1 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: Live from Vaal Hartber and the crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: Tony Cats Today. 3 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 2: Greetings, and welcome to Tony Cats Today. I am Mike 4 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: Coolidge in for Tony on this second day of twenty six, 5 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: not the first day, the second day, January second, the 6 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,279 Speaker 2: year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty six, and 7 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: we've got a packed broadcast for you. Person sitting next 8 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: to you. That's right. Coolidge is spelled with a K, 9 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: just like Cats. K O O l I d g E. 10 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 2: You can find me on X at Coolidge. That's it. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: No numbers, no nothing case. The lower case doesn't matter, 12 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: just Coolidge K double O L I d g E. 13 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: If you follow me during the show, I will follow you. 14 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: How about that? Only for the next three hours and 15 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 2: then forever until eternity. I will not follow you. I'm kidding. 16 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: You interact with me on X and we will We'll 17 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 2: become friends. How about that. Tony Katz is really good 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: at becoming friends with his listeners, even if he never 19 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 2: met you in person, Even if you don't know who 20 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 2: he or what he even looks like. You listen to 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 2: him every single day hopefully, and you've you've developed a 22 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 2: friendship with him, right, your relationship again, even if you've 23 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 2: never called in, you've never met him, you've never talked 24 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 2: with him. That's what I love about Rady oh. I 25 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: hosted my own radio show for fifteen plus years called 26 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: the Michael Coolidge Show. That's how Tony and I became friends. 27 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: And I love being back on the airways. What I 28 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 2: don't love is watching Georgia Bulldogs lose in a really 29 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 2: heartbreaking fashion to the Old Miss Rebels, which they did 30 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: last night. Your IU Hoosiers, of course, destroyed Alabama, Miami destroyed. 31 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: Who do they play again? I don't even remember who 32 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 2: my Miami played. Oh Ohio State, that's right, Ohio State. 33 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 2: So you've got Miami and Oregon and Ole Miss and 34 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: your Indiana Hoosiers in the final four of college football. 35 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 2: I hope that they start calling it that. I know. 36 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 2: The whole playoff thing is relatively new in college football. 37 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 2: How they have eight teams and there's the bye, and 38 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: I know it's a little confusing, you know, if there's 39 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: no Sweet sixteen or there's no you know, Elite eight 40 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 2: or any of that, because the buies and all that. 41 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of buys for second year in 42 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 2: a row. Most of the teams that had to buy 43 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: lost all except one Indiana Hoosiers. Yeah, I U was 44 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 2: the only team that had to buy that won. All 45 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 2: the other teams with four weeks off they lost, and 46 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: the year before all four teams that had buys lost. 47 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: Maybe there's something to that. I don't know. But Indiana 48 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: still at the absolute top of their game. I do 49 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: gotta say though. Oregon ain't no slouch. They destroyed Texas Tech. 50 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: In fact, they didn't even give up a touchdown. They 51 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 2: didn't give up a point. So you got your work 52 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 2: cut out for there, Hoosiers and ole Miss and Miami. 53 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 2: That's gonna be a real good game too. This coming Thursday, 54 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: so week from yesterday is the first game it's Indiana. 55 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's the Miami and ole Miss game. And 56 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 2: then Friday night, a week from tonight is your Indiana 57 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 2: Hoosiers versus Oregon Ducks. And I think it's kind of 58 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 2: cool too. The entire country, every region of the country 59 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,279 Speaker 2: kind of is represented. You got the West Coast with 60 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: the Oregon Ducks, you got the Deep South with all Miss. 61 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 2: If you know anything about Miami, it's basically a Northeast 62 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: city supplanted into southern Florida, so you kind of got 63 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: Florida slash East Coast there. I know Miami again, it's 64 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: on the east coast, but people think it's south. No, 65 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 2: it's kind of northeast, even though it's way southeast. Try 66 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 2: to twining that to Europeans. They do not understand it. 67 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: And then you've got the Midwest, the best region of 68 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 2: the entire country, where I think all of Tony Kats's 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 2: awesome affiliates are broadcasting to. Right now, the Midwest United States. 70 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 2: I'm right to your west in Illinois, double midwestern state. 71 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 2: Indiana is representing all of the Midwest. So now I can, 72 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: without any hesitation, root for the Indiana Hoosiers to go 73 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: all the way. I think it's gonna be Indiana versus 74 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 2: Ole Miss. I think Ole Miss is gonna beat Miami. 75 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 2: Indiana is gonna beat Oregon. But it's not gonna be 76 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 2: a blowout. I'll just say that. And that's gonna be 77 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 2: a fantastic national championship, which is in Miami a week 78 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 2: or two or who knows. Well, let's take it one 79 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: or two games at a time. Now, we have a 80 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: lot to get to. On today's broadcast three hours, and 81 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about two things you ready, individualism and collectivism. 82 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 2: Hold it, wait, don't tune out. Yes, this is not 83 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 2: a political philosophy broadcast, but the term collectivism has been 84 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 2: brought up into the common news cycle in the last 85 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 2: twenty four hours. It's part of the vernacular again, collectivism 86 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 2: and do you want to anyone want to guess where 87 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: it came from. We're going to dig a little bit 88 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 2: deep into that and really kind of explain on this 89 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 2: first broadcast of twenty twenty six on the Tony Cats 90 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 2: Today Show. Tony will be back on Monday. I believe 91 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: he'll have his first show of the year, but I'm 92 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 2: kind of warming it up right on this Friday. We're 93 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 2: gonna really deep dive into the difference between the left 94 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 2: and the right, and it is being contrasted by this 95 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 2: newest mayor of the biggest city in these United States 96 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 2: of America, New York. This zoron then Mendami character. Yes, 97 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 2: he is going to become a household name, whether you 98 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 2: like it or not. And I don't think that's necessary 99 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: a bad thing. I'll explain why coming up after this 100 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: on Tony Kats Today. I am like Coolidge in for Tony, 101 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 2: don't go anywhere. We're back on Tony Katz today. So 102 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 2: individualism and collectivism. Oh I'm like Coolidge. By the way, 103 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: I'm not Tony Katz. Yes, my voice is slightly different 104 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 2: than Tony's. My favorite radio host of all time, a 105 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 2: man I still miss to this day, and I know 106 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 2: Tony was a big fan as well. Was the great 107 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 2: l Rushbo Rush Limbaugh. One of my happiest moments was 108 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 2: seeing him get the Congress the Medal of Freedom, the 109 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 2: Presidential Medal of Freedom during a State of the Union 110 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: address by President Trump in his first term. Blannia Trump, 111 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: you know, put it around his neck. It was awesome, 112 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 2: so awesome, and I was so in typical Trump fashion. 113 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 2: This was something that the media had to cover because 114 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 2: it was during the State of the Union address. The 115 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 2: media despised Russia lim Ba. The media ignored him at 116 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: their peril. Of course, when he passed away, he wasn't 117 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: even mentioned. I remember it specifically on Meet the Press. 118 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: A man who had more influence over an entire half 119 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 2: of the population politically than anyone. There was no one 120 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 2: on the left who compared to Rush, and there was 121 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: no one on the right, who had more influence than 122 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 2: Rush for decades than Russia. Limbaugh when he passed away 123 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 2: ignored by the mainstream media. They didn't realize that they 124 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 2: didn't have the power that they used to when that happened. Anyway, 125 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: one of my favorite things he would do every year 126 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: was explain the difference between collectivism and individualism, communism and capitalism, 127 00:08:55,040 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 2: left and right, Democrat, Republican. You can put any sort 128 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 2: of label on it, but when you really boil it down, 129 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: it's about collectivism versus individualism. And the story he would 130 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: tell was on Thanksgiving and a story about the very 131 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 2: earliest settlers in the United States, how the first couple 132 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 2: of years and seasons. And I won't do it as 133 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: good as Rush, so I'm not even gonna try, but 134 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 2: just speaking really generically here. But this is history. This 135 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 2: is a fact. This isn't some like metaphor for life whatever. 136 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 2: This really happened the first settlers, talking about who came 137 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 2: from Europe and started to you know, live as a 138 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: very very tiny society and met with the American Indians 139 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 2: and the friend of them, and talking about like the 140 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 2: first Thanksgiving time period. Okay, the first couple of seasons, 141 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 2: they set everyone off to you know, farm and till 142 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,199 Speaker 2: their lands and you know, harvest their crops, and then 143 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 2: they would put all put it all into a collective 144 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 2: center of the community, and people would get out what 145 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 2: they needed. Okay. In other words, they took from each 146 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 2: according to their abilities. So if you, let's say, farmed 147 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 2: four acres, you delivered four acres worth of harvested food 148 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 2: into the collective center of town. Or if your neighbor 149 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 2: only harvested one acre, he brought one acre worth the 150 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 2: harvests into the collective and then two each according to 151 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: their needs. So all the families, all the people who 152 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 2: lived there, no matter what they did, no matter what 153 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 2: they put in, got to take out whatever they needed. Now, 154 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 2: what do you think happened? Did that work? Was that successful? No? 155 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 2: People starved? That very basic concept doesn't work. And there 156 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 2: are a number of reasons why. I mean, again, on paper, 157 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 2: you think it sounds sort of fair, right, you explain 158 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 2: this to a kindergartener and it kind of makes sense, okay, Cool. Yes, 159 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 2: some people are stronger than others. Some people were more 160 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 2: motivated than others, so they might be able to farm 161 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 2: a bunch more, you know, plots of land and bring 162 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 2: a lot more food into the collective versus someone else. 163 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: They might not be as strong, or they might not 164 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 2: be as motivated, or they might be a little bit 165 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 2: lasier whatever. They only are able to, you know, bring 166 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 2: in a certain amount of crops. So then they but 167 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,439 Speaker 2: then when the you know, crops and the food is distributed, Oh, 168 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 2: everyone can share among each other, equally right to each 169 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 2: according to their needs. What do you think happens? Why 170 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: did people starve? Well, the people who weren't doing a 171 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 2: lot of the work work not you know, bringing in 172 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 2: as much of the harvest as the people who were 173 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 2: doing a ton. You know, let's say the one acre 174 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 2: person versus the four acre person. We're like, wait a second, 175 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 2: we only had to work for one acre. This guy 176 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 2: worked for four, but we kind of got the same amount. 177 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 2: Why do I even need to do the one? Maybe 178 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: I can just do a heaf an acre next time. 179 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 2: And then the guy who did the four said, wait 180 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 2: a second, I did four acres and I got the 181 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 2: same as my neighborho only did one. Why am I 182 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 2: even doing the four? Why am I working so hard 183 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 2: to do that? I should just do like two and 184 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 2: just take breaks and stuff, and you know, not really 185 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 2: work hard. And then what do you think happens? The 186 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: amount of food in the center of town goes down 187 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 2: because no one is incentivized to work hard, to produce more, 188 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 2: to far more, to harvest more. So then they switched it. 189 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 2: They switch to everyone goes out and you work your 190 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 2: own land. You keep all of the stuff on your own, 191 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 2: and you get to eat on your oe. You have 192 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: to share it with anyone. You just do it on 193 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: your own. What do you think eventually happened? The people 194 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 2: who were lazy and didn't want to do anything realized, Uh, oh, 195 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 2: if I don't do any work at all, I'm not 196 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: going to eat. I am literally going to starve again. 197 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 2: This is like before there's any sense of government or 198 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: any like, you know, this is they're technically under the 199 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 2: king's rule, but the king's you know, the King of 200 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: England ate sending over food and rations for people. You 201 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 2: didn't hunt or you didn't farm, you died. And then 202 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 2: they started to even the lazy people realized, shoot, I 203 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 2: need to start working a little bit harder than it 204 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 2: was before so I can feed my family, right, And 205 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: then the people that were working hard worked a little 206 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 2: bit harder, and society here in the United States eventually thrive. 207 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: Now again I'm really generalizing here. There's a lot more 208 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: to that story, but the basic concept of everyone working 209 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: hard and harvesting and tilling and you know, producing stuff 210 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 2: for themselves first, in their own interests first, also known 211 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 2: as individualism, that ultimately benefited society more. Nobody starved. Everyone 212 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: had plenty of food to eat. In fact, they had 213 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 2: so much food that they had extra that they could 214 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: share with others on their own, their own decision. You know, 215 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 2: I was able to do ten acres this year, but 216 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 2: my family really only needs food for half an acre. 217 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 2: We're going to keep some of it and sell it 218 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 2: and you know, try to grow and you know, be 219 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 2: capitalists and whatnot. But I mean, I don't know if 220 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 2: that word was even impended at the time, but they 221 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 2: on their own decided what to do with the extra food, 222 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 2: with the extra stuff that they produced, and yeah, let's 223 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 2: put it here. We'll put it in the middle of 224 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 2: town of charity. And yeah, sure people can take what 225 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 2: they want there. But we grew and thrived from that 226 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 2: moment on. That is the and I love that Russia. 227 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: Gunbaugh told this story every year on Thanksgping again. He 228 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 2: did it way better than I do. Right now, I'm 229 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: doing it purely from memory. But that is the difference 230 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 2: at its core, between the left and the right, between 231 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 2: individualism and collectivism, between capitalism and socialism, Marxism communism, between 232 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 2: Republicans and democrats. It's all the same kind of spectrum. 233 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 2: Now you can really, you know, get in the weeds 234 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 2: on wow, what's the difference between a Marxist and a communist? 235 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: And is a socialist really a Marxist? And all that, 236 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 2: and then you the fastest word and the totalitarians and 237 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 2: you know, classical liberalism versus progressive liberalism, like just forget 238 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 2: about all that stuff, all right. A lot of that 239 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 2: is obviously, you know, high level you know, graduate postgraduate 240 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 2: level philosophy, whatever. The important thing at its core is 241 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 2: what I just described is are people incentivized to help themselves? 242 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 2: When I should say people are incentivized to help themselves 243 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 2: first all people. Ultimately that system works way better than 244 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 2: the collectivist system because in a collectivist system, people starve. 245 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: And then you start to see people manning the center 246 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 2: of town with all the food and stuff in it, 247 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 2: and they say, we're going to be in charge of 248 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 2: this kind of distribution here. Uh and actually we're going 249 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: to need you know, those of you who have been 250 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 2: hunting and gather and you know, doing the the farming 251 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: and all that. We're gonna need to give us your muskets. 252 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 2: Actually because we you don't really need them. What will 253 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 2: I mean, what do you need to hunt for? What? 254 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 2: We'll do the hunting and we'll distribute the meat and 255 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 2: all that to you. Don't worry about that. And uh yeah, 256 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 2: the people in the center of town who are controlling 257 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 2: the food and all that, they're the only ones with 258 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 2: the guns. And ultimately that leads in it leads to 259 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 2: is despotism and totalitarianism and absolute power by those in 260 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 2: power and absolute subjugation by the rest of society. It 261 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 2: happens all the time. It's been tried hundreds and hundreds 262 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 2: of times in hundreds of different societies throughout the world. 263 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 2: Some of them are still there's some people still alive 264 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty six who have experiences with this 265 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 2: sort of mentality, this collectivism, and believe it or not, 266 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: there are some people here in the United States in 267 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 2: twenty twenty six who are running for office and getting 268 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 2: elected espousing the philosophy of collectivism. Heck, there's a guy 269 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:30,399 Speaker 2: right now who just swore in to the mayorship of 270 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 2: the biggest city in the United States of America, the 271 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 2: city that George Washington himself swore in to the presidency 272 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 2: of the United States the first time in this city, 273 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 2: the city where the Constitution of the United States was ratified, 274 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 2: The biggest city in the country, New York City. It 275 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: is as we speak, as of today, as of yesterday, 276 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,959 Speaker 2: I think for just less than twenty four hours, or 277 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 2: just over twenty four hours, I guess, we now have 278 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 2: a mayor of the biggest city in the country, New 279 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 2: York City, who is a collectivist zorn men, Donnie, We're 280 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 2: gonna plays a little clip of him espousing collectivism and 281 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 2: uh jumping on individualism, and we'll dig a little bit 282 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 2: deeper into this big divide and you won't want to 283 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 2: miss it, I promise. I am my Coolidge in for 284 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 2: Tony Katz. We will be right back. We're back on 285 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 2: Tony Katz today. My Coolidge is my name, and I 286 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 2: am filling in for Tony Katz and uh, Zorron, Mom, Donnie, 287 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 2: why do you care about the mayor of New York City, Mike, 288 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 2: I mean, you don't live there. You have nothing to 289 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 2: do with New York. All politics is local. Who gives 290 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 2: a hoot. Uh, It's really really important, believe it or not. 291 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: I don't live in Chicago at all. But I do 292 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: care that the mayor of the biggest city in the 293 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 2: Midwest is a Marxist, uh, and a terrible one at that. 294 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 2: I do care that the new mayor of Seattle is 295 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 2: a Marxist communist. I do care about that. A you know, don't. 296 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:31,840 Speaker 2: I don't think collectivist has a bad a moniker or 297 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 2: name that when you say Marxist or communists. And this 298 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 2: is important because those of us on the right, we 299 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 2: can't continue to just just call people Marxists or communists 300 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 2: or socialists. Right one, A lot of them are saying it. 301 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 2: Probably yeah, I'm a socialist. I mean, the idea of 302 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 2: socialism has been normalized over the years by people like 303 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders and AOC and they love love Zora Mundani. 304 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 2: But when you see, in fact, he didn't get sworn 305 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 2: in by Bernie, but Bernie was right there. I saw 306 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 2: some clip of where Bernie Centers was like hugging him, 307 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: like right after he was sworn or something. Yeah, this 308 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 2: is the the the children of Bernie centers. To be sure, 309 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 2: you know the aocs and the Zora Mundani types. But 310 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 2: when you see the biggest cities and really really important 311 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 2: cities in the country being taken over by communists, you 312 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 2: have to pay attention. You look at maps of the 313 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 2: United States and you know, I saw somebody and it's 314 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,399 Speaker 2: been circulating around for a couple of years now, but 315 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 2: the you know, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, and uh, 316 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 2: there's a Merry Christmas and it has all of the 317 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 2: red counties in the United States, and then Happy Holidays 318 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 2: and it's all the blue counties. And you see how 319 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 2: tiny the blue ones are compared with the red area. 320 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 2: The geographic blue areas are much more or much tinier 321 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 2: than the geoglaphic red areas, and the Red areas population 322 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 2: wise outnumber at the poms. But it's it's misleading because 323 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 2: as small as they are geographically, they're gargantuan as far 324 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 2: as population goes. So when you have these mayors of cities, 325 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 2: giant giant vaths, you know, vast swaths of Americans living 326 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:32,959 Speaker 2: in these cities under the control really of these Communist Marxists, 327 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 2: and still even though I don't live in a side, 328 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 2: I haven't lived in a city in years. I grew 329 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: up fifty miles from New York City. I went to 330 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 2: college in a city in Boston. I lived in the 331 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,479 Speaker 2: biggest city in midwest, Chicago for over half a decade, 332 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 2: and then moved out to small town America, where I 333 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 2: still live and love and probably live here I have 334 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 2: for twenty years. There is still power and influence by 335 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 2: those that live in cities over the rest of our culture, 336 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 2: whether we like it or not. And the biggest cities 337 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 2: in the country, the biggest, most influential ones, the ones 338 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 2: that are talked about on national news all the time, 339 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 2: are New York, Chicago, LA. To a certain extent, DC. 340 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: Texas has a bunch of ones, but those are the 341 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 2: big ones. Those are talked about a lot, whether we 342 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 2: like it or not. So when it's one of these 343 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 2: giant cities is taken over by an extremist, a radical, 344 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 2: we gotta pay attention. Here's Zorn Mundani at his swearing 345 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 2: in ceremony yesterday, without any apology or veil whatsoever, just 346 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,479 Speaker 2: out in the open claiming what he is. 347 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 3: We will draw this city closer. Together, we will replace 348 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,479 Speaker 3: the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. 349 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 3: If our campaign demonstrated that the people of New York 350 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 3: yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it. Because 351 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 3: no matter what you eat, how you pray, or where 352 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,959 Speaker 3: you come from, the words that most define us are 353 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 3: the two we all share. 354 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 2: New Yorkers. I don't know if he said Americans had 355 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 2: any pointer citizens, but yes, New Yorker see, I guess 356 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 2: is right about that. Everyone who was at the ceremony. 357 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: There's a number of reasons why he's a dangerous person 358 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 2: that we need to pay attention to. Is because he's 359 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 2: kind of charming. He's kind of good looking for a politician. 360 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 2: He's got a beautiful wife who was wearing, according to 361 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 2: the New York Post, six hundred and fifty dollars boots, 362 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 2: which many people pointed out is absolutely perfect personification of 363 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 2: leftism and collectivism. In communism, those are the top, those 364 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 2: in charge. They get all the spoils while they claim 365 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 2: to be for the people, while the rest of the 366 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 2: community's start. But I want to play for you. So 367 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 2: we talked about the story of Thanksgiving that Russia Gumball 368 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 2: used to tell about, you know, the very earliest settlers 369 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 2: here in the United States, how they tried collectivism and 370 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 2: everyone starved, and then they did individualism and everyone thrived. Well, 371 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 2: maybe even more modern example of this, This is a 372 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 2: guy on X commenting on this speech that we just 373 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 2: heard from Zora Mandani. He is from a little country 374 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 2: called Romania. Let him tell his country's story. 375 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 3: You will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the 376 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 3: warmth of collectivism. 377 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 4: Famous words spoken by every communist in history. Hi, my 378 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 4: name is Bogdan and this is exactly how communism came 379 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 4: to power in my country, Romania via collectivism. First they 380 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 4: confiscated private land. Then they used terror to enforce collectivism. 381 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 4: The Romanian citizens were arrested, buid up, humiliated, publicly, left 382 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 4: to rot in prison, and some even executed. The next 383 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 4: step for collectivism was destroying the independent farmer class. These 384 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 4: people were a threat to the regime because they were 385 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,439 Speaker 4: able to stay self sufficient and did not rely on 386 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 4: the state. Independence was and still is the biggest threat 387 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 4: to communism. They made it in such way that owning 388 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 4: more than others was a crime. Once all that happened, 389 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 4: the communists started confiscating the food from farmers, leaving families 390 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 4: to die. They also confiscated to the livestock raised by people. 391 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 4: This resulted in famine, malnutrition, and the collapse of productivity. 392 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 4: Romania literally went from being the number one exporter of 393 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 4: grain in Europe to chronic shortages of food. But there 394 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 4: wasn't enough. The Communists then banned free market, no free 395 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 4: sale of crops, no private trades, no bargaining. Classic socialist failure. 396 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,719 Speaker 4: But collectivism wasn't just economic, it was cultural as well. 397 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 4: In Romania, they attacked the church and religious people. They 398 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 4: replaced family authority with party authority, all with one goal 399 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 4: in mind, replace faith and family with the state. Fifteen 400 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 4: years later, the communists declared victory. Ninety percent of all 401 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 4: farmland in Romania was collectivized. Bottom line, Romanian collectivism was 402 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 4: forced violent, economically disastrous, morally corrupt, and designed to control, 403 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 4: not help. Only for today. In the United States of America, 404 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 4: to be in New York City, I swear to God, 405 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 4: some Americans are the dumbest morons on the planet. 406 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 2: You are not wrong, my friend, some of the Americans. 407 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 2: Some to be sure, those that live and vote live 408 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: in cities like Chicago and vote for idiots Marxists like 409 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 2: Brandon Johnson, or live in New York City and vote 410 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 2: for I wouldn't call him an idiot. Actually, I don't 411 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 2: think Zoramondati is an idiot. He knows exactly what he's doing, 412 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 2: but the complete and utter ignorance about what collectivism means, 413 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 2: and they vote for this guy in New York City. 414 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 2: There's so much blame to go around here. You can 415 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: point to the you know, education system here in the 416 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 2: United States, how we don't teach this kind of stuff 417 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 2: to kids anymore. So when they hear communism or Marxism 418 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: or collectivism, a much more palatable, you know, version of 419 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 2: communism collectivism, it sounds kind of nice again, it sounds 420 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 2: kind of kind of fair. Well, yeah, you're gonna have 421 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: some people who have all this money, and you know 422 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 2: there's other people who are poor. So what's take from 423 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 2: the rich people and you know, give it to the 424 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 2: poor people. Uh yeah, that kind of sounds fair, right. 425 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 2: In practice, not only does it not work, it leads 426 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 2: to death and starvation and terror and totalitarianism. Let's give 427 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 2: let's give some quotes. The individual is nothing, the collective 428 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 2: is everything. You don't want to guess who said that. 429 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 2: Joseph Stalin. Yeah, guy who implemented collectivism on the largest 430 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 2: scale ever killed tens of millions of his own people. 431 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 2: Now say, tongue, the interests of the individual must be 432 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 2: subordinated to the interests of the collective. Now say tongue, Yes, 433 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 2: uh China, Uh Mussolini? Ever heard of him? Everything in 434 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 2: the state, nothing outside the state, nothing thing against the state, 435 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 2: And we'll throw in zo ron Mundani will replace rugged 436 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 2: individualism with collectivism. As Isabelle Brown on X pointed out, 437 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 2: she put these together, don't be afraid to call out 438 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 2: objective evil when you hear it. I say again, you 439 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 2: can't just call people communists and Marxists and socialists. You 440 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 2: have to explain, because don't assume that young people, especially 441 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 2: when I say young, I mean like people under forty, 442 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 2: understand why Marxism and communism and socialism is bad. It's 443 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 2: not just bad, it's evil. Don't assume they know. You 444 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 2: have to explain. And if you have to use something 445 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 2: as simple as the story of our first Thanksgiving, how 446 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 2: that eventually, you know, turn into a big difference between 447 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 2: the left and the right. In visualism versus collectivism. Use that, 448 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 2: or you can just say something simple like every time 449 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 2: communism is tried throughout the world, whether it was tried 450 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 2: fifty years ago, one hundred years ago, or three hundred 451 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: years ago, it fails miserably. People like Zoram and Donnie say, 452 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 2: let's give it another try. We'll write back on Tony 453 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 2: Kats today, I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. Stay 454 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 2: with us, Yes, welcome back, So Tony Katz today, I 455 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 2: am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. And this is that weird. 456 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 2: I love the calendar. By the way of twenty twenty six, 457 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 2: it being Friday, but it seems like a Monday, right 458 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 2: because yesterday we had off and we all partied or 459 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 2: at least went to bed early and didn't have to 460 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 2: wake up for work the next day on Wednesday night, 461 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 2: was it right? Yeah, Wednesday was New Year's Eve, and 462 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 2: then Thursday was New Year's Day and everyone had off 463 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 2: and we had a great time. It went to friend's 464 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 2: house and watch the Indiana Alabama game and watch Indiana 465 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:21,479 Speaker 2: trouts Alabama. That was a ton of fun. And then 466 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 2: we're like, all right, got to start the week off 467 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 2: for that big day the next day that be Monday, 468 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: but all of a sudden, it's Friday, and then we 469 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 2: have a whole weekend ahead of us. Now right, kind 470 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 2: of cool. I'm a fan. Before the break, we were 471 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 2: talking about this collectivism versus individualism concept, and it's really 472 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 2: not controversial. We are an individualist country. We are a 473 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 2: free market country. We're a liberty loving country. Collectivism is 474 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,840 Speaker 2: an ethema to the United States of America, but there 475 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 2: are still people in this country who not only espouse it, 476 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 2: but find themselves in elected positions of power. Some places 477 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 2: are the biggest city in the country, second biggest city 478 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:12,239 Speaker 2: in the country, well not really anymore because everyone's leaving it, 479 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 2: But second biggest metropolis in the country is Chicago. I 480 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 2: don't really count Dallas because it's so expansive. In la 481 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 2: it's just a giant county. You know, Chicago's a metropolis. 482 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 2: In Chicago's a lot like New York, just a little 483 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 2: bit smaller. That's got a Marxist there, and hey, you've 484 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 2: got a Marxist communist in New York too. But we 485 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 2: can't just call him a Marxist and a communist. We 486 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 2: have to explain. And man, oh man, did he put 487 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 2: it out there? Yesterday when he swore in by calling 488 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 2: himself a collectivist. Cal Rothon X says the following, collectivism 489 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 2: is a cancer. True oppression begins when you judge people 490 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 2: as part of groups instead of as individuals. The Constitution 491 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,719 Speaker 2: exists to limit the power of society over man. That 492 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 2: is the foundation of America, and we must preserve that 493 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 2: notion over everything else. She's one hundred percent correct. The 494 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 2: Constitution exists to lay out the rights we all have 495 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 2: as individuals, which are God given, and the Constitution just 496 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 2: lists them, and it specifically forbids the government from infringing 497 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 2: on those rights. That's such a key point when you 498 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 2: have collectivists and leftists like Barack Obama. Yeah, that guy, 499 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 2: I remember him. He went on a NPR show years ago, 500 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 2: I think before he was even a US senator. I 501 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 2: think he was even just like a state senator at 502 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,359 Speaker 2: the time. Wasn't elected president yet, but in Chicago, he 503 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,919 Speaker 2: was kind of a thing, you know, in the early 504 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 2: two thousands, all this young guy who you know, with 505 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 2: a weird last name and kind of rising up the 506 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 2: rank of Democrat power circles. He went on an NPR 507 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 2: and talked about it and criticized the Bill of Rights 508 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 2: because it was a list of negative rights. It was 509 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 2: a list of things the government can't do. But we 510 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 2: need to talk more about what the government must do. Yeah, 511 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 2: from the same cloth AOC Bernie Sanyers, Zora Mandani. This 512 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 2: kind of stuff needs to be pawnted at, pointed out 513 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 2: and fought or we die as a country. Well, right 514 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 2: back on, Tony got today, I might go with jiper 515 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 2: Tony stay with us.