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Polls Show Half the Country Believes Trump Arrests Are Political and They Are Okay with It · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Wednesday morning, fourteenth day of June. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Well. Former President Donald Trump, former president former a recent visitor to
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a tourist the Great City of Columbus. Donald Trump entered his not guilty plea
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yesterday in Florida to thirty seven federal charges relating to the Special Council investigation about
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improper retention of classified records at his home in Moral Lago. So there we
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go. We knew it was going to be happening yesterday. As he went
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in. They did some fancy digital fingerprinting. And well, that's not really
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the fancy part they do that, don't they. That's not really a high
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tech that's not using the AI, the chat, GPT or anything. But
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what they did do is instead of a like a mug shot, apparently they
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did sort of some sort of digitized image of him. I don't know what
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that means. That means they made it. Does that mean that they just
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took an old picture of him and like maybe an old publicity shot from the
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apprentice. I don't know what that means exactly. I do find it a
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little interesting though, that there were a lot of calls for Trump supporters and
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even some just Republicans in general, and even some members of media, saying
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that the first time that he went in to face charges in New York,
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that they wanted the mug shot, the public deserved to see the mug shot,
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that the mug shot itself would become the most famous and infamous mug shot
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of all time, and that you'd see people putting it on T shirts,
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it would be posters, they would sell them, they would sell out quickly,
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they'd be everywhere, signs at campaign rallies. And they're right, it
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absolutely would have been the case. And then of course we didn't get a
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mug shot from that. We're not getting a mug shot from this because it's
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it's not I don't even know what it is. I don't know what they're
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using. It's very confusing. Is is there a chance, I mean,
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are they going out of their way to come up with ways to make sure
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that people aren't getting a you know, Gatson flag equivalent a mug shot.
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They don't want you to have it. They don't they're gonna make sure.
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I don't know, I don't know what the thinking is behind that. I
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mean, it's nice that they're not subjecting him to you know, inky fingers
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and you know, standing there click turned to the click turned to the click.
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Something do it in movies. I don't know how they do it in
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real life. I haven't done that before. Thankfully, I haven't been there.
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I know you maybe you have, and I'm not. There's no judgment.
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I'm just saying, thankfully, I haven't been there. I haven't had
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to go through that process. And apparently he doesn't have to go through that
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process either, So they're sparing him that but making sure that he goes in
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and faces these charges. And it's it's just a weird it's a weird time.
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I know, I seem to be saying this more and more that it's
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just a strange time. Now, Apparently, according to polls, about half
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the country supports this indictment and supports the charges against the former president. However,
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that same number also says that they understand that politics was probably involved.
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Okay, that alone speaks a lot to the whole situation, doesn't it,
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Because you've basically got you know, about half the country. Conveniently, it's
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about half. I mean, that's about as many people as will agree on
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anything. I'm not even sure these days that if aliens came down or again,
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I don't know. We we talked about that last week. But if
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an Independence Day style invasion happened on Earth, and remember the way all the
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people of Earth rallied together behind President Bill Pullman, not Paxton Pullman, and
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he gave his today we celebrate Independence Day speech and and you know the world
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just rallied behind that president and fought off the aliens. I don't I don't
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know. I feel like today, if the aliens came down and started blasting
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our national monuments, I think half the country would say we got a do
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something, and the other half would say, do we I mean, they're
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blowing up monuments probably dedicated to people we don't like, So maybe they should
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be blowing them up. Maybe maybe we should support it, We should help,
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We should start pointing to like that statue of a William Penn in Harrisburg.
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Remember they people tried to call it. They were trying to figure out,
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how do we get to the statue of William Penn up on top of
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this ridiculously tall pedestal that we can't possibly get to? But we want to
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tear it down. And all the others were getting ripped down, and people
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on horses at you know, normal heights, they're just getting ripped down and
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spray painted and pulled over. Not William Penn. So you'd have people saying,
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hey, just blow that up. This will point a laser, like
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a laser pointer at it, and you can blow it up for us aliens,
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please help us out. That's more like how I think it would go
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these days. It's nothing like the days where we think people would rally together
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because we just don't. Everything is about fifty fifty, so about half of
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the country says that they think that the activities of the former president concerning these
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classified documents is worthy of him being prosecuted. It's worthy of him going through
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the digital fingerprints and the digital mug shot and all of that. But they
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also say and about the same number of people admit, yes, it's politics,
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and they don't care, like they understand what it means that it's politics
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and they don't care. I feel like the things that Hillary Clinton did warranted
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her facing similar criminal charges, federal charges. The things that she did concerning
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that server, concerning wiping the server, concerning destroying all evidence of anything coming
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into that email server. I would never have supported her being prosecuted by the
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Department of Justice. If that were of the twenty twenty campaign and Trump were
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president running for reelection, and Trump said we're going to prosecute Hillary Clinton.
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The DOJ is going after her, I wouldn't have supported that. I wouldn't
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have I would have said, she probably should be prosecuted for it. She
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should not be prosecuted for it as a political opponent. That's what I would
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have felt. That's exactly how I would have felt. It's how I feel
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now. I feel like, if they're going to do this, and if
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they feel like he should be ultimately prosecuted for it, shouldn't happen during an
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election. It should not happen at this point, especially with him being the
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front runner for the Republican nomination. But even if he wasn't, even if
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he was drawing those vivic Ramaswami numbers, then he should not be He should
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asa Hutchinson numbers. He should still not be getting prosecuted. It's it's not
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the right thing to do. Speaking of Ramiswamy, just quickly he was he
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was there. I guess in Miami yesterday for this as a Trump was arraigned
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and the whole process began. Ramiswamy was there and he was telling making a
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pledge that should he become president, he would immediately pardon Trump for these charges.
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And then he says that all Republicans that are vying for the nomination should
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pledge to do the same thing. He says that they should all do it,
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they should all make the pledge to do it, and he's going to
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try to hold them accountable for that. I started to talk a little bit
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about him on Monday because just talking about folks that are in the race.
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And I know, I hate to in any way dismiss anyone who was running
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for an office like this, but there are some people who run and they
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know that they don't really have much of a chance. I'd like to think
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that they realistically understand that they're almost certainly not going to win. I think
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you get people like Kamala Harris who ran for president against Joe Biden, and
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I think maybe she thought she had a chance. I think Corey Booker,
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I think there were a handful of those people that just thought we got a
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chance at this, we got a serious chance at this and then they really
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didn't, and that somebody like Bernie Sanders maybe had kind of a chance at
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it but was never going to get his opportunity. They were going to let
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him have a chance that was never going to happen. But there were several
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that were running. There were people you know that lived with Chinese spies and
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things or whoever. So I don't know, I don't know the whole There
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were a bunch that thought, man, I could be president and just really
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didn't have a shot, no shot whatsoever. Right, they had no chance
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whatsoever, probably mixing up some of those people. But you know what I'm
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saying. Uh, So I just feel like maybe Ramiswamy kind of knows,
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I would think. I mean, I didn't really give Trump much of a
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chance at winning, and then he did. I don't think many almost say
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not many. There were a lot early on that thought he had no chance
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at all, and then he won. He won the whole thing. So
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I don't know if Ramiswamy is uh, you know, working on a potential
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cabinet position starting in uh you know, twenty twenty five. No, I
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don't know what he's doing, but he's doing it well. He's getting the
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he's he's getting attention, right, He's the only millennial I guess in the
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races. He's getting attention. He's playing that part of the game. Right.
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So you have people who say that Trump should be prosecuted, but they
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understand that it is political and they're okay with it, and I'm not okay
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with that. That's one of those things that makes me think. I mean,
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I wouldn't be an advocate for you got to take a test and show
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that proves that you know basic civics before you vote. I wouldn't be a
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person who would support that. But this is one of those cases where you
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just kind of go, this is not okay, this is not okay,
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and the fact that people seem to think it's okay and support it, it
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should be concerning for all of us, right, I mean, shouldn't that
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be concerning for all of us? This of course, all comes on the
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heels as a former top FBI agent, Stephen d'antono, gave information last week
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talking about the Marlago raid, where he basically said, look, there was
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some conflict between the Department of Justice and the FBI about how to execute the
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raid. The FBI wanted to wait. They said, Trump's not there,
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We're in no danger of the documents being destroyed or damaged or ruined. Trump
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is away, Trump is not home. We have time to wait and do
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this at a better time. But the DJ insisted that it needed to move
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forward right away and not to give anybody any time. FBI said documents aren't
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at risk and that there could be some serious blowback from the public if we
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were to raid the house of a former president while he's not home, and
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something that could be handled much more diplomatically. Yet Department of Justice moved forward,
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and the quote he says, Honestly, I didn't want the spectacle for
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obvious reasons of why we're sitting here today. It's the reputational risk, right,
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And that's the way I looked at it from the bureau. So yeah,
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it's this notion of sure, there's going to be the observation that it's
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been politicized, that this is all being politicized. However they're okay with it.
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That seems to be the comfort level from the left is that they understand
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people are going to perceive this a certain way, yet they don't mind.
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They're okay with it. They don't have a problem with the fact that there
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them and not really seem to care if it should be done right. It's
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Run After the Break? Is what you watch on TV? Affect your mood?
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Does me? New survey found Fifty one percent of respondents said that they
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watch shows that can change their mood for the rest of the day. Forty
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nine said they can't watch movies or shows that deal with heavy or stressful topics
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unless they're in the right mood. Sixty seven percent said the best cure for
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a bad day was watching comfort shows or movies. Overall, eighty one percent
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said their mood influences what they choose to watch and that they can feel the
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emotional impact of what they watch for up to two hours afterwards. Men reported
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feeling the impact of what they watch longer than women one hundred and fourteen minutes
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compared to ninety six minutes. This is interesting that I I came upon this
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today because a couple days ago, actually on the QLN podcast that I do
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with my brother and some friends, my brother Matt and I were talking about
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how there are some shows that I can't specifically watch them at certain times or
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at all. When we were specifically talking about the series miniseries on I guess
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it's now Max is the name of it, But it was on that app
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and it was about Jared from Subway and it's a really heavy content, and
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I think that it was done well enough that it wasn't just sort of laying
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on the heavy content. I mean, it was obviously throughout and you knew
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the subject matter for why Jared Fogel had been arrested and why he's currently served
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time in jail prison, but um, but trying to get an understanding of
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the way that police caught him, the work that was done to eventually lead
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to that arrest, and the things that he was charged with and guilty of,
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And there were elements of that. I mean, I was working in
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news talk radio when that story broke, so I remember that, but you
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know, learning more about exactly what happened, and someone had recommended that docuseries
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to me, and I thought, well, I'll check this out. But
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again, you kind of mentally have to be in the right place. It's
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a subject matter that you don't really want to hear about, and you have
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to brace yourself for the fact that you're going to kind of be carrying around
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that residual to me at least, you know, like for the rest of
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the day. And I told him that because I watched that, then I
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got the recommendation about a sign of a sociopath or psychopath or whatever it is.
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And I watched just a couple of minutes of that and it was just
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a guy just talking about killing his mom and sister and that's all it was.
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And I can't watch this. I can't just a confession and that's all
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it was, over and over again. So yes, absolutely, And there's
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some shows that I just I would have a hard time with, or you
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know, watch a really intense show, like when Breaking Bad was on.
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There were a couple of episodes of that that I just thought, oh my
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gosh, I'm not gonna be able to go to bed tonight. So I
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think all of that applies and I guess Breaking Bad was addressed in the study.
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I'm seeing here like it. Shows like Modern Family, I guess comedy
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sitcoms made them feel good. Shows like Friends made them nostalgic emotional after watching
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Grades Anatomy, and then stressed after watching Breaking Bad. So there you go.
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Is the wedding dress dead a recent New York bridal fashion week. After
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the fashion week, industry experts said that we're experience a rise in anti brides
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women who saying that they don't want traditional white dresses. They wouldn't mind the
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idea of a black dress or short skirts or something some kind of pants suit,
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okay, and that basically people are just trying to look for other ways
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to show off their personality instead. So there's that. And look, I
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just did a story a couple of weeks ago about recommendations from experts on how
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you should not dress to upstage anyone at the wedding. This sounds to me
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like they're kind of upstaging the wedding themselves. But hey, whatever floats your
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boat. I've told you many times on this show. I'm all about people
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doing their thing as long as it's not hurting somebody else. That's what I've
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said, and if it's your day and it's your wedding, knock yourself out.
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If you would like your home to smell like Barbie's dream House, well
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you'll be able to do that. As the Barbie Movie coming to theaters in
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July twenty first. Specifically, and one of the many items that'll be released
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in collaboration with the movie is the Barbie dream House candle. It's created by
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Homesick in conjunction with Mattel apparently smells just like Barbie's Malibu home with notes of
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rosebush, lemon zest, pink, jasmine, sandalwood, plush velle. I
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thought it just smelled like plastic. I mean, I never owned a Barbie
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dream Home, but isn't that what they smell like? Plastic? I don't
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know where all this other stuff is coming from. Pizza Hut is considering adding
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pickle pizza to the menu. They have tested out the concept and a single
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New York City location over the weekend. And addition into the pickles, the
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pizza included buttermilk ranch dressing. Yeah, that's what you need if you got
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pickles involved. And that's instead of the like a tomato sauce. It's also
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got cheese chicken with Nashville Hot seasoning. White Night seems more like a Nashville
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Hot pizza than a pickle pizza, but anyway, white onions also covered in
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ranch dressing. They said they're open to making it a permanent offering. I
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guess they were just testing it out to Sea. I don't know. And
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if you are a pickle fan, you may want to go to Pittsburgh in
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July because they're going to be having their Picklesburg Food Festival July twenty first to
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twenty third. But that's the weekend the Barbie movie comes out. Pickles are
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the main event there. They'll be prepared in every way you can imagine pizzas.
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I don't know. I guess they would have them fried, pickle flavored
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oreos. Oh that's different, pickle ice cream. It's one of those things
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that sounds like it'd be gross, but it might not be. And it's
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it's gonna be going on for yeah, that weekend July twenty first to twenty
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three. I can't imagine commuting like I've seen where they do like a macaroni
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and cheese festival in Atlanta, and I think I'd be down for that I
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mean, I like pickles I just don't know that I want to, you
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know, make a big commute from the South to Pittsburgh for Picklesburg's food festival.
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But hey, I'm just passing on the info. Nobody's asking me to
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go. I'm just passing on the info. Finally, I know, we're
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not even close to talking about Halloween yet. It will be here before we
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know it. I say that all the time, but just a heads up,
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from our childhood. My childhood at least, I don't know how old you
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are. I mean, King Vitamin might be the classic zeio from your childhood.
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I don't know. Count Chocola, Frankenberry, and Booberry. They seemed
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to pop back up around Halloween, and they were staples back then. They
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were on the shelves year round. Now they just come out around Halloween.
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Well, guess what, there's gonna be a brand new flavor. I don't
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know how long it's been since. I guess Booberry was the last flavor of
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those to come along, because I know Count Chocolate and Frankenberry were around first.
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