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Easter, Reverend Urkel and Caitlyn Jenner · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show Tuesday
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morning, second day of April. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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Took the day off yesterday, Easter Monday. I have said for a long
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time, I don't understand why this country doesn't acknowledge Easter Monday the way many
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countries around the world do. I wish that we did. I'm able to
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do it on this show, and I hope that's okay. I appreciate your
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listening. I hope it wasn't a huge disappointment. Jump on the show and
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or get on your whatever device you listen to the show on and then say,
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or where's Wes. He's not here. A couple of you I hear
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from if I take a day off, but always with understanding. But I
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just decided to take the day. We were doing a little bit of travel
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over the weekend, so it was just a little easier to pass on the
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show yesterday and celebrate Easter Monday. And I just wish that that was something
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that we were able to do. I wish that that was something that was
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acknowledged as a holiday, unlike some other things that get acknowledged as holidays,
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and perhaps Easter Monday may someday be a thing. If only it was I
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don't know, the transgender Day of Visibility, maybe then it could be acknowledged.
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Now I do want to address that because as a couple of things i'd
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like to talk about with that, And part of what I want to talk
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about relates to one of our senators here in Georgia. Not Senator Jack ass
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Off, I mean John also Off, not him, the other one,
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Senator Erkele. Reverend Erkele Rafael Warnock. Pretty sure he knows I call him
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that I was. I saw him about a year ago. He did not
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seemed too happy to see me, and I thought, well, why would
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you you know, it's not personal, it's just a show man anyway.
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So here's what I'd like to talk about relating to Reverend Erkele and and others,
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and a few things I'd like to say with Republicans concerning all of this
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hoopla, and it is a lot of hoopla. I do understand that Easter.
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You know, we we put a lot of emphasis on Christmas. When
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it comes to Christian holidays, we put a lot of emphasis on Easter is
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really our super Bowl This is the big one. This is a really big
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one. I mean, this is the big one, I think, right,
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I mean it should be. I know for many Christmas has a lot
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of extra special meetings and things that go with it, and it concerns family,
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and it concerns tradition, but it specifically when it comes to the Christian
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faith, Easter is the big one. I mean it's the big one.
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Christmas is the He's here, he has arrived. We celebrate that, and
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then you know, Easter is the work is done. We have a lot
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to celebrate. Well, you can celebrate both of those things, but you
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know, He's arrived and he has now done what he came to do,
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which is everything in the Christian walk. It's everything. So I'm not dismissing
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any of that. I need you to know up front where I'm coming from.
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I think my show Friday it laid a lot of that out for you.
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So I don't want anyone to accuse me of not understanding the importance of
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Easter, Okay, because it's the big one. This is the big one.
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I know for some it's not. They'd rather look at one of the
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other holidays. But to me, this is the big one. Now,
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a couple of observations. All right, so, and let's quickly just run
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through this. So, on Easter on the thirty first, while Christians around
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the world are celebrating Easter, okay, even some non Christians celebrate Easter for
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a number of different reasons. There are people who don't attend church any other
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day of the year, but Easter. There are some people who get caught
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up in the other Eastern traditions. There are Easter traditions similar to Christmas traditions,
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and there are people who participate in those. So people Christians, some
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not necessarily practicing Christians, but people who were kind of there. They're celebrating.
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And the White House was observing and honoring the transgender folks in around the
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world. I don't know, I don't know if this is this observance is
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well, I guess it's international, so this is not just for the US.
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So, and this was an anniversary, and this is worth's worth pointing
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out about this. This is the fifteenth anniversary of Transgender Day of Visibility.
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So the fact that it happened to happen on Easter this year is I think
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really unfortunate for a feurys Okay, first of all, for the purposes of
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the transgender community, they can say, oh, it's so offensive that Republicans
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got upset about this and called out Joe Biden, the President, for acknowledging
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it on Easter. I think it's there are a lot of people who had
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no idea that there was a such thing as a transgender Day of Visibility.
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Okay, so that's the first thing that you could count that as a plus.
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It's one of those no publicity is bad publicity scenarios. I don't know
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why the thirty first was chosen as the day for it. But this again
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fifteen years, so this goes back to two thousand and nine, and I
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guess yeah, so for fifteen years it's been it acknowledges transgender people and celebrates
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their contributions to society. I assume this acknowledges their contributions to society, if,
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of course they're not conservative anyway, I don't know that anybody is looking
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at Caitlyn Jenner on March thirty first and going, hey, nice job.
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I don't know that that's happening, because we know that that's not really the
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way all this works. So basically, the event created by a person named
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Rachel Crandall Crocker, and see I'm being fair on these I don't know the
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pronouns of this person. So that's why I said this person and basically saying,
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there hasn't been a real acknowledgment for the LGBTQ plus community. And I
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know that those letters meant not to be the current ones. I think there's
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a two in there now, I don't know. Am I being you know?
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It's not me being a smart alec. This is me saying I don't
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know. I saw the other day there was a two in there, and
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I don't know what the two's for. I guess I could educate myself maybe
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by the next show that this comes up again, maybe by the sixteenth anniversary.
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But apparently Rachel Crandall Crocker said, well, we have a remembrance day,
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but we don't have an acknowledgment day. We don't have this day of
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visibility. So they decided to start the the ito itd Ov. It's always
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about letters, isn't it. Okay, so this is fifteen years of it.
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So the first thing that everybody needs to realize, all right, big
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picture wise, when it concerns the Republican outrage is this wasn't like we're going
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to do this instead of Easter. The White House still did Easter. I
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don't know that it did Easter the way it normally does. Did we get
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the image of the President being told not to talk to people about certain topics
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by the Easter bunny, because that's my favorite Easter memory from the White House
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of all time. I don't know. I know that the White House did
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still acknowledge Easter. I'm sure it didn't acknowledge it the way that conservatives and
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Republicans do, but in some way our president did acknowledge Easter. I assume
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I didn't tune in for it at other things I was doing. But also
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was the acknowledgment the pandering, if you will, from the White House for
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thee And I'm not saying it's not a valid thing for people to do.
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You do you, but in politics it's a lot of pandering. Conservatives having
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outrage about this was also pandering. There was a lot of pandering here.
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I don't appreciate the fact that Republicans are the only ones accused of pandering.
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I also think that many Republicans, many Christian Republicans, should step back and
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say they did kind of blow this out of proportion. I get it.
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I understand why you're upset because of the day that it happened. But this
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wasn't necessarily planned. We're going to do this first time ever on Easter.
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Okay, So but let's not pretend that this whole activity for the purposes of
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doing it from the White House also pandering. Let's acknowledge that as well.
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Okay, it's all pandering, it really is on both sides. Now here's
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the next thing we got to talk about, because I'm going to come back
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to something with this whole event, because I want to talk about Reverend Erkele.
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Here in George our senator who this was him on CNN, and he's
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talking about the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and basically he says
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that the speaker was using Christianity as a weapon to attack the president. Okay,
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now, listen to some of the leaps that we have here from Reverend
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Erkele. Well, apparently the speaker finds trans people abhorrent, and so that's
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not what he said at all. Okay, he said that this having this
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on Easter was abhorrent. He didn't call the people. But anyway, I
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think he ought to think about that. The fact of the matter is,
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as you said, March thirty first has been a day to lift up transgender
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people who endure violence and bigotry. Easter the date changes every single day.
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But this is just one more instance of folks who do not know how to
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lead us, trying to divide us. And this is the opposite of the
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Christian faith. Jeezus, Okay, So Republicans trying to divide, which is
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also comical anyway, it's a center to marginalize. He scented the poor.
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And in a moment like this, we need voices, particularly voices of faith,
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who would use our faith not as a weapon to beat other people down,
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but as a bridge to bring all of us together. That is what
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Martin Luther King Junior did. I'm honored to preach from that pope at every
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single day. It is a faith that GUIDs me in my work as a
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United States Senator, trying to cap the cost of insulin so folks can afford
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it, trying to make sure first time homeowners can buy a home, and
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that our children are not so washed in student debt that they have a mortgage
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before they have a mortgage. What does that have to do with either Easter
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or Trendsgender Awareness Day? He just drops in a little political speech right there
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in the middle of it. He just throws that in there. What does
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that have to do. He's accusing Republicans of politicizing it, and then he
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politicizes it also he said a moment like this, and I resisted the urge
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to yell out Kelly Clarkson because that's who sang that song. But anyway,
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so all right, so there's Reverend Rkele politicizing something while accusing other people of
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being horrible and politicizing something. Couple of observations, and I'm just going to
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make a couple of quick points here so we know historically, you follow the
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story of how the Winter Solstice holiday, the Pagan holiday, ultimately the Christmas
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holiday, became something to bust that up. People were already celebrating and having
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revelry and things at that time of year anyway, so making it the Christian
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holiday of Christmas, celebrating the birth of Jesus at that time of year on
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a date that no everybody knows exactly the date, right, nobody knows.
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So you put Christmas around that time. You put it on the twenty fifth,
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and it completely takes away any significance anything special, this solstice holiday,
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this pagan idea, and there were a lot of things that were happening this
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time of year year celebrating what they're calling it the beginning of winter or you
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know, as you know you're finishing up with all your crops. They're killing
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animals, they're burying animals that they'll fall out in the spring, and you
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know, eat pigs and things in the spring, one of the reasons we
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eat ham at Easter. It's all like, all part of all of that.
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But it was an orchestrated people are out celebrating and it was pretty wild
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in many parts of the world. I mean crazy, wild, naked revelry
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happening. And they said, let's make this. Let's let's let's kind of
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corral all that in, let's give it some extra meaning. Let's make this
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about more than just a wild celebration. We're going to celebrate something, and
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we're going to celebrate something important and that happened, and we take now that
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time of year to reflect on again the beginning. He's He's here, and
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then we like I said now, and then we get to Easter and we
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say the work is done and it's not. It's very oversimplified. I mean,
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you think about the sacrifice, the work that was done. But anyway,
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that was Friday show. Uh so, so think about that for just
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a minute. Okay, the the uh Like Indiana Jones, he's trying to
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get he's trying to get the the the relic. But he's got to he's
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got to keep the bag of sand. He's got to put it on there
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as he lifts it off so it doesn't activate the booby trap. That's kind
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of what happened. You know, you're trying to take the holiday and it's
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just debauchery and drunkenness. And let's let's turn it into something else. Let's
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give it a little bit, let's give it a lot more, Let's give
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it a positive connotation. Let's do And it has been that way for a
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really long time. Why was March thirty first chosen for Transgender Day of Visibility.
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I'm not I don't know if this was intentional, but I do kind
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of wonder now if this is going to become, you know, a thing.
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Could this become a thing? Could this become the swapping out of the
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relic, swapping out of the treasure with the bag of sand. I mean,
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why was that particular day chosen? Why was it March thirty first?
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And again Reverend Rkle said it. Everybody should know it. We don't celebrate
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Easter the same day every year, so you can't really if you're going to
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have it on one particular day. It's not going to be on Easter every
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year, not on that one day. That's not the way it works.
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But if they decided we could move it around, we could base it on
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the full moons after the vernal equinox and have it just happened to land on
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Easter every year. I get it. I understand why people were upset on
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the surface when you learn a little bit more and you realize this is not
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This is a fifteen year event that's been going on. I don't think they
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were trying to do the switcher route. Doesn't mean that they won't now,
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doesn't mean that it might not happen. But my point is for people to
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be so outraged and upset about it, take a minute and realize it's been
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going on for fifteen years. I didn't know this. I'd heard of it.
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I didn't realize this was the fifteen year anniversary of it. So now
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I look at it and I say, well, this is fifteen years of
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them doing it. This year it happened to come on Easter. It's going
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to happen again on Easter at some point. If it happens again on Easter
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an election year, we're gonna hear the same outrage. Oh my gosh,
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I can't believe they did it, and we're gonna hear politicians like Reverend Orkles
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say, well, they're politicizing it. Apparently they find them apparent. Apparently
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they don't understand. I'm trying now, people get diabetes medications, insulin,
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What does that have to do with transgender people? What does that have to
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do with Easter? You're a minister man. I would have hung out with
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him at Disney World. I would have. He just didn't want to hang
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out with me. He didn't want anything to do with me for some reason.
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I don't know if it has to do with the Erkkele thing. I
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don't know what it has to do with but you know, I would have
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hung out with him at Disney World one, and I'm open minded. We
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could have hung out. Maybe we could have, you know, spent some
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time together and realized that we're just people and we're not We're not here.
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Everything doesn't have to be about politics. You know, if I call him
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Reverend Irkle here, I wasn't gonna call him that in Disney. That wasn't
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gonna happen. Uh. But no, this may happen again. Brace yourselves
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in the future. I haven't looked to see when Easter is on the thirty
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first of March again, but it's going to happen again at some point.
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