1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job. The Weekend with 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. Hey broadcasting life from Denver. Colorad's The Weekend 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: with Michael Brown. Glad to have you joined in the 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: program today. As usual text message, we know we have 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: rules of engagements you have to follow. The number one 8 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: rule is if you want to tell me something, ask 9 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: me something. So tell me anything to m a or Ama, 10 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: asked me anything. The text line number is three three 11 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: one zero three three three one zero three keyword Mike 12 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: ro and Michael and then do me if they were 13 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: goal and follow me on X at Michael Brown USA. 14 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: There's a lot to talk about today. Some inside baseball 15 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: I want to talk about. I've got some changes out 16 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: of my base of operations in Denver. I'll get to 17 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: that in a minute. I didn't tell you about it 18 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: last weekend because I wanted to go through a full 19 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: week and make sure they were good. They weren't going 20 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: to fire me after a week of giving them what 21 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: they said they wanted to have, So I give them 22 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: what they wanted and apparently then when you let me 23 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: just tick around and keep doing it, and then well, 24 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: let's just do this, let's go straight to the text line, 25 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: because this kind of worries me only because Goober number 26 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: seven one sixty eight must have known what I was 27 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: going to talk about today, or they had some sneaking 28 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,559 Speaker 1: suspicion about what I was going to talk about today. 29 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 1: Are we near the end of civilization? Are we near 30 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: the end of Western civilization? Is it recoverable? Here's what 31 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: Goober number seventy one sixty eight wrote, By the way, 32 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: as just a footnote, I now maybe some of you 33 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: are still offended by the use of my term goober, 34 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: But as I explained to my audience and my new 35 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: people listening to me in Denver, it's a term of affection. 36 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: It's a lighthearted You know, you had Goomer. You had 37 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: Goober and Gomer Pyle. If you watch TV back in 38 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: the sixties, you had them. They were too lighthearted, kind 39 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: of fun individuals, kind of goofy at times. And I 40 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: think I'm goofy at times, and I think all of 41 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: you a goofy at time. And it's also a reminder, 42 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: it's a reminder that we need to quit taking ourselves 43 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: so damn seriously. And I say that as someone who 44 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: takes themself fairly seriously and who takes this profession very 45 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: very seriously. But I try to present topics that are 46 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: serious in depth, but I try to interweave as much 47 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: as I can, a little humor, some sarcasm, being sarcastic, 48 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: you know, a few little fun stories here and now 49 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: and then, just to remind us of our humanity. It 50 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: amazes me how people have lost their ability to be self. 51 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: There's no self deprecation, there's no ability to see that, 52 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: oh yeah, you know. For example, I know, and I 53 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: freely admit that I'm not very good at math. So 54 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: sometimes I miscalculate things. My mind is going to one 55 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour when i'm because I don't do 56 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: shows the most most of the way that other talk 57 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: show hosts do. I have. For example, today, I've got 58 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: like fifteen tabs open. I'll never get to all fifteen tabs. 59 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: But the tabs are a combination of copied and pasted 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: paragraphs from stories, my notes, my comments, and I go 61 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: through and I do a monologue for three hours, three hours, 62 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: so I'm bound to stumble over some words and because 63 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: I'm going one hundred miles an hour, I'm bound to 64 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: mispronounce some words, and I just find it funny and 65 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: I frankly don't give a rat's ask and if but 66 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: some people get really all uptight about it, and I'll 67 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: get text messages, Oh you mispronounced this. Oh no, the 68 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: calculation is this or all? You need to do that. 69 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: And that's fine, because if there's something factual that I mistake, 70 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: you know that I mistake, then I do want to 71 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: know that so that I can correct that mistake, particularly 72 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: if it's pertinent to the point that I'm trying to make. 73 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: If it's some superfluous thing like the distance the sun, 74 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: I don't I really don't care, but I would. I 75 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: would encourage you to look at your life and determine 76 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 1: whether or not you're taking yourself too seriously think about it. 77 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: One of the things that brought this up was for 78 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: those of you who listened to me during the weekday. 79 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 1: You know that I've gone from a five thousand and 80 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: what station, which I lovingly call kh W after my 81 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: former boss khow at six thirty am, and I've changed 82 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: my day part so instead of doing from six to 83 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: ten am, Mountain Time. I'm now doing from nine to 84 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: noon Mountain Time, which is a schedule that I absolutely love. 85 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: But some people are really upset because they've had either 86 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: if they wanted to listen, they've had to shift their 87 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: time of listen. We shift time all the time. How 88 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: many of you actually watch live television and instead you 89 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: DVR something and you save it to watch later. I'm 90 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: a I'm a big fan, even though i know they 91 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: lean liberal. I'm a big fan of CBS This Sunday 92 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: Morning back when Charles Carrol when I started watching it, 93 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: and I still watch it to this day. But I 94 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: have it set to record every single Sunday morning because 95 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'm going to be back from 96 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: walking the dogs that Sunday morning, whether we have some 97 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: church thing that Sunday morning, I don't know, So I 98 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: dv are it, and so I time shift that we 99 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: time shift almost everything in our lives now. Well, some 100 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: people have just gotten really upset about the time change, 101 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: and I'm like, we'll just calm down. You know, I 102 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: can't one, I can't control everything that my company decides 103 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: to do. And I'm under a contract and the contracts, 104 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: you know, says basically, I'll do whatever part they want 105 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: me to do. And now they're on this grand experiment, 106 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: and I'm now on KOA eight fifty am ninety four 107 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: to one FM, so you'll hear me when I talk 108 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: about some when I do some of the rules that 109 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: if you wanted to listen to me during the weekday, 110 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: you would now listen to me on eight fifty AM 111 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: or ninety four to one FM. And that is a 112 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: legacy station in Denver, KOA. It's one of the few 113 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: three letter stations left around the country and it can 114 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: be for in fact, in fact, Michael, I bet you 115 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: could hear it. If you're awake at midnight and you're 116 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 1: just at and the weather's right, you can probably hear 117 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: KOA because I've heard KOWA in Los Angeles before. I've 118 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: heard KOA in in Manitoba, I've heard it in Saskatchewan. 119 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: I've heard it not so much going east, but almost 120 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: anywhere west. You can hear this fifty thousand up blowtorch 121 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: almost any time. And the foot printice is humongous, so 122 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like going from for those of 123 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: you in Los Angeles, it's kind of like going from 124 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: k EIB to KFI or going to WABC in New 125 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: York City, and I'm really happy to do it. So 126 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: if you want to listen to what we do during 127 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: the week, you now need to change your preset on 128 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: your iHeart app to eight fifty am or ninety four 129 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: point one FM. It's still the situation with Michael Brown, 130 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: so you can search it that way too, and just 131 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: set that pre set at eight fifty am or ninety 132 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: four to one FM on KOA in Denver and you 133 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: can hear the weekday program. But back to this, we 134 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: take ourselves too seriously. I do worry. I worry very 135 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: quite a bit about whether we can recover from some 136 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: of the things that are going on, because we're starting 137 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: to see these little pockets, for example, the election of 138 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: the socialist mayor you know, Zofram in New York and 139 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: now the election of another socialist who's still in our 140 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: parents payroll out in Seattle, and you start to see that. 141 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: You know these poll numbers that talk about and I 142 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: think it differs from generation to generation, and the pole 143 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: numbers are not consistent from generation to generation. But too 144 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: many people want too many things that they believe are 145 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: air quote here free and there is no such thing 146 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: as anything free, and if we continue down that path, 147 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: we're going to end up like basically Europe. We're going 148 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: to end up like old Europe, which is turning into 149 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: crappy Europe, or we're going to turn into some crab 150 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: whole country. But I think it may be solvagable, but 151 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: we first have to recognize what the problem is. So 152 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: to the text line, Guba number seventy one sixty eight wrote, 153 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: going to waste time with you today, ha ha ha. Yeah, 154 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: while you try to convince us that things will or 155 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: are getting better, my friend, just understand we cannot give up. 156 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: But make no mistake, the feces is way too deep, 157 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: way too deep. We must talk truth, not wish hope 158 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: just way too much fing Sorry, well, hang tight. When 159 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: we get back the Battle for Western Civilization. Welcome back 160 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: to the Week with Michael Brown. Glad and have you with me? 161 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: Don't forget to follow me on except Michael Brown USA, 162 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: and then do me a favor that for those of 163 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: you who subscribe to the podcast, my change in Denver 164 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 1: doesn't change anything for your downloading the podcast. That will 165 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: still automatically download. But if you haven't subscribed to the podcast, 166 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: yet on your podcast app wherever you get your podcasts, 167 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: search for the Situation with Michael Brown, and then when 168 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: you find that, hit subscribe and leave a five star review, 169 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: because that helps us in the rankings and that helps 170 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: more people find the podcast. So search for the Situation 171 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: with Michael Brown, hit that subscribe button. So let me 172 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: eat kind of baseline before we delve into some of 173 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: the racial aspects. Let's just think about younger generations, younger Americans. 174 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: I would positive that younger Americans are markedly more open 175 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: to socialism than their older cohorts. Roughly half of eighteen 176 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: to twenty nine year olds expressed some favorable view of socialism, 177 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: and some recent polls of gen Z and millennials their 178 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: favorability edging above capitalism. There is a March Gallup poll 179 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: March of this year, a review that places young adults 180 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: positive ratings of socialism near fifty percent. But there's also 181 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: a Cato Yugov survey again this year, found sixty two 182 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 1: percent favorable towards socialism among eighteen to twenty nine year olds, 183 00:10:53,160 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: and even thirty four percent favorable toward communism. Wow, sink 184 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: in for a moment. Now I cannot without spending a 185 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: whole bunch of time, which I may at some point, 186 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: but I think there's a direct causal link between government 187 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: run schools, the teacher unions who have infested government run schools, 188 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: and their proclivity to be basically left of center, if 189 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: not downright, I mean be it waybeyond liberal and towards 190 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: socialism and Marxism. And then you couple that with a 191 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: failure to teach the basic history of this country, and 192 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: instead you teach a bunch of bull crap like the 193 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: sixteen nineteen project, and suddenly you'll realize that we're raising 194 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: the very people that today are claiming, Oh yo, I 195 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: want so fram I want free stuff, I want all this. 196 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: You old boomers just haven't been the right people to 197 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: do it the right way. Generation after generation after generation, 198 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: for the history of mankind, always claimed that we just 199 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: had the wrong people to implement a socialist Marxist society, 200 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: and that's why it hasn't worked. And then where it 201 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: has air quotes again worked, it's come at the cost 202 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: of millions of lives. There's some Yahoo that's a so 203 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: called influencer in this country who for his birthday this 204 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: past week, got a copy of Mao's Little Red Book, 205 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: and he's on TikTok talking about how ecstatic he is 206 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: to have gotten a copy of that book. And I'm thinking, 207 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: do you realize the millions of people that died in 208 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: Mao's Cultural revolution trying to impose the communist utopia on 209 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: the Chinese people? No, he does not. He does not 210 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 1: know that because we don't teach that. There's a Pew 211 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: survey this is back from January of this year that 212 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: among eighteen to twenty nine year olds, forty four percent 213 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: views socialism favorably, versus only forty percent slightly less they 214 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: view capitalism positively. I think that reflects a generational reversal 215 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: from say, fifteen or twenty years earlier. Now the partisan, 216 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: that's the general. Let's think about partisan for a moment. 217 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: Gallup this year says that socialism is far more favored 218 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: among Democrats than Republicans. Well, I think we know that, right, 219 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: dub Master of the obvious. Sixty six percent of Democrats 220 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: view socialism positively versus only fourteen percent of Republicans. That's 221 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: helping keep overall socialism's favorability flat, while capitalism's image slipped 222 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: to fifty four percent nationally. Now there are some related 223 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: youth trend lines. Positive views of socialism among younger Democrats 224 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: have grown, whereas Republican youth remain overwhelmingly pro capitalism. That 225 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: mirrors the broader part of some polarizations I just gave 226 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: you earlier from that Gallup poll. So while we are 227 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: I sincerely believe in a battle for Western civilization, there 228 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: is good news, and it is those that are at 229 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: least on a partisan basis Republican versus Democrat. Those younger 230 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: generations are overwhelmingly if they're Republican, are overwhelmingly pro capitalism, 231 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: while those that are on the Democrat aisle are overwhelmingly 232 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: favoring socialism. I would frame a few cautions before I 233 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: get into some of the meat of this. Socialism is 234 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: often undefined in these surveys, and so the favorability can 235 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: reflect attitudes toward welfare state policies rather than state ownership slash. 236 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: Interpretations that should note the you know, we should know 237 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: that the label of the label effect, and the definitional ambiguity. 238 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: I'd like to ask those that are of that younger 239 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: generation who favor socialism, tell me what that means. What 240 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: do you mean by that? I wonder if they can 241 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: even define socialism or Marxism, or fascism or communism. I 242 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: really doubt that they can. And again that gets back 243 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: to education, because we have failed utterly to educate them 244 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: about the definitional meanings and then how those definitional meanings 245 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: play out in the real world. So, despite what I 246 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: would call youth openness, national attitudes remain net negative, net 247 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: negative towards socialism overall, with strong partisan polarization shaping perceptions 248 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: across these younger age groups. So what does that mean 249 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: for Western civilization? It means we have to do a 250 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: better job, a much better job when it comes to minorities. 251 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: I mentioned casually the sixteen nineteen project. You think about 252 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: Black lives matter, How does Black lives matter shape the 253 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: view of race in this country today? It's based on oppression. 254 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: They're looking for freedom, but they're being oppressed, and I 255 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: think that's done deliberately because it's not oppression. Are their disparities, Yes, 256 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: when we talk about disparities in race, the problem is 257 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: not oppression. The problem is freedom. The problem used to 258 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: be exclusion and discrimination, but the problem today is freedom. 259 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: We're well into the twenty first century and African Americans 260 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: have equal citizenship before the law in the United States, 261 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: as a matter of law and as a matter of fact. 262 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear about anecdotes about some 263 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: particular person's being discriminated against this or this particular person 264 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: is not making as much money as a peer in 265 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: the same demographic or whatever. I don't care about that, 266 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: because I want you to think about disparities, because disparities 267 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: are natural. Disparities occur in every society. They occur in 268 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 1: every walk of life, and they occur in every profession. 269 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 1: They occur in every livelihood that you undertake. They occur everywhere, 270 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: even among your friends. I want you to think about 271 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: your social circle right now, your social sphere of influence. 272 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 1: I bet there are disparities in that. Does that mean 273 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 1: that your friends who are better than you mean that 274 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: you're being oppressed or those friends who are less off 275 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: well off than you? Is that because of oppression or 276 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: is it just a natural disparity? You see anecdotes don't 277 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: cut it here. Let's go to Thomas Soul Next, It's 278 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: Weekend with Michael Brown. Go follow me on x at 279 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 1: Michael Brown USA. I'll be right back tonight. Michael Brown 280 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk show 281 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 1: host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, You're doing a heck 282 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: of a job The Weekend with Michael Brown. Welcome back 283 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you 284 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: with me. Text lines open three to three, one zero 285 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: three keyword Michael and Michael, my producer. Michael and I 286 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 1: were laughing about I have a text message that about 287 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: my use of the word Zoefram for the first name 288 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: for mom Donnie the newly elected socialist mayor of New 289 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: York City. And Michael had a great suggestion, rather than Zoefram, 290 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,920 Speaker 1: why stud call him Zoloft. So maybe I'll maybe I'll 291 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: switch to that later this week, I'll start calling Zoloft 292 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: and see how long it takes you to get that joke. 293 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: Let's go to Thomas Soul for a moment. Thomas sol 294 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: went the Greatest Economies where the greatest economies in our lifetime. 295 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: An incredibly wise man now in his nineties. I forget 296 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: how old he is now. He has taught us that 297 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: disparities are one thing, but discrimination is another. Well, this 298 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: is my point. The first point is for black Americans 299 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: in particular, but I would say for any minorities, and 300 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 1: beyond that, I would say for every individual, regardless of 301 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: your race, but in particular for minorities. The problem is 302 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: the problem of freedom, not unfreedom. Disparities are one thing, 303 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: discrimination is another. Disparities are not, if so facto, evidence 304 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: of unfreedom. Disparities are a part of life and are 305 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 1: to be expected. And there's a real deep irony when 306 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: the identitarians become group egalitarians. The identitarians the people that 307 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: put everybody in a vertical. Oh, you fit this identity, 308 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: you fit that that that identity everything based upon not 309 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: the human being as a whole, but every little disparate 310 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: part of an individual. This is my identity, This is 311 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: who I am. This is my group, this is my culture. 312 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: These are my people. Don't treddle me, don't culturally appropriate us. 313 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: We are integral, distinct, identifiable types. Okay, Well that means 314 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: that you want to divide people up into blacks and browns, 315 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: you know, Asians, gays, straits, buys, you know, trans non trans, 316 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: I mean every little vertical that the left has tried 317 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: to impose upon us. But wait a minute, if you 318 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: do that, how then since you are so insular, so distinct, 319 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 1: you're so identity based, and you're so different. How then, 320 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: should we expect that you would represent yourselves in equal 321 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: numbers in every dimension of human activity, that there would 322 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: be the same number of doctors, the same number of engineers, 323 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: the same number of financiers, the same number of school teachers, 324 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: the same number of criminals, the same number of talk 325 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: show hosts, the same number of lawyers. Oh, we can 326 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: all go for that, right, the same number of lawyers, 327 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: the same number of retail operators per capita, across all 328 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: different categories of identity. If indeed identity is a real thing, 329 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: that position is obviously incoherent when you think about that. 330 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: We're all individuals, and we all have disparities, and we 331 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: all have freedom, and we have freedom of choice. And 332 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: because we have freedom of choice, there will naturally be disparities. 333 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: You take away the freedom of choice and you impose 334 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: whether it's the beginnings of communism, which is social and 335 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: you move your way through Marxism up to communism every 336 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: step of the way, what happens You start to lose choice, 337 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: and the more choice you lose, yeah, there might be 338 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: fewer disparities. There's also less what freedom, freedom, as I say, 339 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: is chaote. Freedom is disparate. Freedom is going to mean 340 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: different things for different people, and every single one of us, 341 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:38,919 Speaker 1: created equal, will take different paths. And we will either 342 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: exploit the God given gifts that we have been given 343 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: or we won't. And if we don't, that will lead 344 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: to some disparities. And even if we do, it will 345 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: lead to disparities. Let's take the profession that well, any 346 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: number of the professions, the lawyers out because that'll lead 347 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: to too many lawyer jokes. And I'm not in the 348 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: mood for lawyer jokes because I think I've heard every 349 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: lawyer joke this potentially ever been said, and they're basically 350 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: funny and sometimes true, and that makes them even funnier. 351 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: Doctors some doctors have a God complaint. Some doctors have 352 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 1: really good bedside manners. Some doctors could all practice the 353 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: same specialty. And you're going to choose one because you've 354 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: been told, or you've heard, or you've read, or they 355 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: got a better grade something. You're going to choose that 356 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: oncologists that specializes in pancreatic cancer because he's at the 357 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: top of the heap. But the other pancreatic oncologists down 358 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: here at the bottom of the heap are probably pretty 359 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: good too, because they have a medical degree and they 360 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: have a specialty in oncology, and they've done a residency 361 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: in that, and they've been hired and they've been practicing 362 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:03,239 Speaker 1: and sold. Disparity, But what if we just train them 363 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: all the same, What if we just in them all 364 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: the exact, just one medical school, the Communist School of Oncology, 365 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 1: They'll still be disparate. They'll still be disparity. So disparities 366 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: are not the problem. And I would say too that 367 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 1: equity is not equality. There are a lot of writers 368 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: in this country are so prominent now Ibra mexkindy comes 369 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: to mind in promoting a certain ideology, you know, assertion. 370 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: I see a disparity. I want equity, and by equity 371 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: they mean an equal representational That is not equality. And frankly, 372 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 1: equity has become sameness. They want sameness for everything. I 373 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: don't want sameness for everything. I do what I do 374 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: based on what the way I like to do it, 375 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: the way that I think is going to make my 376 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: program the entertaining, informative, and that will get me good 377 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: ratings so that I can get a lot of sponsors, 378 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 1: so I can make a lot of money and make 379 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: the company happy and make myself happy and make my 380 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: pocket book happy. And so that's why I do things 381 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: the way that I do them. Other hosts do the 382 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: things the way they do because they believe something differently. 383 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: And that's fine if we use different standards of assessment 384 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: in order to achieve equity. Now you're patronizing everybody who 385 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: makes their own choice. You've just communicated tacitly that you 386 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: don't think that I, for example, amble capable of performing 387 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: according to some objective criteria of assessment as well as 388 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: somebody else. And then I would I would counter, who 389 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: are you to establish that particular objective criteria criteria? You see, 390 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: when we start doing it that way, we become wards 391 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: of the state I go or I come by your 392 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: age and see, not my own agency, by your choice, 393 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: not by my choice. So when we start arguing that 394 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: people must be made equal and we have to open 395 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: the door and not just let everybody in that we 396 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: have to open the door and make sure that that 397 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: everybody that's in this one room that we've opened the 398 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,880 Speaker 1: door for, that they're all equal in that room. That's 399 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 1: never going to work. Because we're all individuals, you're not 400 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: going to be equal. To the end of that argument, 401 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: even if you get what you ask for, there is 402 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: no substitute for earning the respect of your peers. If 403 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: they granted to you out of guilt or pity, they've 404 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: just reduced you. They haven't elevated you. The preservation of 405 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: Western civilization means that at some point we have to 406 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: be really honest with ourselves and quit buying into some 407 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 1: of the bull crap that we hear about, Oh it's 408 00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: our For example, you know that one of my big 409 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: bugaboos is this idea that we should turn our compassion 410 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 1: over to the government. Because we've done that for decades. 411 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: We've done that for a century now. We haven't eliminated poverty, 412 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: we haven't eliminated disparities, we haven't eliminated hunger, we haven't 413 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: eliminated poverty because government can't do that because people will 414 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 1: make their own choices, even in a communist country. Oh, 415 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: they'll sweep the homeless office streets so that you won't 416 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: see them, or they'll go institutionalize them, which probably something 417 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: we should consider doing, because rather it wouldn't it be 418 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 1: better for them to be in an institution. Would rather 419 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,439 Speaker 1: you see your tax dollars going for people who are 420 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 1: mentally ill to be institutionalized, as opposed to starting a 421 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: fire to keep warm and an abandoned warehouse somewhere and 422 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: then burning themselves to death or killing a firefighter who's 423 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: trying to put out a fire. But no, we can't 424 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 1: do that, and we can't do that because we don't 425 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: realize that the homelessness industry doesn't want us to do that, 426 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: because if we do, then that destroys their business. I'd 427 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: like to destroy their business. I'd like to utterly destroy 428 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: their business. Because if we then have the right people 429 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: in office, which depends on us electing the right people, 430 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,640 Speaker 1: maybe they can lower my tax rate, Maybe I could 431 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: keep more of my own money, and then I could 432 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: give more to my church or to whatever private charity 433 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: that I want to give to that I choose to 434 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: give to, as opposed to having it forcibly taken from 435 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: me by the point of a gun through taxes, and 436 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: then use for a self perpetuating industry that just keeps 437 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: poverty and homelessness and everything else in just keeps it going, 438 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: literally keeps it going. And we see what happens when 439 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 1: we allow that to go to the extreme, and that's Europe. 440 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: Just take a look at Europe. I'll be right back. 441 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to 442 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in, so 443 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: I want to I want to make sure that my 444 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: national audience knows that I'm doing a cruise next year. 445 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: We're doing a trip with a group called Cruising Tour. 446 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: We're going to the Greek Isle, next Greek Isles next October. 447 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: I'd like for any of you around the country to 448 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: join me. It's a ten day trip starts with a 449 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: night in Athens, cruises for seven nights through the iconic 450 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: Greek Isles, including Santorini Crete. It touches on Turkey and 451 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: truly the most beautiful, charming and historical sites of that area. 452 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: And onboard all the meals, beverages, tips, that's all included 453 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: and regardless of if you live somewhere else, you're still 454 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: able to join us. So that means that you could 455 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: join all of the we'd have a whole boat of 456 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: goobers to talk about stuff. And it's real easy to 457 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: book if you're interested in the trip where to get 458 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: online information, just go to Michael Tripp dot com. Go 459 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: check it out right now Michael Tripp dot com. Or 460 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: you can give them a call. Give Cruising to to 461 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: a call eight hundred three eight three thirty one thirty one. 462 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: That's eight hundred three eight three thirty one thirty one. 463 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: The text line, really, you guys are really good today? 464 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: Nine two two four rights. What do you think about 465 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: eliminating student loans to drain the education swamp? I would 466 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: say that's one of three or four things that we 467 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: really do need to do. That's why I just I 468 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: keep referring to public education as government schools because that's 469 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: what they are. And as long as the teacher, I 470 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: want you to think about the incestuous relationship between the teacher, unions, 471 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: state legislatures in your state. I don't care. I don't 472 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: care what state pick any of the fifty seven states. 473 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: I don't care which one you pick. Oh, you didn't know, 474 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: that's what Obama said, fifty seven of them. You look 475 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: at what the unions do. The unions put up candidates 476 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: to run for state House and state rep. State House, 477 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: and state Senate in whatever state Ohio, Michigan, pick of 478 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: state Colorado. They do it really well in Colorado, unfortunately. 479 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: And so then they become members of what I refer 480 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: to as the politbureau, the state legislature, state Assembly, House 481 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: of Delegates, whatever it might be in your state, and 482 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: then they're actually negotiating with themselves. It would be like 483 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: me negotiating with myself for my contract with iHeart I 484 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: heeart Media. Michael, what do you want one of bazillion dollars? 485 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: Were going to give you half of that? Okay, we'll 486 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: take seventy five percent of basillion dollars. Okay, deal, deal done. 487 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: That's exactly what they do, and they do it everywhere. 488 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 1: So as long as we allow that to occur by letting, oh, 489 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: well it's a teacher. Let's get I'm elected to the 490 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: state house, state Senate. Now you'll rue the day that 491 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: really starts happening. Now, we can't keep them from running, 492 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: but we ought to recognize that that's what we're doing. 493 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: We're setting them up to negotiate with themselves to further 494 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: indoctrinate kids in those government run schools and for more 495 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: money for educating. We spend more money per pupil than 496 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: I think any country in the world, and we have 497 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: some of the worst test scores in the world that 498 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,360 Speaker 1: you could possibly imagine, and we have totally uneducated groups 499 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: of people because we don't teach the basics. We don't 500 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, we don't teach American history, 501 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: don't teach American government, and to the extent they do, 502 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: is just a drive by presentation. And that's about it. 503 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: The same is true with whatever, whether it's poverty, homelessness, 504 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: the war on drugs, I don't care. You can pick 505 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 1: any of them. It's when we start subsidizing anything through 506 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: tax dollars, what happens. You get more of it and 507 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: more money. So the more that we subsidize homelessness, the 508 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: more homelessness you're going to get. And the more money 509 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: that you spend on widgets, if the government buys a 510 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: bunch of widgets, the price of widgets goes up. Why 511 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: do you think tuition is so high because we subsidize 512 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: student loans. We've got to start getting back to the basics. Now. 513 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: I understand that all these issues that are coming up 514 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: in the midterm elections are important issues. I wish my 515 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: dream would be that somehow we could get beyond some 516 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: of these kind of minute in the weed issues, rates 517 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: of taxation, all you know or you know regulations and 518 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: rules and stuff, and really focus on some basic fundamentals. 519 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: Are are you for private property rights? Are you for 520 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: freedom of speech? Are you for choice in everything? Are 521 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: you for more limited government? Or do you want more government? 522 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: And then have a candidate explained to you. How does 523 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,839 Speaker 1: that then translate? Once we establish a baseline of these 524 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:19,800 Speaker 1: strategic objectives smaller, more limited government, more choice, individual choice, 525 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,400 Speaker 1: a reduction in government spending and therefore reduction in government taxation, 526 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,720 Speaker 1: how would you go about doing that? Instead we we 527 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 1: quibble over stupid stuff and stupid stuff that quite frankly, 528 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: I'll mention one in particular, no tax on tips. Oh, Michael, 529 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: but that's that's really good for the service industry. Have 530 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: you looked at what the law really does. One it's temporary, 531 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: and two it's limited in its in its amount, So 532 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 1: no tax on tips becomes shorthand, and people think, now, 533 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: if you're now, if you're in that industry, you may 534 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: now realize that perhaps that was over sold to you. Well, 535 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: if tips shouldn't be taxed, well why why why should 536 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 1: my wages be taxed? Why? How you can tax my 537 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,760 Speaker 1: consumption if you want to, to a national sales tax 538 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 1: or some some sort of tax like that, or a 539 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: flat tax. But why are you taxing my labor? Because 540 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: a tip is you're helping pay the labor of that 541 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 1: server at a restaurant, and so now you're going to 542 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: exempt some of that. Where's my exemption? Yeah? Am I 543 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 1: being selfish? Now? I'm not in being selfish? Am I 544 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 1: opposed to no taxing tips? No? I just think you know, 545 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: if we're going to do this, you're creating a disparity, 546 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 1: You're creating an eat an uneveness, and you're and you're 547 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,200 Speaker 1: not being fair to those of us who don't who 548 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,320 Speaker 1: don't earn our wages by delivering food to a table 549 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: or bussing a table or looking for a table. Why 550 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,919 Speaker 1: why should my labor be different than that labor? Why 551 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: should we tax labor at all? Because labor is something 552 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: that is between me and my employer, or me and myself. 553 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 1: If I'm an entrepreneur or a sole proprietor if I 554 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: own my own business, then that's me. But if you 555 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 1: want to tax me on what I buy, because now 556 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: you're allowing me to choose whether or not I'm going 557 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 1: to be taxed. We get so mired down in these issues. 558 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 1: Now I do it myself. Don't get me wrong, I 559 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,759 Speaker 1: get myered down on these issues too. But it really 560 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 1: does come down to freedom versus all the isms and 561 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,720 Speaker 1: are we willing to Are we truly willing to fight 562 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: for freedom? Even though it's chaotic, sometimes it's unfair, it 563 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: creates disparities, but it gives everybody the equal opportunity to 564 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: pursue their own individual dreams. That's what I want is 565 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,399 Speaker 1: the weekend with Michael Brown. Text Lines open three three 566 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: one zero three three one zero three, keyword Michael, Michael, 567 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,720 Speaker 1: I'll be right back zero