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Conservatives Do Have a Message · 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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Tuesday morning, thirtieth day of January. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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We are a little closer day by day, minute by minute to election
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day in November, and we're getting really more and more layered in to talk
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about where this is all headed. And a number of people that I've had
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asked me, you know, who do you think is going to be Trump's
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running mate? Do you think it's going to be Nicky Hayley? Do you
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think it could be Rond de Santis. Who do you think he'll pick?
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I don't know. I don't know. I've said on this show that whoever
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he picks is going to be someone that I think he will want to be
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able to endorse full and try to get them into the White House when he's
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done. I don't think he wants it to be someone anything like Mike Pence.
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I think that relationship and I do think that if it had stayed on
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course for where they were, maybe he would have been willing to do that
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for Mike Pence. But I'm not sure. I don't know. I definitely
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know that you know, by late in the game, especially by the time
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we got into January, and what his expectations were for Pence versus what Pence's
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comfort level was for some of the things that Trump was hoping for. I
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know that that relationship's hour, So I think Trump is going to want someone
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that he knows he's going to be able to endorse, and because I think
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he feels like he's going to be a king maker. That's what I think.
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I haven't talked to the man, I haven't heard these words from his
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mouth, but I just feel like, based on what he's done with some
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of the races and things that he has gotten involved in in midterms and things,
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I think he's gonna want to be a kingmaker. I'm gonna I just
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feel like that's what he's gonna want to do with his whoever his vice president
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is. I know that the talk about Nikki Haley has grown. I know
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that talk about you know, DeSantis has grown. I heard someone say to
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me the other day that they think, oh, it might be Tucker Carlson,
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and I thought that would be an absolute nightmare for Trump. Nothing against
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Tucker Carlson. I just don't think that that is someone that you know,
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a lot of folks in the middle would want to be the vice president.
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But I think that's one of those It's like in sports, when you start
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talking we started hearing talk about trades, dream trades, or when they start
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talking in movies about dream casting of certain roles. I think that that's probably
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one of those things that there's a certain group of folks on the right that
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would like to see that play out. I can't imagine Tucker Carlson has any
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interest in that at all. I just I can't. Again, I haven't
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spoken with him, but I can't imagine that that would be a good move
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for the ticket at all. With Nikki Haley, sure would, Ron DeSantis,
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absolutely would, Tim Scott, sure. I just I can't imagine it
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being someone like Tucker Carlson, just like I never could have imagined it being
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Rush Limbaugh. People talked about that all the time, Oh, Rush Limbaugh
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should jump in, and I think that starts getting a little silly to me,
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just like the whole notion of Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton, or Oprah
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Winfrey or the rock running all of those just sounds silly to me. They
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seem as silly and out of place as Taylor Swift at the super Bowl.
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I know if I keep talking about it this week and then couple of weeks,
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then I'm going to be right there with all of the other people over
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hyping and talking about it. But I do want to talk a little bit
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about strategy. I think as we start getting closer and closer to having an
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actual official candidate in some kind, and I know we're not going to have
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an official candidate until we know the status of things concerning Trump's court cases and
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where these are going to go and how they're going to play out. We'll
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know a little bit more about at least one of those by the fifteenth,
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right, But I want to talk just a little bit about strategy. We
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know now what Democrats are going to do. They want to talk about abortion
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rights, they want to talk about January sixth. They want to talk about
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the fact that they say Trump wants to be a dictator. Trump is.
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He's kind of played into that a little bit with some of his jokes,
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but I don't think he I don't think to me that was one of those
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areas where he went too far when they asked him, oh, we heard
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you're going to be a tyrant and a dictator and he said only on day
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one, and they said, ah, he says he's going to be a
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tyrant and a dictator. He was making a point. A lot of politicians
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get away with saying things sometimes that they shouldn't say. Remember when Obama made
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fun of people in the Special Olympics on Jay Leno of all places, and
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it was just brushed aside. Ah, he's just cutting up, having a
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good time, That's all he's doing. There's so much that you can get
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away with if you're kind of in the right cool club, and then you
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can get away with it. I was just having a good time. Have
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you noticed that you can get away with so much just by saying that?
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But anyway, so I want to talk just that we know what Democrats are
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going to do. We know that Republicans want to focus on the border and
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the economy, and they need to stay very focused on those two things.
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I do believe that, But just a couple of things that I wish would
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become, you know, the focus while still covering those things, because I
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do think we have a lot of Americans that are fed up with the border,
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They're fed up with the invasion, they're fed up with basically the fact
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that they were promised all this prosperity, and things have not gone that way.
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They've gone the exact opposite. We had so much more in our check
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every month, We had so much more in the bank, we had so
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much more disposable income. We just had things that were going great. I
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remember telling someone on a trip overseas and they said something about, you know,
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you really like Trump, and I said, I can just tell you
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that we're, you know, prosperity wise, we're doing well. We have
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more money in the bank. We're here on this international tree because of money
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that Trump allowed us to have. I mean, he put things in place
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that cut our taxes and let us keep our own money, and they didn't.
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He didn't take our money from us and give it to other people and
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then open the border wide open and let people come in and then expect us
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to want to give them our money. I was watching a stand up special
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a comedian that I like. I've seen some of his comedy that has that
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I've really enjoyed in the past, but in this particular case, I didn't
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even make it through the first twenty minutes maybe of his stand up specially,
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but it's Gary Golman's his name, and he started talking about the differences between
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conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats, and he was talking about growing up
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on welfare and needing government assistance and how his family was on it for a
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while and then eventually, you know, they got off of it. And
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he was saying, you know, Republicans and conservatives say that you can't get
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out of that stuff, that you start to become dependent on it, and
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then that's you know, a bad character trait. And then he starts talking
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about how it bothers him that you've got these rich conservatives and these rich people
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that don't want to give up their money to help other people out because they
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want to pass it on to their children. And he's made a joke,
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I don't want your children to become dependent on your money, and not in
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any way appreciating or acknowledging the fact of how ridiculous that is someone he's making
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the case that someone shouldn't be able to be successful a mass some sort of
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wealth that they're able to pass on to their children and grandchildren because it's somehow
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owed to everyone else. I mean, not even taking a moment to realize
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and Obviously that could tell us something about where this guy's career has gone.
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I would think I thought he was doing well, but apparently he just thinks
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that whatever money he's made, he owes it to everyone else to just give
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it to him, because if you make money and you have success, that's
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what you're supposed to do. Anyway, that's about where I turned it off.
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I don't know. Maybe in the next five minutes he turned it around
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and got himself back on track, but it sounded I'm sure he didn't.
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It sounded pretty ridiculous to me, this notion that you're not supposed to have
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success and be able to pass that success, you know, the fruits of
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your labor on to your family someday. But anyway, we know what the
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left wants to say as far as their message for this year, abortion and
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Trump's crazy, he wants to be a dictator, fascism, democracies in danger,
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all these sorts of things. And we know the point that Conservatives and
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Republicans need to stay on. And it's the economy. We were sold a
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bum deal. It did not pan out. And if you voted for Biden,
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chances are you probably don't want to vote for him again. You're probably
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feeling buyer's remorse. I talked about buyer's remorse with him a couple of years
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ago, and I think a lot of people have buyer's remorse. I have
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friends that I have buyer's remorse. I have friends that haven't talked about politics
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at all because they know they are on the wrong side on this one.
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Maybe they loved past candidates that they wanted to vote for, people who liked
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Hillary Clinton or that liked Obama. You know, I just don't think they
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feel like they got what they were promised in this deal, and they really
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weren't promised a whole lot, just that we were going to come back from
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COVID, and what we got in the comeback from COVID wasn't anything new.
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It was just reintroducing things. It was like closing down. It was like
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your favorite restaurant closing down and then someone saying we're gonna get We're gonna get
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you so many new restaurants, and then that restaurant opens right back up again.
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They go, ah, look at that, look at how much we've
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grown. No, we're back to where we were. And what if your
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favorite restaurant closes and they say we're gonna get we're gonna bring it back,
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and then they bring back your favorite restaurant, but instead of serving pasta,
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you know, now they serve Chinese food. And you go, well,
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that's that's I didn't want you. I wanted my pasta place back. I
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think that's closer to what we got. We're not getting. And oh,
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by the way, you know they have one pasta edition. It's the one
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that nobody really likes. I know I'm stretching the analogy, but that's kind
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of you know, a lot of people just aren't happy with it. Here's
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what I wish republics would do, and here's what I wish conservatives would do.
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Learn how to sell the brand. There's a brand for conservatism, and
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the brand you hear me talk about on this show all the time. The
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brand is really pretty simple. It involves leave me alone, let me live
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my life, let me take care of my own let me take care of
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my business, and government stay out of it. We need to find a
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way to explain Conservatives don't hate charity. Conservatives want to give charity, but
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we'd like it to be our choice. We'd like to be the ones who
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make the decision. Hey, this is the charity that I want to support.
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I want to give money to my church and let my church support people
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who need it. I don't want my money forcibly taken from me by the
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government and then given of people who maybe you know, don't even live here.
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They've just come across the border and they're just asking for it. Now,
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does that mean I don't want people that you know come into the country
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because they genuinely need asylum, and I want churches to be involved in helping
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them. Absolutely, let's voluntarily give to that. I've told you before.
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I've got a friend who told me there's a lot of issues that he doesn't
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agree with Democrats on, but he agrees with them on environment, and he
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says, I'll vote for them because of the environment, because of conservation,
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even though there's a lot of things I disagree with. And I hate that
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my taxes have gone down this is during Trump, because I feel like some
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of the money that needed to go to you know, national parks, state
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parks, it's not being you know, environmental issues are suffering because my taxes
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have gone down. And I had to point out to him, take your
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money. Whatever you feel guilty that you have and give it directly to an
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environmental cause. Think about what a nature center could do with your one thousand
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dollars a month that you had extra in your pocket versus the government taking one
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thousand dollars and that nature center maybe getting fifty cents of it by the time
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it goes through bureaucrats. Conservatives, we appreciate the value enjoy in being able
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to give and be able to help people, and we want to be able
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to do that. But we get wronged for that. We get told we're
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Oh, you shouldn't want to help people. You don't want to be the
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white savior out there, and you shouldn't want that. No, we want
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to help people. We do. We want to be able to do that.
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We want to be involved in the decision making that's involved in that,
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and we believe that lower taxes is the way to go. We believe it's
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fewer government programs is the way to go. Do we need some sort of
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a system in place at this point, Yeah, there's not much we can
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do about it. But do we want that to continue to grow and get
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bigger and bigger? No? Do we want politicians to be able to use
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handouts as a means of trying to get votes down the line. No,
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that's not what we want at all. Do we want to be able to
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protect ourselves? And if we decide that we want to have a weapon to
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protect ourselves, should we be able to do that? Yes? Should we
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have police forces in place that are held to account, that should do their
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jobs. But we need more police, not less police. Do we want
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our neighborhoods to be clean? I'm talking to you, Columbus Georgia. Do
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we want our neighborhoods to be clean and not have trash scattered everywhere on the
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ground? We do. Do we want, you know, a traffic part
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of our police force that's gonna be out and make sure that people aren't just
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running red lights. Are they going to be focusing on red lights more than
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they're focused on seat belts. That's something we'd like to see, right,
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Is seat belts a bigger priority than people running red lights? Enough people running
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red lights, there's going to be accidents, People are going to get hurt.
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I think people can make a choice to wear their seat belts. People
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don't seem to be making the right choices when it comes to the red lights.
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I think people don't want the border wide open. I don't think conservatives
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really want to see that. And we'd like some sort of national identity right,
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something that we're able to take care of and preserve and pass on to
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oh gosh, passing on to our children. We want something to pass on
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to them. Less taxes, more prosperity. These are the things that we
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want. We want it for everybody. We want everybody that works hard to
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have those things. We want equal opportunity, not equal outcome. Everybody's not
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going to get the same thing, but we want people to have those opportunities
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everybody. We want people to be judged by their content of their character,
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not the color of their skin. We don't want to be told we're racist
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all the time. We don't want to be told that we're victims all the
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time. Nobody wants that. We want to be able to go to work,
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do our job, come home, spend time with our family, and
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have something to show at the end of the day. That's what we'd like.
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Just hope conservatives can sell the message, and I wish that Republicans could
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sell the message, but they're going to get caught up and Biden's a crook,
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Trump's a crook, back and forth, back and forth, and you
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know, I understand there's a temptation to get in there and throw those elbows,
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but the conservative way gets lost in all of the bickering. The conservative
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way gets lost in all of that nastiness, and there's an actual message that
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could be delivered, but instead conservatives are letting the left label them and brand
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after the break. So a friend reminded me last week about just made a
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reference to me and my Guinness World record that I once held, just telling
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me that he was talking with his kid about, you know, Guinness World
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Records and said, you know, hey, dad, you know you ever
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know anybody that didn't? He's like, I do, I know somebody that
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used to have a Guinness World Record. And it's a very cool experience.
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All of it was. I had fun setting the record. Now, if
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you are not familiar, the record that I once held was most hugs from
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unique individuals, different people. That means in a twenty four hour period,
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I'm the first person that ever held that record. And I'm saying this because
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there are moments where a new record comes along and someone's able to go,
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hey, I can do that, or I think I already have that,
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and then soon after that someone beat my record, and then someone it was
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because it was a big it was a national news story, maybe even in
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a national I don't know. The Associated Press interviewed me, and I had
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friends in New York saying, you're in the paper here, and then I
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was in a couple of magazines and things for it, and it was it
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was a lot of fun. And you know, I still am known for
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you know, I do interviews and often I end up doing hug photos and
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things. I've got some red carpet hugs and things like that over the years.
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But I say all of that because it was easier kind of getting in
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on the ground level because no one had the record, and I was able
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to do that. And this next story is about a woman who kind of
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has a similar story in that regard. HER's a little different though, because
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hers just kind of happened. So it's a woman named Macy Davis Sutherland,
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and she lives in California, and she said she was in Disneyland back in
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twenty twelve and her friend's brother noticed a very long hair growing out of her
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bicep. She'd never know noticed it before. Friend's brother offered to yank it
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out for but she said, no, don't do that. She said,
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let's see how long I can grow it out. So last month she had
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the arm hair measured by Guinness World Records seven point twenty four inches, and
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it earned her a Guinness World Record for longest arm hair for a female.
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A California man has the overall record for arm hair at eight point five four
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inches. So it's kind of one of those things that just started to happen.
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What I find most interesting about the story is, I mean, if
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my wife found out hair like that on her arm, she would want it.
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She wouldn't necessarily want to yank it out, but she'd definitely want it
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cut as quickly as possible. So that's kind of interesting about it. But
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good for her. I love these kinds of things, and the fact that
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she is the and I don't know if she's the first, but has the
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record now for you know, longest arm hair for a female, So good
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for her. All right. So it's it's certainly one of those mixed bag
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things. Some people love the self checkout. Some people hate the self checkout.
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I used to hate it because when I was in high school and early
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college, days before I got into radio, I worked in a grocery store
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and I love working there, but I hated the notion of self checkouts coming
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along, and you know, taking away jobs a lot like automation for radio.
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You know, it's one of those things where you go, oh,
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this is not going to be good for listeners, it's not going to be
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good for the employees, it's not good for the overall product. It's just
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not And that's certainly true for customer service and things. If you go in
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places that have self checkout, you're not really getting an opportunity to I feel
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like customer service in general in those places has dropped off quite a bit.
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Well, basically, some people hate it, some people love it. I've
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embraced it, especially through COVID. I started to appreciate the fact I didn't
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have anybody else to touch in my stuff, and I kind of liked that.
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So here we go. Basically, a new survey survey done by lending
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Tree says that about half of gen Zer's say that they like self checkout kiosks
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and a third of them said that they like it because it's easier to shoplift.
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Half of them admit to stealing items, and mostly the more expensive items.
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Stores are fully aware that shoplifting is going on at the checkout, and
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ultimately they have to figure out if it's worth the risk or whether they want
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to shut it down or not. So that's an interesting take on the I
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like it. That's not why I like it. I like it because I'm
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one of those people that I know someone has to touch the products to put
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them on the shelf, but I don't typically buy the first one on the
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shelf. When I buy it, I usually get the second or third one
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because I just like thinking that not as many people have touched it. And
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if I'm the one doing the self checkout, you know I can bag it
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up the way I want it. Again, goes back to my grow days
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when I was in high school. As a system you're supposed to follow,
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and they don't typically follow it at all the places that have someone that bags
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it for you, and then you know it's less people touching it and I
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can just have it organize the way I want it. So American workers and
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almost every profession are becoming less honest and ethical. According to a new Gallop
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poll, eight hundred people were asked to rate the honesty and ethical standards of
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people in twenty three fields. Americans viewed all professions except one as less ethical
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than they did in recent years. The only exception was labor union leaders,
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which saw a slight rise in honesty. Okay, nurses have the highest ethical
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rating at seventy eight percent, but that's down from eighty nine percent in twenty
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twenty. Twenty twenty. Nurses have held the top rating for twenty two consecutive
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years. Five professions received they're all time lowest levels. Pharmacists fifty five percent,
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clergy thirty two percent, and journalists nineteen percent, senators eight percent,
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Members of Congress six percent. So those are the five that receive their all
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time lowest levels. So that's interesting. Pharmacists, journalists, I get politicians,
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I get clergy. That's interesting to me. But pharmacist journalists and the
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fact that anybody in the healthcare field, like nurses, being down since twenty
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twenty, that's interesting. I mean, I think we know what may be
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caused that. Right. That'll do it for this Tuesday edition of the show.
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