1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: Very show is on the air. Where is my automobile? Automobile? 3 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Like Big. 4 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 2: Talks about some of the violence that's been going on 5 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 2: around the country dealerships. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 1: Some say they should be labeled domestic terraces. I will 7 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: do that. I'll do it. I'm gonna stop up. 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 3: We catch anybody doing it because they're harming a. 9 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:45,959 Speaker 1: Great American company. Let me tell you. 10 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 3: You do it to Tesla, and you do it to 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 3: any company, we're gonna catch you, and you're gonna go 12 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 3: through a help. 13 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: Co. 14 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 4: Then you also overnight have this postclaiming that protests Tesla 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 4: dealerships are illegal. He said today he would label violence 16 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 4: against dealerships domestic terrorism. So just to be clear, you 17 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 4: protest a private company, you are labeled by this administration 18 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 4: and domestic terrorists. 19 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 5: Agree. 20 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: Because as a Republican strategist, you wouldn't have advised him 21 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 2: to go. 22 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 3: In front of the White House drive a Tesla White 23 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 3: Wild because. 24 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: Of course I would have. 25 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 3: You know why, because if I were advising Republican president, 26 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 3: I would say, let's support American companies that have thousands 27 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: of American workers. There was a vast understanding in the 28 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: eighties that money was flowing into real estate, real estate 29 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 3: investing that was all driven by taxes. Tax policy can 30 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 3: incentivize or disincentivize any industry, and it happens every day. 31 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 3: So I have a friend who started as a show 32 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 3: sponsor and became a good friend. His name is Tilman Holloway, 33 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: and Tillman's a bit of a quirk because Tillman Tilman 34 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: was a homeschooled kid in Colorado who was blessed with 35 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: amazing jeans to play football or hockey, the two sports 36 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 3: at which he excelled. Tilman sixty four and graduated high 37 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 3: school at twoint eighty and played as a senior at 38 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 3: the University of Texas as an offensive lineman. At three 39 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: forty two. Three forty two is a big lineman in 40 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: the NFL today. This was twenty five years ago. So 41 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 3: this guy in rapid speed, I mean lightning quick and 42 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: for a pulling guard, if you know football, for a 43 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: pulling guard in an offense, in a college football offense 44 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 3: in two thousand and two, thousand and one, two thousand 45 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: and two, when you had Vince Young and before that, 46 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 3: chance Mock and you've got you've got a pulling guard 47 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 3: coming around the corner to hit an edge rusher. 48 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: An edge rusher is going to. 49 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: Slow his role a little, coming back, coming in to 50 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: try to hit the quarterback when he's got a boy 51 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: this big about to hit him. Well, you don't figure 52 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: a guy that's an offensive lineman is going to. 53 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: Be very smart. 54 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 3: But he graduated with high honors from the University of 55 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 3: Texas Business School, which is no cakewalk. Business school's tough 56 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 3: to get into and it's tough to get out of, 57 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 3: especially competitive with such high grades. So Tilman his grandfather, 58 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 3: some of you will remember the name Bud McFadden. He 59 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 3: wore number sixty one at the University of Texas, just 60 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 3: as his grandfather did before him. Bud mc fadden went 61 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 3: on to the pros NFL Hall of Famer, a bit 62 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 3: of a superstar himself. Well, Tilman went to the combine 63 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 3: but chose entrepreneurism and he got into bitmining before anybody 64 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 3: knew what that was. He was in the very early 65 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: days of this and he's got a finance in a 66 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: number's brain. But we were having a long conversation yesterday. 67 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 3: He owns a company. It's a software company that he 68 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 3: designed it's not the first company or the last company 69 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 3: he's ever created, but it's called Archarcchpublic dot com. And 70 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 3: what it is is this amazing software that allows bitcoin 71 00:04:55,120 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 3: investors to It's an algorithm. It allows you can It's 72 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 3: sort of like people that are day traders. If you're 73 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 3: a day trader. I've got a buddy, Eyke Claypool. He's 74 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 3: a day trader. He is locked into his computer from 75 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 3: when the market opens to when the market closes, and 76 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 3: he's got stop losses and all these things. But he 77 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 3: can't be away from his computer. He can't because he 78 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 3: might lose what he's made all day, or he might 79 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 3: miss an opportunity to make what he's made all week. Well, 80 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 3: what my buddy's business does, what his software does. 81 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: Is you you you. 82 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 3: Get this software and it's buying on the dips and 83 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: selling on the highs. That's you're setting this algorithm. And 84 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 3: you've got companies now that are coming to him and 85 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: putting part of their money in bitcoin. Tesla is very, 86 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 3: very heavily invested in bitcoin. I think they're the largest 87 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 3: private holder of bitcoin. I could be wrong, but what 88 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 3: you're seeing now is companies with inflation being what it 89 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 3: is what is it nine percent? But Tillman believes inflation 90 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 3: is actually much higher than that, up to seventeen percent. 91 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: And the reason is there are a lot of dollars 92 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 3: being pumped into the economy. And we know Milton Friedman 93 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 3: told us inflation is when you put too much money 94 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 3: into the economy and it's not reflected in output. So 95 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 3: now you devalue the cash currency. Well, they're not counting 96 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 3: all these petro dollars in all these ways. Government is 97 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 3: pushing money into the economy off balance book, so you 98 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 3: know that things cost anecdotally. Every housewife understands, I know 99 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 3: what I paid for eggs, and I know what I'm 100 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 3: paying now. I know what I paid for bread, and 101 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 3: I know what I'm paying now. And housewives are guarding 102 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 3: that budget. They're guarding it heavily. So my buddy Tilman 103 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 3: tells me Archpublic dot com is getting all this interest 104 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: now from businesses who are wanting to put part of 105 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 3: their cash reserves where you're seeing, you know, the cash 106 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 3: you have is being devalued every day. They're putting it 107 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 3: now into bitcoin through this website. And the reason is 108 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 3: a very simple tax change. Bitcoin can now be booked 109 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 3: on your ledger as an asset instead of a liability. 110 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 3: That simple little change that Trump ushered in means that 111 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 3: companies are changing their entire way they invest their reserves 112 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 3: because nobody wants a bunch of cash laying around in 113 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 3: the bank. Because for ever one hundred dollars in cash 114 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 3: you had laying around the bank a year from now, 115 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 3: it's only worth ninety one. And that's not prudent stewardship 116 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: as a fiduciary of your shareholder's money. So he's seeing 117 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 3: a huge cash influx into his bitcoin purchases. 118 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: He doesn't, it's not his bitcoin, and he's the software. 119 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: So he was showing me on archpublic dot com how 120 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: this is working. 121 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 3: This is little ways tax policy drives economic decisions. 122 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 2: You Michael Berry from the soundtrack A Walk on the Moon. 123 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 3: That is Elijah sky Blue Almon. Because famous people have 124 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: to give their kids stupid names. Elijah sky Blue Almond 125 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: is known professionally as p Exeter Blue, which is short 126 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 3: for Phillips Exeter the School Blue. But interesting note because 127 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 3: I'm sure we have a fair number of Alman Brothers 128 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 3: fans in our community. Elijah sky Blue Almond is the 129 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 3: son of singer chaer, you don't have to tell me, 130 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 3: I know. 131 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: Her politics are awful. 132 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 3: It's like it becomes a spastic response, Hey, you know 133 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 3: our politics are awful. 134 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. 135 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 3: Fact is, most of those people's politics are awful. And 136 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 3: the reason is they don't know any real people. If 137 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 3: you don't know any real people and you live in 138 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 3: a bubble, you don't understand anything about anything. 139 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: That's why so. 140 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 3: Many uber wealthy people support bad politics is because they 141 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 3: don't understand how policy laws affect the working class. So 142 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 3: what happens with the uber wealthy the one hundred million 143 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 3: and up is twofold number one. They feel guilty they've 144 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 3: made all this money, so they think that, you know, 145 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 3: when the French Revolution comes and the heads are being chopped, 146 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 3: they think that they'll be able to stay the execution 147 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 3: by being able to say, remember, I'm one of the 148 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 3: good rich ones. Right, This is the white liberal mentality. 149 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 3: I'm one of the good white ones. So when the 150 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 3: race war that they are encouraging comes, they'll be saved, 151 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 3: you know, cecil roads here. And so you get these 152 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 3: uber wealthy people who support really stud socialist policies because 153 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 3: it makes them feel good about themselves. Well, hell if 154 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 3: you're so determined that the poor people have more money, 155 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 3: not the working poor. They don't like the working poor. 156 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 3: They resent the working poor. They like the poor, the needy, 157 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 3: the pitiful. The welfare queen makes them feel good about themselves, 158 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 3: no bless abliege. So these people, if they wanted to 159 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 3: share their massive wealth, they could, you know, on your 160 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 3: income tax form, there's actually a line at the end 161 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 3: where you can donate as much as you want to 162 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 3: the government. And they never do. They never do because 163 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 3: they don't really care. They just give lip service to it. 164 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 3: And the only charitable contribution they ever make is something 165 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 3: they can get credit for because their tax advisor has 166 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 3: told them it's about at your level. It's about the 167 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 3: same whether you do it or not. And at least we'll 168 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 3: get some good credit out of this. So back to 169 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 3: the bitcoin conversation. Companies have started tesla, among them putting 170 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 3: money into bitcoin as an anti inflationary move, but also 171 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 3: because the tax change makes it more profitable. That's true 172 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 3: at Archpublic dot Com, that's true at Gemini the Exchange, 173 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 3: that's true for anyone else in the bitcoin space. I 174 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 3: just happen to know the Archpublic dot Com stuff because 175 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 3: the founder is a good friend of mine. But you're 176 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 3: seeing activity in bitcoin, and there's a real and it 177 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 3: is tax driven activity. Real estate investing apartments particularly saw 178 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 3: a huge boon back when real when limited partnerships for 179 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 3: real estate were a tax shelter. You would see businesses 180 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 3: that we're building more apartment units and investing in apartment 181 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: units that were losing money, but it was a tax shelter. 182 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is. 183 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 3: Our economy has artificial incentives and disincentives so that it's 184 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 3: no longer. 185 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: If you go back to the state of nature. The 186 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: baker bakes bread that people want to eat. The gardener, 187 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: the farmer he. 188 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 3: Raises, grows vegetables and fruits, the rancher he brings his 189 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 3: cattle to town, and they all trade based on how 190 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 3: much people want of what these people have. But once 191 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 3: you start subsidizing industries and taxing other industries, you start 192 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 3: altering the behavior anybody ever stop and think about the 193 00:12:55,559 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 3: fact that so many innovations in industry come out of 194 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 3: independent startups and almost never from big companies. You know 195 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 3: what big companies do because big companies become a financial instrument, 196 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: not an operations juggernaut. 197 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:14,719 Speaker 1: So you know what they do. 198 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 3: They hire guys to go out and find small startups 199 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 3: in people's garages that have a new technology of the future, 200 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 3: and they go in and gobble them up. 201 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: That's what they do. 202 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 3: Because innovation doesn't come from the old line company, because 203 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 3: the old line companies become bogged down with legal accounting 204 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: and tax folks and not geniuses, the Elon Musks, the 205 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 3: Steve Jobs. You don't find them in big companies. You're 206 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: not getting the best and brightest because big companies look 207 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: more like the government than they do the startups and 208 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 3: the truly entrepreneurial companies and the sequoias in all of 209 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 3: these platforms for private equity. They're not looking to put 210 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 3: private equity in big companies. It costs too much and 211 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 3: returns too little. You got the stock market for that 212 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 3: bet on futures. But if you're looking for the next 213 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 3: big thing, whatever that may be, you're looking in the 214 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 3: independent guys because they're out there with a concept that 215 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 3: they're trying to develop to We talked about it earlier. 216 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:35,359 Speaker 3: Solve a problem, and when you're trying to solve problems 217 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 3: instead of trying to maximize tax benefits or subsidies, from 218 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 3: the government. You're going to create very different solutions to problems. 219 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 3: And look, this is what has dulled the edge of 220 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 3: American pharmaceuticals is chasing subsidies. 221 00:14:58,960 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: Let's be honest. 222 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 3: You saw the stock increase in Pfizer in Johnson and 223 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 3: Johnson in Maderna during COVID. 224 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: Do you think they created anything new under the sun? 225 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 3: I mean it was poison if you asked me. But 226 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 3: they weren't creating great products. They were making more money 227 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: because government was mandating it and paying for it. That's 228 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 3: not innovation. 229 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: The love budd stem Joe has been race driver Michael 230 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: Berry Funny. 231 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 3: Duck, King of Dean suggested for general audiences enough you 232 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 3: felt very clever because you were able to steer the 233 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 3: conversation away with a distraction like should we stop and 234 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 3: get some ice cream? And your kid didn't go, Dan, 235 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 3: I'm trying to ask where babies are from. 236 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking we haven't had ice hum in 237 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: a while. Oh okay, Well. 238 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: That's actually what's happening in America, and it's about that 239 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 3: simplistic We should be talking about policies of our government 240 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 3: first and foremost, fiscal policy, taxation, monetary policy. You know, 241 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 3: you got people, good people, decent people who get up 242 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 3: early every morning bust there. But whether that's running the 243 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 3: household or working at a business, or driving a truck, 244 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 3: or arresting bad guys or fighting fires or running a 245 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 3: small business or any number of other things, and they're 246 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 3: eching out a living. Can never get ahead. And what 247 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: frustrates me is when it comes to time, there is 248 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 3: so much of their inability to get ahead is because 249 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 3: they don't get to keep what they make. A big 250 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 3: portion of what they make is taken and given to 251 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 3: other people, whether that's the company stealing it on the 252 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 3: way to Ukraine or the Middle East, or agriculture subsidies 253 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 3: or welfare, or a bloated government, which in and of 254 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 3: itself is theft. It's gross inefficiency and inefficiency is on 255 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 3: American You know, one of the great frustrations when you 256 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 3: travel to third world countries is how your time is 257 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 3: not respected. You're left waiting in line because they don't 258 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 3: have enough people behind the counter to get you through 259 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 3: immigration or customs or any number of other things. That 260 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,439 Speaker 3: is antithetical to the American mindset. I mean, what pisses 261 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 3: you off worse when you go to a store and 262 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 3: they don't have enough checkers. You know, you're leaving the 263 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 3: grocery store and they don't have enough lanes for you. 264 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: So what ended up happening. They ended up doing. 265 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 3: The check yourself out because then at least you're active, 266 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 3: you don't notice. And if you're the person like me 267 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: who you're headed somewhere and the highway shuts down for 268 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 3: whatever inefficient reason because the cop has no reason to 269 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 3: push people through because he's stuck there anyway, And you 270 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 3: look at your phone and you see there's a side 271 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 3: road you can go, and you're still you're forty three 272 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 3: minutes from where you're supposed to be, and if you wait, 273 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 3: it's going to be forty three minutes given the algorithm 274 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 3: saying that they're going to clear the traffic at about 275 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 3: this time, or it can take you forty five minutes 276 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 3: on the back roads, but you'll be driving the whole time. 277 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 3: I'm going on the back road because I can't sit still. 278 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 3: I just can't do it. Waste drives me crazy. And 279 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 3: that's what thrills me about DOGE is the idea that 280 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 3: we're going in and cleaning up the wasst. You know, 281 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 3: you have these shows Jim, what's the couple that real 282 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 3: cute with Joeanna Gaines and What's Chip in Waco? Where 283 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 3: they go into these ragtag houses and they transform them. 284 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 3: There's something about it's a resurrection, it's a renaissance. It's 285 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 3: you know, people love these TV shows about barn finds. 286 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 3: They're called and that is the holy grail of classic 287 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 3: car collecting. I'd love to find a barn find, but 288 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 3: I just don't have the time to go to go 289 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 3: do it. But I get emails from listeners and they 290 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 3: know I love this stuff, so they'll send me a picture. Michael, 291 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 3: Look at this Stewdibaker I just bought from. I don't 292 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 3: want to give the year, and I'll get the year wrong, 293 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 3: but look at this, you know, old Mustang or Chevy 294 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 3: or whatever. 295 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,719 Speaker 1: It's a fifty eight Chevy. 296 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 3: I mean, can you believe it's mint conditions just under 297 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 3: a a you know, an inch of dust. I'm gonna 298 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 3: wipe this thing down. I'm gonna replace this and do 299 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 3: this and grind this. 300 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: I man, I'm gonna have. 301 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 3: The idea of making the old new again, the idea 302 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 3: of cleaning things up. I'm convinced that part of our 303 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 3: fascination with weight loss is not just that you quote 304 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 3: unquote look better, because throughout history it hasn't always been 305 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:45,880 Speaker 3: a good. 306 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:46,640 Speaker 1: Thing to be skinny. 307 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 3: In fact, being corpulent was a sign of wealth in 308 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 3: Europe until relatively recently. My mother, God bless her, would 309 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,880 Speaker 3: still refer to fat women as healthy, healthy looking, because 310 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 3: she didn't want to hurtnybody's feels by saying somebody was fat, 311 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 3: So even though that person wasn't there, she says she 312 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 3: healthy looking, which was a nice way of saying she's fat. 313 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 3: And then she'd say, but you know she has a 314 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 3: really pretty face. Mom, How do you know that you 315 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 3: can't even see her face behind all that fat. Oh, Michael, 316 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 3: don't be mean. She might have a hormone condition. Yeah, 317 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 3: it's just just a very old This is a Southern 318 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 3: woman's way of saying nice things so stupid. 319 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 5: If you fell in a barrel full of these, you'd 320 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 5: come out sucking your thumb. Boy, you're about as sharp 321 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 5: as a mashed potato. If brains were dynamite, you couldn't 322 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 5: blow your note. Well, you are one fry short of. 323 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: A happy men. 324 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 5: I mean, you got the iq of a fence poke. 325 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 5: You couldn't find your way out of a wet paper 326 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 5: bag with a flashlight in a mouth. You are dummer 327 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 5: in a box of rocks. You so slow, we'd take 328 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 5: you two hours to watch sixty minute Baby, your elevator 329 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 5: don't go all the way to the top, does it? 330 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 5: Your about as confused as a cow on tire faint. 331 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 5: You're a dummer and a sack of hammers, and about 332 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 5: half is useful. I hear about as sharp as a marble. 333 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 3: So back to the point, the American people have been 334 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 3: so distracted, and we're not the only ones. This happens 335 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 3: around the world. There are actually professionals. Karl Rove is 336 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 3: one of them, but there are plenty more. James Carvel 337 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 3: is one of them who are very good at getting 338 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 3: you or your neighbors to focus on things that don't matter, 339 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 3: so you don't focus on things that do. So whether 340 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 3: it's bred in circuses, and there's a lot of that. 341 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 3: I mean the Democrats right now, and I hope they 342 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 3: keep this up. The Democrats have the women in Congress 343 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,160 Speaker 3: who are doing little dance videos and they release them 344 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 3: and I'm sure they think it's very clever, and maybe 345 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 3: they have some of their core supporters who also think 346 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 3: it's very clever. But I think a lot of voters, 347 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 3: especially the women that they rely on, are out there going. 348 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 3: You know, times are tough, Times are real tough, and 349 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 3: instead of doing your job, you're up there making silly 350 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 3: dance videos. You're trying to send grown men into my 351 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 3: daughter's school, of my daughter's restroom. You weirdo. You're out 352 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 3: of touch with my values. If we can get ourselves 353 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 3: and our neighbors to focus on what matters, because it's 354 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 3: never going to be glamorous. Race is glamorous, sex is glamorous. 355 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 3: Personal identity maybe not glamorous, but people are attracted to it, 356 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 3: and people cast votes that are against their own financial, personal, professional, 357 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 3: family interests because very very smart people are able to talk. 358 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: Them into doing it. 359 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: Written to Michael Barrier. 360 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 3: If you don't get our morning show where you are 361 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 3: not show, but we do an earlier show. We do 362 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 3: five hours a day, and our morning show is three 363 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 3: hours long and it doesn't air in as many markets 364 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 3: as this our evening show. But all of our shows 365 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 3: are posted on our podcast, which wherever you get your podcast, Spotify, 366 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 3: iHeart iTunes, you can hear our shows. There was a 367 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 3: woman who called in from Iowa and she homeschools her children, 368 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 3: and we talked about how rewarding she has found homeschooling 369 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 3: to be and how she was you know, she was 370 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 3: fearful and anxious because she's not a school teacher, and 371 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,719 Speaker 3: she thought that homeschooling meant she would have to have 372 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 3: lesson plans and a curriculum and a syllabus and all 373 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 3: these things, and that's just not true. And she has 374 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 3: found it to be a very rewarding experience because she's 375 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 3: spending so much time with her children. Because we don't 376 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 3: get our kids very long. I mean, I haven't lost 377 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 3: my oldest son. He's away at college. He's a freshman 378 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 3: in college. But it's you know, your opportunity to shape 379 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 3: and mold them the way you could as a young child, 380 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 3: that's reduced dramatically. I think children need their parents for 381 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 3: as long as their parents are alive. I still need 382 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 3: my dad for perspective, and you know, because it's meaningful 383 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 3: to me that he's still alive. 384 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,919 Speaker 1: So I don't think we ever really lose our kids. 385 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 3: But during their formative years, it's so important that we 386 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 3: are able to share our values with them and this 387 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 3: is something if you heard the second hour of our 388 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 3: show yesterday, this is something that's very important to me. 389 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 3: And I don't care if some of you won't like this. 390 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 3: I don't believe you should leave the state to teach 391 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 3: your children morals, whatever your morals may be. I don't 392 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 3: believe that anyone outside the parents should be the primary 393 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 3: influence in a child's life. People tell me every day, 394 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,679 Speaker 3: that's a damn shame. The school's not teaching history anymore. 395 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 3: The school, Yeah, it is a shame. But why don't you, 396 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 3: Why don't you teach the children. Why don't you discipline 397 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 3: your child? You should send your child to school already 398 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: able to read and write, already, able to do basic math, 399 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 3: already able to look at a map and understand the 400 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 3: differences in the regions and cultures and religions. Because I'm 401 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 3: going to tell you this, I can teach you American 402 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 3: history in multiple different ways, with multiple different heroes. I 403 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 3: can teach you about the Civil War in very different ways. 404 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 3: And I can make heroes of villains and villains of heroes. 405 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 3: And this is what Perspective does. But it's our responsibility 406 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 3: to maintain our culture. It's our responsibility to inculcate our 407 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 3: children with our values. 408 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: And what the. 409 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 3: Great socialists have done, and they're very good at this, 410 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 3: is to make you ashamed of that. You should be 411 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 3: ashamed of your whiteness, or you should be ashamed of 412 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 3: your blackness. If in your blackness, you're not preaching that 413 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 3: Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are the great heroes, because 414 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 3: that's what you're supposed to teach. Otherwise you're a sellout 415 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 3: to your race. Or you should be teaching, if you're Hispanic, 416 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 3: that we should have wide open borders, because otherwise you're 417 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 3: going to get kicked out. Be proud of who you are. 418 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,919 Speaker 3: How can we say that other cultures are adding so 419 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 3: much in diversity to our country when they come here illegally, 420 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 3: and yet that your culture doesn't matter. How can we 421 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 3: say that the founders of this country, that the writers 422 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 3: of the Constitution were such evil men when their constitution 423 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 3: has been the most replicated governing document in the history 424 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 3: of mankind. I guess we could make an argument for 425 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 3: the Bible, but the Bible informs our constitution. You look 426 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 3: at the two things that happened in seventeen seventy six. 427 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 3: Of course, a declaration of Independence. But the Wealth of 428 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 3: Nations Adam Smith, a Scottish economist philosopher. You want a 429 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 3: good book to read. Maybe school didn't matter to you 430 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 3: when you were a kid. 431 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: That's okay. You had a lot more going on. 432 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 3: Susie's pigtails, coming to grips with your own hormonal changes. 433 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 3: That was probably more interesting, or playing Boys and Indians, 434 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 3: or playing football, or shooting your gun or riding your motorcycle. 435 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 3: It makes sense when you're young. You know, youth is 436 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 3: wasted on the young. As Oscar Wilde famously said, go 437 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 3: back and read it now. 438 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: Oh Michael, I wasn't good in school. What does that mean? 439 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: You weren't good in school? 440 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 3: There are people who weren't great athletes in high school 441 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 3: who've become bodybuilders as adults. 442 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: I think Ronnie Coleman that was his story. 443 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 3: But the point is go back and read The Wealth 444 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 3: of Nations, beautifully written, beautifully written the same year as 445 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 3: the Declaration of Independence, those principles laid out in those documents, 446 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 3: and then eleven years later, in seventeen eighty seven, our Constitution. 447 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: They are as. 448 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 3: Profound as anything outside the Bible you're ever going to read. 449 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: Have you read them. 450 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 3: Oh, you know, they're important and famous, and have you 451 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: read them? 452 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,959 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? 453 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 3: Okay, there's going to be some words where you got 454 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 3: to stop and make a note and look up what 455 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 3: it means. 456 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: That's okay. 457 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 3: You're improving your vocabulary, or at least increasing your vocabulary. 458 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: Shall we say. 459 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 3: These are the aspects of American culture we must be 460 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 3: very proud of. We are a nation that split in half, 461 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 3: and don't let anybody tell you it was over slavery. 462 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,320 Speaker 3: We are a nation that split in half over a 463 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:34,719 Speaker 3: number of seemingly irreconcilable differences. It's not that all the 464 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 3: north was good and all the South was bad. There 465 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 3: was plenty of evil to go around. And this is 466 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 3: a nation that split in half of the Civil War 467 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 3: and managed to reconcile. Wasn't always pretty sausage making. 468 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: One oh one. 469 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 3: There were lots of axes that were ground after that. 470 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,479 Speaker 3: There were a lot of people punished who did nothing wrong. 471 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 3: After that, there was wealth that was confiscated. There were 472 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 3: homes that were burned, that were lives that were lost. 473 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 3: There were ladies who were raped, there were people who 474 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 3: were killed. War as a brutal thing, but to come 475 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 3: back together as a nation that is an inspiration to 476 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 3: the world. We're the only truly multicultural nation to survive 477 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 3: as a melting pot so many people from so many 478 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 3: places on the scale that we've seen, and by the way, 479 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 3: it hasn't all been positive. I truly believe we allowed 480 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 3: a lot of people to take up residents in this country, 481 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 3: most of them illegally, who have been a drain. Not 482 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 3: adding our diversity is not our strength in this case. 483 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 3: We don't need more pedophiles, we don't need more drug traffickers, 484 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 3: sex traffickers, child traffickers. But we continue to work through this. 485 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 3: That's the sign of a great nation. And these are 486 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 3: the sorts of things we should be talking about to 487 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 3: our kids. These are the things the conversations we should 488 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 3: be having over the dining room table, because if you don't, 489 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 3: your children are still going to be influenced by TikTok 490 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 3: and their friends. And if you don't teach your children 491 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 3: in the ways of your values, just understand that someone 492 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 3: else will. Your kids don't need another friend, they need 493 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 3: a parent, They need somebody with good values, good life experiences, 494 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 3: cares deeply about them to help develop them as young 495 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 3: people