1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today we have with 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: us Zachary Levi. He is an actor and the founder 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: of Nerd HQ, also the author of the new book 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Radical Love. But you may know him from the Shazam 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: movies or Tangled. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 2: Or the TV show Chuck. Actually, Tangled is a huge 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 2: It's a huge movie. 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: I have four girls, four daughters, so in our house 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: we are big fans of Eugene. I don't necessarily I 10 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: would like them to meet a Eugene and like be 11 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: past his Flynn Ryder stage. 12 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: So just so we're clear, it makes sense. 13 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 3: That makes sense as a model cares about her daughters. 14 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just want you to know it is 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: one of my favorite Disney movies. But that being said, 16 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:44,480 Speaker 1: you have recently come out and. 17 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 4: I has it. 18 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you've endorsed Donald Trump. But your your reasoning 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: is so much deeper than that. And that's what I 20 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: wanted to talk to you about because I feel like 21 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: people hear that and. 22 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: They're like, oh, he just loves Donald Trump. 23 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, when I listen to you talk, 24 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: it's not that at all. It's the policies And it 25 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: was really a Bobby Kennedy thing. But you're this bigger 26 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: than life person who's come out and said this in 27 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: such a intelligent way that seems like it should just 28 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: make people think. And you've just asked people to think. 29 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,119 Speaker 1: But it comes with some blowback, doesn't it. 30 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 3: Yeah? 31 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 4: I mean, unfortunately, but it was all to be expected. 32 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 4: I mean, I listen, I've I've been blessed enough to 33 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 4: work in entertainment for twenty five years, and I hope 34 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 4: I get to do it for a lot longer, and 35 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 4: I think that I will. I think that you know, 36 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 4: whether or not I get hired by any of the 37 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 4: big studios for any more of their reindeer games, I 38 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 4: don't know. But the truth is, just to take a 39 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 4: quick little tangent, I really do believe that AI is 40 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 4: about to entirely eviscerate the entertainment industry as well as 41 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 4: many other industries. 42 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: So please, for everyone listening to. 43 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 4: This podcast, just just you know, perk up your ears 44 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 4: a bit more, open your eyes a bit more. 45 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 3: AI is very real, it's very powerful. 46 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 4: AI in and of itself, I think can be an 47 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 4: incredible gift for those who control the AI and use 48 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 4: it for whatever means they want to and ends that 49 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 4: they have. I do think it will displace millions of jobs, 50 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 4: millions and so in entertainment, I was looking at this, Well, 51 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 4: wait a minute. I am someone who professes and talks 52 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 4: about and has been, you know, banging the drum that 53 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 4: AI is coming for our jobs. So what am I 54 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 4: really afraid of? At the end of the day, and 55 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 4: I thought, and I prayed very deeply about making this 56 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 4: decision because I knew that I would be crossing the rubicon. 57 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 4: There's no coming back from this, there is no there's 58 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 4: no going and doing a town hall, you know, Tolsi. 59 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 4: She and I become friends. I shared my heart and 60 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 4: my concerns for the country, for my industry. And then 61 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 4: you know, a week later, she calls me and she goes, 62 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 4: would you want to moderate this town hall? Because she 63 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 4: knew that I had already been stumping for Bobby Kennedy. 64 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 4: I still think that guy is the dreamiest candidate ever. 65 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 4: I think he's the best candidate we've been given since 66 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 4: his father. Honestly, like I would have voted for him 67 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 4: ten times over. 68 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 3: But that is not the reality that we're in. The 69 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 3: reality that we're in. 70 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 4: Is that not Trump and the Republicans but Kamala and 71 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 4: the Democrats made it impossible for Bobby to run. 72 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: That is a fact. 73 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 4: And because of that, I do think we ended up 74 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 4: with a silver lining in all of it because then Trump, 75 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 4: right after his attempted assassination, and I believe a very 76 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 4: moment of great clarity and humility, recognize that everything that's 77 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 4: on the line is far bigger than just him getting 78 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 4: back into office. 79 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 3: I think he was. 80 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 4: Already wanting to salvage his image, right. I think that 81 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 4: there's an ego obviously in that man that wants to 82 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 4: be the biggest and the best. He wants to be 83 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 4: the best president that ever was. And I know that 84 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 4: he knows that he didn't do that the first time. 85 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 4: He did a good job. He did a far better 86 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 4: job than what Biden and Kamala have done in these 87 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 4: last four years. And I think a lot of people 88 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 4: are waking up to that. Take away all of the 89 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 4: talking points and all the propaganda on both sides, Just 90 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: take all of that away, all the messaging, and just 91 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 4: look at the last eight years of governance, and you 92 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 4: tell me which one of those two teams did a 93 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 4: better job. It's pretty obvious now. A lot of people 94 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 4: on the left would say, well, you know, Trump inherited 95 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 4: Obama's economy, and YadA, YadA. That's just more talking points. 96 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 4: As far as I'm concerned, I think that the data 97 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 4: is there. And so when you're someone like myself who 98 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 4: did not vote for Trump in either of these last 99 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 4: two elections, I voted libertarian, I voted my conscience, I 100 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 4: was like, I can't, I will not. I do not 101 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 4: believe in either of the candidates that I'm being offered here. 102 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 4: And I also believe that this nefarious lie that we've 103 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 4: been fed, all of us in the United States for 104 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 4: so long, really really since Perro is well, you know, 105 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 4: a vote for a third party is a wasted vote, 106 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 4: and we've all. 107 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 3: Just believed this nonsense. 108 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 4: And so that's why a third party never has a chance, 109 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 4: because we've all just been indoctrinated. And by the way, 110 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 4: it's the only thing that both the right and left 111 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 4: agree on, it's the only thing I agree on. A 112 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 4: vote for a third parties is a wasted vote because 113 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 4: they don't want any of that interfering. 114 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 3: And Bobby would have been that. 115 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 4: I really do believe that if there would have been 116 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 4: no shitanery and we actually had really clean, honest elections 117 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 4: and and process. 118 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 3: Then I really think Bobby could have won. 119 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 2: But I think that Dick Cheney would say, you are 120 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 2: voting for a third party. 121 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 4: Well, yes he would, because he's a warhawk. He's a 122 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 4: neocon warhawk who's very much involved in the military industrial complex. 123 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 4: And it's shocking to me that there are lifelong Democrats 124 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 4: who have been so anti war who have now been 125 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 4: you know, like a frog in a pot. I mean, 126 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 4: this is how it works. We're all just cooked a 127 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 4: little bit at a time, and so you don't realize 128 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 4: that the goalpost has moved so far away from what 129 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 4: you actually believed in you're voting with party, You're like ah. 130 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 4: And also the propaganda is very strong when all of 131 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 4: the I won't call mainstream media the legacy media, because 132 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 4: really the mainstream is all of this now, which is amazing, 133 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 4: the podcasts and you know, all of these various journalists 134 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,559 Speaker 4: and rumble and sub stack, I mean not the media 135 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 4: has really become an incredibly diverse place, and as it 136 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 4: should be, of lots of different. 137 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 3: Ideas challenging each other in order to get to the 138 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 3: bottom of what is true. 139 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 4: I mean, the way that science should be behaving, and 140 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 4: yet even science is not behaving in this way because 141 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 4: there's agenda. There's agenda because you have massive industry with deep, 142 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 4: deep pockets who are paying lobbyists to pay politicians, and 143 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 4: then we get legislation that is responsible for the poisoning 144 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 4: of our food, our air, our water, our resources. 145 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 3: The fact that we can't get energy. 146 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 4: To everyone in this country, the fact that we are 147 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,679 Speaker 4: some of the sickest people in the world. 148 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: We are the United. 149 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 4: States of America, and we are failing in all of 150 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 4: these categories is an indictment of the corruption in our government. 151 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 4: And so someone who did not want to vote for 152 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 4: Donald Trump, who wanted to vote for Bobby Kennedy, but 153 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 4: who watched all of this stuff go down and then 154 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 4: see Bobby somebody that I know and that I trust, 155 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 4: and Tolcy Gabbert, who I know and I trust, and 156 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 4: I have talked to them personally and I have asked them, 157 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 4: I go, guys, you need to tell me you're making 158 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 4: this endorsement. I know that we need to sometimes make 159 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 4: these political affiliations and YadA, YadA. 160 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 3: Do you really believe he means this? Do you really 161 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,239 Speaker 3: believe that he cares? 162 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,280 Speaker 4: Do you really believe that he's telling the truth when 163 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 4: he says that he's bringing you guys on to go 164 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 4: clean up the swamp that he couldn't clean up the 165 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 4: first time. 166 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: And they, without missing a beat, they looked me in 167 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 3: the eyes and they say absolutely. And that's the moment. 168 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: That's why I say, when I hear you, when I 169 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: hear the way you describe this, I'm like, I mean, 170 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: you are bringing together groups of people that aren't a party. 171 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: It is people that want to do the right thing. 172 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,679 Speaker 1: And you talk about that's always been kind of your calling. 173 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: You've always kind of felt God pulling you toward just 174 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: doing the right thing. 175 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 2: How do you help others? How do you take care 176 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 2: of other people? 177 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: And that's what I keep hearing from this campaign in 178 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: new and different ways, And that is because of a 179 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy coming in and saying, we're not going to 180 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: allow our kids to get sick anymore. And to me, 181 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 1: that is one of the keys right now as a parent, 182 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: as someone who at a young age had breast cancer 183 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: when we don't have cancer in our family, and I 184 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: was like, how did I get cancer? You know? And 185 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: then you see the difference in kids, like when I 186 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: look at the kids that are it's in school with 187 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: my kids. Just the difference in activity level, energy level, 188 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: weight than from when. 189 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 2: We were kids. It's shocking. 190 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: And I say to myself what he says resonates with 191 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: me because this is all happening and it's out of 192 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: our control. 193 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: And I think, like you, you mentioned something on Instagram. 194 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: You were like, well, when I got behind the curtain 195 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: of Hollywood, it was a lets different than what I thought. 196 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: And I think it was the same for me with 197 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: politics when I got behind the curtain and had I 198 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: won in that last election, I think, like Trump, you said, 199 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: Trump didn't do as much as he could have in 200 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: the first term, but he will in the next. 201 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 2: And I don't think he would have in consecutive. 202 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: Terms because I think he had to be out to 203 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: see how corrupt it is. 204 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: There had to be that Bobby Kennedy moment. 205 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, but when your eyes are open suddenly you're like, wow, 206 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: there's this is really messed up. 207 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 2: The lobby is the corruption, It's messed up. 208 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, listen Trump, He's been very honest about this, and 209 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 4: Bobby Trump has talked to it. But Bobby's also talked 210 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 4: about his conversations with Trump regarding these things, Trump didn't 211 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 4: even think he was gonna win. Trump, in his typical 212 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 4: Trump fashion, was like, all right, I'll go These people 213 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 4: are all asking me to go do this thing. This 214 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 4: is talk about some of the best publicity I could 215 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 4: ever have to build my businesses and marl Lago, and 216 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, great, cool, I'll go do this thing. 217 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 4: I'll do it on a lark whatever. 218 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 3: Like fine. 219 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 4: He in his own words is said he wasn't even 220 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 4: really sure that he was going to win, and then 221 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 4: he did, and then he was really the first president 222 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 4: of the United States that hadn't come up in the grinder, 223 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 4: that hadn't come up in this thing that when as 224 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 4: a young senator, you might come in and you have 225 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 4: all the dreams and all the passion to make the 226 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 4: world a better place. But then a lot of these 227 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 4: young representatives and senators they quickly find out, hey, listen, 228 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 4: we know you got a big heart and you want 229 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 4: to change the world. You want to do good, but 230 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 4: you're gonna have to towe some lines and make some 231 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 4: compromises with all of these different things. I know, but 232 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 4: this is what you got to do. And if you 233 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 4: do it, then we're gonna promote you, and promote you 234 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 4: and promote you until finally you get to go and 235 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 4: be a leader in this country. By that point, they've 236 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 4: all sold their soul ten times over. They are in 237 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 4: the pocket of every possible lobbyist and industry and everything else. 238 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 4: And Trump came in, by the way, not without his 239 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 4: own selfish agendas or ideas or whatever. Like I said, 240 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 4: I think he absolutely saw this as an opportunity to 241 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 4: do better in his life. But he really did. I 242 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 4: think he saw an opportunity because he saw that it 243 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 4: was all broken. You can go see interviews of Trump, 244 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 4: like back in the eighties. He's talking about these things. 245 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 4: It's crazy, but he knew it was all broken, and 246 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 4: he thought, in his hubris, I'm gonna get in there 247 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 4: and I'm gonna go do it. But what he didn't 248 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 4: realize is that he was outgunned. And he says this, 249 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 4: he got in there, he had no time for his 250 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 4: transition team. He got surrounded by sikapans and swamp monsters 251 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 4: that twisted him up. And he put a bunch of 252 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 4: people in power that he never should have put in power. 253 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 4: And he acknowledges this, and then they kind of they 254 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 4: just spun him, and he did as best he could. 255 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 4: Amongst all of that, he still did a good job, 256 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 4: I think, better than the last four years of Harris 257 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 4: and Biden. But he knows, Like to your point, sitting 258 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 4: out now, after these last four years circling the wagons, 259 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 4: getting people together, getting everybody in the Republican Party, a 260 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 4: party that really was kind of like in shambles even 261 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, Like people are like, what's going on 262 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 4: a lot of infighting still is. There's some infighting because 263 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 4: there's the neocons versus everybody else whatever. But now with 264 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 4: this team, like, and this is one of the things 265 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 4: I tried to explain in the Instagram Live, You're never 266 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 4: just voting for a president. You're voting for a president 267 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 4: and a vice president and everyone else that is going 268 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 4: to be a part of their transition team and their 269 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 4: cabinet and everything else. Right the fact that I already 270 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:41,439 Speaker 4: know right now, I have no idea other than Walls. 271 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 4: I have no idea who Kamala, I have no idea 272 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 4: what her policies are, and I have no idea who 273 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 4: else she's going to want to bring in. But when 274 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 4: it comes to Donald Trump, I know for a fact. 275 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 4: I get jd Vance, Who's I think fantastic. He could 276 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 4: have run for president himself. Vivek elon Tolcy, Bobby, You've 277 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 4: got a dream team of people of very differing types 278 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 4: of backgrounds and points of view who will collaborate in 279 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 4: a unification in a way we've never really seen. And 280 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 4: they are going to clean up the corruption. I believe 281 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 4: it with everything in me. So do I have to 282 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 4: hold my nose a little bit as I vote for 283 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 4: Donald Trump? Because yes, he doesn't always say or do 284 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 4: all the things that I. 285 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 3: Wish a president would do. Absolutely. 286 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 4: I use an example on the Instagram wife when he 287 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 4: was doing his debate with Kamala and he had a 288 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 4: perfect opportunity to hold her feet to the fire about 289 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 4: the border, and she goes and makes some comment about 290 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 4: how his rallies are small and people walk out of him. 291 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 4: His egol wouldn't let him. He was like, my rallies 292 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 4: are the biggest that nobody walks out. It's like, bro, 293 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 4: come on, come on, Like that is not presidential. 294 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 3: That is so dumb. You were acting like a child 295 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 3: in that moment. 296 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 4: I don't want that, but I can easily I can 297 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 4: absorb that if it means I'm going to get somebody 298 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 4: who's not a puppet of the deep state and who's 299 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 4: going to actually clean it up. 300 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 3: We got to clean it up. 301 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 302 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: a Tutor Dixon podcast. So it's funny that you say this. 303 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: You make me think about it in a different way, 304 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 1: because sometimes my mind thinks about things in terms of 305 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: Disney movies because I have four kids, and I don't 306 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: know if you've ever seen the movie Aladdin, but at 307 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: the at the end many times, okay, so you know 308 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: when when Jafar wants to be like the most powerful 309 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: genie and Aladdin's like, I'm going to get him. I mean, 310 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: that kind of is the same situation you hear Donald 311 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: Trump's like, what if I've done everything, why don't I 312 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: become president of the United States? 313 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: Then I've got all the power. 314 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: But then when you get in you find out, oh, 315 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: it's not the president that has the power, it's the 316 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: machine that has the power. And the only way to 317 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: break that machine is the team. And that's what I 318 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: love about the way you talk about it. I'm vuning 319 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 1: for him, You're voting for the team, And what an 320 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: interesting point of view because you know, I've watched the 321 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 1: team go around the country and you're like, Okay, it's 322 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,079 Speaker 1: it's best to have this person here. 323 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 2: Is it best to have that person there? 324 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: But that person each one of these people resonates with 325 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: a different group and they go, Okay, that's my guy, 326 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: and he's going to go in and know he's going 327 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: to take care of this. And to me, just like you, 328 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 1: I see that the chemicals in our food. I didn't 329 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: even understand lobbying until and the extent of it until 330 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: I ran for office and I saw the people that 331 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: come around you. Oh, in case you get in, I 332 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: want to give you this money, but you're going to 333 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: give me that. 334 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 2: And I'm like, whoa, this is messed up. No wonder 335 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 2: we are in the situation we're in. 336 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 337 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's been going on, you know, since time immemorial. 338 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 4: I mean, i'd like the corruption, this is not something new. 339 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 4: This is something that we have. Absolutely. I will say 340 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 4: that I think probably coming out of World War two, 341 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 4: the military industrial complex, that's when it really kicked on. 342 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 3: That's when it really kicked on to a whole other level. 343 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 4: Right, But there's always been lots of backroom deals and 344 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 4: glad handing and Greece palms for certain moguls to get 345 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 4: what they want legislatively through our government, and you know, 346 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 4: making people rich in the process. 347 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 3: All that stuff's been going on. I think that unfold. 348 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 4: Fortunately, there we just have a few dynamics that are 349 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 4: making all of this a lot more difficult. One of 350 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 4: them is going back to the legacy media. 351 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 3: You know, we. 352 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 4: I have so many more liberal, progressive Democrat friends that 353 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 4: are wonderful human beings that want to this world to 354 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: be unified and healed just as much as I do. 355 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 4: The difference between us is that they still trust CNN 356 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 4: and MSNBC and CNBC and all of the rest of 357 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 4: that legacy media. I don't, and nor do fifty percent 358 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 4: or so of the nation. Right You've got fifty percent 359 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 4: that we'll look at or whatever the numbers are right now. 360 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: I don't know. 361 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 4: I'm actually hoping and believing that this is going to 362 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 4: be a far larger win for Trump than some eking out, 363 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 4: you know, because I don't want there to ever be 364 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 4: some oh election was stolen. 365 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 3: Not going No. I want this to be decisive. 366 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 4: I want this to be something where people on the 367 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 4: left recognize, Oh wow, maybe we don't have our fingers 368 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 4: on the pulse of America because that many people voted 369 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 4: for Donald Trump. So maybe we're not being fed something 370 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 4: that's true. 371 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 2: People don't want to censor us. 372 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 3: Well, absolutely right. 373 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 4: But if you go and look like I do, I 374 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 4: follow a wide range of different people on social media, 375 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 4: I don't listen to or or I mean, I listened 376 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 4: to clips of legacy media as they're distilled through social media, 377 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 4: but I do not go to them for the facts 378 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 4: because I do believe that they as an institution, are 379 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 4: captured by this part of the government that should not 380 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 4: be in any way, shape or form influencing them whatsoever. Also, 381 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 4: big industry pharmaceutical companies spend so much seventy five percent 382 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 4: of the ads on the news are pharmaceutical companies, and 383 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 4: they're not doing that because they are selling more pharma 384 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 4: through those ads. They do it so that they can 385 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 4: have a vice grip on the news networks, so that 386 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 4: if the news networks start holding them accountable, they go, well, 387 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 4: we'll take your funding away, and so. 388 00:16:59,160 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: Then what do they do. 389 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 4: Then everyone at CNN and MSNBC, they're like, don't bite 390 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 4: the hand that feeds you, okay, we won't go there. 391 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,560 Speaker 4: And then it's the government and if the government is 392 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 4: backing them up and saying, oh, you don't need to 393 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 4: look over there. 394 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 3: No, no, they're fine. They didn't do anything wrong. 395 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 4: No, no, no, stay the course and say these horrible things 396 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,479 Speaker 4: about this guy Donald Trump. Now, does Trump do himself 397 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 4: any favors when he goes out and he says stupid stuff. No, 398 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 4: he doesn't. And I wish that he didn't. I wish 399 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 4: that he wasn't as boorish or brutish or whatever his trumpiness. 400 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 4: I say, you know, whatever that is, I don't like it. 401 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 3: I don't. 402 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 4: But he is being absolutely painted in certain lights and 403 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 4: with certain brushes that are just simply not true. One 404 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 4: of those things being like the whole fine people hoax. Right, 405 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 4: The Kamala continues to say, the Democratic Party continues to say, 406 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 4: and the mainstream legacy media continues to part, even though 407 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 4: it's been debunked over and over and over and over again. 408 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 4: He called out all of those that were racist white supremacists, 409 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 4: and it said no room for those people. 410 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 3: He was not talking about those people. 411 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 4: He was talking about find people on both sides of 412 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 4: an issue which was there's this statue that's being torn 413 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 4: down at historical statue. Whether you like the Confederate army 414 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 4: or the people that fought for the Confederacy or not, 415 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 4: this is a piece of history whatever it is, right, 416 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 4: But so there, if you believe and your only sources 417 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 4: of information really are the legacy media and their tend rules, 418 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 4: then of course, even if you're a really well meaning, 419 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 4: wonderful human being, you're gonna think that Trump is hitler. 420 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 4: That's what they keep saying. They've been saying it for 421 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 4: months and months. By the way, they've said that about 422 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 4: every single Republican candidate for the last and elections. I mean, 423 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,959 Speaker 4: it's this is a talking point, right, this is what 424 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 4: they do. 425 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 2: Well, it's control through fear. Yes, there's one. 426 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 4: It's controlled through fear and fear and the fear mongering 427 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 4: and and the and the blaming and the shaming and 428 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 4: all of the things. Right, but beyond that too they 429 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 4: I think that unfortunately we have lost logic, reason and 430 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:02,239 Speaker 4: rational thought as foundational concepts of how we ought to 431 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 4: carry ourselves and interact with one another. We have spun 432 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 4: out into an emotionalist type of universe now, and which is, 433 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 4: by the way, not to say we should not be 434 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 4: in tune with our emotions. 435 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 3: We should. 436 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 4: Absolutely men, particularly we have been burying these things mental 437 00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:22,719 Speaker 4: health and crises and all this. Like, absolutely, let us 438 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 4: tap into and understand what we're feeling, but recognize that 439 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 4: we are responsible for what we feel, not everybody else, 440 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 4: first and foremost, but more than that, but more than that, 441 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 4: let us not be pulled this way and that by 442 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 4: our heartstrings, because they are. There are issues everywhere. I 443 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 4: said this on my live stream. I absolutely believe that 444 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 4: every issue is important in its own right, but we 445 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 4: have to be willing to say that there is a 446 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 4: level of importance right. So women's reproductive rights, that is 447 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 4: an issue. It's an important issue. We all need to 448 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 4: talk about it. I can't wait for there to be 449 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 4: a an actual bipartisan committee of legislators and doctors and 450 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 4: scientists and spiritual people and whatever that is, and they 451 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 4: sit down and they hash out, hey, when does life begin? 452 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 3: Because you've got. 453 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 4: People over here that say it's that conception and that's it. 454 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 4: And you've got people over here that say life doesn't 455 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 4: somehow begin until after the full grown child leaves the 456 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 4: vaginal canal, which I think is bananas. It's bananas that 457 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 4: we would ever even be contemplating aborting a child that's 458 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 4: that fully grown just somehow isn't outside of the mother 459 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 4: that's murdered, in my opinion, But is there somewhere in 460 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 4: the early gestational time that one might make an argument. 461 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 4: Now listen, I'm not saying I would do more than 462 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 4: willing if they if everyone came together and said no, Actually, 463 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 4: it turns out scientifically, spiritually, everything else that spark of 464 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 4: life that happens at inception, that is life, and we 465 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 4: would be doing other you know, murder otherwise. 466 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 3: Whatever. 467 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 4: The point is that I'm making is if you look 468 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 4: at that as an issue women's reproductive rights, well, that's 469 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 4: fifty percent of the population, and it's not even and 470 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 4: of that fifty percent, it's how many women ultimately that 471 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 4: are that are of birthing age and that would run 472 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 4: into these specific issues. Is not a zero, but it 473 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 4: is a much smaller number, let's say, than the amount 474 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 4: of people that are being poisoned by the horrible toxic 475 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 4: ingredients in all of our food, in all of our water, 476 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 4: in all of our products, in our air. That's everyone, 477 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 4: that's you and me, that's every black person, Latin person, 478 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 4: Asian person, gay person, straight person, that's literally every single person. 479 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 4: And if we can't prioritize through logic and reason that 480 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 4: that is a more important thing to be voting on, 481 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 4: to be fixing. While by the way, Roe V Wade 482 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 4: Ginsberg herself said should have been we should have kept 483 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 4: it at a state level, right Like, it's not like 484 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 4: it's this sweeping thing where no woman can get an abortion. 485 00:21:59,520 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 3: Right now. 486 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more of my interview with Zachary Levi, 487 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: But first let me tell you about my partners at Saber. 488 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: Every twenty six seconds, violent crime takes place in the 489 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: United States, and rising crime threatens families. That's why the 490 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: Saber Pepper projectile launcher should be your first choice. 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Sabre radio dot com. 504 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: Now more with Zachary Levi. 505 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 2: After this. 506 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 1: You say I'm willing to sit down and have the conversation, 507 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: I will tell you that a few weeks ago, I 508 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,639 Speaker 1: sat down with a group of hair supporters who didn't 509 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: know who I was, and they went through their stories 510 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: about why abortion was important to them, stories I would 511 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: never hear from a Democrat had they known who I was. 512 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, it's different when I hear 513 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: it from someone, like it's different to have a conversation. 514 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: But we've become the society that is so opposed to 515 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,240 Speaker 1: sitting down and having the conversation once. 516 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 2: You hear something. 517 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 1: Actually, when I saw you do the town hall, it 518 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: was like a bittersweet moment for me because I'm like, 519 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: I love him. I think he's so talented. I love 520 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: watching his stuff, and I hope this doesn't end his career. 521 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: Like I'm happy that he feels this way, but I 522 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: love supporting the work that he does. And what if 523 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: I don't get that chance, And what if he doesn't 524 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: get to do more work because of this. That's the 525 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: feeling that you have when you're on this side of 526 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: the aisle. It's funny because I know that Ben and 527 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: Jerry ice cream people hate me, But when I've had 528 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: a bad day, and even when liberals are mean to me, 529 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: I go and eat Ben and Jerry's, you know, like 530 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: I still support them because they make really good stuff. 531 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 2: But it doesn't go the other way. Always well and listen. 532 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 4: And that's one of the other unfortunate underpinnings of our 533 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 4: issues right now, right is that we the media. That's 534 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 4: a big problem triage, you know, being able to really 535 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 4: identify what's most important and work our way down World 536 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 4: War three most important in nothing else like there's it 537 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 4: won't matter if you can or cannot have an abortion 538 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 4: if the world is nuked. It won't matter if you 539 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 4: can or cannot have an abortion, if you can't even 540 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 4: get pregnant because you're being poisoned with your food, right. 541 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 2: Like not some people don't know what is happening. 542 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 4: They don't, they don't, but again, it is happening, right, 543 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 4: CALLI means and Casey means. 544 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 3: Wonderful. 545 00:24:54,480 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 4: You made so many incredible, great, health conscious and knowledgeable 546 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 4: people that are fighting that fight now. And and you know, 547 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 4: obviously Bobby Kennedy leading that charge, which is fantastic. But 548 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 4: one of the other issues that we and this is 549 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 4: a very drastic one, is that the fear mongering. Really 550 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 4: what it's become is you know, if you go back 551 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 4: and look at debates Nixon, Kennedy, there's so much decorum, 552 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 4: there's so much respect, there's there's it was similar to 553 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 4: Walls and Vance, right. Everyone saw the Trump Harris debate 554 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 4: and we're like everyone watched the Vans and Walls and 555 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 4: like sides, everyone was like, you know what, love done, guys, 556 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,959 Speaker 4: well done. That's what the debate should be, right, And 557 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 4: you know why, because neither of them were taking this 558 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 4: stance that it's a holy war. But what has happened, 559 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 4: by and large is that from a party standpoint, and 560 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 4: this is I think on both sides, both sides are 561 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 4: guilty of this, but I do believe the left is 562 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 4: let's say a little bit more guilty of it is 563 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 4: that is because Trump is not saying that Kamala is 564 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 4: hit right, Pamala and the Democrats are. 565 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,440 Speaker 3: That's holly war status. 566 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 4: That's like, that's like really trying to to make your 567 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 4: followers so religiously zealous that they are willing to look 568 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 4: past and disregard the humanity of the human beings on. 569 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 3: The other side of the aisle. 570 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 4: That means, you know, like, and it's one thing if 571 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,479 Speaker 4: you want to look past and disregard the humanity of 572 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 4: the person they're calling hitler, but then you are lumping 573 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 4: all of the supporters, all of the people who might 574 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 4: not love the guy, but see that from a policy perspective, 575 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 4: he's the better way to go. We're all now Nazis. 576 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 4: That's what you're saying. And you think that you are 577 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 4: the party that is fighting for the right, that is 578 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 4: fighting fighting for the light for good. 579 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,160 Speaker 3: That's not good. That's not light, that's darkness. 580 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 4: That's using hate to go and somehow squash people and 581 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 4: to bury people and to cancel people. And I'm sorry, 582 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 4: but if anyone using those tactics, and there are many, 583 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 4: many people and they feel very self righteous in them 584 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 4: in their doing right. They're like, well, I'm fighting a 585 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 4: good fight, and I said, all my life, I'm like, listen, guys, 586 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 4: if that's what you're doing, you're actually not someone who's 587 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 4: fighting for everyone. You're only fighting for you and people 588 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 4: that you like and people that are agreeing with you. 589 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 4: And I'm not about that. I'm going to fight for 590 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 4: every single human being. I don't care if you agree 591 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 4: with me or not. That was the great thing about 592 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 4: the United States, and that we were able to our 593 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 4: founding fathers like them or lumpem warts and all. They 594 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 4: were brilliant human beings that understood what it meant to 595 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 4: create a government that was a solution to the empires 596 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 4: that predated everything up to this democracy, and they did 597 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 4: everything they could do to safeguard it, including the First 598 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 4: and Second Amendments and all of these things, and saying 599 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 4: and by the way, in a classic liberal who who 600 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 4: had said, I might hate what you're saying, but I'll 601 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 4: fight to the death to defend your right. 602 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 3: To say it. That is what the First Amendment is about. 603 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 4: And for Kamala and Hillary and everybody else to becoming 604 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 4: out being all, we got to this miss him for that, 605 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 4: we got a sensor well, who determines what's misinformation. 606 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,959 Speaker 3: You don't get to determine what that is. 607 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 4: If that means that anyone who's empower and gets the 608 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 4: that's a big brother, that's George, that's that's Orwellian, That's 609 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 4: not what we want. So that is yet another very 610 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 4: big issue that's going on. Very good people, very good 611 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 4: people on both sides, who become so indoctrinated with a 612 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 4: this I gotta we gotta hate that, whoever that is 613 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 4: and whoever supports them, And if that is what's coming 614 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 4: out of anyone at any time, and I do believe, 615 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 4: and I will, I will acknowledge. 616 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 3: These are some of the times that I wish Donald 617 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 3: Trump would be less. 618 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 4: Uh uh uh involved in rhetoric that can be misconstrued 619 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 4: like that, be more careful with his tongue, be more 620 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 4: loving with this tongue, be more empathetic with this tongue. 621 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 4: Recognize that it is far greater to be able to 622 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 4: look at your opponent and have pity on them, like 623 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 4: literally have pity on them, instead of having you know, 624 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 4: throwing barbs and sarcasm and stuff like I hate it. 625 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 3: I hate it. 626 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 4: All Across the board, there are people that I think 627 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 4: make really excellent points and all that, but they do 628 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 4: it with this, with this arrogance and a humorist and 629 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 4: a sarcasm putting down the other side and the gous 630 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 4: nobody's hearing that all you're doing is preaching to the choirs. 631 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, and I see a lot of people, 632 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: I will say, a lot of people on our side 633 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: that it's like this shaming of America. 634 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: And I always say so. 635 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: My dad used to say to me, you're never going 636 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: to walk into a meeting and throw around a lot 637 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: of curse words and have everybody go, wow, I want 638 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: to work for you. 639 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 2: I love you. 640 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: If you come into a meeting and you put everybody down, 641 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: they're going to walk out and you're going to have 642 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: a terrible day of production. 643 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 2: Because you know, we were a foundry people. 644 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: So he was very against that, and I see that 645 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: in so many young people today because it's like it 646 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: makes money, you know, it gets clicks, it goes viral 647 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: to go out and get angry with people. But you 648 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: actually have an interesting background on this too, because you 649 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: work with a lot of people that are struggling with 650 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 1: mental health, and you really work on mental health awareness, 651 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: and I do think that going on to college campuses 652 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 1: and putting everybody down creates this divide, and it doesn't 653 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: right now. 654 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 2: I think it's the time to bring people together. 655 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: And you make such great points with such a cheerful voice. 656 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: It's so different because I do think there are a 657 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: lot of people struggling with mental illness, and I know 658 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 1: people ask you about it all the time because of 659 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: your book and talking about loving yourself, and I just 660 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: want to close on how you've done that and where 661 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: that comes from in you, and how people can kind 662 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: of seek that part of you out as well. 663 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 3: Well. 664 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 4: I would say, you know the mental health journey that 665 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 4: I'm on that I've been on now for seven you know, 666 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 4: just over seven years. Twenty seventeen, I was thirty seven 667 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 4: years old. I just moved to Austin, Texas with these 668 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 4: big dreams of building this vision that God gave me 669 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 4: many many moons prior. 670 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 3: To that of I want to fix Hollywood. How do 671 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 3: I fix Hollywood? 672 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 4: I got to build a new type of Hollywood that's 673 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 4: a movie studio, but a living community kind of built 674 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 4: into it, like a Kibbutz soun steroid. 675 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 3: It's like a really fun, like amazing. 676 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, immunity, work, you know, live, work, play space and 677 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 4: all these dreams and all these passions, and I get 678 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 4: out to Austin and I completely fell apart for myriad reasons. 679 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 4: I didn't want to live anymore, didn't know why. Fortunately, 680 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 4: I had friends and family that were able to booy 681 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 4: me long enough for me to get to therapy and 682 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 4: save my own life and therapy and that was a 683 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 4: whole incredible journey, Like I talked about in Radical Love, 684 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 4: the book, but that I found out for the first 685 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 4: time in my life as a thirty seven year old man, 686 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 4: I didn't love myself. I didn't even know what self 687 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 4: love really was, and that broke my heart in. 688 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 3: And of itself. I was like, oh my god, I 689 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 3: had no idea, no idea. 690 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 4: And so I've been on a really incredible journey since 691 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 4: then of learning to love myself and helping other people 692 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 4: to do the same thing, because I think that once, 693 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 4: if you are blessed enough to walk through the fire, 694 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 4: then it is beholden on you to grab pails of water. 695 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 3: To bring back to those who were still in the flames. 696 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 4: And I realized too the profundity of a wow, like 697 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 4: really every problem that we have Everything that we're dealing 698 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 4: with right now in this election, everything we're dealing with 699 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 4: in this world. 700 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 3: Can all be. 701 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 4: Traced back if you go upstream of every single issue, small, medium, 702 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 4: and large. 703 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 3: If you trace that back upstream, you will. 704 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 4: Find a broken head or a broken heart. That's what 705 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 4: you will find. Every murderer or a rapist, every thief, 706 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 4: every warmonger, every everything, all the greed, all the it's 707 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 4: all someone who is broken inside. A child of God 708 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 4: that might be doing horrible things in the world, but 709 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 4: it's because they are a product of their environment. And 710 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 4: we all cerebrally, I think we all kind of love 711 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 4: or like to say, yeah, I believe that. But then 712 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 4: when it comes to people that are behaving in ways 713 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 4: that we don't like, we want to go a demon, 714 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 4: evil monster as opposed to being like, yo, I do 715 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 4: not agree with you at all. And also you're still 716 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 4: actively doing bad things, so we need to restrain you 717 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 4: and possibly even put you in jail. But we're going 718 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 4: to see you through the eyes of a God that 719 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 4: loves you because you are worthy of that love. We're 720 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 4: going to try and do that. And I think that 721 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 4: you know Scripture speaks to that. Within the you know, 722 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 4: a Judeo Christian type of branch, but also you can 723 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 4: find a lot of that stuff and other very wise 724 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 4: deep philosophy of recognizing that we are products of our environment. 725 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 4: And I think that psychology, modern psychology, really understands that. 726 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 4: And so because I have always felt ever since I 727 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 4: was a little kid, and I and I this it 728 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 4: sounds kumbaya, but I swear to God, I have always 729 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 4: loved people. I have always felt a deep love and 730 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 4: and and heartbreak for when I see anyone, anyone that 731 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 4: that is flailing, that is hurting, that the injustices of 732 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 4: the world, it angers me to no end that there 733 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 4: are people that still take advantage, particularly of children, but 734 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 4: really of anyone, and that people are suffering because of that. 735 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,239 Speaker 4: And so my whole life, I've wanted to fight for 736 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 4: what is right and fight for anyone and everyone that 737 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 4: is being taken advantage of it and help hopefully make. 738 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 3: This world a better place. 739 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 4: But if I can help to do that in helping 740 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 4: people to heal their hearts and minds, if we can 741 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 4: heal everybody's hearts and minds, everybody's gonna have a brilliant 742 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 4: time on this planet. I mean it would be amazing, 743 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,280 Speaker 4: because you wouldn't have people that are like the greed. 744 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 4: So much of what we're dealing with right now is 745 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,600 Speaker 4: downstream of greed, which is downstream of fear right people that, 746 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 4: oh I don't have enough. I don't have enough, so 747 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 4: I need to make another billion dollars. Oh I don't 748 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,800 Speaker 4: have enough. So look at all these ways that the 749 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 4: government said, I can take advantage of that thing or 750 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 4: that thing, and I can make more money for myself, 751 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 4: and then I can go on my yacht and go park, 752 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,959 Speaker 4: get next to other yachts and we can all brag 753 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 4: about how big our yachts are. Like, what are we 754 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 4: even talking about while people are starting to death. This 755 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 4: is what we're doing because their egos are so fragnal 756 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 4: that they need to have the biggest boat in the world. 757 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 4: Like it's ridiculous. But if those people, if their parents 758 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,959 Speaker 4: loved them holy, if they had an actual like gnaw 759 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 4: unfractured soul, if they love themselves without having to have 760 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 4: all the trappings in order to love themselves, man, could 761 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 4: you imagine where they what they would do with all 762 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 4: that wealth. Could you imagine the ways in which they 763 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 4: would invest it back into this world? And help everybody, 764 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 4: and that's what. 765 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 2: We got to sound. 766 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 4: So it is, it is, it is, and I think 767 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,359 Speaker 4: it's possible. But like I said, I think that you're 768 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 4: not going to get there by shaming people there. We 769 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 4: cannot hate our way to a better future. We can 770 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 4: only love our way there. We can love our way there. 771 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 2: And so that can do that perfect quote. 772 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 3: I love it that way in any way that I 773 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 3: can do it. 774 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,320 Speaker 4: And I think that, you know, with the nerd HQ, 775 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 4: I started it as a big fun event that I 776 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 4: did at toan Diego Comic Con for many years, and 777 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 4: we did panels and and photo ops and signings all 778 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 4: for charity, and we would do big dance parties and 779 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 4: but we were raised a bunch of money for for 780 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 4: a great nonprofit called Operation Smile that does cleft lips 781 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 4: and palates and things like that. Great organization. But once 782 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 4: I went through my mental health and I was like, 783 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 4: you know, I can't fight for anything stronger than I 784 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 4: can for mental health. 785 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 3: So I got to fight. 786 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 4: That's got to be my cause. And so I rebranded 787 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 4: nerd HQ to now be a full five oh one 788 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 4: C three and we're going to do events and things 789 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 4: like that but we take donations. You can go to 790 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 4: the website nerdhq dot org. We take donations. We have 791 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 4: like auctions of celebrity signed things and whatever all that 792 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,879 Speaker 4: is we're going to have. We're building a community kind 793 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 4: of like message boards and chat rooms and things so 794 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 4: people can come and have a place of community. Community 795 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,399 Speaker 4: is so lacking in this world right now. We need 796 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 4: to bring people not just online but in person. Right 797 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 4: That's what the events are about. But our goal, my goal, 798 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 4: a bottom line is I want to raise all the 799 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 4: money in the world so that I can pay I 800 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 4: think that I think that it used to be that 801 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 4: the barrier of entry for people going to therapy was 802 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 4: that people didn't think they needed therapy, right People were 803 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 4: afraid of therapy. But we've actually done a really good 804 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,040 Speaker 4: job as a people in this world to destigmatize that. 805 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 3: Awesome. 806 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 4: Now the barrier of entry is people can't afford it. 807 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 4: So if they can't afford it, they will pay for it. 808 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 4: So nerd HQ is just a big fund to literally 809 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,360 Speaker 4: pay for people's therapy. That's what we're doing. So you 810 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,279 Speaker 4: can come on. We're working with an incredible organization called 811 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,480 Speaker 4: Timely Care, and you can and we will onboard our 812 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,759 Speaker 4: first four hundred people. You will have a seat within 813 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,319 Speaker 4: that program. You can go get emergency services, you can 814 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 4: get education, and you can start setting up actual appointments 815 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 4: with therapists because you are deserving. Everyone deserves to. 816 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,880 Speaker 3: Live a healthy and happy life. 817 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 4: And if our governments is not going to spend our 818 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 4: hard earned tax dollars that we give them all the 819 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,760 Speaker 4: time to take care of our own populace and instead 820 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 4: send billions and billions and billions to foreign countries for 821 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 4: their aid, which by the way, is not to say 822 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,439 Speaker 4: that other countries don't need help, but they don't need 823 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,280 Speaker 4: help over our people. If we're only giving seven hundred 824 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,359 Speaker 4: and fifty dollars to people who lost everything in Hurricane Helene, 825 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,880 Speaker 4: if we're only giving seven hundred dollars to people that 826 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 4: lost everything and their homes burned down in Lahina, we 827 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,399 Speaker 4: are not doing the job that we need to be doing. 828 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,239 Speaker 4: And then on top of all of that, the way 829 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 4: that we could be giving people mental health, that we 830 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 4: could be helping them to become better people, if our 831 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 4: government's not going to step up and do it, then 832 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:02,399 Speaker 4: by god, we're going. 833 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 3: To do it privately. So that's what nerd HQ's about. 834 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,200 Speaker 1: I love it. You are such an inspiration. Honestly, I'm 835 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 1: so glad that we got to talk today. I just 836 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,120 Speaker 1: I hope that you are able to continue to be 837 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:14,760 Speaker 1: a loud voice. 838 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 2: But I know you are, Like I just know that 839 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 2: whatever you're going. 840 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 1: To you can tell, you can feel it in the 841 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,640 Speaker 1: way you talk and the way you speak, that what 842 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,799 Speaker 1: you do in life is going to be meaningful. And 843 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: there's so I could talk to you for hours about 844 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: this stuff because I think that there's so much that 845 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,240 Speaker 1: we have in common. I think there's so many people 846 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:32,839 Speaker 1: out there that feel this way and you just don't 847 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:33,759 Speaker 1: get to express it. 848 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,840 Speaker 2: So, Zachary LEVI thank you so much for being on today. 849 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,359 Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. God bless you, 850 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 4: God bless your whole audience. God bless America. May we 851 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 4: get to the other side of this election. And regardless 852 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 4: of the election results, though I really really hope and 853 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 4: believe it's going to be Donald Trump because of his 854 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 4: entire team, I really hope that regardless we're all able 855 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 4: to see each other as God's children and love all. 856 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 2: I could not agree more. I could not agree more. 857 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: And we thank you all for listening today to the 858 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: Tutor Dixon Podcast. As always, you can get it at 859 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 860 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,399 Speaker 2: And join us next time. Have a blessed day.