Carol ReMarks
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Carol ReMarks
Unraveling Election Mysteries and Celebrating Football and Family
What if the drawn-out election process is more complex than we ever imagined? Join us as we investigate the mystifying delays in election results, comparing the suspenseful wait to the instant gratification of lottery announcements. We unravel why mail-in voting seems to have added layers of complexity to what was once a straightforward process, and we confront the budding skepticism around electoral integrity. With courts increasingly in the spotlight, questions about their influence on election outcomes raise eyebrows and perhaps even a bit of disillusionment. It's a discussion that questions the efficiency and transparency we all crave in our democratic systems.
Switching from the serious to the spirited, football and family take center stage in a heartwarming celebration of wins and relationships. Relive the electrifying Georgia-Florida clash, where sportsmanship shone as brightly as the scoreboard. Our young family member, Cam Cam, becomes a delightful focus as we share moments of joy during his visits, filled with puzzles, books, and the comfort of tomato soup. From Ohio State's triumph over Penn State to South Carolina's surprise victory against Texas A&M, we cover the highs and lows of a thrilling football weekend. And of course, we couldn't resist a chuckle over Alabama’s hypothetical matchup against a bye week, wrapping up with humor and warmth.
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Two more days till we vote. Now, do you count today, so that would be three more days, or do you count Tuesday, that'd be two more. How many more days do we have until Tuesday? We just jumped right into that.
Speaker 2:We didn't say good morning. No we didn't. Good morning one and all. Welcome to Sunday morning. It's a beautiful day and it's first day of fall back.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, that's right.
Speaker 2:We have fallen back. That's right. We got an extra hour of sleep, which we took advantage of.
Speaker 1:I can see it's already getting daylight outside.
Speaker 2:Absolutely it is. I don't know. Do you count today as a day or do you count tomorrow as a day?
Speaker 1:Well, you definitely count tomorrow as a day.
Speaker 2:Well, tomorrow's a day, because Monday and Monday's always a day.
Speaker 1:Monday always lasts longer than regular days, so I guess that I'm going to count two more days.
Speaker 2:Two more days till. We vote Because.
Speaker 1:Tuesday is the day.
Speaker 2:Tuesday's the day, yes.
Speaker 1:I'll count today and Monday.
Speaker 2:I'm still just totally perplexed, in a way that I'm not so much worried about voting and I want the outcome, of course, to be the way y'all know I want it to be. But how in the hell is it possible that it would take them actually 10 days, up to 10 to 7 to 10 days, to know who wins this election?
Speaker 1:I thought you were going to say something else. I thought you were going to say how in the hell has Kamala this close with Donald? That too, but yes, why is it going to take two, three weeks to count? That's BS.
Speaker 2:That is bullshit. I will say it. I won't glitterize it and put. Glitterize it. Yeah, glitterize it and put sprinkles on top of it.
Speaker 1:That'll be a quote for Mr Sean's. Absolutely.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to glitterize this. I come up with new good ones. Every other you know some some days.
Speaker 1:I live to come up with a quote that Mr Sean's jubilates will will put out there for me.
Speaker 2:There's one right there. I live to come up with a quote That'll be good. So anyway, you know I'm not putting now, I'm trying to make them up McDonald's happy land sauce on it. But you know, how can we? How can you know millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of people, millions and millions of people, when the lottery gets to $800,000, by millions and millions and millions of tickets, many more tickets that are bought than election ballots are cast. And by God, at 12 o'clock that night, we know who the hell won the lottery, we know what store they were in, where it was purchased, everything, but we can't count these votes. We don't know. You know well, hog hell.
Speaker 1:Well, it's because they got away from the day of voting. Oh, absolutely, we have all this mail-in crap Now. Absentee balloting I'm all for, because we actually had to do that one year when we went on our honeymoon. We were going to be out of the country when we voted, but that's a very specialized thing. That happens, and for military members.
Speaker 2:And they all have to be in before the date. Yes, you know, we had to have been before we went, before we left, and before the day they were in, you know like that Monday or something, I can't remember, yeah, but they were all in and done, really, and of course nobody knew who had voted or the count of those votes or anything. Right, you know, I think those were all tabulated that day as well, as far as you know, the day of the election. So, and then at the end of the day, you know you could figure out who the hell won the election. It was easy, simple. But no, now it's mail in push, in phone, in write, in run in mail in carry in fly, in Drag in Absentee abs in carry in fly in Drag in.
Speaker 2:Absentee, absentee, absentee plus Absentee. You know, crawling down the road.
Speaker 1:It's out of hand, and I just think it's stupid that they say they're going to take weeks to count. That's nonsense and it needs to be put into.
Speaker 2:And we know it's manipulation. It's manipulation of the polls, it's manipulation.
Speaker 1:You know part of that whole, and yet we sit here and do nothing and let the courts take care of it.
Speaker 2:That has gotten out of hand too, and of course, the courts are becoming politicized as well. So anyway, it was a fun day of football.
Speaker 1:Yes, tell us about the Georgia-Florida game.
Speaker 2:The Georgia-Florida game was an ugly game, but it was a win for Georgia, which, of course, as you know, I'm a Georgia fan. So we always used to say if we pick one game of the year to win and lose the rest of them, we'd pick this one, we'd beat Florida. And so we beat Florida. Like I say, it wasn't a beautiful thing. There were a lot of injuries, but both teams played really hard and there wasn't a lot of that false macho bravado. You know people yelling and screaming and piss-pumping them, you know beating their chest. It was just a good football game so I was very happy with it.
Speaker 1:Good, very happy with it. Good, yeah, I didn't hear a lot of yelling and screaming from you. We had the tyke here yesterday too. He had such a good time.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, it's so funny. You know he has such a good time. Oh my gosh, it's so funny, you know he, he has such a good time and he enjoys himself, of course, and the the the funny part now is that, uh, when you tell him okay, it's time to go home, he's no, I don't want to go home he kind of gets a little pouty.
Speaker 1:He doesn't throw a fit or anything.
Speaker 2:He doesn't cry, but he doesn't want to go him, he wants to stay he gets a little droopy and I don't want to go stay here.
Speaker 1:It's fun, it's fun here like well, that's good and it doesn't last long though I put him in. He doesn't try, he doesn't cry, he doesn't struggle, he doesn't give us a fit, he goes and gets in the car.
Speaker 2:I get him over there to his house we do a lot of distracting from it as well, though, to keep him from it, but still he's fine with it.
Speaker 1:Daddy comes out to greet us and he's all happy again.
Speaker 2:He loves his daddy. He loves his daddy, he loves his mommy too.
Speaker 1:We pulled up to the driveway and Ashley's car, I think, was there and he said, mommy, mommy.
Speaker 2:He loves both his parents parents yes, they're good parents. It's really good to see that he you know, child, knows he's home and he's like, oh excited. Every time he sees his parents he's excited, yeah, and every time he sees us he's excited too. So he's a good boy, yeah, he's a good, smart, smart young man.
Speaker 1:He did puzzles yesterday. He didn't play a whole lot with his cars, a little bit he read books. He liked putting together those puzzles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I love the fact that he makes time out of his busy schedule when he's here to get a book and he'll book, and he'll get a book, book and he'll come sit up in my lap and and two or three books we'll read. Uh, you know, but he makes a point. He made. It's almost like he makes a point. It's like, okay, read time, and he'll grab a book and come, you know, grab it and come jump up with me and you know, read this one. Then he'll go back over and get another one, read this one. He even had one of the ones that I was like, wow, this is not good, he'll never sit through this book, and he's brought it over to me two or three times Read this one.
Speaker 1:I was like, well, okay, he played with his magnet storyboard for a long time too. He loves that little thing. Yeah, he does and he's not like most kids. That would get him out and throw him all over the place and, you know, put him in their mouths or whatever, or tear up the paper. He actually sits there and plays with it and takes care of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he does, yeah, he does.
Speaker 1:All right, any eight. We discovered he likes tomato soup. Yes, he does. Yeah, he does. All right In 8, we discovered he likes tomato soup.
Speaker 2:Yes, he does like tomato soup. And oh yeah, and, by the way, ohio State did beat Penn State.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Which was a big win, and Texas A&M, who was the you know, after they beat LSU, everybody was yelling and screaming oh, texas is going to be it. That's going to be where everything is. Texas, texas A&M, blah, blah, blah. South Carolina just routed Texas A&M last night. That was hilarious, and there were some other big games.
Speaker 2:Oregon has stepped up and shown us that they are a contender, and one of the things I was going to talk about there too. Very quickly, georgia won the national championship game a couple years ago, beating Ohio State, and a guy named Dan Lanning was the defensive coordinator. And then, the next year, the first game out, georgia played Oregon and walloped them in that game. The head coach there was in his first game as a head coach in a Division I team was a guy named Dan Lanning. It was Georgia's defensive coordinator, and now, as we look at the season going on, oregon, with a coach named Dan Lanning, who was Kirby's defensive coordinator, is number one and Georgia's number two, so it was kind of interesting to see where those cards fall. That was something I was going to say for a second. That was very interesting, but, yes, the highlight of the day, of course, though, was our little Cam Cam.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, such a sweet boy.
Speaker 1:Not to change the subject.
Speaker 2:We got some good pictures of him too. Yes, we did.
Speaker 1:Did Alabama play?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they played bye and they lost by three.
Speaker 1:They played bye. What's that?
Speaker 2:That's a joke. They didn't have a game.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:That's a joke amongst people. Yeah, they played bye and they lost, okay, oh, and one other thing Congratulations to Vanderbilt, the state champions of Alabama. This year they beat Auburn.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Somebody was I think it was one of the Alabama fans was on Twitter and he was yelling. It's like ah, y'all lost to Auburn too, blah, blah, blah. I don't see y'all out here yelling and screaming about it. So I had to say back to them. I said you know, y'all both lost to Vanderbilt this year. I guess that's a feather in your cap. I said quality losses. That's what I said Quality losses to Vanderbilt. I guess y'all got that. So anyway, moving on, all I guess y'all got that.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, moving on. All right, moving on. Let's do a couple of.
Speaker 2:Dear Abby's, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:All right, here we go. Dear Abby, I want to rekindle a relationship with my married ex-husband. Oh boy, I have been divorced from my ex-husband, Paul, for 20 years. I never remarried. The divorce was mostly my fault because I was unfaithful. I never tried to save our marriage. He immediately started dating and remarried 18 months later. We have remained friends due to having four children and now grandchildren. I get along with his wife as well.
Speaker 2:Trouble all the way around.
Speaker 1:During the pandemic, I, along with a grown child, moved across the country. Paul and his wife followed us. We live about an hour apart, as it worked out. Three of our four kids have also moved to be near us Over the last two years. I have realized that I miss Paul and have hopes of us being together again. Oh boy, he does not know this. I have never disrespected his marriage or his current wife in any way. This has been 20 years. Yeah, something's what's wrong. What is up with that? 20 years now Come on.
Speaker 1:They have a unique relationship because they often spend time apart and travel to see their families with each other. I think they also occasionally vacation separately. Okay, that's weird. I know this isn't necessarily a measure of their love or commitment, but my gut tells me it's not the marriage they want people to believe it is. My gut also tells me yeah, your gut has been wrong for a long time there, lady. Your gut told you to cheat on your husband. My gut also tells me he may feel the same way I do. I often think he wishes he had done more to help save our marriage. It's been 20 years. Should I tell him how I feel? I'm happy in my life, but I don't want to regret not speaking up If there's a chance we can reunite and be the family I know God intended us to be.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Any advice? Regretful in Alabama. This boy Do we know them. What do you think about that? I say leave it alone.
Speaker 2:I say you need to go to a psychologist and work out your problems.
Speaker 1:That's your answer to everything.
Speaker 2:If I'm writing, dear Abby, I'm already needing a psychologist. That's true. That's the first part.
Speaker 1:I ain't gonna glitterize it look, she already ruined her own marriage by cheating, don't ruin this marriage by cheating don't do it yeah, you're making amends by not doing that again. Do not do it unbelievable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's she needs to.
Speaker 1:Why is she not remarried? Why is she doing what that might be a problem right there? Why not that she had remarried, but why does she not have another man in her life after 20 years? I?
Speaker 2:mean, maybe men have got, maybe men have caught on to her like no, maybe there's just something about you that says you know, no, I don't really know. This isn't good just enjoy your grandchildren really, really yeah, and go to go to church yes, yes, do offer your time in service to something else really, really. You know, I mean that many kids 20 years, you're probably getting close to being a grandparent well, she is a grandparent that's right.
Speaker 2:So you don't really you know, come on me on man, come on man, mm-hmm, come on man yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, let's see what dear Abby has to say to her. All right, dear Regretful, my goodness, you are certainly having a self-serving conversation with God you should have spoken to before you committed adultery and blew up your marriage. Wow, dear Abby.
Speaker 2:Get her there you go.
Speaker 1:While it may seem unusual to you, many couples visit their families separately, and some even take short vacations. If their spouses aren't interested, do yourself a favor and look for some romance elsewhere. Your ex and his wife might greatly appreciate it if you did. Please consider it before possibly embarrassing yourself. Amen, good one, amen, amen, I say to you.
Speaker 2:Finally, dear Abby gets one right.
Speaker 1:Yes, all right. Well, let's see, what else do we have up here? Let's see. Let's see, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking. All right, we're going to, okay, we're going gonna do one more and then we're gonna call it a day. Dear abby, a woman I've known and been friends with for over 40 years has gradually changed. She's developed some health problems and whenever she calls me, all she talks about are her ailments and treatments. When we manage to discuss other things, she turns the subject to her political views, which are different from mine. I try to be noncommittal or change the subject, but it's getting harder and harder. I now cringe when I see her caller ID. She has other friends, so I don't know why she dumps this stuff on me. I feel our friendship has run its course and I'd like to end it with as little pain as possible. How can I do that? Wow, that's not really a friend if you ask me. But you know if you have different political views, so what? Tell her yours, maybe she'll stop calling.
Speaker 2:Well, there you hit the nail on the head. You probably, when she's yelling and screaming I shouldn't say yelling and screaming, when she's telling your political views you're just going, uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, tell her. You know, hey, these are my political views, and either you know it's one of those things if you keep sharing something like that, she's probably going to quit talking about hers, yeah, and then your friendship can go on, if it's going gonna go on or not.
Speaker 1:Go on if it's not gonna go on, but I liked your advice yeah, and the woman also seems a little pollyanna.
Speaker 1:I mean, do you think all friendships are rainbows and puppies and good and positive? Yeah, you're gonna have issues with friendships, absolutely. That's what makes you know, makes you different with each other. I don't know. Everybody has to agree now and be in their groups. Right, be all alike. I mean, that's what having you know we have so many groups now that you're, if you're not, in this group or that group or whatever, it's insane, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I would say, just talk about your things, and if that friendship continues on with the differences, then it does. If it does, so what?
Speaker 1:All right, let's see what Dear Abby has to say. Dear Used Up, this shouldn't be too difficult. The next time you talk and she raises the subject of politics, speak up and tell her you not only don't agree, but the plan to vote for the candidate from the opposite political party. I'll bet she drops you like a hot potato. Well, there you have it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go. That was a made-up one.
Speaker 1:That was a made-up one, if I ever read one. Absolutely All right, we need a question of the day. All right, I'm going to ask the question of the day since I came up with it. Okay, we've got Halloween past us. Okay, we've got Halloween past us. We're in November. Thanksgiving is coming up, though when do you put?
Speaker 2:your Christmas decorations slash tree up? That's a very good question. My thinking would be, and the way I like to look at it is after Thanksgiving, yes, because I like Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:I do too.
Speaker 2:I love Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:I do too. I love.
Speaker 2:Thanksgiving. I do too, so Christmas doesn't start until after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:I agree, Period You've got to have some, but we don't have any kind of decorations for Thanksgiving though.
Speaker 2:We put out a cornucopia, yeah, but yeah, you know, regardless of whether you put Thanksgiving decorations out or not, which we don't you don't put the Christmas tree up till after Thanksgiving. Yes, period.
Speaker 1:I agree, the day after the weekend after. You could do it the day after the weekend after, or.
Speaker 2:Friday after.
Speaker 1:Black Friday, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, I don't care. Yeah, but it doesn't go up till after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Agreed, all right.
