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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markwood Show on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: On my monologue last episode, I talked about how people

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Speaker 1: crave normal and they want to know what to expect.

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Speaker 1: A few people have called this election the revenge of

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Speaker 1: the normies, and I really have to agree. People don't

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Speaker 1: want to be yelled at for using a term that

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Speaker 1: was okay last year but no longer is today. They

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Speaker 1: don't want to have to use language they think is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to be judged for having very standard

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Speaker 1: opinions by people who are really fringe, but have it

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Speaker 1: reinforced by others because everyone is afraid to fight back.

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Speaker 1: I can hear people saying, but Donald Trump is unpredictable,

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Speaker 1: and that's true, but not in the way the last

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Speaker 1: few years have been extremely unpredictable.

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Speaker 2: We really couldn't be sure.

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Speaker 1: What Joe Biden and comm Will Harris believed. Biden ran

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Speaker 1: as a moderate and then seemed not controlled but certainly

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Speaker 1: guided by his more left wing staff. Kamala Harris was

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Speaker 1: super left in California, but then ran as a moderate

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Speaker 1: this time. Last time she ran as super left. Yes,

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Speaker 1: politics is what it is, and Donald Trump was a

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Speaker 1: Democrat from most of his life and all of that.

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Speaker 1: But there is a sense with Trump that you get

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Speaker 1: what you get and there is no pretense. People like

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Speaker 1: to know what to expect. Yes, I'm going to tie

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Speaker 1: the political back to your own lives. If the election

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Speaker 1: went the way you hoped, there really is no need

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Speaker 1: with it. And if it didn't go the way you hoped,

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Speaker 1: I'd suggest not going around talking about how everyone who

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Speaker 1: voted for Trump is a fascist. More than anything else,

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Speaker 1: let the people around you know that this is the

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Speaker 1: behavior they can expect from you, you will expect from them.

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Speaker 1: Thanksgivings coming soon. Don't get roped into arguing with people

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Speaker 1: you love over politics. It's not that the political is

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Speaker 1: not important. It's just that no one's mind will get changed.

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Speaker 1: No one enjoys being lectured or getting little comments made

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Speaker 1: Family and friends deserve that from you, and you from them.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next an interview with Michael Brendan Doherty. Join

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Speaker 1: four four eight two four Safe Today.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show.

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Speaker 1: On iHeartRadio. My guest today is Mychael Brendan Doherty. He's

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Speaker 1: a senior writer at National Review, the William F. Buckley,

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Speaker 1: Senior Scholar at Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the author of

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Speaker 1: My Father Left Me Ireland, a really fantastic book.

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Speaker 2: I loved it so much. Hi, Michael, so nice to

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Speaker 2: have you on.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's great.

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Speaker 2: I love the book.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I've recommended it to so many people.

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Speaker 1: It's a few years old now and I still like

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Speaker 1: refer to it.

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Speaker 2: When did it come out.

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Speaker 3: It was twenty nineteen, so it was in the Before Times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally before times.

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Speaker 3: I looked up the other day and thought, oh, maybe

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Speaker 3: I should do a five year five years event, and

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Speaker 3: then I realized that already passed.

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Speaker 1: Well, what about like a follow up of you know, well,

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Speaker 1: we should you write second books? I hear not me personally,

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Speaker 1: but I am aware people do it. This was your first, right.

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Speaker 3: I haven't done it yet, but you know, stay tuned.

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Speaker 3: There may be news on that front soon.

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Speaker 1: So the book is about you're raised in America, your

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Speaker 1: father is Irish and lives in Ireland. My kids used

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Speaker 1: like an Irish king or something and he left you Ireland.

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Speaker 2: But that's not what it's about. So can you tell

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny what your kids thought is

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Speaker 3: kind of what my father almost taught me to believe.

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Speaker 3: But it was I wanted to write about a couple

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Speaker 3: of things at once which were coming together, which were

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Speaker 3: growing up fatherless. Right. My father had left before I

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Speaker 3: was born, and wasn't it was only a very sporadic

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Speaker 3: unusual relationship in that, like most children of divorce or

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Speaker 3: and that wasn't it for me. For me, I would

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Speaker 3: I was reflecting on that relationship I'd had with him

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Speaker 3: in light of a couple of events as I was

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Speaker 3: my mother had kind of filled our home with Irish

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Speaker 3: culture and music and even some language and yeah, Irish American,

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Speaker 3: and in kind of my father's absence, it was a

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Speaker 3: And gradually, you know that the throughout the these letters

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Speaker 3: that I'm writing to him in this book, I'm revealing

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Speaker 3: the story of how he and I reconciled as adults.

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Speaker 3: And you know how meaningful that was to me, to

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Speaker 3: of gift. It gave me of access to Irish nationality

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Speaker 3: and it's kind of legends and history, and and through

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Speaker 3: that I was able to access values and ideas that

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Speaker 3: how to be you know, there's a there's a kind

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Speaker 3: of contrast in the end of the book between the

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Speaker 3: the nineteen nineties, where it was like we were sured

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Speaker 3: very easily. Just you know, just get educated, behave seasonally enough,

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Speaker 3: And then the education that kind of the hero of

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Speaker 3: wanted to teach them to be proud, valiant and tough

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Speaker 3: And what I came to realize in the end was that,

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Speaker 3: you know, in a way, my mother had been that

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Speaker 3: sacrificial figure in my life who kind of threw her

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Speaker 3: my father had also been this surprise figure in that.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'd always conceived of his abandonment as you know,

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Speaker 3: life on the other side. So, yeah, I just wanted

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Speaker 3: like endemic in society, and I had this unique perspective

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more from Michael Brendan Doherty.

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Speaker 2: I remember reading this and thinking your mother left you

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Speaker 2: Ireland and that she was the pusher of Irish culture

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting you know that your dad was the

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Speaker 2: You to the place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, it was funny. One of the

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Speaker 3: it's a book about fatherhood, but it's it's a disguised

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Speaker 3: poem about maternal love. And in a way, like it

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Speaker 3: was a very fulfilling book to write, Like personally, I

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Speaker 3: it was incredibly like a cathartic experience to do this,

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Speaker 3: and it was sort of like no reversal. Like when

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Speaker 3: I was a very young boy, you know, you're taught

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Speaker 3: I remember, like, as like a little kid, I was

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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, God will let me off on

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Speaker 2: This one clearly does not count.

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Speaker 3: Clearly like it doesn't apply to me exactly like and

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Speaker 3: so then I had this experience at like thirty five

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Speaker 3: the commandment. And it's such a childly thing to think,

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Speaker 3: but it was. Yeah, it was incredibly moving to experience

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Speaker 1: Though, are you succeeding and raising your children like with

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Speaker 1: those Irish values that you talk about.

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Speaker 3: I'm certainly they certainly have the romance for Ireland. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we've been able to We're very you know, we're blessed

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Speaker 3: with more material resources and cheaper airfare than existed in

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Speaker 3: my childhood. You know, in my childhood, you know, a

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Speaker 3: a phone call to Ireland could like rerecord the family

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Speaker 3: we get to go, you know maybe every other year.

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Speaker 3: He comes here, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, and he's really courage and the valiant and the

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Speaker 4: second I mean, I'm trying, you know, you know, you try,

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Speaker 4: yeah to teach your boy's courage and to be proud and.

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Speaker 3: I would clever is not enough. I like that work

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Speaker 2: But like, yeah, you.

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Speaker 2: That's something we stressed to our kids a lot.

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Speaker 1: Like some of the smartest people I've met went nowhere

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Speaker 1: you to struggle. I want it to be hard. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be the biggest thing, Like I was

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Speaker 3: it right when I was sixteen, was like follow your heart,

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Speaker 3: things in life that I've pursued were like romances, and

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Speaker 3: I've never regretted going where that that risk and that

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Speaker 3: ashion is like that that has always worked out.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, it's good. So I love that conversation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, live dangerous in some ways.

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Speaker 1: Yeah sure, Yeah, I've loved this conversation. I love reading you.

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Speaker 1: You're just such a beautiful writer. And here with a

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Speaker 1: tip for my listeners on how to improve their lives.

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Speaker 1: And you've kind of gotten into some of it, I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: but leave us with a tip.

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Speaker 3: A tip I think is improve. One thing that I'm

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Speaker 3: is like improving the rituals in my day. Like you

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Speaker 3: do that and find little things to do with you know,

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Speaker 3: if you have kids, like with them, you know, fifteen

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think like improving those rituals is like

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Speaker 3: a way to add a ton of of value to

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Speaker 3: really overhauling the you know, the whole Like if you've

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Speaker 3: got basic things working, fix those little little things.

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Speaker 1: He is Michael Brendan Dougherty rita met National Review check

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Speaker 1: out my father left me Ireland.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Michael, Well, thank you it would

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Speaker 2: be great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol Marco

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