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And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: You know, I was reflecting on gratitude, reflecting on you know, neighbors, friends, 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,079 being an American news all the crazy stuff we deal with, 12 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,960 and so part of this monologue is going to be 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,399 tying all of this together in a way that maybe 14 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:54,399 you enjoy, maybe you enjoy found know, if you want 15 00:00:54,399 --> 00:00:55,880 to get into the conversation, you want to call in, 16 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,600 you're welcome to do so. Seven o four five seven 17 00:00:57,679 --> 00:01:00,000 oh eleven ten here at news Talk eleven ten nine 18 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:06,239 nine three And excuse there's a crazy dog outside anyway. 19 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,319 That's no, that's just one of the fans. So anyway, 20 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,000 what I was saying is that as we head into 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,079 this holiday, you know, there's a distinction between left and 22 00:01:17,159 --> 00:01:20,280 right in a way that we really haven't seen before. 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,760 We've seen it like an outbreak. It's kind of like 24 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:25,200 if you had gosh. I don't want to compare it 25 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,599 to an autoimmune disease, but you have these flares for 26 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,519 people who have MS and loopus and things like this, 27 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,120 where it gets worse. The next flare is progressively worse 28 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:35,640 than the previous one. In a way, our country's kind 29 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,680 of going through this. You had, you know, huge distinctions 30 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,159 in the sixties and the seventies through the Reagan air one. 31 00:01:41,359 --> 00:01:44,719 Reagan was you know, some of my earliest memories of 32 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:47,599 distinctions between left and right, not just the Carter inflation 33 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,599 all that stuff, but during Reagan is when the media 34 00:01:50,719 --> 00:01:55,719 started going really all in to claim, oh, homelessness was worse, 35 00:01:56,319 --> 00:02:00,200 to claim, you know, that people were starving more than that. 36 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:03,840 All of these things were worse. But and they one 37 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,640 delayed at the feet of Reagan, which was absurd. I mean, 38 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,840 a lot of these were on the cities and the 39 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:13,159 policies of city. But none of the big ideas that 40 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:16,400 the left has thrown at you in your lifetime have 41 00:02:16,599 --> 00:02:20,120 solved any of the problems in society. Now, I just 42 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,520 want you to reflect on that because I'm going to 43 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,280 go back to the neighbors in a second. Like I said, 44 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,719 this is going to be a little bit everywhere, but 45 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,639 think about any solution that's the Inflation Reduction Act. Did 46 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,000 it reduce inflation? No, It sent it on a collision 47 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,800 course with the American mindset. It did not. It was 48 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,840 named to how can we fool you today? Inflation Reduction 49 00:02:41,879 --> 00:02:45,560 Act did the opposite the Affordable Care Act. It made 50 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,960 nothing about health care more affordable. It gave the illusion 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,039 that it was more affordable because it basically was subsidizing insurance, 52 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:56,120 which did nothing to bring down actual cost of health care. 53 00:02:56,159 --> 00:02:59,319 It did nothing to help you make doctors more accessible. 54 00:02:59,319 --> 00:03:01,360 Remember the lie, if you like your doctor, you can 55 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:03,319 keep your doctor. That was an absolute lie. They knew 56 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,639 it was a lie when they said it. And I'm 57 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:08,639 going to go back to the neighbor because this is 58 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,120 all going to tie together, is that when the left 59 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,479 and right kind of go to battle, the right is 60 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:21,719 already handicapped. The right is already handicapped because they they 61 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,439 they're and I'm not trying to say the right is better, 62 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,000 but what I'm saying is the right is handicapped because 63 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 they they know that to solve a problem, the first 64 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:31,960 thing you have to do is understand it. The left says, 65 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,400 I don't have to understand the problem. The left says, 66 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,280 I don't have to fix the problem. I just have 67 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,479 to really make it look like I'm doing something. If 68 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,520 I look like I'm doing something, then the public is happy. 69 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:45,759 And I've got a media with wining my sales and 70 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:48,039 they'll kind of echo anything I say, so I just 71 00:03:48,199 --> 00:03:51,120 say whatever I want to Affordable Care Act, Inflation Reduction Act, 72 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:53,680 oh yeah, welfare. Welfare is going to solve poverty. The 73 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,800 welfare State's going to just solve poverty for the country. 74 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,280 None of none of that has ever come true. In fact, 75 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:04,039 if you look at each one of these programs individually, 76 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:06,280 the number of people on them has grown, in many 77 00:04:06,319 --> 00:04:10,080 cases exponentially. We've made people more dependent on government. Is 78 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,240 that to me? It's the most anti American thing we've 79 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:20,199 almost done collectively. You know, freedom, pursuit of happiness. Being 80 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,079 dependent on a government program is not freedom, and it 81 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:30,279 is not a pursuit of happiness. It is dependency. There's 82 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:36,439 nothing American about being dependent on the government. And then 83 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,079 we get these kind of mixed messages where you look 84 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,319 at people that, through no fault of their own, genuinely 85 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:43,920 need help. And that's the image that's projected to you 86 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,160 on the media. Oh look at this family is genetic disorder, 87 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:52,240 there's cancer, there's an unfortunate accident. That's what's projected to 88 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:54,639 you to say, Oh, look, government is there. But again, 89 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,680 let me remind you government is not designed to be 90 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,000 a charity. If it is, then everything instance that we 91 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,399 should be a socialist society, because government would be the 92 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,120 charity to deal with all issues. It never works out. 93 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:07,920 You take from those who have and give to those 94 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,279 who don't, and that you run out of people who have, 95 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:13,199 and then everybody starts starving to death and dying, which, 96 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,759 by the way, was the very lesson of the very 97 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,120 first Thanksgiving if you ever read that, if you ever 98 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,360 read John Smith's diaries, the first Thanksgiving was horrific. There 99 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,920 was no thanksgiving. They were very socialists. It was collective. 100 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,759 People didn't grow because they took from others, and they 101 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,519 all the blot of them died the next year. They 102 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,720 kind of got a private capitalist system going and then 103 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:34,959 it was abundance. But I digress, the point being because 104 00:05:34,959 --> 00:05:36,240 I want to go back to the neighbors. You keep 105 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,040 hearing me say, Chad's talk about neighbors. When it's going 106 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:41,879 to get to the neighbors. Is that these ideas have 107 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:47,639 nothing inflation reduction. None of these big programs from the 108 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,120 left solve actual problems because they are not interested in 109 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:58,120 the problems. They're not even interested in solutions. It sounds good, mom. 110 00:05:58,199 --> 00:06:02,839 Donnie is fantastic and messaging. He tastes charismatic. You know, 111 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:05,120 he speaks well. He goes out there and says, we're 112 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,360 gonna have free grocery stores, We're gonna have free buses. 113 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,399 If free, you would think what Manifel from heaven and 114 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:15,480 just descended on the gas tanks to the buses, and 115 00:06:15,519 --> 00:06:18,319 that the grocery stores would he be filled with magical food. 116 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,240 It's someone has to pay for it. You have to 117 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,160 take from someone who earned it to make it available 118 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,079 to those who don't. And you just you descend into 119 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,199 a in a bit of madness. And when it starts 120 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,879 going south on you, which inevitably does you look for 121 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:39,600 someone else to blame. Let's blame the billionaires. It's their greed. 122 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:43,759 It's the the successful businesses that are hoarding their money. 123 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,680 It's and you try to make because you can't accept 124 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,519 that you're the bad guy. Hey, you're the one who 125 00:06:48,519 --> 00:06:50,319 made all the promises to say government's going to solve 126 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:52,399 all this, and then you're making out other people to 127 00:06:52,439 --> 00:06:55,040 be the bad guy because you don't accept responsibility for 128 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:59,000 the policies you enacted. And again, we'll talk about our 129 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,360 neighbors here in a second. Just I told you I 130 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,199 would but that, and I'm not. I'm not here to 131 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,399 say that the left is all full of bad people 132 00:07:08,399 --> 00:07:11,759 that because again there are neighbors, kind of bringing the 133 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,279 analogy together. They are our neighbors. We're all in this together. 134 00:07:16,439 --> 00:07:18,160 And when we get back from the break, we're going 135 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:19,920 to I'm gonna go through a few things that are 136 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:27,120 happening right now that illustrate how myopic and how distorted 137 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:31,600 minds are being twisted by those in education, by those 138 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:35,519 in the media. They're being they're forgetting that you're an American. 139 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,800 It matters. Being an American is one of the greatest gifts. 140 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,079 If you happen to be born in this nation, you 141 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,800 happen to be a part of this nation, you are lucky. 142 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,399 And those of you who came here and worked and 143 00:07:47,399 --> 00:07:50,399 became citizens, you are very fortunate and your work is 144 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:53,920 paying off, but it matters. And for many on the 145 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,240 political left, being an American doesn't matter. It is something 146 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,639 that is irrelevant to them. We're talking about that on 147 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,720 the other side of the break because it is important 148 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,800 as we head into this week, of all weeks, Gratitude 149 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:11,000 is something I don't think we do well. And you 150 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:12,879 can take the lessons of thanks saving for what you want, 151 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,040 but in your own personal lives, we all should be 152 00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:18,639 having a position of gratitude. It's hard to be angry 153 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:21,279 when you have a position of gratitude. It's hard to 154 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:24,639 be resentful, it's hard to be envious, it's hard to 155 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,720 be negative when you have a mindset of gratitude. And 156 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:31,560 I think many conservatives don't do a good job of 157 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,919 projecting gratitude to people, and the media certainly doesn't. The 158 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:37,080 media is like, here's who died right before you went 159 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,200 to bed, here's the bad news, here's what happened, here's 160 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,879 who hates each other today, and they put that in you. 161 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:44,480 You go to bed anxious and anxiety and we wonder why, 162 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,879 you know, we're record levels of medication. We're in a 163 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:53,679 spiritual dearth that Charlie Kirk Renaissance. Notwithstanding, we're in this 164 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,159 phase where people question what it means to be American. 165 00:08:56,759 --> 00:08:59,159 Speaker 1: You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 166 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,639 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 167 00:09:02,639 --> 00:09:05,759 people of our past while transcending generations. 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I think affordability is a challenge for all 187 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,120 people at different times, either in their lives or in 188 00:10:12,159 --> 00:10:15,720 their situations. But you know, energy being cheaper. It's funny 189 00:10:15,759 --> 00:10:20,080 we the left didn't talk about affordability much when inflation 190 00:10:20,279 --> 00:10:24,759 was skyrocketing and castles a bucket a gallon higher. But 191 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,840 again I digress because I want to get to the 192 00:10:26,879 --> 00:10:30,320 neighbor part of this discussion. Because there was a lot 193 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,559 throughout my notes, and they all tied together. I could 194 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,279 start with any particular line and circle back to what 195 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,679 I'm about to say, which is that as you go 196 00:10:40,799 --> 00:10:42,960 through life, if you do live in a neighborhood, or 197 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,639 if you're in a rural area, you know your neighbors. 198 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:48,080 They're not too far away. Can you imagine getting up 199 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,840 every day and the main job you had was to 200 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:56,519 go out, find a microphone or find a crowd and 201 00:10:56,799 --> 00:11:01,799 just beat the tar out of your neighbor, just just 202 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,559 assault them verbally every day. That everything they did, short 203 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,159 of drawing breath was terrible for the neighborhood, for the county, 204 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,360 for the state, for the city, for the nation, that 205 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,960 every day you went out and tried to gain political 206 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,879 advantage by just bemoaning your neighbor. Now privately, you may 207 00:11:20,879 --> 00:11:24,039 get along great with your neighbor, may break bread with them, 208 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,720 may have dinner with them. But every day it reminds 209 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:32,320 me if you will going back to watching cartoons on 210 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,600 Saturday morning, and that those Wiley Coyote cartoons. To me, 211 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,240 I loved road Runner cartoons, just loved it. Always wanted 212 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:41,279 ACNE catalog when I was growing up little bit. I 213 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:43,320 know that Acne would become Amazon and be a real thing. 214 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,320 But I digress back to the Wiley Cote situation. That 215 00:11:47,399 --> 00:11:52,000 there's Sam and the coyote and they they go to 216 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,559 work every day and the coyote's trying to get the 217 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,279 sheep and the dog the sheep dog is protecting the sheep, 218 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,879 and it's constantly beating each other up. You know, they're 219 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:05,720 they're finding ways to hurt one another to get advantage. 220 00:12:05,919 --> 00:12:08,440 And then when the whistle blows, they stop what they're doing. 221 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,519 They go have lunch and they're talking about families, how 222 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:12,720 life's going, and then the whistle blows in their back 223 00:12:12,759 --> 00:12:16,600 at it until the day ends, and it's a euphemism 224 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,440 for you for what we see today. It's so funny 225 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,799 how art imitates life because it's almost what it's like. 226 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:28,799 And I say this to both sides, not just the left, 227 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:31,399 but the right. You see it on TV where it's 228 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,200 just propaganda after propaganda after propaganda, and we instead of 229 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:41,600 talking about problems from a solution standpoint, we just try 230 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:45,000 to gain political advantage. And maybe we've reached a point 231 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,759 in society where people maybe the that's what people want. 232 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,159 They like, they like our politics to be like a 233 00:12:52,279 --> 00:12:57,120 WWE storyline where it's the good guys the bad guys. 234 00:12:57,159 --> 00:12:58,679 You think your team's the good guys and the other 235 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,519 person thinks their team's the good guy. But it never 236 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,000 ends up really solving anything, and all we do is 237 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:09,720 get further apart to the point where it's okay to 238 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:12,639 have a discussion about putting a bullet in Charlie Kirk 239 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,480 or taking a shot at Donald Trump, or hiding in 240 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,320 the bushes to try to get a shot at Donald Trump, 241 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,759 or taking out stabbing Ran Paul in his yard, or 242 00:13:23,799 --> 00:13:34,039 shooting at a baseball game Scalise. It does I mean, 243 00:13:34,159 --> 00:13:37,159 there's a certain point where the words do matter, because 244 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,720 there are a lot of people that aren't quite right 245 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,600 in the head and they take those words and they 246 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,399 do harmful things. And I do think that the left 247 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,679 doesn't realize how much hatred it projects. And I'll take 248 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:52,000 it a step further to say that in a very 249 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:57,000 broad sense, In a very very broad sense, the left 250 00:13:57,039 --> 00:14:00,480 is far less likely to believe in any kind of 251 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,360 supreme being. And I'm not being mean here because there's 252 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,840 plenty of folks on the left that see themselves as Christians, 253 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,600 but in general, the political left systemically has a more 254 00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:16,399 socialist viewpoint, especially now, where it sees government as the solution. 255 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,399 It sees the higher power of government as the source 256 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,480 of power rather than God and a higher being, and 257 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,240 that we as individuals have to go out there and 258 00:14:27,279 --> 00:14:30,000 be better people. If you're a Christian, you have to believe, 259 00:14:30,559 --> 00:14:32,039 you have to believe in the Savior. That's how that 260 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:36,200 system works. But you also have an obligation to your 261 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,720 fellow man, not that you go and say, oh, the 262 00:14:38,759 --> 00:14:40,759 government will take care of it, so I'm absolved of 263 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,639 having to do anything that you At the local level. 264 00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:46,320 That's why local government has such an important role to play, 265 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,440 but it's not a charity. And that's where I think 266 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,919 the left has convinced the American public that it's that 267 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,639 the government is a charity and that being an American 268 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:57,879 is an amorphous thing no matter where you come from, 269 00:14:57,919 --> 00:15:00,240 that borders don't matter, and that you can just come 270 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:04,360 across the border and you have rights. And the left 271 00:15:04,399 --> 00:15:06,200 wants to tell you that healthcare is a right, that 272 00:15:06,279 --> 00:15:09,120 having money is a right, that having access to everything 273 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,399 is a right, not a privilege or not something you 274 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,799 have to work for. And I say that in the 275 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,200 example of this, and I want to get back to 276 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,279 the Daghbor thing is like even today, students at Wakefield 277 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,639 High School up in wake County Public School stage a 278 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:27,279 walkout to protest ICE while holding anti ICE signs. The 279 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,639 same district which send out an email authorizing excuse absences 280 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:34,440 for illegals and offered at home lessons for illegals. So, 281 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,879 if your students are walking out because they're protesting that 282 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,879 non Americans should be allowed to be a part of everything, 283 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,399 what do you think that school's teaching them? What do 284 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,480 you think that public school system is teaching them about 285 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,759 being an American or the history of the country, a 286 00:15:49,799 --> 00:15:52,639 country that looks at all the mistakes it's made and said, Okay, 287 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:55,480 we made these mistakes, and we made things better about 288 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,200 the mistakes we've made. But instead, what it teaches them 289 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,759 is that somehow America is evil, that the people in 290 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:03,159 the country evil, being an American is almost evil, And 291 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,879 so you're raising future Americans to hate the country they 292 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:10,240 live in, while the rest of the world wants to 293 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,399 get here still by far, the country more people want 294 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:15,120 to come to than any other country on the planet Earth. 295 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:18,360 While the people that are here protest the existence of 296 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:22,480 their own country and are being taught that are being 297 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,360 taught that being an American is not important, that the borders 298 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:31,879 don't matter, and that is an unsustainable situation. And that's 299 00:16:31,919 --> 00:16:35,440 where do your neighbors believe. And I think many of 300 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,120 your neighbors do, even your leftist neighbors believe they want 301 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,120 a country. It would be hard for me to fathom 302 00:16:41,159 --> 00:16:43,559 that someone of your neighbors would say, you know what, 303 00:16:43,799 --> 00:16:45,519 I'm good with their not having a border, and you say, well, 304 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:47,120 just tear down your fence. You don't need a fence. 305 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:49,799 Let everyone come to. Can they stay in your backyard 306 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,960 and your leftist neighbors would say no, no, why would 307 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,519 I do that? Or better, Yet, if you live in 308 00:16:54,559 --> 00:16:57,240 a gated neighborhood, would your leftist neighbors in the gated 309 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,399 neighborhoods just say, hey, let's tear all the gates down. 310 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,039 Let's let them come in here. Come on, You've got 311 00:17:01,039 --> 00:17:04,799 plenty of space, You've got more than enough. No, because 312 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:08,240 it applies to someone else, not them. It's easy to 313 00:17:08,279 --> 00:17:11,480 protect these kids in Wakefield if you applied that kind 314 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:15,400 of mentality to them. This is a snowflake nation we're raising. 315 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,799 We're raising people in a way that's anti American. And 316 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,200 yet part of the public education system is to make 317 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,680 good citizens, not blind citizens. Mind you not teach them 318 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,599 that they don't have a right to protest or they 319 00:17:30,599 --> 00:17:35,160 can't disagree. But you're raising them to not like their 320 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,480 own country. And if you raise them to not like 321 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:40,160 their own country, what's the future of your military, what's 322 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,759 the future of your system? If you raise an entire 323 00:17:42,839 --> 00:17:46,000 nation of kids to be anti that nation, you don't 324 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,039 have a nation, because but for the respect for a 325 00:17:49,039 --> 00:17:52,599 piece of paper under glass at the National Archives, we don't. 326 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:54,720 We're held together by a belief and a set of 327 00:17:54,759 --> 00:17:57,559 rules that we set up were the most unique, in fact, 328 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,920 the most unique in the world. 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For those of you when you hit a 355 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,319 certain age, you recognize how fast the time just kind 356 00:19:31,319 --> 00:19:35,920 of drifts by quarter the way through the twenty first century, 357 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:41,279 just and the astounding pace of change. And it's such 358 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:44,920 a think about kids that were born in two thousand. 359 00:19:45,079 --> 00:19:47,039 You know, they don't know what life was like before 360 00:19:47,079 --> 00:19:50,799 an iPhone, and this generation will not know what it's 361 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,160 like to be before AI, just like we didn't know 362 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,559 what it was like before video games. I guess. So 363 00:19:57,559 --> 00:20:01,319 it is an astounding pace of change and human I 364 00:20:01,319 --> 00:20:04,920 guess societal evolution not just into you know, not species, 365 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,160 but from a societal standpoint, the impacts. And I'm not 366 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,240 a doom and gloom raight, I mean, I reflect on 367 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,279 any part of history. We had these monumental shifts and 368 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,799 things with automation was going to destroy all the jobs. 369 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:17,400 It didn't you know that that cars were going to 370 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,680 destroy things because we're replacing horses, That that that computers 371 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,839 were going to revolutionize things, that Y two K was 372 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:26,519 going to destroy the world. It's just news and and 373 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:31,279 people's desire for fear. As we do, we are motivated 374 00:20:31,319 --> 00:20:34,519 by fear almost as a society more than almost anything. 375 00:20:34,559 --> 00:20:39,079 I think that's why the news throws everything bad that happens, 376 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,440 you know, right there at dinner time and right before 377 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,440 you go to bed, it's you know, it's eleven o'clock. 378 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,640 Here's who got robbed, raped and killed? And hey, have 379 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,680 a nice night, whether it's going to be okay tomorrow, right, 380 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,160 and and they The net result of that is that 381 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:57,160 that we are driven by fear, anger and rage, or 382 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,559 maybe anger and rage or shades of gray. But that 383 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,240 way of being is not healthy. It's not good for you. 384 00:21:05,319 --> 00:21:07,640 It doesn't give you meaning and purpose, and if it does, 385 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,400 it's the wrong kind of meaning and purpose. You know, 386 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,559 the climate change is a really good example of that. 387 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:14,240 You know, you know, first it was going to be 388 00:21:14,279 --> 00:21:16,480 an ice ags and it was going to be global warming, 389 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:17,920 and then that didn't work, so well, let's call it 390 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,240 climate change. And all the socialists realized, well, the way 391 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:22,880 we fix climate changes by creating socialism. So hey, let's 392 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,359 all glam onto that because we had to control the 393 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,000 means of production and energy through the government. That way 394 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,559 we solve the climate problem. And then we'll act like 395 00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:33,119 you should be afraid, very afraid, because polar bears are 396 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,400 going to die, penguins aren't going to breed, the ice 397 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,559 shell is going to collapse, cities are going to be underwater, 398 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:41,440 the earth is gonna boil. You're all gonna die, and 399 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,759 you got to do something about it right now or else. 400 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,440 And now we've heard the or else for forty years, 401 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,480 and we're not oreelsing very well because it's now it's 402 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,240 not even a sexy topic for the right or the left. 403 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,680 There's people throwing stuff. And now there's an emerging bit 404 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,680 of research saying, hey, we may be headed toward an 405 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,119 ice age. Global warming causes ice age, watch out, then 406 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:04,960 the seas will resess. Well, a lot more land and 407 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,160 not be good. Animals will not like freezing. Wait, too 408 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,200 warm bad? Too cold bad? Just right? Who sets the thermostat? 409 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:13,839 Who's going to be responsible for the global thermostat? They 410 00:22:13,839 --> 00:22:15,799 turn it over to you men. They screw up everything 411 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,400 they could screw up the thermostat. Imagine gonna make it 412 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,119 wi fi. They give they give the control to some 413 00:22:20,319 --> 00:22:22,000 one guy who lives in a cave I don't know, 414 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:24,799 in Norway, and he controls the global thermostat. It's a 415 00:22:24,799 --> 00:22:28,440 button and it sets. I think how ridiculous and ludicrous 416 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,359 it sounds. But yet that's where the fear and loathing 417 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,480 and pandering and soapboxing come from. And I'll give you 418 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,920 an example, talk about the neighbor thing. If your neighbors, 419 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,519 and many of you have probably experienced a situation where 420 00:22:42,519 --> 00:22:45,119 there are neighbors that are so politically diverse from you 421 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,000 that it's you've abandoned the friendship. Many of you've done 422 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,519 it on social media. I stepped away from social media 423 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:54,039 in many ways, the whole Instagram, Facebook that I just said, 424 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:55,920 to hell with it. I'm happy, I'm so much happier 425 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,720 without it, so much dumped it, got rid of it. 426 00:22:58,759 --> 00:23:03,400 Hard to believe dumped it and life just improved dramatically 427 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,680 because it was not It was just not what you 428 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:10,240 think it is. It's a false idle of some type. 429 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,440 But nonetheless, many of you have defriended people because of 430 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:19,000 disagreements with them. And the strangest part about that to me, 431 00:23:19,039 --> 00:23:20,799 and I'm gonna say it and people in the left 432 00:23:20,839 --> 00:23:23,240 heads are gonna explode, But this Trump derangement syndrome is 433 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:27,920 a real issue. People who have the inability to discuss 434 00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:31,400 issues because they are so obsessed with the person who 435 00:23:31,519 --> 00:23:34,759 might agree with or disagree with the given issue that 436 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:39,640 they become unhinged. You know, a person like Rosy o'donald 437 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,240 that moves away from the country to get away from 438 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,440 Trump and then it's constantly talking about him. She just 439 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,039 can't she can't help it. She's got a mental she's 440 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:50,319 got a mental gap in her brain where she's so 441 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,880 obsessed with him she can't live her life. She's miserable. 442 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:55,000 And a lot of these people that hate Trump, they're 443 00:23:55,039 --> 00:24:00,039 just miserable people because they are driven by hate and rage. 444 00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:02,079 And you can't even have a discussion with him about 445 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,440 the issues. You want to talk about the border, Hey, 446 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,440 don't you think having a better order borders is a 447 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,640 good thing. No, Trump is the devil, my god, Orange 448 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,960 Man bad, Ice horrible. They were masks, Oh my good. 449 00:24:12,079 --> 00:24:14,440 Well wait, didn't you like mask a few years ago? 450 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:17,759 With that's different? That's republic health than has saved people. Well, 451 00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:21,240 Ice is kind of save in the country from illegal invasion. Oh, 452 00:24:21,279 --> 00:24:25,559 it's different. Trump is horrible. Do you like gas being 453 00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:28,039 a little cheaper because it's different. I can't stand Trump. 454 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,960 You can't have a reasonable discussion with unreasonable people. And 455 00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:34,640 the Trump derangement syndrome has made many of your neighbors 456 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,799 unreasonable people. And that says more about them than you. 457 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,799 And we've never seen anything like that in society, even 458 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:46,119 with Reagan as much as the political left and Tip O'Neil, 459 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,680 a lot of people went after Reagan or Push to 460 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,559 a lesser degree, or Dick Cheney his funeral, I guess 461 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:55,039 his white flags are at half mask. But this is different, 462 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,759 and this is someone who wants to break down the 463 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,559 system and diversify it. Now, does that mean you agree 464 00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:04,279 with everything Donald Trump does? Know? No, there's nobody in 465 00:25:04,279 --> 00:25:06,640 a marriage out there that agrees with their husband or wife. 466 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,799 Eighty five percent of the time or eighty percent of 467 00:25:08,799 --> 00:25:11,200 the time. Hey, look, I'm very chagrined about these two 468 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,279 thousand dollars checks. I'd love to see the debt paid down. 469 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,880 But one thing that Donald Trump recognizes is the power 470 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:22,000 of media and messaging and so saying hey, I know 471 00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:24,119 you guys have bashed these tariffs, but if I make 472 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,160 a physical representation of the tariff's success into a check 473 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,799 for you, then you'll get it. Now. I don't know 474 00:25:30,839 --> 00:25:34,200 if they will or not. I still think debt and 475 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,640 deficits are something we ought to be taking seriously and 476 00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:41,799 knocking them down. But that's me. So I can disagree 477 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:43,680 with the President on that and agree with the mothers. 478 00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:45,720 I'm not this Ukrainian Russian deal, and I'm not sure 479 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,400 I agree with those twenty three points. But I know 480 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,720 the way the guy in the White House works. He 481 00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:52,400 wants to make a deal, throw things out there, get 482 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,839 people talking, solve a problem. That's what it's about. And 483 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,920 ninety percent of solving a problem is understanding the problem first. 484 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,839 And whether you're in government or in business or even 485 00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:05,160 in your own life, understand the problem. And we'll talk 486 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,400 about that on the other side of the break. Talk 487 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,839 a little bit about healthcare, and I'll mention Charlie Sheen 488 00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:15,519 because Charlie Sheen is a good example of an evolving mentality, 489 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,519 at least from a political standpoint. 490 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,519 Speaker 1: All Right, if you're listening to this show, you know 491 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:21,599 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 492 00:26:21,599 --> 00:26:23,680 and I know you do too. And you've probably heard 493 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,759 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, 494 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:30,480 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 495 00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:33,720 I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll 507 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:12,480 get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage 508 00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:16,000 plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription 509 00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:18,799 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 510 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,079 ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent. 511 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 2: A little late breaking news, the case against James Comy 512 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,640 has been dismissed. This is according to the Huffington Post. 513 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,079 This is just about ten seconds ago, with a judge 514 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,079 ruling that the Department of Justice attorney handling the case 515 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,359 was not lawfully appointed. So we'll see. I have a 516 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,279 strong suspicion that's not the end of that story, and 517 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,400 we will see. But the James Comy situation is it's 518 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,200 a weird one. Did Diddy live before before Congress? Looks 519 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,599 like he did. But again, I'm not a judge. I'm 520 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:54,880 not on the grand jury. So we'll see what happens 521 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,680 next on that story. Now, when we were going to 522 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,039 the break, I just want to say a couple of 523 00:27:59,079 --> 00:28:01,200 things before you get to the Charlie Machine component. It 524 00:28:01,319 --> 00:28:03,960 is that when I when I watched and I did, 525 00:28:04,759 --> 00:28:08,640 I've enjoyed turning news off some over the past couple 526 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,319 of months. It's been kind of a relief in a 527 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,200 way to to to look at it anew. One of 528 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:15,920 the things I used to do and I would encourage 529 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,119 all of you to do. This is to challenge your 530 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,799 own beliefs. If you lean left, then kind of read 531 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,079 some right leaning stuff, look at news sources that you're 532 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:30,519 not used to. Quit feeding your your own bias, quit 533 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:33,119 feeding your own confirmation. Biason and I tell people on 534 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,640 the right and the same thing. So this isn't anything 535 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,480 anyone who's ever listened to me says, Hey, challenge your 536 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:41,400 belief structure. You'll you'll, you'll you'll discern in a relatively 537 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,000 quick way if you feel that way, if you really 538 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,039 genuinely feel that way, or you feel a little brainwashed 539 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,559 by what you're you've taken in, and that's that's a 540 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:55,480 great realization moment. It's a great moment. It's a before 541 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,160 and after in your life. You know, when you realize, hey, 542 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,839 I'm paying all these taxes, am I really? Yeah? I almost? 543 00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:03,119 Thank god, I'm not getting all the government I'm paying for. 544 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,799 So and it's good whether at the local level, at 545 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:09,279 the state level, of the national level, looking at challenging 546 00:29:09,319 --> 00:29:12,039 your own does did we know If you're a left 547 00:29:12,039 --> 00:29:14,000 you would say, did did the Affordable Care Act really 548 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,880 make health care more affordable, more accessible? Did it bring 549 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,039 prices down, the Inflation Reduction Act? Did it really do 550 00:29:20,119 --> 00:29:22,240 all those things that you know, I believe my team 551 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:24,279 was going to bring about. If you're on the right 552 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:26,200 to the big beautiful bill, do you feel challenged? What 553 00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:28,759 that means? Did you like that? Do you like what 554 00:29:28,799 --> 00:29:31,039 you're seeing from the White House? Not just because you 555 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,440 like your team? Not like pulling for the Panthers, which 556 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,680 is increasingly difficult. Sometimes you pull for the Panthers. Oh why, 557 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,880 they're the Caroline team, the Panthers. We love them. Even 558 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,359 when they screw up, We still love them, you know. 559 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,599 Or maybe you're a Bucks fan. Oh no, Now the 560 00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:47,400 Bucks of the Panthers are tied. Tonight's going to be 561 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,839 a big game. Christian mccaff are going to be on 562 00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:50,200 the field. Who do we pull for? Oh no, we 563 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,920 like Christian, but he's on the other team. Now. The 564 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,839 point being is, you know, challenge your own assumptions and 565 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,599 find it. You'll find where your actual philosophy might might 566 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,920 exist within you. And there's nothing wrong with having an 567 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,799 evolving position on things. You may find that the information 568 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,960 you thought, or you gleaned or you wanted to believe 569 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,400 wasn't true, and that takes us to the Charlie Sheen story. 570 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,000 And you know, Charlie Sheen a much much storied life. 571 00:30:16,039 --> 00:30:21,119 One something about his life and craziness. You know, the 572 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,119 highest paid person to ever be on television on a sitcom, 573 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,880 I think one point two to five million per episode 574 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,480 some scene amount of money. Had it all talk about 575 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,319 a fall from grace. He just, you know, is proof 576 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,599 that to giving people too much for something that is 577 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,119 out it just isn't is out of proportion to what 578 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,640 they do, and having a lack of a strong inner 579 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,160 belief system can can destroy you. You give somebody everything 580 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,200 they want, you get serious way to destroy somebody. And 581 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,160 somehow he survived that should have probably been dead a 582 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,200 couple times. And if you watch his documentary, I'm not 583 00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:00,440 saying you should, but you see what happened. But so 584 00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:04,200 he recently did Magan Kelly's show and on that he 585 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,279 made an interesting observation and I think it's I think 586 00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:10,920 it's worth repeating. It's not it's not ideating with Charlie 587 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,079 Sheen or anything he's done, or his lifestyle or anything 588 00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:16,160 like that. It's just seeing someone who's been kind of 589 00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:19,960 to the top of something, destroyed themselves and is looking 590 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,960 at life through different lenses and so making Kelly ask him, 591 00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:26,480 and you know someone who's been in Hollywood his entire life, 592 00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:30,000 Martin Sheen's son, Emilius Vez his brother, And she says, hey, 593 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,119 are you getting more comfortable with your politics and expressing them? 594 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,519 And he says, well, I am. I think I've talked 595 00:31:35,519 --> 00:31:37,160 to you about this early on. I had to feel 596 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,279 something different because I think we all, all of us, 597 00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,599 remained beholden to the structure of the house we were 598 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,359 raised in. In other words, if you were raised by 599 00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:44,880 a bunch of leftis, you probably are one. If you're 600 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,519 raised by an arch conservative group, you probably maybe are rebelled. 601 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,480 Oh yeah, okay, I was okay for a while, but 602 00:31:51,519 --> 00:31:54,240 then I've paid the most taxes of anybody in my family. 603 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,839 He goes on to say, you know what I couldn't 604 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,480 do because I was about to do the documentary and 605 00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:02,480 start my book while at the same time trying to 606 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,119 bring a beer to the public, you know, and it's 607 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,640 currently shipping. I was not going to go to bed 608 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,640 every night. And so he says, I can tackle any 609 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,319 of this with just focus, motivation, determination if I feel 610 00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:15,839 like I did during Trump's first term, right, so he's 611 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,319 talking about being disillusioned during Trump's first term. Now, I 612 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,640 was not going to go to bed every night feeling hopeless. 613 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,480 I was not going to go to bed every night 614 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,480 being told things were catastrophic. The end is nine. I thought, 615 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,920 all right, I'm going to conduct an experiment. Literally, I'm 616 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,480 going to change the channel. I'm going to do my 617 00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:36,640 own research, like I've done with everything in my life. 618 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,640 I will listen to other voices, thank you, I'll explore 619 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:42,119 just hearing both sides of the story, you know, because 620 00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:45,160 what I was so hypnotized by in some ways can 621 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,640 be described as state run media. I'm sorry, but it can. 622 00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:52,359 Legacy media is very much like that. So he's exclaiming 623 00:32:53,119 --> 00:32:56,319 the way in which what he was seeing was just 624 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,880 constantly one version of everything, and that's where his belief 625 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:02,920 was being driven by what he was exposed to completely, 626 00:33:03,799 --> 00:33:06,920 which also took him sound some very dark roads. And 627 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,880 I said, okay, all right, enough, I'm going to change 628 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,400 the channel. Here are different voices and do research. And 629 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,480 the things that I discovered and the things I started 630 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,039 to really unearth, you know, it was just it's not 631 00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:19,640 one of those moments. It's like months of this moment 632 00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:23,440 of oh my gosh, and I felt this is Charlie 633 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,960 Sheen saying it, and I felt really stupid. I don't 634 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,640 have a fancier way to describe it. I feel really stupid. 635 00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:33,319 Just some of the stuff I bought into, some other 636 00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:36,400 stuff I was worshiping, and some people I hated because 637 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,880 they told me that I was supposed to hate them. 638 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,960 He's not alone. This is a great season for folks 639 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:47,839 to examine that if you're living that life of looking 640 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:50,720 at your TV and being driven to hate people, you're 641 00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:54,680 watching the wrong channels and getting the wrong information. 642 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,559 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 643 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:00,920 so much for listening. 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