1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Remembering Rush this Christmas, and in his memory, we'd ask 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: you to continue classes at the Institute of Advanced Conservative 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: Studies in the new year and beyond. I want to 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: talk to you young people out there. I really do. 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: I have I think noted on this program on several 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: past occasions. That's something about the new media, that the 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: explosion in new media and the effect that it's having 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: on attitudes among young people. And I'm talking about recent 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: college grads, high school students, people that are going to 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: be entering the workforce soon. Is this It's troubling to me. 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: All of the MySpace, dot com pages, my face, you know, 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: all of these things YouTube. It seems that what drives 13 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: all of this is something that these young people have 14 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: not lived long enough to learn to cherish. What's driving 15 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: it is this desire for everybody to know everything about 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: them and the desire, the desire to maintain some privacy 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: about oneself as being cast aside. And that's you know, 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: that's not good. You know, all of your life is 19 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: not everybody else's business. But what is it that's driving this? 20 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: What's driving this is in a media world. We clearly 21 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: live in a media world. As a desire to be heard, 22 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: a desire to be known, a desire to be seen, 23 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: and that all boils down to a desire for fame. Now, 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: we've always had this in our culture and has been 25 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: typified by Andy Warhol's everybody gets their fifteen minutes of 26 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 1: fame at one point. But that was not something said 27 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: in a complimentary way. Means everybody's going to make a 28 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: fool themselves one of these days. We're all going to 29 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: know it. It's good if it only happens once for 30 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. And when you make your life's mission to 31 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: have everybody know everything about you, you are missing a 32 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: key ingredient of motivation for success. Now what you're saying, 33 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: some of you young people would about you? What about you? 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: You're famous? Yeah, but that was never my objective. And 35 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: you know, I don't have any regrets, but I'll tell 36 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: you I would trade it in a minute. But I can't. 37 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: But I would gladly get rid of all of this fame. 38 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: Unfortunately I can't for a whole host of reasons. Number one, 39 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to show biz business, but the fame aspect 40 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: is not. It had nothing to do with getting into this. 41 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: They are all kinds of motivational ploys that people you 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: as some are good and some are bad. I myself 43 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 1: have been fired in this in this business seven or 44 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: eight times, and there was one time that I felt, 45 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to show these people wrong motivation. There was 46 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: one time in my life where I didn't have any 47 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: money and I was surrounded by people who had gobs 48 00:02:54,639 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: of it, and it made me feel, you know, well, 49 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: not one of the gang, and so I became focused 50 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: on earning money. It was miserable. Fortunately that only lasted 51 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: for a year or maybe two. But the you know, 52 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: if you want fame, it's like billion Denton said, Denton, Texas. 53 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: And I think a lot of young people do, which 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: is one of the troubling things about this new media 55 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: that everybody can get a little bit of it whenever 56 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: they want it within some sort of limited audience. But 57 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: it's not really fame. If fellow MySpace ors know who 58 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: you are, you know it's contained within that universe. But 59 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: what have you done other than put yourself out there? 60 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: Have you accomplished anything to get that fame? Have you 61 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: achieved anything? Is anything about your life noteworthy other than 62 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: what you've had to tell people? Or is what you've done, 63 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: go beyond your telling people, and people realize it. The 64 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: key for genuine happiness is to set high expectations for 65 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: yourself in terms of work and achievement. Then go go 66 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: go meet them and possibly exceed them, and then all 67 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: these other ancillary things that you think you want will 68 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: fall in place. They'll happen if the achievement part takes place. 69 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: Remember when I when I wanted to get the radio 70 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: when I was twelve. My motivation was I hated school. 71 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: I despised it. To me, it was prison, and I 72 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: would get up every morning with my brother and my 73 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: mother'd be fixing breakfast, and she had the radio on. 74 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: The guy on the radio was having fun, and I 75 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: knew he wasn't in prison, and I knew when he 76 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: finished his shift at nine or ten o'clock he might 77 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: have another job to go to. But he wasn't going 78 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: to go to school. He was running his life. When 79 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: I was twelve, I wanted to run my life. I 80 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: didn't want to have to be told by a bunch 81 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: of people. Got to sit in this room and listen 82 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: to stupid lecture on the thousand minor characters at Shakespeare, 83 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: which I know I'm never going to use the rest 84 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: of my life. But what about a rounded education. I 85 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: think my education pretty rounded. Took care of it myself. 86 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: I paid attention class, I got okay grades in some places, 87 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: but I hated it. But when I finally got into 88 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: radio when I was sixteen, the only thing that drove 89 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: me was doing it as well as I could, just 90 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: being the best I could be at it. That's what 91 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: drove me, you know, and kept me going. Like getting 92 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: fired all these seven or eight times, and we've all 93 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: been fired people amount to anything had been fired, and 94 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: we're all of us who have been fired, have all 95 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: been told by some boss who fired us that we're 96 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: no good, that we don't have what it takes. What 97 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: sustains you through that your self knowledge that you are good, self, 98 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: knowledge that you can do it self, knowledge that you 99 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: can excel at it, not to prove them wrong. It's 100 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: because of your your love for what you do. And 101 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: you're not going to let somebody who fires you, who 102 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: tells you you not good or don't have what it takes, 103 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: You're not going to let them ruin your dream. Now, Naturally, 104 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: you have to have the dream, and you have to 105 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: have the love. You have to find out what it 106 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: is that you love doing and then go for it. 107 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: And if you do that, you'll never work a day 108 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: in your life. Bell, I'll take that back. There'll be 109 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: drudgery days, but for the most part, doing what you 110 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: love will never be talked of as work. You'll say, yeah, 111 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: I gotta go to work today, You'll want to You'll 112 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: want to go to work, and you won't look at 113 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: it as work. It's it's where you go to be 114 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: the best you can be. We all have problems at work, 115 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: we all have you know, co workers and people that 116 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: are going to snipe at us when we succeed and 117 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: get on a success track. They're going to be jealous. 118 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: But hell, that's part of life. There's nothing new about that. 119 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: You learn to deal with all these kind of things. 120 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: But you can't. You can't set out as as your 121 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: primary Well, you can, and you might even achieve it. 122 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: If you want fame and if you want to be heard, 123 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: noticed or seeing, you might be able to do it 124 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: and pull it off. But I will guarantee you you're 125 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: going to be miserable because then your whole existence is 126 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: dependent on that kind of feedback. Because fame and notoriety 127 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: are the results of things happening to you from others, 128 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: and they can leave you as quickly as they found you. 129 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 1: And then where are you. If you've got no foundation 130 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: or substance that has generated the notice, the achievement, the 131 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: fame that people claim that they want, then you've got 132 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: nothing to fall back on. This is why I said 133 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: last week, and I forget what this was about, but 134 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: the media was taken out after somebody and it was 135 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: it was relentless, and I said, this person's in trouble 136 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: because the media did make them. Their achievement has not 137 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: made them. And if the media, for example, if other 138 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: people can make you in the sense of providing you 139 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: notoriety and fame, then they can also destroy you. And 140 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: you don't want to give people that kind of power. 141 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: You don't want to give people on the one hand 142 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: who love you in the moment and make you famous 143 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: and so forth. You know, a fickle people could be 144 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: down the road, but if they don't care about you, 145 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: then you're not famous anymore. And you don't have any 146 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: notoriety unless you've got a foundation. So the motivation for 147 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: anything work related in life ought to be a finding 148 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: out what it is you love beyond about it and 149 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: then go do it. And if you can't find anybody 150 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: to pay you to do it, find a way to 151 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: get paid doing it to pay yourself. You know a 152 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: lot of people are doing their hobbies and that's what 153 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: they love. And I'll bet a lot of you in 154 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: this audience wish you could find a way to be 155 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: paid to do your hobby. Because your job simply something 156 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: you have to do in order to have money and 157 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: time for your hobby and for other responsibilities in life 158 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: that you have. So it really is a gift if 159 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: you know early on what you want to do and 160 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: if you have a genuine passion for it, because that's 161 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: what drives people who are really good at what they do. 162 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: It is that desire alone to do it better and 163 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: better and better. And if it ends up being done 164 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: better than anybody else has ever done it, then you're 165 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,439 Speaker 1: in fat city in all kinds of ways, but most importantly, 166 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,599 Speaker 1: the self satisfaction and the inner glow of success and achievement. 167 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: Nobody can take that away from you when it's real, 168 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: But they can take it away from you if it's phony, 169 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: an artific a show, if it's based on you just 170 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: want to be famous, well, there are ways to do that, 171 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: but they're not going to last long. I know a 172 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: lot of people like this, By the way, I'm not 173 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: going to mention any names, but I know a lot 174 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: of people who are simply obsessed with fame. I hear 175 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: from them now and then, and I just it makes 176 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: me sad because I know they're unhappy, they're miserable, they're 177 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: doing great work, but because others haven't noticed it yet, 178 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: they're they're they're they're running around family miserable, or maybe 179 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: they're doing great things and others they're getting the credit 180 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: for it, and they're running around being miserable because they're 181 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: not being noticed or given the proper credit. If you live, 182 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: if if your happiness is going to be defined by 183 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,079 Speaker 1: the feedback you get from others, If you if your 184 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: happiness and success is going to be determined by making 185 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: sure that others are willing to accord you the status 186 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: that you want rather than earning it, that you're always 187 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: going to be miserable because even when you get the 188 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: fame without any substance, even if that's what you want, 189 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 1: then you're going to be focused on keeping it and 190 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: nobody's gonna want to be around you. Because you're only 191 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: going to be thinking about yourself. You're only going to 192 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: want to talk about yourself when you're with other people. 193 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: You're only gonna want to share your own tales of woe, 194 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: and nobody wants to hear that. If you have your 195 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: own achievements, then you have confidence. You don't need for 196 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: other people to know it or feel it or whatever, 197 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: because it ought to be self sustaining enough. Besides, all 198 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: that stuff will happen, all the ancillarias, the feedback and 199 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: the success of the success, the feedback, the notoriety to 200 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: fame that will accrue if you're in a business where 201 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: those kinds of things happen. And there are a lot 202 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: of business where fame does accrue to somebody where you 203 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't consider to be a business of true fame. It 204 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: is all based, in those people's case, on their genuine achievement, 205 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: so motivations keep. I've been I have been concerned for 206 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: people that are young over this this quest to just 207 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: put every aspect of their lives up on various websites 208 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: on the internet, because what it does says, notice me, 209 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: notice me, notice me, But notice you for what? Notice 210 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: you for just being who you are well find and damnity, 211 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: but there's no achievement behind. It's no achievement to put 212 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: all your data up on some website, have other people 213 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: read it, especially when they don't know you. You can 214 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: lie about yourself and what a great person you are, 215 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: all these achievements you've had, but who else knows it 216 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: besides you and the others reading it, and who knows 217 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: whether they believe it. So it just it bothers me 218 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: in the sense that it's it's not a healthy motivation 219 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: for people to have. And since I care about young 220 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: people and I care that really, it really bothered me. 221 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: With billion Denton, Texas is it a blue funk today 222 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: said because of the news. And all I would say 223 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: to you about that is, you know, especially young people 224 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: don't have the historical perspective because with all people, our 225 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: historical perspective begins the day we were born, and things 226 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: that happened prior to our birth are not as important 227 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: to us. We're not being taught about them very much, 228 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: and so that causes us to think more and more 229 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: and more about ourselves. But I'll tell you this, do 230 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: not any of this for any and all of you, 231 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: not just the young people. In this massive audience. Do 232 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: not let the never ending drumbeat of catastrophe, apocalypse, doom 233 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: and gloom that is on virtually every media outlet and 234 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: in way too many movies. Don't let that affect you. 235 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: You are an American. You live in the United States 236 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: of America. You live in the most prosperous country the 237 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: human race has ever produced and known. You have no 238 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: reason to participate in this doom and gloom and apocalypse 239 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: because for everybody who's participating in it, take a look 240 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: out there at all the people who aren't and ask yourself, 241 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: why aren't they affected? Why? How come some people are 242 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 1: happy here? And how come they're doing well Because they're 243 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: doing what they love, because they have confidence, and because 244 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: they know the opportunities that exist in this country and 245 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: they're out there trying to access as many as possible. 246 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 1: Rather than getting depressed over what a bunch of stupid, 247 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: idiot socialist liberals in the media are doing and saying 248 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: and trying to make you feel rotten, don't give them 249 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: that kind of more Coming up right after this, Clay 250 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: Travis said Buck Sexton, a new form of broadcast excellence 251 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: inspired by Rush on the EIB network This is the 252 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: best of Christmas show. Looking back with Rush and looking 253 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: forward with Clay and Buck. People struggle to define conservatism 254 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: and liberalism, and you can. You can make it as 255 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: complicated as you want, and you can take it to 256 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 1: the nth degree if you want. It's actually a little 257 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: simpler than it appears at its root. What is life 258 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: all about? Life is about people, and life is about relationships. 259 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 1: Nostalgia generally reminds you of your your pleasant memories. Very 260 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: few people go back and have horrible thoughts about nostalgius, 261 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: have those in your nightmares or your dreams, unless you're 262 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: had some kind of problem and dwell on them. But uh, 263 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: when your life is done and you look back at it, 264 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: the things that you will remember that will have defined 265 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: you and will have contributed to your happiness. Other relationships 266 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: you've had with people you've loved, from family to friends, 267 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: to spouses, to children to whoever. That's that's what everybody 268 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: will reflect on at the near the end of their lives, 269 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: not what they acquired when, not when they scored their 270 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: first touchdown. That those things matter at the time, and 271 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: they're important at the time, But when you reflect on things, 272 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: and that's generally, what happens so people and working with 273 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: and playing with and dealing with people and interacting with 274 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: them is the fundamental behavioral aspect of humanity, and everything 275 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: descends from that. Now conservatism, people who are a conservative 276 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: will look at a culture and look at a society 277 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: such as ours, and we will have the utmost faith 278 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: in the individual. We believe that the individual, when properly 279 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: educated and informed and by the way unshackled, we believe 280 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: the individual has the ability to triumph over whatever odds 281 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: that individual faces. We believe that extraordinary people are simply 282 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The great among us never 283 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: set out to be great. They became great by virtue 284 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: of accolades as a result of their achievements. Liberals, on 285 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: the other hand, look at the average American with condescension. 286 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: Don't think the average American has what it takes. The 287 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: average American is stupider than the liberal. The average American 288 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: doesn't have the ambition or the wherewithal to overcome these odds. 289 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 1: And besides, they make a victim out of everybody. And 290 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: they do this by saying, well that black doesn't have 291 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: a chance because of racism and white people. The illegal 292 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: doesn't have a chance because of the nativist and protectionist 293 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: among us. Women don't have a chance because of sexism. 294 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: And so the liberal mindset and construct of people is 295 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 1: entirely negatives, condescending, It is arrogant, and it is almost 296 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: the whole people in contempt. Conservatism is just the option. 297 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: Now everything descends from that. When liberals get power politically 298 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: and start putting together policy, what's the policy going to be? 299 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: Empower government? Because those shlubs out there cannot live their 300 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 1: lives properly, happily without us. Senior citizens won't eat, the poor, 301 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: won't get off the soup lines. The only people that 302 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: make are bigger the rich, and we've got to find 303 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: a way to take away from them what they've worked for. Conservatism, 304 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: when it gets power and starts defining policy, you get 305 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: things like welfare reform, which is rooted in the belief 306 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: that people who work, which is where many people derive 307 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: their identity, will experience achievement and pride, will be motivated 308 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: to go even further. And you can take this simple 309 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: definition of conservatism versus liberalism and apply it to virtually 310 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: any aspect in the political spectrum, and you'll see that 311 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: it applies, so it's not complicated at all to explain 312 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: the difference. This is what has been missing in Republican 313 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: Party politics philosophically for way too many years and needs 314 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: to return more. Coming up right after this, you're listening 315 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,120 Speaker 1: to Clay Travis sent Buck Sexton on the EIB Network. 316 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 1: You're listening to our best of Christmas show, looking Back 317 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: with Rush and Looking Forward with Clay and Buck. Next up, 318 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: a Rush favorite that became a Clay and Buck favorite too, 319 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade. He is a Fox News host and author 320 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: of the President and the Freedom Fighter Abraham Lincoln, Frederick 321 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: Douglas and their Battle to save America's soul. Brian, great 322 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: to talk to you, Thanks for joining us. I'm honored 323 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:55,959 Speaker 1: to be on your last show of the year. Yeah. Man, 324 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: it's a good one. It's a good one and we're 325 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: happy to have such esteemed guests today. So, Brian, I 326 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: want to start. We got a couple of questions in 327 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: the news world before we dive into the book, which 328 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 1: I am doing. People love, so congrats on that. Now, 329 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: New York City, you're a New York guy like me, 330 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: or I think you're a Long Island guy born and 331 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: raised aren't you, or at least I know you live 332 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: in the New York area. You're seeing what's going on here. 333 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: We were promised something. It feels very different for this wintertime. 334 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 1: What do you make of it, given that the COVID 335 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: surge is hitting pretty hard well, But this way, we've 336 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: already been educated and stopped taking care of us. We 337 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: get it. I already saw how it works. We've written 338 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: to Florida, had been to Tennessee. I understand, we understand 339 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: how to keep ourselves safe. We know the risk. We 340 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: know if we have an underlying condition. I know if 341 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: I'm overweight, I know if I'm an older person that 342 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: has to worry about certain things. I got it. I 343 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: really have a huge problem with the way the president, 344 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: his abrasive way in which he's attackinginess, the mandate, the 345 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 1: all or nothing attitude, and Anthony Faccio over the place 346 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: again with this a variant. We hear about this variant. 347 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: If scary thing is, it's not. If they kept saying 348 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: the thing is, it looks like it's impervious to the vaccine. Okay, 349 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: now we say, not only is not impervious to the vaccine, 350 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: We think you got to get a booster really for 351 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: a vaccine that wasn't supposed to work. Didn't the South 352 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: Africans tell us that didn't work against a vaccine, So 353 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: I feel like they're just winging it. I think there's 354 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: a lot of truth to that Brian's play. Appreciate you 355 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: coming on this show. I've done your shows for a 356 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: while now, Fox and Friends, among others, and I saw 357 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: a Tucker, I know you've been in the news this week. 358 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure it was interesting for you to see suddenly 359 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 1: that Liz Cheney is reading text messages that you sent 360 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: a year ago. And as soon as I saw it, 361 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,040 Speaker 1: I said, Man, people are gonna attack this, But I 362 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: actually think this is good because it shows that Brian's 363 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,479 Speaker 1: being consistent. And I can't believe this didn't get more 364 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: attention in the same way that Buck and I said, Hey, 365 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: if you're rioting, looting, pillaging, and away for any political cause, 366 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: you should be prosecuted. And what I was impressed by 367 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: is Fox News prognosticators had consistent positions, no matter what 368 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: the political motivation was. What's it been like to kind 369 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: of be through the car wash with your text messages 370 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: coming out and what did you think about the media 371 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: coverage surrounding that. Well, you're right. I mean, I don't 372 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 1: know if I don't expect you to know where I 373 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: stood on this. I barely remember where everyone else stood. 374 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 1: But I just know the CNN runs one January six 375 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,959 Speaker 1: every day, fifty minutes of every hour, no doubt, and 376 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 1: I would say this, I'm watching this unfold. One thing 377 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: I said to Pete Haig said, as we were saying 378 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: goodbye to him, he was covering the growing and I said, Pete, 379 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 1: where are they going? He goes, they go to Capito. 380 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: I go, that's not going to be good. Now, I 381 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: didn't know where. Really ran up. I have six minutes 382 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: to go do my radio show, so I run up there, 383 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: and I'm putting the sound up in the breaks, like 384 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: you guys probably do when you see news break during 385 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: or a story break while you're doing the show. Now, 386 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: at least one of you can split off and probably 387 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: get to it. But on I have cuts on January sixth. 388 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: There is nothing patriotic about taking down the American flag 389 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: and putting on the Trump flag. If you are sitting 390 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: in Nancy Pelosi's office which your face exposed, expect to 391 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: be arrested. There's nothing good about this. At the same time, 392 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: I care about the country. I'm saying to myself, do 393 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: they not realize at the White House what's going on? 394 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: So I have Mark Meadows to sell and I texted him, 395 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: and I text Cayley, and I texted Mark Short. I 396 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: want to know. Number one for my show. I want 397 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,959 Speaker 1: to know what's going on. Number two, I want to stop. 398 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,479 Speaker 1: I don't want I do not want to see our 399 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: capital rated. I don't want to see our stuff destroyed. 400 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: I don't want to see cops abuse. And yeah, there 401 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: was there possibly people on the inside where there did 402 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: Donnie Brasco infiltration inside the Proud Boys, perhaps more than likely. Yes, 403 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: the FBI does undercover work, so does the NYPG. So 404 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: there's every police force listening to me. They get in 405 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: plain clothes and they'll infut I get it, but there's 406 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: no excuse for it. And I thought that was consistent. 407 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: And if I could play a role in stopping it, 408 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: I would do it. If I was there, I would 409 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: I would have went out of my way to stop it. Brian, 410 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: I thought it blew up on Liz Cheney because I 411 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,439 Speaker 1: think she thought she was going to embarrass Fox News 412 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram, Donald Trump Junior, Sean Hannity. I thought Tucker 413 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: said it really well on his show, which is all 414 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: this showed is that in private Fox News employees sound 415 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: pretty much the same as they do in public, which 416 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: is to me the true test of authenticity. Hey, guys, 417 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: I text Liz Cheney. I'm friendly with Liz Cheney. I 418 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: have nothing against Liz Chenney. She was a contributor here. 419 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: I've known her since her dad was vice president. I'm 420 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: not saying well hanging out, but she's a true conservatives 421 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: who I thought was able to understand that Trump was 422 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: different and that you know, you got to take the 423 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: good with the bad. Speak up when you want to, 424 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: but for the most part, you see what life is 425 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: like without him. That's the alternative. Look at the hell 426 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: we're in right now by incompetent people with their own 427 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 1: agenda who could care less about this country. They just 428 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: want to They just want to green it out and 429 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: they want to socialize it out. That's the alternative. He 430 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: was the only guy that could have won. And my 431 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: feeling is I went back and forth with his Cheney 432 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: the whole time, so I was surprised that she would 433 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: I shouldn't be I'm naive. I would surprise that she 434 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: would go out of a way to blindside me without 435 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,400 Speaker 1: even saying, listen, you're Markmallow's handing over stuff your names 436 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: on it. But I guess I'm naive like that. Well, 437 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: once you betray your once you betray your own side. Unfortunately, Brian, 438 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: betraying individuals on that side becomes a whole lot easier. 439 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: So you're being very kind of a cheney. I you 440 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: must be laughing. I feel I feel a little. I 441 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: don't have any relationship with her. I don't think we're 442 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: going to anytime soon, but I appreciate your loyalty to 443 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: somebody that you know personally because I feel the same. 444 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: I always tell Clay this, I do not attack my 445 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,439 Speaker 1: friends on air, and I tell everybody if there if 446 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: someone's a friend that I just I'm upfront about it. 447 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: But as being to Brian kill Mead Fox News host, 448 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: author of The President and the Freedom Fighter Abraham Lincoln, 449 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: Frederick Douglass and their Battle to Save America, Saul Brian, 450 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: people love the book. I've gotten folks asked me to 451 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 1: have you on just to talk about the book. Can 452 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: you tell us a bit about about that? Right, now, 453 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: and look, we're going to the holiday season. People looking 454 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: for gifts, they're also looking for things to read on 455 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: their own, to sit back, relax and dive into history. 456 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: Why this story? Why do folks need to know? Well? 457 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: Number one, you know sometimes if you have a book 458 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: that you like, but he just doesn't feel with the format. 459 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: If I was doing a sports book outside, I know Clay, 460 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 1: you love sports especially, I would feel kind of bad 461 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: coming on. But this is right out of the news. 462 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to talk about what's wrong 463 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: with CRT and why the sixteen nineteen projects should be 464 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: on the fiction side, what if I told you exactly 465 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 1: what Frederick Douglas lived? What do you overcame the abolitionist 466 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: he combined with and link in the abject poverty, kid 467 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: who has had one year total formal education was able 468 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: to overcome it all and rise up in one of 469 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: the almost inxplicable form. You'd almost think it's fiction. But 470 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: I was able to look at every speech that Lincoln gave, 471 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 1: everything that he wrote. Frederick Douglas had a newspaper, the 472 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: North Star and Vote for the Wiperator another abolition of 473 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: his newspaper, and wrote his biography seven years after leaving, 474 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: after fleeing for freedom. So I was able to put 475 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: me right back into the eighteen forties, eighteen fifties, and 476 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: the backdrop is the Civil War. So if you want 477 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: to find out America's original sin, I don't duck it. 478 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: Nobody should. Slavery's terrible. There's no redeeming qualities. We also 479 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: didn't have the market cornered on it. Every continent at it. 480 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 1: We fought a war to get rid of it. Reconstruction 481 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: was uneven. So through their eyes, through their words, through 482 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: the imperfect nature of America at the time, it was 483 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: America was not living up to his constitution. It didn't 484 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: have to be torn apart. It had to live up 485 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: to the ideals that it wrote down. And that's what 486 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: you see. You also, SUITI people without any connections come 487 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: out of nowhere to rise up at exactly the right time, 488 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: it with the exactly right character to bring us through 489 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: the toughest times. Now, listen, Frederick Douglas was going at 490 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: it with Lincoln. Lincoln didn't return fire. We don't really 491 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: know what Lincoln thought of Douglas going Douglas found his 492 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: way to the White House. He waited online five minutes 493 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: before Lincoln summoned them and a friendship took root. Brian, 494 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: I am a huge history nerd Buck is too, and 495 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: I know you are as well in terms of all 496 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: the great books that you've been putting out there in 497 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: times of national crisis. I find history to be much 498 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: more compelling oftentimes than the current events. So let me 499 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: explain why. And I'm curious if you agree, because if 500 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 1: you study history, you can recognize that we have been 501 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: through as a nation and certainly as a world, far 502 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: more difficult and challenging times than whatever may be going 503 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 1: on in the present. And many times we lose perspective 504 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: in the day to day battles that we fight. Does 505 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: that help you as you write these history books to 506 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: have a longer scale version of the historical context and 507 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 1: to have better perspective as a result. Well, I mean 508 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: to both of you, how many times have people say 509 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: We've never been more polarized? How many times people told 510 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,360 Speaker 1: you what we're going to all? Part of it seems yeah, 511 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 1: And I'm saying to myself, get a perspective. The reason 512 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 1: why you want to take these men and women? And 513 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: you know, people are critical of Susan Biantony and others 514 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: that you want to take these men down off their 515 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,959 Speaker 1: pedestals because you have no perspective of the time in 516 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: which they lived. You cannot put them in the same 517 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: ideas in twenty twenty one that they lived in seventeen 518 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: seventy six, seventeen eighty three, and in this case eighteen sixty. 519 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: So oh, Lincoln made some statements that today we would 520 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: find racist because he did not think the races were 521 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: equal by the time he evolved. It's fifty six years old. 522 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: I really, judging by his actions, you'd be hard pressed 523 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: to make an argument that he did not think they 524 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: were equal. He grew up in a time in which 525 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 1: they told him that we lived differently. The education was 526 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: not the same for guys like Benjamin Franklin, new genius. 527 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin had slaves. He was the smartest man of 528 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: the planet at the time he evolved to become an abolitionist. 529 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: That's called growing off. What do people listening to me 530 00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: right now? To you? If you're listening to me and 531 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: your fifty or sixty do you do you do you 532 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: really think you have a better moral compass now than 533 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: you did in your twenties and your teams of course, 534 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: what's the difference between these historic figures. Understand what this 535 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: country was, the time in which they live, and then 536 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: you'll understand why they're on a pedestal and they need 537 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: so much to our country. Brian kill me to Fox News. 538 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 1: Check out his book The President and the Freedom Fighter 539 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and their Battle to save America Soul. Brian, 540 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,159 Speaker 1: our buddy, thanks for being with us, man. We appreciate it. 541 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,880 Speaker 1: Congratulation toil you success guys. Enjoy, Enjoy Christmas and Marry Christmas. 542 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: This is the best of Christmas Show with Rush, Clay 543 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: and Buck from our EIB family to yours. Merry Christmas. 544 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: Send God, bless Clay Trapps, send Buck Sexton. A new 545 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: form of broadcast excellence inspired by Rush on the EIB 546 00:28:49,760 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: Network as your home would, family and friends this Christmas. 547 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: Remember there is no family like the EIB family. Adam 548 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Hello, Hello Rush, Thank you 549 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: so much for taking my call. Marry Christmas, and sir, 550 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: you are definitely family to me. No, it's not open 551 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: lines Friday, but I need to tell you what I 552 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 1: mean by family. Grow up. Lifelong listener, Thanks to my 553 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: father Jeffrey and my grandfather Monroe. We've always listened to you, 554 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: and my grandfather was fortunate enough to go see you 555 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: live in your studio TV show. Yes. Yeah, he passed 556 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: away when I was in high school, and when I 557 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: think of him, I can picture him clearly. I picture 558 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: him in your studio looking up at the monitors like 559 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: he's not supposed to lock in his lips. Three years ago, 560 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: I was driving with my wife after a particularly rough year, 561 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: turned on the radio and you were there. Started to 562 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: tear up. Wife said, what's going on? I said, because 563 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: while I listen to Rush, I listen to you. I 564 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: remember my grandfather and I remember my father who lives 565 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: in South Carolina, And every time I hear you, we're 566 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: all three together. Your voice, sir, transcends time and space. 567 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: Whether you're listening in heaven, are you're listening on this earth, 568 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: we all thank you. That is heart stopping, that's that's 569 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: incredible or what to say? I just have this profound appreciation. 570 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: I'm glad you got through and I really really do 571 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: appreciate very much all of that. Here is von in Columbiana, Ohio. 572 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: Great to have you as I'm standing here, looking at 573 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: the snow and contemplating the season. A question comes up. 574 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: Back in the earlier mid nineties, you introduce your audience 575 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: to Mannheim steam Roller, and I'm about a year older 576 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: than you, Rush, and I've I have come to acquire 577 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: a fair amount of hearing loss, certainly nothing like you had, 578 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: but I was able to mitigate it somewhat with conventional 579 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 1: hearing age, and I'm able to that I'm able to 580 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: control with a bluetooth connection and that sort of thing. 581 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: But it's been evident over the years listening to your 582 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: upper music and the way you way you brought us 583 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: Mannheim steam Roller and all that, that you're a fan 584 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: of good music. And I'm wondering with your copar implants, 585 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: are you able to enjoy music at all like you 586 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: used to be able to? Well, I can if it's 587 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: music that I knew before I lost my hearing, So 588 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: in the case of in the case of Mannheim steam Roller, yeah, 589 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: But the way it works is I'm actually not hearing it. 590 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: My memory is supplying memories based on the audio stimulation 591 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: that I am getting, and so that's why I can 592 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: only listen to music and recognize music that I knew 593 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: before I lost my hearing. Music that I've never heard 594 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: before all sounds the same note. I cannot distinguish a 595 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: low piano note from a high piano note. For example, violins, 596 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: strings sound like fingernails or a chalkboard. To me, I 597 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: need close captioning even to follow audio in a movie 598 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: or TV show, because the music in the soundtrack will 599 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: be so loud and distracting that without without close captioning, 600 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: I'll never even hear thirty percent of what's being said 601 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 1: on any TV show. But as to music, as long 602 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: as you have your natural hearing, and as long as 603 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: it's being amplified with hearing age, you're not You're you're 604 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: not going to suffer anywhere near the type of loss 605 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: of ability to enjoy music that somebody who has totally 606 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: lost their hearing will. You'll still be able to hear 607 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: it exactly as it was. You just may need to 608 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: turn it up. And depending on the nature you're hearing loss, 609 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: you might lose the ability to hear certain frequencies high 610 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: or low. But but again, your memory will take over 611 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: if it's if it's music you're familiar with, like Manheim 612 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: steam Roller, I predict that you'll be able to get 613 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: enough of it to thoroughly enjoy it like you always have. Hey, I, 614 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: after hearing describing the amount of hearing the Q lost, 615 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: I'll you won't hear me complain about mine. That's a 616 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: that's a that's a profound amount of hearing loss. I'll 617 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: just have to tell you one quick instance and I'll 618 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: let you go. I vividly remember the first time you 619 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: signed off I think it was either Christmas Eve or 620 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: the day or some fourth business. When you signed off 621 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: your third hour and played Silent Night. That moved me 622 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: to the point I had to pull off the road. 623 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,640 Speaker 1: And I want to thank you for that. So Mary Christmas, 624 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Well you're bet, thank you. Thanks. 625 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: Manheim's steam Roller a version of Silent Nights instrumental, which 626 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: is what makes it all the more powerful is the 627 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: way Chip Davis and his gang have been able to 628 00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: take an instrumental piece of music and as it plays, 629 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,919 Speaker 1: increase the power in the perception of the listener. And 630 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: the crescendo of that tune is what is what jerks 631 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 1: the tears. So we always try to backtime. And so 632 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: that ended specifically and precisely right at the end of 633 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: a break. It was, it was, it still is. It 634 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: is a piece of music that has a profound impact 635 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: on the people who have heard it, or even if 636 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: you're hearing it for the version of Silent nine Manheim Steamer, 637 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: but it's one of the first or second Christmas album CDs. 638 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,720 Speaker 1: But again, Von, thank you much appreciate it. You're listening 639 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: to Clay Travis, said Buck Sexton on the EIB Network.