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Finally Someone Asked About Voter Suppression · 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 when you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, sixth
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day of December. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me, zipping right on
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through this week. Aren't we just flying by? That's what's happening Christmas before
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you know, it's going to happen quickly. Actually, that will happen very
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quickly. Feels like it's flying by. I want to start this morning talking
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about I've been discussing this for a little while now, and I feel like,
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and I know I'm certainly I'm sure not the only person raising this alarm,
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this concern, but I was actually excited that I believe now it's the
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first time I'm aware of anyway that someone has brought it up in the press
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room at the White House. And I'm excited that that's finally happened, because
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I think it should have been brought up a lot sooner there. But I'm
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glad. I guess they waited for the right opportunity. All the reporters,
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Oh, I'm sure all the reporters wanted to bring this up, But of
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course it was a reporter from Fox News who brought it up, so and
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I'm not going to go into the full spiel again as I have done many
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times, but I just just to reflect a little bit on this idea,
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this notion of voter suppression and what it means. And we know that Democrats
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have screamed from the rooftops for decades about voter suppression in some cases, I
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think some valid complaints. The further back you go, I think that you
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know, some of those complaints were certainly justified in some cases, some specific
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cases. I don't believe that every time someone has asked a voter that came
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in to vote to have some form of ID, I don't believe that that
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qualifies as voter suppression any more than the kid at the Kansas City Chiefs game
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than had half of his face painted black and half of it red should qualify
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as blackface. I think that voter suppression and blackface or very specific things,
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and I think when you cross certain lines with it, then yes, absolutely
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you can scream from the rooftops that there's voter suppression taking place, or that
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someone is in blackface. A small boy having half of his face painted black
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and half of it read at a sporting event and showing a picture of just
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the side of his face that was black and accusing him of blackface. It's
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not blackface. And I know that we've been playing this little game now for
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a long time about you know, who am I as a white man to
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say what qualify as blackface? I'm someone with common sense. That's the thing
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that we need to start encouraging and pushing to the forefront is common sense.
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This notion that we are allowed to look at things and form our own opinion
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about it, and not just let the loudest person on what used to be
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Twitter, on social media in general X or whatever whatever the one that Facebook
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made you don't have to threads is that what it's called. Whoever the loudest
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person there is doesn't get to just decide. They don't get to dictate the
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way that things work. They should not, right, That's not the way
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it should work. We should all be able to take in the information and
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form an opinion. Blackface is a very specific thing. Voter suppression is a
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very specific thing. Asking someone that comes in to have an ID in twenty
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twenty, we'll go back a few years twenty two or twenty twenty two,
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to have an ID and show up and prove that they are in fact who
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they say that they are, and that they're there to cast a vote.
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I think is a reasonable thing, and I don't think that just automatically falls.
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And you're assuming now and you're asserting what I think is kind of a
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racist notion to begin with, that you have people that aren't capable of going
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and getting an ID of some kind when they're free. Maybe at one time,
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as I said, this is something that maybe you make this case in
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the sixties, early seventies, you can make this case a little better.
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It's a different it's a whole different argument. Now. So after the twenty
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twenty election, and we know not everything there was above board, we know
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that, Okay, what degree of how much you trust that election varies person
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to person, Okay, And you may be someone who thinks it was a
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complete and that Trump should have won. You may be someone who thinks,
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eh, there was no shenanigans. There was some shenanigans, Okay. Was
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it enough to make a difference in the election. Probably not, But you
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may have a different opinion on that. That's my opinion on it. Was
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it enough to make a difference in the election, probably not. Did we
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see enough questionable things to make us concerned about elections moving forward? Absolutely,
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And that's why some states like Georgia decided that they wanted to change and make
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things a little bit tougher for someone to cheat and do anything suspicious. And
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of course the left screamed that that was a form of voter suppression. They
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were trying to keep people from being able to vote, taking names off voter
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rolls that only voted in one election. They voted for Obama once and that
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was it, and their names were going to be taken off voter rolls.
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Then they have to get back on the role again. They can get back
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on, but they had one election they were interested in, apparently because they
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didn't vote again, and oh, you're just taking them off so they can't
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vote again. No, they can show an interest in voting again, but
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so far they've only shown interest in one election. Right, that was happening,
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And there were other cases where people moved away, they left, and
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their names taken off voter rolls. I know someone who lives in Florida who
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had a ballot cast, an absentee ballot cast in their name in the twenty
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twenty election for Joe Biden, not who this person would have voted for,
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not who they did vote for in Florida, in a county that this person
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had never even visited. They caught it. They called this person, and
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this person was able to say, no, I didn't do that, that
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wasn't me voting. You got some shenanigans going on. So I can tell
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you from that experience. I know someone who tried to have their vote placed
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for the candidate they were not supporting. I know someone that that happened to,
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and I was able to get them in touch with the people at the
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White House, in Trump's White House, who were trying to gather all of
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that information so that they could put the case together about why there were some
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things happening that shouldn't have happened. Taking people's names all voter roles is not
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voter suppression. Okay, they may not live here anymore, they may not
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be alive anymore, and you don't want them to have someone to be able
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to have the ability to vote on their behalf in any capacity. Nobody should
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want that unless you got you're up to no good, right, unless you
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got some kind of intentions that are there. These are common sense things that
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we should be able to. You know, look at and see this notion
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of trying to get Trump off of ballots in certain states and trying to keep
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Trump tied up in court in legal battles during the election next year qualifies,
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as you know, voter suppression. They're trying to keep a candidate from being
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able to run for an office. That's what they're trying to do. They
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don't want this person to be able to win again. They're trying to take
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away people's ability to vote for that specific candidate. That is voter suppression.
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Okay, you want to prosecute Donald Trump, do it after the election if
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you're concerned he might win again and be in a position where he can somehow
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dodge all of this. That's just the way it goes. He's a candidate
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for president. You're trying to keep him from being able to do that.
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That's voter suppression. And I have said this a number of times. I
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feel like if they can get Trump out the door, and they can find
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a way to wait until the last possible minute and just let Gavin Newsom sweep
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in and just hand him the Democrat nomination and let him run against DeSantis or
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Haley or whoever it would be, it would probably be DeSantis, and I
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think that's why we got that little puppet show thing that we got last week,
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that little song and dance number that they did that was supposed to be
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a debate between a candidate and a non camp but they kept referring to Newsom
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as a candidate. But anyway, so I think it's another case of that
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would be voter suppression, not giving Democrat voters an opportunity to pick who they
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want to be the nominee. I understand when you've got a sitting president and
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you're trying to say, hey, this is someone who is the sitting president,
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we want him to be the nominee. I get that. But there's
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a lot of people questioning his cognition, his ability to do the job,
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whether he should have even been made president in the first place. There's a
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lot of people questioning that. And there's not really a lot of talking buzz
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about Joe Biden as a candidate moving forward. It's not there. There's not
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a buzz, there's not a cult of personality. There's not this zap and
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there's no sizzle, right, there's nothing. It's just he's the best shot,
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and I do think if they could get him out of there, they
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would. Okay, So now let's jump to this. This is Jackie Heinrich
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with Fox News at the White House Y Press Briefing on the fourth two days
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ago and talking with Press Secretary Kareeine John Pierre. And here is her question.
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I'm make sure the audio is as good as I can get this,
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but she's asking about the Georgia situation and from the past, and the recently
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announced that they were not going to have any sort of a primary in the
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state of Florida because Biden was going to be the nominee. Thank you great.
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In twenty twenty one, President Biden called Georgia's election law changes knew Jim
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Crow laws that were anthetical to who we are. The imposed voter identification requirements,
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limited use of drop boxes, and gave state officials more power of local
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elections. And then in twenty twenty two, Geordia did have record turnout,
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but you had argued from the podium that there was voter's depression. Does the
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White House still believe that that was true? I don't have anything else to
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add from what I stated last time, So does the Florida Party then effectively
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canceling the Democratic primary also constitute voters suppression. I can't speak Why not you
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have to speak to the campaign or the dancy. Does the White House have
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any thoughts on I can't those voters. I can't speak to that. Is
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it as a patcheck or I just this is you're talking about twenty twenty four
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election. You're talking about a primary. I'm just not going to speak to
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that from here, Okay. So her defense and not being able to answer
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the question is that it falls under the category of it being technically an election
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Question's that's the defense there. And see, when there's a campaign, you
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you basically have there's the you know, the White House has its team that
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works on behalf of the nation, and then the election team, the actual
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there's a whole separate branch for that. They have to be the people responsible.
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So there's someone in charge of the election campaign. There's a press secretary
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for the election campaign. It's a different person. So her defense there saying
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that she can't answer that question, she's saying that she can't because it's an
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election question. It's a twenty twenty four election question. It's not a White
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House question, but it is a White House question kinda is because she's pointing
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out that the complaint was made about Georgia laws by the White House two years
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ago. So she's making that point similar point that I've been trying to make
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for a while now. You can't have it both ways. You can't say,
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hey, asking people to have an idea when they vote, or asking
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people to you know, not use drop boxes in places where they're not being
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watched and protected. You can't say that that's voter suppression and then turn around
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and say, well, not giving people an opportunity to vote for the cannon
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that they want to pick isn't voter suppression. It's just you can't have it
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both ways. But we allow everybody to have it both ways, don't we.
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So I'm glad. I'm glad that Jackie Heinrich from Fox News was there
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to address that. I want to talk about this because I had the previous
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story with these two cyclists we talked. I guess one of them maybe previously
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won a race against women against biological women. It was two transgender cyclists that
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have now won gold and silver in a race in Illinois, and they both
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first and second place Tessa Johnson Evelyn Williamson, both born male, and they
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were standing at the podium, and then the third place spot is a biological
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woman named Kristin Chalmers, who you know won the race, right, I
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mean, that's how you have to kind of look at that, right when
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the top two spots, this is the women's single speed category, the top
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two spots, So this is not the this is not the first time that
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these two have won in these situations. It's now raising more attention as people
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say, no, there's no difference, there's no difference. These are women
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because they say that they're women and then they're trans women, so there's no
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even questioning it. You just have to go with it. And there's more
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calls now for boycotts women to basically say we're not going to race against trans
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women. We're not going to do this, more calls for that in the
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name of actually protecting women's sports. It is a bizarre world that we're in.
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And I know I say this a lot, but it's a bizarre world
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that we're in that so many women fought for women to have the rights to
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compete in sports and sporting of events for so long, and now to have
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women pushed aside for biologically born men, biological men by birth. I guess
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is the way way to say that, Well, I know the right way
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to say it is just say they're women. You're supposed to just say they're
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women now, but trans women to just step in and take not just gold
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but silver, one more racer in there to win, and then there's no
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woman on the podium, no biological woman on the podium at all. I
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don't want to be disrespectful. I don't want to do anything other than say
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I don't think they should be competing. It's a clear advantage. We get
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told repeatedly. It's not a clear advantage. It's not advantage at all.
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Someone who agrees with that notion is a legend of women's sports. Martina Navertlova,
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a legend in the LGBTQ plus community, basically saying that there's more mediocre
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male bodies taking podium places from female athletes, and its stinks. I had
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that to say on X. So, Yeah, there are more calls now
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for boycott's, more calls for women to say we're not going to compete against
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trans women. Is it going to happen? I don't know, but at
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some point there has to be a line drawn or this will continue to happen
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and women will get pushed aside and not be able to have a fair competitive
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opportunity to compete in these events. We're seeing it happen this same two cyclists
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have already done this before. This is now the second time. So if
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it's not an unfair advantage, why do they keep winning. Today's show brought
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forty five hundred O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after
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the break, Well, if you like to have a relaxing soak in the
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tub, you may not be doing it right. Yeah, apparently there's a
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right way to have a bath in the tub. And that right way,
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according to a new study, says that the optimum time to spend in the
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bath is twenty two minutes. Anything longer than that, they say, could
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leave you feeling dehydrated. So health professionals recommend getting out before thirty minutes already,
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So twenty two apparently is the optimum amount of time that you have in
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there. So, I mean, if you're one of those people who likes
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to sit in there and soak, just start your timer. Twenty two minutes,
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that's what they say. You know. The fact that I don't understand
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how it dehydrates you, I guess has to do with the heat. Maybe
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I don't know, I don't understand the I need to think this through.
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Really, what about being in the tub dehydrates you? You're just soaking.
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I mean I realized that the water on the outside isn't getting into your skin.
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I need to think this through. Company holiday parties could lead to issues
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in the workplace, and a new survey says thirty five percent of respondents say
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that a few glasses of holiday cheer have made them consider cheating with a coworker.
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Seventeen percent admit to actually going through with it. Twenty two percent of
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those surveys had they fooled around with someone other than their partner because they like
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the attention. Eleven percent said they did it for the rush of doing something
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that was taboo. Not surprisingly, therapists say that a heavy amount of alcohol
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consumed in December gatherings has a big influence on office party hookups. So be
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careful out there, you know, watch out, don't drink. There's lots
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of reasons not to drink too much, but that's definitely one of them.
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There's a lot of that would cause some stress in your life. This time
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of year is certainly a stressful time. According to a new survey from the
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American Psychological Association, Eighty nine percent of adults say that financial stress, finding
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the right gifts, missing loved ones, and potential family drama are some of
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the reasons that their stress levels are higher this time of year. Forty nine
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percent said that their stress levels during the holiday season are moderate, forty one
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percent said their stress is higher during the holidays compared to other times of the
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year, and forty three percent said that the stress they feel affects their ability
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to enjoy the season. Have you watched Christmas movies yet? Have you already
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died? I had a big dive into one or two of them. I'll
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admit I didn't watch the whole thing. I just kind of turn the TV
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on and saw a few minutes of Christmas Vacation the other day, and I
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know it's basically on repeat. So and this is one of those things that
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you know, the different, different sort of iconic movies kind of find a
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home, find a place, and then some of them get moved elsewhere.
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The Charlie Brown Christmas Special is on Apple TV. I think there's going to
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be an opportunity to watch it for free at some point, but you're You're
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not just gonna be able to watch it on regular TV this year. Christmas
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Vacation, however, a number of places Apple TV, Amazon Prime, TBST
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and T Max, Hulu, AMC a lot of places to see Christmas Vacation,
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So that would be an easy one to see this year, is what
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I'm saying. All Right, Finally, how much would you pay for a
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plate of mom's Christmas dinner? Well, there's a mother who's been called Britain's
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most hated woman thinks her loved one should cough up two two hundred dollars a
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plate to sit down at her holiday table. Carla Balucci says she'll be charging
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her relatives because she should be compensated for the burden of preparing a meal for
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fifteen people. The forty two year old says, it's not cheap finding people
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feeding people, and it also takes a lot out of me to put the
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nice meal together. The fee fee includes a complete dinner, turkey, all
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the trimmings, along with one glass of champagne. Any additional alcohol consumed is
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byob so it only comes with one glass of champagne. So I think I
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think I could put together a meal and charge two hundred dollars a plate.
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I think I could do it for fifteen. Let's do twenty people, two
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hundred dollars a plate. Let's put this together. I'll do the cooking.
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I'll provide two glasses of champagne. Let's put this together. Let's make this
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happen. That'd be a nice way to have a nice holiday for me anyway,
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well for all of us. It'd be a nice meal. I'd cook
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some really good it's a really good uh, turkey and trimmings in the champagne.
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hookups that are gonna happen. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of the
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