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Speaker 2: You know, I was reflecting on gratitude, reflecting on you know, neighbors, friends,
being an American news all the crazy stuff we deal with,
and so part of this monologue is going to be
tying all of this together in a way that maybe
you enjoy, maybe you enjoy found know, if you want
to get into the conversation, you want to call in,
you're welcome to do so. Seven o four five seven
oh eleven ten here at news Talk eleven ten nine
nine three And excuse there's a crazy dog outside anyway.
That's no, that's just one of the fans. So anyway,
what I was saying is that as we head into
this holiday, you know, there's a distinction between left and
right in a way that we really haven't seen before.
We've seen it like an outbreak. It's kind of like
if you had gosh. I don't want to compare it
to an autoimmune disease, but you have these flares for
people who have MS and loopus and things like this,
where it gets worse. The next flare is progressively worse
than the previous one. In a way, our country's kind
of going through this. You had, you know, huge distinctions
in the sixties and the seventies through the Reagan air one.
Reagan was you know, some of my earliest memories of
distinctions between left and right, not just the Carter inflation
all that stuff, but during Reagan is when the media
started going really all in to claim, oh, homelessness was worse,
to claim, you know, that people were starving more than that.
All of these things were worse. But and they one
delayed at the feet of Reagan, which was absurd. I mean,
a lot of these were on the cities and the
policies of city. But none of the big ideas that
the left has thrown at you in your lifetime have
solved any of the problems in society. Now, I just
want you to reflect on that because I'm going to
go back to the neighbors in a second. Like I said,
this is going to be a little bit everywhere, but
think about any solution that's the Inflation Reduction Act. Did
it reduce inflation? No, It sent it on a collision
course with the American mindset. It did not. It was
named to how can we fool you today? Inflation Reduction
Act did the opposite the Affordable Care Act. It made
nothing about health care more affordable. It gave the illusion
that it was more affordable because it basically was subsidizing insurance,
which did nothing to bring down actual cost of health care.
It did nothing to help you make doctors more accessible.
Remember the lie, if you like your doctor, you can
keep your doctor. That was an absolute lie. They knew
it was a lie when they said it. And I'm
going to go back to the neighbor because this is
all going to tie together, is that when the left
and right kind of go to battle, the right is
already handicapped. The right is already handicapped because they they
they're and I'm not trying to say the right is better,
but what I'm saying is the right is handicapped because
they they know that to solve a problem, the first
thing you have to do is understand it. The left says,
I don't have to understand the problem. The left says,
I don't have to fix the problem. I just have
to really make it look like I'm doing something. If
I look like I'm doing something, then the public is happy.
And I've got a media with wining my sales and
they'll kind of echo anything I say, so I just
say whatever I want to Affordable Care Act, Inflation Reduction Act,
oh yeah, welfare. Welfare is going to solve poverty. The
welfare State's going to just solve poverty for the country.
None of none of that has ever come true. In fact,
if you look at each one of these programs individually,
the number of people on them has grown, in many
cases exponentially. We've made people more dependent on government. Is
that to me? It's the most anti American thing we've
almost done collectively. You know, freedom, pursuit of happiness. Being
dependent on a government program is not freedom, and it
is not a pursuit of happiness. It is dependency. There's
nothing American about being dependent on the government. And then
we get these kind of mixed messages where you look
at people that, through no fault of their own, genuinely
need help. And that's the image that's projected to you
on the media. Oh look at this family is genetic disorder,
there's cancer, there's an unfortunate accident. That's what's projected to
you to say, Oh, look, government is there. But again,
let me remind you government is not designed to be
a charity. If it is, then everything instance that we
should be a socialist society, because government would be the
charity to deal with all issues. It never works out.
You take from those who have and give to those
who don't, and that you run out of people who have,
and then everybody starts starving to death and dying, which,
by the way, was the very lesson of the very
first Thanksgiving if you ever read that, if you ever
read John Smith's diaries, the first Thanksgiving was horrific. There
was no thanksgiving. They were very socialists. It was collective.
People didn't grow because they took from others, and they
all the blot of them died the next year. They
kind of got a private capitalist system going and then
it was abundance. But I digress, the point being because
I want to go back to the neighbors. You keep
hearing me say, Chad's talk about neighbors. When it's going
to get to the neighbors. Is that these ideas have
nothing inflation reduction. None of these big programs from the
left solve actual problems because they are not interested in
the problems. They're not even interested in solutions. It sounds good, mom.
Donnie is fantastic and messaging. He tastes charismatic. You know,
he speaks well. He goes out there and says, we're
gonna have free grocery stores, We're gonna have free buses.
If free, you would think what Manifel from heaven and
just descended on the gas tanks to the buses, and
that the grocery stores would he be filled with magical food.
It's someone has to pay for it. You have to
take from someone who earned it to make it available
to those who don't. And you just you descend into
a in a bit of madness. And when it starts
going south on you, which inevitably does you look for
someone else to blame. Let's blame the billionaires. It's their greed.
It's the the successful businesses that are hoarding their money.
It's and you try to make because you can't accept
that you're the bad guy. Hey, you're the one who
made all the promises to say government's going to solve
all this, and then you're making out other people to
be the bad guy because you don't accept responsibility for
the policies you enacted. And again, we'll talk about our
neighbors here in a second. Just I told you I
would but that, and I'm not. I'm not here to
say that the left is all full of bad people
that because again there are neighbors, kind of bringing the
analogy together. They are our neighbors. We're all in this together.
And when we get back from the break, we're going
to I'm gonna go through a few things that are
happening right now that illustrate how myopic and how distorted
minds are being twisted by those in education, by those
in the media. They're being they're forgetting that you're an American.
It matters. Being an American is one of the greatest gifts.
If you happen to be born in this nation, you
happen to be a part of this nation, you are lucky.
And those of you who came here and worked and
became citizens, you are very fortunate and your work is
paying off, but it matters. And for many on the
political left, being an American doesn't matter. It is something
that is irrelevant to them. We're talking about that on
the other side of the break because it is important
as we head into this week, of all weeks, Gratitude
is something I don't think we do well. And you
can take the lessons of thanks saving for what you want,
but in your own personal lives, we all should be
having a position of gratitude. It's hard to be angry
when you have a position of gratitude. It's hard to
be resentful, it's hard to be envious, it's hard to
be negative when you have a mindset of gratitude. And
I think many conservatives don't do a good job of
projecting gratitude to people, and the media certainly doesn't. The
media is like, here's who died right before you went
to bed, here's the bad news, here's what happened, here's
who hates each other today, and they put that in you.
You go to bed anxious and anxiety and we wonder why,
you know, we're record levels of medication. We're in a
spiritual dearth that Charlie Kirk Renaissance. Notwithstanding, we're in this
phase where people question what it means to be American.
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Speaker 2: You guys are gearing up for a great week. Gas
prices are cheaper. Uh. You know this affordability myth that's
out there. I think affordability is a challenge for all
people at different times, either in their lives or in
their situations. But you know, energy being cheaper. It's funny
we the left didn't talk about affordability much when inflation
was skyrocketing and castles a bucket a gallon higher. But
again I digress because I want to get to the
neighbor part of this discussion. Because there was a lot
throughout my notes, and they all tied together. I could
start with any particular line and circle back to what
I'm about to say, which is that as you go
through life, if you do live in a neighborhood, or
if you're in a rural area, you know your neighbors.
They're not too far away. Can you imagine getting up
every day and the main job you had was to
go out, find a microphone or find a crowd and
just beat the tar out of your neighbor, just just
assault them verbally every day. That everything they did, short
of drawing breath was terrible for the neighborhood, for the county,
for the state, for the city, for the nation, that
every day you went out and tried to gain political
advantage by just bemoaning your neighbor. Now privately, you may
get along great with your neighbor, may break bread with them,
may have dinner with them. But every day it reminds
me if you will going back to watching cartoons on
Saturday morning, and that those Wiley Coyote cartoons. To me,
I loved road Runner cartoons, just loved it. Always wanted
ACNE catalog when I was growing up little bit. I
know that Acne would become Amazon and be a real thing.
But I digress back to the Wiley Cote situation. That
there's Sam and the coyote and they they go to
work every day and the coyote's trying to get the
sheep and the dog the sheep dog is protecting the sheep,
and it's constantly beating each other up. You know, they're
they're finding ways to hurt one another to get advantage.
And then when the whistle blows, they stop what they're doing.
They go have lunch and they're talking about families, how
life's going, and then the whistle blows in their back
at it until the day ends, and it's a euphemism
for you for what we see today. It's so funny
how art imitates life because it's almost what it's like.
And I say this to both sides, not just the left,
but the right. You see it on TV where it's
just propaganda after propaganda after propaganda, and we instead of
talking about problems from a solution standpoint, we just try
to gain political advantage. And maybe we've reached a point
in society where people maybe the that's what people want.
They like, they like our politics to be like a
WWE storyline where it's the good guys the bad guys.
You think your team's the good guys and the other
person thinks their team's the good guy. But it never
ends up really solving anything, and all we do is
get further apart to the point where it's okay to
have a discussion about putting a bullet in Charlie Kirk
or taking a shot at Donald Trump, or hiding in
the bushes to try to get a shot at Donald Trump,
or taking out stabbing Ran Paul in his yard, or
shooting at a baseball game Scalise. It does I mean,
there's a certain point where the words do matter, because
there are a lot of people that aren't quite right
in the head and they take those words and they
do harmful things. And I do think that the left
doesn't realize how much hatred it projects. And I'll take
it a step further to say that in a very
broad sense, In a very very broad sense, the left
is far less likely to believe in any kind of
supreme being. And I'm not being mean here because there's
plenty of folks on the left that see themselves as Christians,
but in general, the political left systemically has a more
socialist viewpoint, especially now, where it sees government as the solution.
It sees the higher power of government as the source
of power rather than God and a higher being, and
that we as individuals have to go out there and
be better people. If you're a Christian, you have to believe,
you have to believe in the Savior. That's how that
system works. But you also have an obligation to your
fellow man, not that you go and say, oh, the
government will take care of it, so I'm absolved of
having to do anything that you At the local level.
That's why local government has such an important role to play,
but it's not a charity. And that's where I think
the left has convinced the American public that it's that
the government is a charity and that being an American
is an amorphous thing no matter where you come from,
that borders don't matter, and that you can just come
across the border and you have rights. And the left
wants to tell you that healthcare is a right, that
having money is a right, that having access to everything
is a right, not a privilege or not something you
have to work for. And I say that in the
example of this, and I want to get back to
the Daghbor thing is like even today, students at Wakefield
High School up in wake County Public School stage a
walkout to protest ICE while holding anti ICE signs. The
same district which send out an email authorizing excuse absences
for illegals and offered at home lessons for illegals. So,
if your students are walking out because they're protesting that
non Americans should be allowed to be a part of everything,
what do you think that school's teaching them? What do
you think that public school system is teaching them about
being an American or the history of the country, a
country that looks at all the mistakes it's made and said, Okay,
we made these mistakes, and we made things better about
the mistakes we've made. But instead, what it teaches them
is that somehow America is evil, that the people in
the country evil, being an American is almost evil, And
so you're raising future Americans to hate the country they
live in, while the rest of the world wants to
get here still by far, the country more people want
to come to than any other country on the planet Earth.
While the people that are here protest the existence of
their own country and are being taught that are being
taught that being an American is not important, that the borders
don't matter, and that is an unsustainable situation. And that's
where do your neighbors believe. And I think many of
your neighbors do, even your leftist neighbors believe they want
a country. It would be hard for me to fathom
that someone of your neighbors would say, you know what,
I'm good with their not having a border, and you say, well,
just tear down your fence. You don't need a fence.
Let everyone come to. Can they stay in your backyard
and your leftist neighbors would say no, no, why would
I do that? Or better, Yet, if you live in
a gated neighborhood, would your leftist neighbors in the gated
neighborhoods just say, hey, let's tear all the gates down.
Let's let them come in here. Come on, You've got
plenty of space, You've got more than enough. No, because
it applies to someone else, not them. It's easy to
protect these kids in Wakefield if you applied that kind
of mentality to them. This is a snowflake nation we're raising.
We're raising people in a way that's anti American. And
yet part of the public education system is to make
good citizens, not blind citizens. Mind you not teach them
that they don't have a right to protest or they
can't disagree. But you're raising them to not like their
own country. And if you raise them to not like
their own country, what's the future of your military, what's
the future of your system? If you raise an entire
nation of kids to be anti that nation, you don't
have a nation, because but for the respect for a
piece of paper under glass at the National Archives, we don't.
We're held together by a belief and a set of
rules that we set up were the most unique, in fact,
the most unique in the world. Costa Rica's tried to
imitate it. They have a constitution too.
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five. Yes News Talk Radio, timely and topical.
Thanksgiving Week, twenty twenty five. It's amazing we're quarterway into
the century. For those of you when you hit a
certain age, you recognize how fast the time just kind
of drifts by quarter the way through the twenty first century,
just and the astounding pace of change. And it's such
a think about kids that were born in two thousand.
You know, they don't know what life was like before
an iPhone, and this generation will not know what it's
like to be before AI, just like we didn't know
what it was like before video games. I guess. So
it is an astounding pace of change and human I
guess societal evolution not just into you know, not species,
but from a societal standpoint, the impacts. And I'm not
a doom and gloom raight, I mean, I reflect on
any part of history. We had these monumental shifts and
things with automation was going to destroy all the jobs.
It didn't you know that that cars were going to
destroy things because we're replacing horses, That that that computers
were going to revolutionize things, that Y two K was
going to destroy the world. It's just news and and
people's desire for fear. As we do, we are motivated
by fear almost as a society more than almost anything.
I think that's why the news throws everything bad that happens,
you know, right there at dinner time and right before
you go to bed, it's you know, it's eleven o'clock.
Here's who got robbed, raped and killed? And hey, have
a nice night, whether it's going to be okay tomorrow, right,
and and they The net result of that is that
that we are driven by fear, anger and rage, or
maybe anger and rage or shades of gray. But that
way of being is not healthy. It's not good for you.
It doesn't give you meaning and purpose, and if it does,
it's the wrong kind of meaning and purpose. You know,
the climate change is a really good example of that.
You know, you know, first it was going to be
an ice ags and it was going to be global warming,
and then that didn't work, so well, let's call it
climate change. And all the socialists realized, well, the way
we fix climate changes by creating socialism. So hey, let's
all glam onto that because we had to control the
means of production and energy through the government. That way
we solve the climate problem. And then we'll act like
you should be afraid, very afraid, because polar bears are
going to die, penguins aren't going to breed, the ice
shell is going to collapse, cities are going to be underwater,
the earth is gonna boil. You're all gonna die, and
you got to do something about it right now or else.
And now we've heard the or else for forty years,
and we're not oreelsing very well because it's now it's
not even a sexy topic for the right or the left.
There's people throwing stuff. And now there's an emerging bit
of research saying, hey, we may be headed toward an
ice age. Global warming causes ice age, watch out, then
the seas will resess. Well, a lot more land and
not be good. Animals will not like freezing. Wait, too
warm bad? Too cold bad? Just right? Who sets the thermostat?
Who's going to be responsible for the global thermostat? They
turn it over to you men. They screw up everything
they could screw up the thermostat. Imagine gonna make it
wi fi. They give they give the control to some
one guy who lives in a cave I don't know,
in Norway, and he controls the global thermostat. It's a
button and it sets. I think how ridiculous and ludicrous
it sounds. But yet that's where the fear and loathing
and pandering and soapboxing come from. And I'll give you
an example, talk about the neighbor thing. If your neighbors,
and many of you have probably experienced a situation where
there are neighbors that are so politically diverse from you
that it's you've abandoned the friendship. Many of you've done
it on social media. I stepped away from social media
in many ways, the whole Instagram, Facebook that I just said,
to hell with it. I'm happy, I'm so much happier
without it, so much dumped it, got rid of it.
Hard to believe dumped it and life just improved dramatically
because it was not It was just not what you
think it is. It's a false idle of some type.
But nonetheless, many of you have defriended people because of
disagreements with them. And the strangest part about that to me,
and I'm gonna say it and people in the left
heads are gonna explode, But this Trump derangement syndrome is
a real issue. People who have the inability to discuss
issues because they are so obsessed with the person who
might agree with or disagree with the given issue that
they become unhinged. You know, a person like Rosy o'donald
that moves away from the country to get away from
Trump and then it's constantly talking about him. She just
can't she can't help it. She's got a mental she's
got a mental gap in her brain where she's so
obsessed with him she can't live her life. She's miserable.
And a lot of these people that hate Trump, they're
just miserable people because they are driven by hate and rage.
And you can't even have a discussion with him about
the issues. You want to talk about the border, Hey,
don't you think having a better order borders is a
good thing. No, Trump is the devil, my god, Orange
Man bad, Ice horrible. They were masks, Oh my good.
Well wait, didn't you like mask a few years ago?
With that's different? That's republic health than has saved people. Well,
Ice is kind of save in the country from illegal invasion. Oh,
it's different. Trump is horrible. Do you like gas being
a little cheaper because it's different. I can't stand Trump.
You can't have a reasonable discussion with unreasonable people. And
the Trump derangement syndrome has made many of your neighbors
unreasonable people. And that says more about them than you.
And we've never seen anything like that in society, even
with Reagan as much as the political left and Tip O'Neil,
a lot of people went after Reagan or Push to
a lesser degree, or Dick Cheney his funeral, I guess
his white flags are at half mask. But this is different,
and this is someone who wants to break down the
system and diversify it. Now, does that mean you agree
with everything Donald Trump does? Know? No, there's nobody in
a marriage out there that agrees with their husband or wife.
Eighty five percent of the time or eighty percent of
the time. Hey, look, I'm very chagrined about these two
thousand dollars checks. I'd love to see the debt paid down.
But one thing that Donald Trump recognizes is the power
of media and messaging and so saying hey, I know
you guys have bashed these tariffs, but if I make
a physical representation of the tariff's success into a check
for you, then you'll get it. Now. I don't know
if they will or not. I still think debt and
deficits are something we ought to be taking seriously and
knocking them down. But that's me. So I can disagree
with the President on that and agree with the mothers.
I'm not this Ukrainian Russian deal, and I'm not sure
I agree with those twenty three points. But I know
the way the guy in the White House works. He
wants to make a deal, throw things out there, get
people talking, solve a problem. That's what it's about. And
ninety percent of solving a problem is understanding the problem first.
And whether you're in government or in business or even
in your own life, understand the problem. And we'll talk
about that on the other side of the break. Talk
a little bit about healthcare, and I'll mention Charlie Sheen
because Charlie Sheen is a good example of an evolving mentality,
at least from a political standpoint.
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Speaker 2: A little late breaking news, the case against James Comy
has been dismissed. This is according to the Huffington Post.
This is just about ten seconds ago, with a judge
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was not lawfully appointed. So we'll see. I have a
strong suspicion that's not the end of that story, and
we will see. But the James Comy situation is it's
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next on that story. Now, when we were going to
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things before you get to the Charlie Machine component. It
is that when I when I watched and I did,
I've enjoyed turning news off some over the past couple
of months. It's been kind of a relief in a
way to to to look at it anew. One of
the things I used to do and I would encourage
all of you to do. This is to challenge your
own beliefs. If you lean left, then kind of read
some right leaning stuff, look at news sources that you're
not used to. Quit feeding your your own bias, quit
feeding your own confirmation. Biason and I tell people on
the right and the same thing. So this isn't anything
anyone who's ever listened to me says, Hey, challenge your
belief structure. You'll you'll, you'll you'll discern in a relatively
quick way if you feel that way, if you really
genuinely feel that way, or you feel a little brainwashed
by what you're you've taken in, and that's that's a
great realization moment. It's a great moment. It's a before
and after in your life. You know, when you realize, hey,
I'm paying all these taxes, am I really? Yeah? I almost?
Thank god, I'm not getting all the government I'm paying for.
So and it's good whether at the local level, at
the state level, of the national level, looking at challenging
your own does did we know If you're a left
you would say, did did the Affordable Care Act really
make health care more affordable, more accessible? Did it bring
prices down, the Inflation Reduction Act? Did it really do
all those things that you know, I believe my team
was going to bring about. If you're on the right
to the big beautiful bill, do you feel challenged? What
that means? Did you like that? Do you like what
you're seeing from the White House? Not just because you
like your team? Not like pulling for the Panthers, which
is increasingly difficult. Sometimes you pull for the Panthers. Oh why,
they're the Caroline team, the Panthers. We love them. Even
when they screw up, We still love them, you know.
Or maybe you're a Bucks fan. Oh no, Now the
Bucks of the Panthers are tied. Tonight's going to be
a big game. Christian mccaff are going to be on
the field. Who do we pull for? Oh no, we
like Christian, but he's on the other team. Now. The
point being is, you know, challenge your own assumptions and
find it. You'll find where your actual philosophy might might
exist within you. And there's nothing wrong with having an
evolving position on things. You may find that the information
you thought, or you gleaned or you wanted to believe
wasn't true, and that takes us to the Charlie Sheen story.
And you know, Charlie Sheen a much much storied life.
One something about his life and craziness. You know, the
highest paid person to ever be on television on a sitcom,
I think one point two to five million per episode
some scene amount of money. Had it all talk about
a fall from grace. He just, you know, is proof
that to giving people too much for something that is
out it just isn't is out of proportion to what
they do, and having a lack of a strong inner
belief system can can destroy you. You give somebody everything
they want, you get serious way to destroy somebody. And
somehow he survived that should have probably been dead a
couple times. And if you watch his documentary, I'm not
saying you should, but you see what happened. But so
he recently did Magan Kelly's show and on that he
made an interesting observation and I think it's I think
it's worth repeating. It's not it's not ideating with Charlie
Sheen or anything he's done, or his lifestyle or anything
like that. It's just seeing someone who's been kind of
to the top of something, destroyed themselves and is looking
at life through different lenses and so making Kelly ask him,
and you know someone who's been in Hollywood his entire life,
Martin Sheen's son, Emilius Vez his brother, And she says, hey,
are you getting more comfortable with your politics and expressing them?
And he says, well, I am. I think I've talked
to you about this early on. I had to feel
something different because I think we all, all of us,
remained beholden to the structure of the house we were
raised in. In other words, if you were raised by
a bunch of leftis, you probably are one. If you're
raised by an arch conservative group, you probably maybe are rebelled.
Oh yeah, okay, I was okay for a while, but
then I've paid the most taxes of anybody in my family.
He goes on to say, you know what I couldn't
do because I was about to do the documentary and
start my book while at the same time trying to
bring a beer to the public, you know, and it's
currently shipping. I was not going to go to bed
every night. And so he says, I can tackle any
of this with just focus, motivation, determination if I feel
like I did during Trump's first term, right, so he's
talking about being disillusioned during Trump's first term. Now, I
was not going to go to bed every night feeling hopeless.
I was not going to go to bed every night
being told things were catastrophic. The end is nine. I thought,
all right, I'm going to conduct an experiment. Literally, I'm
going to change the channel. I'm going to do my
own research, like I've done with everything in my life.
I will listen to other voices, thank you, I'll explore
just hearing both sides of the story, you know, because
what I was so hypnotized by in some ways can
be described as state run media. I'm sorry, but it can.
Legacy media is very much like that. So he's exclaiming
the way in which what he was seeing was just
constantly one version of everything, and that's where his belief
was being driven by what he was exposed to completely,
which also took him sound some very dark roads. And
I said, okay, all right, enough, I'm going to change
the channel. Here are different voices and do research. And
the things that I discovered and the things I started
to really unearth, you know, it was just it's not
one of those moments. It's like months of this moment
of oh my gosh, and I felt this is Charlie
Sheen saying it, and I felt really stupid. I don't
have a fancier way to describe it. I feel really stupid.
Just some of the stuff I bought into, some other
stuff I was worshiping, and some people I hated because
they told me that I was supposed to hate them.
He's not alone. This is a great season for folks
to examine that if you're living that life of looking
at your TV and being driven to hate people, you're
watching the wrong channels and getting the wrong information.
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