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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day and you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, a
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final day of April thirtieth. I'm West thanks for joining me. Getting ready
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to kick off the month of May tomorrow. How about that we are zipping
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on through twenty twenty four, just like that, Just like that. I
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was just amazed we were starting April and that seems like that was a couple
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of days ago. But here we are crawling our way towards election day.
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It's not crawling, it's going fast. It's a fast crawl if it's a
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crawl. And I want to follow up a little bit on what I started
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to kind of talk about yesterday. This may be a theme through the whole
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week, but this whole notion of fairness and what we see as fair in
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our society and what we no longer see is fair because I think a lot
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of people are dying for the opportunity to get some sense of something that feels
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like some sort of equality. And equality means different things to different people,
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and that is where the challenge ultimately lies in trying to find fairness and equality
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for people in this country. I talked about Russell Brand yesterday and over the
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weekend he got baptized. I assume that that ended up happening. I didn't
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see anything to follow up on it later. I don't follow him on social
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media, although if he continues this path, which I hope he does,
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I may decide to start doing that. I would find it very interesting.
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He is very I think he used to be a Buddhist, and he's very
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had a very I don't used to be able to say, you know,
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like a hippie quality to him. I don't even know if that's PC anymore.
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I don't know what you're allowed to say concerning that. I did hear
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a basketball commentator not too long ago use the word gyp He said something about
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boy, that's a real gipy, and the other commentators on the show were
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correcting him quickly because you're not supposed to say that, because that's a slur
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on gypsies, and can't have that, can't do anything that might be offensive
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to Gypsies. Don't want that. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants anyone to
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feel offended or hurt. But I don't know how many people in the Gypsy
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community are shaking their fist, going ah. I don't know how many protests
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are breaking out at Uga over the treatment of gypsies, but doesn't have to
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be a protest, I guess to hurt someone's feelings, but speaking of people
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getting their feelings hurt, and I want to get back to this fairness thing.
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But I just want to quickly touch on this. Christy Gnomes still South
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Dakota governor, who has long been rumored to be on the short list of
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possible picks for vice president for Trump in his campaign. Now this is,
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of course, all of this story comes out this week beginning of this week
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from over the weekend. I guess it's kind of been a little bit of
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a slow rumination and then all of a sudden it blew up and it's everywhere
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after just a couple of days. But she has released a book and she
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it's called No Going Back. I guess the name of the book. I
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said, released it. It's coming out soon? Is it today? It's
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coming out, It's coming out very soon, if not today, and she
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no, May seventh, that's when it's coming out. And they say that
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the book is this is the publicity. This book is packed with surprising stories
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and practical lessons and a number of the Guardian I guess was one of the
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first outlets to get their hands on the book and come in and talk about
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this particular story. And you probably heard about it already because it's become a
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big deal. Apparently the governor of South Dakota when at some point she had
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a puppy twenty years ago, I guess that's what it was, according to
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her, and she puts in the basically she's got this story, this anecdote
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from her life on the farm, and she talks about how she had a
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puppy and the puppy had aggressive behavior towards people and was biting them, attacked
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to neighbors, chickens, and what you do on the farm. If you
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watch Little House on the Prairie, you know there's times where you have to
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do things that you don't want to think about doing. Nobody wants to think
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about it. And she said that she had to put down this very young
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dog because of its aggressive behavior. It was ultimately that's what was decided,
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and that's what people have been doing hundreds of years with aggressive animals. No
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one wants to think about it. No one wants to talk about it.
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I got a couple of thoughts on this story being in the book. What
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is interesting is that people are very upset at this notion of her twenty years
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ago making this decision to put down a dog that was aggressive. Now today,
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in twenty twenty four, if your dog attacks another dog or a person
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in your neighborhood, that your dog can be put down like this is all
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part of just the way this all works. When an animal shows overly aggressive
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behavior, they can put the dog. Now, we hear stories about this
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happening. I think who was the It just happened to some celebrity. I'm
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blanking on which one it was. I just thought of this. There was
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a celebrity who had their dog. A package delivery person was making a delivery
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to her home, and the package delivery person made a decision to kill the
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dog, and they decided not Angie Harmon, That's who it was. Angie
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Harmon, who I guess lives in Charlotte. Is that where she is her
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dog Oliver, And they ultimately decided not to file charges. If you're trying
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to think of Angie Harmon Law and Order, one of the Law and Order
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series she was on and she her dog killed. They didn't press charges because
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they said he was defending himself because the dog. According to the package delivery
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person, the dog got aggressive and that's what happened. This isn't something new.
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By the way, did you ever watch Old Yeller? Did you watch
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Kujo? I mean, this isn't something new. This is something that is
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part of life. I get it. No one wants to think about it,
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no one wants to process it. The reality here is if this wasn't
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someone on the short list to possibly be a VP pick for Donald Trump,
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I don't know that anybody's talking about this. If she didn't show up at
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a lot of appearances wearing the red you know, make America Great Again hat.
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I don't know that this is even news. We certainly know that if
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she was a Democrat, this wouldn't be talked about. No one would be
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discussing this. There's a there. We have this double standard. Donald Trump
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does this gesture about a reporter that he doesn't like who has a disability,
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and everybody goes, can you believe he's making fun of that guy? On
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TV? He would make fun of the handicapped. Do you remember when President
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Barack Obama went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and said he doesn't use
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the bowling or he's bold, I guess in the White House, but he's
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not good at it when he bowls. It's like the Special Olympics. That
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was Barack Obama making fun of a lot of handicapped people. I'm not justifying
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any of it. I just know we have a double standard. One president
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making fun of one disabled person, Barack Obama making fun of a whole bunch
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of disabled people. A generalized insult and nothing nothing. Absolutely, do you
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remember any grief. Most people don't even know that he did it. Most
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people are completely oblivious to it. Now, my question for Christy Naolm is,
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why in the hell did you put this in a book? What is
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the purpose in this story. I mean, you're trying to show, hey,
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I'll roll up my sleeves and I'll do the hard thing that has to
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be done. This isn't one of those things that people want to think about.
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Nobody wants to think about you killing your dog twenty years ago, a
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young dog at that. I get it. I'll defend the fact that you
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did it. If that was the decision that you made based on the aggressive
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behavior I don't have anything to go by other than your version of the story.
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Why would you put it in a book right now? This is not
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good timing for this. I get it. You think it's part of your
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story, and it is. And but maybe she's not really on the short
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list. Everybody says she is. Maybe she's not. Maybe this is it's
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not about eventual political aspirations. But she'll always be known for this. This
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is gonna be the thing they label you with something and then you're stuck with
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it. Can't shake it, You're never gonna shake it. That's what they're
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gonna talk about this dog. They well, I say, they're never gonna
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shake it. They'll only shake it if you become a full fledged rhino that
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votes with Democrats, and then you can get away with anything involving your dog,
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just ask Mitt Romney. So I shouldn't say never. There's a certain
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list of circumstances. But I don't see Christy Noan being someone who's gonna suddenly
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become a Rhino that's going to a side with Democrats and try to kick Donald
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Trump out office. I don't see that ever happening. Why what is the
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purpose? But again back to my original point and from yesterday. I think
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we're at a time where people want some sense of fairness and this isn't fair
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to go after her this way, because we know the justice system is now
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actively involved in this political process, interfering in this election with their prosecution of
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Trump. We know that even many of my friends who were staunch Democrats will
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say, yeah, and I don't want him to be president again. So
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I'm glad that they're doing it, which I don't understand that, but I
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do have some friends that are Democrats that are like, this is wrong.
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It scares me. It's wrong. I know that it's wrong, and I
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wish that there was something I could do about it other than vote for Donald
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Trump because I don't like him, but I know it's wrong. That's to
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me, the most reasonable side to be on. If you're a Democrat and
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all this. I don't get the people who defend it, because if this
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was the other way, which it never would be, it would be I
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would be very upset. I would be very upset if this were flipped and
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this was happening to a Democrat. This would be horrible, and it is
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horrible that it's happening. But here's The other part of this the fact that
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you now have also our press all in against Trump, happy to carry the
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water, happy to run these stories, happy to do this attack that they're
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continuing to do and as long as they're there to back it up. And
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then you've got a number of judges with a lot of money that have come
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from I don't know, certain people, certain people that have backed a lot
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of judges and helped them get into place, certain like Hungarian people. I
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know, we're not supposed to say his name. I don't talk about him
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a lot on this show. I'll just say this, he happens to also
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be Jewish. And if you ever mention his name or say anything bad about
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him, then you're called anti Semitic, which is not what's happening on all
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these college campuses where they're yelling to, you know, get rid of the
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Jews, kill the Jews, destroy Israel. Israel bad, Jews bad.
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But if you talk about a certain Hungarian guy that's funneling money into the US
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and trying to shape elections, you know, a guy from Hungary, I
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should say, you know, it's not that he's anyway. We just want
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something that seems fair and it doesn't seem fair, even if it's not fair.
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At times, we would settle for just the appearance of fairness. But
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we're not even getting the appearance of it, not at all. I'm not
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saying that the appearance of fairness is okay. That's not what I'm saying at
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all. I would love it to actually be fair. That would be ideal,
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actual fairness, actual equality, not equity equality. I'd like to see
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some semblance of things being fair. I'd like to know that when a police
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officer gets killed, there's the same amount of sadness about a citizen killing a
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police officer that you get when a citizen is killed by a police officer.
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Both of these things are horrible. They're both horrible. Why is one worse
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than the other. They're both horrible. When someone gets killed, it should
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be treated that way. And how about this, Let's just go back to
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Christinome for a minute. The same party, the same people that are outraged
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over the killing of a dog who was aggressive towards animals, and people have
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no problems with terminating a human life before it gets chance to breathe in the
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air. I mean, how dare you ca kill a dog that's aggressive?
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And kills chickens and bites people. But we decided we didn't want this baby,
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so it's not a baby. If we had decided we wanted the baby,
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then it's alive. That doesn't make any sense, doesn't make any sense
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at all. Nothing about it makes any sense. If you want to keep
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the baby, it's alive. It's a baby, right. If you don't
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want the baby, it's not alive. Where is the where's the common sense?
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We don't have it. We don't have it about most things. It
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doesn't make any sense. So much of what we went through with COVID still
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doesn't make any sense. And there's some people who still defend it. Some
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people have finally come round on Yeah, that was nuts. That was a
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big mistake, other than you know, might have had some impact on the
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way that they wanted the election to turn out, because that's what it was
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about. At its core, that's what it was about. Was it a
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horrible virus? Yes? Did it take lives? Absolutely it did. Was
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it weaponized against Donald Trump? Yes, if they're willing to do it with
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our justice system right now, if they're willing to do and where the Trump
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is on trial for something in New York that Hillary Clinton did. Hillary Clinton
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got a small fine. Move on Trump. Let's figure out a way to
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turn it into a felony because we want everybody to know that he's a convicted
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felon. That's what we want, and it's nuts. Where's the fairness?
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Why can't we get some sense that everything's being treated fairly just given us the
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impression we're looking for. We're looking for an ability to say someone commits a
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crime that's an actual crime, they should be punished and go to jail for.
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That's what we're hoping for. That's what we're dying for. We're looking
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for something and we're not getting that we're getting. Certain people should be prosecuted,
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Certain people should not Certain people should be allowed in the country. Certain
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people should have to go through an actual process to do it. Certain people
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should come into the country, put out their hand and be given everything that
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they want. Certain people, you come into the country legally and you say
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maybe I need a little help, can't get any because you went through the
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legal way. You came in, you told us who you were, and
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we need we need to make sure that you don't get anything. You're not
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going to get anything because you came through the right way, and we told
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you upfront that you weren't going to be able to do that. We just
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want you to know, only the people who come in illegally get that opportunity.
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Only those people will have an opportunity to get something. It doesn't make
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sense and it is absurd, and we're struggling to find some meaning in all
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O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. Well,
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more and more polls are showing that Americans overall feel like the Trump administration
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did a better job with our economy and a better job with getting everybody's personal
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finances on track, as far as giving us just a little bit money,
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a little bit more money that we could have each paycheck for each month.
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Uh yeah, I've been saying that for a while now. Definitely noticed it
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as soon as he got into office and had time to actually make some changes
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in office. But now, yeah, I saw CNN out a poll fifty
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five percent of Americans said that they thought the Trump administration did better with the
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economy than the Biden administration. That doesn't bode well, But is it really
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going to come down to you know, trying to get the person that people
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think is the best, you know, for keeping the country on track where
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it should be, and you know, our finances and all that, and
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one of the I guess things that has come from all of this. A
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survey done by AARP says that twenty five percent of people over the age of
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fifty say they don't expect to ever retire, with the same percentage saying that
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they don't have any money saved for retirement. Seventy percent of older adult survey
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said that they were worried that their income can't keep up with rising costs.
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The survey also found that one third of adults over fifty carry a credit card
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balance of more than ten thousand dollars and twelve percent have a balance of twenty
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thousand dollars or more. Credit card debt has gone up quite a bit in
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the last four years. Just more things to consider. I mean, if
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only we were considering all of the things beyond, Like if you look at
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credit card debt, you look at personal finances, you look at the economy,
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you look at inflation, all the things that affect you every single day.
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Versus I don't like Trump. You know that seems to be the thing
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that's still so dominant for so many people. All right, if you it
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didn't hadn't heard. And you know people have those step counters. I've got
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one on my watch, but I often don't check it, really don't check
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it very much. I know some people that do. My boys do it
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on their watches. At least Luke does. Well. It is important to
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get your steps in, at least be moving around. A new study found
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that taking the stairs instead of an elevator can help you live longer. Basically,
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climbing a few flights of stairs each slashes your risk of cardiovascular disease and
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death. Yeah, another thing that makes sense, moving around. Just get
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up and move around. And that's one thing I guess I should set that
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up on my watch where it just tells me periodically get up and move around.
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That's probably a useful version of it. I don't necessarily need to know
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if I hit my step count or any of that stuff when it tells you
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that I've gotten set pretty high. So if we go on a big hike
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and it goes off, I'm like, oh, I got a phone call
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coming in or something, or a text, and then I go, oh,
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no, I just hit my step count. That's great. I just
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recently got to hear my buddy. We're buddies now. I've done like interviews
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streaming interviews with doctor John Hood, who formerly was at Columbus State University.
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He's now doing some post doc work in Chicago, but for a while,
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and he's an astrophysicist. By the way, I got to hear him speak
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at the Coca Cola Space Science Center about some of his adventures, particularly while
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he was working in Antarctica. And while he was in Antarctica, he was
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there's basically a observatory, a base where the scientists are set up to do
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their work, and that's where John Carpenter is. The thing showed up.
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No, not really that base, but I guess that would have been a
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version of the base. Anyway, he was talking about the fact that it
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was so close to an active volcano, and then now here just a couple
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of weeks later, Yeah, Mount Erebus, the volcano in question, is
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in the news and basically this story about the southernmost active volcano on Earth spewing
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out gold throughout the day, and that same goal that's been coming out of
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the volcano has been found hundreds of miles away. The observatory is about twenty
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five miles from the mountain, and scientists there observing the activities say that the
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volcano has been pumping out large plumes of gas and steam, which has those
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tiny little crystals of gold. They say that Mount Arabis pumps out about eighty
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grams of gold dust per day, which is about six thousand dollars worth of
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gold just raining down from the sky. How can I make this beneficial to
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me? Because six thousand dollars a day, I could make this work.
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I think I could. If I was able to string together enough days,
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I might feel confident in retiring someday and not having to go get a part
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time job like many Americans seventy plus are having to do because they have money
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for retirement. Everything just costs too much. Six thousand dollars a day,
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I could start. I could make that work for me if I got together
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the right string of days. Give me two years. Just give me two
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years, and I can uhu. It would go a long way to help
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me out with with my retirement. That's all I'm saying. That'll do it
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for five years. Give me five years, you know, I mean,
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I'm trying to factor in where all the inflation went. Ten years, six
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thousand a day, ten years. I'll make it work. That'll do it
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