
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place and where you're not allowed to you're not supposed to talk about some of
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this stuff. So can he not even defend himself in this? Can he
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not defend anything that was said today? Probably his best interest to leave some
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of it alone. But this just adds a whole other layer to the absolute
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mess that's going on. This is a sham. This is happening in America.
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This is happening to the presumptive nominee for one of our two major parties
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and it's being orchestrated and it's happening. So there you go. It's it's
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it's ridiculous that this is where we are with with all of this, and
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they're trying to say that a mistrial should happen, probably should probably never should
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have the whole thing probably never should have happened in the first place. But
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anyway, the Governor christinom story continues on all of this talk about dogs and
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now Kim Jong un and whether or not she actually had a meeting with him
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and all these sorts of things. That's uh, that's that stories growing and
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spiraling. In the meantime, there's a story out of New York that isn't
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really picking up a whole lot of traction, and I think it should be
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the governor there. Kathy Hokeel is expressing some regret about some comments that she
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made about black young black kids in the Bronx. She said, right now,
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we have young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know
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what the word computer is. She was being interviewed. She says, they
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don't know, they don't know these things, and I want the world to
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open up to all of them, because when you have their diverse voices,
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then you really are addressing society's broader challenges. So she says that black kids
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don't have access to computers. She says she misspoke and that she regretted the
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comment. She says, of course, black children in the Bronx know what
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computers are, and this is in a state, and she said the problem
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is that they too often lack access to the technology needed to get on track
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to high paying jobs in emerging industries like AI. Eric Adams, the mayor
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of New York City, defended her, saying, I know her at heart.
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I know her heart, I know what she was intending to say,
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and I know she was not trying to be disrespectful to the people of the
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Bronx. So the question here is is it fair that she's able to say
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this and survive this. Is that fair? Would anybody? I mean,
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you got a governor who says that, you know, twenty years ago she
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had to put down a dog that was a problem and that was untrainable and
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that was hurting people and hurting nearby animals, and people are going, oh
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my gosh, she shot a dog again. I don't know why she included
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that story in her book and why she's even felt a need to share that
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stuff. But if we're gonna really, we're gonna talk about something that happened
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kids counting down the final days of the school year? Mine have been for
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a little while now, and and then on top of all off, they've
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both taken some sick days because we've had something running through the Carroll House here,
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so they've definitely been on a short time mode, is what I'm getting
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at. And we're starting to think. I know a lot of people maybe
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have already planned out their summer vacations, especially if they have some big plans
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in store. Right. You may have some sort of trip already booked,
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especially if it involves flying any sort of air travel, if it's a family,
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if it's a couple, or if it's a solo person and you're going
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somewhere, you know, usually you can wait till really close to when you
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want to leave and catch a pretty good deal. That's what I've heard.
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That's what I've heard. And then there's that app that's you know, the
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Hoppin' on it hopper or whenever. Yeah, I've used that and that's been
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effective. Got to be patient. I've done that before with travel with a
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small group. When I've done that, specifically for Star Wars celebration in Chicago,
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that worked out for us. We managed to get a really good deal
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on flights for that. However, if you are going to be driving somewhere
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over this summer, you are not alone. According to wallet hub, they
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say eighty percent of American adults are planning to take some sort of road trip
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this summer, and forty percent said that they planned to travel more than two
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hundred and fifty miles from home. So what are the most popular places that
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wallet hub says people will be road tripping. Have compared all fifty states based
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on metrics average gas price and car repair prices, accommodations, quality of roads,
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safety, number of attractions, sites and activities, and they wanted to
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find the best road trip states. Here's what they've got based on their findings,
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and they say at the top of the list, number one, would
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you believe it is Texas? You know, it's big state. I think
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I've got a good governor there. I think, you know, just a
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lot of people coming in across the border. That would be my one question.
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But I guess it depends on specifically which part of Texas you're going to
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go to. Now here's where it gets interesting. Number two on their list
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is New York. I know that's a popular destination, and I guess they're
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weighted very heavily on things to do that would be something that would benefit them.
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All right, getting into the southeast, here we've got North Carolina and
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then back into some midwest of Ohio, Idaho, then Louisiana, then Florida.
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Back down to the south Wyoming, Minnesota, and Maine, rounding out
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the top ten for the worst. They say Rhode Island is the worst.
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I assume maybe it has to do with not having a lot to do.
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Rhode Island and Delaware or fifty and forty nine respectively. Connecticut's also in there.
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Thenwaii. I don't it says Hawaii, But how do you road trip
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to Hawaii? I don't think you can do that, can you? I
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mean you can road trip to Alaska, which, by the way, is
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number eleven on the list. But Hawaii to me seems strange anywhere in this
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so as far as Alabama's at number fourteen on the list, Georgia at number
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seventeen if you were wondering, and then Tennessee number twenty nine, just to
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kind of hit several around here in the southeast. What about South Carolina's forty
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one. So if you're going to be road tripping and you're going to New
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York or Texas or North Carolina, probably going to be road tripping with it's
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seeing a lot of people on the road at the very least. Speaking of
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seasons, you know, summer used to be the season for weddings, That
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was the time for people to get married. Well, it seems according to
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the Not That's KNT they have, they put together annual wedding trends and they
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say that the most popular day to get married this year will be September twenty
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first, followed by September fourteenth, and the most popular month to get married
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this year is October edging out September. Even though the two big days are
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actually in September, I'm going to assume probably more weddings take place in September
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and October even into November outside of the Southeast, or if you're doing it
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on you know, you've got to figure out which day there's not a big
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game. I mean that's the other trick to it. And now these schedules
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are going to be all a changed. This will be really interesting as people
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are trying to appropriately plan their weddings when it comes to fall weddings, but
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cooler temperatures are the way to go. We got married in the winter,
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aka the dry season in Australia, and then we came back here two weeks
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later and we did a second ceremony for friends and family that were here,
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which made that since it was winter there, it was summer here. Very
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different experiences. Now, keep in mind summer in the I mean winter in
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the tropics is kind of like you know, late spring here. It really
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wasn't cold. It was cooler than it would have been. It was much
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hotter though once we got here. So there you go. That'll do it
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