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You Don't Have a Right to Block Traffic · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, thirtieth
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day of August. I'm West Thanks for joining me, working our way through
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this final few days of the month of August. I told you August would
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be over before we knew it. It happened very fast. And it's practically
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September, and September on a Friday, and we'll roll through the Labor Day
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weekend. And yes, there's already Christmas decorations out in some stores. I've
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seen them. I've seen the Thanksgiving stuff, I've you know, the Halloween
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stuff. I know people are shocked that the Halloween stuff would be out in
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August. That's the appropriate time for it, by the way, you got
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to have time for people to shop and buy it. But places are still
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recovering or trying to recover from all the shutdowns and things with COVID, and
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so just keep that in mind, you know. I try to give people
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the benefit of the doubt. When they were saying that it was appropriate to
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shoot fireworks for the Memorial Day holiday, it's not, by the way,
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it's not appropriate at all. It's very insensitive, and we've created a new
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day to shoot fireworks. Even though it's it's tacky, it's out of place,
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it's very offensive. I guess there's probably some folks who served and maybe
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lost that foot lost folks that would I mean, there's got to be a
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few. There's always somebody who would say, oh, a big deal.
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But folks that I've talked to that served and no people that were killed in
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combat or that lost people, they say, no, No, nobody wants
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to be reminded of explosions over your head on that holiday. That's not the
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time for it, that's not the place for it. So I've cut the
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fireworks people just a little bit of slack. Now, I didn't really this
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year, and we don't need to cut them any more slack moving forward.
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But you know, the first couple of years after that's what they were doing.
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They lost out on fireworks days and fireworks sales because of COVID and businesses
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being shut down, and when your business revolves around two days a year,
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the opportunity to squeak a third day in there to help bounce back a little
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bit, I think they seized it. They took advantage of it in spite
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of the fact that it's really bad taste, and I don't think anybody thought
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it through. We're at a point now where there should be plenty of time
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to say, you know what, Independence Day and New Year's that's it.
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That's the only two times to shoot fireworks New Year's shoot him until about twelve
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fifteen, twelve twenty, and then it's over. Everybody go to bed.
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Right. If you want to keep shooting them, get in a car and
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drive you know, left until you hit a different time zone. Shoot him
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again. In our area, we live close enough that you can do that.
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Just drive left until you hit another time zone, wait for the countdown,
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shoot him again. There's no reason to shoot him at one am in
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the Eastern time zone or in any time zone. And an Independence Day,
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you know, it's dark eight o'clock, nine o'clock, should be wrapped up
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by about nine thirty or ten. That should be the end of it.
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There's no midnight fireworks, there's no one am fireworks. That's unnecessary on Independence
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Day. Many cases, people got to go to work the next day.
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It's just the reality. All right, Sorry, I've decreed it. That's
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what it is. You just need to accept it and let's all move on
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just saying so yes, the businesses now, have you got the amalgamation?
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You got Halloween gear out, you got Thanksgiving stuff out, and you've got
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Christmas stuff out. It's all out in stores right now. We don't have
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fireworks in the stores yet. I haven't seen. I mean, they have
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them in the fireworks stores, they just don't have them at the big box
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stores yet. That hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure that's coming. All
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right, So today I want to talk about this whole video that's gone viral
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with it happened at Burning Man, actually happened on the way into Burning Man.
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So a group of climate activists decided to do what protesters have started doing
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over the past few years. And we've allowed it to happen, not so
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much in this case, but as a society, we've allowed this to happen.
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And it's it's it's ridiculous. It's gotten out of hand. And this
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is proof of how out of hand it is. Because people are shocked and
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amazed that police did what they did. I say police, they're technically the
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rangers from the Pyramid Lake pi Ute Tribal Police, and I'm sorry I don't
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know that I'm saying that right. Piute, I think is how you say
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it. But anyway, they piute tribal police in Nevada probably didn't get it
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right, but I did my best. So here's what happened. The climate
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activists decide to blow the road, which it caused a massive backup of cars
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that we're trying to get in to where the Burning Man festival was going to
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be going on. Right, So that's the scene, and you can imagine
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barricading off the road and people not being able to get in and they're working
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their way into this festival this weekend. So that's what they want to do.
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And this was I guess yesterday. So suddenly the tribal police decided enough
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of this. They pulled around the cars that were stalled and the cars that
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were really starting to line up on this highway plowed into the barricade, knocking
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it loose, and then basically took everybody there, or at least most of
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the people there that were in the road into custody. I guess they were
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sided and then released. That's the ultimate thing. But there's of course everybody
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there had their phone out. They wanted to get video footage and they were
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protesting basically private jets and capitalism. That's what it said. The group called
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the Seven Circles, and the messages said banned private jets, abolished capitalism,
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That's what was on the signs. Well, these people were shocked. How
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dare the police come in and make us move? All we were doing is
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protesting non violently and causing a major inconvenience to other citizens. This is from
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the X whatever at Twitter, x whatever it's called now handle for a climate
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defiance. Words fail, words utterly fail. Today a police truck plowed into
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all caps a peaceful climate blockade. These are people entrusted in quotation marks to
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keep us safe. These are the people we have granted a monopoly on the
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use of for How is this okay? So you've got people that are confused
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about how the police would go in and do their job. See, here's
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the deal. They're not just entrusted to keep everyone safe. That's one of
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the big misc conceptions that comes with all of this. They're there to serve
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and protect. So protect is the keep people safe, but they're also there
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to serve and their service to us as a member of the executive branch of
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government is to enforce the laws that are in place. See, the laws
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that are in place are there so that we can all function and live in
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a free society without getting in each other's way. They were literally getting in
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each other's way by participating in their own roadblock, their own blockade in the
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middle of the road. So ultimately, what happens here is you've got cars
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blocking the road. You've got a I don't know how far back this goes.
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The picture looks like it's going back miles of cars in the desert,
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probably just burning gas, just running and trying to air condition themselves so that
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they don't suffer in the sweltering heat of the desert. So again, if
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the goal here really is about climate activism, I don't think that this is
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a good logical choice. Right. They're instigators more than they're there on behalf
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of the climate. They're doing more damage to the planet by their logic by
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having all these cars lined up and just burning gas. Right. So they
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say that they're there for the climate, but they're there for attention, and
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that's what this was all about. They wanted attention, and they wanted to
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put other people in an inconvenience. That's what they wanted to do. We
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do not have a constitutional right. There are no laws in place that protect
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our rights to inconvenience other people for our causes. If you want to protest
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private jets and capitalism, you can set up on the side of the road.
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It's probably also not safe or recommended, but you could and as people
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drove by, you could make sure you had your signs that said capitalism bad
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and private jets bad. But inconveniencing other people is not some sort of a
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god given, constitutionally protected right that you have. You don't have that.
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By blocking the road and creating this environmental problem, by having all of these
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cars burning gasoline, you're violating their rights. See I talk about this all
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the time in conservatives. When I say we we talk about conservatism, we
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talk about it its core, maybe even libertarianism. You go do whatever you
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want to do, live your life in any way that you want to live
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your life until it has an effect on other people. When you ask other
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people to change their life for your benefit, and not just ask them,
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but force them to, then you're violating their rights. See. The constitutional
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rights that we have allow us the freedoms, life, liberty, pursuit of
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happiness. You know who's not pursuing happiness. People sitting in a stalled car
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in the desert on a highway burning out their gas. That's not pursuing happiness.
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That's stalled out because you decided what was going to make you happy was
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to inconvenience other people. This is where the issue comes in when it comes
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to athletes in sports and protecting the rights for girls and women to compete against
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girls and women, biological girls and women to have an equal amount of advantage
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when it comes to competing should be about one who has natural talent to who
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has worked the hardest, trained the hardest, and then also to some degree
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things go their way that day. And honestly, who has a good day,
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Who has a good day on the field, Who has a good day
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under the weights, who has a good day on the pitch, who has
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a good day out on the gymnastics, Matt whatever, and already said that
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one whatever it is, if you have a good day, some days,
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it's your day. But again, go be you. You want to be
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a trans woman, trans man, live your life, be happy, do
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what makes you happy. That you have a right to do. When you
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live your life in a way that it has a negative effect on others,
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When you live your life in a way that it tramples on the rights and
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freedoms of others, that's when it becomes an issue when you have swimming competence
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and Leah Thomas wins and doesn't just dominate in the pool, but keeps other
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competitors who at one time would have been the favorite to win from having the
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opportunity to win when you knock the personcy. And the way swimming works is
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you've got two heats. There's eight in one heat, eight in the second
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heat. Okay, sixteen total competitors get to compete. In the end,
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you have all the qualifying rounds, you get down to those sixteen. Well,
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guess what if Leah Thomas is one of the sixteen. That means that
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number seventeen is someone who would have been part of the sixteen before, someone
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who spent all of their time growing up, probably years and years training in
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the pool, wanting to be a competitor, working with coaches, working with
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their parents, all the inconveniences of going to practices, all the inconveniences of
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sorry, I can't eat that today I'm training, or yes, I can
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eat that, I'm gonna have to go buy seventeen pezzas or whatever they do
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when they eat a lot when they're swimming. I don't. All of that
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is all a big investment that all gets pooh pooed as an official term when
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someone is allowed to step into the pool and dominate and knock them out of
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the sixteenth place and put them in a position without even get to swim one
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last race maybe in their college career. They're done. All of that work,
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all of the equity that they thought that they were putting into this gone.
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And see that's what happens when you decide I'm going to block traffic in
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the name of some kind of a protest. You don't have a right to
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block traffic. Ever, you don't. There's no guaranteed right to block traffic.
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When is it okay to block traffic if there's a chance of someone becoming
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injured or harmed because you didn't block traffic. You want to block traffic and
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keep people sitting out in the middle of a desert with their cars running and
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trying to stay cool and their air conditioned cars or whatever, You're not doing
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it for the environment, you're doing it for the attention, You're doing it
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for you. It's a selfish act. This is not a selfless act that
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you're doing. And here we have these rangers from this tribal police saying,
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no, this isn't gonna happen. This is what should happen every single time.
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Police should go in, break up whatever the blockade is, and people
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should be able to get on with their lives. It's a dangerous situation when
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you have people that are just all like, what if one of the citizens
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decided I'm not doing this, I'm going around or I'm going through it,
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and decided to do it on their own. That could have injured people,
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could have injured themselves. There were a number of things that could have happened.
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The police handled it the best way that they're trained to do, and
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a lot of upset climate activists. Can you even call them that? If
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it's a selfish act? Are they really doing it in the name of climate
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activism? Are they just doing it in the name of everybody? Please look
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dot Com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, Well,
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can you get through dinner without your phone? Used to be this pretty standard
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thing. Once upon a time, everybody sat down at the table together and
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had a meal now, not so much as people are just staring at their
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phones while they eat their meals. In some cases families doing it. That's
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if they even sit down together for meal at all. Well, a survey
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found sixty percent of millennials admitted to staring at their phones while eating at number
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goes up to eight one percent for gen Z. And it's not just while
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eating. Actually, the survey found sixty six percent of gen Z and fifty
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eight percent of millennials said that they stare at their phones while cooking. It's
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probably why seventy five percent of survey respondent's admitted to burning their food on occasion.
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Okay, I'm gonna say this. I will sometimes I like to watch
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TV when I'm cooking. We do not have a TV in our kitchen,
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so I do take my phone or my tablet into the room and set it
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up while I'm cooking, And no, I don't burn the food. In
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some cases, what I'm watching on my tablet or my phone is some kind
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of instructional on a recipe. So there's that, I mean, there's also
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just the fact that sometimes you can do two things at once. You can
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have a TV going and you can it's not typically something I haven't seen before.
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It's usually something I've seen before and I'm just rewatching it. So I
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have on kind of in the background. If someone comes in to talk with
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me, you pause it and you keep cooking, and you go on about
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your thing. I give the person the attention when they come in the room.
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So anyway, I don't think it's just all about being distracted from it.
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I think it's sometimes just about part of the process, you know.
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I think so. But now as far as it meals, no, that's
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not okay. All right, we've talked about quiet quitting. Employers apparently are
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doing something called quiet cutting. Now this is being talked about like it's a
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new thing, but this has been around for quite a while. But I
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guess it's making a resurgence. So instead of laying off workers or firing them,
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apparently workers that maybe have been you know, not fulfilling their job or
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their positions are being eliminated get reassigned to other jobs. That assignment could be
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at a reduced salary or a skill level for the position that you currently have.
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It may require relocating or return to the office full time. If you
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haven't been in the office full time, So basically you still have a job,
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but it might be a way for the company to kind of point at
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the door without actually pushing you out the door. So there you go.
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A dog owner in China discovered that his French bulldog, after taking him to
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the vet, had learned that he swallowed eleven rubber ducks. The ducks were
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removed during emergency surgery, and luckily the dog is recovering. Well, who's
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got eleven rubber ducks in the house, I guess, is the first question
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I have for that story. And I don't know why the dog would eat
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him, but it's a dog, A French bulldog might just eat random things
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in the house. I just don't understand who has a need for eleven rubber
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ducks. I guess we have one maybe in the house, maybe from when
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the boys were younger, but eleven that seems like a lot of rubber ducks.
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When you go for a walk, do you have earbuds in? You
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may want to leave him at home next time. Silent walking is a new
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trend that involves walking without any distractions. Think of it maybe as walking meditation.
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You're tuned into your thoughts and what's around you. Rather than music,
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a podcast, or a phone call. I disagree with this on the podcast
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thing. I think you should definitely listen to podcasts while you want or whatever
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else you typically listen to when you walk. Silent walking is an easy way
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to disconnect from all the noise and chaos that is part of your busy world,
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according to New York based clinical psychologist doctor Juanita Guerrera. She says,
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it's an excellent way to connect to our core selves. Yeah, you could
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do that, but then make sure to listen to your favorite podcast later.
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If you do that, I'm just saying you don't want to completely eliminate the
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podcast listening. And finally, a new Harris Paul says America's most polarizing foods
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are anchovies at the top of the list. At least half of the people
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who responded said they hate them. Black liquorice, oysters, beats, blue
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cheese, okra, papers, Brussels sprouts, fennel, olives, mushrooms,
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cilantro, coconut, pickles, and mayonnaise are the top fifteen things according to
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this Harris Pole. Let's see, I do eat black licorice. I don't
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eat much that kind of candy. Anyway normally, but I'll eat it if
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you put some in front of me. I do like blue cheese, especially
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on like a steak or a salad. I can do that. Ochre yes,
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especially grilled Brussels sprouts. Yes, I'm allergic to mushrooms. I can
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do olives, yes, cilantro that's I can go without it. But coconut
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pickles and mayonnaise, yes, I guess about half of those things I do.
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Oysters no, thanks, Anchovies Nope, not gonna happen. That'll do
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