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They Are More Focused on Katie Britt · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Monday morning, eleventh day of March. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Working our way towards Saint Patrick's Weekend. That's a holiday that's fun,
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isn't it. I don't know for those of us that aren't really big drinkers.
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I mean, I like the occasional beverage people who go nuts with the
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Saint Patrick's Day. They tend to go nuts with it, don't they.
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It'll be a Sunday this year, So yesterday was a big holiday, though
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Mario Day March tenth had to play some donkey calling yesterday the og Mario incarnation
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when he was just Jumpman didn't have a name yet. Did you know Mario's
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last name is Mario and his brother Luigi's last name is also Mario, because
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you know they're brothers. But I don't know. It's just a fun little
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fact for the day after Mario Day. Didn't do a show for Mario Day.
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We're doing one today here we are. We also didn't do a show
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to talk about the state of the Union. That's because Fridays I like to
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do strange and bizarre news from around the world, and that's what I did
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on Friday. So I had some time over the weekend to really reflect and
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think a little bit more about the state of the Union. Not that it
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was very much to reflect on, now that it was very much to really
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ruminate over. No, it was pretty basic. It was a campaign speech,
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maybe the only campaign speech we're going to get. Keep in mind,
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our president when he ran four years ago, really didn't do a lot of
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public speaking. He didn't get out in the in the world. He didn't
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even eat his ice cream. Did he wreck his bike? Was that during
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the campaign or was that after he was president? I don't know. I
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remember him falling. There's been a lot of falls. It's hard to remember
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all the falls. Really is tough keep up with them all. Not that
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they're funny, not that they're to be mocked and laughed at. It's like
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the what's clearly cognition issues. I don't laugh at it. I don't find
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it funny. I find it really sad. As I've said before, I've
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got family members that have dealt with dementia, Alzheimer's. It's tough. It's
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tough to watch someone go through that. It's tough to watch someone experience that.
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It's really tough to see it as an American citizen watching your president go
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through it. I remember there were lots of criticisms about Ronald Reagan in his
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last term, and it was a lot of questions about his age, a
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lot of questions about his mental sharpness. This is night and day compared to
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that. It really is, And I know the age thing is going to
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be a thing. It will certainly be a front and center over the next
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several months because we have two men who were about the same age, but
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one is clearly much further along in this whole life process than the other.
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That's the best diplomatic way that I can say it. And it was very
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much on display on Thursday night. We know that the President got on stage.
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I assume they loaded him up with B twelve shots or whatever. They
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got him all jacked up in Star Wars. They would have put him in
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that back to tank, you know, just to get him fired up and
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ready to go as much as he could possibly be jacked up in the back
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to tank. Sorry I'm dipping into nerdville, but understand the back toa tank
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would have been very sufficient to get Joe Biden up and ready to go.
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Maybe they just gave him, you know, adrenaline shots. I don't know,
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but he came out ready to scream and yellow, which is what he's
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known for, especially these days. I mean, he's always kind of been
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a you know, talk cross soft and then yell at you. I don't
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know they did a lot. I don't remember hearing much of the whispering.
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There's a lot of the holler in though, lots of it, and it
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was an attempt to show he still has fire in the belly, he still
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got vigor, He's still just a young man. That's what they wanted us
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to see. That's not what we saw. We saw a guy slurring words.
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We saw a guy stumbling through what should have been basic things. We
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saw a speech that was really nothing more than a campaign speech. That's all
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that it was. This wasn't a State of the Union. There was no
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discussion about where things are. It was about, look at what I've done
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since I've been president. These are the reasons I should continue to be president.
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My predecessor, there's a lot of that as he never said Trump's name,
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but he referred to him as his predecessor while stumbling through it and slurring
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it every time time he said it. But it wasn't a state of the
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Union. There was no because there's nothing really to talk about, is there.
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And if he's just giving a state of the Union, someone who clearly
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wrote the speech would have had to have filled him in on everything that's going
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on that I'm not so sure that he has any idea of what's going on.
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Perhaps a true state of the Union would have been updating us on reruns
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of The Golden Girls or Murder She Wrote, or Matt Locke or whatever it
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is that he does all day. I don't know. But it wasn't a
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state of the Union speech, not at all. It was a campaign speech.
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And like I said, maybe that's the only one that we're gonna get.
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That may be the only true campaign speech that we get in this cycle.
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That may be the only one. Maybe we'll get a couple more.
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I don't know. What I do know is that he went through the greatest
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hits you have the Democrat campaign greatest hits, and that's what he did.
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At times, it almost felt like a satirical version of a campaign speech for
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Joe Biden. That's kind of what it felt like at times. It was
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almost like, you know, you have to just kind of periodically throw out
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certain words, certain things that you have to say to make it a true
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Democrat speech. And I wouldn't say State of the Union because we've seen State
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of the Union speeches. We've seen them. Barack Obama gave good ones.
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He was always great speaking, gave great speeches. Whatever he was saying I
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don't necessarily agree with, but he gave great speeches. This wasn't a great
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speech, but it was good enough. It was good enough to get some
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of the people who've been saying A Biden needs to go to kind of hush
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it down a little bit. I think if nothing else, it was a
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victory for Biden and that he locked in. He's gonna be the candidate unless
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something drastic happens. He locked it in. They can't push him out the
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door. After the speech. It was just good enough. Was it great?
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No, but it was good enough. And he hit the talking points
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women. I love women. Women are great. We gotta make sure women
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hear him in the ballots, and we got to know that that's what's gonna
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happen when they vote, and women are gonna get that predecessor and he just
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threw Martin Luther King Junior's name out a few times, no context really to
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why he just threw it out. He had to mention he had to do
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the pander to the women, to black voters, to teachers just out of
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nowhere. And the teachers all need a raise. I mean that's like,
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you know, niit by football rules in Billy Madison. You know, you
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just shout it out so you'll get an easy response. Ah yeah, whoo,
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because who's not gonna cheer teachers need a raise. I mean, you
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know, you make the case that teachers are underpaid. Everybody says that all
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the time. I definitely think we need to, like all jobs, we
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got to clarify good teachers need raises. Great teachers really need raises. But
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this was a campaign moment. Teachers need raises. I always thought that was,
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you know, kind of when you're when you're a good teacher, when
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you're a great teacher, when you excel at the job, Like in every
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profession, you deserve a raise. They all do. Everybody who excels at
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their job deserves a raise. People that are phoning it in, I don't
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know that they deserve raises. I mean am I wrong for that? I
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know some teachers that do a great job they absolutely deserve they're raises. I
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hear horror stories. I know somebody who used to be a teacher. They
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were not a good teacher, they weren't not a good one, not at
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all, and would admit they weren't a good teacher. And I don't know
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that that person would deserve a raise. I just don't think so teachers deserve
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raises. I mean, I get it in principle, but it is kind
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of a pandering thing, isn't it. Don't get me wrong. If you're
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a teacher and you're listening to the show, clearly you're a great teacher.
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Clearly you deserve a raise. There's probably some teachers somewhere who maybe you're overpaid.
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I mean, I think that's probably the case, don't you think.
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I don't want to spend too much time on that. It's a dangerous path
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to go down. Norm McDonald did a whole bit on it, which was
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great, But I'm not channeling Norm MacDonald by any means. I'm just pointing
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out the fact that if you just throw out a statement like teachers need raises,
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I still think it should be you know, should clarify at least the
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average teachers and up deserve raises the bad ones, don't you know. I
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think they need to find ways to you know, if you're a bad teacher,
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maybe you don't need to teach, Maybe you should find another profession.
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You know. That's all I'm saying. He lobbed out all the greatest tits.
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He appealed to the unions, He appealed to black voters, he appealed
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to women, he appealed to the teachers' unions. He ran through the greatest
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tits. That's what he did. Took shots at his opponent, took shots
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at his opponent, and that was basically it just screaming and yelling and mumbling
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through things. And that's what he did. Now, I think maybe the
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most significant moment of the night, and there was a big one, and
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I think you probably know what it is. I'm not going to be the
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first person that brings it up, because I know people have been talking about
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it. But it was a very significant moment that happened during the State of
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the Union. And you knew it was coming because as the President was entering,
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he walked past Marjorie Taylor Green who was wearing a shirt, a say
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her Name shirt. She was wearing a Trump hat, and she was handing
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out or she handed to Biden at least a button that had Lake and Riley's
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name on it, and he took the button. She said something to him
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about him making sure that he needed to say Lake and Riley's name. The
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White House hasn't given much of a comment about the murder, the horrific murder
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of Lincoln Riley. We've talked about it on the show Governor Kemp basically calling
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out the Biden administration, calling out Biden himself, calling out anyone who was
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part of the process of the man who's accused of her murder, letting him
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in the country, inviting him in the country, letting him in the country,
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having him arrested and released, and arrested and released and just allowed to
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be out and just walking the streets or the parks. More importantly, so,
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the White House hasn't apologized, hasn't said anything other than it was a
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horrific thing that happened, and the President decided to take a moment while he
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was on stage to basically say that the border wasn't his problem. He hasn't
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caused the problem at the border. That wasn't his administration's issue that it was
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the fact that Congress and Republicans aren't doing more to help them get the border
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under control. He passed the buck. There wasn't him, it's them.
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They're not doing enough to help him get the border under control. There was
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a great moment when the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, watching him
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try to control his facial expressions was my favorite part of the night. Watching
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him make eyes at certain people and look at him like did he just say
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that? Is he serious? And then the look on his face as he
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rolled his eyes as the discussion of illegal immigrants came up was the funniest thing
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that I had seen for the night. Definitely for me. But back to
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the Lincoln Riley moment. As the President was speaking and he got close to
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the subject, that's when Marjorie Taylor Green shouted out, say her name,
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and the President said, I know how to say her name. He took
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the button out of his pocket and he said, Lincoln Lincoln Riley, an
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innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal That's not her name, it's
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the name of a college football coach. But it's it's not the name of
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the girl who was killed. Lincoln, not Lincoln. It was really embarrassing.
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Liacn Riley's mom, Alison Phillips, uh it took to social media.
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Biden does not even know my child's name. It's pathetic and it's uh,
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she says, Uh, it's pathetic. If you're going to say her name,
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even when forced to do so, at least say the right name.
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Uh. That that was a pretty glaring moment that this president isn't as coherent
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as he needs to be. He wasn't up to the challenge. If he
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wasn't able to do it, and they weren't going to prep him for it,
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he should have done it. But he wasn't prepped. He was trying
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to read a name off of a button that was handed to him as he
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walked in. See, there was no plan for him to say her name,
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and he dropped the ball. It was a tough moment, continues to
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be a tough moment now. They both passed it, of course, because
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he can do no wrong, because that's now their candidate. That's their candidate.
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That's who is going to be the candidate. That's it. They spent
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a lot of energy focusing on the Republican response Katie Britt gave the response.
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Was it fire and exciting. No, it was very passive. It was
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very soft. She spoke in a very slow tone. She didn't get worked
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up. She had a couple of bless his heart moments about the president and
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did a good job of what they wanted to do. They wanted to show
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a forty two year old Republican woman speaking in contrast to an eighty two year
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old man Democrat candidate for president who'd been hollering the whole time, and they
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succeeded in that because part of his speech was addressing women in abortion rights,
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and Katie Britt wanted to base let women know where things stand. We didn't
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get a State of the Union. We got more of a State of the
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Union from Katie Britt than we did from Joe Biden. Did she say a
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kitchen table too many times? Yeah? Probably, But there's been a lot
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of focus on her, less focus on Trump, more focus on her.
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Kind of is what it is, but they spent a lot of energy going
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after her. I don't know if they're worried. I don't think they should
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be worried. I don't think she's going to be the VP pick, but
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they seemed very zeroed in on her over the weekend. That seemed to be
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the biggest concern by a lot of the networks. They tried to go through
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and nitpick and fact check some of the things that she said. They weren't
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concerned about Biden. They're concerned about fact checking the Republican response. That's about
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five hundred O dccolumbus dot com More West Carol Morning Show. Right after the
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break, have you seen the ad that shows a kid having his bar mitzvah?
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He's an incident and then they come together. It is a synagogue and
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at the end it says stop Jewish. It says something we win or they
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lose when we all come together, and it says hashtag stop Jewish hate.
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And then the word Jewish scrolls away and the word all comes in and it
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says stop all hate. Remember when we aren't supposed to do that. Remember
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the black lives matter, And you couldn't say all lives matter. No,
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no, no, That takes away from the power and the message that black
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lives matter. If you say that all lives matter, you can't say that
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all lives matter. This is about their time, of course, all lives
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matter, but we can't say that. You have to say black lives matter.
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And now that we're running ads that say that we're supposed to stop Jewish
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hate, take away from their time, take away from their struggles since October
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and beyond, but especially since October. That's part of what's pushed all this
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to the forefront right now. It's stop all hate. I'm for that.
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I'm for all lives matter, including the unborn. I'm for stopping all hate.
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I don't know why we have to turn stop Jewish hate into stop all
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hate, but I mean, I think I know why they're doing that,
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But I mean, that's the message. I wish the Black Lives matter message
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had been black lives matter, All lives matter, and then you just get
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on with your just an observation, just one of those things that I've been
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thinking about all weekend. So there you go. When do you get your
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me time during the day. For a lot of people, it's in the
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shower. Women apparently also say it's in the shower. Recent survey found fifty
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two percent of women said showers are the only me time they get in a
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day. The survey of women between ages eighteen and thirty five also found that
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eighty percent said they're in serious need of some me time. Why the shower
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well, the respondent said it allows some time to let their random thoughts roam.
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Sixty percent said that they also like to reflect on their past day or
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the day ahead. That was forty four percent think about memories. That's nice
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thinking about memories in the shower. It also gives them a boost of much
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needed energy. Nearly seventy percent of respondents said they feel like they can do
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anything after a great shower, and that boost in confidence can last more than
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four hours. So good long shower. But we're not supposed to waste water.
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You can't waste water. Water is such a precious commodity. We can't
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waste it. We go in phases, that's one of the ones. But
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anyway, we always hear reasons that you should avoid refined carbs. A new
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survey says that eating refined carbs might actually make you unattractive. A new fringe
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study gathered over one hundred heterosexual men and women and found that they reacted negatively
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to the faces of people who had just eaten carbs. The subjects were divided
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with half getting high carb meals and half getting low carb meals. Two hours
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after the meal, photos were taken and handed out with volunteers as to rate
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each other on a scale of one to ten. Those who ate the carbs,
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both men and women, were given lower facial attractiveness scores across the board.
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That's interesting. It's kind of an interesting thing. It's weird, but
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it's kind of interesting. This applies to our listeners in Florida, but it
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applies to us here in the Chattahoochee Valley area because we have a major littering
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problem. I say it all the time. It feels too and we go
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in waves where it gets worse. But we have a significant litter problem here
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and it's just ridiculous. And if you live anywhere near a stop sign by
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the way, especially one where a street dead ends, you're going to deal
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with a lot of trash is just kind of thrown out dead ends into another
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street. I guess for some reason people like to stop and just throw trash.
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I don't understand, but that's what they do. They're stopped, they
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sit there and they just throw out their trash and they move on. Well,
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how about this. In Florida, they are tightening littering laws and one
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of the things that you could actually be fined for is releasing a balloon into
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the air could result in a one hundred and fifty dollars fine. The state
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has a law in the books banning the release of ten or more balloons,
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but the new law will ban any number of balloons. The law is in
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place to protect wildlife like birds, dolphins, and turtles. It could go
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into effect a zoo early as July first. Now, young children do have
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an exemption. I'm lobbing that out there, not so that you can lie
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and say, oh, my kid, let the balloon go, but I'm
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just letting you know that if your child does let a balloon go, as
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kids tend to do, sometimes they're not going to be fine. So that's
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what you got going for you. It's interesting, that's one of those things
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that people just seem to want to do, like to do. They do
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it anyway, and then you know, say, well, now you need
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to drink out of a paper straw and suck on all the small pieces of
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paper that you're gonna suck down your throat because paper straws stink. But we
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do that for the turtles. Yet the balloons are not good for the turtles
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or birds either. That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show.
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