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No, Kindness Isn't an Evolved Trait · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Thursday morning, first day of February. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Groundhog Day Eve if you will. Great day to start, getting ready
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to watch some Bill Murray tomorrow, right all day long. Just marathon it
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out, man. Just spend your whole day watching some groundhog Day. What
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do you thought of my Ghostbusters? What do you think I was talking about?
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Caddy Shack? No groundhog Day, Baby, groundhog Day. It feels
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like we're kind of I know we've gotten back into some colder weather again,
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but I don't know. Are we gonna get another really cold snap. I
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know we often do in February. Sometimes in March or April we'll get it.
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I know we had a stretch I don't know, ten years ago or
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so where we actually had some snow around this time. Maybe maybe a couple
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of days ago. Uh the anniversary for that. That's the last decent snow
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I think we've gotten here in a while. But it just I don't know.
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It just was that we get our really cold days and then we're done.
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I don't know. I don't know where this is going. I just
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know that Uh it segues into what I want to talk about, which is
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which is climate today because I saw an interview that was done. Uh donaka
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McCarthy is this guy's name. He's an environmental kind of a radical if you
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will, well that kind of he's a radical environmentalist. He was part of
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the Just Stop Oil Extinction rebellion I guess a politician that you know didn't didn't
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quite happen for him. And in this particular interview on British TV, one
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of the news shows there, he was talking about the climate and talking about
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this is what's always interesting to me is this notion that human beings, just
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in being human beings, that we are the problem. We're the problem.
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We are the selfish problem that is the existence on Earth. Now, what's
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interesting about There's so many layers to this to digest. I was just talking
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with someone earlier this week, a friend, about some of this to some
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level, and I want to be very clear about a few things. Okay,
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I I'm not specifically stereotyping anyone with what I'm saying. I'm going to
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speak in some generalized terms and I'm just making some observations. I understand that
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not everyone whose belief system falls into a certain thing, agrees with everyone else.
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I know that's what we're taught to believe now, but that's not the
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case. But this particular friend, who is himself a nature conservation person,
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which is great, he and I were talking just in general about and we
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share I think I believe at least very similar spiritual values. So we weren't
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really in disagreement, although at times a few things that were said, I
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thought, I'm not quite sure he's understanding me or I'm understanding him or his
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point. But it was a healthy conversation that we were having about this.
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And now this particular interview that's just happened sort of is triggering and really making
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all this stuff fire for me, because I thought it was interesting that we
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had that convert he and I had this conversation, and then this particular interview
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surfaces. So and I'll get back to the interview in a second, but
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part of what we were discussing is the fact that to me, you know,
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and I've talked about this at great length here on the show, there
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is this notion now that sort of everything is a religion now, and I
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truly believe that once your you know, your belief system in something becomes so
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prevalent that it dominates your thinking, your life. That's when it kind of
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becomes a religion. There's a point where you cross the line with just about
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anything. If you want to eat organic food, that's fine. You're allowed
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to do. If you can afford it, you're allowed to There's nothing stopping
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you from doing that. When you only eat organic food and you insist that
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it's the only food that anyone should eat, and that you are trying to
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make sure that no one can eat anything but organic food, and it becomes
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the entire focus of your day to day activities, I would argue that that's
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become a religion for you. If you believe this Client Climate conversation to the
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degree that you know we're all going to die, the end of the world
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is coming, We're all going to die in twenty years. You're not just
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because coming a person who worships at the altar of the climate of environmentalism,
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You basically at that point become a radical apocalyptic faith. This becomes the people
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who start, you know, looking at this in the Christian world right,
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they start, you know, looking at the Second Coming, the Book of
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Revelation, they start looking at the end of times. When you start talking
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about that and you say, the world's going to end in twenty years,
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it's going to be so hot we'll all be boiling in our skin, steam
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rising out of our pores. That's how hot it's going to be, you
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know, like Georgia in the summer, and the way George has been in
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the summer my whole life. But my point is, I think at that
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point, yeah, you become this sort of radical religious person at that stage
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if you start screaming that the world's going to end. And especially because I
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think back, and I've talked about this before, I think back to when
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I was in high school, which, by the way, I went to
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a private school with a religious overall education to it, and it was,
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you know, part of a church, and a lot of people talked about
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end of times, and sometimes the topic would come up, Oh my gosh,
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the world is going to end in nineteen eighty eight. That was a
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big talk. Oh my gosh, nineteen eighty eight, that's when the Second
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Coming will happen. And you know, some people really freaked out about it,
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and it didn't happen. And then people say, well, you know,
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nineteen ninety two, see whatever, they kept moving the you know,
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kicking the can. We don't hear a lot about that anymore. I don't
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anyway. Maybe it's because I'm not still in school there. I don't know
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that school doesn't exist anymore. But the point is, the people that are
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screaming about the end of times now more than anyone else seems to be the
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environmental folks. And I think as we look at a number of things,
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we got people who, you know, science itself has become their religion.
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You have people that believe in a you know, kind of accidental you know,
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origin of the universe. It just happened. The people that don't believe
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in God, and they say that the universe just happened, and it just
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it's been this series of convenient coincidences that all happen one after the next and
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allowed people to exist. It came to this point, and they believe in
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things like you know, Darwinism, survival of the fittest, and some of
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the same people who believe that this is where the generalization comes. But some
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of the same people who believe that also make the case for why we shouldn't
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let any animals die off we can't but an animal go extinct survival of the
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fittest, except not in this case. All the animals that have gone extinct
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in the past. That's a shame. We can't let it happen again,
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even though it's part of what got us to where we are now, you
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know, top of the food chain kind of thing. And I've never that's
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always some one of those things that doesn't sit right with me. It just
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does it. This friend shared with me a speech that someone gave where they
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talked about how being nice kindness was an evolutionary trait, and how this evolutionary
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trait is what allows us to look out for others, for animals and those
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that might be extinct or you know, each other, and being kind was
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something that we evolved into. And I don't believe that at all. I'm
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not sure that this friend was advocate that that was the case. I don't
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know. I watched the video and I just thought, no, that's not
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what it is. Not for me. See, my religion says that kindness
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and love and compassion comes from somewhere else. I don't expect everyone to believe
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the same thing that I do. I know that that's one of those things
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that I think a lot of people kind of insist everybody have the same belief
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system. But I've never quite understood how, you know, unless you're buying
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into that. And I don't know how someone could buy into that. What
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about niceness and kindness is something that would fall into the Darwinistic survival of the
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fittest mentality? It doesn't. You don't evolve into kindness and expect to,
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you know, be the fittest. You know, I've often thought that that
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was strange. Okay, I just I don't always like I think of Stephen
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Hawking, who was a strong advocate for this, and let's just be honest.
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I mean, I'm not I'm not certainly not advocating this, but he
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was not someone who could defend himself. He wasn't exactly someone who he was
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very brilliant, very smart, but wasn't in a position where, you know,
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if someone wanted to kill him he could stop it, right. He
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just wasn't. It's always interesting to me this notion. And I've had people,
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you know, in my life over the years that talk about they you
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know, they're a strong believer in God, but they put environmental issues ahead
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of that, and I just go, I don't. I don't know that
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that that's your top religious choice. I don't. I don't know that you
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know, but that's you. You be you. So this guy, this
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McCarthy guy who was doing this interview, talked about how it was immoral.
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There's a morality issue at play with people that want to have more than one
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child. He's an advocate for this notion, this thing you know that China
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is put into place where which by the way, led to the death of
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a lot of unborn Chinese babies, especially girls, right, But an advocate
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for just one child. And he went on to say in this interview,
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every child in an industrial country like ours talking about the UK has around five
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hundred and five one hundred tons of carbon over their lifetime. That's equivalent to
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one thousand years of electricity for a household. So each child has an impact.
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And we're saying one is great, two is plenty, but three is
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just selfish. And he says when women have access to family planning, rights
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to work in a right to education, the birth rate falls naturally. What
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I think is tragic is that in the UK the government have cut funds for
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girls in the developing world and I think that that is sad. So this
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idea, this notion that people are the problem is it is growth. It's
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becoming more brazen as people are just comfortable saying it out loud. Now we've
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seen this situation where anyone who now China is one of the worst polluters and
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when it comes to carbon emissions in the world according to these same people.
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Yet and when they expect America to make all of the necessary cuts and changes
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in philosophy when it comes to carbon emissions and saving the planet, they won't
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acknowledge the fact that China is the biggest obstacle to that happening. It doesn't
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matter what we do. Until China changes what they do, nothing is going
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to change. Nothing is ever going to change. There's a handful of countries
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that contribute to more of it than we could ever course correct. But that
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doesn't mean we're not being told we have to fix the problem. We have
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to course correct it. I told you they want us to, you know,
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basically, look past our own interests and really into the interests of those
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who will continue to be successful by doing things the old way. They're going
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to be far more successful than we could be by doing things the way that
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they're doing them now, that's not going to change. That's not going to
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change at all. So this notion that we should stop at one kid,
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maybe two, but definitely not more than two. Anything more than two is
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selfish. This kind of thing is starting to really pick up steam. It's
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starting to grow and and you know, criticizing China is one of those things
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that you can't do. You're not supposed to do that at all. There's
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more and more talk about, you know, watering your grass. Shouldn't do
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that, shouldn't be able to do that. We hear more and more talk
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about, you know, there's parts of the world, there's countries where they
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can't maintain their energy grid. So what do they do. They shut down
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energy for you know, just a few hours a day. They shut off
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your electricity in various parts of you know, a city, this area you
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don't get electricity between one and three pm, this city between three, or
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this part of the city three and five pm. And this is just accepted
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and encouraged. I mean, it started probably out of necessity at some point.
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But they can't produce more, they can't do something to make it all
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a little bit better. They discourage people from being able to just you know,
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use their electricity during certain windows of the day. They discourage people from
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taking showers. Yeah, every day, you shouldn't take a shower every day?
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What occasionally, you know, maybe you miss one. Some people go
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a couple days. I guess. I don't know that. We used to
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talk about Michael Stipe from RAM. It used to be the story is that
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he didn't like to shower. Never met the guy. I don't know.
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Always heard that, and maybe that's what he was doing. He was just
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trying to save water. I don't know. But we have people that want
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to change it where you you're limited on how many flights you're allowed to take
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in a year, you're limited on how far you're allowed to travel. You
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got people trying to cut back on international trips. They want it to be
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really, really expensive so that I don't know, who's the only people that
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can afford it. They're really rich and elite. I told you yesterday,
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we're going to see if Taylor Swift decides to get on a private jet and
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fly back from Japan for the Super Bowl. What a big old load of
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hypocrisy that would be the thought of someone getting on a private jet and flying
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back just to watch a football game and be seen at the football game,
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and then fly back to the tour and get back to all of that.
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But you got folks criticizing all sorts of things, watering your grass, the
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just having pets, eating meat, all these good things, all these really
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good things, vacations, whether it's by plane or by car, all this
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kind of stuff. You're not supposed to be able to do. All those
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things. That's just for I guess the elite. I guess that's where it
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all starts to fall into place, because when people praise things like communism,
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I mean ultimately that's a small group of people who are in control live a
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life of luxury while everyone else suffers. I mean, that's really how it
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works. I think back to you know, years ago, there was a
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milk a safe milk shortage in China, and you know, the people this
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is supposed to be for the people right of China, they were getting you
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know, bad milk for their children. And of course all the people in
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charge were able to get whatever they needed. They could get good milk.
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That's the way it works. If you can afford it, if you can
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be Taylor swift and afford the private jet. Yeah, get on it,
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fly back, enjoy the super Bowl. We're not talking about her. If
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you want to fly to Davos and talk about talking about the climate and the
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environment on a private jet, and you don't if you want to fly from
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one part of the US to another or somewhere around the world and a private
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jet because I'm just too famous to get on that plane. And now understand
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this, I'm not agreeing with the craziness. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy
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that's there, that's all. And when I generalize and I say, wow,
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these people that seem to worship at the feet of science don't seem to
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be uh. You know, I'm not saying that you can't believe all of
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those things and also say well, people can be better. I'm just pointing
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out the fact that it's not really the message of your good book. I
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don't think Charles Darwin wrote anything about evolving into kindness and consideration. I don't
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think that's what he wrote. I don't think that's where their Good Book was
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leading things. But you know, they have to find a way to work
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some of the good qualities into it so that they can justify not wanting to
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I told you yesterday about the fact that UPS was cutting jobs. Now
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Home Depot is cutting some jobs. We're in an interesting point starting the year,
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and this is what some companies are being forced into, these corners where
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they have to do things and cut costs. And now just pointing this out
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too, that the state of Georgia, which is home for I guess both
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of those companies, is you know, working to do things to create more
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jobs. Our governor has done a lot to try to bring more business to
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Georgia. When Georgia gets voted the best state in the US to do business
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in pretty consistently, that says a lot for our leadership and what we've had
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here. And now we're getting more companies that are saying you need to come
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back to the office. It's one of the things. I guess it's come
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up with the UPS situation, with those jobs being lost. There's a new
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report revealing that full time remote workers were thirty five percent more likely. Then
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this is unrelated to the UPS or the Home Depot cutting of jobs. This
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is just a separate study, but it just relates to that remote worker thing.
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So this report revealing that full time remote workers were thirty five percent more
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likely to be laid off than their in office peers last year. The data
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is showing that ten percent of remote workers were laid off last year compared to
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seven percent of those working in the office full time or on a hybrid schedule.
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Another survey finding that employers think of in office employees as harder workers.
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Whether there's any truth to it or not, this is a quote Brian Crop,
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chief of Human resources research group that consulted or the consulting group called Partner.
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He says, managers believe employees who work remote are lower performers than those
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who come into the office. They will, on average, be more likely
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to lay off those who are working remote than those who are coming into the
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office. Simply put, it's out of sight and out of mind, so
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just keep that in mind if the opportunity comes along to return, at least
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in a hybrid capacity. The numbers aren't drastic, but the numbers are at
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definitely a social thing. Seventy two percent said they prefer to drink wine with
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their friends rather than their partner. So that's interesting. Speaking of I was
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talking earlier about travel and the folks that frown at the very thought of getting
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on an airplane and doing any kind of long distance travel, but they say,
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if you're heading out of the country, how safe you feel depends on
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where you're going. A firm that provides travel insurance released its ninth annual list
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of fifteen safest countries to travel to this year. This is Berkshire Hathaway Travel
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Protection and at the top of the list was Canada, followed by Switzerland,
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Norway, Ireland, the Netherlands of the United Kingdom, Portugal, Denmark,
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Iceland, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, France, Spain, and Brazil.
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I'm just scanning this list and just looking it over, and there's there's
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something in common with almost all of these countries. They all have something in
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common. I can't quite put a finger on it, but most of them
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have something in common. And it's interesting that this company would put out such
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a list that would have all of these countries in it, that all have
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something in common. I'm just making an observation, that's all that I'm doing.
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I didn't make the list. I'm just making an observation, that's all.
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The country's national parks are busier than ever. More than three hundred million
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people flock to the parks last year to enjoy natural beauty and splendor. A
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greater number of people taking part in activities like hiking, skiing, swimming,
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the greater risk of injuries and death, and analysis was conducted to determine which
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of the four hundred and twenty eight national parks with the deadliest. Topping the
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list the Grand Canyon one hundred and sixty five visitors died since two thousands,
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and the safest park in the country the Gateway Arch National Park in Missouri.
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