October 27, 2025 • 27 mins
Reports of "journalists" requesting photos of "black people" at the No Kings protests because they were scarce says a lot.
Get exclusive deals from our partners:
Shop Cozy Earth for luxurious bamboo bedding and pajamas. You're spending a third of your life in bed, make sure you enjoy the comfort and feel of your bedding. Plus use the dicount code WES to save 41% off your purchase
CozyEarth.com
Shop Old Glory for unique and officially licensed gear from your favorite fandoms including sports, comics, NASA and more! Plus use the dicount code WES to save 15% off your purchase
OldGlory.com
Shop Prep Starts Now for for all of your disaster prep needs. Don't wait to prep for a disaster when everyone else is scrambling to do the same. Your Prep Starts Now! Plus use the dicount code WES to save 15% off your purchase
PrepStartsNow.com
The Wes Carroll Morning Show earns a commission from your purchases on these sites. Get a discount, get your gear, and support the show. It's a win, win, win!
Get exclusive deals from our partners:
Shop Cozy Earth for luxurious bamboo bedding and pajamas. You're spending a third of your life in bed, make sure you enjoy the comfort and feel of your bedding. Plus use the dicount code WES to save 41% off your purchase
CozyEarth.com
Shop Old Glory for unique and officially licensed gear from your favorite fandoms including sports, comics, NASA and more! Plus use the dicount code WES to save 15% off your purchase
OldGlory.com
Shop Prep Starts Now for for all of your disaster prep needs. Don't wait to prep for a disaster when everyone else is scrambling to do the same. Your Prep Starts Now! Plus use the dicount code WES to save 15% off your purchase
PrepStartsNow.com
The Wes Carroll Morning Show earns a commission from your purchases on these sites. Get a discount, get your gear, and support the show. It's a win, win, win!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
To start your day.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Monday morning, twenty seventh day of October. I'm Wes, thanks
for joining me. Final week of the month of October.
Got those Halloween costumes all planned out. Many Halloween parties
and things over this past weekend. I know a lot
of the clubs and things were celebrating. We have a
(00:34):
Friday night of trick or treating this year. No conversations
or questions about where were they going to move it
to a different day. Don't have to worry about that
because it's on a convenient Friday. I hate to I
know I'm officially now at that age at fifty, but
I hate to be the you know, in my day.
(00:55):
But that's kind of where we're at. You know, back
in my day, back in our day, for the other
Gen xers, back in our day, you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Just had Halloween on Halloween. It wasn't like you went,
Halloween is.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The thirty first, but we're going to celebrate it on
Friday or Saturday or whatever. You just had Halloween. That's
what you did. There was no question of you know,
when is trick or Treating. You knew it was on Halloween,
That's what it was. I do understand that there are
complications that come, and these will pop up over the
(01:29):
next you know what, two years, we're gonna get to this.
We're gonna have the Monday night Halloween or whatever. No,
there'll be Sunday Night Halloween. Some people aren't comfortable with that.
And then I guess we'll get to we get the
leap year coming up, and that'll push it on into
the week That kind of helps a little bit, getting
it back on track for the weekends. But I don't know.
(01:50):
We do this thing and I don't get a vote
in this. None of us really get a vote in it. It
just gets decided. Someone decides what night trigg or Treating
is going to be. But my point is this year,
because it's on Friday and we don't have to worry
about it, there's no discussion about it. We didn't really
discuss it last year either. It was just you know,
(02:10):
it was on Thursday, and that was okay, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and even Monday. It's kind of eh. They don't really
know what to do with it. They're confused, they don't
know what and then they just have.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
To try to.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And I realize Halloween is not exactly one of those holidays.
It's locked in for any other reason other than it's
just that's the day. It's not like you're going, well,
you know, Christmas, Wo'd rather Christmas be on Saturday. We'll
let the twenty fifth happen on Monday, but we'll go
(02:44):
ahead and celebrate. Like you know, there's a lot of
reasons that you do it on the actual day. Halloween
not really a religious holiday. I mean really not to
most people. Some people maybe I don't know. We had
the story Friday about they were not some countries they're
(03:05):
not adopting out black cats because they don't want anybody
performing any kind of rituals with them.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That was another back in my day, that's what we
talked about.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They were going to do the Satanic rituals with the
cats on Halloween, so be careful out there. That was
back in my day. We had those discussions. So we
have that coming up, and then boom Saturday, it's November,
and then we're just going to roll on in to
Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then it'll be twenty twenty six, and.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's a big year. We know the reasons.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's a big year for this country's history.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
All that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll have more on that, I'm sure as we roll
on through the year. Before we get into twenty twenty six, though,
we'll have a couple of things worth mentioning. First of all,
this weekend, November one, Saturday, Made of Stars Live, the
podcast will be doing it from Columbus State University's Coca
Cola Space Science Center inside the Planetarium. That's what we're
(03:59):
going to do. We're gonna do a show live.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We hope you'll join us. We hope you'll be there.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's gonna be a good time. We're gonna do a podcast.
You can sit there and watch us. You can be
part of it in some way, and we hope that
you could be there for it. And then immediately following
Made of Stars Live at six o'clock on Saturday at
seven o'clock is the Astronomy Night and that is also
a free event, So you get two free events for
(04:25):
the price of one which is free, and you can
get a chance to check out the nighttime sky stare
up into the telescopes into the sky with doctor Rosa
Williams and her team. They'll tell you what you're going
to be looking at, get a chance to see it,
and we'll basically just kind of a transition from one
event to the other. And it's all free. And it
(04:45):
is November the first All Saints Day, so there you go.
So we look forward to seeing any of there that
and then of course the Nutcracker Ballet coming up really
almost like almost two weeks into December, and get your
tickets from the River Center box office or Rivercenter dot
org or Thecolumbus Ballet dot org. Don't get them anywhere else.
(05:06):
Get the tickets from the source, and in that way
you don't pay the up price because you don't want
to get ripped off. And I mentioned that again, and
that's coming up, So get your tickets. And I want
to just this past weekend, Saturday, my first chance to
meet this year's Paulish Chanel's that'll be dancing with me.
(05:27):
We had an intense rehearsal, it was. It was intense,
more intense for them. They obviously are, you know, much
more choreographed than I am. One of the fun things
about my role as Mother Ginger is there's a lot
of ad libbing. I'm kind of free to do my
own thing on stage. I have certain things. I have marks,
(05:49):
I have to hit, places I have to be and
those sorts of things. But overall there's a lot of
freedom with what I get to do and I get
to play to the audience. And that's one of the
reasons I love the role. This is my seventh year role.
And uh, these girls are they were working hard. They
were working We were all working hard, but they were
working hard on Saturday. As we get ready for the
(06:10):
upcoming Nutcracker in December, hope you'll join us. Go to
Rivercenter dot org, Thecolumbus Ballet dot org and uh get
your tickets, secure vose tickets and join us for the
great tradition that is the Nutcracker Ballet. All right, I
want to talk to you about a couple of things now.
(06:33):
This is it's been a long running conversation that we've
had about how you know they used to well they
still occasionally like to talk about it, even though there's
a lot there's a lot of questions that we have
about this great switch that happened. Everybody says that you
(06:54):
know Democrats, the Party of Slavery and the KKK, and
you know eugenics and play parenthood and all those fun
things they say that, you know, there was a point
where the two parties just flip flopped. Even though Democrats
controlled the South all the way until the nineties, but
somewhere along the line, apparently it flip flopped, like in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It just flipped.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And then all of the Republicans that were, you know,
the good guys if you want to talk about slavery
all they just all instantly became Democrats and then all
and they weren't in power, but once they became Democrats,
they magically were in power, like they suddenly had the
ability to be in power. And then the Democrats, who were,
(07:41):
you know, the pro slavery party, flipped over to Republicans
and just lost power immediately. And that's just what until
the nineties, and then the Republicans, those old Democrats supposedly
took over. But anyway, that's that's a whole nother conversation.
I want to talk about the switch that's happened more recently,
(08:02):
and I've been talking about this now for a few
months quite a bit this year, about the fact that
we have seen this strange sort of change that's taken
place between the two parties and we've had another kind
of event that's taken place. So I think back to
back in my day again, going back to you know,
(08:23):
the late eighties and early nineties, around the time when
you know, I, you know, I became a voter at eighteen,
and that was early nineties, and there was a point
for me just even when I registered to be a
voter and it was like, well, wait a minute, I
need to uh, you know, start paying attention to things.
(08:45):
And at the time, I was in a private school.
It was connected to a church, and the church would
often have discussions telling people how they were supposed to vote.
This is what you're supposed to do, This is how
you're supposed to vote, This is you know, the our
what our stance is on these issues now. For our
particular church, it was primarily focused on specific issues like abortion.
(09:08):
It was saying, look, if you would like to support life,
these are the candidates that support that. That was really
more the issue then, and there have been a lot
of things that have changed over the years where the
message has been you're not supposed to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, you could lose.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Your tax breaks and your you know, exempt status and
all those sorts of things, so you're not really supposed
to do that anymore. But that has flipped. We now
have churches now that are very pro left ideology, constantly
talking about those things. They're not specifically telling you how
to vote, but they're telling you things like, you know, push, push,
(09:49):
Everything that we've known about religion aside. Let's start with
politics so we can get people in the door, and
then we'll we'll focus on that, and then while we're
pushing that agenda, then we'll work in some uh, some
church on top of the politics. I've said many times,
(10:11):
if your church is putting politics ahead of, uh, you know,
the actual message of the faith, your church isn't doing
it right. And if you're putting your politics ahead of
your faith, you're you're not doing any of this right.
Your faith should dictate where things go.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
This.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
This shouldn't go the other way. And I know that
there's a lot of churches that are struggling with this,
but this isn't the way that this should work.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Once upon a time, we definitely had this on the right.
It seemed to be a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Uh, you're you're.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Conservative because you're a Christian, you have to be and
this is the message. And now it really certainly seems
to be, well, wait a minute, we're the compassionate liberals
and and that's where church is. So you know, we
need ministers, we need you know, all of these things
that we're going to say to support the transmit. We
(11:05):
need to you know, cast some Catholic churches saying, wait
a minute, Abortion's okay. Sure, we've been historically against birth
control for a really long time, but we're gonna, you know,
we're gonna support abortion. And I know not all Catholics.
I'm just just saying in general, this is kind of
the way things have trended. We just had a president
(11:27):
who was Catholic, who was pro abortion, and it's a
weird kind of thing, isn't it. Anyway, So we've had
some of these flips, we've had some of these things
that have transitioned greatly, like I feel like just in
the last year or two, and we now have I've
said before, it used to be that it was the
(11:48):
far right, the Christian far right, evangelicals that were the
ones screaming about the end of the world. Now it's
the far left screaming about the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
With climate change.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You know, I just heard I just saw a clip
the other day of an interview that basically said, if
the people of New York elect a communist mayor and
it causes all the business owners and the people of
New York to leave to go to Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well they're going to all be underwater soon. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That was the message from the person being interviewed, not
the interviewer like the person who's being in it was
pro mom, Donnie.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So that is now.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The extreme religion. Those are now the people standing in
the street corners screaming about the end of the world.
It's the people saying that climate is going to kill
us all. And that's just where we are. No mention
of the fact that, you know, planting more trees and
more vegetation could could clean things up tremendously, but tear
(12:54):
those things down and let's put up solar panels.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But I digress. So that is.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Another area where things have changed greatly. And now this
is just and there's many more. I've talked about him
in past shows, but the most recent one I want
to get to it is, now we've got a candidate who, honestly,
if the Mamdani equivalent as someone who is Clearly he
(13:23):
calls himself a democratic socialist, what he says sounds communists.
In so many ways, Democratic socialists have been this thing
that the terminology to describe communists in hiding. So that's
what we're talking about. This is an extreme even as
a democratic socialist. This is an extreme, far left person.
(13:44):
And remember it wasn't very long ago the extreme right
people were the ones that were these are dangerous people
because they're so far to the right. They refused to
be centrists. Ted Cruz was viewed as an extremist because
of how far right he was. And then Cruz is
not that far right. I mean, he's more far right
(14:06):
than some. But when you're screaming for like a centrist
candidate for the John mccains, who, let's be honest, was
left of center. But when you're screaming for that out
of Republicans and hoping that that's what you're going to get,
h and you're not then offering up those you know,
left of center Democrats or even right of center Democrats.
(14:26):
If you're going to use the McCain equation, if you're
screaming that we have you can't have these extremists from
the Republicans. I mean, Mom Donnie is like way far left.
I mean, let's acknowledge that AOC extreme far left. Bernie
(14:46):
Sanders is extreme far left. The same people that we
recently have referred to on the right as dangerous. These
are dangerous extremist people.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
These are alt right.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This is alt left, and this is now there and
there's no acknowledgment of it. You have some people on
the right that are pointing and going, wait a minute,
look how far over there they are. But these were
once the people that were chastised on the right. They
were attacked. They're dangerous. We shouldn't acknowledge them. Here's another one,
(15:19):
and this is now a result of the No Kings
and the Mom Donnie thing. So and I guess this
was in large cities where large numbers of people were
coming in. And I saw just a clip from Bill
Maher's Real Time show and he was talking with his
panel about the fact that he saw the No King's
(15:41):
protests and that some of the news outlets, some of
the news agencies. First of all, we've had a couple
of outlets that have been showing photos that weren't they
were from previous years in the past, not at this
particular protest, and they were trying to pass off these
overhead shots of how big the crowds were, which were fake.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
In some cases.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And he was saying that, yes, some of the media
outlets were trying to find non white people in the
crowds for these No Kings protests, and they were struggling
that they wanted pictures of non white people. Think back
to when there was a time when at like the
RNC they would want to show some non white people.
(16:27):
They wanted to show Hispanic, and they wanted to show
Black Americans. They want to show various demographics there, and
they were struggling sometimes to find them, and some of
the media outlets on the left would go out of
their way to make sure that they weren't showing them.
They might cut away when the feed was showing some
But anyway, now it's flipped now in this particular case,
(16:49):
the No Kings thing, this is not something that Black Americans,
apparently in many of these cases were embracing. I think
we've had a cultural change in a lot of ways
in just buying into whatever the slop is that's coming
from the left, and it's an interesting change. It's interesting
(17:11):
that they weren't able to get I mean, how hard
is it They've been paying people to come to events.
This is a regular thing now that you will pay
people to come to events. So how hard is it
to pay people to come to the events? You would
think now, I don't know. Maybe they were trying to
do these events the No Kings without paying them. I
(17:31):
don't know how that worked exactly, but to me, that's
another really interesting change, isn't it. Today's show brought to
you by Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center,
inspiring and educating the youth and future STEM leaders and
STEM career holders that really of all ages. I mean,
(17:52):
they do it for school age kids as school age
kids visit the Coca Cola Space Science Center, but they
also do it through their university program where you can
learn engineering, astronomy, physics, and the careers in space and
STEM fields are booming right now, and you can learn
more about maybe getting your degree on their website CCSSC
(18:16):
dot org. While you're there, also check out some of
their upcoming programs. They've got this incredible collaboration that they
do with the SCHWOB School of Music from Columbus State
University called Music under the Dome. It's unlike any concert
experience that you can get anywhere else. It's one of
those things that when you're watching it in Columbus, Georgia,
(18:37):
you think, is this really in Columbus, Georgia. I mean,
this is a major city attraction that happens right here
in Columbus inside the planetarium at the Coca Cola Space
Science Center and the new season of Music under the Dome.
Check out upcoming dates for the shows, and also check
(18:58):
out when the next Astronomy ights coming up. Where you
can get outside. Sometimes you do it at the Cocola
Space Science Center. Sometimes you get outside somewhere outside the
city lights. You don't want any light interference, and you
can do that as well upcoming Astronomy Night events. Also
on their website, it's CCSSC dot org. As Sean Cruisin
says Charlie Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org, I just remind
(19:22):
you that it stands for Coca Cola Space Science Center
CCSSC dot org. Today's show brought to you by Overhead
Door Company of Columbus for all of your garage door needs.
Commercial or residential. Maybe you have regular maintenance that it's
time for. It's always good to get maintenance on anything
(19:43):
that has parts that move and have electronics. The folks
at Overhead Door Company of Columbus can take care of
squaring that away for you, and while they're there, you
can always ask them questions about some of the maybe
cosmetic changes you'd like to make to your garage door.
Maybe your cur appeal isn't quite what you want it
to be and you need some repair work done to
(20:04):
the outside door. Maybe you need a brand new garage
door completely. Maybe it's making a noise when your garage
door opens and closes. Maybe it's some sort of insulation
issue that you've got with colder or warmer weather, sometimes
that stuff gets in and it's inconvenient. Maybe you're looking
at a situation where you'd like to add a screen
door to your garage door system that you can put
(20:26):
down and you can use your garage space as a
sort of outdoor but indoor, you know, if you like
to work on your own cars in there, or maybe
you just want a little man cavid. You'd like to
be able to open the door up and not invite
all the insects in They can do that for you
as well, and again they do after hours calls. There's
nothing worse than that thought of having your car trapped
(20:47):
inside your garage and your garage door won't open and
you need somebody to come help, and they do those
as well. Seven oh sixty five eight forty five hundred
seven oh six three five eight forty five hundred oh
dccolumbus dot.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, well,
do you often feel.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Like you're tired all day and you can't wait to
go to bed, than at bedtime you get a sudden
burst of energy. It's totally normal, and there's a scientific
reason why. Sleep experts are calling it second wind, and
it like the Billy Joel song, and it happens when
you miss your natural sleep window. So at bedtime, your
brain sends signals that help you fall asleep. If you
(21:39):
stay up beyond that, though, and you're staring at your phone,
your brain then flips the switch and starts sending wake
up signals instead. So the next time it happens to
you and you get that second wind, experts say what
you should do. Don't lie there tossing and turning. It's
actually better to get out of bed and reset, reading
a book, meditating, doing something relaxing. The goal is to
(22:01):
retrain your brain and associate bed with rest and not
with frustration. It is difficult, and you do end up
having to just get up. That's what I have to
do when I hit that point, I try my best
not to do it. I don't like to stay as
lie in bed and stare at my phone. I try
my best not to do that. I can't say that
(22:22):
I haven't done it, but it's pretty uncommon for me.
I like to charge it, maybe in a different room
if possible. That also helps prevent unwanted calls or texts
that light up the room or whatever, because some of
those things will wake me up as well. DC Restaurant
is getting a lot of attention, and it's not just
for the menu, but for its no phones policy.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There you go where.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Diners are more than happy to abide by it. In
this particular place, Rock Harper, the owner and chef at
Hush Harbor, requires diners to put their phones in a
yonder pouch. And I guess I'm saying that right yonder
and then it's locked up and they're not able to
be unlocked until they leave the restaurant. Harper says, people
(23:05):
are like, Wow, I really enjoy being without my phone
and speaking with someone. People do want to be connected,
and they want to vibe and they want to enjoy themselves.
In a rare event that somebody absolutely needs to use
their phone, they're allowed to do so, but they're asked
to step outside to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I like this idea.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I like it a lot, and I think you're probably
going to struggle to get teenagers to go in there,
but they probably need it the most.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I think.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Remember Hamburger Helper, it's having a moment again, people citing
it as an economic indicator. Sales of the box meal kits,
which were first introduced in the early seventies seventy one
to be exact, jumped fourteen point five percent this year
as more people are looking for ways to save money.
If you've never had Hamburger Helper, you probably have. But
(24:00):
it's basically a box of post and seasonings and then
you just add some kind of meat to it. With
beef prices at record highs, stretch meals like Hamburger Helper
are seeing a resurgence. So yeah, an economic indicator as
people are trying to navigate, especially as we get into
(24:20):
this last part of the year. I mean knocking on
the door in November. This is when it's going to
be down to cases.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The Miami Day Sheriff's Office in Florida has unveiled a
driverless patrol car, complete with a three hundred and sixty
degree camera, drone launching capabilities, license plate readers, thermal imaging,
and of course AI. They call it PUG. It's police
unmanned ground vehicle, and while it's not chasing down any
(24:49):
suspects yet, it is making appearances at community events to
gather feedback and test its potential.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I can guess how that would go over.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
In my hometown, Columbus, possibly your hometown. And I just
know that we have, you know, speed cameras up in
school zones, and those are not very popular. So I
would imagine an unmanned police car probably not.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Going to be very.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Popular if they were to make their way here. Sam
Adams has just released its strongest beer ever, Utopia is
twenty twenty five, clocking it at thirty percent alcohol content
and a two hundred and forty dollars price tag for
each twenty four point five ounce bottle. It's been aged
up to thirty years in barrels that once held everything
from Irish whiskey, cognac, and scotch. And because it's so
(25:42):
potent Utopia twenty twenty five's, it's actually illegal in fifteen states.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And how about this.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Some brave and lucky souls in Oregon competed in the
West Coast Giant Pumption Pumpkin Regatta, where racers paddle hollowed
out pumpkins across the lake, dressed in costumes like Buddy
the Elf, Ted Lasso, and Shrek, among others. The event
was organized first back in two thousand and four. Is
(26:13):
a quarter mile race that has multiple heats, one for
pumpkin growers, one for event sponsors, one for local officials,
and two for the public. Tickets are in high demand
anyone racing in the public. Heats are chosen with a
lottery system that begins each September. That'll do it for
(26:35):
this Monday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors
and patrons. Thanks for listening. I'll catch you back here
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
This is the West Carrol Morning Show powered by Overhead
Door Company of Columbus. The Holiday Inn Resort in Panama
City and CSU's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Overhead Door Company of Columbus has all of your garage
door needs covered, Residential and comer marshall service and repairs.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
If you need a new garage door, or you're just
looking to upgrade or repair your current door, Overhead Door
Company of Columbus has you covered.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Plus they've got your emergency repairs or service covered as well.
Seven oh six three five eight forty five hundred seven
oh six three five eight forty five hundred O dccolumbus
dot com
The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
To start your day.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Monday morning, twenty seventh day of October. I'm Wes, thanks
for joining me. Final week of the month of October.
Got those Halloween costumes all planned out. Many Halloween parties
and things over this past weekend. I know a lot
of the clubs and things were celebrating. We have a
(00:34):
Friday night of trick or treating this year. No conversations
or questions about where were they going to move it
to a different day. Don't have to worry about that
because it's on a convenient Friday. I hate to I
know I'm officially now at that age at fifty, but
I hate to be the you know, in my day.
(00:55):
But that's kind of where we're at. You know, back
in my day, back in our day, for the other
Gen xers, back in our day, you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Just had Halloween on Halloween. It wasn't like you went,
Halloween is.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The thirty first, but we're going to celebrate it on
Friday or Saturday or whatever. You just had Halloween. That's
what you did. There was no question of you know,
when is trick or Treating. You knew it was on Halloween,
That's what it was. I do understand that there are
complications that come, and these will pop up over the
(01:29):
next you know what, two years, we're gonna get to this.
We're gonna have the Monday night Halloween or whatever. No,
there'll be Sunday Night Halloween. Some people aren't comfortable with that.
And then I guess we'll get to we get the
leap year coming up, and that'll push it on into
the week That kind of helps a little bit, getting
it back on track for the weekends. But I don't know.
(01:50):
We do this thing and I don't get a vote
in this. None of us really get a vote in it. It
just gets decided. Someone decides what night trigg or Treating
is going to be. But my point is this year,
because it's on Friday and we don't have to worry
about it, there's no discussion about it. We didn't really
discuss it last year either. It was just you know,
(02:10):
it was on Thursday, and that was okay, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and even Monday. It's kind of eh. They don't really
know what to do with it. They're confused, they don't
know what and then they just have.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
To try to.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And I realize Halloween is not exactly one of those holidays.
It's locked in for any other reason other than it's
just that's the day. It's not like you're going, well,
you know, Christmas, Wo'd rather Christmas be on Saturday. We'll
let the twenty fifth happen on Monday, but we'll go
(02:44):
ahead and celebrate. Like you know, there's a lot of
reasons that you do it on the actual day. Halloween
not really a religious holiday. I mean really not to
most people. Some people maybe I don't know. We had
the story Friday about they were not some countries they're
(03:05):
not adopting out black cats because they don't want anybody
performing any kind of rituals with them.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That was another back in my day, that's what we
talked about.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
They were going to do the Satanic rituals with the
cats on Halloween, so be careful out there. That was
back in my day. We had those discussions. So we
have that coming up, and then boom Saturday, it's November,
and then we're just going to roll on in to
Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then it'll be twenty twenty six, and.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
That's a big year. We know the reasons.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's a big year for this country's history.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
All that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We'll have more on that, I'm sure as we roll
on through the year. Before we get into twenty twenty six, though,
we'll have a couple of things worth mentioning. First of all,
this weekend, November one, Saturday, Made of Stars Live, the
podcast will be doing it from Columbus State University's Coca
Cola Space Science Center inside the Planetarium. That's what we're
(03:59):
going to do. We're gonna do a show live.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We hope you'll join us. We hope you'll be there.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's gonna be a good time. We're gonna do a podcast.
You can sit there and watch us. You can be
part of it in some way, and we hope that
you could be there for it. And then immediately following
Made of Stars Live at six o'clock on Saturday at
seven o'clock is the Astronomy Night and that is also
a free event, So you get two free events for
(04:25):
the price of one which is free, and you can
get a chance to check out the nighttime sky stare
up into the telescopes into the sky with doctor Rosa
Williams and her team. They'll tell you what you're going
to be looking at, get a chance to see it,
and we'll basically just kind of a transition from one
event to the other. And it's all free. And it
(04:45):
is November the first All Saints Day, so there you go.
So we look forward to seeing any of there that
and then of course the Nutcracker Ballet coming up really
almost like almost two weeks into December, and get your
tickets from the River Center box office or Rivercenter dot
org or Thecolumbus Ballet dot org. Don't get them anywhere else.
(05:06):
Get the tickets from the source, and in that way
you don't pay the up price because you don't want
to get ripped off. And I mentioned that again, and
that's coming up, So get your tickets. And I want
to just this past weekend, Saturday, my first chance to
meet this year's Paulish Chanel's that'll be dancing with me.
(05:27):
We had an intense rehearsal, it was. It was intense,
more intense for them. They obviously are, you know, much
more choreographed than I am. One of the fun things
about my role as Mother Ginger is there's a lot
of ad libbing. I'm kind of free to do my
own thing on stage. I have certain things. I have marks,
(05:49):
I have to hit, places I have to be and
those sorts of things. But overall there's a lot of
freedom with what I get to do and I get
to play to the audience. And that's one of the
reasons I love the role. This is my seventh year role.
And uh, these girls are they were working hard. They
were working We were all working hard, but they were
working hard on Saturday. As we get ready for the
(06:10):
upcoming Nutcracker in December, hope you'll join us. Go to
Rivercenter dot org, Thecolumbus Ballet dot org and uh get
your tickets, secure vose tickets and join us for the
great tradition that is the Nutcracker Ballet. All right, I
want to talk to you about a couple of things now.
(06:33):
This is it's been a long running conversation that we've
had about how you know they used to well they
still occasionally like to talk about it, even though there's
a lot there's a lot of questions that we have
about this great switch that happened. Everybody says that you
(06:54):
know Democrats, the Party of Slavery and the KKK, and
you know eugenics and play parenthood and all those fun
things they say that, you know, there was a point
where the two parties just flip flopped. Even though Democrats
controlled the South all the way until the nineties, but
somewhere along the line, apparently it flip flopped, like in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It just flipped.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And then all of the Republicans that were, you know,
the good guys if you want to talk about slavery
all they just all instantly became Democrats and then all
and they weren't in power, but once they became Democrats,
they magically were in power, like they suddenly had the
ability to be in power. And then the Democrats, who were,
(07:41):
you know, the pro slavery party, flipped over to Republicans
and just lost power immediately. And that's just what until
the nineties, and then the Republicans, those old Democrats supposedly
took over. But anyway, that's that's a whole nother conversation.
I want to talk about the switch that's happened more recently,
(08:02):
and I've been talking about this now for a few
months quite a bit this year, about the fact that
we have seen this strange sort of change that's taken
place between the two parties and we've had another kind
of event that's taken place. So I think back to
back in my day again, going back to you know,
(08:23):
the late eighties and early nineties, around the time when
you know, I, you know, I became a voter at eighteen,
and that was early nineties, and there was a point
for me just even when I registered to be a
voter and it was like, well, wait a minute, I
need to uh, you know, start paying attention to things.
(08:45):
And at the time, I was in a private school.
It was connected to a church, and the church would
often have discussions telling people how they were supposed to vote.
This is what you're supposed to do, This is how
you're supposed to vote, This is you know, the our
what our stance is on these issues now. For our
particular church, it was primarily focused on specific issues like abortion.
(09:08):
It was saying, look, if you would like to support life,
these are the candidates that support that. That was really
more the issue then, and there have been a lot
of things that have changed over the years where the
message has been you're not supposed to do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, you could lose.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Your tax breaks and your you know, exempt status and
all those sorts of things, so you're not really supposed
to do that anymore. But that has flipped. We now
have churches now that are very pro left ideology, constantly
talking about those things. They're not specifically telling you how
to vote, but they're telling you things like, you know, push, push,
(09:49):
Everything that we've known about religion aside. Let's start with
politics so we can get people in the door, and
then we'll we'll focus on that, and then while we're
pushing that agenda, then we'll work in some uh, some
church on top of the politics. I've said many times,
(10:11):
if your church is putting politics ahead of, uh, you know,
the actual message of the faith, your church isn't doing
it right. And if you're putting your politics ahead of
your faith, you're you're not doing any of this right.
Your faith should dictate where things go.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
This.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
This shouldn't go the other way. And I know that
there's a lot of churches that are struggling with this,
but this isn't the way that this should work.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Once upon a time, we definitely had this on the right.
It seemed to be a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Uh, you're you're.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Conservative because you're a Christian, you have to be and
this is the message. And now it really certainly seems
to be, well, wait a minute, we're the compassionate liberals
and and that's where church is. So you know, we
need ministers, we need you know, all of these things
that we're going to say to support the transmit. We
(11:05):
need to you know, cast some Catholic churches saying, wait
a minute, Abortion's okay. Sure, we've been historically against birth
control for a really long time, but we're gonna, you know,
we're gonna support abortion. And I know not all Catholics.
I'm just just saying in general, this is kind of
the way things have trended. We just had a president
(11:27):
who was Catholic, who was pro abortion, and it's a
weird kind of thing, isn't it. Anyway, So we've had
some of these flips, we've had some of these things
that have transitioned greatly, like I feel like just in
the last year or two, and we now have I've
said before, it used to be that it was the
(11:48):
far right, the Christian far right, evangelicals that were the
ones screaming about the end of the world. Now it's
the far left screaming about the end of the world.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
With climate change.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You know, I just heard I just saw a clip
the other day of an interview that basically said, if
the people of New York elect a communist mayor and
it causes all the business owners and the people of
New York to leave to go to Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well they're going to all be underwater soon. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
That was the message from the person being interviewed, not
the interviewer like the person who's being in it was
pro mom, Donnie.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So that is now.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
The extreme religion. Those are now the people standing in
the street corners screaming about the end of the world.
It's the people saying that climate is going to kill
us all. And that's just where we are. No mention
of the fact that, you know, planting more trees and
more vegetation could could clean things up tremendously, but tear
(12:54):
those things down and let's put up solar panels.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
But I digress. So that is.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Another area where things have changed greatly. And now this
is just and there's many more. I've talked about him
in past shows, but the most recent one I want
to get to it is, now we've got a candidate who, honestly,
if the Mamdani equivalent as someone who is Clearly he
(13:23):
calls himself a democratic socialist, what he says sounds communists.
In so many ways, Democratic socialists have been this thing
that the terminology to describe communists in hiding. So that's
what we're talking about. This is an extreme even as
a democratic socialist. This is an extreme, far left person.
(13:44):
And remember it wasn't very long ago the extreme right
people were the ones that were these are dangerous people
because they're so far to the right. They refused to
be centrists. Ted Cruz was viewed as an extremist because
of how far right he was. And then Cruz is
not that far right. I mean, he's more far right
(14:06):
than some. But when you're screaming for like a centrist
candidate for the John mccains, who, let's be honest, was
left of center. But when you're screaming for that out
of Republicans and hoping that that's what you're going to get,
h and you're not then offering up those you know,
left of center Democrats or even right of center Democrats.
(14:26):
If you're going to use the McCain equation, if you're
screaming that we have you can't have these extremists from
the Republicans. I mean, Mom Donnie is like way far left.
I mean, let's acknowledge that AOC extreme far left. Bernie
(14:46):
Sanders is extreme far left. The same people that we
recently have referred to on the right as dangerous. These
are dangerous extremist people.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
These are alt right.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This is alt left, and this is now there and
there's no acknowledgment of it. You have some people on
the right that are pointing and going, wait a minute,
look how far over there they are. But these were
once the people that were chastised on the right. They
were attacked. They're dangerous. We shouldn't acknowledge them. Here's another one,
(15:19):
and this is now a result of the No Kings
and the Mom Donnie thing. So and I guess this
was in large cities where large numbers of people were
coming in. And I saw just a clip from Bill
Maher's Real Time show and he was talking with his
panel about the fact that he saw the No King's
(15:41):
protests and that some of the news outlets, some of
the news agencies. First of all, we've had a couple
of outlets that have been showing photos that weren't they
were from previous years in the past, not at this
particular protest, and they were trying to pass off these
overhead shots of how big the crowds were, which were fake.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
In some cases.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And he was saying that, yes, some of the media
outlets were trying to find non white people in the
crowds for these No Kings protests, and they were struggling
that they wanted pictures of non white people. Think back
to when there was a time when at like the
RNC they would want to show some non white people.
(16:27):
They wanted to show Hispanic, and they wanted to show
Black Americans. They want to show various demographics there, and
they were struggling sometimes to find them, and some of
the media outlets on the left would go out of
their way to make sure that they weren't showing them.
They might cut away when the feed was showing some
But anyway, now it's flipped now in this particular case,
(16:49):
the No Kings thing, this is not something that Black Americans,
apparently in many of these cases were embracing. I think
we've had a cultural change in a lot of ways
in just buying into whatever the slop is that's coming
from the left, and it's an interesting change. It's interesting
(17:11):
that they weren't able to get I mean, how hard
is it They've been paying people to come to events.
This is a regular thing now that you will pay
people to come to events. So how hard is it
to pay people to come to the events? You would
think now, I don't know. Maybe they were trying to
do these events the No Kings without paying them. I
(17:31):
don't know how that worked exactly, but to me, that's
another really interesting change, isn't it. Today's show brought to
you by Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center,
inspiring and educating the youth and future STEM leaders and
STEM career holders that really of all ages. I mean,
(17:52):
they do it for school age kids as school age
kids visit the Coca Cola Space Science Center, but they
also do it through their university program where you can
learn engineering, astronomy, physics, and the careers in space and
STEM fields are booming right now, and you can learn
more about maybe getting your degree on their website CCSSC
(18:16):
dot org. While you're there, also check out some of
their upcoming programs. They've got this incredible collaboration that they
do with the SCHWOB School of Music from Columbus State
University called Music under the Dome. It's unlike any concert
experience that you can get anywhere else. It's one of
those things that when you're watching it in Columbus, Georgia,
(18:37):
you think, is this really in Columbus, Georgia. I mean,
this is a major city attraction that happens right here
in Columbus inside the planetarium at the Coca Cola Space
Science Center and the new season of Music under the Dome.
Check out upcoming dates for the shows, and also check
(18:58):
out when the next Astronomy ights coming up. Where you
can get outside. Sometimes you do it at the Cocola
Space Science Center. Sometimes you get outside somewhere outside the
city lights. You don't want any light interference, and you
can do that as well upcoming Astronomy Night events. Also
on their website, it's CCSSC dot org. As Sean Cruisin
says Charlie Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org, I just remind
(19:22):
you that it stands for Coca Cola Space Science Center
CCSSC dot org. Today's show brought to you by Overhead
Door Company of Columbus for all of your garage door needs.
Commercial or residential. Maybe you have regular maintenance that it's
time for. It's always good to get maintenance on anything
(19:43):
that has parts that move and have electronics. The folks
at Overhead Door Company of Columbus can take care of
squaring that away for you, and while they're there, you
can always ask them questions about some of the maybe
cosmetic changes you'd like to make to your garage door.
Maybe your cur appeal isn't quite what you want it
to be and you need some repair work done to
(20:04):
the outside door. Maybe you need a brand new garage
door completely. Maybe it's making a noise when your garage
door opens and closes. Maybe it's some sort of insulation
issue that you've got with colder or warmer weather, sometimes
that stuff gets in and it's inconvenient. Maybe you're looking
at a situation where you'd like to add a screen
door to your garage door system that you can put
(20:26):
down and you can use your garage space as a
sort of outdoor but indoor, you know, if you like
to work on your own cars in there, or maybe
you just want a little man cavid. You'd like to
be able to open the door up and not invite
all the insects in They can do that for you
as well, and again they do after hours calls. There's
nothing worse than that thought of having your car trapped
(20:47):
inside your garage and your garage door won't open and
you need somebody to come help, and they do those
as well. Seven oh sixty five eight forty five hundred
seven oh six three five eight forty five hundred oh
dccolumbus dot.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, well,
do you often feel.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Like you're tired all day and you can't wait to
go to bed, than at bedtime you get a sudden
burst of energy. It's totally normal, and there's a scientific
reason why. Sleep experts are calling it second wind, and
it like the Billy Joel song, and it happens when
you miss your natural sleep window. So at bedtime, your
brain sends signals that help you fall asleep. If you
(21:39):
stay up beyond that, though, and you're staring at your phone,
your brain then flips the switch and starts sending wake
up signals instead. So the next time it happens to
you and you get that second wind, experts say what
you should do. Don't lie there tossing and turning. It's
actually better to get out of bed and reset, reading
a book, meditating, doing something relaxing. The goal is to
(22:01):
retrain your brain and associate bed with rest and not
with frustration. It is difficult, and you do end up
having to just get up. That's what I have to
do when I hit that point, I try my best
not to do it. I don't like to stay as
lie in bed and stare at my phone. I try
my best not to do that. I can't say that
(22:22):
I haven't done it, but it's pretty uncommon for me.
I like to charge it, maybe in a different room
if possible. That also helps prevent unwanted calls or texts
that light up the room or whatever, because some of
those things will wake me up as well. DC Restaurant
is getting a lot of attention, and it's not just
for the menu, but for its no phones policy.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There you go where.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Diners are more than happy to abide by it. In
this particular place, Rock Harper, the owner and chef at
Hush Harbor, requires diners to put their phones in a
yonder pouch. And I guess I'm saying that right yonder
and then it's locked up and they're not able to
be unlocked until they leave the restaurant. Harper says, people
(23:05):
are like, Wow, I really enjoy being without my phone
and speaking with someone. People do want to be connected,
and they want to vibe and they want to enjoy themselves.
In a rare event that somebody absolutely needs to use
their phone, they're allowed to do so, but they're asked
to step outside to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I like this idea.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I like it a lot, and I think you're probably
going to struggle to get teenagers to go in there,
but they probably need it the most.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I think.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Remember Hamburger Helper, it's having a moment again, people citing
it as an economic indicator. Sales of the box meal kits,
which were first introduced in the early seventies seventy one
to be exact, jumped fourteen point five percent this year
as more people are looking for ways to save money.
If you've never had Hamburger Helper, you probably have. But
(24:00):
it's basically a box of post and seasonings and then
you just add some kind of meat to it. With
beef prices at record highs, stretch meals like Hamburger Helper
are seeing a resurgence. So yeah, an economic indicator as
people are trying to navigate, especially as we get into
(24:20):
this last part of the year. I mean knocking on
the door in November. This is when it's going to
be down to cases.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The Miami Day Sheriff's Office in Florida has unveiled a
driverless patrol car, complete with a three hundred and sixty
degree camera, drone launching capabilities, license plate readers, thermal imaging,
and of course AI. They call it PUG. It's police
unmanned ground vehicle, and while it's not chasing down any
(24:49):
suspects yet, it is making appearances at community events to
gather feedback and test its potential.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I can guess how that would go over.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
In my hometown, Columbus, possibly your hometown. And I just
know that we have, you know, speed cameras up in
school zones, and those are not very popular. So I
would imagine an unmanned police car probably not.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Going to be very.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Popular if they were to make their way here. Sam
Adams has just released its strongest beer ever, Utopia is
twenty twenty five, clocking it at thirty percent alcohol content
and a two hundred and forty dollars price tag for
each twenty four point five ounce bottle. It's been aged
up to thirty years in barrels that once held everything
from Irish whiskey, cognac, and scotch. And because it's so
(25:42):
potent Utopia twenty twenty five's, it's actually illegal in fifteen states.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And how about this.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Some brave and lucky souls in Oregon competed in the
West Coast Giant Pumption Pumpkin Regatta, where racers paddle hollowed
out pumpkins across the lake, dressed in costumes like Buddy
the Elf, Ted Lasso, and Shrek, among others. The event
was organized first back in two thousand and four. Is
(26:13):
a quarter mile race that has multiple heats, one for
pumpkin growers, one for event sponsors, one for local officials,
and two for the public. Tickets are in high demand
anyone racing in the public. Heats are chosen with a
lottery system that begins each September. That'll do it for
(26:35):
this Monday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors
and patrons. Thanks for listening. I'll catch you back here
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
This is the West Carrol Morning Show powered by Overhead
Door Company of Columbus. The Holiday Inn Resort in Panama
City and CSU's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Overhead Door Company of Columbus has all of your garage
door needs covered, Residential and comer marshall service and repairs.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
If you need a new garage door, or you're just
looking to upgrade or repair your current door, Overhead Door
Company of Columbus has you covered.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Plus they've got your emergency repairs or service covered as well.
Seven oh six three five eight forty five hundred seven
oh six three five eight forty five hundred O dccolumbus
dot com
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.