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CFP Committe Got It Right And Georgia and FSU Got Hosed · 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. Monday morning, fourth day
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of December. I'm West Thanks for joining me, kicking off another week together
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and following up another weekend of Nutcracker Ballet rehearsals for me. Get ready,
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the show's coming up quickly. We're less than two weeks away. Tech Week
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is next week for us. Will be actually in the River Center, so
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get ready. I'm back in the role of Mother Ginger. If you haven't
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got your tickets yet, you can get them through the River Center's website or
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at the River Center box office. If you actually go in, you save
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a little bit of money, I think. But go to Thecolumbus Ballet dot
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org follow the links to get tickets to the Nutcracker shows. If you have
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someone in your life, I'm not going to assume anything on gender, could
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be a boy or a girl. I think there's a lot of girls that
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have already signed up. But if you got a child in your life that
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would enjoy participating in the Mother Ginger tea party event that I'll be hosting,
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check that out as well. All the details there on the website. I'll
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be in character as the Mother Ginger, fully in character. So I'm looking
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forward to hanging out for that event and then getting ready for the And that's
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on Saturday the sixteenth. There's a matinee show on Sunday the seventeenth, but
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the tea party is at lunchtime on the sixteenth. So really excited about my
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fifth time in the role of Mother Ginger. But go to Thecolumbus Ballet dot
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org and don't get your tickets from a third party site and pay extra,
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no reason for that. You can get your tickets through the River Center and
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follow those links. All right, let's get into a couple things I didn't
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Friday Morning show. I did the strange and bizarre news segments, so I
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didn't really talk about the debate between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom. I'll get
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to that in just a minute. There's a couple of other things I want
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to talk about. I don't get into a lot of specific sports related things
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here on the show often, I mean when it ties into I guess the
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general flow of things in politics. We certainly talked about the the MLB moving
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the All Star Game out of Georgia as a as a complaint. And then
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all the politicians who moved the All Star Game out of Georgia because of you
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know, election changes in election laws that we're going to make things fair and
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square. And then all of those politicians, of course, or many of
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them were at the World Series when the Braves were there. So you talk
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about it when it's in. We've talked about out, you know, women's
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soccer, We've talked about the NFL. We've addressed a number of things.
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I don't normally talk about sports from a just specific sports context, but I
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do think there's a couple of things that this is in the ether, and
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it's in the pop culture today. And I know that there are fans of
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a couple of colleges that are disappointed. I know I've got friends that are
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Georgia fans. I think some of them understand why they didn't make it into
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the final four in the College Football Playoff. This is the final year of
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the four teams. They go to twelve next year. I think you can
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expect to see Alabama and Georgia in there probably every year once we get into
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this twelve team setup. And I understand why Georgia fans are disappointed. I
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understand why they are let down by the outcome of it. The ones that
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understand it's just four teams. That's all that they can put in there,
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and that's the reality of having to decide. I've got friends that are diehard
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Florida State fans. They're also very disappointed and upset, and I understand that
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as well. There's a couple of things that I think should be said.
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First of all, Alabama and Georgia, it was an incredible game. Okay,
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full disclosure, multi generational family of Bama fans here. My grandfather grew
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up in the Tuscaloosa area. That is something that is it's generational, Okay,
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So just a heads up on that. I'm just fulling, full disclosure.
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So but at the same time, there's a couple of things that can
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coexist. It used to be much easier to coexist. I don't know when
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it got so nasty, but well, I know when. I don't know
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why it has to be so nasty. But Bama and Georgia fans typically could
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get along just fine. There's the mutual hatred of Auburn that's there. There's
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a mutual hatred of a futue Florida, you know, Tennessee. There's a
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few schools. It's just easy to say, hey, we don't like them
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either, and there was that common ground that would come there. And not
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having to play, you know, every season made a big difference in it.
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And then you get to a point where they become rivalries because they're both
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really good and they both or you know, play each other in the SEC
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championship game or National championship game. So all that comes out and it ties
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into there's the Kirby Smart connection. I think most Bama fans are happy for
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Kirby Smart. I think that they're excited that he's doing well at Georgia in
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general. But there is the rivalry there, the undercurrent of it. But
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I try not to get involved in that. That's not I have very dear
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friends that are that are Georgia fans or Georgia graduates. So that's just I'm
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speaking from that perspective, and I just want to make that clear. It
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was a heck of a game. It always is when the two schools play
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play each other. It's always, at least lately it has been. And
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this is, you know, the outcome everybody I think thought was going to
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be close. I don't know many that thought it was going to be a
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blowout one way or the other, but expecting it to be a good game.
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Bama is playing their best football right now. Georgia has been consistent throughout
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the season. There's no way anyone truly believes that those aren't the two best
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teams in college football. There's probably some Michigan fans that believe that not to
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be the case, but I think most would say, from an unbiased standpoint,
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those were the two best teams in college football playing it's disappointing that Georgia
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couldn't get in. Just being realistic, I think I would say Georgia is
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probably or maybe you make a strong case for at the very least, I
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would probably say Georgia is the best team in the country and they didn't get
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in the final four. They just didn't get in. I think Georgia and
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Bama played ten times. I think Georgia maybe win six, Bama wins four
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this weekend. Past weekend, it was one of the four for Bama.
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That's just kind of how I look at it. It's disappointing, and I
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understand. I don't think in a four team playoff. It's realistic to expect
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them in considering they were going to put Washington in. That was going to
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happen when they won, they were going to get Texas in. So in
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Michigan obviously was a lot just being undefeated and they weren't playing anybody tough in
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They're in their conference championship. So the question was Florida State and Georgia,
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and I just think with those teams that were definitely going to be in there,
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there's only one spot left and it's hard not to put the SEC champion
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there, especially when it is Bama who's just beaten Georgia by a close margin.
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And but you do feel for the kids on those teams. Got to
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be disappointed. They wanted a chance to Georgia wanted a chance to play for
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the three peete. Florida State felt like we did everything that was asked of
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us. We beat all the teams that were in front of us. We
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won the games that we were asked to play, and that is tough.
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But I don't see Florida State without their starting quarterback being able to even contend
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with Michigan. It would have been ugly. It would have been ugly.
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So it is going to be a more competitive I think one in four seed.
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I think Texas is quite a bit better than Washington. I don't know.
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It's got to play out and we'll see what happens. But I understand,
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I get the disappointment, and there's a couple of things that can be
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true. It can be true that they did the right thing, that these
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were the right four teams. That can be true while also saying that it
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absolutely stinks that Georgia and Florida State couldn't also be in the four. Both
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of those things are true. At the same time, it does stink.
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It is disappointing. I know that there are some who truly believe Georgia or
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Florida State should have been in. I don't know how you make the case
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that they should be in ahead of Alabama, But maybe you make the case
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that, I don't know, maybe over Texas, I don't know, or
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Washington. Is Georgia a better team than Washington? Yeah, I think Georgia
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is a better team than Michigan, And like I said, I think they're
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a better team than Alabama. I don't know how you put them in ahead
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of Alabama, But overall, I think this is the only decision that they
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could make, and I know that they're ready to be done with this,
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They're ready to move on, and they're ready to get to this twelve team
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thing that's coming up. So all right, that's that I've said what I
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had to say, and I have no input in any of this. I
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don't get to make any decisions on any of it. I just I have
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an opinion that is my opinion, and I think ultimately they got the right
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for in there. I your heart breaks for the players and coaches involved Florida
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State, Georgia. I get it. It stinks for them, but I
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don't know what else they could have done. If I were there picking.
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Those are the four teams that I would have picked. If you're asking me
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who the four best teams are, I still wouldn't have put Florida State in
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there, but I would have found a way to get Georgia in there,
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and sadly it might have been in place of an undefeated Washington team. But
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I just I think they ultimately made the pick of teams that they had to
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pick. So all right, let's talk a little bit about the debate,
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because you know this was billed as just red state versus Blue state. This
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happened, of course, on Thursday night. I don't think it's a big
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shock that, you know, depending on which party you tend to vote for,
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that's who you felt like won this debate. It was interesting hearing these
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two guys make a few valid points. DeSantis accusing Newsom of running a shadow
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campaign that he's secretly trying to get in. I don't think that's a secret.
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I mean it is in that Newsom says, and we talked about this
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last week. He says that he's not going to be the nominee, he
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wouldn't accept the nominee, that that's not going to be the case, and
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that he hates liars. He said that after the last Republican debate, and
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I just think or maybe it was two debates ago, but he said that.
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And I do think that if they came to him at some point and
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asked him to be the nominee, I don't believe that he would not accept
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it. I just don't. And I think that they would have to wait
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until the last possible minute to do that because there's not going to be a
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primary. There's going to be no primary voting. I think for any of
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the Officially, there's not going to be They're not going to primary Joe Biden,
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and I think that if they wait until the last minute and they decide
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that Biden can't be the candidate, or that they've managed to get Trump out
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of the way, it would be that they would set a scenario up where
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they could just try to hand it to Newsom. Have it already preordained,
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if you will, and I have told you that it wouldn't surprise me at
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all if that ends up happening. But I think Trump has to be out
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of the way. I don't think they believe Newsom can beat Trump. I
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think they believe Biden can beat Trump, and that's it. So DeSantis,
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I thought this was probably really good for him. I think there's a lot
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of talk about he needs to work on his smile. You know, he
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does that smile thing. He was mainly looking at the camera at the audience
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at home, not really addressing Newsom. I think that's probably because he's in
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this mode of debating against multiple candidates versus just going head to head with one
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person. Newsom had a great line about he nor DeSantis would be the nominee
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their party's nominee in twenty twenty four for president. That was a great line.
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We'll see. I mean, if what I've been trying to say for
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a while is the case, they both could end up being the nominee.
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But it just needs a lot of things to go their way. It's like
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Alabama getting into the playoff. A lot of things had to go their way,
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and even some of the things that you thought had to go their way
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didn't have to go their way in the end, like the Florida State game.
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Although that was an ugly game. It was ugly. I watched it
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because I was trying to see, Hey, maybe Louisville or Louisville, however
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you supposed to say Cincinnata and Louisville, those cities that you have to say
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it just right, or somebody that doesn't live there is going to care.
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But it was just an ugly game, and it still broke for Alabama.
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So maybe that could be the case for these two. Maybe that could be
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the case. DeSantis, though this line about Dysanta, I mean about Newsom's
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father in law. Dysantis absolutely killed it with that line, and I'm assuming
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that that story is accurate when he basically just laid it out there that that
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Dysantis met someone who left California to come to Florida because they didn't like the
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way things were in California. And then by the way, I'm Gavin Newsom's
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father in law. That was a big zinc. That was a big zinc
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and another sign I think that indicates. I mean, and maybe it's just
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me, but when you have a candidate that stands up or not a candidate,
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a debate participant who stands up in Cisco, see, I just did
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it, and I said I was talking about this, I think Thursday last
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week, about people trying to imply that Newsom was some kind of a candidate
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and he's not, supposedly. But when you start saying stuff like you're a
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bully to DeSantis, I mean, that was his defense, is that you're
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a bully. You're a bully. That's not that's not winning a debate,
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that's not going to get the job done, that's not what that is.
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To just call him a bully and that supposedly is going to be the thing
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that wins you some kind of points. Another thing I want to just address.
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And I didn't see this. I heard about it after the fact,
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and I had to go back and watch the clip of it that I found
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online. But on an episode of Gutfeld on Fox News, Greg Guttfeld took
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a shot at Fox News and it was in the subject he was talking about
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Elon Musk. Now, this Elon Musk thing, and I may do a
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longer a segment on this later in the week, but Elon Musk. I
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loved his comments about advertisers leaving X and Musk basically and he was asked,
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you know how he feels about it, or you know, what's he going
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to do? You know, how does he feel about the advertisers leaving?
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And he basically told him that you can't blackmail this is Musk talking. You
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can't blackmail him with advertising dollars. And he basically said they can go f
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themselves, and you know, he repeated it, and he wanted to stress
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he's not concerned about money from Disney or any of these companies that have decided
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that they're not going to advertise with X anymore, because he's like, really,
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you think you're going to blackmail me with money? And basically Greg Gutfeld
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said it was, you know, brilliant, and he called him cowardly.
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Advertisers and that they caved because of activists, progressive activists, And he says
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that he understands that that's the case with advertisers, that they will cave if
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they start getting pressure. Gutfeld's line, I'm want to read this. He
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says, the fact is Musk maybe the last man standing between real freedom of
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speech and the suffocating block of the censorship industrial complex, which is made up
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of government, media and tech forces. Which seemed like he was taking a
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little shot there at Fox News, but then he lands this bomb. He
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says he realizes advertisers have no spine and can be easily cowed by special interest
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groups in cahoots with political allies. If you don't believe me, I have
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two words for you, Tucker Carlson, which of course is a shot at
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you know, Fox News firing Tucker Carlson months ago, several months ago.
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So this is Gottfeld sticking up for Elon Musk. He's stucking up, sticking
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up for Tucker Carlson. It was audibly a reaction from the crowd there that
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just you know, went silent almost and the other people on his panel there
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on this show got quiet. So I mean, yeah, that's some stones
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Gutfeld. I don't know if this is a daring Fox News to get rid
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of him. This is certainly on brand for Greg Guttfeld. Sounds like he's
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just sticking with his brand and sticking with who he is. So for that,
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I say good for him. But does that mean we could potentially see
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him? You know, Tucker Carlson has now ended up with his home,
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the Tucker on X Show, So I don't know if somebody should go ahead
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and register Gutfeld on X. I don't know. I don't know if this
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should just as a preemptive thing. Maybe he's already done that. I don't
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know, Maybe they're thinking ahead, but gutsy definitely gutsy, definitely a gutsy
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thing to do on the show. And you know, and he in his
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reaction to the audience's reaction was for him to just say wow. So Elon
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right, you know Rapunzel, Well, apparently there's a real version of Rapunzel
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who lives in India. Forty six year old woman named Smittaseravastava something like that,
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who hasn't had a hair cutting over thirty years. She's just up the
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Guinness World Record for longest hair on a living person. Her hair recently measured
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at seven feet nine inches long. Records should be safe for a long time.
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She has no plan to cut her hair anytime soon. She says,
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I want my hair to grow more and see how long I can manage it.
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If you've seen me in the role of Mother Ginger in The Nutcracker,
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I still walk at seven feet six inches tall, So if my hair was
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as long as hers, it would be you know, three inches on the
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ground of it. Just for a perspective. If you haven't seen me on
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the stilts, you can just shack. Shack would have seven inches of hair
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on the ground if that was his hair. So holidays often mean people drink
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more. A survey found the average American consumes twice the number of alcohol drinks
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over the holidays in any other time of year. Seventy percent said they're more
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likely to socialize over the holidays. The socializing results in three hungover mornings per
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week during the height of the holiday season, with the average adult calling in
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sick twice due to partying too hard the night before seventy percent of those surveys
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said hangovers make them less productive at work, and one third said those rough
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mornings actually dampened their holiday spirit. So you drink too much to celebrate the
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holidays and then it brings you down. See that's not good. Do you
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think you could take over the controls of an airplane and land it in case
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of an emergency? Surprisingly, it seems that some people. I don't know
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how surprising that is really. A new survey found that one third of adults
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think that they could land a plane safely with the help of air traffic control.
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That number jumps to fifty percent when it comes to mail respondents. Let
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me just say this. I've got a friend who's a pilot, and he
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tells me there's really like a lot that the plane automatically does by itself.
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I'm assuming he's telling me the truth, but he says, there's a lot
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that the plane even landing itself, there's not a whole lot that you have
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to physically do. Now, if all the controls go out, all the
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computers go out, and you're having to manually land the plane, that's where
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I know it would be really hard. But I kind of think just based
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on my friend who I believe, who I trust, that it is possible
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to with the help of somebody at air traffic Control, get the plane down.
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I realize I'm in that fifty percent of men who think that I could
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do it. I just I think it's not. I think, based on
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what he tells me, the plane will do a lot of the work all
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by itself. So there you go. Uh when did you feel like you
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had become a real life, actual adult. For some, the answer never,
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But according to a new survey, twenty five percent said they didn't feel
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like an adult until they were in their late twenties. Six percent said it
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took them until their mid thirties before they began to feel like adults. I'd
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be interested to know where like having children comes into play in this, or
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with maybe a career rather than just a job, might play into the factory.
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I would think those would be things that could come. Or maybe the
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first time you just got out of bed and stretched and you, you know,
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hurt your neck from stretching, because that comes. I think that comes.
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I was truly an adult by the time that that started. But it's
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definitely a possibility. Have you heard of the new fitness trend called rucking.
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It's kind of simple walking with a weighted backpack. Fitness experts or touting the
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benefits because it combines cardio with strength training in one workout routine. They say
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carrying extra eight engage various muscle groups, enhancing both strength and endurance. And
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they say that rucking it can increase the intensity of a walking workout, gives
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you a higher calorie burn compared to just normal walking, and added weight gives
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you more energy, and basically it helps maintain a healthy body composition. So
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rucking give it a shot. I've seen people do it all right. Finally,
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if you've ever gotten a cookie when you got a sandwich at Subway and
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you think about it, they just it's like a regular cookie. But they're
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not big cookies at all. It's not like you go some places they get
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those big cookies. Well, apparently Subway at some point, I guess in
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twenty twenty two had done a I guess only in Miami, they did an
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extra long cookie that they had introduced well apparently for the month of December,
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and I guess beginning today you can get the extra long cookie. It's a
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foot long chocolate chip cookie that's been added to the menu as of today,
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so throughout the one Today is I guess National Cookie Day. So if you
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want to get a foot long cookie at Subway, it's available now, So
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that would be I guess the danger there. Sometimes your a foot long sandwich
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at Subway. If you measure it, it's like eleven inches. Is the
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cookie going to be an actual twelve inches or is it going to be eleven
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inches? At least I've seen those people say, look, it's not really
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a foot long. I'm not attesting to it. I'm not accusing them of
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giving you an eleven inch sandwich. I'm just asking the question. If it's
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eleven inches, how long is the cookie going to be? Is it going
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to also be eleven inches? Or you're gonna be able to use it as
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a ruler and say is this really a foot long? That'll do it for
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