September 11, 2025 • 13 mins
I just don't recognize my country. I got to see someone shot in the neck and die today. Then people cheered because they didn't like his opinions. It just seems so weird. Meawhile the mainstram media fans the flames of the divided states of America, and nobody knows how to have a dialogue anymore. All we do is shoot each other, and the bad news is I don't know how to fix it, and I don't trust the people in power.
So welcome to my rant as I scream into the void.
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And I got to see a very graphic video of that, and it's
different than in the movies.
Live from the basement. It'sbuilding a better Dave. Check us
out@betterdave.com
Email us at dave@betterdave.comor call in your comments,
(00:24):
888-563-3228, now here's yourhost, Dave Jackson,
hello, hey, this is going to beone of those just me shouting
into the void kind of episodes II was aware of who Charlie Kirk
(00:45):
was. He was very much a rightwing guy. But what I liked about
Charlie is he would go topeople, and he would listen to
them, and then he would givehis, you know, response, and
then they would say somethingthat may or may not make sense,
and he would say his he wouldhave actual dialogs with people.
(01:09):
And today he was in Utah, of allplaces, not really known for
their crime, and the guy gotshot in the neck, and I got to
see a very graphic video ofthat, and it's different than in
the movies, and that wasshocking enough that a guy was
(01:33):
simply voicing his opinion andwas murdered for it. But I
always hear how bad Twitter is.And when I go to Twitter, I'm
looking at my friends and, youknow, colleagues, and we're all
talking about podcasting, andI'm like, I don't get what's so
bad about Twitter. I don't getit. So I see on the right that
(01:54):
Charlie Kirk is trending, and Iclick on it, and that's where I
saw the video. But then I sawpeople that were cheering like,
not kind of cheering likecheering like, All right, one,
you know, part of the patriarchyis dead, and heart emojis and
(02:15):
rainbows and, you know, picturesof Kamala Harris laughing. You
know, obviously she's not, butjust the fact that this is a guy
with two little kids, twodaughters, and their dad's dead.
And you know, eventually,somewhere, they're going to end
(02:38):
up seeing that video. And I canonly imagine how scarring that
would be. Then I fire upLinkedIn, and my buddy Larry
says it's day two in Portland,and I have to say it's been a
complete shock to the system.The streets are covered in
(03:00):
graffiti. Homelessness iseverywhere, and people lost to
fentanyl slump on every streetcorner. I've been across all the
country, but I've never seenanything quite like this. Within
two hours, a stranger ran upyelling at me to guess the name
that three police officers hadgiven him. I had to play a real
life game of Minesweeper tododge human waste on the
(03:21):
sidewalks, and when I tried tobuy a monster, meaning an energy
drink at Walgreens, I couldn'teven grab it off the shelf
because everything in the storewas locked up. I can't wrap my
head around how this became ournormal, or how policy makers
allow an environment like thisto take root. It's disturbing,
(03:41):
it's disheartening, and it'shard to accept. And then I'm in
Akron, Ohio, and look, I'm ahuge LeBron James fan. He has
done a lot for this city. Everyspring, he comes back and gives
away a boatload of bicycles, andall these kids ride down Main
Street. He's taken an oldrestaurant that was kind of one
(04:05):
of the pillars of Akron, but hadreally been run down, and he
turned it into a work center togive people skills they need. He
built a school where he pays allthe children. It's actually now
part of the Akron public schoolsystem, but in theory, they're
supposed to get free college.And there are kids that are
(04:28):
graduating, you know, like theeighth grade, and they can't
read. And part of that, I saw aYouTube video of a teacher that
taught there that said the kids,if they don't feel like
learning, can just get up andwalk out like that's the norm.
And it seems to be a lot,especially with children, where
(04:50):
we're kind of letting theinmates run the asylum and there
needs to be order. So that'scrazy. But it was just weird.
And then throw on top of that, Ihad a friend of mine yet another
one drop dead this week. Andit's weird because I I just saw
him two weeks ago. He had lost30 pounds. Was looking really
(05:14):
good. His doctor gave him agreat bill of health, like, keep
up the good work. And then hehad a blood clot and was gone,
and I'm like, Okay, I instantlygo to the internet, like, what
causes blood clots? So it'sreally weird, and I don't know,
(05:36):
because the news makes theirliving by only. Like, there was
a video when I was on Twitterof, I believe it was CNN. And, I
mean, this guy gets hit in thethroat, right? It's and, and,
(05:58):
you know, they said, Well, maybeit was one of his supporters
firing off a celebratory shot.And I'm like, really like,
you're, you're, you're thatbiased that you can't say, Holy
cow, somebody shot this guy. Andthat's when I was just like, we
are so far left and so far rightthat the mainstream media just
(06:25):
makes a living out of stokingthe files the fires of
recreational outrage. They justwant us mad at each other. And
now I was listening to a podcastcalled no agenda, and they were
talking about how, like, thelatest shooting at the Catholic
(06:45):
school, and that person wasmentally ill and was on all
sorts of drugs. And everybodywas like, pointing at them
because this person happened tobe trans. And they're like,
well, this isn't like, justbecause he's he or she is trans,
like, that's not it. And thenthat show, because it's not the
(07:06):
mainstream media went back andthere were, like, six of that
situation, and they weren't evenpointing at the transfer.
They're just like, hey, can welook into some of these drugs
people are taking that areprescribed? And it's just, but
the Twitter thing, I now go, oh,that's a cesspool. It really is,
(07:30):
where the cesspool myselfincluded, I guess. I mean, I go
there to talk to my friends, andI don't look at other things.
But I just, I could not believepeople, you know, shooting
confetti cannons and jumping upand down. And I just was like,
(07:51):
that's a that's a person, ayoung person, who's, what, 36
something like that, and he gotshot for speaking his opinion.
And this is where, you know, hecould say one thing, and we're
not communicating, because if hesays something about, you know,
(08:16):
there are only two sexes, youknow, that is translated as they
want to kill us all. We have tokill them first. And I'm like, I
don't think that's what he said.It's just so weird. And I didn't
know how to feel my body, thewhole my whole body was just
tense, like, What? What?Because, being a man, I want to
(08:40):
fix stuff, and I go, I don'tknow how to fix this, but I am
starting to understand why morepeople are homeschooling,
because we're not. We don't feellike our kids are safe at
school. And I'm starting towonder. This week, I went and
saw Tom Segura at a theater, andhe's kind of crazy. He does some
(09:05):
Nazi for work stuff. And is thisa case where we're all because
that's what they want. They wantus all scared. And are we just
going to be afraid to go to anykind of public events, you know?
And the bigger it is, the thebetter the chance, you know,
somebody's gonna, and I don'tknow about the whole gun
(09:28):
situation, because this wasn't amachine gun. It was a rifle, you
know. So it wasn't like he had aak 47 or what. I'm not a gun
guy, you know, he shot oneperson, and so it wasn't a mass
shooting, it was the directopposite. Was very targeted. And
(09:50):
my heart goes out to his family.And I I'm it's weird because I
heard they don't have a suspect,and I'm like, wait, no. But he
saw this guy, so I don't know.We'll figure it out. I hope I
just feel so bad for his kids.
And I'm just letting you knowdon't go looking for the video,
(10:13):
because there was one guy thatwas like three rows from him,
and you just see him get shot inthe neck, and blood just comes
flowing everywhere. And thenthere was the video I missed,
this story of the one woman onsome sort of train or bus, and
the guy behind her just stabsher, and nobody does a thing,
(10:35):
which I don't know what I woulddo in that situation. You got a
crazy guy stabbing people, butit again, it's way different
than the movies, when all of asudden you just see a river of
blood go flowing down this bus,and I'm just like, what's going
on? We need to teach people howto de escalate things. And maybe
(10:59):
we need to start looking into,you know, remember when Reagan
emptied all the the quote,asylums, you know, maybe we got
some people with serious mentalproblems that need help. And
that's a tricky that's aslippery slope, because some
(11:20):
people are obviously mentallyill, and then other people are
kind of on the borderline, if wego locking up everybody, but we
got to be safe. I don't know. Idon't have the answers. I just
know I don't recognize mycountry anymore, and I don't
(11:42):
think it's a case where this hasalways happened. You just didn't
see it before. Now, with 24/7 Idon't think that's the case. I
think because I remember growingup when you could say what
political party you were, andthen you'd be like, Oh, you're a
Democrat, oh, I'm the other guy,oh, I'm a Democrat, oh, you're
the other guy. And then you kindof talk about things it wasn't
(12:04):
any big deal, because I think weall knew in the end, they're all
crooked politicians owned by thebanks, and so why lose a
friendship over it? I don't knowit's very weird. Everything's
very extreme, but I just knowright now, I don't recognize my
(12:24):
country anymore, and Twitter,Twitter makes me depressed. If I
go into Twitter and look atwhatever's trending, we're all
just it's just amazinglyhorrible. So is it gonna get
(12:46):
better? I always end by saying,well, it's gonna get better. I
Sure, sure it is, because in themortal words of John and Paul,
It can't get much worse. You i.
And I got to see a very graphic video of that, and it's
different than in the movies.
Live from the basement. It'sbuilding a better Dave. Check us
out@betterdave.com
Email us at dave@betterdave.comor call in your comments,
(00:24):
888-563-3228, now here's yourhost, Dave Jackson,
hello, hey, this is going to beone of those just me shouting
into the void kind of episodes II was aware of who Charlie Kirk
(00:45):
was. He was very much a rightwing guy. But what I liked about
Charlie is he would go topeople, and he would listen to
them, and then he would givehis, you know, response, and
then they would say somethingthat may or may not make sense,
and he would say his he wouldhave actual dialogs with people.
(01:09):
And today he was in Utah, of allplaces, not really known for
their crime, and the guy gotshot in the neck, and I got to
see a very graphic video ofthat, and it's different than in
the movies, and that wasshocking enough that a guy was
(01:33):
simply voicing his opinion andwas murdered for it. But I
always hear how bad Twitter is.And when I go to Twitter, I'm
looking at my friends and, youknow, colleagues, and we're all
talking about podcasting, andI'm like, I don't get what's so
bad about Twitter. I don't getit. So I see on the right that
(01:54):
Charlie Kirk is trending, and Iclick on it, and that's where I
saw the video. But then I sawpeople that were cheering like,
not kind of cheering likecheering like, All right, one,
you know, part of the patriarchyis dead, and heart emojis and
(02:15):
rainbows and, you know, picturesof Kamala Harris laughing. You
know, obviously she's not, butjust the fact that this is a guy
with two little kids, twodaughters, and their dad's dead.
And you know, eventually,somewhere, they're going to end
(02:38):
up seeing that video. And I canonly imagine how scarring that
would be. Then I fire upLinkedIn, and my buddy Larry
says it's day two in Portland,and I have to say it's been a
complete shock to the system.The streets are covered in
(03:00):
graffiti. Homelessness iseverywhere, and people lost to
fentanyl slump on every streetcorner. I've been across all the
country, but I've never seenanything quite like this. Within
two hours, a stranger ran upyelling at me to guess the name
that three police officers hadgiven him. I had to play a real
life game of Minesweeper tododge human waste on the
(03:21):
sidewalks, and when I tried tobuy a monster, meaning an energy
drink at Walgreens, I couldn'teven grab it off the shelf
because everything in the storewas locked up. I can't wrap my
head around how this became ournormal, or how policy makers
allow an environment like thisto take root. It's disturbing,
(03:41):
it's disheartening, and it'shard to accept. And then I'm in
Akron, Ohio, and look, I'm ahuge LeBron James fan. He has
done a lot for this city. Everyspring, he comes back and gives
away a boatload of bicycles, andall these kids ride down Main
Street. He's taken an oldrestaurant that was kind of one
(04:05):
of the pillars of Akron, but hadreally been run down, and he
turned it into a work center togive people skills they need. He
built a school where he pays allthe children. It's actually now
part of the Akron public schoolsystem, but in theory, they're
supposed to get free college.And there are kids that are
(04:28):
graduating, you know, like theeighth grade, and they can't
read. And part of that, I saw aYouTube video of a teacher that
taught there that said the kids,if they don't feel like
learning, can just get up andwalk out like that's the norm.
And it seems to be a lot,especially with children, where
(04:50):
we're kind of letting theinmates run the asylum and there
needs to be order. So that'scrazy. But it was just weird.
And then throw on top of that, Ihad a friend of mine yet another
one drop dead this week. Andit's weird because I I just saw
him two weeks ago. He had lost30 pounds. Was looking really
(05:14):
good. His doctor gave him agreat bill of health, like, keep
up the good work. And then hehad a blood clot and was gone,
and I'm like, Okay, I instantlygo to the internet, like, what
causes blood clots? So it'sreally weird, and I don't know,
(05:36):
because the news makes theirliving by only. Like, there was
a video when I was on Twitterof, I believe it was CNN. And, I
mean, this guy gets hit in thethroat, right? It's and, and,
(05:58):
you know, they said, Well, maybeit was one of his supporters
firing off a celebratory shot.And I'm like, really like,
you're, you're, you're thatbiased that you can't say, Holy
cow, somebody shot this guy. Andthat's when I was just like, we
are so far left and so far rightthat the mainstream media just
(06:25):
makes a living out of stokingthe files the fires of
recreational outrage. They justwant us mad at each other. And
now I was listening to a podcastcalled no agenda, and they were
talking about how, like, thelatest shooting at the Catholic
(06:45):
school, and that person wasmentally ill and was on all
sorts of drugs. And everybodywas like, pointing at them
because this person happened tobe trans. And they're like,
well, this isn't like, justbecause he's he or she is trans,
like, that's not it. And thenthat show, because it's not the
(07:06):
mainstream media went back andthere were, like, six of that
situation, and they weren't evenpointing at the transfer.
They're just like, hey, can welook into some of these drugs
people are taking that areprescribed? And it's just, but
the Twitter thing, I now go, oh,that's a cesspool. It really is,
(07:30):
where the cesspool myselfincluded, I guess. I mean, I go
there to talk to my friends, andI don't look at other things.
But I just, I could not believepeople, you know, shooting
confetti cannons and jumping upand down. And I just was like,
(07:51):
that's a that's a person, ayoung person, who's, what, 36
something like that, and he gotshot for speaking his opinion.
And this is where, you know, hecould say one thing, and we're
not communicating, because if hesays something about, you know,
(08:16):
there are only two sexes, youknow, that is translated as they
want to kill us all. We have tokill them first. And I'm like, I
don't think that's what he said.It's just so weird. And I didn't
know how to feel my body, thewhole my whole body was just
tense, like, What? What?Because, being a man, I want to
(08:40):
fix stuff, and I go, I don'tknow how to fix this, but I am
starting to understand why morepeople are homeschooling,
because we're not. We don't feellike our kids are safe at
school. And I'm starting towonder. This week, I went and
saw Tom Segura at a theater, andhe's kind of crazy. He does some
(09:05):
Nazi for work stuff. And is thisa case where we're all because
that's what they want. They wantus all scared. And are we just
going to be afraid to go to anykind of public events, you know?
And the bigger it is, the thebetter the chance, you know,
somebody's gonna, and I don'tknow about the whole gun
(09:28):
situation, because this wasn't amachine gun. It was a rifle, you
know. So it wasn't like he had aak 47 or what. I'm not a gun
guy, you know, he shot oneperson, and so it wasn't a mass
shooting, it was the directopposite. Was very targeted. And
(09:50):
my heart goes out to his family.And I I'm it's weird because I
heard they don't have a suspect,and I'm like, wait, no. But he
saw this guy, so I don't know.We'll figure it out. I hope I
just feel so bad for his kids.
And I'm just letting you knowdon't go looking for the video,
(10:13):
because there was one guy thatwas like three rows from him,
and you just see him get shot inthe neck, and blood just comes
flowing everywhere. And thenthere was the video I missed,
this story of the one woman onsome sort of train or bus, and
the guy behind her just stabsher, and nobody does a thing,
(10:35):
which I don't know what I woulddo in that situation. You got a
crazy guy stabbing people, butit again, it's way different
than the movies, when all of asudden you just see a river of
blood go flowing down this bus,and I'm just like, what's going
on? We need to teach people howto de escalate things. And maybe
(10:59):
we need to start looking into,you know, remember when Reagan
emptied all the the quote,asylums, you know, maybe we got
some people with serious mentalproblems that need help. And
that's a tricky that's aslippery slope, because some
(11:20):
people are obviously mentallyill, and then other people are
kind of on the borderline, if wego locking up everybody, but we
got to be safe. I don't know. Idon't have the answers. I just
know I don't recognize mycountry anymore, and I don't
(11:42):
think it's a case where this hasalways happened. You just didn't
see it before. Now, with 24/7 Idon't think that's the case. I
think because I remember growingup when you could say what
political party you were, andthen you'd be like, Oh, you're a
Democrat, oh, I'm the other guy,oh, I'm a Democrat, oh, you're
the other guy. And then you kindof talk about things it wasn't
(12:04):
any big deal, because I think weall knew in the end, they're all
crooked politicians owned by thebanks, and so why lose a
friendship over it? I don't knowit's very weird. Everything's
very extreme, but I just knowright now, I don't recognize my
(12:24):
country anymore, and Twitter,Twitter makes me depressed. If I
go into Twitter and look atwhatever's trending, we're all
just it's just amazinglyhorrible. So is it gonna get
(12:46):
better? I always end by saying,well, it's gonna get better. I
Sure, sure it is, because in themortal words of John and Paul,
It can't get much worse. You i.
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