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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let me walk home into the program. My
next guest of the morning Michael Levine, a success consultant
media expert. At times, he has worked with and represented
some of the most legendary names in entertainment in America.
Michael Levine on the Hotline, Michael, welcome back to the show.
Thanks for hopping on.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I am on the hotline with you because it's extra
hot today.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Well, I appreciate you hopping on here. I got a
couple of stories we can see if we can nail
through them. One of those is kind of I like
to get your thoughts on culture and where we're at
as a society. A lot of us think that our
public education system is just broken, and then we have
this study that comes out that say a lot of
the youngsters out there, gen Zers, actually, hey, Adolf Hitler
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wasn't all that bad a guy. Seemingly have lost some
semblance of reality and education out there. Give me your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I think everything you I agree with everything you said.
Eleven percent, eleven percent of gen Zers now believe that
adel Phitler had some good ideas. Now that is not
to say the eleven percent think he had all good
ideas but even the idea, the concept that eleven percent
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of gen Z could have notions that adel Fhitler had
some good ideas, I really think points to two culprits. One,
you hit upon the education system, which is no longer
an education system.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's an indoctrination system, from.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Kindergarten to elite universities. Most schools, not all, Most seemed
determined to turn your child into a little America hating
revolutionary in very subtle ways. It starts very subtly and
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then grows as they educated as a age. So, for example,
I'm in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, California, kindergarten children
age five have approximately a fifty percent chance in Los
Angeles of standing for the Pledge of Allegiance every day.
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That means that half of the children in Los Angeles
in kindergarten no longer stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Now you think about that factored out twenty years from now,
twenty five years from now, that's not.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
A good picture.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The other is bad parenting or no parenting. Somehow parents
have decided over the last thirty years to become their
kids' friends, not their kids' parents. And the moral education
has gone downhill, down the drain, I should say, because
if you're trying to be someone's friend, you're not trying
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to educate them, You're not trying.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
To morally impact them.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Those are the two culprits that I can see probably
are at play here.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Michael Levine my guest, and talking about how eleven percent
of gen z ers say that Adolf Hitler might have
had a couple of pretty good ideas here and there.
How do we fix this? I mean, we talk about
the broken education system. I've talked about that being kind
of bit more of a doctrination system parenting. Parenting is broken,
I agree with that as well. How do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, look, generally, in life, when you're in a hole,
it's a good idea to quit digging. So the first
thing you got to do is throw out all the
bad crap that brought us to this place.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
In the first place.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right, you take every idea that's been implemented over the
last twenty or thirty years and throw it in the garbage,
in the ash heap of history, so that we can
begin anew get back to the fundamentals.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Should every.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Team, every kindergartener in Los Angeles in every city of
this country stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Of course, now,
if a young child does not want to stand for
the Pledge of Allegiance, he can leave the room, he
can leave the school. We stand for the Pledge of
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Allegiance as kindergarten students in all grades because we're trying
to set a moral standard for a young person's development.
So we throw away the bad ideas. I mean, one
of the bad ideas in upper education or in all education. Frankly,
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it's been permeated through decayed through all aspects of American life.
Is DIA DEI, which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion.
Very nice sounding label, is nothing more than gift wrapped
or disguised racism. DEI needs to be thrown in the garbage.
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It does not need to be improved upon, altered, fixed,
It needs to be thrown in the garbage. And it's
a big money scam for people involved in that industry anyway.
It just they're taking enormous amounts of money to implement
these programs.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That are racist.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I've said this said to my listeners for a while.
We oftentimes look at our ballot and we're like oh
Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. We get all animated about
the top tier of the ballot, and yet the things
that affect us mostly are the things down down ballot,
like your school board. We talk about parenting. If you're
pissed off at your school is not letting the kids
say the pledge of allegiance, or you're pissed off at
the schools not letting you education, get the principal fire
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go to the school board, find out who's on the
school board. And a lot of times you have activist
on the school board. But if you're not voting up
the school board, you can't complain about them.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Correct. You have to get active, and you have to
turn your head away from much of the distraction that
has ruined some of American culture. We are not a
better nation because you have five streaming systems at your home.
You may be more a happier nation temporarily, but when
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you see the consequences of that kind of behavior over
a generation, I think you're going to live to regret it.
We got to get back to the fundamentals. And by
the way, friend, I tell you this straight up, as
a political independent, I am not a Republican. I am
not a democrat. I am what I think would be
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called a radical pragmatist. I want to know what works,
and that's it.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's how I see it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I was Michael. You may know my listeners know that
I have my own charity of a foundation called Rivers Promise.
We built our building a school in Rwanda where my
son was adopted from and it was a product moment
of joy earlier this year when have we built our
first building and the government said, hey, you got to
get the flag like mandate to get the flagpole up.
And we put the flagpole up. The military came out,
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they had an honoring, raised the flag of the Rwandan
flag over our school for the first time. I mean
we're talking preschool, kindergarten. All the kids out there singing
the national anthem. It was beautiful. It was an emotional
time for me.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's also appropriate. It's how we begin. Every nation should
have respect for its nation. When respect declines, chaos ensues.
It's just that simple, and politics is nothing more than
downstream culture. The reason that you feel you're living in
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such a chaotic nation is that we have turned our
back over a generation or more on the concept, but
on the fundamental concepts that made this country great.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, the voice of Michael Levini. You're so right on
what you're saying here real quick, I want to switch
gears here. Right before we went on are I said,
what else can we talk about? And you had a
couple of thoughts on Elon Musk out there. He's obviously
the last year sought bought the Twitter machine, and some
folks like him owner the Twitter to say he's standing
for free speech. Give me your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, whatever you feel about Elon Musk, and you can
have complicated feelings about him, let's acknowledge that he is
a genius. That no man has done more in American
enterprise over the last decade than Elon Musk, which is
why he's the richest man in the world. He is
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a genius.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Now he is.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He's made a decision. He feels that the election of
Donald Trump is so important to the salvation of this
nation that he has taken time. And believe me, he's
one busy dude to go and campaign in Pennsylvania for
the president and other states. And he's giving away a
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million dollars a day to people that will simply sign
a petition like or it's a raffle million dollars a
day to people who are willing to sign a petition
in favor of the constitution. Now, the reason he's giving
a million dollars away is not in any way to
buy votes, but to buy attention. He said that he
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tried doing this petition, but the legacy media, that's the
mainstream media, that's CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, LA Times,
New York Times would not pay.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Attention to it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The moment he attached a million dollar raffle prize to it,
they had no choice but to pay attention to it.
So he will give away a million dollars every single
day from now to the next two weeks, right, which
is fourteen million dollars to people who will sign a
petition just simply saying I'm in favor of free speech,
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I'm in favor of Americans to have the right to
bear arms, and so forth. So it's just he's a
nuclear force. And if Donald Trump wins this selection, which
there is a chance that he will, I think that
Elon Musk will play a huge role not only in
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his victory but potentially as some role in his administration.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I found it interesting that Mark Cuban, who's out campaigning
for Kamala Harris, even though he says he disagrees with
a lot of our policies, he's campaigning. But now he says, Donald,
if you call me, I'll be glad to take your
call and help you. And I wonder sometimes of these billionaires,
if there's like a there's a there's a competition going on,
they got billionaire in via, Kamala's got me and maybe
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we can all work together. Please let me be a
part of it too.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I've heard a very funny, sarcastic joke about Mark Cuban,
who I do like, and that is my god. Kamala
Harris must have some pretty compromising photographs of him, because
the way he's behaving it is so antithetical to his
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core beliefs. It's as if all of a sudden he
is gone out into the world. It's like he's preaching
to a choir and saying, you see that green traffic
light up there, You see that green one that means stop,
and you see that red one up there.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
That means go.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I mean, it's it's it's bizarre. I like Mark, he's
a very brilliant and talented guy. But I don't have
any inclination other than maybe his personal popularity with a
certain segment of his team that he would behave as
he's behaved.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I just wonder if he and Donald Trump got in
a some kind of a fight in a bathroom somewhere,
like there's just a personal animosity going on there.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I think there is a competition. Donald Trump had a
show called The Apprentice, which was by far the most
popular show of its type on television. Mister Cuban had
another show called Shark Tank, which was not the most
popular show during the time The Apprentice is on. Now
it's become much much more popular now. And I do
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think that there was a subconscious competition, which unfortunately for
mister Cuban, Donald Trump won significantly. So I think that
there is may be a subcond I have no explanation
for his logic. It is just bizarre. I mean, and
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he's a smart and likable guy, but is thinking is
so convoluted.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He admits he.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Doesn't agree with their unmost policies. Real, Mark Cuban, are
you telling I'd love to say to him, Mark, are
you telling me that you support open borders? That you
think it's actually a good thing for a society to
let ten or twelve million people run around our country
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not knowing who they are, why they're here. Do you
think that's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean it's bizarre fun. Michael Levine is my guest.
Your piece on the Tyranny and Hitler im parented education
getting back under control. I know that's up at Newsmax.
I want to put that out for everybody to read.
Folks can read it. And I'm sitting here thinking I
was mentioned to my charity work in Africa and building
a school. I'm thinking I should go up to registered
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to vote in Pennsylvania, sign a Elon must petition. Maybe
I win a million bucks. I can build a couple
of school campuses for that. I'm thinking, I mean leave
after the show and fly to Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Well, there you go. That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Friend, Michael Levine. It's a pleasure if folks want to
find you on the interweb. I know the Newsmax pieces
up there on the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The other great site I'd like to point out is
Michael Levine Consulting.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I think there's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Good information on there for people if they're interested. Michael
Levineconsulting dot Com. I think that can be of some value.
And the piece on Newsmax is of course great, so
you've got at least I think provocative Michael Levine.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It's a pleasure. I appreciate you hopping on the program.
Michael Levine, Consulting dot Com. And I'll put out the
Newsmax piece, and it's about the educators and parents needed
to make sure your kids are not to buy it
into the tyrannical messages of Hitler. I gotta take a break.
It's Lakey on the radio. Don't forget his website. Michael
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