Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Nostalgia, Media Buzz, and Football Thrills
Ever been called "Sugar Bunny" in your childhood? We kick off with some laughter, reminiscing about quirky nicknames like "Kiro" that might just make you recall your own. From there, we venture into a more serious realm, discussing the intriguing shifts in public personas of figures such as Kamala Harris on platforms like Howard Stern and The View. Are these transformations genuine or merely a media ploy? We don't shy away from skepticism, especially when addressing the media's penchant for amplifying accusations without solid evidence, with Donald Trump often at the center of such narratives.
Switching from media madness to the thrill of sports, we dive into the weekend's college football matchups, explaining why a "bye week" isn't just about skipping a game. Excitement surrounds the Ohio State vs. Oregon and Texas vs. Oklahoma games, with a touch of nostalgia for the days when Texas and Oklahoma were in different conferences. We chat about the oddity of time changes due to SEC influence and anticipate more classic showdowns like Florida vs. Tennessee and Georgia’s next game. Whether you're caught up in the football frenzy or just in for the banter, we've got a little something for everyone!
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Hello, good morning.
Speaker 2:Good morning one and all.
Speaker 1:I want to go ahead and start off with the question of the day.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, jump on it.
Speaker 1:When you were a kid, did you ever have a nickname that someone gave you? It could be a relative, whatever, you know. When our kids were little, our daughter was called Sugar Bunny, sugar Bunny, and I tried to get Sugar Bear to stick with our son, but that didn't really stick. But when he got older you kind of dubbed him T-Man. T-man, yeah.
Speaker 2:T-Man was the best one. I still call him that Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm and yeah.
Speaker 1:For me when I was little, my mother, she loved Michael Landon so she watched Little House on the Prairie all the time. She tried to get half pipe to stick to me but I hated it, yeah. And then another family member who I saw maybe a handful of times my whole life, tried to get Clancy to stick to me but, like I said, I only saw him maybe five times my whole life before he passed away. Called me Clancy when. Stick to me. But, like I said, I only saw him maybe five times my whole life before he passed away. Called me Clancy when he saw me. What about you, care, bear?
Speaker 2:Kiro.
Speaker 1:Why is Kiro? Explain that to me.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I have no idea. I can't remember where it came from, why it was there, but that's the name that I was Kiro, and it was kind of funny because as I moved through life and got into different places where people didn't know me as Kiro, people would call me Kiro. Okay, well then that's so, that kind of, and if you look at my twitter, that explains your twitter handle.
Speaker 1:You'll see my twitter handle I wondered where you came up with that uh, and that was kind of what it.
Speaker 2:and uh, back in the I don't know the the, the days of the Care Bears, when I was teaching still teaching a lot of guys doing a lot of junior programs. Some of the kids called me Care Bear, but other than that, you know, dickhead was one.
Speaker 1:Stop.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:This is supposed to be. That's tame in today's culture. That's very tame, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 1:It's all right. Trust me, I've talked about worse things than that.
Speaker 2:If you want to take it out, you can take it out. But yeah, I guess Kiro would be about the only one that really stuck with me and accepted it, lived with it and moved on Okay, and embraced it.
Speaker 1:I guess you would say Well, I call you the gent.
Speaker 2:Yes, you do, and I call you sweetheart. I like the gent, though that's kind of. That moves beyond Kiro. That'll be my older age nickname the hell of it is.
Speaker 1:Everybody else that knows me calls you the jint.
Speaker 2:Calls me the jint. Yeah, that's because they didn't know my name. Of course they didn't know the other nickname, so if they knew me well, they'd call me the one that you wanted to delete. Yeah, what's old up to.
Speaker 1:Well, speaking of D-heads, you want to talk about Kamala and what a bad week she's had.
Speaker 2:Oh, she's had a bad week, bad week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I kind of sort of wrote about it on the Victor Girls. Just briefly about all the media spots she's hitting and I don't really talk show host Howard Stern, the View, Stephen Colbert she can't even handle that.
Speaker 2:Well, it's so funny that you know you brought up the Howard Stern one, where you know I'd rather vote for a brick wall. It's kind of like neither of them realize that you just insulted the hell out of her because you compared her basically to a brick wall. She is equal to the brick wall that you would vote for if it weren't for Trump. So basically, you know here, let me just slap you down right here in front of in this audience. I've got how embarrassing was that?
Speaker 1:I think the other day it was yesterday on Pat Gray I think it was on Pat Gray Unleashed. They were talking about what happened to Howard Stern and I think a lot of these men like Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert are trying to pay penance on the way they used to behave back in the day Because they brought up on air Howard Stern how he would throw pieces of bologna at women's buttocks.
Speaker 2:Get them to stick on. Yeah, that was a great part of the show.
Speaker 1:You know what he threw it, I mean, and now he's like this cowering old man, old bitty once, who's terrified that Trump is going to become president.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know I don't know anything about the penance part, that I didn't see any of that.
Speaker 1:Just the way he behaves now.
Speaker 2:Oh well, there are other ways to do to make your amends if you want to, but to try to bring down a whole country because of just because you don't. And I don't agree with the penance. Part of it because they all rail on how they dislike Trump. They're not doing any penance. Part of it because they all rail on how they dislike Trump. They're not doing any penance. They're doing it because they don't. They do it for a hatred of a person instead of a love for a country. They'd rather see the country go to hell than have to vote for a man who's going to do something good just because they don't like him.
Speaker 1:And I don't understand why they don't like him.
Speaker 2:Well, you know all the manufactured reasons they've come up with. He's a womanizer. What are all the ist words?
Speaker 1:Racist, misogynist, that's one thing to say it, but show me proof.
Speaker 2:They don't need proof. All they have to do is make accusations. If you make an accusation, that means it's true. You know, it's that whole thing. If they say it enough, everybody believes it. And they've said it enough to where a lot of people, all these people, believe it. So therefore, we don't need any proof, because everybody's saying it's true. Yeah, you know, it's that whole Hillary Clinton thing. You supply the headline, then you go talk about it and then when somebody says, well, where did you get that, you go say, well, look at the headlines over here, see, they reported it over here and you don't have to have any proof because they reported it. And I'm just following what they reported. Oh, wait, a minute, you told them to report that, so it's a lie they made up to, and now they've got the proof because it was reported. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we kind of got off topic. We were supposed to talk about Kamala and what a bad week she's had On Univision.
Speaker 2:You know they're having the town hall meeting and gets asked a question and the camera pans around and you see the answer she's reading off and you realize that someone's giving her the answer. She's not just in front doing a town hall and talking off her brain, she's reading answers that are scripted for her. Who knows if the questions were already known and scripted but somebody's up there typing something out for her to seek because she can't think on off the top of her head not at all.
Speaker 2:and then, of course, the teleprompter going off when she's talking about 35 more days and you see her freeze and it's like uh oh, the teleprompter's off 35 more days 35 days, oh my God.
Speaker 2:And then the worst of all was the CBS 60 Minutes where she gave this word salad answer to this question. And then you get the cut that they're going to show. Then you get the cut that they're going to show and it had a very well-put answer on there and it's like, wait a minute, that wasn't her answer. So CBS is now being accused.
Speaker 1:ABC, was it ABC or?
Speaker 2:what CBS is 60 Minutes.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, I thought people were calling out ABC, but you're probably right, it's probably CBS. You're always right. I'm not always right, but it's one 60 Minutes. Oh okay, I thought people were calling out ABC, but you're probably right, it's probably CBS. You're always right.
Speaker 2:I'm not always right, but it's one or the other, but anyway it just shows that it was a very, very bad week for Kamala and hopefully this will be kind of brought out to show that she's really just not capable of leading the country. Regardless of whether you like Trump or not, you know you ought to like the country enough to put that beside you and go ahead and vote for something that will do the country some good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because Kamala's always out there saying well, whenever they ask her what would you do differently? Well, nothing comes to mind. But I'm not Joe Biden, so who are you then?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we don't know what we're gonna get. Nothing comes to mind. My god, look back, we look back at all the things that y'all have just crashed on. Yeah, we do know what we're gonna get and yeah, exactly, you know, don't say people, we don't know what we're gonna get, we know exactly what we're getting.
Speaker 2:We know exactly who she is and we know exactly what we're getting. Yeah, we know exactly who she is and we know exactly what we're getting. And if all these people are sitting there saying on the news, you know we really don't know who she is. Yes, we do, we know exactly who she is. They are showing us who she is.
Speaker 1:That's why they're having a hard time, even on the friendliest of shows, because everybody knows who she is and what she stands for, but they don't want to say it.
Speaker 2:It was really eye-opening for some, I would think, but for me not. But eye-opening for some when Barack Obama came out and started railing. They're bringing out their top gun. Here comes Maverick Maverick on the Alert 5 aircraft. Obama's sitting there in Alert 5 ready to jump off. They fire him off the plane. He comes soaring in there and next thing you know everybody's going. What the hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Even, and the embarrassing part was, a lot of the black pundits and the black guests on these shows were thinking, were saying you know this guy, he's a dinosaur, We've got to get rid of him. He is doing nothing for the black community.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:He did nothing for the black community. Nothing. He's doing nothing for the black community. And you know, here he is railing on black people saying you know you're stupid if you don't vote for them. You've got to vote for them. No, you don't Make up your own mind. So they've had a bad week.
Speaker 1:Very much so, and we only have a couple more weeks to go before we vote.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, in person, absolutely Football Today's. A person, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Football.
Speaker 2:Today's a big football day.
Speaker 1:Who's Georgia playing?
Speaker 2:Georgia plays Mississippi State. How's it look? Looks good. Mississippi State's not what you'd call a great team, but you know, then again, you can never overlook a lesser opponent, because look what happened last week to Alabama or Vanderbilt yes, Ball.
Speaker 1:I have a question. Okay, what does bye week mean?
Speaker 2:bye bye means. That means you don't play an opponent, that means you're off. Oh okay, you're done.
Speaker 1:You have a bye so you guys have bye week. Today I don't know.
Speaker 2:okay, I don't really pay attention to who's not playing. More attention to who's not playing. Pay attention to who's playing. I got you. There are two big games today, but one of them is Ohio State and Oregon, which is really weird because you know now Oregon's in the Big 10, big 12, whatever the hell it is, so that's kind of weird for those two to play. And then the SEC matchup of the week is number one, texas versus number 14 or number 20 or six, I don't know what the hell number. They are Oklahoma. Wait a minute, texas and Oklahoma in the SEC.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's weird, didn't sound right.
Speaker 2:Until yesterday, at some point in time when we were talking about this, I was thinking okay, the Texas-Oklahoma game is today, it'll be on at 11 o'clock, because the Red River rivalry is always on at 11 o'clock, every year it's 11 o'clock. Then I looked down and was like wait a minute, it's 2.30. Oh yeah, that's right, it's an SEC game. Oh, what the hell. You know, I go back to my days when Texas was a Southwest conference and Oklahoma was in the Big Eight or whatever, and it was a big out-of-conference rivalry game that they played. Now both of them are in the SEC. Things just don't seem right nowadays, but it is what it is. It was 2.30 today, that game, and then a little later on tonight, I think, is the Ohio State Oregon game, which will all be a good game, and Florida plays Tennessee. So those are the three games that I'll be watching and looking at, and Georgia, of course, and seeing how it goes. All right.
