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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

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Speaker 2: So Michael Verie show is on the air.

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Speaker 3: Interesting to me. In the course of my life, different

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Speaker 3: things have happened that I noticed.

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Speaker 2: How we deal with.

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Speaker 3: The concept of accountability and consequences and how they are

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Speaker 3: extolled or forgotten in common conversation and in popular culture.

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Speaker 3: Really interesting phenomenon to me because we have a tendency

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Speaker 3: to ignore the idea do whatever you want, damn the consequence.

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Speaker 2: Do what makes you feel good, gives you gratification.

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Speaker 3: I think gratification is a better word than happiness, because

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Speaker 3: happiness is a silly word. Nobody's walking around and we're happy.

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Speaker 2: We're all happy all the time, just happy.

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Speaker 3: You'd get bored being happy, you would. Jordan Peterson has

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Speaker 3: really done some important work on this subject. He's not

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Speaker 3: the first, but he's the first to take it to

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Speaker 3: happiness per se is a fool's errand you never actually

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Speaker 3: achieve happiness. Many people are watching pop culture and they

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Speaker 3: think the Kardashians are happy, or Diddy is Epstein is happy,

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Speaker 3: or Lizzo or whoever else, And then there's shocked to

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Speaker 3: even though that person is their hero. That person is

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Speaker 3: they would sell off their kidney to get to go

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Speaker 3: teeming mass of people cheering that that person is singing

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Speaker 3: the song they've already heard of that but in the

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Speaker 3: that those people are usually miserable because they have been

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Speaker 3: on a journey to the destination of happiness, and as

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Speaker 3: it turns out, happiness is not neverland. So that makes

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Speaker 3: him feel good because I may not be happy, but

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Speaker 3: it turns out that person is supposed.

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Speaker 2: To be happy.

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Speaker 3: He's supposed to be happy, and he's not happy, So

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Speaker 3: that makes me feel better because I thought he was

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Speaker 3: just sitting overre just being happy all the time. But

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Speaker 3: what Jordan Peterson has done I think groundbreaking work in

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Speaker 3: terms of taking.

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Speaker 2: It to the masses.

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Speaker 3: As I say, it's not the first to come up

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Speaker 3: with this.

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Speaker 2: I understand this.

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Speaker 3: The idea that happiness is not the pursuit of man

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Speaker 2: A it's a throwaway term.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a simplistic term that has become a catch all.

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Speaker 3: In economics, we use the term utility. It gives some

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Speaker 2: Executioner, but it gives you utility.

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Speaker 3: And Rick Warren in twenty twelve, I think it was

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Speaker 3: wrote The Purpose Driven Life, which I actually think it

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Speaker 3: come to learn that this is why some people, I'm

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Speaker 3: The Walmart reader kind of went away.

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Speaker 3: I loved the Walmart reader because so many of the

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Speaker 3: loved to greet people. What a brilliant idea. You take

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Speaker 3: this cold soul warehouse full of junk that people are

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Speaker 3: On the way to your job, you may stop and

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Speaker 3: get a kalachi and you really like talking to the

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Speaker 1: Kamal Harris was just officially endorsed by I R.

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Speaker 2: S Agency. You believe the Michael Berry Show. I'd rather

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Speaker 2: not have that endorsement.

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Speaker 3: I received a mean and it's two stick figures. They're

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Speaker 3: And the title of it is being taught to avoid

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Speaker 2: I'll read that.

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Speaker 3: Again, being taught to avoid talking about politics and religion.

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Speaker 3: Think about how many times in your life you've been told, no,

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Speaker 3: two things. You don't talk about politics and religion. Why

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Speaker 3: the two of the most important things related to the

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Speaker 2: What else is there?

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Speaker 3: Being taught to avoid talking about politics and religion has

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Speaker 3: If we're uncomfortable talking about those things, talking is how

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Speaker 3: When people are uncomfortable talking about something, it often means

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Speaker 3: You could put race because people are very uncomfortable talking

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Speaker 3: everything else. And that is the reason you should have

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Speaker 3: because it's not taboo. It shouldn't scare you, it shouldn't

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Speaker 3: going to be boycotted? And that's what people do. Ifact

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Speaker 3: some of you do that. I've actually witnessed it.

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Speaker 3: In the middle of a conversation, I will say, for

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Speaker 2: Why would you ask that? Why does that upset you?

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Speaker 3: He'll tell you whether they create an oval effect on

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Speaker 2: Were all talking to?

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't say a human being, Okay, well I saw

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Speaker 3: That doesn't offend me because it's true. And that's how

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Speaker 3: I want to ask you people to do yourself a

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Speaker 3: against them important, no doubt, important should be done, and

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Speaker 3: I talk about sixteen hours a day, all day, every day,

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Speaker 3: Because people are lazy or thoughtless. If your life depended

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Speaker 3: like we do for elections. That's how candidates win election.

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Speaker 3: Why would you play Rush Limbough's wedding. This was when

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Speaker 2: They thought, maybe you know.

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Speaker 1: You shared some political views, and he says, pay me

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Speaker 1: And when Rush was criticized or questioned, he said, I

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Speaker 2: It's a dream come true. Are you kidding me? You

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Speaker 3: You're not invited anyway. It was only Rush could do

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Speaker 3: all right. Nine presidents never graduated from college, the last

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Speaker 2: He was a clerk.

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Speaker 3: In fact, he was a very very corrupt clerk in Missouri.

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Speaker 3: Pendergast family who ran a machine there, and he was

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Speaker 2: Harry S.

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Speaker 3: from college. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin van Buren, Zachary Taylor,

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Speaker 3: Harry has Truman. All right, very quickly, Ramond, to make

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Speaker 3: You either know the first lady and something about her,

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Speaker 3: I'll give you the president, and very quickly, you spout

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Speaker 3: George Washington, Martha Washington is correct, John Adams, Abigail Adams

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Speaker 3: Abigail Franklin Pierce, Jane James Buchanan never married. You know

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Speaker 3: what that means if you're president from eighteen fifty seven

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Speaker 3: By the way, Lucretia, Oh no, sorry, not Lucretia Lucy.

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Speaker 3: Lucy James Garfield has been shot down. His widow was

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Speaker 3: Lucretia his successor Chester, Arthur Ellen, Grover Cleveland, Francis Benjamin Harrison,

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Speaker 3: Caroline Grover Cleveland. I like old name, Francis William McKinley, Ida.

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Speaker 3: Don't name women Ida anymore?

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Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt.

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Speaker 3: Do you know Teddy Roosevelt's West name? Edith Kermit, Caro Roosevelt,

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Speaker 3: William H. Path, Helen Woodrow Wilson Ellen, not Helen Ellen.

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Speaker 3: Calvin Coolidge or what a perfect name for his wife,

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Speaker 3: an English novel. Herbert Hoover. His wife's name was Lou

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Speaker 3: Lou Franklin D.

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Speaker 3: See, there's one of those that you know. The wife's

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Speaker 3: name Eleanor is correct.

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Speaker 2: Harry S.

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Speaker 3: you know what state. Dwight Eisenower was born in Texas.

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Speaker 2: John F.

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Speaker 3: Kennedy, The Lovely Jack Qulyn Bouvier Kennedy and then she

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Speaker 2: Lyndon B.

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Speaker 3: Johnson, particularly known in Texas.

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Speaker 2: What a great cause.

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Speaker 3: Flowers on the Highway. That might seem silly, but that's

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Speaker 3: Barbara Bush most noted for what was her cause? Literacy?

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Speaker 3: Bill Clinton, Oh, that tastes in my mouth.

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