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Speaker 3: By the way, call it Tell Your Children The Truth

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Speaker 3: about Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence. Alex, welcome back to

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Speaker 3: the show. You are sort of our resident expert on marijuana.

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Speaker 3: You and Charlie saw very much eye to eye on

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Speaker 3: And I hope your book is selling like hotcakes because

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Speaker 3: of that because the New York Times is admitted that

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Speaker 3: we've been right all along. Four point fifty two is

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Speaker 3: a marijuana problem. Big, big admission from the New York Times,

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Speaker 3: tell us what the New York Times admitted and why now?

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Speaker 2: Sure so? I mean, by the way, it's interesting you

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Speaker 7: My mom and I have been told that my brother psychosis,

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Speaker 4: I have a couple, Alex. So, even if you don't

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Speaker 5: Have we seen rises in violence? Crime? Criminality? Thirty seconds?

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Speaker 2: So why can't they.

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Speaker 2: There was evidence that in the states that had legalized

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Speaker 3: You ran a campaign based on fear, demagogue and exaggeration

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Speaker 9: You know, He's got some work to do. Republicans do

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Speaker 9: there and says this is the best economy in the

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Speaker 6: That, then he looks like he's gas lighting.

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Speaker 9: And there there is this discrepancy between what their perception

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Speaker 9: And so that's really a that's an issue for him

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Speaker 9: to go out and prove to the American people that

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Speaker 9: he has focused on this issue. It's more of an

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Speaker 9: almost an empathy type question to say, instead of saying

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Speaker 9: affordability as a hoax, or instead of focusing on taking

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Speaker 9: over Greenland, for example, which occupied like seven days of

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Speaker 9: the media landscape and all the oxygen right for him

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Speaker 9: to be doing these events.

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Speaker 6: If you remember ACKed his first term, he was doing

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Speaker 9: With like truckers and welders, and you know, he had CEOs.

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Speaker 6: He had everybody in there. It was all about the economy.

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Speaker 9: And he's not doing that kind of thing, yet he'll

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Speaker 9: do an event. He did one speech on the economy

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Speaker 9: at the end of last year in Detroit, and that

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Speaker 9: kind of got overshadowed by the fact that he flipped

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Speaker 9: some guy off and had this thing with this factory

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Speaker 9: floor worker. He did another event recently in Iowa which

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Speaker 9: was supposed to be focused all on the economy, and

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Speaker 9: then went out like two hours afterwards and tweeted that

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Speaker 9: he's got the fleet, you know, steaming toward Iran, and

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Speaker 9: that became the headline.

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Speaker 6: So they've got to do a better job.

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Speaker 9: In my opinion, the administration has to do a better

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Speaker 9: job of having events and focusing on the economy and

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Speaker 9: then sort of letting the staying out of their own

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Speaker 9: way so that the people the perception out there changes

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Speaker 9: on how the economy is doing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Tom, That's what I find myself thinking and asking

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Speaker 4: on the affordability issue, on the economy issue. I there's

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Speaker 4: sometimes people have this debate. Are we in a vibe

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Speaker 4: session where the idea is people have gotten used to

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Speaker 4: the idea that they just say affordability is their go

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Speaker 4: to acceptable expression for things just don't always feel awesome.

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Speaker 4: And I guess The part that goes with that is

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Speaker 4: does Trump doing events meaningfully help on this question? How

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Speaker 4: do you actually imprint the idea? Oh, actually, the economy

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Speaker 4: is doing well or at least this administration is improving things.

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Speaker 4: I guess I don't see the obvious link between him

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Speaker 4: doing an event at the White House and better poll numbers.

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Speaker 6: Necessarily, It's it's more of a question. You know, he's

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Speaker 6: also trailing on this on this.

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Speaker 9: Question when when polsters ask does the president care about

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Speaker 9: people like me?

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Speaker 6: Right? Does he have?

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Speaker 9: Is he focused on my concerns and that that's more

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Speaker 9: than anything. It's like it's not about the policy in particular,

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Speaker 9: like these Trump savings accounts, Right, is that going to

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Speaker 9: have any short term impact on the midterms?

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Speaker 6: Is that really going to change people? No? But it

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Speaker 6: was an event where I think.

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Speaker 9: You know, the focus was on, hey, this is how

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Speaker 9: we help the younger generation, the next generation actually, you know,

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Speaker 9: invest and save and get ahead of the game.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he's fighting. The problem that he's fighting right.

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Speaker 9: Now is you know, he can say, well, inflation's down, Okay,

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Speaker 9: it's down, but we just went through five years where

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Speaker 9: we had you know, mid to high single digit inflation,

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Speaker 9: which compounded, and so people, you know, things are thirty

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Speaker 9: or forty percent more than they used to be. And

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Speaker 9: we're talking about healthcare and you know, college tuition and

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Speaker 9: groceries and all those things. And while Trump and point

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Speaker 9: in the sort of short term, well, you know, the

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Speaker 9: price of eggs are down, people are still not feel

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Speaker 9: That's why they feel that economy sucks is because they've

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Speaker 9: been battered for four or five years with inflation that

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Speaker 9: has eroded their buying power. And so I think one

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Speaker 9: of the things that he needs to focus on from

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Speaker 9: a policy perspective that would help him is to tell

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Speaker 9: people and impress upon people that wages are rising faster

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Speaker 9: than inflation.

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Speaker 6: It is all about wages.

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Speaker 9: If inflation's at two percent four percent, but wages are

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Speaker 9: growing at four or eight percent, people are going to

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Speaker 9: feel like they are getting some buying power back.

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Speaker 6: They are they are doing better in.

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Speaker 9: This economy, and his policies have helped wage growth, and

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Speaker 9: so I think that's that's another area.

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Speaker 6: But again it comes down to people looking at their

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Speaker 6: TV screens and oh, Trump's talking about the price of

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Speaker 6: this or the price of that. Trump has focused on

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Speaker 6: the economy.

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Speaker 9: He's focused on the things that that I care about,

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Speaker 9: that we care about in my family, that we're talking

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Speaker 9: about on the kitchen table. He's not off, you know,

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Speaker 9: focused on stuff going on overseas or Venezuela or even

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Speaker 9: you know, building a new wing on the White House.

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Speaker 9: I mean, those kind of things are just they're catenet

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Speaker 9: for the media and they help shift the issue, you know,

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Speaker 9: away from where I think the public wants it to

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Speaker 9: be and where Trump needs it to be.

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Speaker 3: Tom So, I'm struggling, especially in this economic question here,

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Speaker 3: So throw up four fifty six. This is a question asked,

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Speaker 3: you know, are you better off today than you were

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Speaker 3: four years ago? Forty eight percent say yes, forty four

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Speaker 3: percent say no. But that yes number is about twenty

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Speaker 3: points twenty twenty five points higher than it was in

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Speaker 3: November I believe, of twenty twenty four, So it's going

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Speaker 3: in the right direction.

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Speaker 5: There's another image here five oh two. This is from Marquette.

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Speaker 3: It says family financial situation living comfortably is at forty percent,

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Speaker 3: just getting by forty five percent, But that's up nine

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Speaker 3: points from November of twenty twenty five. So you see,

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Speaker 3: So it's almost like you're getting two sets of data.

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Speaker 3: It's like, if you ask the question one way, people

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Speaker 3: are positive. If you ask it another way, it's almost

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Speaker 3: like the Biden year hangover. And maybe this cognitive dissonance

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Speaker 3: with what Trump is saying. They just can't get they

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Speaker 3: can't connect with it. But what's true here? Because I'm

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Speaker 3: seeing positives, I'm seeing negatives?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is.

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Speaker 9: You know, people can make the data say sort of

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Speaker 9: whatever it wants. You could find this stuff. I think

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Speaker 9: the economy is getting better. I think people are feeling

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Speaker 9: a little bit better about the way things are going.

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Speaker 9: But Trump has about you know, the Republicans have until

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Speaker 9: about June, and basically by that point, if anything that

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Speaker 9: happens after that won't accrue to their benefit, probably in

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Speaker 9: the midterms.

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Speaker 6: The other thing about these polls.

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Speaker 9: Too, Andrew, is you know, you really do need to

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Speaker 9: go in and look at the sort of partisan splits here,

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Speaker 9: because you know, there's this question if you go back

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Speaker 9: and look, how's the economy doing well when Joe Biden

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Speaker 9: economy is great, and five percent of Republicans said it

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Speaker 9: was great. You know, Republicans not the economy suck. And

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Speaker 9: the minute Trump gets in office, that number flips right.

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Speaker 9: It's just a partisan sort of lizard brain thing. And

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Speaker 9: so Democrats are even if they feel the economy is

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Speaker 9: getting better, they're certainly not giving Trump with the Republicans

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Speaker 9: credit for it. And the Republicans probably feel the economy

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Speaker 9: focus on independence like they're the ones and again it's

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Speaker 9: a fifteen or twenty percent part of the electorate, but

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Speaker 9: they're the ones who truly do move back and forth

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Speaker 9: based on what they see in their in their in

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Speaker 9: their daily lives, and they're going to be an important

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Speaker 9: part of the midterms November as well.

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Speaker 3: Tom Bevian, co founder and president of Real Clear Politics, again,

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Speaker 3: You called this the millennial nine to eleven. You said

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Speaker 3: it because James Vanderbeek left us with some really really

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Speaker 3: good clips. He was a father of six children, so

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Speaker 3: I encourage people to please support that because six children,

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Speaker 3: He had some great It's just some really really amazing clips.

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Speaker 3: Forties, which just blows me away. Let's go ahead and

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Speaker 8: kind of the whole point of this exercise on this planet.

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Speaker 5: That so beautifully said for eighty five. This was his

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Speaker 10: Face with the question if I am just a too skinny,

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Speaker 10: I'm worthy of God's love, shouldn't I also be worthy

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Speaker 10: of my own? And the same is true for you.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I want to flag by the way, because I think

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Speaker 4: this would interest some of our people, So this might

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Speaker 4: surprise you. He was an actor. We associate them with

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Speaker 4: being spectacularly wealthy, but a lot of them are not

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Speaker 4: as much as you might think, and so they actually Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: his battle with cancer did exhaust the family's funds, were told,

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Speaker 4: so they do have a go fund me for that family,

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Speaker 4: for his wife, his six children. It has already raised

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Speaker 4: one point six million dollars, which is very generous. But

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Speaker 4: if you feel inclined to support them, you can find

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Speaker 4: that on gofund me. I just wanted to shout that

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Speaker 4: out there. Yeah, it's remarkable. There aren't enough people like

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Speaker 4: him in Hollywood or in show business generally, but it

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Speaker 4: is good to be reminded that those people do exist.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 3: He was a just seems like a genuine guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's at one point five to nine three million, and

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Speaker 3: it seems like a just a really nice guy. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: if you're a millennial, what was it, I'm gonna get

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Speaker 3: the Dawson's Creek And then what was the other one?

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Speaker 3: Friday Night Lights or was it something like that Varsity Blue?

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Speaker 5: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: There was those two dueling high school football pieces of content.

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Speaker 4: Version of himself in Don't Trust the be An Apartment

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Speaker 4: twenty three. I have not watched any of these programs,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, a lot of people greatly did enjoy them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's just go fundme and you know what, please

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Speaker 3: support them.

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Speaker 5: God bless him six kids. It's just tragic.

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Speaker 3: I feel terrible for all those kids without it, without

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Speaker 3: their father. So Blake, you got some emails for us, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: well we got a great deal.

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Speaker 4: We got a very big response obviously to the video

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Speaker 4: from that disturbed man, the disturbed shooter in Canada. More

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Speaker 4: I'd say five or six people send us the identical

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Speaker 4: take that that man they believe was demon possessed in

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Speaker 4: some way. He certainly gave off that vibe and it's

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Speaker 4: very understandable, you know, whether he literally was or not.

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Speaker 4: Why why that's a useful way to look at it,

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Speaker 4: that when you allow certain mind virus, certain brain worms

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Speaker 4: into yourself, and if you indulge them endlessly, that can

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Speaker 4: really take over you as a person. That's why addiction

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Speaker 4: is so dangerous. It's why Charlie would talk about this,

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Speaker 4: why he would try to listen to music that elevates

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Speaker 4: the spirit, holy music, why you avoid certain things because

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Speaker 4: we are so heavily influenced by what we choose to

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Speaker 4: marinate in and what we choose to be around. It's

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Speaker 4: why the friends you have matter. You become like what

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Speaker 4: you are around all of the time. And if you're

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Speaker 4: around poisons all the time, those take you over and

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Speaker 4: they destroy what was once a full person. You just

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Speaker 4: become a parody of yourself. We have a lot of

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Speaker 4: responses on marijuana. We got another email I believe, I

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Speaker 4: believe she'd contacted us before from one I don't want

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Speaker 4: to say the name, but she has a brother who

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Speaker 4: he's basically been in and out of homelessness due to

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Speaker 4: marijuana use that shattered his mental health. And we have

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Speaker 4: another one. Gary says, uh, people are these are all

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Speaker 4: legal because people are making money off of it, And

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Speaker 4: I think Alex definitely drove that home for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got one from Clarence saying, be honest, and

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be stupid here, but marijuana kept

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Speaker 3: me from drinking because I knew what drinking was about

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Speaker 3: and it wasn't good for me.

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Speaker 5: I would say to.

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Speaker 3: You, Clarence, that just because it kept up drinking being

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Speaker 3: you know, smoking a lot of pots, probably not good

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Speaker 3: for you either.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: In the scriptures it says that you will be mastered

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Speaker 3: by nothing, no addiction, and so everybody struggles with what

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Speaker 3: they struggle with. But that's the goal, that's the north star.

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Speaker 3: So just something to keep in mind.

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Speaker 4: I would say the numbers reflect if you look at it,

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Speaker 4: when you are hooked on one thing, the pattern is

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Speaker 4: that it makes it easier for you to be hooked

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Speaker 4: on other things, which is one reason making marijuana so

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Speaker 4: widely available. With such a mistake, like for the people

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Speaker 4: at the bottom of society, it was like throwing one

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Speaker 4: more problem onto another. So it's not that we have

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Speaker 4: twenty million people who use weed and then twenty million

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Speaker 4: people who drink too much, and then another twenty million

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Speaker 4: who gamble too much. It's often the same people doing

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Speaker 4: all these things. They do too much weed, and they drink,

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Speaker 4: and they gamble away their money, and they're hooked on

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Speaker 4: they played too many video games, and they also are

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Speaker 4: abusing prescription drugs. And that's one reason the health of

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Speaker 4: a lot of the American underclass is just totally disintegrated.

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Speaker 4: They're dying, yeah, and they're dying of ten different addictions.

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Speaker 4: And it'd be bad enough. It would be bad enough

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Speaker 4: if we just had people with drinking problems, for example.

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Speaker 4: But if you have a drinking problem and you're abusing

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Speaker 4: your pills and you're taking a bunch of weed, it's

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Speaker 4: very bad for you. And we have to conquer these

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Speaker 4: one at a time. But the easiest way to not

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Speaker 4: fall into this trap is to just make sure you

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Speaker 4: never set down that path in the first place. And

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Speaker 4: that's why Charlie was such a great example.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's interesting though, just looking at our emails,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of you that are a little skeptical

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Speaker 3: about our weed take. Still, it's interesting. Gary says, well,

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Speaker 3: cigarettes and alcohol kill you. Yes, yes, yes, is not.

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Speaker 3: This guy is a use idiot, so that's interesting. Donald says, hey,

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Speaker 3: folks love you. The three things listed above are legal marijuana, alcohol, tobacco,

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Speaker 3: Use it your own risk. They are all bad for you,

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Speaker 3: and they are only legal because they make someone money.

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Speaker 3: Drinking is bad, SIGs are bad, marijuana is bad. All legal.

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Speaker 5: Blake final, A few moments here to you.

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Speaker 3: What do you say about the libertarian argument of the

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Speaker 3: conservative movement.

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Speaker 4: You know, I understand the appeal, but we have to

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Speaker 4: recognize like no one is an island, None of us

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Speaker 4: is you know, homo economicus. This like you know, this

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Speaker 4: pure Randy and superhero against the world. It's like I said,

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Speaker 4: we're all shaped by what's around us. And also we

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Speaker 4: are defined not just as Charlie would say. We're not

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Speaker 4: just defined by our independence. We're defined by our burdens,

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Speaker 4: our obligations.

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Speaker 5: Our duties. We should seek out duties.

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Speaker 4: That's why Charlie would advocate marriage children. You become a

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Speaker 4: stronger person when you actually have responsibilities and duties to fulfill.

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Speaker 4: And all these addictions we push everywhere, they are encouraging

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Speaker 4: people to abdicate their duties towards others, which are part

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Speaker 4: of what make us fully human beings. We'll see all

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Speaker 4: of you guys tomorrow join the AMA. We love having

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Speaker 4: all of

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Speaker 9: You for more on many of these stories and news

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