Are Tents Ruining the Beach? | The Social

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[00:00:00]Imagine you're on vacation and you've walked out under the beach and instead of staring out at the ocean, you're looking out at a sea of these $300 beach shades. So, according to the Wall Street Journal, >> they're now banned in some American towns because they block the beach. So, B, should it should these things be banned? So, you know, I guess the audience they're like kind of mixed up on what they're thinking. I think they should be limited. That's what I came up with. What's limit them? I think about beaches. Being somebody of Jamaican descent and knowing um back in Jamaica, access to beaches for locals is a huge issue. It's a huge issue in terms of wealth, access, all that type of stuff.

[00:00:46]So, things like this get very sensitive for me, right? Because it's like, okay, if you've got $300 to spend on this piece of fabric that will billow in the wind, you don't get to have like a better experience than somebody who could only afford to bring their cooler and their umbrella, >> right? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:00:59]>> So, limit the space where these things can be set up. And if you come, if there's five spaces and you're the sixth person with this shaboomi, sorry, like >> you go pull out your umbrella, right?

[00:01:10]But I think it should be >> wise. Like they actually set I know of a beach where they section off like a nude part and this would be very similar to that in a sense like a lot of those. She eat a lot of those. I think um what's interesting is I looked at that picture and these do seem large, but I know the way my family used to go to the beach when we were younger, we would just put all of our umbrellas together. So, I'm wondering is there a big enough difference between five umbrellas that you like put into the the stake into the ground together or this one big thing?

[00:01:40]That's one question I would have. The other question I would have is sun safety. Like the sun has changed. I don't know about you, but they keep telling us skin cancer and all the things. So, it's like this is a really nice protective thing. And if you have a family, even if you have a family of four, one umbrella doesn't cut it.

[00:01:56]You're all fighting for the little sliver and you're always moving it. So, this seems like it, but I agree. I think placement is key. I think that these should be allowed but on the back side of the beach so that the front in the photo kind of look like that. But I'm glad that you brought up family because my girlfriend uh Sharon and I were just in Costa Rica and we were discussing this. Sharon is very conservative and she feels like we should just all do things and think about other people. So no loud music, no Bluetooth, none of that whatever that thing is that cover. She's like we should just be thinking about other people. But I think maybe because I live in a city center where you just have to roll with the punches cuz it's a loud crowded place that I feel like if I roll up to a beach and I see that and I see a family of four or five or generational family, how am I going to tell them no take that down because I can't see the water. I would drive up with my single self see that and be like, "This is not the beach for me." And then I WOULD FIND THE SPACE BEACH.

[00:02:49]>> I would find the space that's more aligned with what the comfort level I have. But I have to remember these are public spaces and people are allowed to come and be loud and bring their families and children should run around.

[00:02:58]And when we start policing that it gets me uncomfortable like where are we expecting them to go?

[00:03:02]>> I will say one of the biggest pleasures of going to a beach is the sound of the sea and the sight of the sea. These things look like parasails, you know, which are wonderful to see out in the water, but when you can't see the water because of them, I think it is problematic. And these things apparently are so noisy the way that they plop you can't have a conversation. So like the sight and the sound of the water is completely negated by them. SO I SAY BAN THEM.

[00:03:29]>> LISTEN, ON THAT HAPPY NOTE, we're going to leave it right there.