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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. It's get out
of here, out Canada, Canada.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Won't be there before he so that you know what
hit him.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The Thoughts News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will be good the forty seventh president of
the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
You guys know that my husband turned Republican this term.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't know why I threw his ass out of
the house. I think I'm going to sleep with his friends.
I think that's the only way for the movement starting.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We're not going to dire hair anymore. We're not going
to do makeup, We're not going to use filters. We're
not gonna go get the skin stuff. We're not gonna
dress up and look nice. Why so that they can
come and act like they own us because we look
like this absolutely not know y'all. The four B movement
means like we gonna be cozy, comfy in our own skin,
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and everyone over here is like, yeah, good strapped, get ready,
get prepared. But you know what, it's fine, let's go
bring it on. You want to fight, I'm ready to fight.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
There is a highly trained professional assassin out there right now,
and you have one job.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm going I'm a firm believer in karma as well
as three times a term.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I'm saying, I knows that someone in the house better
take their saw right now and not miss My doors
are open for you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
If you need a safe house, I would purchase a clock.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
And if you and I are walking on the same
street in its darkout and you're a white male, you
have to be white for this to count. Okay, E
think if you don't approach me, I will shoot you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I know. Just so we're clear.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Okay, little white boys and more of you little white boys,
I delete my video.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I would never do such thing. Okay. What I say,
I mean unlike most of your friends.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Okay, if your families are hurt and you're triggered, it
means you're going to hell.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's what it means.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
So I don't really care how you feel, and I
never will.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Okay, So since Trump won the election, we're cooked up.
I'm gonna be leaving the US and I'm gonna be
moving to Hawaii. So we'll see how it goes, and
I'll update you.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Guys now that we're all saying what we're thinking, I'm
gonna go ahead and say that I think if you
wanted for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're ugly.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I think you're all freaking ugly, and I think you're
dumb as bricks. I also not only won't care when
all the bad stuff that's gonna happen happens to you,
I actually want it to happen to you. I want
your taxes to go up. I want things to be
more expensive for you. I want you to have a
complicated pregnancy. I want all that bad stuff to happen
to you, because that's what you deserve. Also, like, the
only silver lining is it's actually gonna suck for all
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you Trump voters way more than it's gonna suck for
us Blue voters, because we actually have educations and good jobs.
Y'all are broke as So it's really gonna suck for
you when he raises your tax as aton.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Is this cutting off hair. I'm gonna have to kind
of short.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Being skinny, being hot and all the things that the
patriarchy wants us to be because clearly they don't give
it about us.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They're cutting it off because you That's why think I'm crazy,
too crazy, just like all the women before me, who
are crazy, so crazy, I will not be giving my
money to the beauty industry anymore.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I will not be giving my money to anyone that
help support misogyny and the patriarchy and keeping women down
and making women think that we need to look a
certain way or be a certain way.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Or you women can stop dating man, stop having sex
with men, stop talking to men, divorce your husbands, leave
your boyfriends, leave them.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Now that the orange turd has won, we should now
rename America hell because it is going to be hell
on earth. One's face, trip everyone's rights away, that is
their straight white CIS man, So buckle up. Hope you
freaking Republicans are happy gone.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of the crazy comments about Trump and elon. People that
hate them want to murder them, hope someone else will
murder them. Are white liberals, and of those are white
liberal females, and I think there is something to be
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said for that. We'll get into that in a moment.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Was hilarious to me after the election there were these
women who shaved their heads and in their minds they
needed to do something drastic and dramatic, and then they
needed everybody to know about it. These people don't go
up in the mountains to grieve, to come unhinged. They
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wanted out there for everybody to see. It's a complicated,
complicated reasoning behind it. It's not a simple reason, and
I don't think most people can understand how that kind
of mind works to begin to understand what that person thinks.
You know, you pull up to the red light, and
then the guy pulls up beside you, and I forget
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the term they use, But when when the seat is
laid so far back that you can barely see in
front of you, look down your nose to see the
road in front of you, creeping, there's a word for it.
I can't remember. Leaning maybe, And he's got the windows down,
and he's got a fifteen hundred dollars car which he's
had painted metallic purple, and he's got three four thousand
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dollars worth of rims on it that he has rented
from the rent attire location. And he blasts the base
so loud that you can feel it in your in
your gut, and you think, what an idiot, how stupid,
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what a loser. But you have to realize in his mind,
you're thinking, Wow, that's an amazing car. With some really
really sick wheels and the music you got playing laid back.
You got the whole world with your mind on your
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money and your money on your mind. You got it
all figured out.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I want to be you, you, you You. Every dude
wants to be you, every girl wants to be with you.
You got it all in his mind. That's what you're thinking,
These liberal whites who do these things the way you
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look at them versus the way they think you're looking
at them. They shaved their heads after the election, and
it was reminiscent so closely to Charles Manson's cult when
he was arrested after the Tate Lebianca murders. And they
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take in the ones tax and I forget the girls' names,
Linda maybe and Squeaky from and a couple of others
shave their heads and they would go out on the
sidewalk and they would sing and they would skip, and
at one point they crawled and they had their shaved
heads and then they would put your and I thought, well,
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that's these are just modern day Charlie Manson.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Fans twage and you get it all fiberglass hood with
air grabbing scoops, mid the Michael Berry fucking hood bens
snsmobile escaped from the ordinary.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The things you love about Donald Trump can be studied,
they can be bottled, they can be replicated, and they're
going to have to be if the movement will continue
after he's gone, which he will be, we all will be.
Otherwise we'll be pining for the days of when Trump
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was around, like a nation that's lost its leader and
wanders aimlessly. So this guy, George my Chance, was reading
this and he sent it to me. I'll just synthesize
the little narrow part of this. You wake up in
a third world jail. You wake up in the third
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world jail, so you're only allowed to call one person
you know, to get you out of there. Who do
you call? Play this out in your own mind. Who
do you call? You've been visiting Mexico or for that matter,
Turkey or wherever else. Maybe you're on a mission trip
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with your church. You've ended up in jail, and yes
it can happen. Why did you choose this person? What
is it about them that made you pick up the phone?
This person you picked has something a spark a jena
say quah, that's something is high agency august Landmesser refusing
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to salute at a Nazi rally in Hamburger. In Hamburg,
it's a picture of a guy. Everybody else is doing
the Nazi salute, but he's not. His whole story behind that.
We put a man on the moon peak High Agency
before anyone put wheels on suitcases. Everyone carried their suitcases
because everyone else carried their suitcases. Now you've seen it,
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let's try to explain it. The person you'd call when
stuck in a third world jail cell falls on the
right side of the high agency spectrum. The thought experiment
of a third world jail cell is designed to represent
the ultimate live problem on steroids. You're giving the person
you would call a seemingly impossible problem alone in the
real world, with no guidebook, and still betting on them
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finding a solution. If you created a room with everyone
you would call when stuck in the third world jail cell,
what would that high agency room have in common. It's
not age, gender, race, education, job title, or politics. It's
not optimism or pessimism. Optimism states the glasses half full.
Pessimism states the glasses half empty. High agency states you're
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a tap. You look in the mirror and see a
giant tap staring back at you. The one big thing
everyone in that high agency room has in common. They
are happening to life. They don't view the future as
a static entity. They view it as something to be
shaped by human action. Eric Weinstein said, when you're told
that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation?
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Or does that start a second dialogue in your mind?
How to get around whoever it is that's just told
you that you cannot do something. High agency is such
an important idea because the more agency an individual or
society has, the more problems they can solve. High agency
can be confusing idea to understand because it's not just
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one idea. It's a combination of three distinct skills rarely
found together. Number one clear thinking number two bias to
action number three disagreeability. High agencies like a tricycle. If
you remove one of the wheels, it stops working. It's
impossible to imagine someone breaking you out of a Third
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World jail cell without all three. If they can think clearly,
they will charge ahead with the first. If they can't
think clearly, they will charge ahead with the first bad
plan that pops into their head. If they lack a
bias for action, they'll never move their ideas from theory
into the real world. If they aren't disagreeable, they'll quit
and conform when someone in authority tells them, no, do
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you have agency? You might be wondering, as I did,
do you have agency? Would my friends call me when
stuck in the Third world jail cell? The bad news
low agency is the default setting for most of us.
You inherited a brain evolved for the scarcity of hunter
gatherer tribes, and then went through an education system designed
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to output factory workers for the industrial revolution. Are you
expecting your default settings to be high agency? The good
news you have agency over your agency. As countless historical
examples show, moving up the high agency spectrum is possible.
The goal of this essay is to do just that,
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nudge you nearer towards a problem solving machine a friend
might call when stuck in the Third world jail cell.
The essay has split into four parts, and then he
goes in all this so, if you think about who's
the most high agency human being alive today, you could
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argue Donald Trump. You could also argue Elon Musk. You
could also begin to understand since low agency is the
default setting for everyone, why people hate Elon and why
they hate Trump. And if you think about the people
who hate Elon and why they hate Elon, it makes
all the sense in the world. Once you're prepared to
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face the reality that there are people who are successful,
who create, who do, who accumulate, who build, who change,
and then there's everybody else, and everybody else is made
up of categories of people, and you realize that there
are people who will never contribute anything to this world.
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They are takers. Mommy and Daddy pay for their school,
Mommy and Daddy pay for their cars. Mommy and Daddy
give them an allowance. Mommy and Daddy bail them out.
Mommy and Daddy give them jobs. Mommy and Daddy send
them to therapy. Mommy and Daddy send them to counseling.
Mommy and Daddy do everything for them. And then they
can't wait for Mommy and Daddy to die so they
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can inherit mommy and Daddy's money. Seen that a lot
these people are losers. They're the worst. They're usually white,
they may be waspy. They're almost always people who have
had advantages in life. And yet, and yet they're angry,
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they're bitter, they're resentful. Now they've become violent. That's the
outburst of all this rage because the world doesn't make
sense to them. I'm supposed to be on top. I've
always had the best. I'm better than those people. How
does some guy come here from South Africa? How does
he have everything? How does Donald Trump? He's got orange hair,
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He's an idiot, he's dumb, he's gross, he's crass, he's loud,
he's a criminals. He's everything you thought you were gonna be.
Once you get very comfortable, this is the nice neighbor
dilemma I call it. Once you read recognize we're not
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all the same, We're not all we're not all on
the same path. Once you get comfortable with hate, let's
be and also support the high agency people and the
low agency people. Let's call them what they are, fire them,
get them out of our life, don't deal with them.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Condor.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Wall Street Journal have an editorial this morning entitled why
investors love old Cars, and it brings to mind the
fact that the Meekham auction will be next Thursday through Saturday.
I think the third through the fifth, that is a
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dangerous place to go, and the booze is flowing flowing
at those things. My friend Rowdy Yates Josh Halstead is
his real name, but he's Rowdy Yates on the air.
It was a nationally syndicated kind of classic country show,
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been on the air for a long time. Rowdy Yates
I posted about the Mika auction yesterday and he said,
do not have a sip. People get in trouble, and
I've seen it. I have seen it. I've seen guys
go down there. You know, maybe they'll buy, maybe they won't,
but they've they've just they just got some private equity
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money for their company they started. They didn't go to college,
and private equities bought seventy five percent of their company,
gave them a huge check and they got an eurnout
for three to five years. And so now they got
a little crazy money. They may not go out and
buy a new house overnight, but they'll start buying toys.
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And one of those toys will be an old car,
maybe a motorcycle, a boat, second home. So I was
there agoree years ago, maybe two or three years ago.
And Ryan Holder, who runs the Downtown Specs location, was
there and he had his kids. He's an old car guy.
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He's a cigar guy and an old car guy as well,
so we have a lot to talk about. If you
ever go to the Downtown Specs, don't ask for Ryan,
because I once said that on the air and he
was overwhelmed with a number of people looking for him.
But if you do meet Ryan, you'll want to ask
him for advice on cigars and booze and everything else
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because he's forgotten more about that stuff than the rest
of us are ever going to know. Anyway. Guy that
I know just going through a divorce at this point,
I think this was number three at the time. He's
through number four. Now he is dating some girl. He
swears he's not going to Mary, but he will and
then they'll get divorced, so they'll have be five divorces.
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You start cutting what you've got in half a few times. Man,
by the time you get to number four. Oo Man,
Racehorse Hanes was divorced, I think five times. Do the
math on that one. Anyway, So there's my buddy, and
he's in that mood. If you if you know anybody
that's recently gone through a divorce, and my friends are
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mostly older than me. So I have a lot of
friends that are in this category. Their mood vacillates from
being kind of down in the dumps, not because they
missed the woman, but because they saw an ugly side
of that woman they never expected to see, because you know,
she's got to cash out. This is our last chance.
She's got to be nasty to you because she wants
every penny you got. And then eventually he just gives
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up and you know, gives her whatever, and he spends
most of his day cribbing about her. So then there's that,
and then there is the fact that you know, he
doesn't have the big house anymore, and he you know,
all their mutual friends are not his friends anymore, because
that would be we. He can't hang out by himself.
So now he has new friends and they're out at
the bars every night, and they're kind of, you know,
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grousing about life and sort of you know, nothing's good,
and you know, because everything because they have to rebuild
something and throw a buddy of mines. At that stage,
say three years ago, I see him at Meek Him Auction,
and uh, he's had a little bit already, maybe five
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glasses a while. I don't know. He's he's he's feeling
no pain. And come on, I want you see his car?
Whence you see his car? Once you see this car,
it is this car. Okay, So I'm noticing he's he's
not fleet of foot any longer? Shall we say? Anyway,
long and short, he got drunk and bought a car
or what you could get a house for and the
next day has the audacity to say, why did you
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let me buy that? You make a lot of bad decisions,
whether I'm in your presence or not. Really doesn't have
a lot to do with that. So we're talking about agency,
and one of the key ingredients of a high agency
person a person it's self determined, a person that solves problem,
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a person that will be successful, personal that you want
on your team as your guide to get things done
to close the sale. Unfortunately, education does not perfectly correlate
with what we call high agency here or even success.
It's always surprising to people who believe that do well
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in school you do well in life. That's a very
very rough estimation, and it's certainly not It doesn't ensure it.
And what is doing well in life? A number of
most people who are quote unquote highly educated, really smart,
whatever terms you want to use, are in the making
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one point fifty a year category. But when you see
the overachiever, super earner, they're never good students. Sort of
like you can watch the Little League World Series in
Williamsport every year and think to yourself, well, that guy
is gonna make a great pro He may not make
his high school baseball team, certainly not going to play
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in college or minor leagues. The number of professional Major
League baseball players who made it to Williamsport is minuscule.
You can call them out by name because they're almost
none of them. That is not a predictor of success.
Twelve year old success is not a predictor of success.
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A lot of things get in the way. But one
of the things I note is the disagreeability element. And
that's what I loved about that, And I tell people
this every day. Hey, hey, I got to ruin, I
got to get on this call. Why we have to
do this call every you know whatever, However, what if
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you're not on it? They like everybody to be on it.
Why what happens in this call? What is accomplished in
this call? When the call is over? What has now
been accomplished that wasn't already accomplished. You survived another call
that could have been an email. The person calling the
meeting could reduce to writing what they have to say,
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ask everyone to read it and respond with their comment.
Then you could read it on the pot. You could
read it in between innings of your kids. Lilygue game.
Why the meetings? Why the calls? Because nobody wants to
say no, because nobody's disagreeable. If you're not disagreeable, you
don't have high agency. You're not in control of your life.
If you're doing things you don't want to do because
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you don't want to upset other people, change it. He'll
just go ahead and say it. Sorry to Michael Barry Show.
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Stephen A. Smith is a sports talker and he's kind
of the modern day Jim Rome. He's he's got a
little stick and he's a blowhard and he's kind of
controversial opinions. And there's certain sports bros that really liked
that kind of personality. And he's black and tall. So
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his bs about being, you know, once being a really
good basketball player and but for injury, he'd be in
the pros. People kind of believe that too. Go look
up his stats and I think he averaged one point
two points per game. He's not what he claims to be,
but that's that's his little and his analysis can often
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be quite good in sports as well as of late
in politics. And he's had a moment where he's he
said some things about, you know, liberals are being stupid
and Trump's doing the right thing. But he reverted to
his old dumb ways yesterday or the day before when
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he was talking to Sean Hannity and he said that,
you know, Pete Hegseth is against DEI hires, but he's
a DEI hire because the only thing he's ever done
is be a Fox News personality. He shouldn't be Secretary
of Defense. Well, I suspect Steven A. Smith's a little
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touchy because he fears he probably fears that maybe he
got his start because he was black, and there are
not a lot of black men in media who are
There's the former athlete guy who comes in for color commentary,
but then there is the analysis and commentary black guy,
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and the number of guys who do that who are
not former athletes, because being a former athlete actually works
against you in that way, especially a black guy, because
you're not taken seriously. So Stephen A. Smith is one
of the very few for whom that's the case. And
I suspect he fears that people think he's a dei
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higher for that reason, or that that's the only reason
he gets play, or that he gets invited here, or
whatever else. The big contract is making a lot of money.
But for him to say something so stupid about Pete
hegg Seth being a Fox News commentator may not be
a qualification to do anything, but it's certainly not a disqualification.
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It shouldn't demean Pete hegg Seth. But it's also worth
noting that before he was a Fox News commentator, the
thing that gave him the credibility ramone was the good hair.
Correct The thing that gave him credibility was that he
had served with distinction. The fact that a man who
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had served with distinction but had no bars was not,
you know, in the c suite of the military. If
you would not an executive in the military, a general
as we that's basically the equivalent of the executive level.
The idea that the guy could come from the floor
of the warehouse to run the company, the guy, the
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idea that the guy could come from playing the game
to being a GM guy, The idea that a guy
could could come from serving in war to determine how
we conduct war. The fact that that is not readily apparent,
the fact that that could hang in the air and
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not be stated. That is Trump's high agency. And he
didn't do this the first time. He went against his gut,
went against his true instincts, and he tried to accommodate.
He tried to accommodate the big donors, tried to commodate
the RNC, tried to accommodate the senators. He brought people
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into his first administration who were there with the design
of pleasing to go along to get owners. There are
plenty of people. In fact, almost all people who go
for a nice lunch every day, have a nice corner office,
make good money. But they're not really high achievers. They
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may appear to be high achievers to even lower achievers,
but they're not anybody who makes a real difference on
this earth. They will come and go, and in the
meantime time they'll have some good country club memberships. They'll
drive some nice cars. Every three years. They might go
in a good Hume trip. They've got a couple of
good photos they can use for their Facebook page. But
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they're not changing the world. They don't even change the
world around them. They're not doing anything to make a
real difference. And some of those are the uh and
Richards did have a good line, you know, the hit
a triple in a land On born on third base
and think they hit a triple. And then there's other
people that just you know, kind of fall into positions
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and and go along in life and relatively successful, but
they're in no way determined to make things better, to
improve things. And that's what the political world is. Look
at John Cornyn, John Corny, law professor at St. Mary's
in San anton An attorney general, then US senator. What's
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he done? What is John Cornyn known for? And don't
answer being an idiot, I'm serious. What's he known for?
What has John Corny meant difference on? You can lover her,
hate Ted Cruz. You know what he has done and
he made a lot of enemies doing it. You know
what Trump's doing. There are very few people you can
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say that about. Joseph McCarthy got carried away. He got
carried away and he stayed drunk and as a result
he made mistakes. But there were communists who are dealing
with them now and some of them are the children
and grandchildren. There was a communist influence there really was.
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There was a kernel of truth there. It should have
been exposed, but he got carried away, and that happens.
You knew what Joseph McCarthy said, the little Old story,
because history will tell you that McCarthy was an awful person.
Part of making it so that you never want to
call out the communist because you don't want to be
like McCarthy and McCarthy is. McCarthy's funeral was so big
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where it was being there was a traffic jam in
the city because people loved the fact that at least
he stood up or something. John Cornyn doesn't, Greg Abbott doesn't.
You look at these people that are in positions and
you go, why can't they be like Trump? Why can't
they be like Cruise? Why can't they be like Elon?
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Because they don't have high agency, because they don't even
understand what they don't understand. Most people are just going
along to get along. And John Corny's mind, he's a
highly successful person. I think he's a complete and utter loser.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. It's get out
of here, out Canada, Canada.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Won't be there before he so that you know what
hit him.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
The Thoughts News Decision Desk can now officially project that
Donald Trump will be good the forty seventh president of
the United States.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
You guys know that my husband turned Republican this term.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I don't know why I threw his ass out of
the house. I think I'm going to sleep with his friends.
I think that's the only way for the movement starting.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
We're not going to dire hair anymore. We're not going
to do makeup, We're not going to use filters. We're
not gonna go get the skin stuff. We're not gonna
dress up and look nice. Why so that they can
come and act like they own us because we look
like this absolutely not know y'all. The four B movement
means like we gonna be cozy, comfy in our own skin,
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and everyone over here is like, yeah, good strapped, get ready,
get prepared. But you know what, it's fine, let's go
bring it on. You want to fight, I'm ready to fight.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
There is a highly trained professional assassin out there right now,
and you have one job.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm going I'm a firm believer in karma as well
as three times a term.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
I'm saying, I knows that someone in the house better
take their saw right now and not miss My doors
are open for you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
If you need a safe house, I would purchase a clock.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
And if you and I are walking on the same
street in its darkout and you're a white male, you
have to be white for this to count. Okay, E
think if you don't approach me, I will shoot you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, I know. Just so we're clear.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Okay, little white boys and more of you little white boys,
I delete my video.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I would never do such thing. Okay. What I say,
I mean unlike most of your friends.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Okay, if your families are hurt and you're triggered, it
means you're going to hell.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
That's what it means.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
So I don't really care how you feel, and I
never will.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Okay, So since Trump won the election, we're cooked up.
I'm gonna be leaving the US and I'm gonna be
moving to Hawaii. So we'll see how it goes, and
I'll update you.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Guys now that we're all saying what we're thinking, I'm
gonna go ahead and say that I think if you
wanted for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
You're ugly.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I think you're all freaking ugly, and I think you're
dumb as bricks. I also not only won't care when
all the bad stuff that's gonna happen happens to you,
I actually want it to happen to you. I want
your taxes to go up. I want things to be
more expensive for you. I want you to have a
complicated pregnancy. I want all that bad stuff to happen
to you, because that's what you deserve. Also, like, the
only silver lining is it's actually gonna suck for all
(03:22):
you Trump voters way more than it's gonna suck for
us Blue voters, because we actually have educations and good jobs.
Y'all are broke as So it's really gonna suck for
you when he raises your tax as aton.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Is this cutting off hair. I'm gonna have to kind
of short.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Being skinny, being hot and all the things that the
patriarchy wants us to be because clearly they don't give
it about us.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They're cutting it off because you That's why think I'm crazy,
too crazy, just like all the women before me, who
are crazy, so crazy, I will not be giving my
money to the beauty industry anymore.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I will not be giving my money to anyone that
help support misogyny and the patriarchy and keeping women down
and making women think that we need to look a
certain way or be a certain way.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Or you women can stop dating man, stop having sex
with men, stop talking to men, divorce your husbands, leave
your boyfriends, leave them.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Now that the orange turd has won, we should now
rename America hell because it is going to be hell
on earth. One's face, trip everyone's rights away, that is
their straight white CIS man, So buckle up. Hope you
freaking Republicans are happy gone.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of the crazy comments about Trump and elon. People that
hate them want to murder them, hope someone else will
murder them. Are white liberals, and of those are white
liberal females, and I think there is something to be
(05:06):
said for that. We'll get into that in a moment.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Was hilarious to me after the election there were these
women who shaved their heads and in their minds they
needed to do something drastic and dramatic, and then they
needed everybody to know about it. These people don't go
up in the mountains to grieve, to come unhinged. They
(05:38):
wanted out there for everybody to see. It's a complicated,
complicated reasoning behind it. It's not a simple reason, and
I don't think most people can understand how that kind
of mind works to begin to understand what that person thinks.
You know, you pull up to the red light, and
then the guy pulls up beside you, and I forget
(05:58):
the term they use, But when when the seat is
laid so far back that you can barely see in
front of you, look down your nose to see the
road in front of you, creeping, there's a word for it.
I can't remember. Leaning maybe, And he's got the windows down,
and he's got a fifteen hundred dollars car which he's
had painted metallic purple, and he's got three four thousand
(06:22):
dollars worth of rims on it that he has rented
from the rent attire location. And he blasts the base
so loud that you can feel it in your in
your gut, and you think, what an idiot, how stupid,
(06:42):
what a loser. But you have to realize in his mind,
you're thinking, Wow, that's an amazing car. With some really
really sick wheels and the music you got playing laid back.
You got the whole world with your mind on your
(07:05):
money and your money on your mind. You got it
all figured out.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I want to be you, you, you You. Every dude
wants to be you, every girl wants to be with you.
You got it all in his mind. That's what you're thinking,
These liberal whites who do these things the way you
(07:34):
look at them versus the way they think you're looking
at them. They shaved their heads after the election, and
it was reminiscent so closely to Charles Manson's cult when
he was arrested after the Tate Lebianca murders. And they
(07:57):
take in the ones tax and I forget the girls' names,
Linda maybe and Squeaky from and a couple of others
shave their heads and they would go out on the
sidewalk and they would sing and they would skip, and
at one point they crawled and they had their shaved
heads and then they would put your and I thought, well,
(08:19):
that's these are just modern day Charlie Manson.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Fans twage and you get it all fiberglass hood with
air grabbing scoops, mid the Michael Berry fucking hood bens
snsmobile escaped from the ordinary.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The things you love about Donald Trump can be studied,
they can be bottled, they can be replicated, and they're
going to have to be if the movement will continue
after he's gone, which he will be, we all will be.
Otherwise we'll be pining for the days of when Trump
(09:12):
was around, like a nation that's lost its leader and
wanders aimlessly. So this guy, George my Chance, was reading
this and he sent it to me. I'll just synthesize
the little narrow part of this. You wake up in
a third world jail. You wake up in the third
(09:33):
world jail, so you're only allowed to call one person
you know, to get you out of there. Who do
you call? Play this out in your own mind. Who
do you call? You've been visiting Mexico or for that matter,
Turkey or wherever else. Maybe you're on a mission trip
(09:53):
with your church. You've ended up in jail, and yes
it can happen. Why did you choose this person? What
is it about them that made you pick up the phone?
This person you picked has something a spark a jena
say quah, that's something is high agency august Landmesser refusing
(10:14):
to salute at a Nazi rally in Hamburger. In Hamburg,
it's a picture of a guy. Everybody else is doing
the Nazi salute, but he's not. His whole story behind that.
We put a man on the moon peak High Agency
before anyone put wheels on suitcases. Everyone carried their suitcases
because everyone else carried their suitcases. Now you've seen it,
(10:37):
let's try to explain it. The person you'd call when
stuck in a third world jail cell falls on the
right side of the high agency spectrum. The thought experiment
of a third world jail cell is designed to represent
the ultimate live problem on steroids. You're giving the person
you would call a seemingly impossible problem alone in the
real world, with no guidebook, and still betting on them
(11:00):
finding a solution. If you created a room with everyone
you would call when stuck in the third world jail cell,
what would that high agency room have in common. It's
not age, gender, race, education, job title, or politics. It's
not optimism or pessimism. Optimism states the glasses half full.
Pessimism states the glasses half empty. High agency states you're
(11:21):
a tap. You look in the mirror and see a
giant tap staring back at you. The one big thing
everyone in that high agency room has in common. They
are happening to life. They don't view the future as
a static entity. They view it as something to be
shaped by human action. Eric Weinstein said, when you're told
that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation?
(11:43):
Or does that start a second dialogue in your mind?
How to get around whoever it is that's just told
you that you cannot do something. High agency is such
an important idea because the more agency an individual or
society has, the more problems they can solve. High agency
can be confusing idea to understand because it's not just
(12:03):
one idea. It's a combination of three distinct skills rarely
found together. Number one clear thinking number two bias to
action number three disagreeability. High agencies like a tricycle. If
you remove one of the wheels, it stops working. It's
impossible to imagine someone breaking you out of a Third
(12:24):
World jail cell without all three. If they can think clearly,
they will charge ahead with the first. If they can't
think clearly, they will charge ahead with the first bad
plan that pops into their head. If they lack a
bias for action, they'll never move their ideas from theory
into the real world. If they aren't disagreeable, they'll quit
and conform when someone in authority tells them, no, do
(12:48):
you have agency? You might be wondering, as I did,
do you have agency? Would my friends call me when
stuck in the Third world jail cell? The bad news
low agency is the default setting for most of us.
You inherited a brain evolved for the scarcity of hunter
gatherer tribes, and then went through an education system designed
(13:10):
to output factory workers for the industrial revolution. Are you
expecting your default settings to be high agency? The good
news you have agency over your agency. As countless historical
examples show, moving up the high agency spectrum is possible.
The goal of this essay is to do just that,
(13:32):
nudge you nearer towards a problem solving machine a friend
might call when stuck in the Third world jail cell.
The essay has split into four parts, and then he
goes in all this so, if you think about who's
the most high agency human being alive today, you could
(13:53):
argue Donald Trump. You could also argue Elon Musk. You
could also begin to understand since low agency is the
default setting for everyone, why people hate Elon and why
they hate Trump. And if you think about the people
who hate Elon and why they hate Elon, it makes
all the sense in the world. Once you're prepared to
(14:16):
face the reality that there are people who are successful,
who create, who do, who accumulate, who build, who change,
and then there's everybody else, and everybody else is made
up of categories of people, and you realize that there
are people who will never contribute anything to this world.
(14:36):
They are takers. Mommy and Daddy pay for their school,
Mommy and Daddy pay for their cars. Mommy and Daddy
give them an allowance. Mommy and Daddy bail them out.
Mommy and Daddy give them jobs. Mommy and Daddy send
them to therapy. Mommy and Daddy send them to counseling.
Mommy and Daddy do everything for them. And then they
can't wait for Mommy and Daddy to die so they
(14:57):
can inherit mommy and Daddy's money. Seen that a lot
these people are losers. They're the worst. They're usually white,
they may be waspy. They're almost always people who have
had advantages in life. And yet, and yet they're angry,
(15:19):
they're bitter, they're resentful. Now they've become violent. That's the
outburst of all this rage because the world doesn't make
sense to them. I'm supposed to be on top. I've
always had the best. I'm better than those people. How
does some guy come here from South Africa? How does
he have everything? How does Donald Trump? He's got orange hair,
(15:40):
He's an idiot, he's dumb, he's gross, he's crass, he's loud,
he's a criminals. He's everything you thought you were gonna be.
Once you get very comfortable, this is the nice neighbor
dilemma I call it. Once you read recognize we're not
(16:00):
all the same, We're not all we're not all on
the same path. Once you get comfortable with hate, let's
be and also support the high agency people and the
low agency people. Let's call them what they are, fire them,
get them out of our life, don't deal with them.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Condor.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Wall Street Journal have an editorial this morning entitled why
investors love old Cars, and it brings to mind the
fact that the Meekham auction will be next Thursday through Saturday.
I think the third through the fifth, that is a
(16:54):
dangerous place to go, and the booze is flowing flowing
at those things. My friend Rowdy Yates Josh Halstead is
his real name, but he's Rowdy Yates on the air.
It was a nationally syndicated kind of classic country show,
(17:17):
been on the air for a long time. Rowdy Yates
I posted about the Mika auction yesterday and he said,
do not have a sip. People get in trouble, and
I've seen it. I have seen it. I've seen guys
go down there. You know, maybe they'll buy, maybe they won't,
but they've they've just they just got some private equity
(17:39):
money for their company they started. They didn't go to college,
and private equities bought seventy five percent of their company,
gave them a huge check and they got an eurnout
for three to five years. And so now they got
a little crazy money. They may not go out and
buy a new house overnight, but they'll start buying toys.
(18:00):
And one of those toys will be an old car,
maybe a motorcycle, a boat, second home. So I was
there agoree years ago, maybe two or three years ago.
And Ryan Holder, who runs the Downtown Specs location, was
there and he had his kids. He's an old car guy.
(18:20):
He's a cigar guy and an old car guy as well,
so we have a lot to talk about. If you
ever go to the Downtown Specs, don't ask for Ryan,
because I once said that on the air and he
was overwhelmed with a number of people looking for him.
But if you do meet Ryan, you'll want to ask
him for advice on cigars and booze and everything else
(18:43):
because he's forgotten more about that stuff than the rest
of us are ever going to know. Anyway. Guy that
I know just going through a divorce at this point,
I think this was number three at the time. He's
through number four. Now he is dating some girl. He
swears he's not going to Mary, but he will and
then they'll get divorced, so they'll have be five divorces.
(19:03):
You start cutting what you've got in half a few times. Man,
by the time you get to number four. Oo Man,
Racehorse Hanes was divorced, I think five times. Do the
math on that one. Anyway, So there's my buddy, and
he's in that mood. If you if you know anybody
that's recently gone through a divorce, and my friends are
(19:24):
mostly older than me. So I have a lot of
friends that are in this category. Their mood vacillates from
being kind of down in the dumps, not because they
missed the woman, but because they saw an ugly side
of that woman they never expected to see, because you know,
she's got to cash out. This is our last chance.
She's got to be nasty to you because she wants
every penny you got. And then eventually he just gives
(19:44):
up and you know, gives her whatever, and he spends
most of his day cribbing about her. So then there's that,
and then there is the fact that you know, he
doesn't have the big house anymore, and he you know,
all their mutual friends are not his friends anymore, because
that would be we. He can't hang out by himself.
So now he has new friends and they're out at
the bars every night, and they're kind of, you know,
(20:06):
grousing about life and sort of you know, nothing's good,
and you know, because everything because they have to rebuild
something and throw a buddy of mines. At that stage,
say three years ago, I see him at Meek Him Auction,
and uh, he's had a little bit already, maybe five
(20:28):
glasses a while. I don't know. He's he's he's feeling
no pain. And come on, I want you see his car?
Whence you see his car? Once you see this car,
it is this car. Okay, So I'm noticing he's he's
not fleet of foot any longer? Shall we say? Anyway,
long and short, he got drunk and bought a car
or what you could get a house for and the
next day has the audacity to say, why did you
(20:50):
let me buy that? You make a lot of bad decisions,
whether I'm in your presence or not. Really doesn't have
a lot to do with that. So we're talking about agency,
and one of the key ingredients of a high agency
person a person it's self determined, a person that solves problem,
(21:10):
a person that will be successful, personal that you want
on your team as your guide to get things done
to close the sale. Unfortunately, education does not perfectly correlate
with what we call high agency here or even success.
It's always surprising to people who believe that do well
(21:34):
in school you do well in life. That's a very
very rough estimation, and it's certainly not It doesn't ensure it.
And what is doing well in life? A number of
most people who are quote unquote highly educated, really smart,
whatever terms you want to use, are in the making
(21:56):
one point fifty a year category. But when you see
the overachiever, super earner, they're never good students. Sort of
like you can watch the Little League World Series in
Williamsport every year and think to yourself, well, that guy
is gonna make a great pro He may not make
his high school baseball team, certainly not going to play
(22:16):
in college or minor leagues. The number of professional Major
League baseball players who made it to Williamsport is minuscule.
You can call them out by name because they're almost
none of them. That is not a predictor of success.
Twelve year old success is not a predictor of success.
(22:37):
A lot of things get in the way. But one
of the things I note is the disagreeability element. And
that's what I loved about that, And I tell people
this every day. Hey, hey, I got to ruin, I
got to get on this call. Why we have to
do this call every you know whatever, However, what if
(22:58):
you're not on it? They like everybody to be on it.
Why what happens in this call? What is accomplished in
this call? When the call is over? What has now
been accomplished that wasn't already accomplished. You survived another call
that could have been an email. The person calling the
meeting could reduce to writing what they have to say,
(23:19):
ask everyone to read it and respond with their comment.
Then you could read it on the pot. You could
read it in between innings of your kids. Lilygue game.
Why the meetings? Why the calls? Because nobody wants to
say no, because nobody's disagreeable. If you're not disagreeable, you
don't have high agency. You're not in control of your life.
If you're doing things you don't want to do because
(23:41):
you don't want to upset other people, change it. He'll
just go ahead and say it. Sorry to Michael Barry Show.
(24:17):
Stephen A. Smith is a sports talker and he's kind
of the modern day Jim Rome. He's he's got a
little stick and he's a blowhard and he's kind of
controversial opinions. And there's certain sports bros that really liked
that kind of personality. And he's black and tall. So
(24:40):
his bs about being, you know, once being a really
good basketball player and but for injury, he'd be in
the pros. People kind of believe that too. Go look
up his stats and I think he averaged one point
two points per game. He's not what he claims to be,
but that's that's his little and his analysis can often
(25:02):
be quite good in sports as well as of late
in politics. And he's had a moment where he's he
said some things about, you know, liberals are being stupid
and Trump's doing the right thing. But he reverted to
his old dumb ways yesterday or the day before when
(25:23):
he was talking to Sean Hannity and he said that,
you know, Pete Hegseth is against DEI hires, but he's
a DEI hire because the only thing he's ever done
is be a Fox News personality. He shouldn't be Secretary
of Defense. Well, I suspect Steven A. Smith's a little
(25:44):
touchy because he fears he probably fears that maybe he
got his start because he was black, and there are
not a lot of black men in media who are
There's the former athlete guy who comes in for color commentary,
but then there is the analysis and commentary black guy,
(26:07):
and the number of guys who do that who are
not former athletes, because being a former athlete actually works
against you in that way, especially a black guy, because
you're not taken seriously. So Stephen A. Smith is one
of the very few for whom that's the case. And
I suspect he fears that people think he's a dei
(26:28):
higher for that reason, or that that's the only reason
he gets play, or that he gets invited here, or
whatever else. The big contract is making a lot of money.
But for him to say something so stupid about Pete
hegg Seth being a Fox News commentator may not be
a qualification to do anything, but it's certainly not a disqualification.
(26:50):
It shouldn't demean Pete hegg Seth. But it's also worth
noting that before he was a Fox News commentator, the
thing that gave him the credibility ramone was the good hair.
Correct The thing that gave him credibility was that he
had served with distinction. The fact that a man who
(27:14):
had served with distinction but had no bars was not,
you know, in the c suite of the military. If
you would not an executive in the military, a general
as we that's basically the equivalent of the executive level.
The idea that the guy could come from the floor
of the warehouse to run the company, the guy, the
(27:35):
idea that the guy could come from playing the game
to being a GM guy, The idea that a guy
could could come from serving in war to determine how
we conduct war. The fact that that is not readily apparent,
the fact that that could hang in the air and
(27:56):
not be stated. That is Trump's high agency. And he
didn't do this the first time. He went against his gut,
went against his true instincts, and he tried to accommodate.
He tried to accommodate the big donors, tried to commodate
the RNC, tried to accommodate the senators. He brought people
(28:18):
into his first administration who were there with the design
of pleasing to go along to get owners. There are
plenty of people. In fact, almost all people who go
for a nice lunch every day, have a nice corner office,
make good money. But they're not really high achievers. They
(28:43):
may appear to be high achievers to even lower achievers,
but they're not anybody who makes a real difference on
this earth. They will come and go, and in the
meantime time they'll have some good country club memberships. They'll
drive some nice cars. Every three years. They might go
in a good Hume trip. They've got a couple of
good photos they can use for their Facebook page. But
(29:03):
they're not changing the world. They don't even change the
world around them. They're not doing anything to make a
real difference. And some of those are the uh and
Richards did have a good line, you know, the hit
a triple in a land On born on third base
and think they hit a triple. And then there's other
people that just you know, kind of fall into positions
(29:26):
and and go along in life and relatively successful, but
they're in no way determined to make things better, to
improve things. And that's what the political world is. Look
at John Cornyn, John Corny, law professor at St. Mary's
in San anton An attorney general, then US senator. What's
(29:51):
he done? What is John Cornyn known for? And don't
answer being an idiot, I'm serious. What's he known for?
What has John Corny meant difference on? You can lover her,
hate Ted Cruz. You know what he has done and
he made a lot of enemies doing it. You know
what Trump's doing. There are very few people you can
(30:13):
say that about. Joseph McCarthy got carried away. He got
carried away and he stayed drunk and as a result
he made mistakes. But there were communists who are dealing
with them now and some of them are the children
and grandchildren. There was a communist influence there really was.
(30:37):
There was a kernel of truth there. It should have
been exposed, but he got carried away, and that happens.
You knew what Joseph McCarthy said, the little Old story,
because history will tell you that McCarthy was an awful person.
Part of making it so that you never want to
call out the communist because you don't want to be
like McCarthy and McCarthy is. McCarthy's funeral was so big
(31:01):
where it was being there was a traffic jam in
the city because people loved the fact that at least
he stood up or something. John Cornyn doesn't, Greg Abbott doesn't.
You look at these people that are in positions and
you go, why can't they be like Trump? Why can't
they be like Cruise? Why can't they be like Elon?
(31:24):
Because they don't have high agency, because they don't even
understand what they don't understand. Most people are just going
along to get along. And John Corny's mind, he's a
highly successful person. I think he's a complete and utter loser.
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