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For Starters, What About the Hostages? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, eighteenth day
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of October. I'm Wes, thanks for starting your day with me. A
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couple things. First of all, I'm going to say this again to say,
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as much as I do wish Republicans could figure out what they're going on
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with the Speaker of the House, I do still applaud them for having some
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differences of opinion within the party about a number of different issues, not just
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really specific issues. There's one particular issue we're going to talk about in a
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few minutes that apparently thirteen House Democrats have but we'll get to that in just
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a minute. But just know this process has got to work its course.
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Again. It's a weird and bizarre thing that we're doing right now with our
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government. But they'll they'll work it out. They'll figure it out, and
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they'll know where this is all going at some point and they'll get started back
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at it. I guess today you know they'll get back at it. So
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we'll see what's going on with getting a Speaker of the House. We have
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an interim. It's not like there's no one there. Democrats want to make
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it sound like there's nobody there and it's disorganized, and they love telling everybody
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how their guy has gotten more votes than the minority leader, has gotten more
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votes than anybody in history, right, they like pointing that out. Anyway,
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mister ABC A is for anyway. I want to talk about this resolution
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that a congresswoman at Corey Bush has pushed for, urging other colleagues to join
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in this House resolution, And I'm pulling it up on X because I want
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to be able to read it. But basically it says calling for an immediate
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de escalation and ceasefire in Israel and Occupied Palestine. And basically it's calling this
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I'm just reading from it, calling for an immediate de escalation in ceasefire in
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Israel and Occupied Palestine, whereas all human life is precious and the targeting of
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civilians, no matter their faith or ethnicity, is a violation of international humanitarian
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law. Whereas between October seventh and October sixteenth, armed violence has claimed the
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lives of over twenty seven hundred Palestinians and over fourteen hundred Israelis, including Americans,
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and wounded thousands more whereas hundreds of thousands of lives are at imminent risk
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if a ceasefire is not achieved and humanitarian aid is not delivered without delay,
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and whereas the federal government holds immense diplomatic pos to save Israel and Palestine,
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sorry, Israeli and Palestinian lives. Now, therefore be it resolved that the
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House of Representatives urges the Biden administration to immediately call for and facilitate de escalation
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and a cease fire to urgently end the current violence, and calls upon the
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Biden administration to promptly sin and facilitate the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
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All right, A few things to digest here, and there are some so
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basically equating the group Hamas, who is basically the terrorist de facto government the
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Gaza strip right did the most horrific acts involved in all of this process,
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and they started this whole thing to begin with going into Israel and attacking them,
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taking hostages, murdering people in front of children, in front of their
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parents, and then murdering parents, things that I haven't really talked about in
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great link that have happened on the show. And basically the need to stress
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the difference between those Palestinians there and Hamas. Okay, because this is basically
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trying to equate anything that's happened to Hamas as activity that's happening to peaceful Palestinians.
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That's part of the problem here with this resolution. It says that the
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violence claimed fourteen hundred Israelis armed violence Hamas is the ones who took the fourteen
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or Israelis. It has nothing to do with what the Israeli military is doing.
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They're targeting terrorists there. Now, I realize there are some people that
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want to paint this picture that they're just going in and doing the same horrific
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things, which is there's no evidence of that whatsoever none. So where's the
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call for Hamas to, I don't know, surrender their power there and let
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a real government get in place. Where's the call for Hamas to, I
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don't know, release the kidnapped. It's there's just a lot to digest.
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There's nothing that's condemning Hamas murdering babies, right, nothing, There's no reference
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to that whatsoever. There's nothing about what Hamas has done taking hostages, No
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no call to release them, no calls for and no calls for any sort
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of remorse right, and you can't ask for remorse, but you can ask
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for some sort of concessions to go with what would be would fall in a
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category of remorse. Senator Tim Scott, candidate for president, said, there
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can be no ceasefire. We have a ceasefire when Hamas is dead. You
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have people, obviously that are running for president that understand the importance of showing
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strength and showing power, and understanding that showing strength can de escalate these situations
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by causing them never to happen. So I think it's important to note there's
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a difference between peaceful Palestinians there and there are some there are some. It's
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important to note that that there's a difference. The Hamas terrorists de facto government
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of that area are the ones that escalated, and they should be the ones
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to begin the process of de escalation. But Corey Bush and the squad and
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some others. I don't know how many of the squad's up to now.
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I always think of those four, but there's more. There's up to I
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guess thirteen that were part of this. So, yeah, calls for a
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ceasefire. So this is where one of the areas where Democrats do kind of
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break from tradition of trying to all be unified on everything, be right there,
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lined up with everyone in every possible way. Uh oh, Alec Baldwin
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is going to face charges again over that lethal movie shooting of the movie Rust.
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There was a independent forensic test. Alec Baldwin was charged. So just
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in case you were under a rock, there was a movie called Rust.
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I guess maybe they're still working on it. I don't know. They said
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the movie is going to be released, it's going to come out, and
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apparently there was some less than professional behavior happening concerning the weapons on the set.
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There were stories about people firing real ammunition from the prop weapons. There
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were stories of real ammunition being mixed in with someone that were all kinds of
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stories, And part of what people were complaining about is this was back when
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there was a strike going on with one of the unions and it was causing
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some of the crew on this movie to be replaced by either scab staff or
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less qualified people that weren't part of the unions. I guess that would make
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them scabs THO, wouldn't it if they're not part of the union. And
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they're working so but I don't know, I don't know what constant. I
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don't want to throw the term scab around at somebody. People take that seriously.
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But these were people that were less experienced that we're working on things like
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being the one in charge of the prop weapons. Right. So the ultimately
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and a weapons handler the movie set still is facing charges faces trial next year.
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So Baldwin had a weapon. It was supposed to be a prop weapon.
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It was supposed to have blanks in it. They were apparently in a
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rehearsal, he pointed in the direction of some of the other crew that were
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working on the movie, including the director of cinematography, and I guess one
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of the director of the movie, Joel Susa, was shot and did not
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He was injured, did not die. Forty two year old cinematographer Helena Hutchins
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is the one who was actually killed. Baldwin was holding the gun when it
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went off. He says that he never pulled the trigger. This somehow the
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gun went off without him pulling the trigger, and he has claimed a number
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of times that that was the case. Ultimately, they ended up dropping the
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charges against him because he had faced manslaughter charges and they said, you know,
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we're going to drop the charges on him. We don't think we have
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enough here. Well, now, after the forensic test and from an independent
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company, they say that he had to have pulled the trigger for the revolver
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to go off, pointed it in the direction, and pulled the trigger.
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So this is a quote from the prosecutors. After extensive investigation over the past
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several months, additional facts have come to light, and we believe they show
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that mister Baldwin has criminal culpability in the death of Helena Hutchins and the shooting
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of Joel Susan. We believe the appropriate course of action is to permit a
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panel of New Mexico citizens to determine from here whether mister Baldwin should be held
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over for a criminal trial. The Baldwin attorneys say it's unfortunate that the terrible
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tragedy has been turned into this misguided prosecution. We won't answer any charges in
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court, according to the statement that they release. So there you go.
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The weapons handler, who again was someone who was not part of the union,
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who was working on the movie, Hannah Gutierrez. She's facing charges for
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her involvement in all of it. So there you go. Not so fast,
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Alec Baldwin. It seemed like he was free and clear right. Seemed
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like he was out and he wasn't going to have any have any charges.
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He was gonna have to have his day in court. That he was going
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to be fine. He was just going to blow right through all this.
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But now not so fast. And now whether or not he'll actually they'll hold
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him over for trial, we'll find out. All right, Let's talk about
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Carolina Reaper Pepper's pepper X. The guy that makes Carolina Pepper Reaper inventor says
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there's a new world's hottest pepper, three times hotter than the Carolina Reaper.
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He says, he groans in pain for hours whenever he eats it. Well,
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why the hell are you eating it? That's what I want to know.
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What is making you want to eat this pepper? Why? Who wants
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to eat something and have the heat in their mouth? For He says,
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I was feeling the heat for three and a half hours, and then the
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cramps came. Those cramps are horrible. I was laid out flat in a
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marble wall for approximately wait flat laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately
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an hour. In the rain, groaning in pain. I have to really
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see this wall, I guess. So you know. The question ends up
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being, you're not selling this very much? Why did anybody who want to
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eat this thing? Why is anybody making a pepper that's that hot? And
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why would anybody eat it and then groan and complain for hours about how bad
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it makes you? It's not good? Why would you do this? Who's
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making this pepper? And then people are going to eat it, gonna eat
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it, and they're gonna be miserable for hours. I don't I don't want
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to do anything that's going to make me miserable for hours. I admit I
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eat some food sometimes that aren't always in the best interest of my body.
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I understand that, and then I have to pay for it later. But
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at least when I'm eating it, I enjoy it. It's not burning my
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mouth for three and a half hours, and then I got gut pain.
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That's I don't think I want anything to do with that. So the guy,
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the breeder, his name is Ed Curry. That seems appropriate. I
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was given the Guinness Book a World Records title of Hottest pepper in the World
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October ninth, twenty twenty three, defeating his own previous record with the Carolina
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Reaper. So this new pepper X is it sponsored by Twitter, don't I
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don't know if there's any connection there to that. So they say pepper X
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okay, So one point six y four million Scoville heat units was the previous
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record holder for the Carolina Reaper one point six to four million Scoville heat units.
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Pepper X two point six nine to three million scoville heat units. That's
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a lot more. And that's the kind of thing that'll make you have cramps
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and lie down on a marble wall or whatever. It sounds really not like
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something out of everyone. I don't know that I want to eat a Carolina
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All right, let's start first and foremost with the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown,
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because Apple TV, that owns the rights to the Peanuts classic The Peanuts
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Great, is offering it up this weekend for anybody who you don't have to
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be an Apple TV subscriber. That's what I'm trying to say. They own
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the rights to the special, so it'll be available Saturday and Sunday. Apple
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TV people, you got it anyway. You can watch it anytime you want,
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but this weekend, so keep that in mind if you're hoping to watch
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It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown since it doesn't come on ABC anymore, since
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Apple TV now has the ability to run it whenever they want to run it,
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I guess all right. Let's also talk about a couple of other Halloween
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related topics. Have you ever had a ghostly encounter? A survey found that
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sixty percent of people say that they have seen a ghost. More than forty
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percent believe their pet has seen a ghost. Also, women more than twenty
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percent more likely to believe in ghosts than men. More than thirty percent of
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respondents said that they have either lived in or stayed in a house that was
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haunted. So there you go. It's a little fun stuff. But I
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don't know. I don't know the whole ghost thing. I don't know.
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It is strange to me that places like theaters almost always are haunted, places
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where you have very creative minded people gathered together for all hours of the day
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and night. A gust of wind slams a door shut suddenly there is the
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legend of a ghost. But I'm not going to tell you what you're allowed
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to believe. That's not who I am, So you believe whatever you want
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to believe. I haven't had any ghostly encounters. I'll just say that,
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not yet. According to the National Retail Foundation, consumers are going to spend
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seven hundred million dollars on pet costumes this year. The most popular pet ca
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costumes are I'll tell you right now, the one that I would have thought
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was number one is number two. I'm just laying it out there because it
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seems really obvious. And the one that's number nine seems to be the one
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I'm seeing the most of on social media. So I'll run through these and
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I'll start at ten. Which ghost is the thing I'm seeing on Instagram everywhere
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people dressing their dog up as a ghost. I guess it does say pets,
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not necessarily dogs. So maybe I need to rethink my potential number one.
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If that gives you a hint on what's number two? A lion cat?
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Well, it's your dress your dog as a cat. But if you
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dress your cat as a cat, that's nothing special? Is it? The
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devil? All right? A spider, a bumblebee, a bat, A
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hot dog at number two. So that just seems like the old faithful.
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If you've got a dog, you dress them up like a hot dog.
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That just seems to be to me what I would have thought was number one.
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If you told me to bet, that would have been I'd put my
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money. And at number one on the list kind of, I guess it's
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I just haven't seen a lot but pumpkin people, I guess dress their dog
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up as a pumpkin or a jack O'Lantern or I don't know whatever kind of
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gourd. I mean, that's got to be the top gord to dress your
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dog as. Or cat. But anyway, if you got one of those
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orange cats, that makes sense. I don't know about for dogs the pumpkin
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thing, unless it's just a chubby little dog. But anyway, do you
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regularly visit your doctor for checkups or do you only go when there's a problem.
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It turns out probably won't surprise you that people tend to be more reactive
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than proactive about going to the doctor. A new survey found sixty four percent
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of respondents say they only see a doctor when something feels extremely wrong. Extremely
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wrong, not just when they think something's wrong, when they think something is
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extremely wrong, especially true of men. That part certainly not surprising. Seventy
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nine percent of men said they only go to the doctor when something is really
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wrong, compared to fifty nine percent of women. The average respondent hasn't had
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a regular checkup in more than two years. If you're working from home,
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what's it worth to you if you haven't gotten a raise in a while,
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but of transition to working from home over the past few years, that basically
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is a raise. According to an economist at Stanford University, a survey of
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remote workers found the average American saves anywhere from forty six hundred to six thousand
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dollars a year by simply working from home. In fact, many have even
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said that they would be willing to take that much of a pay cut to
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be able to work from home. The savings comes from not having to commute
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to work, buying lunches. We talked about this the other day, but
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this kind of lays it out in a much more I think, a way
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that makes much more sense. Expensive lunches or nice dress clothes, or paying
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for daycare and those sorts of things. So you shouldn't be running a daycare
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out of your house, though, if you're working from home. I mean
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some jobs would allow you to be able to do that, certainly by working
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at home, but that shouldn't be your whole focus. Then they're going to
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