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Giant Bags of Air? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, fifteenth day
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of August. I'm wess, thanks for joining me. And its especially hot
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day yesterday, wasn't it felt like it. I mean, it's summer in
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the Southeast that makes it hot. I mean that's what we I'm not a
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big small talk guy, and when people go, oh, the weather ro
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I mean, I can do it. But I'm just telling you the people
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that seem to be obsessed with the fact that it's hot and it's all that
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they can talk about. I always wonder if they're new to the area or
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they haven't been here before. But you know, August mid August in Georgia
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is hot. In Alabama, it's hot in Florida. It's hot. The
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whole southeast. We get hot, and as you work your way maybe up
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the coast, it gets a little cooler. I don't know. I spent
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some time in summer months and like Virginia, and it was nice weather there.
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You know, it was a little cooler. It was still you know,
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summertime, still warm weather. But I just feel like when people that's
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all they can know. But yesterday just felt especially hot. Maybe I was
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just in it more. I don't know. I was doing the school pickups
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and things yesterday and it just felt really brutal yesterday. But but that's what's
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going on. It's hot, you know, we go through this thing that
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we do where if it gets really hot, they talk climate change. If
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it cools down, they say it's because of climate change. Every every explanation
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for temperatures up or down is climate change. That's the explanation for it.
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That's why they don't say global warming anymore. They don't say global cooling.
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They just say climate change because technically you can't argue with that. And anyway,
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now I understand if you've listened to me over the years, you know
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I am not one of those people who hates taking care of the environment.
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No, I'm very much a stewardship environmentalist. I think we should take care
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of the things. We've fill our recycle bin. I don't really know what
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happens to it when they pick it up. I have no clue. But
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we put all the recycling things in there that you're supposed to put in there.
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We probably put a few things you're not supposed to put in there.
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Nobody's told us to stop, which makes me wonder. It just makes me
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wonder. I don't know what happens to it. I don't know. I
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would think somebody might raise the flag and say, yeah, I was supposed
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to put this in there. We try not to do that, but I
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think sometimes I learn, oh, you're not supposed to put that in there.
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I didn't know I had it's plastic. I didn't know. I thought
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plastic was plastic. You could put it in there. I didn't know.
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But nobody's told us. So I don't think it's really caused any alarm.
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And I know a lot of people who put stuff in there. Maybe they're
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not supposed to. That's all I'm getting at. I don't know what happens
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to it when they take it away. I do think it's, you know,
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good to do our part, at least try right. We can try
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to do our part. I'm not gonna walk around and pat myself on the
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back and say, boy boy, am i I'm great because I do this.
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I just do it because I think it's a responsible thing to do right.
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It's stewardship environmentalism. That's what I think. Take care of the planet,
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take care of home, just like you take care of your house.
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Right If your house is a sty, I really would say that when we
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were younger, Oh boy, this place is a pig sty. I don't
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know that kids even know what that means anymore, but they used to say
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that you don't want to live in that. Some people do, Maybe you
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do. I don't know. You might think that I do. If you
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look at my house compared to yours, I don't know, it's not a
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sty, but I don't know. It's all relative to some degree. But
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you know, you like to have things consider. My desk is certainly unkept
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here. I'm looking around, thinking, man, I need to clean this
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up. I know my wife thinks I should clean up my studio area.
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I know she's she's a fan of that. She would want me to do
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that. So I'm not you know, And I do think that we obviously
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have changes in temperatures that are going on on the planet. It's it's gotten
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warmer. I don't think that you can blame summer heat on it. I
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don't think we can blame colder weather on temperature's rising. I don't know how
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that works, and I don't know, I don't think we have all the
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answers to all of it. I think we pretend we do. I think
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there's a lot of money to be involved in this whole process. There's just
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a lot of money in research. There's a lot of money in the science.
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There's a lot of money and replacing appliances and all those sorts of things.
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So I think we have to know before we react. And I think
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that if we're gonna tax ourselves to death here, we should make sure that
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the rest of the planet's doing the same thing, because ultimately that's a fool's
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errand isn't it if we're trying to do things that the rest of the planet
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isn't doing, because we're just sort of handing dominance over to them, right
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to China and other countries that don't seem to really care about the rules that
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we're trying to put in place, and nobody's I've been able to convince them
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that they should get on board with. And I'm bringing all this up because
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there's a plan that's now in place, this is the new strategy, And
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I don't really understand this. I'm gonna be honest, I'll tell you straight
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up. When I don't understand something fully, and there's a number of things
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I don't understand. This isn't a show where I sit here and tell you
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that I fully know and understand everything. I'm not one of the scientists that
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has a specific field that becomes an expert in everything. I'm not one of
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those people who gets on social media and all of a sudden understands the intricacies
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of a war between Russia and Ukraine just overnight boom. I'm not one of
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those people that understands everything about Hawaiian climate and how it pertains to this horrible
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wildfire situation. Because that's awful death toll rising. They're saying it's going to
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continue to rise, and they don't know. At least I haven't heard a
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definite, definitive answer on how the fire started, but I have heard people
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already blaming it on climate change. They're already blaming it on the climate change
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has created conditions, and I heard one person speculating that it was homeless people
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that were trying to cook food and they started a little fire to cook food.
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So I don't know how that would have anything to do with climate change.
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But of course the climate change is sort of the generic answer for everything.
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Well, they wouldn't be homeless if not for climate change. That's one
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of the reasons that they're homeless. That's what some people say. They just
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say things. They don't have to back it up with science. You just
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throw out an opinion, you throw out some idea, and some people are
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willing to run with it. And I don't know that we can blame climate
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change on what's happening in Hawaii. I don't feel comfortable with that. I
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don't think that's the cause. I do think that a large part of our
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climate change has to do with activity on the Sun. I mean, we
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do have a giant nuclear reactor in the sky that at times puts off more
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radiation and heat than other times. There are periods where that happens, and
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when those periods increase, we tend to have higher temperatures when they when those
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periods back off, you know, there's periods where we just went through the
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stretch twenty fifteen to twenty eighteen. Things we're going down. Now we're in
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solar maximum again. All of a sudden, things are going back up.
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But anyway, I'm again not an expert on that. I can't tell you
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everything that you could ever possibly want to know about the way the climate works.
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I'm that's not that's not my expertise. Okay, I'm not an astrophysicist
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either, so you know, I'm closer to that than I am a climate
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oologist. Climatologist is that the word. So I try to try to intentionally
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screw those up sometimes and then sometimes I accidentally say the real word. So
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I'm not you know, Bill Nye or any of the other celebrity scientists Neil
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de grass Tyson. I'm one of those guys. I'm not a suddenly a
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magical expert on all fields by any means, and I'm definitely not an expert
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on this, and I'm just trying to understand how this works exactly. There's
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a one point two billion dollar programmed that is the White House is wanting to
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push forward. They say they'll take carbon, they call it legacy carbon out
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of the air and then they'll store it permanently underground, and that that will
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have a positive effect on decreasing the amount of carbon in the air and climate
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change. This is from the Department of Energy. They've put out a press
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release and they say that it'll kind of create jobs, a lot of jobs,
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and they'll be commercial scale direct air capture facilities in one in Texas,
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one in Louisiana. And according to the press release, they'd say the projects
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are expected to remove more than two million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each
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year from the atmosphere. And they say that's an amount equivalent to the annual
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emissions from roughly forty sorry four hundred forty five thousand gasoline powered cars coming from
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the Biden administration. So they say that this process captures the carbon dioxide from
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the air and separates it, and then it reduces that legacy CO two from
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the air, and they stress they have to tell you that it's I believe
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my understanding now is this legacy, because they don't want you to think that.
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They want to stress the importance of getting rid of the new stuff,
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the fresh stuff. And I said it would be safely and permanently stored underground,
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and it may be converted into concrete, a process that I believe creates
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carbon dioxide. I think it's my understanding that you have to when you're processing
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concrete, it sometimes will create carbon emissions in the process. So, needless
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to say, there seems to be at least a few areas where this could
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be complicated, where if you're making non legacy carbon dioxide and putting it in
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the air, and you're you're putting the legacy carbon dioxide and then you're just
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freshening it up. It's like rotating the stock in a store, right.
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You gotta put the fresh stuff in the back and the older stuff in the
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front so it'll sell, and then you work you kind of rotting around.
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That's what they're doing. They're just shifting it around. You know, you
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were getting merchandizing tips today, did you? You didn't know that was coming,
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not in relation to the climate. So they say that this is helping
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to push us forward. And then we got to get you the gold buy
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twenty fifty. We gotta get to that net zero global economy, so that's
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this is part of that. They think that this is going to help one
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point two billion dollars and they say this is going to be jobs. I
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guess, And so I didn't know that this was even an option. How
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long has this been an option for us to go around scooping it up?
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And the trees okay with this because they breathe this is their air. They
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breathe this up. I know they say we got too much of it,
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and that's the problem, as we got too many people and not enough plants
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breathing it in, breathing it back out as oxygen. So I don't know.
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I don't know how this works. I would think that they might have
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a problem with us scooping up all of their air, right this is on
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the heels. Of course, we're going after you know, gas furnaces and
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stoves. They don't want to do that, and they light bulbs. We've
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gone through a series of things. But I don't know. I'm curious about
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how this process works. How do you scoop it out of the air and
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then pump it underground? And then what happens to it they're gonna store it?
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What are they going to store it in? I don't I don't understand
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this. This is very confusing to me. If they can do this,
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can they not just shoot it out into space? Is that an option?
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I don't know. I don't know how this. This is all confusing to
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me. But it sounds a bit far fetched, doesn't it doesn't this sound
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a little weird, a little crazy. How do you just scoop it out,
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they get like a big plastic bag. I don't know how this works.
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What do they just kind of, you know, run through the air
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and scoop it up if they could, Could they take some pollen and put
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it underground? I'd love that maybe some of the mosquitoes. Can we do
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that? Is that an option? I didn't know how all of this could
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pall. Do they put it on like an airplane, like a big plastic
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bag on an airplane? And how do they do this? How does this
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process work? I don't know. They just have a bunch of you know,
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air filters, they catch it on that and they put the air filters
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underground. I don't know. They remember we were told safely storing nuclear waste
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underground was not an option, that we couldn't do that, even though as
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far as actual production of energy, that's that's easily the best way to go.
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You even got Oliver's Stone coming around on that, telling people, Hey,
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this is what we need to do. But they said, oh,
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you can't. You can't just store that stuff underground. We can't do that.
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But they can store it underground if they the carbon I understand there's a
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difference between the carbon, the CO two and nuclear waste. But it's they're
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saying carbon is the reason that we're all gonna be cooked like bacon by twenty
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fifty. To me, it is as bad as nuclear wasting, isn't it.
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I mean, again, I'm not an expert. I don't know.
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I'm just lobbing this out, So so there you go. That's that's the
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plan. That's their big idea is they're going to be maybe putting it in
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like sandwich bags, like ziplock bags. I don't know. I don't know
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what they put it in, but they store it underground. Maybe if I
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could get an expert on to talk about it, they could explain this to
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me, because I really I don't understand exactly how this whole process will work.
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But I'm glad to know that they're working on it. I mean,
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that's that's what I've got for reassurance, is that they have a plan and
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that they are in fact working on it. That's what we need to know.
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And this gives me some sense of reassurance that that they do have a
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plan in place and that they're working on it, because that's that's what we
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h that's what we have to have even if it's not doing anything. As
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long as you got a plan and there's movie moving around, money moving around,
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not moving money moving around, that's that's what's important. We got to
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make sure that we take care of that. So so there's that. Today's
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Carol Morning Show. Right after the break. There's a guy on social media
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who this reminded me of something they do on the show. And Practical Jokers.
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I like that shows guys. I like them. They're funny and they
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do. They do a bit on the show where they they're pretending like they're
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working in a restaurant and at the end of the meal, they take the
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check over to the person and then they tell them that there's a charge like
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a surcharge on the bill, and it's it's something ridiculous, and they try
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to see if the person will complain, you know, and if they complain
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and take it off, then they lose that round. That's the way the
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game works on the show. So they in one particular episode they said like
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an extortion fee. It's a five dollar extortion fee, and then they tried
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to see if the person would complain and you know, whether or not they
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would pay the five dollar extortion fee. So there's a guy who went on
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social media and He says that he was hit with a surcharge of more than
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two dollars to cut his sandwich in half. Now, this didn't happen in
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the US. That happens this guy lives in Italy, in Milan, and
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he said he was visiting the Lake Como region of the country when he went
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to a cafe, ordered a vegetarian sandwich and shared it with a friend,
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and he saw the charge on his bill and he did pay the money,
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but he went on a trip advisor to voice his issues with it. Cafe
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owner Christina Biacchi defended the concept, saying we had to use two plates instead
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of one, and we had to have the time to wash them as doubled,
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and then we had two place mats. It's not as simple as a
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toasted sandwich. It took time for us to cut the sandwich in two.
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Probably coming soon to America, I would think I would think that's coming.
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I had a situation the other day where I picked up some fast food for
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my kids, and they like to get a little extra when when we do
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something like that. They because we don't do a lot of you know,
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fast food burgers necessarily, but they've learned at some of the fast food places.
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If we get them, they think, well, if we want to
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eat, they eat the small like kid burgers, and they go like,
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I want two of those, but I'd like one for lunch tomorrow. So
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they'll order three, knowing that they'll have one for the next day. So
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I ordered six of these burgers, and I got to a discussion about why
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five burgers wasn't six burgers with the person working when they gave me the bag,
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and they were trying to do like the three card Monty trick where they
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were saying, look, you got there, there's three in the bag,
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and then I got these two. You put these two in there, that's
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that's six, said, no, that's five, and they finally eventually got
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it straight. I'm not going to tell you the name of the police because
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I do like this particular restaurant. It was just interesting that they were trying
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to play this little game with me. I still don't really understand what the
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whole deal was, but whatever whatever gets it done. I feel like this
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a surcharge for cutting the sandwich in half could possibly come to America at some
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point. It seems like that could be a real option if you're looking for
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a perfect tan. Follow the carrot. The carrot philosophy where eat lots of
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carrots, and there's different influencers on social media saying that you change your natural
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there's no evidence that eating carrots will help you go bronze, But a
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lot of people are doing it. They're buying up the carrots and eating them.
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They're trying to give themselves a bronze look simply by eating carrots. That's
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crazy, right, I mean, that's not gonna work, is it.
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You know, the whole eyesight thing is not real either. But all right,
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finally, how about this, you know, identical twins forternal twins.
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I was telling you a story about a month or so ago, a couple
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of months ago, about there was a woman who was pregnant and then got
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pregnant again a month later, and then she ended up having twins that were
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one was really four weeks older as far as you know when they were conceived.
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Well, how about this story? So we got identical twins forternal twins?
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I forget what the name is for that other kind of twin. But
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how about this simultaneous twins. A mother in Scotland recently gave birth to twins
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and they both came out at the exact same second, simultaneously. It's not
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it's very rare. That doesn't usually usually minutes apart, but not in this
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case, one big push. Both kids came out, one head first,
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the other feet first, so down to the minute. It's known as monoamnionic
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twins because they shared the same amnionic sac and it's really rare, so roughly
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one percent of all twin births in this case, I would think even that,
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though they don't necessarily come out at the same time, for they had
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the exact same birthday to the second. So about that, there's no I'm
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older, it's we're exactly the same age. Kind of cool. All right,
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