1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: It's that time time time luck and load. The Michael 2 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: darry Show is on the air. I've had joys since 3 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: the day that I was bossing this summer. Ever voice 4 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: carefully but told me right from wrong. If I have listen, no, 5 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here. 6 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 2: The joy, loving and died with the choices I've made. 7 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 1: I was tinted by an early age. I found I 8 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: like drink or and I never turned it down. Every 9 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: loved one, but I turned them all on. Loveving and 10 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: die with the choices I've made. I've had choices since 11 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: the day that I was born. There revoiced but told 12 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: me right from long if I had listen, no. 13 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: I wouldn't need here to diees. 14 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: It's interesting to be in the course of my life 15 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: different things that are happening that I notice how we 16 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: deal with the concept of accountability and consequences and how 17 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: they are extolled or forgotten in common conversation and in 18 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: popular cultures. It's really interesting phenomenon to me because we 19 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: have a tendency to ignore the idea. Do whatever you want, 20 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: damn the consequence. Do what makes you feel good, Do 21 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: what gives you gratification. I think gratification is a better 22 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: word than happiness, because happiness is a silly word. 23 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: Nobody's walking around and happy. We're all happy all the time, 24 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: just happy. You'd get bored being happy, you would. Jordan 25 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: Peterson has really done some important work on this subject. 26 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 2: He's not the first, he's the first to take it 27 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: to such a big audience, and the idea that he 28 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 2: has that he has really popularized is that the pursuit 29 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 2: of happiness per se is a fool's errand you never 30 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: actually achieve happiness. Many people are watching pop culture and 31 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: they think the Kardashians are happy, or Diddy Epstein is happy, 32 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 2: or Lizzo or whoever else, and then they're shocked to 33 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: find out that person isn't happy in the sense that 34 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: they believe they would be happy. This euphoria overcoming you 35 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 2: at all times warm sensation and believe it or not, 36 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: even though that person is their hero, that person is 37 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: they would sell off their kidney to get to go 38 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: to a concert, to just be part of a screaming, 39 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: teeming mass of people cheering that that person is singing 40 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 2: the song they've already heard of them but in the 41 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 2: same zip code as them. They're also delighted to learn 42 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: that those people are usually miserable because they have been 43 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 2: on a journey to the destination of happiness, and as 44 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: it turns out, happiness is not never land. So that 45 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: makes him feel good because I may not be happy, 46 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 2: but it turns out that person is supposed to be happy. 47 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: He's supposed to be happy, and he's not happy. So 48 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: that makes me feel better because I thought he was 49 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,119 Speaker 1: just sitting over here just being happy all the time. 50 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: But what Jordan Peterson has done, I think groundbreaking work 51 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: in terms of taking it to the masses. As I say, 52 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: it's not the first to come up with this, I 53 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: understand this. The idea that happiness is not the pursuit 54 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: of man should not be shoot of man. It's a 55 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: it's a throwaway term. It's it's a simplistic term that 56 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: has become a catch all. In economics, we use the 57 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: term utility. It gives some people utility to do this 58 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: or that. Doesn't mean they're smiling necessarily. If you hate 59 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: pedophiles and you get to be the executioner of pedophiles, 60 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: doesn't make you happy to be the executioner, but it 61 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: gives you utility. And Rick Warren in twenty twelve. I 62 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: think it was wrote The Purpose Driven Life, which I 63 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: actually think it was an important book at the time. 64 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: The idea of finding purpose in your life and what 65 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: you do, living purposefully, intentionally, knowing why you're here and 66 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: what you're doing. And I've come to learn but this 67 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: is why some people, I'm going to use that term, 68 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: are very happy doing a job when they don't need 69 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: to work anymore. You know. The Walmart reader kind of 70 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: went away. I loved the Walmart reader. I loved the 71 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: Walmart reader because so many of the Walmart readers didn't 72 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 1: need to work. They didn't turn the money down because 73 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: that's what they used to buy a cup of coffee 74 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: while they were there. They arrived early, they stayed late, 75 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: they stayed afterwards. They took their penny off and hung around, 76 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: or kept their penny on. They loved to greet people. 77 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: What a brilliant idea. You take this cold, soulless warehouse 78 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: full of junk that people are coming into to grab, 79 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: most of which they could do without, and you put 80 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: a human face on it, a real human face, not 81 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: a kid on a phone, not somebody disinterested, not somebody 82 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: checking sports scores or texting their buddies or taking Peter picks, 83 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: a real human being in comfortable shoes, welcoming people into 84 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: your cold, soulless warehouse. It was a brilliant a strike, 85 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: a stroke of brilliance. It was a brilliant move. I 86 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: love everything about it. But what it spoke to in 87 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: me with I understand many years later, was the idea 88 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: of having purpose. I have known so many people over 89 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: the years who cannot wait to retire, and the moment 90 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: they retire, they have the world out of tail and 91 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: within a couple of days they realized they've lost their purpose, 92 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: even if work was not their purpose, because they're pulling 93 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: a paycheck, punching a clock. They they they've lost their routine, 94 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: and in that routine was comfort. You may not like 95 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: your job, per se, the actual job, but we put 96 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: some We put some dressing on it. Right. We put 97 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: a On the way to your job, you may stop 98 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: and get a kalacchi, and you really like talking to 99 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: the people there at lunch. You might enjoy walking across 100 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: the street and talking on the way home. You might 101 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: Kamar L. Harris was just officially endorsed by IRS Agency. 102 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: Believe the Michael Berry Show. I'd rather not have that endorsement. 103 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: I received a meme and it's two stick figures. They're 104 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: both sitting on stools and one is gesturing like he's talking, 105 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: the other one is sitting kind of resigned like he 106 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:52,479 Speaker 1: is listening. And the title of it is being taught 107 00:08:52,760 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: to avoid talking about politics and religion has led to 108 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: a lack of understanding of politics and religion. What we 109 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: should have been taught was how to have a civil 110 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: conversation about a difficult topic. I'll read that again, being 111 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: taught to avoid talking about politics and religion. Think about 112 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: how many times in your life you've been told I 113 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 1: don't two things. You don't talk about politics and religion. 114 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: Why the two of the most important things related to 115 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: the human condition? What else is there? Being taught to 116 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: avoid talking about politics and religion has led to a 117 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: lab lack of understanding of politics and religion. If we're 118 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: uncomfortable talking about those things, talking is how we express ourselves, 119 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: which forces us to structure our arguments. When people are 120 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: uncomfortable talking about something, it often means that they can't 121 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: quite process it. They can't figure out where to put it, 122 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: they can't figure out what they feel about it. They 123 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: can't begin to explain what their problem with it is, 124 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: what their opposition to it is, why it gives them 125 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: such discomfort. You should be able to explain those things, 126 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: and if you cannot explain those things, there's a good 127 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: reason for it. If a conversation about that subject makes 128 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: you uncomfortable, that's a sign. Being taught to avoid talking 129 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: about politics and religion has led to a lack of 130 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: understanding of politics and religion. What we should have been 131 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: taught was how to have a civil conversation about a 132 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: difficult topic. When we don't talk about things, we drive 133 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: them underground. You could put under politics and religion. You 134 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: could put race, because people are very uncomfortable talking about race. 135 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: And my belief is that you should be able to 136 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 1: talk about race the way you talk about everything else. 137 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: And that is the reason you should have picked up 138 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:05,359 Speaker 1: on this already. That is the reason why I inject 139 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: race into things in a very whimsical way, because it's 140 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: not taboo. It shouldn't scare you, it shouldn't frighten you. 141 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: It shouldn't be something that when you hear you immediately 142 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: look around both ways and who's going to lose their job, 143 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,239 Speaker 1: Who's going to get in trouble. Who's going to be boycotted? 144 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: And that's what people do. If I some of you 145 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: do that, I've actually witnessed it with my own eyes. 146 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: In the middle of a conversation, I will say, for 147 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: no good reason when they're just saying, so, this guy 148 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: walks into the restaurant, was he black? Why would you 149 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: ask that? Why does that upset you? If I had 150 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: said is he tall? You wouldn't have panicked. If I'd 151 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: said is he right handed? You wouldn't have panicked. If 152 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: I'd said, was he wearing a coat? I'm asking you 153 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: to give me details about the person in the story. 154 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: That's how we tell a story. We set the time, 155 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: the place, the who, what where, We describe the person 156 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: to paint a picture. If you read Himmingway talking about 157 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: the guy in the bar, as your narrator is walking 158 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: into the bar, he will describe not just that the 159 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: man is wearing glasses, but that they're pinz knaze or 160 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: however you pronounce it glasses, and he may give you 161 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: the color. He'll tell you whether they create an oval 162 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: effect on the eye. He doesn't just tell you the 163 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: guy's wearing a hat. He'll tell you how the hat's 164 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: sitting on his head. He doesn't just tell you that 165 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: the guy white. He'll tell you whether he's sunburned or 166 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: whether he looks like he's worked on a Marina doc 167 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: his entire life. He doesn't just tell you what kind 168 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: of clothes. He tells you how those clothes are hanging. 169 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: Do they look like thrift store clothes or designer clothes? 170 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: Are they well worn from that day or did he 171 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: pick them up off the floor. So why is race 172 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: a subject that is simply a descriptor that makes people 173 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: so uncomfortable? Well, there are people who have taught you 174 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: or scared you into believing that that's a thing you 175 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: have to pretend doesn't exist, which is really stupid. If 176 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: I walk into a group of black guys and they say, 177 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: Mike be was up, and then I leave and somebody 178 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: who doesn't know me comes out of the bathroom and 179 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: they go, who were you all talking to? They wouldn't say, 180 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: O human being. Okay, well I saw four people walk 181 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: in which one were y'all talking to uh person who 182 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: was wearing a shirt? Okay, there were four people wearing 183 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: a shirt. They would say, you know that white boy, 184 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: you saw him? That's not a bad thing. That doesn't 185 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: offend me because it's true. And that's how they separate 186 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: me from the Asian guy, the Hispanic guy, and the 187 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: cave man that walked with him with me who might 188 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: have also been a white man, but we're really not 189 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: sure because some of those early civilizations you kiss it, 190 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: you know. I want to ask you to do yourself 191 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: a favor right now and rock somebody's world, you know. 192 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: In conversation with people, I find that we devote a 193 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: lot of energy to consuming content, and we devote a 194 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: lot of energy to the internal conversation within our own 195 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: head of where we stand on issues and who we're 196 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: going to support and who we're against and how much 197 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: we're against them. Important, no doubt important should be done, 198 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: and sadly a lot of people don't do it. But 199 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: we are getting diminishing returns at some point because we 200 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: are consuming what would appear to be the same swirl 201 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: of information from the same echo chamber day in and 202 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: day out, which leads to a sense of frustration that 203 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: nothing's being done, which just not. But part of that 204 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: becomes if it's what I talk about, sixteen hours a day, 205 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: all day, every day, and all I ever think about. 206 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,360 Speaker 1: Then even one day of talking about it is interminable 207 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,719 Speaker 1: because it's all I'm talking about. You have to have 208 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: some level of balance to make it. Soldiers in war 209 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: don't fight the war in the minute the battle is over, 210 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: repaired to their tents and talk about the war. They 211 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: make music, They write letters home, they compose poetry. They 212 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: look at a picture of their girl and pine for 213 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: her in the town they lived in. They send a 214 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: letter to their mom and tell her how much they 215 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: loved her. They might play cards and drink some whiskey. 216 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: It's not because the battle's not real and people aren't dying. 217 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: It must be won or we will lose. No, it's 218 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: because of the understanding that that is so all consuming 219 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: that it has to be turned off and recharged. And 220 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: you have to have a diversion from that engagement and 221 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: a lot of our And you know why you don't 222 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: have diversion, because the radio and the website and the 223 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: TV station can't afford for you to have a diversion. 224 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: They need to keep you plugged in the whole time. 225 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: They need to keep you so plugged in that you're 226 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: worn down. This trickle battery is catching on fire and 227 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: not good. It's overheating, burning everything down. So what do 228 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: you do? What do you do to find meaning in 229 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: your day? What do you do that at the end 230 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: of it you say I did that? Ah yeah, Because 231 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: watching television news, reading the websites of the headlines, that 232 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: does not leave you with a feeling of fulfillment, satisfaction, completion, 233 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: and accomplishment. It may be necessary, but it does not 234 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: do that. So let me challenge you to find and 235 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: one thing today that will leave you with that feeling. Example, 236 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: there's a business that you support, maybe a restaurant, may not. 237 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: Maybe a little distribution company, maybe a tire company or 238 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: an oil change company, or a muffler shop. But it's 239 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: locally owned and the owner is there on site and 240 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: you like the service they provide or the product they 241 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 1: build for the few who still do Or maybe it's 242 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: dun fence company, or maybe it's the people who cut 243 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: your grass, or maybe it's the people who painted your 244 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: home or the guy who takes care of your car. 245 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: But it could be a burger joint, could be a 246 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: beer joint, It could be most any small business you 247 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 1: can imagine. The point is not the product of the service. 248 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: The point is that their biggest challenge is getting enough 249 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: people in to serve a enough good employees to keep 250 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: the business afloat, and it's so much harder than you think. 251 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: You would be shocked what a difference you could make 252 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: if you go in and spend a dollar. Secondly, if 253 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: you ask the owners, hey, what can I do to 254 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: help you? Guys? I want to spread the word. You 255 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: guys are wonderful. I wish more people knew about you. 256 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: You got a Facebook page, put up a post, simple 257 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: quick post. I had a great experience at this restaurant. 258 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: I encourage you to try it out. Now, go the 259 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: extra mile and you'll get a lot more bang for 260 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: your buck. Give the address, the cross street, the phone number, 261 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: and who to ask for because if somebody has, the 262 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: more layers you put into getting someone to do what 263 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: you want them to do, the less likely you will 264 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: accomplish getting them to do what you wanted them to do. 265 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: If someone sends me, hey, you ought to watch this movie. 266 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 1: If when I'm flipping through movie ideas, that movie comes 267 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: up on the screen and I can hit play, then 268 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: I will. But I'm not going to go do the 269 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: research on all the movies that are just the name 270 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: of a movie. Why would I? But if you tell 271 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: what the movie's about might catch my interest. If you 272 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: tell what the movie is about and put a link 273 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: to it, you're increasing the chances. I see salesmen do this. 274 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: I see people do this all day every day. Hey, 275 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: would you this is a great one. Hey, would you 276 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: mind calling my dad in having him on the show 277 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: because this is his interesting thing that he did in 278 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: his life, and I think you would be fascinated by it. 279 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: Why not include his phone number and his name so 280 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: I can go look it up? Because people are lazy 281 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: or thoughtless. If your life depended on that business that 282 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 1: you you've decided to show favor to today, then you would do 283 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: more than just post or tell one person a so 284 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: and so Bob's down the corner is pretty good. You 285 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: would drive them there yourself, just like we do for elections. 286 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 1: That's how candidates win election. I tell you this, if 287 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: you've ever been involved with a campaign, it ain't going 288 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: to war, not even one one millionth of it. But 289 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: there is after the election a certain serotonin drop. There 290 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: is almost a sadness, a sense of loss. Because campaigns 291 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: are all consuming. They're exciting, you're engaged, in a battle. 292 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: Can't tell you how many warriors have told me that 293 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: they come back when a campaign is over, people who've 294 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: been in it, Especially if you win. There's a sense 295 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: of exhaustion because now the race is run. But there's 296 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: almost a sadness because when you're in the middle of 297 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: a campaign, you wake up thinking about it and go 298 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: to sleep thinking about it. Your mind doesn't stray. You 299 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: are so locked in, you feel so alive. What if 300 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: you were to take that mentality today and say, you 301 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. I've got a grandson. I'm 302 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: eighty two years old. I might not be here in 303 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: a year or five. When my grandson is older, I 304 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 1: want him to know how much his papa loved him, 305 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: or his mamma loved him. I'm gonna sit down right 306 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: now while he's in school. I'm gonna write him a 307 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: letter that i'm gonna present to him, and I'm gonna 308 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: ask his mom if I can pick him up at three, 309 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take him fishing, and I'm gonna have 310 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: the food ready and the whole deal. Or I'm gonna 311 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: take him to the arcade, or I'm gonna take him 312 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: to the BMX fit whatever he would love, and go 313 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: make a memory. You will never regret that you did. 314 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: That time. 315 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 3: When he says, my lady, his art this not art imitating. 316 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: Rustiate him a cool million to perform at Rush's wedding 317 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: like a house concert. Then they questioned and criticized Elton John. 318 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: Why would you play Elton? Why would you play Russian 319 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: Limbaugh's wedding. This was when he married Catherine, not too 320 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: many years ago, and they were afraid that, well, I'd 321 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: like to see the tax rate lowered, the borders closed. 322 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: I'm against abortion, and I think a vermative action is 323 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: out of control, and global warming is a bunch of bunk. 324 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: They thought, maybe, you know, he shared some political views, 325 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: and he says, pay me a million dollars. Nobody paying 326 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: you a million dollars. You think you might get passed 327 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: some minor disagreements over politics. And when Rush was criticized 328 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: or questioned, said, I love Elton John. It's a dream 329 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,199 Speaker 1: come true. Are you kidding me? You don't need to 330 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: come to the wedding. You're not invited anyway, as only 331 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: Rush could do. All right, Nine presidents never graduated from college, 332 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: the last one and the only one of the twentieth century. 333 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: Can you guess it was? You can guess think of 334 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: the most common president, by which I mean breeding schooling. 335 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: He was a clerk. In fact, he was a very 336 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: very corrupt clerk in Missouri who I think was a 337 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: Pendergas family who ran a machine there, and he was 338 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: the cog in the wheel that made it happen. Harry S. 339 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: Truman S stands for nothing. Yeah, it's like in the 340 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: word T, like iced T. The E and the A 341 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: are silent, same things, no middle name. So you're nine 342 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: presidents who never graduated from college in George Washington, Andrew Jackson, 343 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: Martin van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln you 344 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: could practice law without a college degree at the time, 345 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: Andrew Johnson, the accidental president when Lincoln was assassinated, and 346 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,120 Speaker 1: last but not least, Grover Cleveland, and then, of course 347 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: Harry S. Truman. All right, very quick ramon to make 348 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: a point. There are a handful of first ladies in 349 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: American history that are extremely well known, and the rest 350 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: are not partially known. I don't know much about him. 351 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: You either know the first lady and something about her, 352 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: or you don't know her. Name at all. I looked 353 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: this up this weekend, so I'm kind of interested to share, 354 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: like a little nerd. All right, so here we go. 355 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: I'll give you the president, and very quickly you spout 356 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,360 Speaker 1: the first lady's name. Are you ready? We'll go in order. 357 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: George Washington, Martha Washington is correct, John Adams, Abigail Adams 358 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: is correct. Thomas Jefferson, Martha, you wouldn't know. James Madison, 359 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: Dolly Madison, that's correct. James Monroe, Elizabeth, you wouldn't know that, 360 00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: John Quincy Adams, Louisa. You wouldn't know. Andrew Jackson. A 361 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 1: lot of people know this one because they were married, 362 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: well that they were both separately married, and it became 363 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: a huge scandal and they smeared him with that. Rachel 364 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 1: Emily Jackson. Oh, you're just guessing old names. Martin van 365 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: Buren Hannah. But her full name, just so you know, 366 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: was Hannah Hoose h o E s Hannah Hoose van Buren. 367 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: Those Hose girls, you know, that's what they were known as. 368 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: William Henry Harrison, Anna Tutthill, Simms Harrison, John Tyler, Letitia 369 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: James K. Polk, Sarah Zachary Taylor, Margaret Millard Fillmore, another 370 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: Abigail Franklin, Pierce Jane James Buchanan never married. You know 371 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: what that means if you're president from eighteen fifty seven 372 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:13,720 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty one and you never married. Abraham Lincoln, Mary 373 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: Todd Lincoln is correct? Andrew Johnson, Elizah. You wouldn't know that. 374 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: Ulysses s. Grant, Julia Rutherford b. Hayes Be's Birchard by 375 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: the way, Lucretia, Oh no, sorry, not Lucretia, Lucy Lucy. 376 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: James Garfield's been shot down. His widow was Lucretia. His 377 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: successor Chester, Arthur Ellen Groover Cleveland, Francis Benjamin Harrison, Caroline 378 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: Groover Cleveland. I like old name, Francis. William McKinley, Ida. 379 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: Don't name women Ida anymore? Teddy Roosevelt. Do you know 380 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: Teddy Rose? Else West name Edith Kermit Caro Roosevelt, William H. Path, 381 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: Helen Woodrow Wilson Ellen, not Helen Ellen. Calvin Coolidge, what 382 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: a perfect name for his wife, Grace, because he was 383 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,479 Speaker 1: a Methodist minister, Grace good Hugh Coolidge. And did that 384 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: sound like a minister's wife, Grace? It's only an English novel, 385 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 1: Herbert Hoover. His wife's name was Lou Lou Franklin D. Roosevelt. See, 386 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: there's one of those that you know. The wife's name 387 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: Eleanor is correct. Harry S. Truman. I think not as many, 388 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: but a lot of people will know Harry Truman's wife's name, 389 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: Bess B. E Ss. Dwight D. Eisenhower. From here people 390 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 1: will know, I think most. Maybe you know what state 391 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: Dwight Eisenealer was born in Texas. John F. Kennedy, The 392 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: Lovely Jacquelyn Bouvier Kennedy and then she goes and ruin 393 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: it by Maryonnette Lyndon B. Johnson, particularly known in Texas. 394 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: What a great cause. Flowers on the Highway that might 395 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: seem silly, but that's lasting to this day, and I 396 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: love it. By the Lady Bird, Dick Nixon, Pat Gerald 397 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: Ford Betty famous for Jimmy Carter, rosalind Ronald Reagan, of course, 398 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: Nancy Barbara Bush, Oh sorry, George Bush. Barbara Bush most 399 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: noted for what was Her Cause? Literacy? Bill Clinton, Oh Back, 400 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: Taste of My Mouth? George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Barack Obama, 401 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: Michelle Obama, Donald J. Trump, The most beautiful, The first 402 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: days Millennia and Joe Biden, Doctor Joe Biden,