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Fantastic guy, brilliant guy, and somebody 60 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: who studies the culture and young people in the culture 61 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: with regularity and speaks about it in a very clear 62 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 1: and succinct way it really connects. I'm so thrilled that 63 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: he was able to make time for us today as 64 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: the director of the Heritage Foundation's Devas Center for Human Flourishing. 65 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: Mister Squire's good to see you again. Good morning. 66 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: Likewise, good morning, thanks for having me. 67 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: I had no idea that this was a thing, but 68 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad that it's a thing. As a father of 69 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: a twenty one year old, almost twenty year old, and 70 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: a seventeen year old, we have these conversations every now 71 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,679 Speaker 1: and again about the day they find that person they'd 72 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: like to marry, hopefully a good Christian man or woman. 73 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: But marriage, where do things stand with young people of 74 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: that generation? In your view? How do you see? The 75 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: thirty thousand foot view? 76 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: So, if I could put it this way, the American 77 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 3: marriage model has gone from early and often to lesson later. 78 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 3: So if we roll back fifty years, you know, well 79 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 3: over probably close to seventy percent of American adults were married. 80 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: Today it's about fifty percent. 81 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: Seventy plus percent of America households in nineteen seventy were 82 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 3: comprised of two married adels, a husband and a wife. 83 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 3: Today it's about forty seven percent and even let's say, 84 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 3: from since nineteen eighty, the median age your first marriage 85 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 3: is about twenty four four man twenty two for a woman. 86 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 3: Today it's about thirty one and twenty nine, respectively. So 87 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 3: young people are getting married less often, and they're getting 88 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 3: married they're waiting later in life. 89 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:26,799 Speaker 2: To get married. 90 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 3: So sometimes you'll hear social scientists talk about this being 91 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 3: the difference between the cornerstone view of marriage again, where 92 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: people get married young and build a life together on 93 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 3: the foundation of their union, versus the capstone model of marriage, 94 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 3: where people wait a little longer until they get four 95 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 3: degrees and make partner two times over, and then they 96 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: decide that they want to get married and start a 97 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: life together, so the marriage itself becomes sort of a 98 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 3: crowning achievement after several personal and professional goals. So it's 99 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: this is a very different model and af very different 100 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 3: way of doing things, and it has downstream effects that 101 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 3: many people I don't think fully realize. 102 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: You know, I can only personalize it. I got married 103 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: at what I guess a lot of people think is 104 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: pretty young today, twenty three. I think that's probably pretty 105 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: average for my generation and certainly those older than me. 106 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: But my kids think twenty three seems like you know, 107 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: they're right around the corner. They can't imagine being married 108 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: right now, and I think it's funny that they're so 109 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: shocked by it now. We waited five years to have kids, 110 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: which felt a little late to me. I would much 111 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: rather if I had it to do all over again. Personally, 112 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: I wish i'd had them earlier. My kids always ask 113 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: me why you know, and they have a very sincere 114 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: or at least my oldest does. And I wanted to 115 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: float this by you. This is my wind up. My 116 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: oldest son will say, well, Dad, I don't want to 117 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: marry a woman and start a family until I'm in 118 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: a place where I can provide for them and she's 119 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: able to stay home and raise the child like Mom 120 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: did us. And it's all admirable, But there's a part 121 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: of me that says, hey, but son, if you're going 122 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: to wait around to have the cash to do everything 123 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: you want to do. I know it sounds like an 124 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: old cliche. You probably have heard it. I've certainly heard 125 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: it and heard it said. If you wait to have 126 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: kids till you have enough money, you'll never have kids. 127 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: So what do you say about that. Yeah. 128 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 3: I mean, I think your personal experience tracks with a 129 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 3: lot of other people and tracks with the data. Right, 130 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 3: people just married at earlier ages in decades past, And 131 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 3: I think part of it is that we have accepted 132 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 3: delayed adolescents as the norm. So your children, I don't 133 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 3: think are the exception. I think they're the rule. I 134 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 3: didn't feel ready to be married at twenty three. I 135 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 3: got married at what felt like a later age, which 136 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 3: is thirty. But most of the people who I know 137 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 3: who have gotten married after me got married at younger 138 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 3: ages than got married at older ages than I did. 139 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 3: So I think we've accepted delayed all lescens as the norm, 140 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 3: and the average man or woman cannot take on the 141 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 3: same types of responsibilities that their parents or grandparents took 142 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 3: on at the same age. 143 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: But I'm I'm very mindful, particularly from young men. I'm 144 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 2: very sensitive to. 145 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 3: The idea that as a man I need to be 146 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 3: able to provide for a woman and children before I 147 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: make that next step. 148 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 2: That is the right way to think. 149 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 3: Right, every man should have at least three things in 150 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: order before he even begins thinking about marriage. He needs 151 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 3: a stable job and source of income. He needs a 152 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 3: stable mode of transportation, preferably his own, and he needs 153 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: somewhere to lay his head. 154 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 2: Those are the three basics. 155 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 3: But I do also believe that young people today assume 156 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 3: that they need a higher standard of living in order 157 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 3: to start a family than their parents and grandparents did. 158 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 3: They assume that they need to be able to purchase 159 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 3: a three bedroom home in one of the nicer parts 160 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 3: of the city in order for them to start life. 161 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 3: And what people did in previous generations is they started 162 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 3: where they were. Particularly when you find the person, not 163 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 3: just not a person where you say, well, you know, 164 00:07:58,840 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 3: I can. 165 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: Live with this relationship. 166 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 3: No, it's it's if you're a man finding a woman 167 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 3: that you say I can't live without her, and I'm 168 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: not going to wait ten years until I have enough 169 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 3: money in the bank to do this. 170 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 2: We can do it, and we can do it scared, 171 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 2: but we're going to do it together and we're going 172 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: to stay together. 173 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 3: And if you can do that, you can find someplace, 174 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 3: you know, moderately priced, And for some people it may 175 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 3: mean that both are working and contributing to the household 176 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 3: until you can build up resources and then have the 177 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 3: type of lifestyle that you want. 178 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: You know, Delano that is so good at Delano Squires 179 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 1: is with us. He's at the Heritage Foundation at the 180 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: Devace Center for Human Flourishing. It's National Marriage Week. It 181 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: is statistically true that you're less likely to wind up 182 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: in poverty if married. And I know, having chosen broadcasting 183 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: is my career that has had many, many fits and starts, 184 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,719 Speaker 1: many ups and downs, many valleys, some peaks. Having a 185 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: wife who was at home, particularly in my younger years, 186 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,599 Speaker 1: who had an income. It again, I'm just making it 187 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: personal because it's my only experience. Life would have been 188 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: demonstrably different for me had I not had the support 189 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: system of a spouse. And that's one of the things 190 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: I say to my kids all the time. Again not 191 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: rushing them into marriage, but boy, that's everything. You know, 192 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: when you're out there struggling and you're young, you're less 193 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: likely to fall if you have that help. 194 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,319 Speaker 3: Absolutely so having the help again, where two who have 195 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: become one are both pulling in the same direction and 196 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: are doing things for the same purpose. I think sometimes 197 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 3: even within Christian circles people I think some believers look 198 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 3: at the proverbs thirty one woman without considering the tightest 199 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 3: two women, right, the tightest two women is the older 200 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 3: woman who teaches younger women to love their husband and 201 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 3: their children. But the Proverbs thirty one woman, I think 202 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 3: sometimes can be miscast as some type of boss babe. No, 203 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 3: she was working, she was industrious, right, she was efficient 204 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 3: in her work, but she was doing her work for 205 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 3: the benefit of her household. She wasn't building her own 206 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 3: empire so that eventually she would be financially independent enough 207 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 3: to tell her husband that she no longer has need 208 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 3: of him. 209 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: So I think when you have two people pulling in the. 210 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 3: Same direction on mission, on task right where the husband 211 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 3: is leading his wife, because men and women are equal 212 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 3: in dignity and worth, but different in form and function, 213 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 3: and God's design for marriage creates order among equals. So 214 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 3: the husband is functioning in his proper role, the wife 215 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: and her proper role. I think you can make a 216 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 3: lot of things happen. Again, it may not be in 217 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: the timeline that you assume. When my parents got married, 218 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 3: they first lived probably at least for the first year, 219 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 3: with an aunt and uncle that they were about twenty 220 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 3: four to twenty five. I think my dad was mom 221 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 3: was about twenty twenty one, so they had to make 222 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 3: some sacrifices, and even after I came along, we were 223 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 3: living in a one bedroom apartment. 224 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: With heat that may or not may or not may 225 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,439 Speaker 2: or may not be on during the winter time in 226 00:10:59,520 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 2: New York. 227 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 3: But they just continued to grow together as one, to 228 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 3: build together. And and what you saw over the years 229 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 3: is that that let that level of resources began to 230 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 3: go up, and they they benefited from having a village 231 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 3: around so relatives, friends, church members who we all supported 232 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 3: one another. And that's another thing that many young people 233 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 3: don't have because our parents oftentimes push college in such 234 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 3: a way where that is the first moment when a 235 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 3: young person is displaced from their family and and their community, 236 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 3: and oftentimes they never come back. So they don't have 237 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 3: the benefit of creating a family in close proximity to 238 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 3: the people who love them the most. 239 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: And and that church home. Again, I don't mean to 240 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,599 Speaker 1: sermonize here, but as I know, you know, and you 241 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,199 Speaker 1: were just alluding to that church family. When times get 242 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: tough or challenging, you just can't speak enough about those people, 243 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: godly people in your community around you. If you're struggling 244 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: with a marriage, or you have a sudden emergency, God 245 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: forbid or something else. It's so good to have that 246 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 1: community of people around you. I love this conversation. It 247 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: is so important. I hope you know it's interesting. Somebody 248 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: reached out to me yesterday when we were talking on 249 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: the show about door Dash. They said, DoorDash is really 250 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: chipping into young people gen Z's money, and there's blowing 251 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: it on door Dash. Somebody asked me, Chris, do people 252 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: just expect too much too soon when they're young these days? 253 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: I couldn't really necessarily answer that. It was sort of 254 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: a hypothetical question. I guess, what do you think about that? 255 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 1: Are young people just thinking they should be living like 256 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: they're in their forties and fifties at twenty Yes? 257 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes. Oh and part of it, I think is 258 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 2: that young people are growing up in a generation of convenience. 259 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 3: So even the example you gave door Jash, so door 260 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 3: dash versus cooking your own meals right. There's nothing in 261 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 3: our culture that accustoms people young or old, but particularly 262 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 3: this generation, that accustoms them to longevity, to endurance, or 263 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 3: to patience. Everything has to be had now at this 264 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 3: particular moment. So yes, I do think sometimes when I 265 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 3: hear young people talk about what is needed to start 266 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 3: a family. 267 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 2: There's I think they have. Many young people have. 268 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 3: They believe and have convinced themselves that they can only 269 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 3: start a family or live a good life, a life 270 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 3: of human flourishing. I'll say, if they can reach a 271 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 3: particular level of resources, and again if they look to 272 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 3: the example of their parents and their grandparents. Again, growing 273 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 3: up in different cultures differ much lower cost of living 274 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 3: but also lower salaries. They can see examples of people 275 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 3: who got married early, had children early, and had far 276 00:13:59,400 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 3: more children. 277 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 4: Right. 278 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 3: Yes, where you're talking about a family, Grandma and grandpa 279 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 3: might have had eight kids and they live I don't know, 280 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 3: maybe in a three bedroom house and people just made 281 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 3: it work. I'm not saying everybody's going to do that today, 282 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 3: But what I'm saying is you don't need a six 283 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 3: bedroom McMansion to have one point five children and two dogs. 284 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, and grandma and grandpa weren't blowing their money on 285 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: door dash or gambling apps either. The house choirs, so 286 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: good to meet you again and see you again, hadn't 287 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: seen you since last year at NRB, and I love 288 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: the work you're doing. It's National Marriage Week and they're 289 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: celebrating it at the Devace Center for Human Flourishing at 290 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation. 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I got this message from this agitated 367 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,479 Speaker 1: American who said to me, and I know he's an 368 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: American because he said in my comments, and I just 369 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: it inspired me because I thought it so funny and ironic. 370 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: Of course, a leftist never sees it this way. When 371 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 1: he proclaimed I don't have to do anything. I says 372 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 1: I'm an American, And I just thought, what an interesting flex. 373 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: Anytime you hear an American say anytime you hear a 374 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: leftist say I'm an American, don't you want to laugh 375 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: in their face? You know what I'm saying, ed, I 376 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: don't actually want to hear a liberal ever say I'm 377 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: an American and thump their chest with pride, because, in 378 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: my opinion, when a liberal says that, it means nothing 379 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: to them, I'm not convinced a liberal knows what it 380 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: means to say I'm an American. I don't think they care. 381 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: They certainly don't care about keeping that a sovereign term 382 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: to be proud of. 383 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 5: Do. 384 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: They seem to want to diminish and demean and undercut 385 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: what it means to be an American at every term. 386 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: And yet when we have a debate like we're having 387 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement right now, they thump 388 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: their chest and they say, I'm an American. I don't 389 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: have to listen to ICE. You do have to follow 390 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: the law. You cannot obstruct ICE, you can't come on, 391 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: that's right. You do have to follow the law, of course, 392 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: but to say you're proud to be an American and 393 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: then stand in the middle of the street and obstruct 394 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: the work Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is doing to protect 395 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:56,239 Speaker 1: the very meaning of the words you just uttered. Are 396 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: you proud of the country or aren't you? Does be 397 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: being an American means something to you or doesn't it? 398 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 5: You? 399 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: See to Donald Trump, making America great again and defending 400 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: our borders and defending your sovereignty as a citizen, that 401 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: matters to him most, defending our shores, defending our homeland, 402 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: making sure we are the strongest, biggest, baddest fighting force. 403 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: That were lethal peace through strength, of course, not looking 404 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 1: to conquer, not looking to jail, not looking to indiscriminately punish, 405 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: but yes, looking to flex, reminding people were strong. This 406 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: excites people. Republicans don't excite people. People like Pete Hegsath 407 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: excite people down in Texas on his Arsenal of Freedom tour. 408 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: Listen to Pete Hegsath, the Secretary of War, talking to 409 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: some of the military men and women down there. Fort 410 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: Worth is where he was speaking yesterday. He stopped by 411 00:20:55,880 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 1: in Brownsville and Fort Worthy went to SpaceX headquarters. He 412 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: went to Lockheed Martin. It's pretty interesting because we know 413 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,199 Speaker 1: that in Iran, for instance, SpaceX is being used at 414 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 1: present for people on the ground, the protesters, to communicate, 415 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: because Iran is trying to keep everybody from communicating with 416 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: the outside world and showing images of what's happening on 417 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: the ground from the outside world. And Elon is intimately 418 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 1: involved in this. So our national defense working with new 419 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: creative ways in which to help topple these evil regimes 420 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: without us having to set a foot on the ground. 421 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: And that soil is remarkable. Anyway. Here's some of the 422 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: Secretary of warpeteggs at number twenty four. Distractions in the debris. 423 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 5: No more DEI, no more dudes and dresses, no more 424 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 5: climate change worship and social justice and political correctness. 425 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 2: We're done with that. 426 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 5: We're unleashing the warfighter to be ready, trained, disciplined, at 427 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 5: scountable and lethal. 428 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: See, this is what Americans want. This is what it 429 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: means to be an American. If you look at something 430 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 1: like President Trump's move on Venezuela and the oil there, 431 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: it's been widely misunderstood and it's mocked as some kind 432 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: of crude oil grab or short term tactic, and it 433 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:29,640 Speaker 1: is neither. What we're watching, of course, is leverage. It's 434 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 1: leverage used deliberately as a national strategy. Trump has always 435 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: thought in terms of leverage, always long before politics. While 436 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: building a real estate empire, he learned a very simple truth. 437 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: Power comes from eliminating your own weaknesses while exposing your opponents. 438 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: Dependencies control the pressure points, and negotiations change. That is 439 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,199 Speaker 1: how he defines his foreign policy too. As far as 440 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,400 Speaker 1: I can tell, look at something like Venezuela. On the surface, 441 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: reopening Venezuelan oil under an American firm looks like an 442 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: energy decision, but in reality its monetary policy in disguise. 443 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: Oil priced and settled in US dollars is the backbone 444 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 1: of our financial power as Americans. Global demand for dollars 445 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: keeps interest rates lower and supports massive borrowing and gives 446 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: Washington leverage over world markets. The petro dollar system. It's 447 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: not a slogan, its infrastructure, and for years China and 448 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: Russia sought to escape it. Venezuela was central to that effort. 449 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 1: China bought most of its crude at steep discounts, often 450 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: outside the dollar system. Using all these shadow fleets to 451 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: bypass sanctions. Beijing loaned tens of billions secured against future deliveries, 452 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: gaining leverage over energy, currency, and geopolitics all at the 453 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: same time, and then Trump single handedly collapsed that arrangement. 454 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 1: Under the new structure, Russia and China can still buy 455 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: Venezuelan oil, Yes, but only through our companies, on our 456 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: terms and in our dollars. Every barrel sold. It now 457 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: strengthens the dollar instead of wink weakening it. The same 458 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,360 Speaker 1: supply that once fueled d dollarization, if you will, now 459 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: reinforces the very system designed to stop it. That's not sanctions, 460 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: that is leverage reversed. The move reaches even further because 461 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: Venezuela holds untapped rare earth deposits critical for semiconductors, AI 462 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: defense systems, electric vehicles, advanced manufacturing. China dominates rare earth 463 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: processing today because it locked up supply early and turned 464 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: dependency into pressure. Trump understands dependency as weakness. It is 465 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: we cannot be dependent, so instead of reacting later, he's 466 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: closing future pressure points now. And that very same logic 467 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 1: explains what we were just talking about in Greenland. Greenland 468 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: is not about vanity. It's not about preaming, it's not 469 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: about conquest or prestige. It's about control. Control of Arctic 470 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: shipping lanes, control of missile defense, geography, control of energy access, 471 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: rare earth resources. As the ice retreats, new routes are opening, 472 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: and whoever governs them influences global trade, energy flows, supply 473 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: chain stability, all of it. And that influence is not abstract, folks. 474 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: It shows up as higher or lower prices for you 475 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: and me at the checkout line. So if you leave 476 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: something like Greenland ambiguous, surrendering leverage securing, it removes yet 477 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: another vulnerability. Tariffs sit at the very center of this philosophy. 478 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: It's a rebalance of trade, and it makes dependence costly, 479 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: and it makes our domestic production attractive. It brings investment 480 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: and jobs back home, addressing decades of offshoring that hollow 481 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: out our manufacturing. Tariffs also create what more leverage to negotiate. 482 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: Countries have to choose between paying duties or building factories. 483 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: Here seen together, these moves from a single system all 484 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: in one. Tariff's rebalancing trade, protecting jobs, oil protecting the dollar, 485 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 1: minerals protecting industry geography, protecting security. You see it Trump does. 486 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: Each one of these things reduces dependence. Each one of 487 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: these things increases options. Each one of these things forces 488 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: adversaries to negotiate from weaker positions. By the way, they're 489 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: all weaker as they negotiate with us. This is the 490 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: opposite of chest thumping and recklessness. Its long term risk management, 491 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: its business. For decades, America accumulated vulnerabilities and trade imbalances, 492 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: supply chain dependence, currency exposure, unsecured sea lanes, and it 493 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: was called globalization. Well Trump saw all that as a vulnerability. 494 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:51,400 Speaker 1: He saw it for what it was. Leverage frittered away. Well, 495 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: now he's taking back that leverage. Leverage is not a 496 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: short term strategy any more than the Louisiana purchase with 497 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: short term strategy, or purchasing Alaska. The media prefers to 498 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: portray Trump as impulsive because the alternative is uncomfortable admitting 499 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: that he understands power structurally, not rhetorically. Leverage is not domination, 500 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: it's freedom. It's been my pleasure and honor to talk 501 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: about Bob Spinato at Williamsburg Dentel in Brumalt, just off 502 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 1: the Blue Root as my dentist and friend of over 503 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: twelve years. 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