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Trump Supporters Love His Mugshot · 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 Carol Morning Show. Monday morning, twenty eighth
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day of August. Hi'm Wes, thanks for joining me. It is the
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week leading into dragon Con weekend. That's where we are. I mean,
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it's the final week of August, and it'll be Labor Day weekend soon and
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all that. But for me and for many others that will be descending upon
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the downtown Atlanta area, it's dragon Con week and we'll get to some non
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dragon Con stuff in a second. Just want to thank everybody who downloaded and
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listened to the dragon Con Pregame Show over the weekend. Released it on Friday,
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and so many of you checked it out Friday and Saturday, and then
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again not quite as many yesterday, but some listening yesterday, and we'll continue
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on through the week and I appreciate that very much. It's basically a guide
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to get you ready for the convention coming up this weekend every Labor Day weekend
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in Atlanta, and the dragon Con Pregame Show podcast has all the episodes from
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past years as well as of course this year's episode, which featured Adam Savage
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from MythBusters voice actor and TV and film actor Phil Lamar and Angie Savage caused
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player and Twitch gamer watch her play games on Twitch. I've done it,
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you should do it too. But she'll be at dragon Con and she talks
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through in the interview about the costumes that she'll be wearing this year at the
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convention. I want to thank Columbia State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center for
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powering sponsoring, making our coverage possible year after year after year. And we
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talked with doctor Sean Cruising on the show as well, and we a little
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bit about that connection between science and science fiction and some of the science that
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has come out, especially with the James Webb Space Telescope in the last year,
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that will greatly have an impact on the way science fiction gets written moving
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forward. That's in the show as well. So even if you don't care
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about the interviews, maybe you want to hear what doctor Cruzen has to say
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about the science and science fiction because it's very interesting stuff and he's got a
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great perspective on that as well. All Right, So in the convention is
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this weekend final chance to get memberships there a DragonCon dot Org. You can
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check that out. And again the show is waiting for you on the DragonCon
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Pregame show podcast. Wherever you're listening to this podcast, you can get that
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podcast there. And like I said, past episodes like William Shatner, And
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it's tricky because past interviews we're not done under the guise of complications from sag
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Aftra. So when I start naming people, but I'm still following the rules
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per as I was requested for this year. So when I tell you that
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there's interviews with Ben Mackenzie, there's interviews from last year, Caitlin Roebrock,
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and you might go, I don't quite know the name Caitlin Roebrock. Well,
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she's a voice actor and the character that she voices is an iconic one,
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one of the most iconic ones at that So that kind of stuff.
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I can tell you that, And I can tell you people like Cooper Andrews,
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who I interviewed a few years ago, we'll be back this year at
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dragon Con. I can tell you that Jason Marsden again basically nineties heartthrob kid
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that is now a voice actor and voices the son of a very iconic character
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in a very very iconic movie. That's all I can tell you. That's
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really by following the rules. But anyway, you can check out those interviews
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as well as this year's interviews on the Dragon Con pregame show podcast. Okay,
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so let's now that we've had the weekend to digest and process what happened
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in Fulton County at the end of the week. Last week on the other
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side of the debate, so we had the Republican presidential primary debate, right,
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we got to hear from the candidates. I gave you my assessment.
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I heard from a few of you saying spot on. A couple said,
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hey, I don't know DeSantis, maybe he didn't even do as well as
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you said he did. I thought he was fine, and by most accounts
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what I saw over the weekend, most people saying you could make the case
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that he won the debate just by being the adult in the room, right.
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And you know, typically you have people someone like Mike Pence who would
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be the adult in the room. You would think at least almost like the
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minister in the room. But Pence was really trying to maybe trying a little
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too hard to make a name for himself. He shouldn't have to. He
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was, you know, arguably, or he's former vice president. I mean,
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arguably he should be one of the main people not named Donald Trump that's
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being talked about. And of course Nicki Haley I think did extremely well,
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and maybe I didn't quite tout her accomplishments quite as much as I could have,
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because she and DeSantis seemed to be the ones that, you know,
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overall, I think are getting the most conversation, and of course Trump,
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and I still think Trump won just by not participating. And then Trump of
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course turned himself in the following day in Fulton County, which is another aspect
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of how I think he won, because right away we go from the debate,
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conversation about the debate, conversation about the other candidates, and then immediately
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it's right back to Trump and the infamous mug. We knew that this mug
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shot was going to be something that people on the left were salivating about.
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They were wanting to see it, they wanted to at some point they thought
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this was going to be something that they were going to be able to use
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against him. I think it's quite the opposite. I think they're already selling
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T shirts, posters, coffee mugs, you name it. Conservatives, Trump
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supporters at least have already made it into with the mug shot on it.
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They've created it and they're selling it. And this is something that is going
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to be a weapon. I think an attempt by both sides. I do
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think it's going to end up being a bigger thing for Trump supporters. I
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do. I think this is more helpful to Trump now as the prosecutor in
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this case. Fannie Willis, I wanted to say Fanny. I thought it
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was Fanny for a long time, and then I saw where it's interesting.
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The commentators out there are calling her Fanny, and the journalists are calling her
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Fannie, and that made me think right away, Okay, darn it,
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it's not Fanny. I wanted it to be Fanny, and I thought,
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well, I need to really investigate, and apparently it is Fanny. But
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she's being investigated now. Republicans want to press her on who she's collaborating with.
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If there's some sort of collusion involved there, you know, there has
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to be something going on behind the scenes, something there's something at work behind
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the scenes. I mean, she ran her campaign on I'm going to prosecute
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Trump. I'm gonna get him, and that seems to be a recurring thing.
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You have places where prosecutors can go after him, as as cities where
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it's easy for them to do that. Fulton County is an area where that
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is something that is easy to do. So running on that as a campaign
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promise, I think that should that should make it questionable enough, shouldn't it?
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I mean, isn't that I'm running campaigns based on prosecuting political opponents.
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It just seems murky, doesn't it. I mean scandalous. Murky's probably not
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even doing it justice, but at the very least it's murky. So they're
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investigating her, and this is We're going to see how all this plays out.
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Right now, it certainly seems to be going to Trump's advantage is more
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and more of the Trump supporters are more die hard than ever. I don't
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the question is always in elections, the middle ground, the people in the
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middle. Right now, you've got the people that are left of center who
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really want Joe Biden to be old school Joe Biden. They don't want him
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to be the guy who you know, didn't seem to understand what was going
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on in who I didn't seem to understand when he got to Maui that a
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story about his house flooding or whatever. It doesn't compare, it doesn't compare,
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or whatever happened to his house, did it burn. He didn't seem
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to have a clue what was going on. And he was making jokes about
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the boots and how hot the ground was, and you know, hanging out
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at the beach, falling asleep at ceremonies, making just a lot of inappropriate
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comments, talking about his car getting damaged. And you could just see the
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reactions of people in the room. What are you talking about? Kids burned
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up? People burned up? We're talking about your car. So there's that.
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There's that guy. So you got the people left of center that wish
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that he was what he was, I don't know, twenty thirty years ago,
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whatever, And then you got people that are they don't really want him
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to be that. Well, let me just say this, people on the
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far left don't want him to be that. I think people just left of
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center do want him to be that, but they realize maybe now that he's
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not. So I do think that they're open to the fact that there may
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be somebody that's a bit more moderate from the Republicans that they could consider voting
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for, or this notion of a third party, which we're hearing more and
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more talk about a third party. Is there going to be a Joe Manchion.
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I mean, there's been some names that have been thrown around. That's
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one of them that came up as he is, I guess you know he's
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going to become an independent or whatever he's going to do. So will he
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be the independent candidate? Right? Is that a possibility that we're going to
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have this Democrat who basically, for the purposes of his constituency is sort of
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more of a conservative, even though he's on the caucuses with the Democrats.
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So is it possible that he could really mess things up for Biden and the
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left? I mean, that's a real possibility we could have that third party
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Ross Piro effect taking place in all this. But the folks running the third
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party basically saying they don't want it to be Biden and Trump again. And
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if it's Biden Trump, they'll consider getting in there, but they don't want
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to be in a situation where they help Trump win. So what does that
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mean exactly? So they don't want it to be Biden and Trump, but
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they don't want to help Trump win. So if it's Biden and Trump,
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they want to help Biden win. I don't know. I'm very confused at
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what their role even would be. They just don't want it to be a
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straight up race. And I'm sorry, but we're at a point right now
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that if a conservative jumped in and potentially was taking votes away from Trump then
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or whoever the nominee is, because honestly, if the nominee becomes someone like
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de Santis or Nicky Haley, if Trump became the third party candidate and just
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wrecked a Republican's chance of winning, that would be awful. So I don't
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suspect that that would even happen, But I do think there probably are some
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conservatives out there who would consider jumping in because they hate Trump so much,
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and you got these people left of center that would probably be open to a
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I mean, would have meant Romney jump in there to be a disruptor?
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Is that an option? Would Chris Christie carry enough I was gonna say,
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wait, and I wasn't trying to be funny. Would he have enough clout
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to take enough votes away from Trump? I don't know. Would folks on
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the left that see, you know, see him as a bit less far
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left than the people that are running Biden. Would they consider it, Could
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that hurt him? I don't think it would. I think if anything,
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it might be the folks right of center that would be the concern. And
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those people left of center and right of center ultimately are the ones that decide
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elections. Right, it's the moderates in the middle that make the final decisions.
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You got your loyal Democrats, you got your loyal Republicans. You got
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your people that swear by Donald Trump. They worship at the feet of Donald
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Trump. You got folks on the left that worship at the altar of Democrat
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period. Doesn't matter who their candidate is. They really don't care. They
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don't care. Conservatives have gotten passionate and you know, loyal and dedicated to
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Trump. Democrats it does not matter. It does not matter who their nominee
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is. They will they will follow that person. I have heard people say,
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just start throwing random name out when Michelle Obama's name keeps coming up,
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and they go, oh, we'd vote for her, absolutely, and for
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what exactly. She's not something. She's someone who has said I don't want
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to be president. I didn't like my time in the White House to begin
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with. And that is that is something to uh that says a lot,
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doesn't it. It says a lot. And the fact that there is that
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much of a loyalty to whoever might I've heard people say they want Hakim Jefferies.
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Oh, I wish he would run. Nobody really knows anything about him.
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Nobody really knows. He's the minority leader for the Democrats in the House.
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That's that's what he is, That's who he is. Nobody really knows
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a lot about him, right, Nobody really knows very much about him,
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but they're ready to vote for him because if they throw his name out there,
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they'll vote for him. You got folks that are just dying to vote
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for Gavin Newsom, right. I think if Cuomo got in there and became
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the candidate, there's people who would just they would just vote for him.
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They'd be excited to vote for him. They were excited to vote for Hillary
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Clinton for crying out loud. Okay, Now think back to yes, Trump
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had people that were excited to vote for him, but I don't there weren't
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a lot of people who were excited about voting for Mitt Romney. There weren't
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a lot of people excited about voting for John McCain. They did it,
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they weren't excited about it. You know, not everybody got fired up about
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Mitt Romney. Oh my gosh, that Mitt Romney. Yes, sir,
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I don't know. I didn't know anybody who was really excited about voting for
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him, to be honest, I didn't know anybody was excited about John McCain.
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I mean maybe some moderates that I know, but even they were like,
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I don't even think he's really a Republican. So how this fourth indictment
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will play into it remains to be seen. We know that this is going
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to become a chess match on when they can set things up. They want
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things started in October. We got trials going in October. Will Trump will
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be doing everything they can to keep Trump off the campaign trail. We know
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Biden doesn't want to be on the campaign trail because oh and now they're telling
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people to mask up again in different places because of COVID. So how this
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all plays out, I don't know. I don't know what all of this
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means. I do want to quickly talk about the We had this incident that
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happened over the weekend in Columbus at the Carver football game with a gun showing.
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Now multiple reports, I know that there has been talk about some gunshots
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that were fired. That was the initial talk, right. It was initially
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that there were that there were shots fired, but this was Carver and Spencer,
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and there were questions about whether or not. Initially they were definitely gun
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charges. There were some that were arrested on gun charges. But initially the
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report was that shots were fired, and then later it was reported that shots
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weren't fired, that they were just brandished. They were somebody showed them.
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That caused people to freak out and people ran away. There were people who
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were there I think that said that they heard gun shots. So I don't
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know what the final verdict is. I feel like this is one of those
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ongoing investigations. I feel like it's going to go back and forth. There
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were reports at least that there were some shots fired, but the question is
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whether or not that happened. But I think it's probably I think the final
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the later reports said that there were no confirmed reports of shots fired, but
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anyway, it caused the game to be Uh, they weren't able to finish
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it. It was suspended, and it was a scary scene. It was
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definitely a scary scene. It was awful to see, awful to even hear
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about after the fact for folks that didn't even see it. But the fact
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that you know, people were able to uh, you know, there was
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video of watching the players drop to the ground and people running in a panic,
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and uh, you know we we uh, my family, we know
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someone who was there and got a very small injury from someone trampling them.
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So it's a scary scene. And it's something that you know, the city
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of Columbus has. We have a crime problem. We have these kinds of
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stories. Happened too much, and it's, uh, it's scary whenever you
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hear about it. And again you start thinking about these are actions of individuals
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and perhaps a small group, but it's not necessarily what is you know,
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some are looking at this as a one specific incident and not looking at it
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as a much larger thing. And I say that because we talk about what
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happened in Jacksonville, and we had certainly what constitutes as a hate crime with
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the shots that happened. I've already seen reports about the Jacksonville incident, saying
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this is certainly a reflection on that's the latest tragedy from white supremacy in our
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country. And we're not looking at the fact that it's an individual who did
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something. It's not looking at the fact that it was it a hate crime,
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absolutely, but we were we seemed to cherry pick as a people which
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ones are considered a big picture crimes and which ones are individual And I would
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certainly say that unless there is some evidence of some sort of a conspiracy involved,
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I think it's safe to say that Jacksonville was a specific incident crime,
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not necessarily a conspiratorial hate crime, incident that's part of some sort of a
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wave, and our media fueling that fire and picking at that scab again and
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again and again is certainly not going to help incidents like that go away and
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break. So as officials in Maui County say they think they know that the
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cause of the deadly wildfires is four local electric companies. They have filed suiting
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it'st Maui Electric, Hawaiian Electric, Hawaii Electric Light Company, and Hawaiian Electric
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Industries, and the suit specifying that the companies acted negligently in failing to power
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down their equipment during a red flag warning, and they said that the result
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is that the power lines down by strong winds ignited the dried out vegetation.
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The National Weather Service saying that the red flag warning means that warm temperatures,
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low humidities, and stronger winds expected to combine to produce an increased risk of
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danger. So can we now stop making accusations about this being caused by climate
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change? Is it time to move away from the discussion from the narrative that
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this somehow was caused by climate change and I suppose the climate change climate emergency.
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Folks will still try to say that and put all the emphasis on well,
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the hiabe wins and the you know, the brush that was there,
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and no, this sounds like it has everything to do with the electric companies
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if that ends up being the actual cause for the whole incident. How much
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do finances factor into a relationship, Well a lot, even for younger generations.
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According to new report from Credit Carma, fifty six percent of gen Zers
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and sixty one percent of millennials fight about money with their romantic partners. Forty
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one percent of Gen zers and forty two percent of millennials say they fight with
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their significant other about money on a monthly base. Is for millennials, the
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biggest source of the argument, more than not being present or being on the
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phone too much, spending time together, chores and nighttime activities. If you
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catch my drift. According to the survey, thirty three percent of zoomers and
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thirty one percent of millennials have broken up with someone over financial issues. They
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say money is so important to young people that many are researching their date's job
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to see how much money that they make. That's hardcore. That's getting into
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it right there. It's looking way down the line, isn't it all right?
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Korean Air will soon be asking passengers how much they weigh before they board
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a flight in South Korea. Korea Air passengers will be asked to step on
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scales with their carry on items at each boarding gate. According to an airline
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official, the data collected anonymously will be utilized for survey purposes and doesn't mean
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overweight passengers will need to pay more. It is interesting that they'll be holding
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their carry on stuff, so I guess that way you can't put all the
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clothes on and try to fake out the weight on the suit ca I mean,
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I guess it may help you with far as the expense of the suitcase,
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but it's if all the weight goes against you, I don't know.
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Heidi Klum denies that she eats just nine hundred calories a day. She's pushing
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back against some stories that have made the rounds after she did an Instagram chat
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and weighed herself, and Heidi, who looks great, checked in at a
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healthy one hundred thirty eight pounds. She denies that she starves herself like that.
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In an Instagram live video, she says, I just want to say
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I don't think I've ever had to count my calories in my life, and
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I don't believe and that you should not believe everything that you read. People
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just make up stories. One person writes it that everyone jumps on it,
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and it's really sad because people read that and think that and possibly even start
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to follow that. And finally, according to a new survey, more than
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half of Americans believe that they've been visited by dead relatives. Fifty three percent
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said that they've had visits from deceased loved ones, mostly in dreams. Thirty
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four percent say they felt the presence of a dead relative. Fifteen percent say
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that dead relatives actually communicate with them. Not surprisingly, just twenty six percent
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of atheists say that they've been visited, compared to sixty six percent of Catholics,
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and women are far more likely to report a visit from a dead relative
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sixty three percent of women versus forty two percent of men. That'll do it
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Every Thursday, doctor Shaun Cruising from Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center
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and I talk about the week space news, including what's going on at NASA
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as well as companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Axiom Space, and Boeing.
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Plus we fill you in on what's happening beyond our atmosphere, throughout our
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Solar System, and into the deepest known regions of space. Check out Best
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Podcast Series GABBY Award winning Made of Stars. New episodes every Thursday on Spotify,
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Apple, Google, or wherever you listen to your podcast