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One Republican Drops Out and More Colonizing Attempts · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show Thursday morning, thirty, first
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and final day of August. Some West thanks for joining me about to hit
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the road head to Atlanta for dragon Con this weekend. If you've already listened
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to the Dragon Coon Pregame Show and our coverage of that, thank you.
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I appreciate it. If you'd like to check it out, find out what
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dragon CON's all about exactly, you can check that out on the dragon Con
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you listen to, you can find that show right where you found this show.
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That's what I'm getting at. You can listen to it there. Thanks
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Con this year in so many years prior so and yesterday last night, yesterday
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afternoon, but in the evening at some point they aired some TV footage of
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me talking about dragon Con on WTVM, and there are other stations w XTX,
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WTVM, and w LTZ. That's their three stations. So I don't
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know how many of them it aired on, but some of them, and
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I appreciate that. Thank you for giving me a chance to come on and
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talk about Dragon Con. It was it was fun coming in to do that.
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Okay, So now before I had out, there's a few things I
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want to talk about. First of all, we've now had a Republican drop
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out of the race, and I guess the is this the first that has
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dropped out? But the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez is out. He
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did not qualify to get on the debate stage, in spite of a lot
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of efforts. Wasn't he one of the ones that was trying to get the
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small little you know, hey, if you give me a dollar, I'll
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give you Twells kind of deal. And I think he was one of the
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ones. There were a few candidates that were doing that. I think some
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that were on the debate stage may have actually pulled that move off. And
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if you saw that and you wondered, well, this doesn't seem right.
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You can make the case about why it's right or why it's wrong. That's
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that's certainly a debate. To have the reasoning behind it, though, was
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that to qualify to be on the debate stage. They needed to have,
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you know, a certain amount of donors, and they were looking for even
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one dollar donors to come in, because you couldn't just get two people to
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donate a large chunk of cash and then that qualify you to be on the
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stage. Otherwise, you know, you get your rich friends, or if
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you yourself or a rich friend, maybe you work it out through that means.
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I guess, I don't know. I don't know how that stuff works.
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Bottom line is, there were a few candidates, and I believe Suarez
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was one of them if I remember correctly. Pardon me if I because there's
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no way to go back and check this. But they were basically spending I
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guess packs were spending money instead of advertising like buying radio and TV ads.
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They were saying, hey, if you give him a dollar, we'll give
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you a twenty dollars gift card or whatever it was, and that way it
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would be enough small donors to possibly get them on the stage. That was
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the idea. Well, Suarez was not able to get on the stage.
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I do think maybe he's got a you know, he's obviously had some success
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in the political realm as the mayor of Miami. Whether he's got a future
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moving forward remains to be seen. We'll see, but I certainly would think
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he would have a potential future moving forward as a candidate and some other things.
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Okay, so I wanted to mention this because now, just on the
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subject of political advertising, X formerly known as Twitter, is going to start
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running political ads again. In twenty nineteen, then Jack Dorsey, the head
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of Twitter, the founder or whatever a Twitter, decided that they were going
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to stop political advertising on Twitter. They didn't want people to be able to
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just buy their time with Twitter, in their exposure on Twitter, and I
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guess he said that political reach should be earned and not bought. That was
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the statement he made. He said, we back this is twenty nineteen.
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We made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter. Globally. A
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political message earns a reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet.
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Paying for such sorry, paying for reach, removes that decision, forcing highly
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optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be
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compromised by money. So there were of course questions when that decision was made
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because they felt like, hey, if one side is basically has free reign.
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On a site like Twitter, they can do whatever they want to do.
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They can post whatever they want to post. They've got free rein Because
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Twitter back in the day certainly leaned much. I think it still does lean
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left, but it leaned much more to the left. And if the left
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was able to post something, have it pushed out, whether it be through
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loyal far left supporters on Twitter who you know, could do whatever they wanted
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to do, or it was through bots that people were using, you know,
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in China or Russia to manipulate all of it, and then they could
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just get it out there. And if you posted something that supported a candidate
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that was not supported by those same people, they could easily shut it down
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because you know, just complain about whatever the content is, you can get
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it shut down. That was kind of the way it worked. So if
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someone came along and wanted to support we'll just say this, this was twenty
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nineteen. You wanted to support Donald Trump and the election in twenty twenty,
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and you wanted to buy an ad. Twitter is like, no, we
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don't. We don't take money for ads. You can't buy your reach here.
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You got to be supported by our platform and the people who have control
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on our platform, which is you know, like eight people. There's like
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eight people on Twitter that control most of what's going on, you know,
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and I don't even know that they're real people. And that's the problem,
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isn't it. Well, Elon Musk and X now say no, we're going
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to welcome back political advertising, so you'll have the opportunity. According to X,
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this was in a statement to get in front of to get in front
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of a range of tactics that people use to target. They will be hiring
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the right people, updating their policies and evolving the product. That's part of
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their mission statements. So when they say that people are going to be able
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to advertise, they'll have people in place. They say two and there's a
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quote to make sure we strike the right balance between tackling the most harmful types
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of content, those that can intimidate or deceive people into surrendering their right to
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participate in a civic process, and not censoring political debate. They've been enforcing
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their philosophy of freedom of speech, not reach. That started as of April,
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So there you go. They say we believe Twitter users have the right
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to express their opinions and ideas, without fear of censorship, and then everybody
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started to haitilon Musk. It was weird. He was fine, There were
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no issues at all. He was completely almost beloved by many, and that
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said, Wow, this guy is doing a lot for sustainability. He's created
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these electric cars, he's launching stuff into space, but he's reusing the rocket
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boosters over and over and over again. What a great guy. He supports
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free speech, he's the devil. I mean, that's basically the way it
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went down. Someone told me that the issue it was always there. It
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wasn't something that came along later. This isn't something because of him buying Twitter
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and making changes to it or supporting free speech. That's not what it is.
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According to this person. They said, he's just awkward when he talks
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to people, and I had to remind them, well, you know,
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he is autistic, right, He's on the spectrum. He has autism.
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He's going to be awkward when he talks to people. That's part of the
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way it works, you know, that's just that's part of a his brilliance,
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and it's part of how he interacts with other people. His brain is
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wired differently because of autism. So I think that it's fair to say that,
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yes, he's always going to interact with people awkwardly, that's just who
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he is. Okay, sorry, And if i'm I've heard him before say
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that he's on the spectrum, so I'm not outing him or anything, and
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if if that ends up not being the case, but I remember him in
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an interview talking about being on the spectrum. All right, So that's that's
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what's going on with Twitter. They've made some changes and they're going to be
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welcoming political advertising. I want to talk about a topic that we've talked about
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many times before, and it feels like this is another opportunity to talk about
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colonizing. Oh my gosh, people are losing their minds because there's a country
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in the world that doesn't see things the way that we do, and that
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people are upset. Oh my gosh. We have to change the way that
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they feel about things. We have to change their attitudes about things because we
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are enlightened. We know the correct way. Our way is the correct way,
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not their way, which is basically colonizing. That's what people in this
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country have complained about. Oh, the Europeans, they colonized so many places.
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They would continue to if we would let them. And all they did
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was go around trying to push their ideals and philosophies and what they believed was
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right and wrong on other people, and that was not okay. They figured
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that they were enlightening people, but they were not. They were just bullying
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them and forcing them to accept their supposedly enlightened ways. Now us, now
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we are in enlighten about certain issues, and we think that we should be
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able to change the way other people feel about certain things. And that particular
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certain thing seems to be the same one over and over and over again.
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As police in Nigeria stormed a hotel during a same sex wedding and while they
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were exchanging vows in front of about two hundred guests, the couple was arrested
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along with sixty five others who were charged with being accomplices. See Homosexuality has
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been outlawed in Nigeria. They have a same sex Marriage Prohibition Act Carrie's a
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penalty give up to ten years in prison. A police spokesperson told the media
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the amazing part of it was that we saw two suspects and there is a
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video recording where they were performing the wedding ceremony. We are in Africa.
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We are in Nigeria. We cannot copy the Western world because we don't have
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the same culture. This is not something that will be allowed in Nigeria.
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So this is what they believe in their country is right, at least from
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a governmental standpoint. Whether it should change or not should be up to them,
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at least according to those folks who think colonizing is bad for the people,
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who think every time that Europeans settled somewhere and told the people who lived
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there already, we know better than you. We're going to tell you what
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you should think, and how you should live, and what your law should
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be. We're going to push our faith on you, right, We're going
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to tell you that this is the correct religion in the world. And we're
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going to tell you that this. Now, we have people in America who
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their religion is different. Their religion is one that they believe that they're right.
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I think most of those colonizers from Europe were also believed that they were
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right. I think, I mean, I think that's a fair thing to
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say. Anytime you have someone who wants to be a missionary elsewhere and go
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in and help, and they believe that they're doing it for the right reasons.
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I understand. We have people in America who believe that Nigeria should change
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because they want to support those people that are there that are not able to
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live their lives the way that they want to in the way that this group
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of Americans who say colonizing is bad unless dot dot dot, because sure,
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you'd like people to be but that's not their culture, that's not what's happening
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there. They don't have the freedom to get married. It's against the law.
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They broke the law when they perform the ceremony, so they have to
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ultimately pay the consequences. And we have people in Americas saying they have to
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change, they have to change because we think that they should change right the
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law, by the way, and even in this story it said it's a
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controversial same sex marriage Prohibition Act and that so many people in the world have
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condemned this law based on the anti colonizing philosophy. I don't know that anybody
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has a right to condemn it. I don't know that anybody if you're following
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that logic, if you think that Europeans setting foot on soil that did not
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belong to them and you know, pushing their religion, pushing their ideals on
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others. If you believe that, I don't know how you can condemn this,
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because condemning it would in fact be arguing for a type of colonizing,
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doesn't I mean, I know we've gone through this. We went through this
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world with the men's World Cup. We've gone through this with a number of
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times. This is just the latest and I'm just I feel it's important that
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we stress that this is the same thing. We have to remember that this
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is the exact same thing. Okay, it is, That's what it is.
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This is telling other people how they're supposed to live. And again it's
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a country. You know, with the World Cup, it was Qatar Cutter
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for a while. Then back to Qatar once we got there and realized,
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oh, they pronounced it this way. And I guess for a while we
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were telling them how to pronounce their country. How dare you pronounce it this
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way? This is how you're supposed to say it. We say cutter,
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and they say, oh, we're a Qatar and they say oh oh.
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And when we say, well, how do you feel on this homosexuality and
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they're like, we don't we don't allow that, and we're not gonna let
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you come here and wear rainbow arm bands in the World Cup. Well you
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should allow it and let us wear these arm bands and T shirts and whatever
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we want. And your society should change to bend to what we think is
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right because we know what's right. And then now doing it again in Nigeria,
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telling them this is what you're supposed to do, this is how you're
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supposed to live, This is what your law should be. How dare you
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have a law in place decided. I don't know what their system of government
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is. I don't know how it work, but I assume that there's some
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sort of you know, government in place that would decide what the laws are.
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And somebody had to pass the Same sex Marriage Prohibition Act. I think
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it just materialized out of thin air. Now, don't get me wrong.
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I'm a strong advocate of you know what I've said about America so many times,
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let people do whatever they want to do, let them live their life,
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let them be who they want to be until it hurts somebody else.
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But that's not the rules, that's not the law in Nigeria. That's what
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we have here, and we're trying to take that away from each other and
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from ourselves. We say no, no, no, no, no.
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You have to think the way I think and talk the way I talk.
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Otherwise, how will we know who's on our side if you don't speak up?
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So all right, So that's the latest example of this colonizing thing.
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you've heard me talk a lot about dragon Con. It is Labor Day weekend
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that's getting waited, get ready to get underway this weekend. So a lot
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of people will be getting that last minute beach trip in in some cases if
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you're not going to dragon Con or to a college football game. So some
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of those rules, those unwritten rules, if you will, Some of these
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are written that relate to uh. This was done by a survey where people
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said the biggest please don't do this things. Don't sit to close to others
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if there's open space somewhere else. That's an unwritten rule. But I think
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that people should should follow that. I mean, I don't want to sound
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like a colonizer, but I think people should follow that. Don't litter,
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Yeah, that's a written role. That's pretty much. Most places have that
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as a law in place. I guess, don't shake off or remove sand
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close to others. Yeah, that's unless they've you know, put their tent
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and everything right next to yours, then maybe you should do that. I
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don't know. I don't play music too loudly. Yeah, not a written
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role, but that seems like it makes sense, don't. I don't understand
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the playing music loudly anyway. What's the deal with the gas station when you're
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filling up and somebody pulls up and they got music loud enough, like for
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six blocks away to hear it, and just turn it down. I'm just
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supposed to just turn the car off anyway, while you're pumping gas. Just
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turn it off and listen as you drive away. I don't set up your
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things right in front of others. Yeah, that kind of relates to the
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open space things. Don't leave kids unattended, don't go too heavy on the
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PDA, don't yell or be obnoxiously loud, don't leave a mess behind when
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that relates to the littering two, doesn't it? And don't stare you know,
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y gotta it's like the sun. That was the Seinfeld thing about Remember
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they said that about looking at cleavage. You just kind of got to get
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an essence of it and then look away. You can't stare at cleavage,
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and if you're at the beach, you can't just stare at people. You
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gotta just kind of get the impression of things and look away. Make sure
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you get your sunglasses though, too. Right, So we've all done it.
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We've spent a lot of money at a Target. You know, it
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happens sometimes, and there's some strategies apparently in place that I guess sometimes calls
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us to buy things at Target that we don't need. The site taste of
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home. I guess it's a magazine too, isn't it. They say that
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one of the reasons is because Target doesn't play music. A study is proven
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that if music is playing in the background, it increases your productivity and focus,
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while shopping in silence leads you to wander aimlessly and become distracted by something
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cute or unnecessary. So any store that doesn't have music playing, I guess
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this would be affected by you always hear about these strategies, you know.
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They say at casinos they don't have clocks visible, so you don't keep up
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with what time it is, and Hong, you've been in there and they
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say that, you know, some restaurants have certain colors that make you more
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hungry or make you want to eat more or more likely to get dessert.
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I don't, all right, remember all the talk about our shopping malls were
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the American shopping mall has been making a comeback for the first time since twenty
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sixteen. More stores opened in malls in twenty twenty two and closed, and
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sales at malls were up eleven percent last year and twenty twenty, mall occupancy
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was at ninety two percent. Now it's over ninety five percent, and according
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to a recent consumer survey, forty percent of US adults said they visited a
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mall within the last two weeks. So maybe malls are coming back. Maybe
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they're not quite as dead. Maybe the talk of their death has been exaggerated.
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All right. Finally, if you want to kick your candy cravings,
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you can watch somebody else eat it. Wasn't this a King of Queen's storyline?
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I think? A study from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore found that people
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who watched immersive videos of other people eating candy had reduced cravings for the sweet
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it'll work. Christie Alley did it on King of Queens. All right,
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