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<v Speaker 1>I want to welcome everyone back to the Peking Yana Show.

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<v Speaker 1>Stormy's back, and yeah, we're gonna We're gonna go in

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<v Speaker 1>a completely different direction. And let me put this out

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<v Speaker 1>there right up front, right up front, because whenever I

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<v Speaker 1>do an episode like this, I'm going to get comments saying,

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<v Speaker 1>you should have this person on to talk about this.

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<v Speaker 1>You should have that person on to talk about about

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<v Speaker 1>Marcus Aurelius and the meditations and stoicism. Now the Stormy

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<v Speaker 1>and I are going to talk about this. So how

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<v Speaker 1>you doing, Stormy doing well?

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<v Speaker 2>Doing well?

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<v Speaker 1>How about yourself doing well? Man? So you mentioned you

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned Marcus Aurelius. You it was a few months ago

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<v Speaker 1>you said, you know, we should read and discuss you know,

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<v Speaker 1>some of the meditations, go through, go through some of

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<v Speaker 1>the meditations, and I just put it in the back

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<v Speaker 1>of my head and I was like, Okay, when the

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<v Speaker 1>time comes, you know, when I think about it, when

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<v Speaker 1>I remember again, when it comes back to the forefront

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<v Speaker 1>from the back, it comes back to the front from

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<v Speaker 1>the from the back, We'll do it. But why do

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<v Speaker 1>you why did you talk about this? Why did you

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<v Speaker 1>think we should talk about this on the air?

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<v Speaker 2>Well? Because it I don't know how Marcus Aurelius came

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<v Speaker 2>to a lot of his ideas, but it's basically the

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to call it like Eastern mysticism, right.

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<v Speaker 2>He could have arrived at these entirely organically, but well

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<v Speaker 2>there was, I mean, that's much more to us.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me interrupt you real quick so that you I'm sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>yep Zeno of Citium round three in the three hundred BC,

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<v Speaker 1>he's basically considered the founder of Stoicism. He forms a school.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh Cleanthes is his his student, Chrysippus is his student.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know in the in the BC times, in

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<v Speaker 1>the before times, you did have a school, a Stoic school,

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<v Speaker 1>and these these are the three, you know, early figures

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<v Speaker 1>in establishing Stoicism in in ancient Greece, but later Romans

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<v Speaker 1>picked up on it like Seneca episode epic Teta, I

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<v Speaker 1>can never pronounce his name epic Tetus or epic epitet

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<v Speaker 1>epicoet epic Tetus. I'll go with that. And Marcus Aurelia

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<v Speaker 1>is built on the foundations, but they're not considered the founders.

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<v Speaker 1>So basically, what what uh Marcus Aurelius is doing is

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<v Speaker 1>a Roman form of Stoics that he got from Greek

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<v Speaker 1>fathers I would say three hundred years before he lived.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, so when I say like Eastern mysticism, there is

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of Eastern mysticism that is taken again like

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<v Speaker 2>people guys like doctor Stephen Skinner and a couple others

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<v Speaker 2>that basically do like the history of the basically like

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<v Speaker 2>deep histories of mysticism, and not from like the from

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<v Speaker 2>the content of it, but basically who said what and

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<v Speaker 2>when and how these ideas propagated. So something magical happened

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<v Speaker 2>when Alexander got to Egypt, because you had two groups

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<v Speaker 2>of people that were working on the same problem but

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<v Speaker 2>from opposite ends, and the Egyptians had a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>what the Greeks missed, but without the Greek's rigor. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>Pythagoras had a large amount of followers at the time.

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<v Speaker 2>Even though he didn't survive the Siege of Tire, all

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<v Speaker 2>of his followers did and from there on out, Greek

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<v Speaker 2>thought on well in this case to what we're talking

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<v Speaker 2>about today, emotions changes quite a bit. And then Marcus Aurelius,

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<v Speaker 2>I think you're yeah, you're definitely correct. This would be

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<v Speaker 2>like a rediscovery of it right, because there wasn't a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of Romans actually, I mean, for as much as

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<v Speaker 2>they were, you know, Greek fans at this time, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't think there were anybody else but those three that

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<v Speaker 2>we know of.

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<v Speaker 1>Well yeah, I mean there are going to be others,

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<v Speaker 1>but that's that's the school. That's where those are the

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<v Speaker 1>three big names. You know, like if you were going

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about Greek philosophy, we're going to talk about Aristotle, Plato,

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<v Speaker 1>and Socrates.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean that's based Roman Stoicism. It's just those three

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<v Speaker 2>names roman Stoicism.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I mean there is more, but you know, as

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<v Speaker 1>as I said, were naming a whole line of people

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<v Speaker 1>and everything, you have to concentrate on who the main,

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<v Speaker 1>most influential were and it's those story.

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<v Speaker 2>So the reason I like Marcus Aurelius's meditations is because

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<v Speaker 2>you can pull these lessons out with and leave the mysticism,

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<v Speaker 2>and because it is in Latin, it's very easy to

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<v Speaker 2>read and digest. And when he is described when instead

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<v Speaker 2>of like a very esoteric teaching that will take you,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, months, months to pull apart to find out

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<v Speaker 2>what the guy actually meant, Marcus Aurelius gives it to

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<v Speaker 2>you in context of real situations he's dealing with. So

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<v Speaker 2>it is both the knowledge and applied knowledge simultaneously, so

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<v Speaker 2>you're able to grasp the concepts much much easier. And

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<v Speaker 2>he leaves out a lot of the other stuff that

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<v Speaker 2>I think would take people of a Christian background, It

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<v Speaker 2>would probably cause a lot of people to turn their

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<v Speaker 2>nose up at it. So just the teachings of how

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<v Speaker 2>the man views his emotions as separate from him, right,

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<v Speaker 2>they are not, you know, things that he has control

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<v Speaker 2>over that are internal processes. Marx's relis views them as

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<v Speaker 2>external processes, right His you know, the question is for

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<v Speaker 2>him is how one reacts to these external processes. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's not like, you know, you're going to get rid

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<v Speaker 2>of emotion. You're not going to get your emotions under control.

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<v Speaker 2>Like all these things are impossible. You have no control

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<v Speaker 2>over the emotions, the emotional information, the content that comes

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<v Speaker 2>to you. The only thing you do have control over

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<v Speaker 2>is how you respond or react to these emotions, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And Marcus's take is the same as no, God, I

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<v Speaker 2>can't believe I'm blinking aloutsuit the eternal doubt. These things,

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<v Speaker 2>these are things to be observed studied, let them wash

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<v Speaker 2>over you wait till they're gone, right, and then internalize

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<v Speaker 2>time more and more information, and in these emotions that

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<v Speaker 2>you are socking away, you know, in your knowledge bank,

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<v Speaker 2>become something you can pull from later and use almost

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<v Speaker 2>like a power source of infinite immovability, steadfastness, or strength.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think that would be something that would be

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<v Speaker 2>very valuable for people in our day and age, specifically

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<v Speaker 2>our guys when we have to interact on the Internet

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<v Speaker 2>and are interfacing with algorithms that are deliberately designed to

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<v Speaker 2>elicit emotional responses and get them into very non productive moods. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>it teaches it'll teach you how to not be a

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<v Speaker 2>reactive you know, loser jump from current thing to current thing.

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<v Speaker 2>These things don't mean anything. The emotions they give you

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<v Speaker 2>are not yours, right, They're not innate to your conscious mind.

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<v Speaker 2>And the strength to not react to them and to

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<v Speaker 2>study them, like why am I having this? Why is

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<v Speaker 2>this particular thing making me feel this particular type of

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<v Speaker 2>way would benefit our guys a lot, because I think

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<v Speaker 2>our information environment is extremely more hostile than one in

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<v Speaker 2>any other age. I think it's actually the biggest hurdle

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<v Speaker 2>to us making change.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I also think it's important to know if something

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<v Speaker 1>is if you're having trouble, if something is causing you

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<v Speaker 1>to get emotional, get upset, whatever, whatever it might be,

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<v Speaker 1>then to avoid that. And I think that the problem

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<v Speaker 1>is is like one of those things that I know

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<v Speaker 1>causes a lot of people because sometimes I have to

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<v Speaker 1>just get off of it for long periods of time,

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<v Speaker 1>is social media. Social media can be daunting because it

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<v Speaker 1>is designed to bombard you with information, and if it's

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<v Speaker 1>information that is going to upset you, if it's information

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<v Speaker 1>where you've you feel like you have a stake in it,

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<v Speaker 1>like you're invested in it, and it's not going your way, which,

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<v Speaker 1>let's face it, most of the time things aren't going

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<v Speaker 1>to go your way, especially if you have no power

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<v Speaker 1>over them, then you should know to avoid it. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean that's just really the beginning of knowledge. And I

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<v Speaker 1>fail often at that because I feel like, oh, if

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not on social media, I'm not on the biggest

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<v Speaker 1>battlefield in the world. And no, actually, the biggest battlefield

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<v Speaker 1>in the world is in your skull.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't have said it better.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what you have to you know, you have

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<v Speaker 1>to try to learn to master. You'll never master it,

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<v Speaker 1>but at least you know you're on the path.

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<v Speaker 2>It also creates what's necessary for leadership. Like, I think

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<v Speaker 2>people misunderstand, like what leadership is. It's like, it's not

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<v Speaker 2>like a learned thing. You can't like learn to be

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<v Speaker 2>a leader. Like it's a thing that you study. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>you could jump up in a like I know everything

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<v Speaker 2>about leadership. That does not mean people will look to

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<v Speaker 2>you as a leader. You don't get to decide whether

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<v Speaker 2>you're the leader or not. Right. That is a decision

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<v Speaker 2>that everybody around you makes independently inside themselves. And what

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<v Speaker 2>are they basing that decision on. They're basing it on

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<v Speaker 2>your presence.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>People want a leader because that person is unmoved, unchanged

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<v Speaker 2>by you know, very negative externalities by crisis. The person

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<v Speaker 2>that is always of a cool head, right, a leader,

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<v Speaker 2>we call it. Like leaders These are just men that

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<v Speaker 2>are internally ordered inside. Right, they are integrated their conscious mind,

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<v Speaker 2>their unconscious mind, their physical self. Right. These are they

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<v Speaker 2>are mind, body, and soul of one thing. Right, they

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<v Speaker 2>are firm and immovable. And when they are these things,

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<v Speaker 2>how they order themselves internally projects externally?

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<v Speaker 1>Right?

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<v Speaker 2>I guess for lack of a better term, It's a

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<v Speaker 2>vibe and everyone around you will pick it up. So

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<v Speaker 2>ordering yourself internally is how we make leaders, I think.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's many people that can disagree with me,

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<v Speaker 2>but I think you'd have a hard time because who

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<v Speaker 2>people look to as a leader is a choice that

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<v Speaker 2>they make and oftentimes without even knowing you. In a crisis,

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<v Speaker 2>people decide in an instant who the leader is. And

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<v Speaker 2>if our guys are ordered internally when crisis hits, which

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<v Speaker 2>it will, they will be the ones who will be

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<v Speaker 2>looked to as leaders because they will be the ones calm, firm,

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<v Speaker 2>and immovable, and they will project the type of safety

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<v Speaker 2>that everyone is going to be attracted to. So I

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<v Speaker 2>think Marcus Aurelius has the best tools to make leaders

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<v Speaker 2>because I think it's an internal thing and on an

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<v Speaker 2>external thing, not something that you can, like, I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to learn and you know, take a crash course in leadership.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that it's a waste of time. Well, we've

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<v Speaker 2>even read the book yet, this is already a pretty

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<v Speaker 2>good discussion.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, let's just let people know. Marcus Aurelius was

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<v Speaker 1>the Emperor Rome from one sixty one to one eight.

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<v Speaker 1>He came from his he was a son of a

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, he this is somebody who was emperor of Rome.

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<v Speaker 1>And yeah, let's I think a lot of people have

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<v Speaker 1>of Rome would act, and how he would think. But

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<v Speaker 1>Marcus Aurelius's meditations are seemed to seems to fly in

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<v Speaker 1>the face of what most people would think. So let

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<v Speaker 1>me read. Yeah, this is well, yeah, this has broken

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<v Speaker 1>up into parts into verse almost verses, like like biblical

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<v Speaker 1>how biblical chapters are broken up. So let me just

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<v Speaker 1>read the first one. So this is the first book

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<v Speaker 1>of my grandfather Verus. I have learned to be gentle

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<v Speaker 1>and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion.

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<v Speaker 1>From the fame and memory of him that begot me.

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<v Speaker 1>I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behavior. Shamefastness is

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<v Speaker 1>than the awkwardness of being shamefaced of my mother. I

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<v Speaker 1>not only to do, but to intend, but to intend

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<v Speaker 1>any evil, to content myself with a spare diet, and

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<v Speaker 1>and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers

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<v Speaker 1>at home, And that I ought not to think much if,

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<v Speaker 1>upon such occasions I were at excessive charges. So this

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<v Speaker 1>already flies in the face of what most people think

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<v Speaker 1>a leader is a modern way. It's what most people.

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<v Speaker 1>So Part two I'll just do here real quick of

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<v Speaker 1>him that brought me up. Not to be fondly addicted

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<v Speaker 1>to either of the two great factions of the coursers

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<v Speaker 1>in the circus, called Parsini and Venetzi, nor in the

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<v Speaker 1>amphitheater partially to favor any of the gladiators or fencers,

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<v Speaker 1>as either the par Parmulari or the secut Secutorus, and

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<v Speaker 1>those are two classes of gladiator. Moreover, to endure labor,

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<v Speaker 1>nor to need many things. When I have anything to do,

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<v Speaker 1>to do it myself rather than by others. Not to

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<v Speaker 1>meddle with many businesses, and not easily to admit of

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<v Speaker 1>the slander. I'm starting to feel seen here.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is how you get men like Cincinnatus. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's thinking like this.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Moreover twins or labor, nor to need many things,

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<v Speaker 1>and when I have anything to do, to do it

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<v Speaker 1>myself rather than by others. It's too easy in the

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<v Speaker 1>modern world to have other people do something for you.

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<v Speaker 1>Of diagenetis not to busy myself about vain things, and

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<v Speaker 1>not easily to believe those things which are commonly spoken

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<v Speaker 1>by such as take upon them to work wonders, and

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<v Speaker 1>by sorcerers or prestig prestidigitators and impostors concerning the power

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<v Speaker 1>of charms, and they're driving out of demons or evil

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<v Speaker 1>spirits and the like. That's keep quails for the game.

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<v Speaker 1>Nor to be mad after such things, Not to be

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<v Speaker 1>offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply

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<v Speaker 1>myself onto philosophy. Him Also, I must think that ever

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<v Speaker 1>I heard first Bacchius, then Tendasus and Marcianus, and that

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<v Speaker 1>I did write dialogues in my youth, and that I

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<v Speaker 1>took liking to the philosopher's little couch and skins and

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<v Speaker 1>such other things, which, by the Grecian discipline are proper

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<v Speaker 1>to those who profess philosophy. Not to be offended with

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<v Speaker 1>other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself onto philosophy.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you have to say to that.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't see a single modern leader. It really this particular. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>there's a lot to say. This is a person that

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<v Speaker 2>is very, very particular about how he keeps his mental space,

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<v Speaker 2>right if you like, So that the verse three talks

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<v Speaker 2>about all of the things that he does and does

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<v Speaker 2>not do. But the common theme with the other three

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<v Speaker 2>the other two verses is what he thinks and what

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<v Speaker 2>he does not allow himself to think and most importantly,

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<v Speaker 2>what he allows others to see. This is a person

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<v Speaker 2>that is completely sovereign in his own mind. He's not

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<v Speaker 2>if he doesn't want to think about something or think

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<v Speaker 2>a certain way about something. He doesn't if he wants

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<v Speaker 2>to think about something. His mind is doing what his

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<v Speaker 2>mind is tasked to do, and not what it wants

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>Not to be offended by another man's liberty of speech, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>he can't decide whether he's offended or not initially, so

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<v Speaker 2>what does he mean? He means, I'm going to have

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<v Speaker 2>control over how I express myself because you can't decide

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<v Speaker 2>to be offended or not, so you can decide how

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<v Speaker 2>you can react, how you react or not.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's not that's not something in the modernity as

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<v Speaker 1>it tells us to just react to everything in a

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<v Speaker 1>very feminine, in a very feminine way.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we're supposed to be the passive recipients, and this

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<v Speaker 2>man is not a passive anything. I mean so A

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<v Speaker 2>he's constantly talking about like all of the things he

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't do. I don't want to show favor to anyone.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to do things myself. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>bother anyone. I want to give thanks to each and

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<v Speaker 2>every person that has helped me along the way, and

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<v Speaker 2>think about and remember them.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think a lot of us, especially nowadays, give thanks.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, we do when we pray, but there's a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people in our lives that do a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of things for us. How often do we take time

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<v Speaker 2>to remember all of those people and what they have

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<v Speaker 2>done to help us? I mean, before I came across

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<v Speaker 2>the text, I don't think I ever had. There's an

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<v Speaker 2>ordering to him thinking taking the time to give thanks

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<v Speaker 2>internally for every single person that has helped shape him

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<v Speaker 2>to the person that he is, is hand and tied

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<v Speaker 2>to him, not busying himself with vain things, him not

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<v Speaker 2>favoring any excess. How do you be humble? Well, he's

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<v Speaker 2>telling you. He's doing it in front of you. He

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<v Speaker 2>is recognizing each every person's contribution to them himself. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>if you do that, it's really hard to be an

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<v Speaker 2>ego maniac, isn't it. This is him checking He is

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<v Speaker 2>checking his ego. He's humbling himself by recognizing each individual

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<v Speaker 2>person's contribution to what makes him up. The man that's

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<v Speaker 2>writing it today or on the day that he wrote it,

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<v Speaker 2>and he's actually what's actually I forgot was like how

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<v Speaker 2>do this or behave in this way, and now this

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<v Speaker 2>is how I behave in all of these instances. And

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<v Speaker 2>I was brought up to not be addicted to either

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<v Speaker 2>of the great factions. And this is how I don't

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<v Speaker 2>favor these groups in the amphitheater, and this is how

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<v Speaker 2>I don't favor these groups in the gladiatorial arena. Has

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<v Speaker 2>an exercise in humility?

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<v Speaker 1>Go ahead, Yeah, as a leader, I'm yeah, I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to jump to this. I probably would have held this

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<v Speaker 1>comment a little longer. But this is the kind of person.

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<v Speaker 1>And you've known people like this in your life, the

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<v Speaker 1>quiet person, the person who's a man of few words.

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<v Speaker 1>You got the idea that writing this was him was

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<v Speaker 1>an outlet for him, because he's somebody who's not going

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<v Speaker 1>to speak many words. He's also the kind of person

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<v Speaker 1>who if he's not choosing sides in the most in

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<v Speaker 1>things of it don't matter, like the you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>the the arena and what happens you're what happens if

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<v Speaker 1>you're invaded, say the barbarians are at the gates. How

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<v Speaker 1>do you act towards that? Do you start to panic?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you lose your mind? Are you such a stoic

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<v Speaker 1>that you don't care? No, that's not it at all.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing is this is somebody who is in the

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<v Speaker 1>face of problems is not going to think about how

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<v Speaker 1>solving them makes him look in the eyes of others.

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<v Speaker 1>He's just going to solve the problem and it's not

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<v Speaker 1>going to be for any other reason. Then there's a

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<v Speaker 1>problem that needs to be solved, and I'm not going

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<v Speaker 1>to get worked up over it. I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 1>be emotional over it. I'm just going to solve the problem.

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<v Speaker 1>And once the problem is solved, we move on, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's it. That's one of the reasons why you know,

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<v Speaker 1>when we say hating your enemies, oh I hate them?

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<v Speaker 1>Why why are you expending that energy? Why do you

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<v Speaker 1>think Why do you think that that emotion is profitable?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think that one day you're going to have

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<v Speaker 1>to kill and that that by hating it'll be easier

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<v Speaker 1>to do that. Someone like Marcus Aurelius doesn't. He doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>need that. He just knows that if he has to kill,

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<v Speaker 1>he has to kill, and that's it. It's just a

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<v Speaker 1>be emotional. It is just something that needs to be done.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think hate and emotions is such just weaken you,

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<v Speaker 1>and it weakens your vision for sure. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>we're taught to hate. And I think, really, if you

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<v Speaker 1>really think about it, our enemies have taught us to

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<v Speaker 1>hate because they know what makes us weak.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, and it makes them strong. They need it. But

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<v Speaker 2>it's also really interesting, as I kept on, well you

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<v Speaker 2>were saying that, I kept thinking about justice must be

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<v Speaker 2>delivered dispassionately. If not, then it is not justice, it's vengeance.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a man that could meet her out justice.

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<v Speaker 2>There there's lots of men that will, you know, commit

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<v Speaker 2>acts of revenge, But then you're not actually doing anything.

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<v Speaker 1>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>Other if you're committing acts of revenge, maybe people will

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<v Speaker 2>be afraid of you, but they won't come to you.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're dispassionate. Then when you do kill someone, whether

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<v Speaker 2>yourself or by order, it's justice. It actually means something

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<v Speaker 2>to everyone, where vengeance means something only to you. It

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<v Speaker 2>means nothing to anyone else except for this guy just

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<v Speaker 2>murdered somebody. And you could apply that to pretty much

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<v Speaker 2>every aspect of leading. Right again back to him thinking

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<v Speaker 2>each and every person he will go on to do

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<v Speaker 2>more of it. Is this an emperor that heeds his

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<v Speaker 2>advisor's counsel? Is this a person that thinks that he

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<v Speaker 2>knows more than everyone in the room. So what Peter

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<v Speaker 2>has talked about as far as hatred, right, or whether

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<v Speaker 2>this is a person that is going to take counsel

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<v Speaker 2>from his advisors when offered, isn't going to dismiss them

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<v Speaker 2>as like, oh no, I know more than you, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>the smartest guy in the room. Right, These are very

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<v Speaker 2>similar things even though they have they sound like they

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<v Speaker 2>have nothing in common unless you're a leader than what

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<v Speaker 2>Pete has described and I just described are blind spots,

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<v Speaker 2>places where you will make the wrong decision for selfish reasons,

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<v Speaker 2>whether it be to fulfill your own hate or to

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<v Speaker 2>fulfill your own ego. Right, this is how you're supposed

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<v Speaker 2>to rule and not for your own benefit. You can

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<v Speaker 2>be a macia like Pete was just saying, does this

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<v Speaker 2>guy sound like a sociopath or not? He doesn't, Oh, well,

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<v Speaker 2>then how is he going to get into power and

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<v Speaker 2>be all machiavellian? This is about exercising power, having the

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<v Speaker 2>right to rule. I think the Bronze Age barbarianism shit

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<v Speaker 2>has kind of poisoned a lot of people's minds to

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<v Speaker 2>what having agency is, to what being a leader is,

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<v Speaker 2>to what governing is. Having power is. All those things

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<v Speaker 2>are duties. Having power over your family, over your wife

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<v Speaker 2>and children. Yeah, they have to listen to you, that's

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<v Speaker 2>one thing they have to do. But that means you've

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<v Speaker 2>got about like three or four different duties to them, right,

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<v Speaker 2>It is you having power over them. There's a lot

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<v Speaker 2>more duties in your column to have that power than

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<v Speaker 2>there is duties in their column. Their column is listened

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<v Speaker 2>to you do as you say. Yours is protect, provide, lead, plan, Right,

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<v Speaker 2>you have a lot more duties than they do. And

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<v Speaker 2>that's what ruling. That's what leading is. It is duties,

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<v Speaker 2>it is obligations. It's leading correctly. Being a leader is

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<v Speaker 2>should be an act of selflessness. Like the eagles nest

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<v Speaker 2>that was built for Hitler's birthday, You never and he

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<v Speaker 2>spent he was there once, right. The only person outside

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<v Speaker 2>of that, the only house that was his or that

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<v Speaker 2>was you know that he had built for him, was

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<v Speaker 2>I believe for his mother or his sister. He slept

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<v Speaker 2>on a cop, the same one that was issued to

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<v Speaker 2>the Wehrmacht. Hitler slept on the entire length of the war. Right,

426
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<v Speaker 2>so for five years, four years, the most powerful man

427
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:34.199
<v Speaker 2>in Europe slept on a cop. This is a person

428
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<v Speaker 2>who thought it was his personal obligation to fix the country. Right.

429
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<v Speaker 2>What Hitler was doing was a selfless act. And until

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<v Speaker 2>you understand that, understand why it is people won't love

431
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:59.400
<v Speaker 2>you like they love him. Right, people, The most common,

432
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:04.079
<v Speaker 2>the the most potent thing in this is from my mother.

433
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<v Speaker 2>I have learned to be religious and bountiful and to

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<v Speaker 2>forbear not only to do, but to intend any evil.

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<v Speaker 2>It's about intent. You can say a lot of things.

436
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<v Speaker 2>Politicians say a lot of things to us, but we

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<v Speaker 2>don't believe them, right. Their words are the same words

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<v Speaker 2>as someone else. But in certain people, when they say

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00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:39.840
<v Speaker 2>the identical words, we believe them. Why is that if

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<v Speaker 2>person A and person B can say the same exact words,

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<v Speaker 2>the same exact cadence, even the same exact accent, how

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<v Speaker 2>do we know who's telling the truth or not? We

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<v Speaker 2>just know we can feel it in our gut, can

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<v Speaker 2>sense their intent, And that's something that you see again

445
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<v Speaker 2>and again and again throughout the stext. It's it's intent. Anyways,

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<v Speaker 2>That's all I've said about that. That was a lot

447
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<v Speaker 2>longer of a rant than I planned.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I could add on to it, but I'll keep reading.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure what I have to say well will be uh,

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<v Speaker 1>will make sense as we move four to Rusticus. I

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<v Speaker 1>am beholding that I first entered into the conceit that

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<v Speaker 1>my life wanted some redressing cure, and then that I

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<v Speaker 1>did not fall into the ambition of ordinary sophists, either

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<v Speaker 1>to write tracts concerning the common theorems, or to exhort

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<v Speaker 1>men into virtue and the study of philosophy by public orations.

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<v Speaker 1>As also that I never, by way of ostentation, did

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<v Speaker 1>effect to show myself as active, an active, able man

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<v Speaker 1>for any kind of bodily exercises, And that I gave

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<v Speaker 1>over the study of rhetoric and poetry and of elegant,

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<v Speaker 1>neat language, that it had not used to walk about

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<v Speaker 1>the house in my long robe, nor to do any

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<v Speaker 1>such things. Moreover, I learned of him to write letters

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<v Speaker 1>without any affectation or curiosity, such as that was which

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<v Speaker 1>by him was written to my mother from sinuessa, and

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<v Speaker 1>to be easy and ready to be reconciled and well

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<v Speaker 1>pleased again with them that had offended me, as soon

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<v Speaker 1>as any of them would be content to seek unto

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<v Speaker 1>me again to read with diligence, not to rest satisfied

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<v Speaker 1>with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent

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<v Speaker 1>to things commonly spoken of whom also I must think

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<v Speaker 1>that I ever lighted upon Epictetus his hypo nemata, or

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<v Speaker 1>moral commentaries and common factions, which also he gave me

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<v Speaker 1>of his own from Apollonius, true liberty and unvariable steadfastness,

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<v Speaker 1>and not to regard anything at all, though never so little,

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<v Speaker 1>but right and reason, and always, whether in the sharpest pains,

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<v Speaker 1>or after the loss of a child, or in long diseases,

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<v Speaker 1>to be still the same man, who also was a present,

478
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<v Speaker 1>invisible example unto me that it was possible for the

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<v Speaker 1>same man to be both vehement and remiss, a man

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<v Speaker 1>not subject to be vexed and offended with the incapacity

481
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<v Speaker 1>of his scholars and auditor and auditors in his lectures

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<v Speaker 1>and expositions, and a true pattern of a man who,

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<v Speaker 1>of all his good gifts and faculties least esteemed himself

484
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<v Speaker 1>in himself, that his excellent skill and ability to teach

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<v Speaker 1>and persuade others the common theorems and maxims of the

486
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<v Speaker 1>Stoic philosophy of him. Also I learned how to receive

487
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<v Speaker 1>favors and kindnesses, as commonly they are accounted from friends,

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<v Speaker 1>so that I might not become obnoxious unto them for them,

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<v Speaker 1>nor more yielding upon occasion than in right I ought,

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<v Speaker 1>and yet so that I should not pass them neither

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<v Speaker 1>as an unsensible and unthankful man.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a good.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that is let's stop there. Yeah, true, yeah, from Apollonius.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me see here, Yeah, this part true liberty and

495
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:40.239
<v Speaker 1>unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though

496
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:44.639
<v Speaker 1>never so little, but right and reason, and always, whether

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<v Speaker 1>in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of a child,

498
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<v Speaker 1>or in long diseases, to be still the same men,

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<v Speaker 1>who also was a present invisible example. Unto me that

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<v Speaker 1>it was possible for the same man to be both

501
00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:00.719
<v Speaker 1>the vehement and remiss, a man not subject, be vexed

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00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:03.920
<v Speaker 1>and offended with the incapacity of his scholars and auditors

503
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<v Speaker 1>in his life. How many people can can even find

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<v Speaker 1>that strength anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, or be as humble as to what Rustic has

506
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<v Speaker 2>taught him in the passage above. And it's all about

507
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<v Speaker 2>him purposely. There's like that famous scene you know where

508
00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:37.800
<v Speaker 2>Caesar comes in triumphant into Rome and they paint his

509
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<v Speaker 2>face red and they have a servant ride in the

510
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<v Speaker 2>chariot with him as he takes his triumph and whispers

511
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<v Speaker 2>in his ear the entire time, you are not a god,

512
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<v Speaker 2>You are not a god. He's basically doing that in

513
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<v Speaker 2>every aspect of his life. Life. He is functionally policing

514
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<v Speaker 2>his humility and the where is itself terms about how

515
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<v Speaker 2>to take basically how where does he say it here

516
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<v Speaker 2>where he talks about reconciling.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Moreover, I learned of him to write letters without any

519
00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:44.079
<v Speaker 2>affection or curiosity. I think you're talking about like intrigue

520
00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:49.199
<v Speaker 2>or gossip such as that was which by him was

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00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:54.440
<v Speaker 2>written to my mother from Sinuessa. And to be easily

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<v Speaker 2>and readily as are easily easy and ready to be

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00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:03.039
<v Speaker 2>reconciled well pleased again with them that had offended me,

524
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<v Speaker 2>as soon as any of them would be contingent to

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00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.079
<v Speaker 2>seek it unto me again.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. That's a most people don't have the temperament

527
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:21.920
<v Speaker 1>and to that anymore.

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00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.639
<v Speaker 2>No, when somebody comes on the timeline, it's like, hey,

529
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:35.000
<v Speaker 2>I think this, this, and this, rather than congratulate and say,

530
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<v Speaker 2>oh awesome, this person has changed their mind. They think

531
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<v Speaker 2>like us now, Without fail, I will always see a

532
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:48.519
<v Speaker 2>comment and then many of them. But it's always one

533
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<v Speaker 2>of the first couple ones of somebody going back on

534
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.440
<v Speaker 2>their timeline to like three or four years ago or

535
00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:59.000
<v Speaker 2>whatever and taking a screenshot of something that they said

536
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<v Speaker 2>for when they thought something different and said, oh this

537
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:10.079
<v Speaker 2>you this, you bro? How the fuck is anyone supposed

538
00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:15.480
<v Speaker 2>to change their mind? Were you born here on the

539
00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:19.960
<v Speaker 2>far right? Like? Yes? Like did you always exist here?

540
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.280
<v Speaker 2>If no one can change their mind, how can anyone

541
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:29.480
<v Speaker 2>come to agree with us that doesn't always already agree

542
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:38.480
<v Speaker 2>with us? Right? If someone expresses your opinion, who once

543
00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:47.800
<v Speaker 2>expressed the opposite of it, Right, why are you not

544
00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:57.480
<v Speaker 2>reconciled and well pleased again with them? Right? This is

545
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:02.960
<v Speaker 2>not how men act. It's more important for people to

546
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:08.000
<v Speaker 2>hold a grudge and or get a dunk in on someone. Right,

547
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:10.840
<v Speaker 2>then congratulate them for changing their mind and encouraging them

548
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:15.199
<v Speaker 2>to go further. And you know, er elatic behavior.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I'll add real quick that we can all

550
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.239
<v Speaker 1>do this. We all fall victim to it every once

551
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:26.360
<v Speaker 1>in a while. You know, where have you been? You know,

552
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:29.599
<v Speaker 1>I was here. You know I learned about this five

553
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.559
<v Speaker 1>years ago. What took you so long? The thing is,

554
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:35.039
<v Speaker 1>you don't want you want to recognize when you're doing

555
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:39.239
<v Speaker 1>that and stop and apologize for it. And you also

556
00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:43.440
<v Speaker 1>you also want to you don't want that to be

557
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<v Speaker 1>who you are. You guys, there are a lot of

558
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<v Speaker 1>people that you can see on social media, and you know,

559
00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:52.639
<v Speaker 1>this is something that people don't do in real life.

560
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<v Speaker 1>They don't do it to people's faces. And which is

561
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<v Speaker 1>why social media is such a to many because a

562
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.039
<v Speaker 1>lot of people don't even know how to talk to

563
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.960
<v Speaker 1>people in real life anymore, but they sure do think

564
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.320
<v Speaker 1>they know how to talk to people on social media.

565
00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:13.079
<v Speaker 1>And we all fall into it. But if this is

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<v Speaker 1>if this is like your personality, if this is your

567
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<v Speaker 1>if when people think of your account, this is the

568
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.000
<v Speaker 1>first thing they think of, Oh, this person is just

569
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:28.199
<v Speaker 1>going to try to own people the whole time. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I mean like I had somebody reach out

571
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:34.840
<v Speaker 1>to me the other day and say and then I

572
00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:37.639
<v Speaker 1>haven't contacted you in like five or six years. It

573
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.920
<v Speaker 1>took me a long time to get here. But you know,

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<v Speaker 1>now I'm reading you know, I'm reading Henry Ford, and

575
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:51.119
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, awesome, man, okay, you know, welcome, and he's like, well,

576
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.800
<v Speaker 1>he actually said, he said, let me pull this up

577
00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:00.440
<v Speaker 1>because I really let me see where this is. This

578
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:07.039
<v Speaker 1>this was awesome to me, he said. He said, it

579
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.599
<v Speaker 1>took me too long, but must admit you were right

580
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<v Speaker 1>about the JQ currently reading Martin Luther and Henry Ford. Apologies,

581
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:17.760
<v Speaker 1>my friend from my quiet skepticism. I'm retarded. And I said,

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00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.239
<v Speaker 1>we all reach touch points at different times. It's a

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00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.559
<v Speaker 1>never ending race. There is no finish line. And he said,

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<v Speaker 1>appreciate your grace. I appreciate your grace. That's it. That's it.

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<v Speaker 1>The guy came and said, Maya Kulpa should have been

586
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<v Speaker 1>here all along. But I mean, the only.

587
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<v Speaker 2>What am I expecting you to be an assphole?

588
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:50.440
<v Speaker 1>Well? And and what how did it affect him by

589
00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:56.719
<v Speaker 1>taking this long? I'm sure he was still he's still

590
00:46:56.719 --> 00:47:00.559
<v Speaker 1>living his life, he's still loving his family, he's still

591
00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:03.719
<v Speaker 1>taking care of his family. Now he gets to see

592
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:08.320
<v Speaker 1>the way the world works. Yeah, a little clearer. It

593
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:11.599
<v Speaker 1>just took him a little bit longer. So what.

594
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<v Speaker 2>And the type of people we're trying to attract to

595
00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:19.079
<v Speaker 2>our coalitions are going to be busy. Right. The more

596
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:25.760
<v Speaker 2>tools that they have at their disposal is a one

597
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<v Speaker 2>to one of how much busier they are in their

598
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:37.239
<v Speaker 2>day to day life. Right. So, like the type of

599
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:42.679
<v Speaker 2>guys that you want on your side, you're going to

600
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:47.079
<v Speaker 2>want them to be too busy to learn all this shit.

601
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:49.639
<v Speaker 2>Just drop what they're doing and learn all the shit

602
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:54.800
<v Speaker 2>that you don't, right, because they'll have means and tools

603
00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:58.000
<v Speaker 2>and relationships at their disposal that they built by doing

604
00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:02.400
<v Speaker 2>other shit than not learning about this every day. So

605
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:04.599
<v Speaker 2>the type of people you're going to want are going

606
00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:07.400
<v Speaker 2>to be the type of people that take longer to

607
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:13.880
<v Speaker 2>get here. I like the CEOs, the entrepreneurs, Like these

608
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:18.559
<v Speaker 2>people have already very stressful days and if something looks

609
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<v Speaker 2>to them like a rabbit holism, that's going to be

610
00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:22.840
<v Speaker 2>like upsetting are going to require a huge amount of

611
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.119
<v Speaker 2>mental investment, which this does. Then they're going to put

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00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.360
<v Speaker 2>that off because they have to because people depend on

613
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:33.639
<v Speaker 2>them to do things. So it's the people that come

614
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:37.360
<v Speaker 2>to this late that are going to be people that

615
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:41.199
<v Speaker 2>you want to congratulate. And think about how hard that

616
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:43.760
<v Speaker 2>was for that person to write, because he was full

617
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:45.920
<v Speaker 2>well expecting you to dunk on him and talk shit.

618
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:51.760
<v Speaker 2>So he wrote that to you knowing, or at least

619
00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:54.159
<v Speaker 2>he thought he knew that he was going to get

620
00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:58.559
<v Speaker 2>nothing but scorn in return, and it was still important

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00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:04.119
<v Speaker 2>enough for him to tell you. I want that guy

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00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:08.639
<v Speaker 2>on my team. I don't want somebody that would excoriate

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<v Speaker 2>him or frankly, you know, be an asshole. Because that

624
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.119
<v Speaker 2>person that sent Pete that message as a bigger person

625
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<v Speaker 2>then I would say most people I see. So, yeah,

626
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<v Speaker 2>it took him longer to get here, he probably had

627
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<v Speaker 2>shit to do.

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<v Speaker 1>And I would much rather have him as an ally

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<v Speaker 1>at this point in his learning stage than somebody who's

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<v Speaker 1>known this stuff, who's been reading this stuff for ten

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<v Speaker 1>years and is in their black pilling, you know, just

632
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:53.239
<v Speaker 1>negativity spewing negativity stage.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I find I find it funny that all of

634
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<v Speaker 2>those people, right, the guys that are always growing about

635
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<v Speaker 2>how long they've been here for and how much more

636
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:10.079
<v Speaker 2>they know than everybody. What's really interesting is that those

637
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<v Speaker 2>are the people that can't see the ground shifting underneath them.

638
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:18.320
<v Speaker 2>The people that crow about how long they've been here

639
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:24.880
<v Speaker 2>and oh, oh you fell for it again. Ah, those

640
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<v Speaker 2>are also the same people that can't see the shifting

641
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:32.119
<v Speaker 2>sands underneath their feet, which I find just deliciously ironic.

642
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<v Speaker 2>To steal a quote from Thomas so Pete's right, that

643
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<v Speaker 2>dumb shit will blind you because all of those guys,

644
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<v Speaker 2>we all know who we're talking about, there's a whole

645
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<v Speaker 2>bunch of them. They can't see the change that's happening

646
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:56.440
<v Speaker 2>right now, and they're going to be the most surprised

647
00:50:56.719 --> 00:51:01.599
<v Speaker 2>and the last to realize it. So what use are

648
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<v Speaker 2>they then?

649
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:06.559
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know if they're going to be the

650
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:11.639
<v Speaker 1>last to realize that. I think they'll might never I think, well,

651
00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:14.559
<v Speaker 1>I think many of them, many of them could see

652
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:19.480
<v Speaker 1>the destruction of their enemies and not realize it's happened,

653
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:22.519
<v Speaker 1>or the beginning of the destruction of their enemies, and

654
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:25.719
<v Speaker 1>their hatred has just blinded them.

655
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then Jarette, who has had to do seven

656
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<v Speaker 2>little videos, little table talk videos to try and convince

657
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<v Speaker 2>you that he didn't kill Charlie Kirk. Does that sound

658
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:37.679
<v Speaker 2>like a person that's in charge to you? Does that

659
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:41.199
<v Speaker 2>sound like a person who has everything going according to plan?

660
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.000
<v Speaker 2>Did he plan to do all of these emergency little

661
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:46.079
<v Speaker 2>fireside chats?

662
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:54.400
<v Speaker 1>They're spending billions of dollars to buy CBS News. I

663
00:51:54.400 --> 00:52:01.960
<v Speaker 1>mean that who watches CBS News? Yeah? Talk? What like

664
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:05.559
<v Speaker 1>people aren't just going to figure out ways to get

665
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:11.559
<v Speaker 1>around the sensors? I mean that's what isn't that?

666
00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:11.679
<v Speaker 2>What?

667
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:14.039
<v Speaker 1>Like the meme wars we're all about.

668
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:17.559
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's got damn Galatians. They can spend a lot

669
00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:19.960
<v Speaker 2>of money, but they sure can't stop people from talking

670
00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:27.199
<v Speaker 2>about them. What's really interesting is that, like you'll watch

671
00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:30.639
<v Speaker 2>Tucker Carlson come out and say something and then the

672
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:33.639
<v Speaker 2>fucking Prime Minister of Israel has to rush in front

673
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<v Speaker 2>of a camera in his office, sit down to sit

674
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<v Speaker 2>down in front of his desk and try and bullshit

675
00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:45.519
<v Speaker 2>his way around something that Tucker said a media person

676
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.559
<v Speaker 2>in America and he sends it out and then some

677
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:54.920
<v Speaker 2>random black lady that lives in England does another video

678
00:52:55.880 --> 00:52:57.880
<v Speaker 2>and there it is, that fact. It's running back to

679
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:00.719
<v Speaker 2>his office, setting up the camera again, trying to come

680
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:06.000
<v Speaker 2>up with some more bullshit. That is rear guard action.

681
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:10.599
<v Speaker 2>That is a person who is no longer able to

682
00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:14.280
<v Speaker 2>set the tempo of battle and is no longer able

683
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:19.519
<v Speaker 2>to determine the place and time of battle. That person,

684
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:26.559
<v Speaker 2>if we were looking at any type of conflict, that

685
00:53:26.639 --> 00:53:32.320
<v Speaker 2>person has lost dominance over a key part of the battlefield.

686
00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:38.000
<v Speaker 2>Ukraine right now cannot set the tempo of battle. Ukraine

687
00:53:38.079 --> 00:53:43.000
<v Speaker 2>right now cannot determine the time and place in which

688
00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:47.639
<v Speaker 2>their forces fight, and that is because Russia has total

689
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:53.360
<v Speaker 2>air dominance over Ukraine. There is a field of battle

690
00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:58.119
<v Speaker 2>which Ukraine can exert no control over, and that is

691
00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:03.519
<v Speaker 2>forcing them to respond a different way that is very

692
00:54:03.559 --> 00:54:07.039
<v Speaker 2>noticeable on the field that they can still engage in.

693
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:14.880
<v Speaker 2>Right Benjamin and Yahoo's behavior is a man that is

694
00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:24.519
<v Speaker 2>suffering from total information dominance by his enemies. He does

695
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:27.119
<v Speaker 2>not get to determine the time and place of battle.

696
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:32.679
<v Speaker 2>He's running around doing little TikTok videos trying to put

697
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:35.960
<v Speaker 2>out fires his enemy set whenever they decide to set them.

698
00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:42.159
<v Speaker 2>Not him, and none of the fucking guys that'll, you know,

699
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.239
<v Speaker 2>swagger around about how much longer they've been here and

700
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.119
<v Speaker 2>how much you need to shut the fuck up because

701
00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:49.440
<v Speaker 2>I was hearing this, that, and the third thing, All

702
00:54:49.519 --> 00:54:58.840
<v Speaker 2>those fagots can't even see it, but they'll tell you

703
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:00.920
<v Speaker 2>how much smarter than they are, they are than you,

704
00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:03.039
<v Speaker 2>and how wrong you are because of how long they've

705
00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:09.719
<v Speaker 2>been here. Well, have you ever seen the prime minister

706
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:12.920
<v Speaker 2>of a country like arguably the most evil, most powerful

707
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:16.559
<v Speaker 2>guy in the world. Were you bracketing for them doing

708
00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:21.639
<v Speaker 2>six you know, fireside chat videos about how I pinky

709
00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:25.800
<v Speaker 2>pinky promise I didn't kill somebody in a period of

710
00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:29.679
<v Speaker 2>less than two and a half weeks. No, they didn't

711
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:38.000
<v Speaker 2>because they can't physically even see when they're winning. They

712
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:47.360
<v Speaker 2>don't have the humility, which is I think the overarching

713
00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:55.960
<v Speaker 2>theme of this text is thus far and self reflection.

714
00:55:56.280 --> 00:55:58.440
<v Speaker 2>That's another thing that we see again and again and

715
00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.360
<v Speaker 2>again and again and again. It's almost like he lives

716
00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:02.960
<v Speaker 2>in a constant state of self reflection.

717
00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:13.000
<v Speaker 1>You know, there's there have been many times in my

718
00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:17.280
<v Speaker 1>quote unquote it's quote unquote public life, you know, since

719
00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:20.800
<v Speaker 1>I started podcast, since I put myself out there, that

720
00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:23.679
<v Speaker 1>I've been wrong and had to you know, maya culpa

721
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:31.239
<v Speaker 1>change my mind and say, yeah, I just don't see

722
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:34.840
<v Speaker 1>it that way anymore. And you always get attacked for

723
00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:40.280
<v Speaker 1>that because you know a lot of people are they

724
00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:45.159
<v Speaker 1>seem to have to. And what's funny is it's outside

725
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:50.079
<v Speaker 1>of religion, it's politics. Put themselves into this political bubble

726
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:55.679
<v Speaker 1>that they can never allow themselves to extricate themselves from,

727
00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:00.000
<v Speaker 1>mostly because they've made their version of politics their morality

728
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.880
<v Speaker 1>because they don't have a morality that's based in anything

729
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:14.519
<v Speaker 1>other than materialism. So they have to find materialistic morality.

730
00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:18.039
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, I'm not saying that that makes me any

731
00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:23.599
<v Speaker 1>better than anyone else, but you know it, once you

732
00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:27.480
<v Speaker 1>do it the first time, you realize I'm never going

733
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<v Speaker 1>to get this right. I'm never going to get it

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<v Speaker 1>one ed to present perfect. I'm constantly going to be

735
00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:39.119
<v Speaker 1>adjusting here and tweaking there, and you know, there may

736
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:41.760
<v Speaker 1>even be some seismic shifts. You know what's funny, this

737
00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:48.119
<v Speaker 1>is just Scott Horton and Darryl Cooper have this new

738
00:57:48.280 --> 00:57:53.559
<v Speaker 1>podcast Provoked and they had Orn McIntyre on the last

739
00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:56.960
<v Speaker 1>episode talking about the hit piece that reason ran on

740
00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:02.480
<v Speaker 1>or In and mentioned Darryl in and one of the

741
00:58:02.519 --> 00:58:06.519
<v Speaker 1>things Daryl said, And what's funny is Daryl came off

742
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:11.639
<v Speaker 1>even more radical in that episode than Oron because Oran's like, oh,

743
00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:13.480
<v Speaker 1>we got to do everything within the law and Daryl's

744
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:19.880
<v Speaker 1>gone to defeat our enemies. And Daryl's like, He's like,

745
00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:24.920
<v Speaker 1>I don't know about that. But something Darryl said was

746
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:29.400
<v Speaker 1>he said, look, I would love to still be a libertarian.

747
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:30.760
<v Speaker 2>And I think.

748
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:35.599
<v Speaker 1>Corton asked him, you know, what do you believe now?

749
00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:38.440
<v Speaker 1>And he's like, well, it's hard to say what you

750
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:45.360
<v Speaker 1>believe because things are constantly changing. When things are constantly changing,

751
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:49.719
<v Speaker 1>you have to change with them. You can't deal with

752
00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:56.800
<v Speaker 1>you if you have people being killed openly for their beliefs,

753
00:58:58.039 --> 00:59:03.239
<v Speaker 1>You're none. You're you're non aggression thing where you're like, oh,

754
00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:06.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to aggress against anybody unless they you know,

755
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:11.280
<v Speaker 1>unless they aggress against me. First, well, basically there's a

756
00:59:11.320 --> 00:59:15.599
<v Speaker 1>whole class of people out there now who are threatening

757
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.480
<v Speaker 1>to kill you if you don't agree with them. So

758
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:22.639
<v Speaker 1>how do you deal with that? How do you how

759
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:26.519
<v Speaker 1>do you put yourself into a box when things change?

760
00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:29.280
<v Speaker 1>If you you know, let me put it this way, do.

761
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:31.199
<v Speaker 2>You sit by and watch everybody else get killed because

762
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:32.480
<v Speaker 2>they haven't aggressed on you yet?

763
00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:37.679
<v Speaker 1>Right? Well, also, you know how about this, say you

764
00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:42.239
<v Speaker 1>are forced to move to England and you're forced to

765
00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:48.079
<v Speaker 1>live in London, what are you taking your political sensibilities

766
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:53.599
<v Speaker 1>with you? Are are you taking your ideology with you?

767
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:56.039
<v Speaker 1>You're talking about a completely different system of government. Now,

768
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.760
<v Speaker 1>how's that going to help you? You think you've you

769
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.079
<v Speaker 1>think you've created this political ideology that helps you get

770
01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:08.159
<v Speaker 1>through the American landscape in twenty twenty five. It's not

771
01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:10.719
<v Speaker 1>the same thing as the British landscape in twenty twenty five,

772
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:13.880
<v Speaker 1>or the Japanese landscape in twenty twenty five, or the

773
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:18.000
<v Speaker 1>Indian landscape in twenty twenty five. It's here, and it's

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01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.800
<v Speaker 1>for a certain time. It's for certain you know. It's

775
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:25.320
<v Speaker 1>like talking about one of the things that Daryl said

776
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:28.519
<v Speaker 1>that you know it was, you know, just you would

777
01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:32.400
<v Speaker 1>hope people would, especially libertarians, would hear it and a

778
01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:35.760
<v Speaker 1>light bulb would go off. Is this whole article was

779
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.360
<v Speaker 1>basically saying, they talk about Karl Schmidt, Carl Schmidt was

780
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:41.679
<v Speaker 1>a Nazi, These people are Nazis.

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01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:47.079
<v Speaker 2>Well to James Lindsay, write this, Yeah.

782
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:52.360
<v Speaker 1>Well they talk about Carl Schmidt like Carl Schmidt was

783
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.559
<v Speaker 1>writing in Vermont.

784
01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:57.880
<v Speaker 2>That's how they Yes, I remember that. That was a

785
01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:58.800
<v Speaker 2>really good point.

786
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:03.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're judging Karl Schmidt like he was living in

787
01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:09.039
<v Speaker 1>Vermont in nineteen twenty, in nineteen thirty three. No, he

788
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:13.960
<v Speaker 1>was living in fucking Germany in nineteen thirty three, where

789
01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:19.559
<v Speaker 1>there were gun battles in the streets between communists and

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01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:24.639
<v Speaker 1>the National Socialists, where they were literally having battles in

791
01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:28.840
<v Speaker 1>the street. And you want to judge him, like he

792
01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:32.159
<v Speaker 1>lived in all white Vermont in nineteen thirty three.

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01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:38.639
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there were hundreds of people dying in Berlin, hundreds

794
01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:42.000
<v Speaker 2>more dying in Munich. Like we had one guy get

795
01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:46.320
<v Speaker 2>shot and it was a total paradigm shattering event for

796
01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:48.639
<v Speaker 2>most of the country. Now, imagine what it's like having

797
01:01:48.719 --> 01:01:53.199
<v Speaker 2>hundreds of people shot running gun battles in the street.

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01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:59.320
<v Speaker 2>Like Daryl is really, really, really really good at taking

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01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:02.280
<v Speaker 2>like something that would probably take me five minutes to say,

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01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:07.880
<v Speaker 2>and just whipping it out in a punchy sentence that

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01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:12.800
<v Speaker 2>is also contextualized. He's very good at that, and I

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01:02:12.840 --> 01:02:14.800
<v Speaker 2>think I hope he leans into it more because I

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01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:18.760
<v Speaker 2>think it's one of his one of his greatest weapons

804
01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:22.320
<v Speaker 2>in his in his toolbox that he has. For me.

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01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:26.360
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, I'm a nationalist for me, I'm a globalist

806
01:02:26.519 --> 01:02:30.000
<v Speaker 2>for you, I am pro life for me, and I

807
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:34.079
<v Speaker 2>am pro choice for you and so on down the

808
01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:36.400
<v Speaker 2>line where it's like, yes, these things are index to

809
01:02:36.519 --> 01:02:40.400
<v Speaker 2>a people, right my political I don't have any political beliefs.

810
01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:44.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't. It is this is a core group of

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01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:47.320
<v Speaker 2>people that I care about and love deeply. Yeah, is

812
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:49.639
<v Speaker 2>this good for them? Or is this bad for them?

813
01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:50.519
<v Speaker 2>And that's it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's politics. And I think something else Daryl's really good

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<v Speaker 1>at is what we've been talking about, what we've been

816
01:02:59.719 --> 01:03:05.440
<v Speaker 1>reading about. Because at the end of that, Horton asked

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01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.960
<v Speaker 1>Oran about the people mentioned in the in the article,

818
01:03:10.079 --> 01:03:14.679
<v Speaker 1>like Jarvin and you're a MAZONI and Darryl and and

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01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:17.239
<v Speaker 1>Oran said, look, there are a lot of things I

820
01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:20.559
<v Speaker 1>disagree with with Darryl On because I think Darryl's a

821
01:03:20.599 --> 01:03:23.719
<v Speaker 1>bleeding heart on some things. If you look at Daryl's face,

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01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:28.199
<v Speaker 1>he just smiled. He just smiled a little bit, you know,

823
01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:31.119
<v Speaker 1>let it bother him. He's not going to take It's

824
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:33.599
<v Speaker 1>not like he's not going to take Oran's call. If

825
01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Oron calls. It's one man's opinion, and he also knows

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01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:45.599
<v Speaker 1>that that man doesn't want it, doesn't want ill it,

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01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:49.639
<v Speaker 1>doesn't want anything bad to happen to him. He just

828
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:54.960
<v Speaker 1>has different opinions on him on different things, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>on different things, but as a whole, I think Oran

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<v Speaker 1>would rather have Darryl as a neighbor than some Antifa

831
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<v Speaker 1>fuck from Portland, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, yeah, a friend enemy there at that table.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a lot of our guys talk about Darryl like

834
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<v Speaker 1>he's no different than than someone Antifa. They're so black

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<v Speaker 1>and white, like he Well, he's just he's just a

836
01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:27.000
<v Speaker 1>leftist like all the other leftists. Oh really, you're that ignorant?

837
01:04:31.039 --> 01:04:34.800
<v Speaker 1>How'd you get this way?

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<v Speaker 2>And now he'll take one take. Oh, he doesn't agree

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<v Speaker 2>with me on how we structure our mass deportations. He's

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<v Speaker 2>a leftist, Okay, but what about the other ninety nine

841
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:52.079
<v Speaker 2>of his beliefs? Well, yeah, it doesn't matter because he

842
01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:56.440
<v Speaker 2>doesn't agree with me on this particular thing. Well, is

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01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:59.199
<v Speaker 2>that thing being discussed right now? Is that thing a

844
01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:01.360
<v Speaker 2>possibility that's on the table right now? No, it's not

845
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<v Speaker 2>so right now, he's your ally, you fucking retard.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I mean think about this. Would you rather live

847
01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:13.039
<v Speaker 1>next to some libertarian that you probably agree seventy percent on?

848
01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:16.119
<v Speaker 1>But they're a degenerate scum bag and you're going to

849
01:05:16.199 --> 01:05:19.000
<v Speaker 1>have to deal with degenerate scumbag behavior from them as

850
01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:25.920
<v Speaker 1>a neighbor or a Jewish banker, Jewish banker, like every day,

851
01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:29.559
<v Speaker 1>all day, every day, every day, all day. Yeah, because

852
01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:32.360
<v Speaker 1>this is real life. This isn't the Internet. Well, it's

853
01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:34.280
<v Speaker 1>kind of the internet. We're recording over the internet.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, you know, who's going to make my neighborhood

855
01:05:37.159 --> 01:05:42.159
<v Speaker 2>a better place and throw a bunch of money at lawyers?

856
01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:44.280
<v Speaker 2>Seems like that if anybody tries to make my neighborhood

857
01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:49.000
<v Speaker 2>a bad place, that guy. But the libertarian is going

858
01:05:49.079 --> 01:05:51.440
<v Speaker 2>to be like, oh no, well these people doing shooting

859
01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:54.599
<v Speaker 2>things in our neighborhood, they're doing it on their property. No,

860
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:57.239
<v Speaker 2>the Jewish guy and me are going to team up

861
01:05:57.280 --> 01:06:00.599
<v Speaker 2>to make sure that libertarian gets evicted. What's going to happen?

862
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:07.119
<v Speaker 1>You sound you sound like a traitor?

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01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:15.679
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh really, Like they have no power over any

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01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:18.199
<v Speaker 2>individual person. The only power.

865
01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:20.599
<v Speaker 1>Power over the power over themselves.

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01:06:21.559 --> 01:06:26.039
<v Speaker 2>This is true. But because people, oh that you's gonna

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01:06:26.039 --> 01:06:28.039
<v Speaker 2>try and subvert you. Yeah, but I can say no,

868
01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:30.599
<v Speaker 2>he's going to try and tell you these things and

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01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:31.639
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to not listen.

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<v Speaker 1>That was another thing Orin said on the on that

871
01:06:38.519 --> 01:06:40.639
<v Speaker 1>that was another thing that Orin said on that episode.

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01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:43.280
<v Speaker 1>He said that a lot of people on the right

873
01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:46.880
<v Speaker 1>were really pissed off at me for having Urim hozony

874
01:06:47.079 --> 01:06:50.960
<v Speaker 1>on because he was going to try to sell me on,

875
01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:55.320
<v Speaker 1>you know, on his Zionism. You can try and sell me.

876
01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:57.719
<v Speaker 1>I can talk to a Zionist on my show if

877
01:06:57.760 --> 01:06:59.480
<v Speaker 1>I want to, and he can try and sell it

878
01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:03.280
<v Speaker 1>to me. I ain't buying. It doesn't mean that I'm

879
01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:07.199
<v Speaker 1>going to be buying. I mean, maybe you're too weak to,

880
01:07:07.719 --> 01:07:11.320
<v Speaker 1>you know, refuse. It's like people who don't want to

881
01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:15.920
<v Speaker 1>hear other opinion, opinions other than their own. They don't

882
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:18.519
<v Speaker 1>want to read outside of whatever. It's like, you know,

883
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:21.280
<v Speaker 1>Christians who don't want to read the Koran because they're

884
01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:25.599
<v Speaker 1>scared they'll be convinced by it or something like that. Well,

885
01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:27.679
<v Speaker 1>well you don't want to really, you don't want to

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01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:30.480
<v Speaker 1>read one of the most read religious technics, like they

887
01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:33.639
<v Speaker 1>probably the second most religious, red religious text of all

888
01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.119
<v Speaker 1>time and know what's in it and there's like a

889
01:07:36.159 --> 01:07:38.639
<v Speaker 1>billion of them in the world. You don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>know what's.

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01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:41.119
<v Speaker 2>That's so left, it's it's that's what the left does.

892
01:07:42.039 --> 01:07:44.199
<v Speaker 2>I talk to our British friend about this all the time,

893
01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:49.800
<v Speaker 2>all right. The left cannot do strategic empathy because they

894
01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:57.320
<v Speaker 2>know that our worldview is kojin, at least subconsciously. They

895
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:01.920
<v Speaker 2>explain it away because as you know, our world views

896
01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:05.719
<v Speaker 2>are old fashioned and we've disproven those ideas and moved

897
01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:10.760
<v Speaker 2>past them. But they will resonate with you culturally or

898
01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:12.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, basically with your soul that they also think

899
01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:20.720
<v Speaker 2>doesn't exist. But whatever doesn't matter. They as doctrine, refuse

900
01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:25.960
<v Speaker 2>to engage with any of our material or ideas, even

901
01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:30.960
<v Speaker 2>in a strategic sense. This is why they're always wrong

902
01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:35.039
<v Speaker 2>about us, and this is why they are constantly surprised

903
01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:40.039
<v Speaker 2>and fall flat. Is because they are not allowed, They

904
01:08:40.039 --> 01:08:43.199
<v Speaker 2>don't allow themselves or others to read our stuff, to

905
01:08:43.319 --> 01:08:47.520
<v Speaker 2>dialogue with us at all. And that's why they that's

906
01:08:47.520 --> 01:08:50.800
<v Speaker 2>why they lose, and that's why they're always wrong. So

907
01:08:50.920 --> 01:08:54.359
<v Speaker 2>the same thing that we cry that we mock in

908
01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:57.319
<v Speaker 2>the left, I see just as much of it, Like

909
01:08:57.319 --> 01:08:59.600
<v Speaker 2>like in the example you just gave on the right,

910
01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:02.600
<v Speaker 2>Oh no I can't read this text, Well, then you're

911
01:09:02.640 --> 01:09:05.319
<v Speaker 2>never going to understand these people, and then you're going

912
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:15.479
<v Speaker 2>to lose. Yes, we have no discernment at times, it

913
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:16.800
<v Speaker 2>really frustrates me.

914
01:09:21.680 --> 01:09:26.520
<v Speaker 1>Well, I mean it's yeah, I don't know what it is.

915
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:33.039
<v Speaker 1>And I'm and look, I've I'm trying to talk about

916
01:09:33.079 --> 01:09:37.239
<v Speaker 1>things that I know, places where I've changed my mind, things,

917
01:09:37.399 --> 01:09:40.359
<v Speaker 1>but I know I'm still wrong. I still have a

918
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:42.039
<v Speaker 1>bunch of things wrong that I have to work on.

919
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:46.319
<v Speaker 1>I'm not perfect. I'm trying and I'm not. I hope

920
01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:49.359
<v Speaker 1>no one thinks that by I'm talking about things that

921
01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:52.119
<v Speaker 1>I know now, things that I've worked through, things that

922
01:09:52.159 --> 01:09:58.239
<v Speaker 1>I've struggled with, things, things that like literally caused me loss,

923
01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:03.039
<v Speaker 1>like not only like emotional loss, but like monetary loss

924
01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:07.520
<v Speaker 1>in the past, by changing my mind and and and saying,

925
01:10:07.520 --> 01:10:09.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, I was wrong here, and I really think

926
01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:11.920
<v Speaker 1>this is this is the wrong path. I think I'm

927
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:15.199
<v Speaker 1>leading people down the wrong path by talking about this.

928
01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:18.880
<v Speaker 1>And people will be like, no, this is my religion.

929
01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:22.520
<v Speaker 1>So you know, you're you're a heretic now, and you're

930
01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:26.359
<v Speaker 1>you're immoral now, and you have no principles now, and

931
01:10:26.520 --> 01:10:31.000
<v Speaker 1>you're like I literally had somebody in the comments and

932
01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:33.880
<v Speaker 1>I didn't say anything about it because I'm I've resigned

933
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.159
<v Speaker 1>myself to ignore comments and not even really even unless

934
01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:41.119
<v Speaker 1>somebody starts spamming. It's not even blocked during my live streams.

935
01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:43.239
<v Speaker 1>But someone said, oh, you used to be a libertarian,

936
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:49.079
<v Speaker 1>now you're a neocon. How do I argue? How what

937
01:10:49.359 --> 01:10:50.479
<v Speaker 1>am I to argue?

938
01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:51.279
<v Speaker 2>Am I supposed to?

939
01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:56.680
<v Speaker 1>Am I supposed to argue? There? You know, it's like,

940
01:10:56.760 --> 01:11:01.399
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm sorry that I offended your religion. But

941
01:11:01.479 --> 01:11:06.880
<v Speaker 1>you have to understand what Stormy said. There is political ideology,

942
01:11:07.199 --> 01:11:12.560
<v Speaker 1>is it's fleeting. I mean it never you know, Sam

943
01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:15.800
<v Speaker 1>Francis said, it just never manifests itself. You know, it's

944
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:22.239
<v Speaker 1>channeling James Burnham from from Uh was it Suicide of

945
01:11:22.239 --> 01:11:24.079
<v Speaker 1>the West? I think that's what it was. Yet, Yeah,

946
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:29.880
<v Speaker 1>suicide of the West where he says, yeah, political ideology

947
01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:34.800
<v Speaker 1>is great until it gets introduced to the air. As

948
01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:38.199
<v Speaker 1>soon as it gets introduced to reality, it you know,

949
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:42.520
<v Speaker 1>it's like like Mike Tyson said, everyone's got a plan

950
01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:44.199
<v Speaker 1>when they come in the ring with me until they

951
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:49.319
<v Speaker 1>get punched in the mouth. Then they're playing. Yeah, that's

952
01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:53.680
<v Speaker 1>political ideology. The only political ideology is what is good

953
01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:57.079
<v Speaker 1>for me and my people? Is this good for me

954
01:11:57.119 --> 01:11:58.960
<v Speaker 1>and my people? If it's not, we need to change

955
01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:02.039
<v Speaker 1>it or we need to fight again instead if you

956
01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:04.399
<v Speaker 1>get to the point where you can take power and

957
01:12:04.439 --> 01:12:06.960
<v Speaker 1>you can get your people in power, and maybe you

958
01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:17.479
<v Speaker 1>can start from a legitimate standpoint trying to shape shape policy,

959
01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:22.640
<v Speaker 1>or shape things in your area that lend itself to

960
01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:25.960
<v Speaker 1>your people. You know, one of the most important things

961
01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:30.640
<v Speaker 1>I heard, you know a long time ago, was the

962
01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:37.600
<v Speaker 1>way America was set up in the beginning, was it

963
01:12:37.640 --> 01:12:42.079
<v Speaker 1>was set up so that white Europeans, you know, mostly

964
01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:46.079
<v Speaker 1>Northern Europeans and Wasps and Scotch Irish and people can

965
01:12:46.159 --> 01:12:52.399
<v Speaker 1>thrive in As soon as you introduce a group of

966
01:12:52.439 --> 01:13:00.119
<v Speaker 1>people into that that can't thrive in that environment, one

967
01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:03.079
<v Speaker 1>of two things is going to happen. Either they're going

968
01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:06.640
<v Speaker 1>to fail miserably and it's best for them to leave,

969
01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:09.880
<v Speaker 1>or somebody's going to come up with the idea that

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01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:12.479
<v Speaker 1>what you built for the people who found it, it

971
01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:16.119
<v Speaker 1>needs to be changed so that it's easier for these people.

972
01:13:16.479 --> 01:13:19.479
<v Speaker 1>And as soon as you change it for those people

973
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:25.680
<v Speaker 1>now the founding stock, it's harder for them to operate

974
01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:29.800
<v Speaker 1>in it. Now it doesn't benefit them anymore. And what

975
01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:34.279
<v Speaker 1>should happen is wherever these people are coming from, even

976
01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:36.279
<v Speaker 1>if you need to help them, if you feel like

977
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:39.079
<v Speaker 1>you need to help them if you're some kind of

978
01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:44.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, Captain Sava Hooe with frigging an African nation

979
01:13:44.439 --> 01:13:47.920
<v Speaker 1>or something like that, figure out a way to design

980
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:52.319
<v Speaker 1>a system that they can benefit from. Help them do

981
01:13:52.439 --> 01:13:54.840
<v Speaker 1>that if you feel like you're an Albert Schweitzer or

982
01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:58.199
<v Speaker 1>something like that, because they're not going to be able

983
01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:01.319
<v Speaker 1>to thrive in this system. They need to find their

984
01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:04.680
<v Speaker 1>own system. And there needs to be multiple systems for

985
01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:10.039
<v Speaker 1>multiple people and multiple cultures and multiple not every That's

986
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:15.000
<v Speaker 1>why when people say, oh, capitalism is the greatest for who?

987
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:20.600
<v Speaker 1>Who is capitalism for what? Somalia? For average sixty three

988
01:14:20.600 --> 01:14:26.319
<v Speaker 1>you know, sixty five IQ country, And that doesn't work.

989
01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:29.600
<v Speaker 1>Capitalism doesn't It doesn't even really work for what we

990
01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:35.119
<v Speaker 1>have now. Capitalism really didn't work for I mean once

991
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:40.920
<v Speaker 1>you got very much past the founding because capitalism more

992
01:14:41.039 --> 01:14:43.520
<v Speaker 1>whatever you were calling capitalism and be getting morphed into

993
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:49.800
<v Speaker 1>something else, and whatever it morphed into was not conducive

994
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:53.680
<v Speaker 1>to the actions and the beliefs of the founding stock.

995
01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:58.279
<v Speaker 1>So if you're not willing, if you're not willing to

996
01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:02.600
<v Speaker 1>look at politics in way of how does this benefit

997
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:09.000
<v Speaker 1>my people and be willing to say, and those people

998
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:13.199
<v Speaker 1>over there, I don't hate them, but they need to

999
01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:18.039
<v Speaker 1>figure out whatever system works best to benefit them. In Singapore,

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01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.239
<v Speaker 1>the best way it benefits them is to have a

1001
01:15:21.279 --> 01:15:27.760
<v Speaker 1>system of authoritarianism, because that's what they need. But they

1002
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:32.159
<v Speaker 1>also have a very open economy. Somebody told me that

1003
01:15:32.239 --> 01:15:34.880
<v Speaker 1>you can like pass through the airport and go to

1004
01:15:34.920 --> 01:15:37.600
<v Speaker 1>a bank in the airport and not even be from

1005
01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:41.880
<v Speaker 1>there and open a bank account and deposit.

1006
01:15:41.560 --> 01:15:45.199
<v Speaker 2>Money, not even leave the international terminal. Your passport never

1007
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:45.960
<v Speaker 2>even gets stamped.

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01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:50.399
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So they have this open economy and it works

1009
01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:53.840
<v Speaker 1>for them because the people get along. Well why do

1010
01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:57.880
<v Speaker 1>they get along? Because if they don't get along, there's consequences.

1011
01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:01.920
<v Speaker 1>That's the way it needs to be in some places.

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01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:06.199
<v Speaker 1>I don't know all I know. The only question I'm

1013
01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:10.199
<v Speaker 1>asking is what's best for my people and people who

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01:16:10.199 --> 01:16:10.880
<v Speaker 1>think like I do.

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01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:19.039
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And to sirt back on the difference in beliefs,

1016
01:16:19.079 --> 01:16:25.960
<v Speaker 2>basically creating strife that there's no coalition building happening or

1017
01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:33.720
<v Speaker 2>just a circular firing squad. I want to remind everybody

1018
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:39.359
<v Speaker 2>that there is no set of beliefs on the right

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01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:44.640
<v Speaker 2>right now, and this is actually a huge problem for

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01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:51.119
<v Speaker 2>us strategically, all right, I can pull one hundred right

1021
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:54.399
<v Speaker 2>wingers and say, okay, can you describe to me what

1022
01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:57.399
<v Speaker 2>it looks like when we win? And I'll get a

1023
01:16:57.479 --> 01:17:08.800
<v Speaker 2>hundred different answers, monarchists, Christian nationalists, wig nats. And it's

1024
01:17:08.840 --> 01:17:12.239
<v Speaker 2>going to stay that way for forever until we learn

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01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:18.319
<v Speaker 2>to do what Pete is describing. And this is everyone's like,

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01:17:18.359 --> 01:17:21.239
<v Speaker 2>oh well, we need, you know, right wing billionaires to

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01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:26.640
<v Speaker 2>fund all these things. Okay, why the fuss did they

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01:17:26.680 --> 01:17:29.439
<v Speaker 2>do that? You can't even convince them what it looks

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01:17:29.479 --> 01:17:30.119
<v Speaker 2>like when they win.

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01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:32.039
<v Speaker 1>I say that often.

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<v Speaker 2>Sorry, but unless we can agree upon what it looks

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01:17:37.319 --> 01:17:44.399
<v Speaker 2>like when we win, they can't make that investment because

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01:17:44.439 --> 01:17:47.560
<v Speaker 2>you can't tell them how it will benefit them or

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01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:54.680
<v Speaker 2>how it will protect them. Everybody, And like, Pete, you

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01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:58.199
<v Speaker 2>know this because I think, as I probably chimped out

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01:17:58.199 --> 01:18:02.079
<v Speaker 2>to you privately, Darryl and I disagree on something. I

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01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:03.960
<v Speaker 2>don't even know if he still even has that opinion

1038
01:18:04.039 --> 01:18:06.439
<v Speaker 2>or whatever, but there's an opinion that he had that

1039
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<v Speaker 2>kind of cut me. But below the quick I don't

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01:18:12.840 --> 01:18:14.960
<v Speaker 2>know if that's a term people still use anymore, but

1041
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:17.079
<v Speaker 2>it got under my seat. It happened to hit like

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01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:26.319
<v Speaker 2>all of my sensitivity buttons, and I will still champion

1043
01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:30.560
<v Speaker 2>his stuff. He is brilliant and he's doing fantastic work.

1044
01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:34.560
<v Speaker 2>And I will never say I won't even air our disagreement.

1045
01:18:35.079 --> 01:18:38.319
<v Speaker 2>I won't tell anybody what we disagree about. That's for

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01:18:38.439 --> 01:18:40.359
<v Speaker 2>me and him to talk and we sit down privately

1047
01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:45.039
<v Speaker 2>and we can actually discuss that. But he's on my

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01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:51.640
<v Speaker 2>side and I'm on his side, just like Oran is

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01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:57.560
<v Speaker 2>on Darryl's side, and Darryl's on Orn's side even though

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01:18:57.560 --> 01:19:05.960
<v Speaker 2>they disagree, because they can prioritize things. Daryl knows that

1051
01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:10.159
<v Speaker 2>having a neighborhood full of Orans is great, and Oron

1052
01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:14.880
<v Speaker 2>knows having a neighborhood full of Daryl's is great. Daryl

1053
01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:18.760
<v Speaker 2>knows having a government full of Orans is great, and

1054
01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:21.479
<v Speaker 2>Oran knows that having a government full of Daryl's is great,

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01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:26.720
<v Speaker 2>and that whatever the thing that they don't agree on

1056
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:31.600
<v Speaker 2>doesn't fucking matter. And I think we need to luck.

1057
01:19:32.720 --> 01:19:35.359
<v Speaker 2>I think we need to do that at scale. I

1058
01:19:35.399 --> 01:19:39.760
<v Speaker 2>think that basically what we saw on that episode of

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01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:43.039
<v Speaker 2>What's it Called? I always forget the name. It's like, oh,

1060
01:19:43.079 --> 01:19:46.880
<v Speaker 2>it's a one word name. Provoked, provoked. There we go

1061
01:19:48.079 --> 01:19:51.199
<v Speaker 2>what happened on that show in real time is something

1062
01:19:51.199 --> 01:19:54.079
<v Speaker 2>that we need to be doing all the time, because

1063
01:19:54.119 --> 01:19:57.119
<v Speaker 2>it's only when we can do that that we can

1064
01:19:57.239 --> 01:20:01.199
<v Speaker 2>eventually settle on a cohesive picture of this is what

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01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:04.479
<v Speaker 2>is attainable in the short term, this is what is

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01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:07.600
<v Speaker 2>attainable in the long term, This is how we structure

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01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:11.920
<v Speaker 2>things after that. Now you can paint a worldview that

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01:20:11.960 --> 01:20:16.399
<v Speaker 2>you can sell people with money on. The One thing

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01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:19.239
<v Speaker 2>about the left is if you ask them roughly what

1070
01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:22.560
<v Speaker 2>it looks like when they win, they have enough slogans

1071
01:20:22.560 --> 01:20:25.520
<v Speaker 2>memorized where they can most of the time convince you

1072
01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:29.159
<v Speaker 2>that they're in agreement on this. And that's what gives

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01:20:29.159 --> 01:20:32.640
<v Speaker 2>people the ability to donate tons of money to them,

1074
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:35.840
<v Speaker 2>because they can paint a picture about what that money

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01:20:35.880 --> 01:20:38.199
<v Speaker 2>is going to be used for and how great it's

1076
01:20:38.239 --> 01:20:40.680
<v Speaker 2>going to be for the person that's giving that money

1077
01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.000
<v Speaker 2>and for the people receiving that money when they win.

1078
01:20:45.359 --> 01:20:48.520
<v Speaker 2>And that's why they get money to win, and that's

1079
01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:55.399
<v Speaker 2>why we don't A billionaire will never not be an

1080
01:20:55.439 --> 01:21:02.560
<v Speaker 2>investor no matter what. Like they have a million people

1081
01:21:02.560 --> 01:21:06.960
<v Speaker 2>pitching them a million ideas all the time, and you

1082
01:21:07.039 --> 01:21:10.640
<v Speaker 2>need to be able to paint a picture of what

1083
01:21:10.680 --> 01:21:16.800
<v Speaker 2>it looks like in the future to pitch, like, what

1084
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:22.479
<v Speaker 2>are you pitching? And I think the more serious people

1085
01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:26.119
<v Speaker 2>in our in our thing, Pete, I think we're doing that.

1086
01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:29.199
<v Speaker 2>And I think the people that don't want to do

1087
01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:37.439
<v Speaker 2>that are gonna whether they know it or not, or

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01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:39.760
<v Speaker 2>whether they do it with intent or not, are going

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01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:43.680
<v Speaker 2>to find themselves not in the mechanisms of what's going

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01:21:43.760 --> 01:21:44.840
<v Speaker 2>to happen next.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, they'll benefit from what happens next to be bitter

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01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:59.520
<v Speaker 1>about it. Yeah, yeah, they'll never say thank you. And

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01:21:59.600 --> 01:22:03.960
<v Speaker 1>so those who came up with the ideas and everything,

1094
01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:08.439
<v Speaker 1>and you know, and really, I I think everybody knows.

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01:22:08.479 --> 01:22:11.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm not the not a big fan of Ronald Reagan,

1096
01:22:12.079 --> 01:22:17.039
<v Speaker 1>especially the amnesty and the making machine making machine guns

1097
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:21.479
<v Speaker 1>go from seven hundred dollars to thirty thousand dollars for

1098
01:22:21.560 --> 01:22:27.199
<v Speaker 1>a cheat. Yeah. Yeah, but he did say, you know,

1099
01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:31.840
<v Speaker 1>it's amazing what you can what you can achieve and

1100
01:22:31.920 --> 01:22:37.000
<v Speaker 1>get done if no one wants to credit for it. Yeah,

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01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:40.640
<v Speaker 1>And that's something I think that's really important, because that's

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01:22:40.680 --> 01:22:49.520
<v Speaker 1>not I mean that there are things that I've done

1103
01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:54.319
<v Speaker 1>and people I know have done and no one knows

1104
01:22:54.319 --> 01:22:57.640
<v Speaker 1>that they did it, yet a lot of people celebrated it,

1105
01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:03.960
<v Speaker 1>and to I think part of the reason it got

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01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:06.880
<v Speaker 1>done is because no one everybody was like, we don't

1107
01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:10.279
<v Speaker 1>need credit for it, just get it done. And you know,

1108
01:23:10.680 --> 01:23:13.399
<v Speaker 1>if you get credit for something, puts a bull's eye

1109
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:17.319
<v Speaker 1>on the next thing. If you're like, yeah, I did this,

1110
01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:20.680
<v Speaker 1>puts bulls eye on you the next time you try

1111
01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:26.560
<v Speaker 1>to do something. So you know, humility is Humility is important.

1112
01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:28.960
<v Speaker 1>And I think that you know what we see and

1113
01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:31.359
<v Speaker 1>you and I have talked about this before that a

1114
01:23:31.439 --> 01:23:33.359
<v Speaker 1>lot of the people out there who are quote unquote

1115
01:23:33.439 --> 01:23:37.359
<v Speaker 1>content creators, really they just want credit for being right.

1116
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:40.840
<v Speaker 1>I was right about this. I was right about that.

1117
01:23:40.960 --> 01:23:45.760
<v Speaker 1>See how I predicted this? Now, what did their prediction?

1118
01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:49.920
<v Speaker 1>How did their predictions change your life? Well? I knew

1119
01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:51.680
<v Speaker 1>this was going to happen, okay, so how did you

1120
01:23:51.720 --> 01:23:55.119
<v Speaker 1>benefit from that? Did you short of stock? Did you

1121
01:23:55.279 --> 01:23:59.399
<v Speaker 1>buy a stock? Did? What'd you do? Well? I knew.

1122
01:23:59.600 --> 01:24:02.439
<v Speaker 1>I get to brag about the fact that I watched

1123
01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:05.279
<v Speaker 1>the guy who told me this, and I told my

1124
01:24:05.399 --> 01:24:07.239
<v Speaker 1>friends and I was right.

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01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:11.039
<v Speaker 2>Can you pay your mortgage with it?

1126
01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:16.760
<v Speaker 1>Quite the accomplishment? Quite the accomplishment. But no, you know

1127
01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:21.039
<v Speaker 1>what though that content creator they could pay their mortgage

1128
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:23.680
<v Speaker 1>with it, What did you get from it?

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01:24:28.479 --> 01:24:31.720
<v Speaker 2>Astro makes a really good point about this, like basically

1130
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:35.239
<v Speaker 2>like if you're on the right and you're in a

1131
01:24:35.319 --> 01:24:41.800
<v Speaker 2>non you may think you deserve credit or whatever, but

1132
01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:45.439
<v Speaker 2>you actually don't. You're in a non so people can

1133
01:24:45.479 --> 01:24:49.079
<v Speaker 2>take your ideas and run with them and dumb them

1134
01:24:49.119 --> 01:24:52.600
<v Speaker 2>down and not say them as good as you or whatever. Right,

1135
01:24:52.880 --> 01:24:54.920
<v Speaker 2>by being in a no on, you're making that tacit

1136
01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:58.680
<v Speaker 2>agreement that I don't care if I get credit or not.

1137
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:02.119
<v Speaker 2>I just want to win. And I think we forget

1138
01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:07.399
<v Speaker 2>that a lot. And the more you win, the less

1139
01:25:07.439 --> 01:25:12.279
<v Speaker 2>people will have to be ann. I think as things progress,

1140
01:25:12.399 --> 01:25:15.800
<v Speaker 2>none of us will be. But that only happens if

1141
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:24.479
<v Speaker 2>we win. Right, Why do we want to win? Is

1142
01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:27.479
<v Speaker 2>it because of how it will benefit us? And this

1143
01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:31.960
<v Speaker 2>is another thing about being ordered internally. One thing you

1144
01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:36.199
<v Speaker 2>could tell almost immediately about Marcus Aurelius, and this is

1145
01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:39.319
<v Speaker 2>another thing, is correct me if I'm wrong, Pete. But

1146
01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:44.640
<v Speaker 2>the meditations were never published. They were just his internal notes,

1147
01:25:44.880 --> 01:25:46.279
<v Speaker 2>and I'm sure like if you found out that they

1148
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:48.199
<v Speaker 2>did publish, he'd be probably mortified.

1149
01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:51.279
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, these this was like a diary of his

1150
01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:56.079
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, probably closest to a diary and stuff he

1151
01:25:56.119 --> 01:25:58.920
<v Speaker 1>wrote down for himself, and it was never meant to

1152
01:25:58.960 --> 01:25:59.600
<v Speaker 1>be in the public.

1153
01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:06.560
<v Speaker 2>So he is self reflecting daily to himself. No one's

1154
01:26:06.600 --> 01:26:14.520
<v Speaker 2>ever going to read this, right, he is centering himself

1155
01:26:15.439 --> 01:26:28.800
<v Speaker 2>every day. And this is a man. How did Yaki

1156
01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:33.840
<v Speaker 2>say it? No one will die for an idea, but

1157
01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:38.159
<v Speaker 2>a few men will die for an ideal, or a

1158
01:26:38.199 --> 01:26:43.079
<v Speaker 2>few great men will die for an ideal. There is

1159
01:26:43.119 --> 01:26:50.119
<v Speaker 2>a thing inside of Marcus Aurelius that is driving him

1160
01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:54.800
<v Speaker 2>from his soul, not from his spirit or his body. Right,

1161
01:26:54.880 --> 01:27:01.159
<v Speaker 2>the ego is a separate thing from the human soul. Right,

1162
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:06.319
<v Speaker 2>The thoughts in your head, you know, the feelings like

1163
01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:11.079
<v Speaker 2>these are all separate. And you know they're separate because

1164
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:13.840
<v Speaker 2>when a baby is born, it doesn't have any of

1165
01:27:13.840 --> 01:27:19.760
<v Speaker 2>that shit yet. It has no opinions, It has no beliefs,

1166
01:27:20.720 --> 01:27:31.680
<v Speaker 2>it has no opinions of others, no thoughts, it's just awareness.

1167
01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:39.159
<v Speaker 2>It's just soul and body. And that's where an ideal

1168
01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:46.960
<v Speaker 2>comes from. It is a layer deeper than the conscious mind.

1169
01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:56.720
<v Speaker 2>The conscious mind wants recognition, the constant mind wants status

1170
01:27:57.880 --> 01:28:00.439
<v Speaker 2>because the constant mind can think about the not just mine,

1171
01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:05.840
<v Speaker 2>can think about how that status will benefit them, or

1172
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:12.680
<v Speaker 2>how that credit will benefit them. And what you see

1173
01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:18.039
<v Speaker 2>him doing by reflecting again and again and again throughout

1174
01:28:18.039 --> 01:28:22.800
<v Speaker 2>his life, you can see him pushing that aside, that

1175
01:28:22.840 --> 01:28:32.399
<v Speaker 2>conscious mind aside. And what matters to my soul well,

1176
01:28:32.399 --> 01:28:38.760
<v Speaker 2>that these people flourish, that no evil is done to them,

1177
01:28:38.920 --> 01:28:45.720
<v Speaker 2>that they have the means as God intended to self actualize,

1178
01:28:46.319 --> 01:28:49.279
<v Speaker 2>to be the best versions of themselves. None of those

1179
01:28:49.279 --> 01:28:53.560
<v Speaker 2>things benefit him. He's not going to wear fancier robes.

1180
01:28:53.560 --> 01:29:01.640
<v Speaker 2>He's not going to get fancier robes. As you say here,

1181
01:29:07.039 --> 01:29:09.119
<v Speaker 2>To not busy myself with vain things, and to not

1182
01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:14.439
<v Speaker 2>easily believe those things which are commonly spoken by such

1183
01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:20.600
<v Speaker 2>as take upon them to mark wonders by sorcerers or

1184
01:29:20.720 --> 01:29:26.680
<v Speaker 2>prestidigitators or impostors concerning the power of charms and the

1185
01:29:26.760 --> 01:29:29.520
<v Speaker 2>driving out of demons or evil spirits, and the like.

1186
01:29:30.039 --> 01:29:33.000
<v Speaker 2>To not keep quails for the game, to not be

1187
01:29:33.119 --> 01:29:35.399
<v Speaker 2>mad at such things, or be offended by another man's

1188
01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:43.960
<v Speaker 2>liberty of speech. I'm sorry I grabbed the wrong paragraph,

1189
01:29:44.840 --> 01:29:47.079
<v Speaker 2>and then I did not fall into the ambition of

1190
01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:52.319
<v Speaker 2>ordinary sophists, either to write tracts concerning the common theorems,

1191
01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:56.279
<v Speaker 2>or to exhort men unto virtue in the study of

1192
01:29:56.279 --> 01:30:04.119
<v Speaker 2>philosophy by basically grandstanding by public ortions. As also that

1193
01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:09.439
<v Speaker 2>I never, by way of ostentation, did affect to show

1194
01:30:09.520 --> 01:30:14.920
<v Speaker 2>myself an active, able man for any kind of bodily exercises.

1195
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:24.079
<v Speaker 2>Marcus Aurelius mogged no one. He showed off. Never, This

1196
01:30:24.119 --> 01:30:27.039
<v Speaker 2>is what he's saying. I have never, by way of ostentation,

1197
01:30:27.399 --> 01:30:32.760
<v Speaker 2>what is ostentatiousness, did affect the show of myself to

1198
01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:35.199
<v Speaker 2>be an active and able man in any kind of

1199
01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:39.520
<v Speaker 2>bodily exercises. And that I gave over the study of

1200
01:30:39.600 --> 01:30:47.039
<v Speaker 2>rhetoric and poetry and of elegant, neat language by basically

1201
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:54.600
<v Speaker 2>speaking frankly, that I did not use the walk about

1202
01:30:54.680 --> 01:31:01.560
<v Speaker 2>the house in my long robes, nor to do any

1203
01:31:01.640 --> 01:31:07.239
<v Speaker 2>such thing. Moreover, I learned of him to write letters

1204
01:31:07.279 --> 01:31:19.319
<v Speaker 2>without any affectation or intrigue in gossip. Right, he's basically

1205
01:31:19.359 --> 01:31:24.479
<v Speaker 2>telling you that the things he does that Rusticus taught

1206
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:31.600
<v Speaker 2>him right is to not flatter himself, to not show off,

1207
01:31:33.000 --> 01:31:36.680
<v Speaker 2>to not seek, more importantly, to not seek the status

1208
01:31:36.720 --> 01:31:42.199
<v Speaker 2>giving of others to not seek the recognition of others.

1209
01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:48.600
<v Speaker 2>And this circles all the way back to what his

1210
01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:53.880
<v Speaker 2>mother taught him, and of my mother, I have learned

1211
01:31:53.920 --> 01:31:58.840
<v Speaker 2>to be religious and bountiful and to forbear not only

1212
01:31:59.479 --> 01:32:10.720
<v Speaker 2>to do, but to intend any evil intent. So why

1213
01:32:10.800 --> 01:32:19.079
<v Speaker 2>is he not fall into ambition of ordinary sophists or

1214
01:32:19.159 --> 01:32:24.439
<v Speaker 2>to grandstand with large public orations to show how virtuous

1215
01:32:24.479 --> 01:32:32.560
<v Speaker 2>he is and how philosophically intelligent he is, or by

1216
01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:36.800
<v Speaker 2>way of ostentation, did affect the show of myself as

1217
01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:40.399
<v Speaker 2>an active, able bodied man for any other kind of exercise,

1218
01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:49.960
<v Speaker 2>or basically stroke himself being a word sell doing poetry

1219
01:32:51.039 --> 01:32:56.720
<v Speaker 2>and talking in neat, flowery language, or prance around his

1220
01:32:56.800 --> 01:33:04.439
<v Speaker 2>house in his nicest gear. Because that means when he

1221
01:33:04.520 --> 01:33:14.039
<v Speaker 2>does do exercise right, when he does do oration right,

1222
01:33:14.239 --> 01:33:18.960
<v Speaker 2>or write tracts of theorems, or when he exerts exhorts

1223
01:33:19.000 --> 01:33:24.359
<v Speaker 2>men to virtue and study, the intent behind those actions

1224
01:33:25.039 --> 01:33:31.319
<v Speaker 2>is not for his own benefit. The intention matters. And

1225
01:33:31.359 --> 01:33:34.880
<v Speaker 2>that's why I say like it's it's a it's some

1226
01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:41.319
<v Speaker 2>things that you would read like mystical texts about why

1227
01:33:41.359 --> 01:33:46.359
<v Speaker 2>you do something right, and in that like reality isn't

1228
01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:49.199
<v Speaker 2>what you think it is series we did Pete. We

1229
01:33:49.319 --> 01:33:55.399
<v Speaker 2>talked about like consciousness being able to affect random number generators,

1230
01:33:56.199 --> 01:34:03.640
<v Speaker 2>and they also did that test on money, right, So

1231
01:34:05.479 --> 01:34:09.960
<v Speaker 2>why you do things matters? Right? So God has built

1232
01:34:10.159 --> 01:34:17.039
<v Speaker 2>right and wrong into the universe. It's built into the

1233
01:34:17.039 --> 01:34:25.239
<v Speaker 2>fundamental framework right that undergirds are reality. So one of

1234
01:34:25.239 --> 01:34:30.039
<v Speaker 2>the tests that Rupert Scheldric and Dean Rayden did was

1235
01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:39.159
<v Speaker 2>basically they had people concentrate on a certain dollar amount, right,

1236
01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:44.039
<v Speaker 2>and then they kept track of them and to see

1237
01:34:44.039 --> 01:34:48.439
<v Speaker 2>if they would buy any instance this money would fall

1238
01:34:48.439 --> 01:34:54.079
<v Speaker 2>into their lap through unexpected means that they did not initiate.

1239
01:34:57.119 --> 01:35:03.560
<v Speaker 2>And you can measure whether something is statistically significant or

1240
01:35:03.600 --> 01:35:09.920
<v Speaker 2>not right by basically how many how many degrees from random?

1241
01:35:09.960 --> 01:35:12.560
<v Speaker 2>Is it like total randomness like winning a lottery ticket

1242
01:35:13.119 --> 01:35:18.800
<v Speaker 2>for instance. And what they found is okay to give

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<v Speaker 2>a really dumb down example, when a person, let's say,

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<v Speaker 2>wishes for not wishes, but just focus their consciousness on

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01:35:30.520 --> 01:35:35.000
<v Speaker 2>one hundred thousand dollars just dropping in their mailbox, the

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01:35:35.079 --> 01:35:38.920
<v Speaker 2>chances of that actually happening to that person were less

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<v Speaker 2>than random, as in, one hundred thousand dollars will land

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<v Speaker 2>in the mailbox of somebody not even thinking about it

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<v Speaker 2>sooner than it would the guy that is. That's funny.

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<v Speaker 2>But what's even more interesting is, let's say the guy

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<v Speaker 2>who's thinking about one hundred thousand dollars landing in the

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<v Speaker 2>mailbox of his next door neighbor, right because his next

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01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:13.760
<v Speaker 2>door neighbor has cancer and the chemotherapy costs are eating

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<v Speaker 2>through all of his neighbor's savings. And now his neighbor's

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01:36:21.479 --> 01:36:25.600
<v Speaker 2>about to lose his house because he was one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>thousand dollars on his house and it's going to get

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<v Speaker 2>foreclosed on. Those people that wanted that thought about having

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred thousand dollars land in their neighbors mailbox. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm dumbing down, and you know, taking liberties with the

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<v Speaker 2>experiment and had nothing to do with mailboxes or one

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01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:52.239
<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand dollars checks. The chances of one hundred thousand

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01:36:52.239 --> 01:36:56.520
<v Speaker 2>dollars landing in that person's neighbor's mailbox was not only

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<v Speaker 2>more statistically significant, actually statistically significant so enough multiples above

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<v Speaker 2>absolute randomness to where it is signaling that something else

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<v Speaker 2>is happening. Right. So let's say if the landing in

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<v Speaker 2>your your mailbox was negative, I don't know five percent, right,

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<v Speaker 2>random person mailbox zero percent, So total randomness landing in

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<v Speaker 2>the cancer neighbors mailbox ten percent. So you've increased the

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01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:39.319
<v Speaker 2>chances of some random event happening from zero to ten

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<v Speaker 2>percent because the action, the intent behind it was selfless.

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<v Speaker 2>And they've proved this a bunch of different ways. So

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<v Speaker 2>that means the intention in which you do in action

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01:37:54.680 --> 01:38:02.199
<v Speaker 2>affects the success of that action. So a leader that

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<v Speaker 2>is acting out of selflessness, right, the thing that motivates

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01:38:07.159 --> 01:38:13.319
<v Speaker 2>him is not himself or his own self benefit, that

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<v Speaker 2>person is going to be more successful. Random chance is

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<v Speaker 2>going to break his direction far more than the leader

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<v Speaker 2>that is doing any such action for his own personal benefit.

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<v Speaker 2>So God has written morality and virtue into the very

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<v Speaker 2>fabric of the universe. Right, there is no randomness. Randomness

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01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:50.479
<v Speaker 2>is something that is affected by our virtue and why

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01:38:50.560 --> 01:38:53.319
<v Speaker 2>we do things matters, And this is you'd only you

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01:38:53.359 --> 01:38:55.359
<v Speaker 2>would only are the only places you pick this up

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<v Speaker 2>or in like you know, like a cult, mystic traditions

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01:39:03.039 --> 01:39:06.319
<v Speaker 2>or whatever that the intent in which something is done,

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<v Speaker 2>or as a Christian in whose name something is done

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01:39:13.359 --> 01:39:19.960
<v Speaker 2>will affect the outcome. So are you acting selfishly or selflessly.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you doing it in Christ's name or are in

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<v Speaker 2>your own? Who has the power? Here? Is it you

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<v Speaker 2>that is making that check hit that mailbox? Or is

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01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:38.800
<v Speaker 2>it God? It's God, all right? So humility and selflessness

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<v Speaker 2>are very important. So I find that really interesting that

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<v Speaker 2>the overall theme in his governance and the way he

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01:39:48.600 --> 01:39:54.399
<v Speaker 2>acts in the world is entirely selfless. And he is

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01:39:54.439 --> 01:39:58.880
<v Speaker 2>constantly policing his own mind and reinforcing this again and

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01:39:58.920 --> 01:40:02.079
<v Speaker 2>again and again, so much so that he meditates on

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<v Speaker 2>it daily. He takes credit for none of his positive attributes.

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<v Speaker 2>He is going through and enumerting all of the good

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<v Speaker 2>things about him. Even his own virtue he does not

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<v Speaker 2>take credit for because they're not his. They were given

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<v Speaker 2>to him by something out with someone else. So even

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01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:35.640
<v Speaker 2>the best things about himself he will not attribute to

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01:40:35.760 --> 01:40:45.560
<v Speaker 2>his inate ability or his innate virtue. Marcus, why are

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<v Speaker 2>you so kind? Oh? I'm not kind. I was shown

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<v Speaker 2>this kind as how to be kind by this other person.

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<v Speaker 2>So even in attributing his own virtues, there is selflessness.

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<v Speaker 2>Like the order of this person's internal state is I

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<v Speaker 2>think what people should be focusing on.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry, right there, that's where we're gonna end it. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think we need to even come back to this.

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<v Speaker 1>I think even just the first five, five or six

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<v Speaker 1>that we we talked about should be enough to keep people.

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<v Speaker 1>You help people to think in a different way, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's not very fun to read.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not fun to read. And well, yeah, because self

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<v Speaker 1>examination is hard. Just just ask a certain group of people.

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<v Speaker 1>It's who it's impossible for.

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<v Speaker 2>The vampire can't see his reflection. We were told.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, but the yeah, I mean, I I hope nobody

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<v Speaker 1>comes away from this thinking we think we're perfect. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean we I think we both know that we're works

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<v Speaker 1>and were works in process, and that the you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll change our mind on things when we get more information.

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<v Speaker 1>But knowing that you've made mistakes in the past, being

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<v Speaker 1>able to admit them and even be able to explain

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<v Speaker 1>why they were mistakes and why you change your mind,

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<v Speaker 1>I think is h is very important. And to to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about it publicly. You know, it doesn't always seem

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<v Speaker 1>to be the you know, something that people want to do.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, I have no problem with it because

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<v Speaker 1>if my even from a personal standpoint, a if you

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<v Speaker 1>don't want to get involved in politics. You don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to be public about anything that you believe if anything

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<v Speaker 1>can help you just to thrive in your personal life. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll uh, I'll put a little bit of myself out

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<v Speaker 1>there to see if it to see if it helps.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this, this text is going to get really thick

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<v Speaker 2>and not as cleanly broken up as I think the

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<v Speaker 2>other ones are going to be. So yeah, maybe like

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<v Speaker 2>if we we don't have to touch on this again,

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<v Speaker 2>or if we have to do one more about like

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<v Speaker 2>other stuff, then yeah, because I think this is also

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<v Speaker 2>something that somebody should read to themselves and work on.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I think you're going to read meditations. Yeah, you

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<v Speaker 2>should read it many times.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's not long at all. I mean you got

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<v Speaker 1>when you go to the twelfth book, you're only on

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred and thirty ninth page in this pdf, so

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<v Speaker 1>I mean you're talking about one hundred and twenty pages basically.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, alright, Stormy, have a good.

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<v Speaker 2>Name, my friend. I will talk to you later.

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<v Speaker 1>Take careme right, right,