October 6, 2025 • 30 mins
Is it me or have t here been a growing number of shows with hosts diving deeper into conspiracies lately even the ones that seem absolutely ridiculous.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Monday morning, sixth day of October. I'm Wes, Thanks for
joining me. Just want to remind you we're a couple
of months away, a little over two months away, but
around two months away from The Nutcracker taking place at
the Columbus River Center. The Columbus Ballet presents the Nutcracker,
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and we're excited about this year's show. This will be
my seventh time in the role of Mother Ginger. Really
excited to get back up on the stilts. I got
my first call sheet for my rehearsals for coming up
in a few weeks. I'm excited about getting in there
with my new Paula Chanel's aka my Tabitha's when I
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first started doing this role way back in twenty nineteen,
six years ago. This is my seventh show. That's the
way that works, because there's a year zero. Darn it.
I you know, you go in there first day and
you're meeting all these kids and they're excited about, you
know the fact that you're going to be sharing the
stage with them, performing with them, dancing with them if
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you will. And I knew I wasn't going to remember
all their names, so I just started referring to all
of them as Tabitha. I figured that was the easy
way to go, and then I started to add little
things to the names where I would, you know, there
would be little things that I would use for you know,
basically memory. What is that called association? You know? You
(01:41):
say there was one in particular, her name was Nora,
and my mom had a friend, or has a friend,
shouldn't they had? She has a friend named Nora who
makes a really good chocolate cake. She made a chocolate
cake for my wedding, my groom cake, And so I
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just started referring to her as like Tabitha chocolate cake,
and that helped me remember her name is Nora, right,
So that was There were just a few names like that.
I'm not going to go through all of them. My
point is I will refer to the characters of the
Poula Chanels that perform with me. They're the girls sometimes
boys that are in the dress. When I come out
on stage, they come out, they dance around, they go
back in we exit the stage. So sometimes I refer
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to them with love and affection. My daughters, the Tabithas,
and we are looking forward to dancing for you at
the River Center. And I just want to remind you
yet again that it is very important that you get
your tickets, either from the Columbus Ballet dot Org or
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from the Columbus River Center. You get them anywhere else,
you're probably going to overpay for your tickets. I mean,
if you're buying them from a friend who says, hey,
I bought this ticket, it's thirty five dollars or whatever,
it's fine. I'm talking about when you go online and
you just look up the tickets and there's all these
ticket brokers and I'm seeing tickets now hundreds of dollars
for ballet tickets. Those are not and you want to
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also make sure you're getting them for the correct show.
You don't want to get for the Columbus Ohio Ballet
or Columbus Mississippi. I don't know what their Nutcracker looks like.
All I can tell you about those two shows is
that they do not have me in the role of
mother Ginger and Nora, one of my og Tabathas in
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the role of Clara for the show this year. So
the shows are December thirteenth and fourteenth. There's a seven
to thirty evening show on the thirteenth, a two thirty
matinee on Sunday the fourteenth at the River Center for
the Performing Arts, and we want to see you there.
And this year's director, creative director for the show, we
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got big things, it's all I can tell you. Big
things planned for this year's show. Some new elements, some
a new take on the show a little bit. I mean,
it's just gonna be. That's what happens anytime you get
a new director for the show, and we are excited
about bringing the show to you on the stage at
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the River Center again. Rivercenter dot org, the Columbus Ballet
dot org. Get your tickets there December thirteenth and fourteenth,
or the shows. Now, there is a couple of other
shows not really open to the public. You can't buy
your tickets. If you have a kid, a son, or
a daughter or child that's going to be coming to
(04:36):
the Ballet and they say, well, we're going on a
school show on a Friday. Yes, that's a different show
and yes. So when I say the dates, I'm just
talking about the ones that are open to the public
and the ones that you can purchase tickets for So
there you go December thirteenth and fourteenth. Get your tickets
the Columbus Ballet dot org or Therivercenter dot org. And
(04:58):
you can get them from the Rivercenter dot I think
there's a the in that website, and then also from
the River Center box office. And again don't don't get
them from a third party broker. That's not what you
want to do, all right, So couple things. I want
to start this week off with just a couple things.
And I'm just noticing, and this is something that's been
(05:20):
popping into my feed on, like my video feeds. When
I'm scrolling, I'm not really I don't do the doom
scrolling thing. And I know that there's there's a different
Some people refer to any sort of scrolling for Infinity
as doom scrolling, and I understand that, and if that's
the case, yes, I do spend some time sometimes doing
(05:43):
that version of doom scrolling. I don't think of that.
I think of doom scrolling as you know, people that
are looking for negativity, they're looking for things that are
going to make them feel a certain way or not
feel a certain way or whatever. That's kind of how
I look at the doom scrolling thing, but I know
they just kind of say, anybody who's just wasting their
life away on there, and I try not to do that.
(06:04):
I do go in from time to time. People will
send me things. I like to watch them. If I
enjoy them, I might then share them with someone else.
If I don't enjoy them very much, I just take
it as hey, someone was thinking about me to send
me the video, and I think more people should look
at it that way. Hey, somebody thought about me and
(06:26):
they sent me a video. That's all. That's how you
should look at it, even if you don't appreciate it,
even if you don't like it. Some sort of an
acknowledgment is nice in that regard. But one of the
things I've been getting more of, and I think this
sort of started around the time of the Charlie Kirk
assassination and some of the content and things that started
(06:47):
popping in, because obviously that was a huge story still
is a huge story it continues to be, but I've
really started to notice that there are more and more
stories coming in from people that maybe I haven't been
this necessarily following people whose content I wasn't following. But
because I have watched some content from people that are similar,
(07:08):
I'm getting these things and I'm just I'm gonna throw
a couple of names out because I don't necessarily Some
of these videos, by the way, are like whole episodes
of shows, which is fine if you want to watch them. That's,
you know. I just I typically, if I'm scrolling through
reels on Instagram, someone has sent me a reel and
(07:30):
I watch it and it's a dog doing something cute.
Then I watch it, and then I kind of scroll
maybe to something different, and then it's, you know, an
hour long episode of you know, somebody's podcast. And I think,
first of all, that's not what I'm in here for.
I mean, I'm a nothing obviously nothing against podcasting. That's
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not what I'm saying. I'm not pointing that out because
I appreciate anyone who takes the time to listen to
this show. I'm just not inserting my show with ads
or whatever into people's you know, their doom scrolling or
whatever they're trying to do. I try not to be
a doomer anyway, and I've been told that personally and professionally.
(08:14):
Kind of recently, someone said you know, you're you're anything
but controversial, and I would have completely agreed with that
that it's not controversial anything that I do until Charlie
Kirk got shot. And I think, well, Charlie Kirk obviously
much more popular, much more famous than me. And I'm
not comparing myself to Charlie Kirk anything other than the
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fact that some of our content is a bit similar.
I talk about my faith. I talk about my faith
as it pertains to my politics and my views on
you know, various social issues, and I think that's where
he and I had that in common. I'm not here
to be controversial. I'm here to talk a little bit
(08:57):
about why I feel the way that I do. And
I've been doing this in the in the news talk
format since two thousand and seven. It's like eighteen years
of that eighteen years and thirty one years now of
radio in general. Just celebrated that anniversary, but and just thousands,
(09:25):
like closing in on two thousand episodes of podcasts and
not counting the ones that I've been interviewed on. My
goal is not to be shocking or controversial. That's not
what I'm setting out to do. Okay, that's just I
don't sit down every day angle what controversial thing can
I say? What take can I have on things. I
(09:48):
do like to talk about whatever is going on in
the news, and I do like to talk about, you know,
my perspective on it, and I appreciate you for listening
to that. But these that I've started to get more
and more inserted into my feed, I've noticed, and I'm
just curious if you've noticed this. There's a lot more
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people that seem to be pushing deeper and deeper into
some of the things that might have at one time
been considered conspiracy theories. Now I understand that we have
had a number of things that fell into the category
of conspiracy theories that have turned out to be true,
(10:36):
and we're starting to learn more and more details on
those things. Now, let me also say this, just because
things like, hey, there were probably a lot of undercover
federal agents at the Capitol on January sixth, and then
(10:56):
they say, no, no, no, there weren't any. There were no,
We were not going to tell you if there were,
but we're going to tell you that there weren't any.
And then it turned into well, there may have been
about twenty that were there and then it's like two
hundred plus, yeah, two fifty, whatever the number is now,
and you go, that's what we were talking about way
(11:16):
back when all of this happened. Those of us who
did not look at January sixth, is this great insurrection
that they just kept throwing that term around. That was
one of the reasons why we questioned it. We questioned
the use of insurrection. We questioned why. Then Nancy Pelosi,
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who you know, on that video that her daughter filmed,
basically was like, maybe I should have had some help here,
Maybe I should have accepted National Guard to help defend this.
Maybe it's on me for not doing that. And it's like, yeah,
but I also think that maybe you didn't want them
there because there were federal agents mixed in, some of
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them wearing Trump hats and things, and who knows, who
knows who all they were. I mean, someone knows. They're
definitely not people who mysteriously were locked up and sent away.
But my point is that's a good example of one
of those conspiracy theories that you know, oh, that's just
a big conspiracy, and then it was true. A lot
of the stuff we've learned about COVID since the pandemic
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and the vaccines, and then you go, eh, all of
that stuff ended up being true. Just because some of
those things are true doesn't mean all the conspiracies are
true to I just want to make sure that we understand.
You can say, hey, there were a bunch of federal
agents mixed in pretending to not be federal agents at
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January sixth at the Capitol, and then that can be true.
And now that we've learned, we've got confirmation that that's true.
You can also say, well, it's also true that the
moon is not a bul I mean, there's people that
believe that. There's people that believe that the moon is
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just a giant balloon in the sky and it's full
of air, and if you punctured it, it would just
I don't know, I don't know what it would do
if you punch. I don't know what they think. But
it's possible for one of those to be true and
the other one to not be true. But I have
noticed there's a lot more people that have really pushed
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into the much more controversial areas of things. Maybe I'm
not going to mention any of the shows. I'll just
if you've noticed, maybe you could you know, let me know.
I'm just curious to hear from some of you on
whether or not it seems that some of these and
there's one in particular that I feel like has really
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just sort of grabbed the ball and run with it
on some of these things, maybe maybe digging into things
and finding the truth. I don't know. I don't know
what we're going to find out with some of the
things this particular person I'm thinking of has been digging into.
And then there's a couple more and it just seems
like they're really kind of pushing it, and it feels
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like this is kind of a clickbaity type how controversial
can I get? At one time I was seeing I
was considered what seemed to be a little bit more mainstream,
and then now they're really sort of pushing the envelope
on that. I'm just curious to know if that's happening
with anybody else or is just this just the feed
that I'm in. Another quick topic I want to touch
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on is something about tipping. I've talked about tipping for
for a while where I just, you know, it feels
like this this whole concept of anytime that you use
a card in public. And I know there's people that
say we should be using cash because you know that
four percent or whatever it is that goes to the
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banks or whatever whatever the dollar amount two to four
percent or whatever, and then that money doesn't make it
to the actual small business owner. It goes to the banks.
And then when that small business does the same and
pays for things with their cards, it's just slowly just
dwindling down that money and it's going to the banks.
I get that. I understand all that. I'm not one
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typically to carry cash all the time, and I've got
some of those cards that and I don't use a
debit card. I don't understand people that use their debit
cards all the time. I'm sure there's a reason for
doing that. I'm a much bigger fan of a card
that has some sort of either a cash back or
some sort of a financial benefit to using that card
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that gets paid off every month. But I feel a
little more secure when I know that if my card
somehow was stolen and my pin number was stolen, someone
can't completely wipe out my checking account, and then how
am I supposed to pay my bills while they get
it all sorted out? But Anyway, I digress, but this
whole thing with using a card and then you know
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that little screen gets flipped around or that little screen
is there and it's you know, hey, you've you know,
done this basic thing that we've done a thousand times,
and now we're going to ask you if you want
to give us twenty to twenty five percent. You know,
you've walked up, you've purchased like a cookie, and we
want to know if you want to give us twenty
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five percent tip because you bought a cookie and we
put it in a box and gave it to you,
or a cupcake or whatever. And I think, you know,
I've expressed that. I think a big part of that
ties into the idea that these card companies are saying, well,
we're going to put the machines in for you, so
we're going to add this because they want their four
percent of that tip as well. All right, So side
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note over here on tipping, and this was an article
that I found online about how I guess we have
bartenders expressing now that they that people just aren't tipping anymore,
either not tipping or not tipping very much, and they
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feel like people have started to skimp on tips here lately,
and according to bartenders, they say that the tip should
be twenty percent. Now, I don't spend very much time
in bars. I just very rarely am I in a
bar anyway, haven't spent much time now. I have been
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in bars in a professional capacity or like you know,
for work in the past, and I can just tell you,
even when I was there working for whatever reason, I'm
just one of those people that gets ignored at the bar.
And when people get ignored at the bar or the
bartender isn't you know, they're busy taking care of other people,
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maybe the people that they know. I think it's hard
to justify saying, well, we have to get this twenty
percent tip. But even some people saying, well, if you
don't get good service, we would understand dropping it down
to eighteen percent. And then they're saying, you know, in
some cases down to fifteen percent. So people were saying
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that they consistently get less and less, And I don't know,
I don't know what would be the cause of this
trend other than the fact that we we just went
through this absolute stomping of the middle class in the
last four years during the last administration. I should say
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in four of the last five years and then this
recovery period that we're in now. But I think that's
what we've witnessed, and we've witnessed prices going up, and
we've witnessed cost of everything going up, and I know
we get to this point where a lot of times,
even with you know, staff waiters and waitresses at restaurants,
where they say, well, then just don't come out to eat.
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If you can't afford to tip us, then you shouldn't
come out to eat, and those sorts of things. And
that's transition some people to say, well, we'll just come
in and pick up food. Well, when you come pick
it up, you also have to tip. I'm just wondering
how the bar owners or the restaurant owners feel about
that mindset of don't come in our bar if you
can't give us twenty percent, don't come in our restaurant
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if you can't give us twenty percent, even if you're
picking up food to go. I mean, that can't be
good for business long term.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Can it.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So I'm just making you aware that there is an
expectation there. Just know, maybe in the past people have
ignored or missed out on tipping. The bartenders, and I
don't know. I know there's mixed feelings about picking up food.
I think it depends on how involved. Sometimes the food
that you pick up at the restaurant, by the way,
you're picking up at the bar anyway, if it's a
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restaurant and bar, often that's the case. I've actually been
in a place before where I was going to pay
the bartender, give the bartender a cash tip. I picked
up something because I felt like it was pretty involved,
and because I didn't on my slip that I signed
put a tip on it, they wanted to publicly shame
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me out loud, what no tip on here? And it's like, yeah,
it was cash in my pocket, but you know what,
I'm gonna hang on to it just for that, just
for the little show that you put on, because I
didn't appreciate that. And that's not okay either, but it's
something that apparently is happening if you don't follow their rules.
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Is twenty percent too much at a bar? I mean,
I don't, like I said, I don't spend a lot
of time at a bar, but that does seem like
that could be a bit high, especially if you're one
of those people liked me that for some reason spends
a decent amount of time just standing there waiting on
the bartender to ask me what I want for a drink.
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right after the break. Well, as we are working our
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way closer and closer to the end of October and
Halloween coming up. Halloween candy prices are apparently giving some
people a bit of sticker shock, with some bags going
for twenty five dollars or more, and that's triggering some
debate on social media. Uh, some saying they're skipping trigger
(24:47):
treating altogether because of the cost, saying porch light will
be off this year for some uh, and some saying
they're just gonna go to cheaper alternatives toys or stickers
or things and candy. Those are ways that you can
obviously still be part of it. Just know, I think
kids are expecting candy. That's what they're hoping for. They're
(25:09):
not hoping for stickers or cheap little toys. But I
guess Instacart's latest data says Reese's Peanut butter cups are
still officially America's most order Halloween candy, followed by peanut
m and ms, then regular eminems and then kit kats.
Other favorites rounding out the list include Snickers, Sour Patch Kids,
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Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Milky Way Twigs, and those harribogummies. My
kids are big fun of fans of gummies in particular,
but those Hairbos and the Sour Patch Kids, they really
like those. I will say this though, the Nerds gummy
clusters are a big hit in my house, and my wife,
who does not eat a lot of candy, loves those things.
(25:56):
So just putting that on your radar if you haven't
stopped to think about the Nerds clusters, those gummy clusters
in Germany, Austria, and I guess in that area, there's
a social media trend called putting mitt Gable and it's
putting with a fork, and they say that it's something
(26:16):
that's happening a lot now in parks and public spaces,
people of all ages together with individual pudding cups and forks,
not spoons, to eat together. No one knows exactly what
the origin of this thing was, but it's spreading fast
across cities, and I guess it's the absurdism of all
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of it that they call it peak German humor and
that there's no deep meaning or political message, just something
fun to do. So you show up with a pudding
cup and a fork and you all sit around together
and you eat your pudding with a fork. I mean
it's something to do. It's definitely, it's definitely something to do. Uh.
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A bride to be has stirred up some drama on
social media after demanding that her bride'smaids get spray hands
before her wedding so they all don't look too pale
in the photos. And this is one of those bridezilla
things that's fallen into some of those categories. One of
the bride'smaids, who happens to be a cousin of this
particular bride, says some of the bride'smaids complied, and when
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they showed up bronze, the bride flipped out sand they
looked too dark and accused them of sabotaging her look.
She even told one bride's maid to try scrubbing hers off.
What's crazier is that the bride herself is very pale
and refuses to get a spray tond, insisting everyone else
should match, which you know, goes back to the question
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of why did she want them to get spray hands
in the first place. That's a weird request. I think.
I think what we need to have now when we
get these Bridezilla type stories, these bridesmaids, is we need
people to be able to step in and just go
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. We're not
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you know, we're not all going to wear this horribly
ugly dress. I'll just come to the wedding and sit
with everybody else. Or I'm not going to get a
spray tan or whatever is going on. Have you heard
of biobating? It's the latest trend causing frustration among singles.
It's when someone oversells themselves in a dating app bio,
creating expectations that they don't actually meet in real life.
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And I think that I don't know there was a
term for it, but it doesn't surprise me that people
do it. It's been going on for a while. Catfishing
is where you pretend to be someone else entirely, but
biobating is a little more subtle. Basically, it's about exaggerating
traits like being adventurous, spontaneous, or a foodie. A recent
survey found sixty three percent of singles felt left let
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down after meeting someone who did not live up to
their profile. We'd love to travel being the most misleading
biobating claim. That was followed by adventurer, entrepreneur, foodie, and spontaneous.
So if you're not those things, you will be labeled
as a biobater and not be very well liked by
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the people that are hoping to meet you and go
on these great adventures and eat crazy food with you
while being spontaneous. I guess that'll do it for this
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Monday morning, sixth day of October. I'm Wes, Thanks for
joining me. Just want to remind you we're a couple
of months away, a little over two months away, but
around two months away from The Nutcracker taking place at
the Columbus River Center. The Columbus Ballet presents the Nutcracker,
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and we're excited about this year's show. This will be
my seventh time in the role of Mother Ginger. Really
excited to get back up on the stilts. I got
my first call sheet for my rehearsals for coming up
in a few weeks. I'm excited about getting in there
with my new Paula Chanel's aka my Tabitha's when I
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first started doing this role way back in twenty nineteen,
six years ago. This is my seventh show. That's the
way that works, because there's a year zero. Darn it.
I you know, you go in there first day and
you're meeting all these kids and they're excited about, you
know the fact that you're going to be sharing the
stage with them, performing with them, dancing with them if
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you will. And I knew I wasn't going to remember
all their names, so I just started referring to all
of them as Tabitha. I figured that was the easy
way to go, and then I started to add little
things to the names where I would, you know, there
would be little things that I would use for you know,
basically memory. What is that called association? You know? You
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say there was one in particular, her name was Nora,
and my mom had a friend, or has a friend,
shouldn't they had? She has a friend named Nora who
makes a really good chocolate cake. She made a chocolate
cake for my wedding, my groom cake, And so I
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just started referring to her as like Tabitha chocolate cake,
and that helped me remember her name is Nora, right,
So that was There were just a few names like that.
I'm not going to go through all of them. My
point is I will refer to the characters of the
Poula Chanels that perform with me. They're the girls sometimes
boys that are in the dress. When I come out
on stage, they come out, they dance around, they go
back in we exit the stage. So sometimes I refer
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to them with love and affection. My daughters, the Tabithas,
and we are looking forward to dancing for you at
the River Center. And I just want to remind you
yet again that it is very important that you get
your tickets, either from the Columbus Ballet dot Org or
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from the Columbus River Center. You get them anywhere else,
you're probably going to overpay for your tickets. I mean,
if you're buying them from a friend who says, hey,
I bought this ticket, it's thirty five dollars or whatever,
it's fine. I'm talking about when you go online and
you just look up the tickets and there's all these
ticket brokers and I'm seeing tickets now hundreds of dollars
for ballet tickets. Those are not and you want to
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also make sure you're getting them for the correct show.
You don't want to get for the Columbus Ohio Ballet
or Columbus Mississippi. I don't know what their Nutcracker looks like.
All I can tell you about those two shows is
that they do not have me in the role of
mother Ginger and Nora, one of my og Tabathas in
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the role of Clara for the show this year. So
the shows are December thirteenth and fourteenth. There's a seven
to thirty evening show on the thirteenth, a two thirty
matinee on Sunday the fourteenth at the River Center for
the Performing Arts, and we want to see you there.
And this year's director, creative director for the show, we
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got big things, it's all I can tell you. Big
things planned for this year's show. Some new elements, some
a new take on the show a little bit. I mean,
it's just gonna be. That's what happens anytime you get
a new director for the show, and we are excited
about bringing the show to you on the stage at
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the River Center again. Rivercenter dot org, the Columbus Ballet
dot org. Get your tickets there December thirteenth and fourteenth,
or the shows. Now, there is a couple of other
shows not really open to the public. You can't buy
your tickets. If you have a kid, a son, or
a daughter or child that's going to be coming to
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the Ballet and they say, well, we're going on a
school show on a Friday. Yes, that's a different show
and yes. So when I say the dates, I'm just
talking about the ones that are open to the public
and the ones that you can purchase tickets for So
there you go December thirteenth and fourteenth. Get your tickets
the Columbus Ballet dot org or Therivercenter dot org. And
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you can get them from the Rivercenter dot I think
there's a the in that website, and then also from
the River Center box office. And again don't don't get
them from a third party broker. That's not what you
want to do, all right, So couple things. I want
to start this week off with just a couple things.
And I'm just noticing, and this is something that's been
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popping into my feed on, like my video feeds. When
I'm scrolling, I'm not really I don't do the doom
scrolling thing. And I know that there's there's a different
Some people refer to any sort of scrolling for Infinity
as doom scrolling, and I understand that, and if that's
the case, yes, I do spend some time sometimes doing
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that version of doom scrolling. I don't think of that.
I think of doom scrolling as you know, people that
are looking for negativity, they're looking for things that are
going to make them feel a certain way or not
feel a certain way or whatever. That's kind of how
I look at the doom scrolling thing, but I know
they just kind of say, anybody who's just wasting their
life away on there, and I try not to do that.
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I do go in from time to time. People will
send me things. I like to watch them. If I
enjoy them, I might then share them with someone else.
If I don't enjoy them very much, I just take
it as hey, someone was thinking about me to send
me the video, and I think more people should look
at it that way. Hey, somebody thought about me and
(06:26):
they sent me a video. That's all. That's how you
should look at it, even if you don't appreciate it,
even if you don't like it. Some sort of an
acknowledgment is nice in that regard. But one of the
things I've been getting more of, and I think this
sort of started around the time of the Charlie Kirk
assassination and some of the content and things that started
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popping in, because obviously that was a huge story still
is a huge story it continues to be, but I've
really started to notice that there are more and more
stories coming in from people that maybe I haven't been
this necessarily following people whose content I wasn't following. But
because I have watched some content from people that are similar,
(07:08):
I'm getting these things and I'm just I'm gonna throw
a couple of names out because I don't necessarily Some
of these videos, by the way, are like whole episodes
of shows, which is fine if you want to watch them. That's,
you know. I just I typically, if I'm scrolling through
reels on Instagram, someone has sent me a reel and
(07:30):
I watch it and it's a dog doing something cute.
Then I watch it, and then I kind of scroll
maybe to something different, and then it's, you know, an
hour long episode of you know, somebody's podcast. And I think,
first of all, that's not what I'm in here for.
I mean, I'm a nothing obviously nothing against podcasting. That's
(07:52):
not what I'm saying. I'm not pointing that out because
I appreciate anyone who takes the time to listen to
this show. I'm just not inserting my show with ads
or whatever into people's you know, their doom scrolling or
whatever they're trying to do. I try not to be
a doomer anyway, and I've been told that personally and professionally.
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Kind of recently, someone said you know, you're you're anything
but controversial, and I would have completely agreed with that
that it's not controversial anything that I do until Charlie
Kirk got shot. And I think, well, Charlie Kirk obviously
much more popular, much more famous than me. And I'm
not comparing myself to Charlie Kirk anything other than the
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fact that some of our content is a bit similar.
I talk about my faith. I talk about my faith
as it pertains to my politics and my views on
you know, various social issues, and I think that's where
he and I had that in common. I'm not here
to be controversial. I'm here to talk a little bit
(08:57):
about why I feel the way that I do. And
I've been doing this in the in the news talk
format since two thousand and seven. It's like eighteen years
of that eighteen years and thirty one years now of
radio in general. Just celebrated that anniversary, but and just thousands,
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like closing in on two thousand episodes of podcasts and
not counting the ones that I've been interviewed on. My
goal is not to be shocking or controversial. That's not
what I'm setting out to do. Okay, that's just I
don't sit down every day angle what controversial thing can
I say? What take can I have on things. I
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do like to talk about whatever is going on in
the news, and I do like to talk about, you know,
my perspective on it, and I appreciate you for listening
to that. But these that I've started to get more
and more inserted into my feed, I've noticed, and I'm
just curious if you've noticed this. There's a lot more
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people that seem to be pushing deeper and deeper into
some of the things that might have at one time
been considered conspiracy theories. Now I understand that we have
had a number of things that fell into the category
of conspiracy theories that have turned out to be true,
(10:36):
and we're starting to learn more and more details on
those things. Now, let me also say this, just because
things like, hey, there were probably a lot of undercover
federal agents at the Capitol on January sixth, and then
(10:56):
they say, no, no, no, there weren't any. There were no,
We were not going to tell you if there were,
but we're going to tell you that there weren't any.
And then it turned into well, there may have been
about twenty that were there and then it's like two
hundred plus, yeah, two fifty, whatever the number is now,
and you go, that's what we were talking about way
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back when all of this happened. Those of us who
did not look at January sixth, is this great insurrection
that they just kept throwing that term around. That was
one of the reasons why we questioned it. We questioned
the use of insurrection. We questioned why. Then Nancy Pelosi,
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who you know, on that video that her daughter filmed,
basically was like, maybe I should have had some help here,
Maybe I should have accepted National Guard to help defend this.
Maybe it's on me for not doing that. And it's like, yeah,
but I also think that maybe you didn't want them
there because there were federal agents mixed in, some of
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them wearing Trump hats and things, and who knows, who
knows who all they were. I mean, someone knows. They're
definitely not people who mysteriously were locked up and sent away.
But my point is that's a good example of one
of those conspiracy theories that you know, oh, that's just
a big conspiracy, and then it was true. A lot
of the stuff we've learned about COVID since the pandemic
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and the vaccines, and then you go, eh, all of
that stuff ended up being true. Just because some of
those things are true doesn't mean all the conspiracies are
true to I just want to make sure that we understand.
You can say, hey, there were a bunch of federal
agents mixed in pretending to not be federal agents at
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January sixth at the Capitol, and then that can be true.
And now that we've learned, we've got confirmation that that's true.
You can also say, well, it's also true that the
moon is not a bul I mean, there's people that
believe that. There's people that believe that the moon is
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just a giant balloon in the sky and it's full
of air, and if you punctured it, it would just
I don't know, I don't know what it would do
if you punch. I don't know what they think. But
it's possible for one of those to be true and
the other one to not be true. But I have
noticed there's a lot more people that have really pushed
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into the much more controversial areas of things. Maybe I'm
not going to mention any of the shows. I'll just
if you've noticed, maybe you could you know, let me know.
I'm just curious to hear from some of you on
whether or not it seems that some of these and
there's one in particular that I feel like has really
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just sort of grabbed the ball and run with it
on some of these things, maybe maybe digging into things
and finding the truth. I don't know. I don't know
what we're going to find out with some of the
things this particular person I'm thinking of has been digging into.
And then there's a couple more and it just seems
like they're really kind of pushing it, and it feels
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like this is kind of a clickbaity type how controversial
can I get? At one time I was seeing I
was considered what seemed to be a little bit more mainstream,
and then now they're really sort of pushing the envelope
on that. I'm just curious to know if that's happening
with anybody else or is just this just the feed
that I'm in. Another quick topic I want to touch
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on is something about tipping. I've talked about tipping for
for a while where I just, you know, it feels
like this this whole concept of anytime that you use
a card in public. And I know there's people that
say we should be using cash because you know that
four percent or whatever it is that goes to the
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banks or whatever whatever the dollar amount two to four
percent or whatever, and then that money doesn't make it
to the actual small business owner. It goes to the banks.
And then when that small business does the same and
pays for things with their cards, it's just slowly just
dwindling down that money and it's going to the banks.
I get that. I understand all that. I'm not one
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typically to carry cash all the time, and I've got
some of those cards that and I don't use a
debit card. I don't understand people that use their debit
cards all the time. I'm sure there's a reason for
doing that. I'm a much bigger fan of a card
that has some sort of either a cash back or
some sort of a financial benefit to using that card
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that gets paid off every month. But I feel a
little more secure when I know that if my card
somehow was stolen and my pin number was stolen, someone
can't completely wipe out my checking account, and then how
am I supposed to pay my bills while they get
it all sorted out? But Anyway, I digress, but this
whole thing with using a card and then you know
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that little screen gets flipped around or that little screen
is there and it's you know, hey, you've you know,
done this basic thing that we've done a thousand times,
and now we're going to ask you if you want
to give us twenty to twenty five percent. You know,
you've walked up, you've purchased like a cookie, and we
want to know if you want to give us twenty
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five percent tip because you bought a cookie and we
put it in a box and gave it to you,
or a cupcake or whatever. And I think, you know,
I've expressed that. I think a big part of that
ties into the idea that these card companies are saying, well,
we're going to put the machines in for you, so
we're going to add this because they want their four
percent of that tip as well. All right, So side
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note over here on tipping, and this was an article
that I found online about how I guess we have
bartenders expressing now that they that people just aren't tipping anymore,
either not tipping or not tipping very much, and they
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feel like people have started to skimp on tips here lately,
and according to bartenders, they say that the tip should
be twenty percent. Now, I don't spend very much time
in bars. I just very rarely am I in a
bar anyway, haven't spent much time now. I have been
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in bars in a professional capacity or like you know,
for work in the past, and I can just tell you,
even when I was there working for whatever reason, I'm
just one of those people that gets ignored at the bar.
And when people get ignored at the bar or the
bartender isn't you know, they're busy taking care of other people,
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maybe the people that they know. I think it's hard
to justify saying, well, we have to get this twenty
percent tip. But even some people saying, well, if you
don't get good service, we would understand dropping it down
to eighteen percent. And then they're saying, you know, in
some cases down to fifteen percent. So people were saying
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that they consistently get less and less, And I don't know,
I don't know what would be the cause of this
trend other than the fact that we we just went
through this absolute stomping of the middle class in the
last four years during the last administration. I should say
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in four of the last five years and then this
recovery period that we're in now. But I think that's
what we've witnessed, and we've witnessed prices going up, and
we've witnessed cost of everything going up, and I know
we get to this point where a lot of times,
even with you know, staff waiters and waitresses at restaurants,
where they say, well, then just don't come out to eat.
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If you can't afford to tip us, then you shouldn't
come out to eat, and those sorts of things. And
that's transition some people to say, well, we'll just come
in and pick up food. Well, when you come pick
it up, you also have to tip. I'm just wondering
how the bar owners or the restaurant owners feel about
that mindset of don't come in our bar if you
can't give us twenty percent, don't come in our restaurant
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if you can't give us twenty percent, even if you're
picking up food to go. I mean, that can't be
good for business long term.
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Can it.
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So I'm just making you aware that there is an
expectation there. Just know, maybe in the past people have
ignored or missed out on tipping. The bartenders, and I
don't know. I know there's mixed feelings about picking up food.
I think it depends on how involved. Sometimes the food
that you pick up at the restaurant, by the way,
you're picking up at the bar anyway, if it's a
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restaurant and bar, often that's the case. I've actually been
in a place before where I was going to pay
the bartender, give the bartender a cash tip. I picked
up something because I felt like it was pretty involved,
and because I didn't on my slip that I signed
put a tip on it, they wanted to publicly shame
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me out loud, what no tip on here? And it's like, yeah,
it was cash in my pocket, but you know what,
I'm gonna hang on to it just for that, just
for the little show that you put on, because I
didn't appreciate that. And that's not okay either, but it's
something that apparently is happening if you don't follow their rules.
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Is twenty percent too much at a bar? I mean,
I don't, like I said, I don't spend a lot
of time at a bar, but that does seem like
that could be a bit high, especially if you're one
of those people liked me that for some reason spends
a decent amount of time just standing there waiting on
the bartender to ask me what I want for a drink.
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right after the break. Well, as we are working our
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way closer and closer to the end of October and
Halloween coming up. Halloween candy prices are apparently giving some
people a bit of sticker shock, with some bags going
for twenty five dollars or more, and that's triggering some
debate on social media. Uh, some saying they're skipping trigger
(24:47):
treating altogether because of the cost, saying porch light will
be off this year for some uh, and some saying
they're just gonna go to cheaper alternatives toys or stickers
or things and candy. Those are ways that you can
obviously still be part of it. Just know, I think
kids are expecting candy. That's what they're hoping for. They're
(25:09):
not hoping for stickers or cheap little toys. But I
guess Instacart's latest data says Reese's Peanut butter cups are
still officially America's most order Halloween candy, followed by peanut
m and ms, then regular eminems and then kit kats.
Other favorites rounding out the list include Snickers, Sour Patch Kids,
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Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Milky Way Twigs, and those harribogummies. My
kids are big fun of fans of gummies in particular,
but those Hairbos and the Sour Patch Kids, they really
like those. I will say this though, the Nerds gummy
clusters are a big hit in my house, and my wife,
who does not eat a lot of candy, loves those things.
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So just putting that on your radar if you haven't
stopped to think about the Nerds clusters, those gummy clusters
in Germany, Austria, and I guess in that area, there's
a social media trend called putting mitt Gable and it's
putting with a fork, and they say that it's something
(26:16):
that's happening a lot now in parks and public spaces,
people of all ages together with individual pudding cups and forks,
not spoons, to eat together. No one knows exactly what
the origin of this thing was, but it's spreading fast
across cities, and I guess it's the absurdism of all
(26:39):
of it that they call it peak German humor and
that there's no deep meaning or political message, just something
fun to do. So you show up with a pudding
cup and a fork and you all sit around together
and you eat your pudding with a fork. I mean
it's something to do. It's definitely, it's definitely something to do. Uh.
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A bride to be has stirred up some drama on
social media after demanding that her bride'smaids get spray hands
before her wedding so they all don't look too pale
in the photos. And this is one of those bridezilla
things that's fallen into some of those categories. One of
the bride'smaids, who happens to be a cousin of this
particular bride, says some of the bride'smaids complied, and when
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they showed up bronze, the bride flipped out sand they
looked too dark and accused them of sabotaging her look.
She even told one bride's maid to try scrubbing hers off.
What's crazier is that the bride herself is very pale
and refuses to get a spray tond, insisting everyone else
should match, which you know, goes back to the question
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of why did she want them to get spray hands
in the first place. That's a weird request. I think.
I think what we need to have now when we
get these Bridezilla type stories, these bridesmaids, is we need
people to be able to step in and just go
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. We're not
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you know, we're not all going to wear this horribly
ugly dress. I'll just come to the wedding and sit
with everybody else. Or I'm not going to get a
spray tan or whatever is going on. Have you heard
of biobating? It's the latest trend causing frustration among singles.
It's when someone oversells themselves in a dating app bio,
creating expectations that they don't actually meet in real life.
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And I think that I don't know there was a
term for it, but it doesn't surprise me that people
do it. It's been going on for a while. Catfishing
is where you pretend to be someone else entirely, but
biobating is a little more subtle. Basically, it's about exaggerating
traits like being adventurous, spontaneous, or a foodie. A recent
survey found sixty three percent of singles felt left let
(28:57):
down after meeting someone who did not live up to
their profile. We'd love to travel being the most misleading
biobating claim. That was followed by adventurer, entrepreneur, foodie, and spontaneous.
So if you're not those things, you will be labeled
as a biobater and not be very well liked by
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the people that are hoping to meet you and go
on these great adventures and eat crazy food with you
while being spontaneous. I guess that'll do it for this
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