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Now On to the Next Thing · 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. Wednesday morning,
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six day of March. I'm west Thanks for joining me the day after Super
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Tuesday. Now that's done. We've done that. Super Tuesday has happened.
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We're on the other side of it. Another day where American voters in many
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states had an opportunity to cast their ballots, cast their votes for who they
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think the nominee for their party should be in the upcoming presidential election. Right,
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that's one of the key components of how this whole process is supposed to
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work. Right, that's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to get
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your chance to cast your vote for the candidate that you would like to see
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representing your party when election day rolls around. Now that the whole process has
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been hijacked in a number of ways, we know that we know that now
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we have this system in place where we have one party, we'll go in
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and vote in the primary for the other party because they want to try to
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be the one that influences which candidate gets nominated. Because you know, like
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in twenty sixteen, there were some Democrats who voted in the Republican primaries,
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they wanted Donald Trump to get in. They encourage people vote for Donald Trump.
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It'll be great, because they thought there's no way, no way at
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all, that Hillary Clinton could lose to Donald Trump. Then it happened,
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and they got really mad about it. And we know that this has been
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going on for since then. A number of races we saw this happen in.
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We saw it happen in the herschel Walker race, right, I mean,
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there were some people who just thought, hey, we're going to follow
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this methodology of a cult of personality. Everybody knows who herschel Walker is.
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He's a hero in the state of Georgia. Let's get him nominated so he
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can win the Senate race. And of course folks on the left said,
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hey, that'd be great. We got a lot of dirt on that guy.
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We're going to be in a position where we can attack him and I
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think we can beat him. And then that's basically the way it played out.
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You know, we got Rafael Warnock still Senator, and that's the way
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it's all gone down. And that sort of thing has happened in a number
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of races. Sometimes it works, sometimes it backfires, and I guess you
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know, you have to count the win for one side is the loss for
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the other. But the reality here is that's just part of the way politics
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is done. And there was I'm sure some of that that's gone on in
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various races around the country. But now that we're getting down to cases,
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as they say, and now that the Supreme Court made their verdict this week
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about Donald Trump staying on the ballot, of course, now we hear that
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Democrat lawmakers are saying, well, we want to come in and we want
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to do our part. We got to keep him off the ballot. Democracy
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is at stake. I'm amazed at the absolute hypocrisy in someone saying that our
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democracy is at stake if we don't keep a candidate from being able to run
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for president, that about half the country wants to be president. I mean,
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it's so ridiculous that you almost feel like you don't need to say it,
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but I think it's important that we say it out loud every now and
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then, just as a reminder of how absurd all of it is. He
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doesn't have to be your guy, you don't have to vote for him,
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but you have to you have to step back and say, is it really
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in our best interest to start playing this game the other game with the voting
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in primaries and trying to help candidates get nominated that you know, we're not
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good candidates because you think they're gonna be easy to beat. That game at
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least falls somewhere within the rules. It's not really a very fourthright and genuine
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strategy, but at least it falls within the context of the game now that
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we're in. At least it's not, you know, turning this whole thing
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into a joke. It turns it into a joke if you just say,
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WHOA. We don't want him to run, because if he can't run,
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he can't win. So let's keep him from running, and that will guarantee
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him not winning. That's the only way to make sure that he does not
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win, is to keep him from being a candidate. And people are saying,
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eh, but maybe he broke the lawn, maybe he did this,
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and maybe he did let the voters decide who's going to be the nominate.
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We don't want the Democrat Party to get to decide both candidates. That's what's
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going to happen if for some reason Trump ends up not being the candidate for
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Republicans if they can keep him from doing it through any of these other means
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that they're trying to do. But I think Supreme Court made a nice,
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loud and clear statement, and I think it's pretty telling about what the whole
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strategy is. The fact that we've got Democrat lawmakers who say they're not given
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up yet. They're not going to back down. They're going to do everything
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they can to make sure Donald Trump is not the candidate. That is what
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they want to make sure. But we're on the other side of Super Tuesday.
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Now we're on the other side of it. We should be looking at
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what will now be the push to November. I mean, we've got more
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primaries to go, obviously, but we should be looking We should now know
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who the candidates are going to be. Unless some crazy happens, we should
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know exactly who the candidates will be. It's all now just laid out for
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us, perfectly neat, and we should know who they are. And now
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the decision has to be made. Do you like, you know, being
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broke? Do you like knowing that we're doing a number of things to our
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economy that's condemning and damning to our economy in a time when we need a
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bounce back. That's helping China make more money. It's hurting us and it's
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helping China. It's hurting us and it's helping Indy. We're helping places that
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pollute more because we refuse to do things that will help our own economy by
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keeping fuel prices down, by keeping the price of goods down inflation. Coming
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up, we're going to talk about Kellogg's because they've stepped in it, and
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we'll get to that later in the show, but after the break. But
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this is the reality. This is the reality that we're looking at. We're
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trying to say, which is better. Is it better to have just an
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open border, people flooding across the border doing whatever they want to do once
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they get here, inability to have any sort of control, inability to have
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housing for them, inability to feed them all. We got states going what
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are we supposed to do? They're breaking laws, they're committing crimes, in
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some cases murder, and we've seen that in Georgia. There's a lot of
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talk about how basically Lake and Riley's death being ultimately the thing that could flip
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the state of Georgia back to Republicans. It's a I think it would be
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a strong statement to Democrats all over the country about the border. It would
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be a strong statement if that happened. I don't know, and I'm not
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one of those people who says that should be the sole motivation, but I
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do think that this is one of those areas where people hearts are broken for
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a family, hearts are broken for anybody who cared about this girl, any
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woman who would like to just be able to go run in their neighborhood.
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And now, you know, we could look at it at one point and
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go, well, this was something that would happen in Arizona or Texas.
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As people are coming across the board, this is something in New Mexico,
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this is something down in the south West. And then you think, well,
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maybe it's in the big cities. It's in the big sanctuary cities that
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we hear about, and now it's come to Georgia. Ultimately to rural Georgia.
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You know, if you really want to be I mean, I understand
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where this thing happened and the fact that there is a sanctuary component to the
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Athens area, but it's enough to get people's attention. It's enough to say,
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what is your plan while you're out running? What is your plan while
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you're out trying to take care of yourself while you're running or walking. I
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know people that it's turned into, well, now they're going to keep one
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of those Apple tags in their pocket, right, They got to have one
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of those tags in their pocket. They have to have something to identify them
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if they don't carry their phone with them when they run, do they have
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a watch that's going to tell where they are? Any of those things.
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I think that that's a very fair component. I don't see it being something
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that's just going to blow over by November. I think this is a real
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concern that people have. People are concerned about the border, they're concerned about
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safety, they're concerned about crime, and I think that the economy is certainly
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a very big factor in all this. I did think it was very interesting
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and very unfortunate that yesterday Kareem John Pierre was on TV doing a press conference
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and she basically said that if Republicans had gotten behind some of the immigration legislation
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that Democrats had pushed, then Lake and Riley wouldn't have died. They would
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have been more secure, which is obviously just playing politics at its worst.
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It's a ridiculous statement that anybody would try to say and try to keep a
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straight face. Were you affected by the big social media shutdown that happened yesterday?
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It was meta, all of the meta platforms, So we're talking about
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Facebook, Instagram, and there were some I don't know that they've even given
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a reason for the cause yet. They don't know if it was a hack
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or just something going on. But anyway, Threads, Messenger, all the
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stuff on meta, you know, not just Facebook and Instagram. It started
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to happen. I got a text message from my mom and she just said,
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Uh, something's going on my Facebook page. Can you help me out?
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And I said, let me let me And I thought, and I
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noticed I had tried to check something on Instagram. Some of the Instagram accounts
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that I follow were showing error messages and then there may be something going on
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here, and I checked into it, and so it affected me and my
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accounts, it affected her. I know several people that had had an impact
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on but just that occasional reminder, just because you got one of those accounts
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doesn't mean you're always going to be able to have one of those accounts doesn't
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mean that the stuff that you've shared on there is always going to be available
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to you. Just keep that in mind. We kind of get a little
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bit lazy with this idea that you put your stuff on there, maybe that's
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a way to save things and store things, and then all of a sudden
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it just disappears and it's gone. So I mean, it's reality, all
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right. So last night I went to Music under the Dome. If you
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listen to the Mate of Stars podcast that doctor Sean Cruzen from Columbus State University's
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Coca Cola Space Science Center and I co host. We have been doing some
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version of the Mate of Stars broadcast for like seventeen years, I think since
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O seven before we did it strictly on radio. We eventually worked this into
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a podcast format in early twenty twenty one and we've been doing it in that
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capacity. We won the Gabby Award for Best Podcast Series that year, which
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was pretty exciting, and we talk about one of the big events that they
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do at the Co Cola Space Science Center and they have a season for it
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and it's currently in progress. It's called Music under the Dome and it is
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a U unique concert experience. They do it in collaboration with the Schwob School
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of Music at Columbus State and it's just a unique and special concert that's hard
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to even describe. You go into in the co Cola Space Science Center in
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the Omosphere Theater in the planetarium. You sit down, you lean back,
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and you watch the show. And the show is a dazzling art show that's
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presented for you on the dome above you while the Schwob School of Music performers
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come in and it's some teachers, it's some students. They come in and
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in some cases it's instruments, some cases it's vocals, and it's all set.
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The art on the screen and the music are all set together and they
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synchronize and it is a stellar event. Something that's just it catches a multiple
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senses there. I don't know, maybe they could get, you know,
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like a bacon smell in there to to add to it, but you get
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you get hit with the double whammy of the visuals and the audio and it's
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just unbelievable. You know, the talent that we have that is often represented
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by the Schwob School of Music and then the the art and it's different artists
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each time. This was an opportunity for us to have a special guest artist
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who originally and I mean they call her an Australian artist. I know the
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Aussies will claim her. She's she sounds very ausy. I guess she was
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born technically in the UK, but she spent most of her childhood in Australia
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and she now lives I guess in Georgia, cat and I want to make
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sure because they're her name machen in a C H I N. And she
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is a space artist. She does oil paintings, she does a digital art
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and they used her creating both digital art and her paintings as the art show
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for Music under the Dome last night. So you were seeing her over like
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you know, time lapse, creating these art pieces and then getting to see
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them finished and animated, if you will, because you know she would do
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sort of a new galaxy, or she would do you know, some sort
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of nebula in space. She's doing these things and then you're watching them sort
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of come to life, or you know, a planet that's moving, this
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some all sorts of things that you're getting a chance to see become animated after
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you've seen her create them. It was absolutely fantastic. It was such a
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great show last night. She did the show a year ago. I was
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not able to attend a year ago. So really glad I got to to
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see it and uh, and and talk with her, you know, took
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some photos together, and we're gonna I'm gonna have her, I know,
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we'll have her on Made of Stars. That's that's gonna happen. Uh.
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And I may have her on this show soon. I'd like to just I
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think it's what she does is fantastic. One of her art pieces was sold
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to a certain company that has space in the title and X in the title
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and and has you know an owner that bought Twitter and turned it into an
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X. And yeah, it's kind of a cool client to say that you
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sold artwork, you know, to elon SpaceX. That's pretty neat. Uh.
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Anyway, it was a great time. Now they'll they'll do another one
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of these shows. They do it on the first Tuesday of the month.
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I guess the final I guess it's maybe the last show of the season.
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I believe is April, so it's coming up in a month. You got
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time to get your tickets on their website. CCSSC dot org. But just
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a fantastic job Paul Hostetter and the folks Schwop School of Music. It was
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just unbelievable. Had a great time there. Music under the Dome last night.
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Today's show brought to you by Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center,
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inspiring and educating the youth and future STEM leaders and STEM career holders that
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really of all ages. I mean, they do it for school age kids
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do it through their university programs where you can learn engineering, astronomy, physics,
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While you're there, also check out some of their upcoming programs. They've
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got this incredible collaboration that they do with the Schwob School of Music from Columbus
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State University called Music under the Dome. It's unlike any concert experience that you
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can get anywhere else. It's one of those things that when you're watching it
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in Columbus, Georgia, you think, is this really in Columbus, Georgia.
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I mean this is a major city attraction that happens right here in Columbus
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inside the planetarium at the Coca Cola Space Science Center and the new season of
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Music under the Dome. Check out upcoming dates for the shows, and also
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check out when the next Astronomy Night's coming up. Where you can get outside.
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Sometimes you do it at the Cocola Space Science Center. Sometimes you get
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outside somewhere outside the city lights. You don't want any light interference, and
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you can do that as well upcoming Astronomy Night events. Also on their website,
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it's CCSSC dot org. As Sean Crusen says, Charlie Charlie SamSam Charlie
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Morning Show right after the break. Hello. Last week, I told you
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that Wendy's was flirting with this idea of surge pricing. It came up because
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I guess the CEO of the company at some event was discussing the reality I
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guess, not just the possibility, but discussing the fact that they were going
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to need to get the animated pricing boards because in order to do something like
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surge pricing, they would need boards that are interactive things that can change on
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the fly. Well, this, of course, and the idea behind surge
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pricing. Some companies do it. I guess some of the companies like Uber
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or lyft one or both of them maybe do it, which makes sense if
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you're in a time period where there's sort of a peak need for drivers and
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it's harder to get people transported to and from they bumped the prices up a
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little bit. I guess it makes sense. I don't know, I don't
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know the business model. I don't know how that works. But the idea
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that Wendy's was going to bump up the price of their burgers by a dollar
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during peak times where people might be eating more lunchtime, dinner time, you
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know. I don't know about the breakfast items. Maybe they were going to
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do it there. Anyway, people of course did not react well to it.
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I didn't react well to it because I like Wendy's. But apparently now
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they've said no, no, no, not so fast. We're thinking about
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regular pricing during those peak times and then maybe during the off peak times having
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reduced prices. So whether or not they will bump the prices up, the
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regular prices up higher, and then give you, you know, the current
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price maybe during I don't know how that's going to work exactly. I do
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know that the company is offering opportunities for people to get burgers right now.
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I guess it's through the app the single for a dollar, a double for
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two dollars. That's for a limited time, so if you want to have
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one at a really reduced price, you can do that. But they claim
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that was never really the plan. I don't know how that gets. I
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know that some of the other burger companies certainly pounced on all of it.
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Speaking of burgers, let's talk about Dan Gorsky, the guy in Wisconsin who's
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been eating big macs every single day since nineteen seventy two. In twenty twenty
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one, that is when his count was officially updated to more than thirty two
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thousand, and that was twenty twenty one, and now he's seventy and he
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wants everyone to know that he's still at it. His count recently confirmed it
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more than thirty four thousand. Although he has slowed down and only eats two
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big mechs a day, he hopes to get to forty thousand. Gorseky said,
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many thought I'd be dead by now, but instead I've been a world
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record holder for my twenty fourth year, one of Guinness World Record's longest running
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record holders, So that's pretty cool to me. He maintains his health by
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never eating fries, and he walks six miles a day. So if you
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want to eat two big a day, that's part of the formula. Don't
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eat the fries and walk six miles a day. That's it, just just
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six miles a day, and you should be good to go. I guess
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kell Ogg's, who is of course a maker of a lot of cereal brands,
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other snacks and things taking some heat because their CEO has suggested that because
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of inflation, people can eat dinner, eat cereal for dinner to cut costs,
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so make that your dinner option. The company, of course, has
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been raising its prices like everyone else. A lot of companies have been raising
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their place. We're in this inflation period, prices have been going up.
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Now there's a growing trend on social media for people say that you should boycott
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Kellogg's all of their products from April first to June thirtieth, second quarter of
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the year, and that would send a message to them, and they're also
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saying that the company should lower their prices, calling him out for the fact
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that, you know, there's a this inflation that's been going on. I
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guess my question about that is, and I'm not mentioning that to you to
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advocate you doing it, and I'll be just blunt. We don't we tend
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to buy store brands for things like cereal anyway, so we're not really buying
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the Kellogg's products typically, But where is this for the other products? Because
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everything has gone up. I understand maybe people didn't appreciate this comment that he
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made about well, just a little bit of a let the meat cake,
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let the meat cereal moment. But this guy sells cereal for a living,
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so of course he's gonna say, Hey, why don't you just eat some
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cereal for dinner? Why not just do that? I mean, that makes
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sense from a business standpoint. Now I understand why some people didn't appreciate it,
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and they say, your cereal is really expensive now. But this is
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going on across the board. I mean, name something that hasn't gone up
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at least a little bit in the last four years. And here's a crazy
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idea, and I mean I just to throw a little political swing to this,
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why don't we boycott the people who put policies in place that caused the
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inflation to be as bad as it was. Why don't we start boycotting them?
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Just an idea, you know, I mean, November is coming up
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fast. We could make some changes, We could do things to make things
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a little bit better. We could have done things differently four years ago,
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and maybe we wouldn't be looking at any of this at all. I don't
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know. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the show. Thanks to
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