1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Hi. This is new due to the virus. I'm recording 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: from home, so you may notice a difference in audio quality. 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: In this episode of News World, I want to talk 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: about the triumph of the human spirit. I just thought that, 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: coming to the end of two and twenty, many of 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: us feel so battered by all the different things. Whether 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: it's politics, or it is COVID, or it's the economy, 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: or it's the lockdown. There's lots of good reasons to, 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: if not to be depressed, at least be confused. Yet 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: my whole life, I've really believed that, going all the 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: way back to Edgar Rice Burroughs, who of course is 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: famous written Tarzan, but who also wrote a marvelous series 13 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: for young people about John Carter of Mars. John Carter 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: is a Virginian who somehow magically ends up on Mars 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: and surrounded by the civilization of Mars. So Burrow has 16 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: saying over and over again, where there's life, there's hope, 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: Where there's life, there's hope. I read that when I 18 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: was probably eighth or ninth grade, and I fell in 19 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: love with it, and you know, I lost my first election, 20 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, where there's life, there's hope. I 21 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: lost my second election, I did, well, where there's life, 22 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: there's hope. I got to Congress and said, you know, 23 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: we need to learn how to be a majority. We 24 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: hadn't been a majority in twenty four years, and they 25 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: asked me to chair the planning committee to create a 26 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: majority in December of seventy eight, right after I'd gotten elected. 27 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: So we lost in eighty two, eighty four, eighty six, 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: eighty eight, ninety and ninety two, and each time after 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: we lost, I'd say, well, where there's life, there's hope. 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: So I really do believe in the triumph of the 31 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: human spirit and that you have to pick yourself back up. 32 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: We coined the phrase cheerful persistence as a part of 33 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,119 Speaker 1: how we sought to change history and create a Republican majority, 34 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: which we finally did after forty years. And a number 35 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: of times in my career, I've been at a point 36 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: in time when, you know, it struck me that who 37 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: knew what was going to happen next, and so far 38 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: at least has worked out. But I'd always been struck 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: by William Faulkner's amazing Nobel Prize winning acceptance speech because 40 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: he talked about that the human spirit will endure and prevail. 41 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: He's talking from a very particular standpoint as a writer, 42 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: as a man of literature, and I want to start, 43 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: particularly for younger members of our audience, by talking a 44 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: little bit about Faulkner. Faulkner's a very complicated guy, and 45 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: I always tell people my personal preference is Hemingway's writing style, 46 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: which is very shoppy, short, direct. Faulkner wrote in a 47 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: very complicated, intellectual style and was considered an extraordinarily important writer. 48 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: He was born to an old Southern family in eighteen 49 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: ninety seven in Albany, Mississippi. He was the oldest of 50 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: four sons and homely grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. His 51 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: family moved there when he was five in nineteen o two, 52 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: and that's, of course the home of the University of Mississippi. 53 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: He enrolled at Old miss was a member of the 54 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: Alpha Epsilon social fraternity. He dropped out in nineteen twenty 55 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: after three semesters, but he loved Oxford. Earlier, he'd wanted 56 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: to join the US Army, but he was too short, 57 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: so instead he went enjoyed the British Royal Flying Corps 58 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: in the summer of nineteen eighteen. He never actually saw 59 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: combat because World War One ended just before he finished training, 60 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: and so he set out and made his debut as 61 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: a published writer. And in this sense their wonderful parallels 62 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: between Faulkner and Hemingway were both part of a generation 63 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: of the beginning of the Great American literary era. In 64 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 1: Wagner's case, he started as a published writer with a 65 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: poem Lepremedied on Fun, which appeared in the New Republic 66 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: on August sixth, nineteen nineteen. He then wrote two more poems, 67 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: Cathay and Sapphix, and a short story Landing in Luck. 68 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 1: They were all published in The Mississippi in November nineteen nineteen. 69 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: Then he wrote his first novel, Soldier's Pay, in nineteen 70 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: twenty five. It was a tremendously productive period for him. 71 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: Published a lot of short stories I had to work 72 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: my way through as I Lay Dying, which he wrote 73 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty. He also wrote The Sound and the 74 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 1: Fury in nineteen twenty nine and Absalom Absom in nineteen 75 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: thirty six. In the meantime, he's also composing poetry. He 76 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: wrote a collection of short crime fiction stories called knights Gamut. Altogether, 77 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: Faulkner wrote nineteen novels, one hundred and twenty five short stories, 78 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: one play, and six collections of poetry. Now he's not 79 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: making very much money at this He's doing it because 80 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: he has to, because he's a writer, and he can't 81 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: get out of doing it. In fact, he wrote as 82 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: I Lay Dying in nineteen thirty while he was working 83 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: at night at a power plant. Today he's probably best 84 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: known for The Sound and the Fury, but it was 85 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: not a popular novel during his lifetime. Sanctuary that was 86 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: Wagner's best selling novel until he published The Wild Poems 87 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty nine. Wagner was the intellectuals novelist. He 88 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: had the Nobel Prize of Literature in nineteen forty nine, 89 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction in nineteen sixty three nineteen 90 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: fifty five, two National Book Awards for Fiction nineteen fifty 91 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: five and nineteen fifty one, an American Academy of Arts 92 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction in nineteen sixty two. 93 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: Died of a heart attack the age of sixty four 94 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two. He's buried at the Saint Peter's 95 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: cemetery and Oxford, America has lost a sense of humor 96 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: and needs to get back. This week on Outllow with 97 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,559 Speaker 1: Giano Caldwell, I try to do just that with my guest, 98 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: the one and only Catherine Tenth, a prominent journalist. Kat 99 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: is one of Fox news youngest stars, but she's also 100 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: a comedian. We discussed the current state of our politics, 101 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: how boring Joe Biden is, what libertarians believe the role 102 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: of comedy these days, and much more. Trust me, this 103 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: episode will make you think and make you laugh. Listen 104 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: to Outllow with Giano Caldwell every Monday on the iHeartRadio app, 105 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. One of 106 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: the books would turn into a pretty interesting book. It's 107 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: called The re is the last book he wrote it, 108 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: and Faulkner had an ability to say things in such 109 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: a way that you had to actually think about it. 110 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: Hemingwaye believed that he ought to paint the picture so 111 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: vividly that without much thought, you would just sort of 112 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: hit you in the forehead. But in Falkner's case, he 113 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: wanted you to work at it. He wanted you to 114 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: sort of dance with him, and he had a series 115 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: of vivid ways of explaining things. When they awarded him 116 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: the Nobel Prize, they said it was quote for his 117 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. 118 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: And I thought that it was really remarkable. And I 119 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: thought also that what he said, which is a very 120 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: short talk on receiving the mail Prize to me, made 121 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: an endebable impact. And so I want to share the 122 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: actual Nobel Prize speech has delivered by William Faulkner December tenth, 123 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty in Stockholm. So just listen to Faulkner for 124 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: a minute, and then I'm going to come back and 125 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: chat about why I think this is so important lads, 126 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: these other money. I feel that this award was not 127 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: made to me as a man, but to my word, 128 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: the life break in the agony and sweat of the 129 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: human spirit, not for glory, but but to make out 130 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: of the material of the human spirit something which was 131 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: not there before, so that this award is only mind. 132 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: In short, it will not be hard to find a 133 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: dedication for the money part of it commensurate with pepers 134 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: and significance of its origin. But I would like to 135 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: go to do the same. Will be acclaimed too by 136 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: making using this fine moment as a pellicle from which 137 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: I might be listened to by the young men and 138 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: young women already dedicated to the same anguish and Travello, 139 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: among whom was the one who may some day stand 140 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: by our stood this afternoon, Our tragedy to day is 141 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,679 Speaker 1: a general and universal physical spear, so long sustained by 142 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: now that we can even bear it. They are no 143 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question, 144 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: when will I be blown up? Because of this, the 145 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: young man young woman writing today has forgotten the problems 146 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: of the human heart in conflict with itself, which alone 147 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: can make good writing. Because only that is worth writing about, 148 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: worst agony and the sweat. He must line them again. 149 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: He must teach himself that the basis of all things 150 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: is to be afraid, and teaching this himself that forgettes forever, 151 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the 152 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: old varitis and truths of the heart, the old universal 153 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 1: truth lacking, which in his story is a feminal and doom. 154 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: Love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. 155 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 1: Until he does soul, he lives under a curse He 156 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: writes not of love, but of lost, of defeats in 157 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: which nobody loses anything, of die dog a victorious without hope, 158 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: and worst of all, without pity or compassion. His grief 159 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: breathe on new universal bones, leaving those scars. He writes, 160 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: not of the heart, gold, the plans, until he releases 161 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: relins these things who write as though he stood along 162 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 1: and watch the end of man. I decline to accept 163 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: the end of man. It is easy enough to say 164 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: that man is immoral, accepted because he must still in yours, 165 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: that when the last things ang with doom has clanged 166 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: and faded, from the last worstless rock hanging tideless, and 167 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: the last read and dying evening, that he then there 168 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: will still be one more style, that he is a human, inexhaustible. Boys, 169 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: he'll talking. I really want to draw your attention to 170 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: a sentence at the very end, which, to me, when 171 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: I first saw it, just stopped me in my tracks. 172 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: I encountered this part of Faulkner not in college, but 173 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: while I was trying to think through how do we 174 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: defeat the Soviet Empire, which at the time was an 175 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: extraordinarily dangerous rival and an enormous problem, and not at 176 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: all obvious to me that the United States, that the 177 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: American people, and that our political leadership was capable of 178 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 1: doing it. And then I ran across this. It is 179 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because 180 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 1: he will still endure, though in the last ding dong 181 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: of doom is clanged and faded from the last worthless rock, 182 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: hanging tideless in the last red and dying. Even that, 183 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: even then, there will still be one more sound, that 184 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: of his puny, inexhaustible voice, still talking. I believe that 185 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, 186 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, 187 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of 188 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: compassion and sacrifice and endurance. When I encountered Faulkner's speech, 189 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: I was just stunned by it, because it fits everything 190 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: I was wrestling with. He says, quote, I believe that 191 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,719 Speaker 1: man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is 192 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: a mortal, not because he alone among creatures has an 193 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit 194 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poets. The 195 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: writer's duty is to write about these things. It is 196 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: his privilege to help a man endure by lifting his heart, 197 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope 198 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have 199 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need 200 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: not merely be the record of man. It can be 201 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: one of the props, the pillars to help him endure 202 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: and prevail. Twenty twenty was an absolutely insane year that 203 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: we will not soon forget. A deadly pandemic upended our lives, 204 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: and a presidential election upended our politics. And that barely 205 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: scratches the surface. This is Rob Smith this week on 206 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: Rob Smith is Problematic, I break down the crazy year 207 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: we just experience and give you my biggest winners and 208 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: losers of twenty twenty, from the mainstream media to Donald Trump, 209 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: to the far left to the MAGA movement. I am 210 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: going to break all of it down and tell you 211 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: who came out on top and who came out on 212 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: by in twenty twenty. Trust me, you don't want to 213 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: miss this one. Listen to Rob Smith is Problematic every 214 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: Tuesday on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you 215 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: get your podcasts. I can't tell you how often, over 216 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: what is now in my case, sixty two years of 217 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: involvement in public life, I've hit a point of being frustrated, 218 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: of being almost intimidated, of looking at problems that seemed 219 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: so bleak, you know, the disastrous defeat of Goldwater in 220 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: sixty four, Reagan losing to four to seventy six, the 221 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: whole collapse of the Republicans in ninety two, the rise 222 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: of Obama in two thousand and eight, the gradual, steady 223 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: emergence of the Chinese, all these different things going on, 224 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: And yet every time I start to back, I remind 225 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: myself of Faulkner, that this is the human condition. To 226 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: follow John Carter of Mars and to recognize the whether's life, 227 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 1: there's hope, and that we have an obligation to live 228 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: a life of daring, to live a life of commitment, 229 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: to live a life of courage. That we have to 230 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: both have a vision worth our lives work and then 231 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: be willing to work to the vision, not because we 232 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: will necessarily achieve it, but because the very act of trying, 233 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: the very act of enduring, the very act of trying 234 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: to reach out and achieve something greater than we were, 235 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: to do something for others, to leave behind some footprints 236 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: that are worthy of being followed. That's what Faulkner was 237 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: talking about, and he was trying to explain that it 238 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: is entire our lifetime of writing, was a lifetime of 239 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: trying to find a way to express it in print, 240 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: whether poetry or fiction, that there are values worth living for, 241 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: that life isn't easy, but it's necessary, and that all 242 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: too often today we lose to drug addiction, to alcoholism, 243 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: tragically to suicide, people who weren't taught that they can 244 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: endure and that in fact, to prevail, they must endure. 245 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: And I think that Faulkner represented a better vision of 246 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: being American than what most of our schools try to 247 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: teach today. He didn't teach safety, he taught endurance. He 248 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: didn't teach hiding from problems. He taught wrestling with problems. 249 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: He knew that in the end all of us will die, 250 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: or what as I laid is all about. But he 251 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: knew that if we lived well, then the dying would 252 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: have been worth it. And frankly, if we can't live well, 253 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: if we don't have the courage. If we're not willing 254 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: to invest ourselves, then why should we expect to prevail? 255 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: So I just wanted to share and what has been 256 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: a tough time, been a tough time for all of us. 257 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: When you hear that the entire process of isolation has 258 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 1: led one of the very four young people to consider suicide, 259 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: when you look at how many people are losing their 260 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: small businesses, when you think about the violence we've seen 261 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: in our city streets and the degree to which elements 262 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: that simply don't understand human nature have been out increasing 263 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: the propensity to crime, increasing the potential for people to 264 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: end up doing bad things and getting away of it. 265 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 1: Be easy to quit, be easy to relax and give up. 266 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: But I think what Faulkner and tried to teach us was, now, 267 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: this is just part of life. Just as we made 268 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: it through the Great Depression, just as we made it 269 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 1: through the Revolutionary War, just as we won World War two. 270 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: This two we can prevail. We first endure, then we prevail, 271 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: and we prevail because of the human spirit, because we 272 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 1: as people have the capacity to pray, to reach beyond ourselves, 273 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 1: to do things worthy of study, to do things worthy 274 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: of imitation to do things that are called leadership, and 275 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: that the genius of America, and this sense Faulkner is 276 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: totally American, just as hemingly is. The genius of America 277 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: is that each one of us gets to be that person. 278 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: We don't have a leader of principle like Gadolf Hitler, 279 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: we don't have a giant figure like as they don't, 280 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: nor do we have a requirement that only billionaires get 281 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: to play in America. Each of us has the opportunity 282 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: to rise to the occasion, not necessarily to rise to 283 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 1: the top, but to rise to the challenge. The challenge 284 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: may be helping your child at the soccer field. The 285 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: challenge may be learning a new language. The challenge may 286 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: be recognizing that whatever your profession had been after the 287 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: disaster this year, you're don't need a new profession. The 288 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: American pattern has been roll up your sleeves and go 289 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: do it, because if you're prepared to endure, you will prevail. 290 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: And let me close again with John Carter of Mars 291 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: and contribution of every Rice Burroughs in his non Tartan Days, 292 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: I really do believe the where there's life, there's hope, 293 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: and that every person who listens to this podcast has 294 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: a chance to go out create a slightly better life, 295 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,199 Speaker 1: be a slightly better blow model, and in that process 296 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: America has made remarkable because of all the people who 297 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: reach individually in their own way, do remarkable things. 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