October 8, 2025 • 27 mins
AOC seems to think name-calling is the next phase of strategy for Democrats as they get more and more desperate for real leadership
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Wednesday morning, eighth day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for
joining me. Name calling. That's where we are now. If
you've wondered where we fall in this period of time
in our world of politics, political dialogue, we're at the
(00:35):
name calling phase of politics. No, it's not just like
taking the occasional shot or you know, you're in the
middle of a I don't know Pambondi sitting there and
having senators come after her and her fire and some
shots of them. I'm not talking about that. That's not
(00:56):
what I mean. You sit there in an agressional committee
or hearing and people are firing all these insults at
you because everything has to be as partisan as possible
and has to be about insults. And yes, you're gonna,
you know, fight for yourself, You're going to defend yourself.
That's That's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm
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talking about the fact that this has now become a
strategy by the left. And I'm not even really talking
about Trump. Let me set this up and then I'll
come back to Trump in a second. But AOC representative
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the person that many think is going to end up
being the Democrat candidate for president in a few years.
I think that is certainly a real possibility, and I
think it's someone that I think that something. She will
emerge as the potentially the final leader of the Democrat
(02:08):
Party as we know it, and that could finally be
the thing that ends that party and pushes them in
another direction. They may wise up, they may realize this
is not something that is going to be a good idea.
I have mixed feelings on it, because while I think
she would be a horrible candidate, I think that never
(02:31):
underestimate the American people's ability to make a bad decision.
We just do it sometimes. Sometimes we make these really
horrible decisions, and sometimes what seems like a horrible decision
ends up being a good decision. I'm not afraid to
(02:51):
admit that I had many reservations about Donald Trump the
first time he ran. I didn't think he was really serious.
And then he won, and he did a lot of
amazing things as president. Yes, there were tweets and comments
and things that you think, why is he doing this,
but it allowed him to get a lot of things
done just him being him. And then we know what
(03:15):
we went through in twenty twenty, and then finally we
got to a point where the American people said, enough
is enough. We're tired of playing games. We're ready to
get someone back in the White House. Even if you
think he's a giant baby, at least he's an adult.
I know, I realize how that sounds, but we didn't
have adults running the country for four years and we
(03:37):
do now. You can say whatever you want to say
about him. He's a businessman, he is a negotiator, he
has many things. But he is an adult, and the
White House is being run as if it's being run
by adults. It's just the reality of where we are
right now in the country. So it is you could
(04:00):
be critical of some of the things that he has
said and done and those kinds of things. But what
I think has started to happen on the left is
that now we have people who have said, well, we
want to try to be like him, and they haven't
figured out that the thing about Donald Trump is that's
just who he is. He's not putting on a character,
(04:23):
he's not pretending to be someone he's not. He's just
who he's been and that's part of the unique persona
that is Donald Trump, who was beloved by everyone prior
to deciding he was going to actually have the goal
to win the presidency. When he started to run, people
(04:46):
thought it was a joke. I thought it was a joke.
I didn't know. I had no idea this was somebody
who was going to come in and take everybody by storm.
I just watched by the way, just quick tangent and
then I'll come back to But I just watched the
Charlie Sheen documentary, the aka Charlie Sheen. I know it's
(05:07):
not cool to have Netflix at the moment, and I
understand why. I know a lot of people have bailed
on Netflix, and this is one of the most legit
reasons that people have bailed on Netflix. But they've bailed
on Netflix. I get it. I understand. I meanwhile sitting
back waiting on Stranger Things final season to come along.
(05:28):
But anyway, I thought I had a few people recommend
to me that I should watch the Charlie Sheen documentary.
Charlie Sheen for me, someone that I've always found to
be incredibly funny, his delivery, his timing. I think that
so much of the comedy that he has done. It
(05:49):
just comes from him like a gift. And it's not
it's not that he I mean, it's similar a lot
of what he's done, but not all of it is
the same. Comedy, I mean, hot Shots, and when he
jumped into the Scary movie franchise, I mean, that's a
that's a genre. And then what he's done with sitcoms,
(06:10):
even the sitcoms that he's done, all three of them.
Anger Management's probably really close to Two and a half Men.
But when he was doing Spin City, that's a very
different show than Two and a half Men and and
and Anger Management. But he's just he's just done in
major league. He's done so many different things, and he's
(06:33):
done drama, Platoon for Crying Out. He's done so so
much different things as an actor that he I don't
I don't know that he gets. He got maybe the
credit that he deserved. I think he won a Golden
Globe for Spin City, and I think that's probably the
only award that he ever won. I think he says
that in the documentary. And I'm not sitting here saying
that Charlie Sheen is the finest actor on the planet
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or anything, but I thought yeah, I'll check this out,
and I watched it, and a few things that sort
of jumped out at me. First of all, if you're
gonna have a long series of problems with addiction, it
helps to have a famous father. It helps to be
incredibly famous yourself. And yes, famous rich people really really
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and truly don't ever get into trouble that they deserve.
They don't. And that Charlie Sheen, for everything that we
heard about him sort of being kind of superhuman with
the lifestyle that he was living, apparently he was. I mean,
just from what came out in this documentary, how much
of all of this is true and accurate? Who knows,
(07:39):
but a lot of it seemed to line up with
the news that we got over the years. And I
bring him up because I think when you and I
had forgotten, really I remember the tiger blood and the
winning and all that stuff, but I had forgotten some
of the specifics of it, and they dive into that,
(08:00):
and he's really in the documentary. He talks about how
embarrassed he was about all that and how he was
acting in that period of his life of addiction and things.
But it really did tea things up for a Donald
Trump presidency in so many ways because the way that
he communicated while he was you know, zonked out on
(08:21):
all these different drugs. I don't know what the I
don't know what the cool kids are calling it. I
just say zonked out. But the way that he communicated
with press, the way that he communicated in interviews, the
way he communicated I guess on stage. I had forgotten
that he did a stage show. He went around and
did as many shows as he could do before the
audience has finally revolted on him and they're like, what
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are we paying for? Exactly? Just listen to a guy
ramble about how addicted he is to everything, sex, drugs
and everything, and it's like a lot of what he
did and how he did it and how he communicated
ended up very much being very similar to what Trump
(09:03):
was doing as a presidential candidate. And I don't think
Trump was trying to do the Charlie Sheen shtick. I
think that's just who Trump is. And I don't think
that she Sheen gives credit to all of this, the
tiger blood and the winning and you know, yeah, I'm
high on Charlie Sheen and those kind of jokes to
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the baseball player Brian Wilson that played for the San
Francisco Giants at the time, and he said that all
of that came from a conversation that they had and
he just was doing this interview and all that stuff
just kind of came out and he kind of felt bad.
I just this was all his stuff, he'd written, his material,
and I'm doing it. But I think it did kind
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of pave the way for some of the antics of Trump.
But I think that's just who Trump is. I really
don't believe now, maybe he is putting on some of
that stuff. Bill Maher, I guess when he had his
dinner at the White House with Trump, and he said
he's a different guy behind closed doors. But the public
persona I think has always been that. So maybe the
(10:09):
person is not, but the public persona has always kind
of been that guy. And the way that he speaks,
the hyperbole, all of the exaggerations and things that he
does and says. Anyway, I say all that just to
get to the point of talking about AOC representative. Is
(10:31):
it Cortes or Acasio Cortes, I don't know. Is that
a hyphenated name. Is it just because it's a Latin name.
I don't know, aoc is what we all call her.
And she's decided that. She says she's starting to take
shots at, you know, people that work for Trump in
the White House. And she says that what needs to
(10:53):
happen now is that as a way to attack the
MAGA people, you have to start insulting them, like that's
what they have to start doing. They have to start
insulting them to make them feel bad and make them
rethink who they are. This is the strategy. Now. This
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isn't new if you remember, this is something that the
Harris Wall's campaign came up with at some point apparently
because they were trying to do this. They were saying
that jd Vance was weird, Tim Walls was calling people weird, which, honestly,
like that's comedy gold if we actually had late night
(11:37):
talk shows that pointed out comical things. Instead, they just
you know, they don't do that because it might make
the side that they pull for look bad. So that
it was like, we're going to call everybody weird. We're
going to be the party of some very weird people
out in public, and we're going to call the other
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side that kind of represent and This is a big
part of why they lost because they're going to sit
back and say that JD. Vance is weird, and then
we're going to go, Okay, he's weird. But you know,
all of these things that don't represent the values or
what most Americans, as we've now learned see as traditional life,
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interpret that however you want to. So this pushback on
all of these things that Democrats were asking us as
Americans to support, to tolerate, to support, and to be
all in on. We're supposed to dive all in and
do everything we can to support all these things that
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most Americans are going, wait a minute, and to sign
up for this, Why do I have to participate? I
think there's still a lot of Americans that were just
the way I do. You go live your life, You
go be you, You do whatever it is that you want
to do that makes you happy, don't hurt anybody else,
and don't ask me to participate. This phase we got
to when it came to activism of it's not good
(13:09):
enough for you to just say, hey, you go be
you good for you, go be you. You have to
support me publicly and you have to say no, this
is why what you're doing is a good thing, and
everybody should do it, and they should encourage their children
to do it. You should encourage your children to do
anything but be kids. We've known that for a long
(13:32):
time now. Push them to be better, Push them to
be good human beings, Push them to achieve and to learn.
Push them maybe into sports or whatever their hobbies are,
and let them get a little older, let them get
into the teenage years, let them get into young adulthood
before any kind of lifetime permanent decisions start to get made.
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You know, that's just if you're pushing them at eight,
that's young for pushing them five. If the teachers are
pushing them and a lot of people push back, those
were the people that were saying that JD. Vance was weird.
That's all I'm trying to get to anyway. So the
name calling, it's been going on for a while now. Granted,
I would much rather if AOC is just implying call
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MAGA Republicans weird. If that's what she's encouraging, if that's
what she thinks is the right thing to do, that's
better than fascist. That's better than they deserve two bullets
in the head. That's better than you know, kill them all.
That's better than Nazi, it's better than Hitler, it's better
than all those things. But it's not intelligent progress. This
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is not doing anything to push the country forward in
a direction where we need to go. It's petty, it's childish.
It's what you would expect out of someone who basically
was just we're going to fabricate a candidate. We're going
to go have like an audition. We're going to find
somebody who's maybe going to be this trendy person that
(15:06):
we can see if we can make things stick. I've
had a lot of conversations with a lot of people
in Washington and senators, people from the House representatives. I've
talked to governors multiple states, talked I've talked to presidential
(15:27):
candidates on both sides of the aisle. I have had
White House briefings, members of the Cabinet. I've talked to
a lot of people. One of the most interesting conversations
I ever had was with one of these people who
gave me the background story on how AOC became a representative.
(15:51):
I don't even know, like you could probably look up
versions of the story online, but the description of this
was that this was like putting together a boy band,
except it was just one person. I think it was
described as like when they put the Monkeys together to
be like an alternative to the Beatles, like an American
(16:12):
version of the Beatles, except it was Let's just go
find somebody that we can just kind of mold them
into what we want them to be. They're going to
have a certain look, they're gonna be of a certain age,
they're going to not really know anything from anything. We're
just going to stick them into a district where they're
gonna win, and we're gonna see what happens. And this
(16:33):
is what happens. This person gets to where they're barely
old enough to run for president, they're being hyped as
someone who's going to run for president probably, And the
best thing that right now she has is let's name
call Maga Republicans and make them feel shame. Let's make
them feel ashamed of the fact that they're Maga Republicans.
Let's make them feel ashamed that their side won and
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that the majority of Americans voted the way that they did,
and that the president is getting a lot of things done,
and that the person that they supported is being supported
by more Americans than not. Let's make them feel shamed
for that. That's the best right now that the left
can put out. And like I said, a lot of
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to not match either of the subject's parents. So where
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that's what's confusing to me. I mean, I know how
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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Wednesday morning, eighth day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for
joining me. Name calling. That's where we are now. If
you've wondered where we fall in this period of time
in our world of politics, political dialogue, we're at the
(00:35):
name calling phase of politics. No, it's not just like
taking the occasional shot or you know, you're in the
middle of a I don't know Pambondi sitting there and
having senators come after her and her fire and some
shots of them. I'm not talking about that. That's not
(00:56):
what I mean. You sit there in an agressional committee
or hearing and people are firing all these insults at
you because everything has to be as partisan as possible
and has to be about insults. And yes, you're gonna,
you know, fight for yourself, You're going to defend yourself.
That's That's not what I'm talking about at all. I'm
(01:19):
talking about the fact that this has now become a
strategy by the left. And I'm not even really talking
about Trump. Let me set this up and then I'll
come back to Trump in a second. But AOC representative
(01:43):
the person that many think is going to end up
being the Democrat candidate for president in a few years.
I think that is certainly a real possibility, and I
think it's someone that I think that something. She will
emerge as the potentially the final leader of the Democrat
(02:08):
Party as we know it, and that could finally be
the thing that ends that party and pushes them in
another direction. They may wise up, they may realize this
is not something that is going to be a good idea.
I have mixed feelings on it, because while I think
she would be a horrible candidate, I think that never
(02:31):
underestimate the American people's ability to make a bad decision.
We just do it sometimes. Sometimes we make these really
horrible decisions, and sometimes what seems like a horrible decision
ends up being a good decision. I'm not afraid to
(02:51):
admit that I had many reservations about Donald Trump the
first time he ran. I didn't think he was really serious.
And then he won, and he did a lot of
amazing things as president. Yes, there were tweets and comments
and things that you think, why is he doing this,
but it allowed him to get a lot of things
done just him being him. And then we know what
(03:15):
we went through in twenty twenty, and then finally we
got to a point where the American people said, enough
is enough. We're tired of playing games. We're ready to
get someone back in the White House. Even if you
think he's a giant baby, at least he's an adult.
I know, I realize how that sounds, but we didn't
have adults running the country for four years and we
(03:37):
do now. You can say whatever you want to say
about him. He's a businessman, he is a negotiator, he
has many things. But he is an adult, and the
White House is being run as if it's being run
by adults. It's just the reality of where we are
right now in the country. So it is you could
(04:00):
be critical of some of the things that he has
said and done and those kinds of things. But what
I think has started to happen on the left is
that now we have people who have said, well, we
want to try to be like him, and they haven't
figured out that the thing about Donald Trump is that's
just who he is. He's not putting on a character,
(04:23):
he's not pretending to be someone he's not. He's just
who he's been and that's part of the unique persona
that is Donald Trump, who was beloved by everyone prior
to deciding he was going to actually have the goal
to win the presidency. When he started to run, people
(04:46):
thought it was a joke. I thought it was a joke.
I didn't know. I had no idea this was somebody
who was going to come in and take everybody by storm.
I just watched by the way, just quick tangent and
then I'll come back to But I just watched the
Charlie Sheen documentary, the aka Charlie Sheen. I know it's
(05:07):
not cool to have Netflix at the moment, and I
understand why. I know a lot of people have bailed
on Netflix, and this is one of the most legit
reasons that people have bailed on Netflix. But they've bailed
on Netflix. I get it. I understand. I meanwhile sitting
back waiting on Stranger Things final season to come along.
(05:28):
But anyway, I thought I had a few people recommend
to me that I should watch the Charlie Sheen documentary.
Charlie Sheen for me, someone that I've always found to
be incredibly funny, his delivery, his timing. I think that
so much of the comedy that he has done. It
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just comes from him like a gift. And it's not
it's not that he I mean, it's similar a lot
of what he's done, but not all of it is
the same. Comedy, I mean, hot Shots, and when he
jumped into the Scary movie franchise, I mean, that's a
that's a genre. And then what he's done with sitcoms,
(06:10):
even the sitcoms that he's done, all three of them.
Anger Management's probably really close to Two and a half Men.
But when he was doing Spin City, that's a very
different show than Two and a half Men and and
and Anger Management. But he's just he's just done in
major league. He's done so many different things, and he's
(06:33):
done drama, Platoon for Crying Out. He's done so so
much different things as an actor that he I don't
I don't know that he gets. He got maybe the
credit that he deserved. I think he won a Golden
Globe for Spin City, and I think that's probably the
only award that he ever won. I think he says
that in the documentary. And I'm not sitting here saying
that Charlie Sheen is the finest actor on the planet
(06:55):
or anything, but I thought yeah, I'll check this out,
and I watched it, and a few things that sort
of jumped out at me. First of all, if you're
gonna have a long series of problems with addiction, it
helps to have a famous father. It helps to be
incredibly famous yourself. And yes, famous rich people really really
(07:18):
and truly don't ever get into trouble that they deserve.
They don't. And that Charlie Sheen, for everything that we
heard about him sort of being kind of superhuman with
the lifestyle that he was living, apparently he was. I mean,
just from what came out in this documentary, how much
of all of this is true and accurate? Who knows,
(07:39):
but a lot of it seemed to line up with
the news that we got over the years. And I
bring him up because I think when you and I
had forgotten, really I remember the tiger blood and the
winning and all that stuff, but I had forgotten some
of the specifics of it, and they dive into that,
(08:00):
and he's really in the documentary. He talks about how
embarrassed he was about all that and how he was
acting in that period of his life of addiction and things.
But it really did tea things up for a Donald
Trump presidency in so many ways because the way that
he communicated while he was you know, zonked out on
(08:21):
all these different drugs. I don't know what the I
don't know what the cool kids are calling it. I
just say zonked out. But the way that he communicated
with press, the way that he communicated in interviews, the
way he communicated I guess on stage. I had forgotten
that he did a stage show. He went around and
did as many shows as he could do before the
audience has finally revolted on him and they're like, what
(08:43):
are we paying for? Exactly? Just listen to a guy
ramble about how addicted he is to everything, sex, drugs
and everything, and it's like a lot of what he
did and how he did it and how he communicated
ended up very much being very similar to what Trump
(09:03):
was doing as a presidential candidate. And I don't think
Trump was trying to do the Charlie Sheen shtick. I
think that's just who Trump is. And I don't think
that she Sheen gives credit to all of this, the
tiger blood and the winning and you know, yeah, I'm
high on Charlie Sheen and those kind of jokes to
(09:26):
the baseball player Brian Wilson that played for the San
Francisco Giants at the time, and he said that all
of that came from a conversation that they had and
he just was doing this interview and all that stuff
just kind of came out and he kind of felt bad.
I just this was all his stuff, he'd written, his material,
and I'm doing it. But I think it did kind
(09:49):
of pave the way for some of the antics of Trump.
But I think that's just who Trump is. I really
don't believe now, maybe he is putting on some of
that stuff. Bill Maher, I guess when he had his
dinner at the White House with Trump, and he said
he's a different guy behind closed doors. But the public
persona I think has always been that. So maybe the
(10:09):
person is not, but the public persona has always kind
of been that guy. And the way that he speaks,
the hyperbole, all of the exaggerations and things that he
does and says. Anyway, I say all that just to
get to the point of talking about AOC representative. Is
(10:31):
it Cortes or Acasio Cortes, I don't know. Is that
a hyphenated name. Is it just because it's a Latin name.
I don't know, aoc is what we all call her.
And she's decided that. She says she's starting to take
shots at, you know, people that work for Trump in
the White House. And she says that what needs to
(10:53):
happen now is that as a way to attack the
MAGA people, you have to start insulting them, like that's
what they have to start doing. They have to start
insulting them to make them feel bad and make them
rethink who they are. This is the strategy. Now. This
(11:14):
isn't new if you remember, this is something that the
Harris Wall's campaign came up with at some point apparently
because they were trying to do this. They were saying
that jd Vance was weird, Tim Walls was calling people weird, which, honestly,
like that's comedy gold if we actually had late night
(11:37):
talk shows that pointed out comical things. Instead, they just
you know, they don't do that because it might make
the side that they pull for look bad. So that
it was like, we're going to call everybody weird. We're
going to be the party of some very weird people
out in public, and we're going to call the other
(11:59):
side that kind of represent and This is a big
part of why they lost because they're going to sit
back and say that JD. Vance is weird, and then
we're going to go, Okay, he's weird. But you know,
all of these things that don't represent the values or
what most Americans, as we've now learned see as traditional life,
(12:23):
interpret that however you want to. So this pushback on
all of these things that Democrats were asking us as
Americans to support, to tolerate, to support, and to be
all in on. We're supposed to dive all in and
do everything we can to support all these things that
(12:46):
most Americans are going, wait a minute, and to sign
up for this, Why do I have to participate? I
think there's still a lot of Americans that were just
the way I do. You go live your life, You
go be you, You do whatever it is that you want
to do that makes you happy, don't hurt anybody else,
and don't ask me to participate. This phase we got
to when it came to activism of it's not good
(13:09):
enough for you to just say, hey, you go be
you good for you, go be you. You have to
support me publicly and you have to say no, this
is why what you're doing is a good thing, and
everybody should do it, and they should encourage their children
to do it. You should encourage your children to do
anything but be kids. We've known that for a long
(13:32):
time now. Push them to be better, Push them to
be good human beings, Push them to achieve and to learn.
Push them maybe into sports or whatever their hobbies are,
and let them get a little older, let them get
into the teenage years, let them get into young adulthood
before any kind of lifetime permanent decisions start to get made.
(13:55):
You know, that's just if you're pushing them at eight,
that's young for pushing them five. If the teachers are
pushing them and a lot of people push back, those
were the people that were saying that JD. Vance was weird.
That's all I'm trying to get to anyway. So the
name calling, it's been going on for a while now. Granted,
I would much rather if AOC is just implying call
(14:19):
MAGA Republicans weird. If that's what she's encouraging, if that's
what she thinks is the right thing to do, that's
better than fascist. That's better than they deserve two bullets
in the head. That's better than you know, kill them all.
That's better than Nazi, it's better than Hitler, it's better
than all those things. But it's not intelligent progress. This
(14:45):
is not doing anything to push the country forward in
a direction where we need to go. It's petty, it's childish.
It's what you would expect out of someone who basically
was just we're going to fabricate a candidate. We're going
to go have like an audition. We're going to find
somebody who's maybe going to be this trendy person that
(15:06):
we can see if we can make things stick. I've
had a lot of conversations with a lot of people
in Washington and senators, people from the House representatives. I've
talked to governors multiple states, talked I've talked to presidential
(15:27):
candidates on both sides of the aisle. I have had
White House briefings, members of the Cabinet. I've talked to
a lot of people. One of the most interesting conversations
I ever had was with one of these people who
gave me the background story on how AOC became a representative.
(15:51):
I don't even know, like you could probably look up
versions of the story online, but the description of this
was that this was like putting together a boy band,
except it was just one person. I think it was
described as like when they put the Monkeys together to
be like an alternative to the Beatles, like an American
(16:12):
version of the Beatles, except it was Let's just go
find somebody that we can just kind of mold them
into what we want them to be. They're going to
have a certain look, they're gonna be of a certain age,
they're going to not really know anything from anything. We're
just going to stick them into a district where they're
gonna win, and we're gonna see what happens. And this
(16:33):
is what happens. This person gets to where they're barely
old enough to run for president, they're being hyped as
someone who's going to run for president probably, And the
best thing that right now she has is let's name
call Maga Republicans and make them feel shame. Let's make
them feel ashamed of the fact that they're Maga Republicans.
Let's make them feel ashamed that their side won and
(16:56):
that the majority of Americans voted the way that they did,
and that the president is getting a lot of things done,
and that the person that they supported is being supported
by more Americans than not. Let's make them feel shamed
for that. That's the best right now that the left
can put out. And like I said, a lot of
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we often hear cautionary tales about mo money more problems right,
lottery winners who blow all their money and fall on
tough times. But for a sudden British millionaire, he not
only lost a bunch of money, he nearly lost his life.
A thirty nine year old forklift driver named Adam Lopez
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won a million dollars on a scratch off lottery ticket,
and he celebrated pretty hard, quit his job, partied NonStop
for three months. While he knew the money would eventually
come to an end, he never thought he could also die.
He says all that partying led to a blood clot
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almost killed him. He spent over a week in the
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hospital and credits the staff with saving his life, though
he says he learned a valuable lesson doesn't matter if
you have a million, one hundred million, a billion, a
trillion when you're in the back of an ambulance. None
of that matters, you know. I'm just saying if I
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had one a million on a scratch off, if that
happened to me, Uh, well, first I have to buy
scratch off. But if I had one a million dollars
in scratch I'd like to just prove. I would like
the opportunity to prove that you don't have to go
out and party hard and that you can set yourself
up for a nice future. That's all I'm just that's
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that's just the point. You know, if somebody wants to,
you know, give me a million dollars and say, here
you go, Wes, We'll pretend that this is a lottery
and we'll see what you can do with it. If
you're gonna go crazy and party hard, or are you
gonna you know, look to your future and your kid's
future and those kinds of things. I would I would,
you know, if if you're one of those people, if
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you've got a million dollars and you'd like to, let's
test this out. We can see how it goes. Hey,
it's boo basket time. Remember boo baskets. This is the
Halloween equivalent of Easter baskets. Uh, Basically, it started as
kind of a low key thing where people would drop
off a basket of candy and other small kind of
(23:06):
treats with you've been booed on a note and then
the other person that is supposed to boo another person,
and then it just became like a full blown annual
gift giving ritual, much like Easter baskets or secret santas.
So people making boo baskets for friends, partners, kids, and
it not just filled with treats, but also you know, socks, flippers,
(23:28):
stuffed at slippers, I said, flippers, stuffed animals, candles, mugs,
and sometimes you know pricey items. They get a nice
item like or you could give them flippers flipper. If
you're going to give them like a snorkel and flippers,
this is the time to buy it because you know
it's we're in the fall. Those things are discounted right now,
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so if you're no slippers, and it's a way for
people to you know, just celebrate the season. I guess.
But do we need another gift giving thing? I guess
has been my question. Some parents love the fun, others
feel like it's just another thing to add to an
already packed holiday season. That's what I was getting at
and some baskets costing over one hundred dollars, and there's
(24:12):
some pressure as well, as I guess some on social
media are starting to share some budget friendly versions of
Boo baskets. So just kind of keep that in mind
if you're going to get in on this trend. I
know some people that have some of these holiday trends.
There's one particular one at Christmas time that people kind
(24:34):
of wish that, Oh I wish we hadn't gotten involved
with that one. It's the one that has like the
rhyme in the name of it. You know what I'm
talking about. I don't want to say it. They said, Man,
it was a mistake. Could be involved in that, all right,
So forget what you're signing As daters are more likely
to ask what's your zip code? It's a new dating
trend called zip coding. People limit their romantic prospects to
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people who live in the same zip code, or at
least one of the nearby ones. Some even using dating
app filters to exclude anyone outside their immediate area. And
it's about convenience. Some might it may seem practical to
some experts Warren that focusing on geography alone can lead
to disappointment and missed opportunities. Basically, you should look beyond
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location and focus instead on shared values and real connection.
You also don't want to accidentally start dating somebody from
the family reunion. I think that's another reason to date
outside the zip code. You don't want to be too
close to home, is what I'm saying. I mean, obviously
you're not going to date in the family pool, but
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I don't know. I'm just saying there's a reason to
diversify a little bit. Doctor Max Rymple is the founder
and CEO of DNA, a residence research foundation, and he
seems to be a serious man, and he claims to
have found evidence that there's alien DNA and some of
us humans. Doctor Rymple discovered that there are large sequence
of DNA and a number of his subjects that appeared
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to not match either of the subject's parents. So where
would that DNA have come from? I mean, I think
the implication there is that it maybe came from aliens.
But I don't know how that works at all. I mean,
I know how it works, I just I don't I
don't understand how any of this would actually you know
(26:25):
how the DNA would get there and parental DNA. That's
that's what's confusing to me. I mean, I know how
it works. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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