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Careful What You Wish for in National Healthcare · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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All Right, couple stories I want to talk about and I'm a little
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torn on which one I want to talk about first, but I think it's
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important that we talk about this one first. And I found this story initially
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on the Blaze, and this is a story about By the way, if
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you didn't know, April is Autism Awareness month. All right, we have
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all of our months. We have a lot of months. There's a lot
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of them, and I think the ones that have any sort of a connection
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to and it takes nothing away from the others, but I do think that
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some of these months tend to get a little more attention than others, and
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I think the ones that relate to any sort of mental health don't get the
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attention that they deserve. And I say that concerning autism. Obviously, when
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you start talking about neurodivergent brains, you start talking about the things that people
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with autism deal with. And I feel like this is one of those months
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that we should take some time to be educated a little bit more about autism.
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It affects a lot of people right at varying levels, so it's important
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that we are aware of all of those aspects of that autism spectrum. Now,
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with that said, and maybe one of the reasons that this story has
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bubbled up to the top, other than the fact that it's a pretty earth
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shattering, potentially earth shattering type of story. And the headline, of course
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grabs your attention because it basically mentions that there's healthy people who have autism in
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their twenties are set to be euthanized in the Netherlands and in Canada. Okay,
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that's enough to get your attention, right, that's what headlines are supposed
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to do. And this is an article by Joseph McKinnon with The Blaze,
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so basically, in short, and this is me and you can check out
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the article on the Blaze and just understand this. We have had for quite
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some time calls for nationalized healthcare. We had the Obamacare push that came along.
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We had folks on the right who said, this is not going to
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be good if we start opening things up and changing our healthcare system for the
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purposes of pushing it further toward a free healthcare system. I know and care
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about and love people who are from or live in countries that have had a
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free, nationalized healthcare system, and it is not what it is hyped up
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to be. On some occasions, sure, you hear these stories about women
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who have a baby, and they have a baby, and they say yeah,
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and it was great. I had the baby and I got my plenty
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of paid time off because the government forces it, and then we and of
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course the other taxpayers helped cover that, and then everything was free and it
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was fantastic, and I didn't have any medical bills. That all sounds great,
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and then you start going, well, who's paying for all of this?
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And that, of course is ultimately the first line for it. The
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second line for all of this comes when you find out that you have some
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of these countries that say we're not we're going to let somebody in our country.
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If they have any sort of disability, if they have any sort of
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condition that could potentially cause them to become a burden on our health system,
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we can't let you in. I remember a friend once posted a story,
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and this was somebody who fought hard. I guess continues to but at the
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time professionally was fighting for rights of people with disabilities. And I remember they
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shared a story about someone who was trying to get into a country that had
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one of these nationalized health care plans, and they were a professor, college
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professor, and the country wanted them to come in and work there, but
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they had a son who had a medical condition that was going to cause them
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to be a potential burden on their healthcare system, and they said, I'm
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sorry, we can't let you in. That's this compassion that we all say,
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Oh, these far left people, they've got so much compassion and they
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care so much. And you think back to the Obamacare push Affordable Care Act
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whatever we're supposed to call it now, I don't know. Folks on the
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right said this is going to lead to some sort if we go to a
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nationalized healthcare plan, eventually this is going to lead to where you have government
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decisions that are getting made based on how much of a burden you could be
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to our society, how much you could be on other taxpayers, because let's
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be honest, you pay for it through your taxes. It's not free.
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If you don't work and you don't earn income, then you're maybe you're getting
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it for free, but the people who are working are paying for it,
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whether they're using it or not. And then eventually you get to a point
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in life at a later age where someone has to make a decision is it
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worth fixing your knee. You're eighty is it? How much walking are you
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still going to be doing on that knee? Should we fix the knee?
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Should we put you on the six month wait list? Do you have extra
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insurance? Oh? You do? You have extra private insurance? Well,
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then we can bump you to the front of the list. So how's that
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really any different? Right, you still have to have that extra health And
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I know people that live that they get taxed for the free stuff, and
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then they have to pay extra to make sure that they can still get treatments
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because maybe their age, maybe their current medical condition. So Canada and the
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Netherlands, I guess, and we can talk about there's a woman, twenty
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eight year old Dutch woman and a twenty seven year old Canadian woman both have
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applied for state facilitated suicide. Neither has a terminal illness, neither has a
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debilitating physical illness, and they are waiting I guess for that. I guess
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scheduled originally to happen on February first, but now they're waiting, and they
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said it may be May. One of these women is Zoriah Turbique. That
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would be the Dutch woman basically told the Free Press that she wanted to become
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a psychiatrist and that never happened. Wasn't able to see it through and partly
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because of depression, autism and an alleged borderline personality disorder, and apparently lives
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what you would think of as a pretty decent life, nice house, pets
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a boyfriend, but basically would like to die sitting on her couch at home
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and they basically said things are never really going to get better, so that's
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what she wants. It concerns me. Now you can sit here and you
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can say someone wants to end their life because of depression. That's a concern.
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We hear that story. That's a that's a very much too common story
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that we hear when I hear someone has a borderline personality disorder and it's worded
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as an alleged borderline personality and I don't know if that means they've been medically
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diagnosed with that or if that means that she's just claimed it. Autism concerns
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me a lot, a lot. And you think about You've got countries that
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have said, hey, we have eliminated down syndrome in our country because we
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are we euthanize, we want to make sure that we don't have people with
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Down syndrome. What happens if we get to a point where we want to
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eliminate people that have autism. That's a lot of people. What happens if
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we say we want to allow people to in their lives because of depression.
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We're not talking about somebody who's going to be a burden on the healthcare system.
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It doesn't seem it's just somebody who wants to go. They just want
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to end their life and be done with it. And one of the reasons
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given is autism. And this is true I guess of both of these women
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in this story. And of course you've got a government who says, you
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know, we're going to look into this, we want to check into it,
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we want to approve it, and give you that opportunity to do that.
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This is what a government sees it as. This is a way to
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get out from under any future health care for this person. Apparently these people
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aren't contributing to the money. I don't know. The other person doesn't give
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their name. The Canadian m V is the initials given to this person.
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That's how they're identified, and it says MV suffers from autism impossible, other
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undiagnosed maladies that do not satisfy the credibility for the m A I D,
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which is their I guess life ending the name of their I guess that's what
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that is. Medical assistance in dying has made But the father who's identified as
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WV in the story said his daughter's generally healthy, believes that her physical symptoms
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symptoms to the extent that she has any result from undiagnosed psychological conditions. I
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think they should concern people, especially during Autism Awareness Month, right it should
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be something that we're at least aware of. At what point could this become?
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And I were talking about two countries that have a different healthcare system than
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we do, that have a different set of rules than we do. But
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we got people here that want to see this, not specifically this, but
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they want to see this healthcare change. That's what they want to see for
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us. The other story I wanted to talk about today. This will be
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quick, but just be aware. We're six months out from a horrible tragedy
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that happened in the Chattahoochee Valley area, and we talked about it when it
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happened. I was very careful and very delicate with it because I think it's
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very delicate and it deserves delicate coverage. It didn't get delicate coverage, and
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I think that's part of the problem with all of this. But I tried
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to give it delicate coverage. And I'm only going to mention it again because
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it's popped back up again six months later. And that is the death,
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the tragic death of Bubba Copeland. He was the mayor of Smith's Station.
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As you may recall, he was the lead pastor at First Baptist Church in
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Phoenix City, and he was outed by a basically a gossip. To me,
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it's the equivalent of the old National Inquirer back in the day, whatever
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that magazine was, the rag was that had the bat Boy eighteen nineteen news
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is what it called itself. But back in I don't want to go through
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the whole story too much. But back in October, I guess late October
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early November is when all this happened. I guess late October. The story
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came out about a Bubba Copeland dressing as as a woman in the evenings and
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going on social media, and this particular site that posted this story was pulling
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a big gotcha story and shared it, and it's a site that I guess
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the guy who wrote the story was known for writing these story like there was
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some story about a politician who cheated on his wife and this guy was like,
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ah, gotcha, and I guess in his own mind felt like,
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you know, this was something that warranted having a story written about it.
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And this has been discussed at great length. There's been a lot of conversation
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about it. I felt like when the story was written, there was no
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reason, no justifiable reason to write the story at the time, not when
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it was written. There was no information in this story other than, hey,
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here's some juicy gossip about a guy who you know, we're going to
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expose him as some sort of a hypocrite in their minds. A lot of
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people in the time after the story came out and after ultimately Bubba cope On
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took his own life just a few days after the story came out, which
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sadly seemed like where all of us knew it was heading. Everybody who cared
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about him was checking in on him. I have friends that were very close
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with him, and I kept telling them check on him. You know,
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I knew him professionally. I knew him from doing this job and interviewed him,
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had him on the air, But you know, that's about the extent
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of it. We knew who each other. Was nothing but positive things that
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I would say about him from my experience of knowing him. But I didn't
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know him in a way that I thought I'm gonna call because if a newsguy
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calls you up, you know, if somebody from a news outlet, I
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guess it sounds like they're looking for some dirt. Even some of his friends
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that I reached out to said I don't have anything to tell you about this.
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I'm like, that's not what I'm calling for. So I still never
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saw the benefit in the news story. But people said, well, maybe
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he was doing this, maybe he was doing that. They tried to justify
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that the story when it was written. Craig Monger was the guy's name who
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wrote the story, and Craig Monger kind of disappeared from the old interwebs for
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a little bit after it happened. And understandably, I prayed for Bubba during
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all of this. I prayed for Craig during all of this. These are
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horrible things for two people to have had to go through, for people that
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care about them to have to go through, because ultimately, Craig Monger published
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a gossip story caused somebody to kill themselves. And that's why you pray for
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him as well. That's why I do continue to. But I was angry.
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I wasn't happy with the story was published. There's a lot of things
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that came out in time after where people say, well, maybe this justifies
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it, maybe that justifies writing it, But at the time of writing it,
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there was nothing in it to justify writing it other than it was a
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gotcha story. Well, now, six months later, Esquire has published a
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giant, massive Warren Peace Link story about it, with the headline right wing
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media and the death of an Alabama pastor an American tragedy, laying out this
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whole story. It's long too, if you want to read it, I
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don't necessarily recommend it, but if you want to read it, it's going
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to take you about two and a half weeks long. It's long, but
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the headline alone tells you everything you need to know about it. It's the
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right wing media, right, that's what it is. I don't know what
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you want to call eighteen nineteen news. I don't know what you want to
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call Craig Monger. I don't know what you want to call this particular outlet,
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but I can tell you this, a left wing outlet is writing a
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story blaming the right wing media for what happened. And this is going to
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be zoom. We'll continue to see this pop up from time to time anytimes.
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I don't know the timing of this, and they didn't write this article.
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Mark Warren for Esquire didn't write this article since Sunday, and I can
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tell you that because he would have been writing NonStop for three and a half
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weeks to write all the words. At the very least, it's a long
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article. I was trying to read it and I thought, god'm falling asleep
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trying to read this thing. But don't be shocked. Bubba Coplan's name and
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this horrible treatment of the right wing media and the hypocrites in the church is
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thrust more into the forefront getting closer to the election, because that'll be right
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about the one year mark, we'll have the anniversary of it, and this
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will come up again. Then trolls on the internet, or just that Craigmonger
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is a troll on the internet. That's what he is the article. That's
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how it was to begin with. I haven't gone back to that site.
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I have no interest in going back to that site. If he has since
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written several articles about all these horrible things, I don't see anything else in
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this article about it. But I can tell you this, the very nature
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of outing someone having an affair on their wife or the politician, or the
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very nature of outing Bubba Copeland for what he was doing in the evenings with
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no actual crime committed, other than, hey, this is something bad.
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This isn't something that we should condone. This isn't something that we should like.
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It's not news. It's a troll. It's just like the people who
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went on and said horrible things about Bubba after. It's like the people who
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went on and said horrible things about Craig Monger after. Trolling on the internet,
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sadly, is something that everyone experiences. It's horrible, isn't it.
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A lot of us have been guilty of doing it, Sadly. I'm one
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of the first. I go way back in the early days doss based chat
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rooms. I used to do it. I mean kind of proud of it.
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Then I'm not really proud of it now, I mean proud of the
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timing of it. Didn't know what was going to turn into all this,
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but don't be shocked. And I'm just going to remind everyone Bubba Copeland was
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conservative, a Republican. Probably would be voting I mean, I can't say,
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but probably would be voting for Trump in this election. I don't know
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of any reason to not think that the left wants him to be one of
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theirs. Democrats of Alabama tried to claim him and jump in and talk about
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how much they supported him. But that's not what he would have wanted.
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It's not what he would have wanted, not back in October of last year.
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That's not what he would have wanted. But it's going to become I
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think. I don't think this is the last we're going to see of it,
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this giant article. If you start reading it now, you might finish
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it by the election. I don't know. Maybe if you have to,
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really, you know, cut some people out of your life, eliminate a
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couple of meals. It's long, my gosh, it's a long article,
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but I just I can't help. But when I saw the article, someone
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sent it to me and said, hey, this is back and I thought,
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More West Carol Morning Show right after the break. All right, we've
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talked a lot about ozempic and we govy, two of the medications that have
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been used as weight loss drugs in spite of the fact that's not what they
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were made for. They were made to help with folks with diabetes. At
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least. Ozempic was I assume the same as true off we govy, but
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folks realized, wait a minute, if you take it, it's going to
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help suppress appetite. Therefore, let's use it as a weight loss drug.
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Well, now, apparently for folks that don't want to go the ozempic route,
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there was a period when it was hard to get it because apparently people
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were using so much of it for weight loss that people who actually needed the
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medicine for their diabetes weren't able to get it. Now, apparently there's plenty
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of it. It's going around, but some folks are saying, well,
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wait a minute, I don't want to take medicine to lose weight. I'm
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going to instead use oat zempic, which is the term for taking oats and
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mixing them with lime juice and water. And consuming it. Some of the
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users on social media that have been doing oat zempic say they've lost forty pounds
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in two months with the trig. Experts say nothing unhealthy about the drink,
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but want people to know that this isn't something that's really a comparison to ozempic
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or we Govy. Doctor mir Ali says ozimpic is a hormone that affects your
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brain as well as your gut. It suppresses the appetite for up to a
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week. When you eat oats, it can help you feel full for a
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few hours. They're certainly not the same. I think the oats thing though,
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that's not a new trend now mixing it with these two ingredients lime juice
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and water. But people were doing the cold oats tre to help them feel
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full in the morning and kind of get their day going, and really does
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get things going downstairs as well. I can tell you that I've done the
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cold oats in the morning. I like the cold oats, especially when you
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throw some peanut butter in there, but I don't know if that's allowed with
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oat zembic or not. All right, So there's a developer, real estate
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developer in Manhattan that's basically taking an old parking structure and turning it into a
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condominium. The brick building, which is near the water in Greenwich Village is
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basically it's a parking lot, and there are buyers who have said they are
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going to jump in, make renovations and turn the units into living quarters inside
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this garage, and they say about a one hundred million dollars to do that.
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Developers plan to keep the front to make it look like it's still a
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garage because they say privacy is important to celebrities who want it to look shit.
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The remaining penthouse is said to be asking close to eighty five million,
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according to people familiar with it. So I guess if it looks shabby on
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the outside and you don't know that there's a bunch of celebrities living in places
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that people used to park their cars, you wouldn't know. But if you
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know, you might try to wander into the I don't know. As long
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as you don't know, I guess it's just kind of camouflage for where there
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might be celebrities in there. I wonder if there are any celebrities we may
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know of who want to live in this facility during the pandemic, a lot
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of people were buying RVs and camper vans because they felt like, hey want
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to get out on the road, get some fresh air, and the market
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then was booming. But apparently that trend has cooled quite a bit. According
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to a report in the Wall Street Journal, RV shipments hit their lowest point
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in twelve years and twenty twenty three with higher interest rates, people reluctant to
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make big ticket purchases, and life and traveling get back to normal have all
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been factors in all of this, so it's interesting, not a surprise,
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but interesting that it has dropped off that much. Some people feel like they
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were born under a lucky star, and some people say they were not.
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There's a new variation of the secret phenomenon from a few decades ago. I
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guess now lucky Girl syndrome is something that's trending on social media, and the
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idea is that you can manifest good luck simply by believing it. Basically,
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tell yourself you're lucky. Believe that you're lucky, and good luck will come
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to you, So making your own luck. That's an idea I guess that
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people are trying to put you put it out there, you believe it,
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maybe it don't happen for you. And finally, this is a nice story.
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Actress Leah Remini shared on Instagram last week that she had earned her associate's
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degree from NYU at the age of fifty three. She says, this is
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Kerrie Heffernan, by the way, on King of Queens. She says,
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three years ago, I embarked on a terrifying journey becoming a college student at
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the age of fifty after only having an eighth grade education and spending thirty five
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years in a totalitarian cult, referencing, of course, her time with Scientology.
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I desperately wanted a high education, but for many years didn't move forward
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because I feared I was not smart enough. Even though I had managed to
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leave Scientology, three decades of brainwashing still gripping my mind. And she says
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now she would like to pursue her bachelor's degree. That's a nice story.
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Good for her. That'll do it for this Thursday edition of the show.
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