CHANGE IS COMING!

The guys discuss College Sports, the end of DEI, War, and the uptick in Mental Health crisis in America

Episode Transcript

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It is new New year. Generaltwenty twenty four is finally around at long
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lot to talk about. We youknow, December December shows, we talked
about how important Christmas is, howimportant Christmas is in America and historically,

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how it really brought immigrants together,kind of flattened the classes during the holiday
season, and how it was avery intentional effort by the curators of our
culture, our our movie producers,our songwriters, Irving Berlin, our authors
really took the American Christmas to kindof almost make if you took America and

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put on Mount Rushmore, what representedAmerica? What you know, So the
American Christmas, we'd have Santa Clausup there. Also, we'd have up
there at College football. Yes,unfortunately a little bit of a change.
I know we don't talk too muchabout sports here on for the defense of
the American people. Defense is avery important part of football. The people.

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We need college football, we need. This is just something that as
you leave the summer move into fall, you're starting to stare down the winter.
You've got college football and pro football. But let's talk college football.
It's so important to the American people. Talk about change big time. College
sports have never been more driven bychange than it is right now. General.

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Yes, college sports are business.Every business of all sizes must adapt
or become less relevant. New landscape, new rules. For years, college
sports was dominated by the NCAA andcoaches. That's where all the money went
in the universities. Then the NCAAcreates the guidelines, the rules and generates

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millions in revenue, made many manypeople rich. How much money does the
Commission of Big ten make? Howmuch are the nc two A, the
athlete, the coaches, well,the department's fund get enough for to fund
the entire athletic department just from thefootball. Ryan Day makes ten million dollars
a year. Many many people getrich. The athletes for not among them.

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They were told for years remain asunpaid the amateurs while everyone else was
paid professionally. Number Two, they'rerestricted in their ability to move. While
coaches could run around like free agents, they could break a contract. It's
always amazing to me. You canjust break like, just break a contract
and go somewhere else. And thiscreates problems for players. You know,

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these are eighteen to twenty two yearolds and they're families, a lot of
them. Most of them, Iwould say, all of them at this
level are looking for a career infootball. They I mean, if you're
let's put it this, if you'regetting recruited by a highest state or at
Big ten or SEC, you thinkthat you go put in all the hard

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work, the sweat, the effortto toil, the time away from family,
trying to stay current on your studies, that maybe maybe you can be
a one percenter and make it tothe league. Right, make it a
Sunday. But you know, there'sa lot of ways to make money in
football outside of actually playing on thefield. Well, people forget about that.
Yeah, Well, the players certainlyaren't thinking about that. They're thinking

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about they want to make it upto the next level. So this create
you know, when the coaches aremoving around as they've done for decades,
these players who developed these recruiting relationshipswith these coaches and a coach takes off
for a higher paying job, theseplayers stake their futures on playing for a

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specific coach. It's a big deal. Very very dear friend of mine used
to be the recruiting coordinator for Minnesotaand prior to that, Kansas, So
I spent a lot of time withhim as I listened to him work with
these recruits. And these are relationshipsthat last not months, but you know
a year or so, your relationshipssurvived him not recruiting you. So now

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the players have a seat at thetable and their families. The players are
getting a much larger piece of thecollege sports revenue pie. Thanks to NIL,
athletes can share in the fruits oftheir labor. This is creating a
teeter totter effect where the players aresitting on the teeter totter and kind of
rebalancing everything. They're getting their financialpayoff, they're getting broader choices of where

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to play. The map of collegeathletics, just the conferences in general,
is shape shifting like the map ofEurope over the last two hundred years,
all of a sudden, one nations. You know, one country's gone and
another one's being born. What's happeningto the conferences? They're gobbling each each
other up. So you have thistrain of change that's left the station.

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You're going to have change in lifeperiod. The amateur ideal has been undergoing
professionalization for decades. There's always downsides. Of course. We look at Florida
State. Their best players decide totake a pass on playing in the Orange
Bowl. They want to stay healthyfor the NFL Draft, and a lot

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of us are going, what's wrongwith college football? Well, I don't
blame the players, they're just playinginside what the adults in the room have
created. So we have to talkabout that. And that's a big teap,
big thing to the American people.And this is for the defense of
the American people. I'm curious tosee where this all goes. Very curious.
Speaking of change, some things alwaysstay the same. Inside the network

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of business, government, cultural elites, the global powerhouse, the tens you
know, however, many the tenthousand to twenty thousand that really have their
hand on the pulse of global trade, global media, global corporations. Some
of them have found their ways toEpstein Island. General. I did not

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see your name anywhere on any ofthese passenger manifests. I was appointed by
that. I thought that was important. This we're getting a peak. We're
getting a peak inside this new globalsuperclass, and the world has never seen
this before. There are an xnumber of men and women, let's say
men X number of men and womenthat run our governments, are largest corporations,

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the powerhouses of international finance, themedia, and a lot of that,
if not most of that is donein the shadows. The business world
has their social side, and theirsocial side also can slip into the criminal
side. This global superclass is shapingthe history of our time unprecedented levels of

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wealth and power. They've globalized morerapidly than any other group since the imperialism
started in the late eighteen hundreds.They have more in common with one another
than their own countrymen. They arecontrolling globalization. They are controlling war.
They are controlling the money supply,They are controlling banking. What exactly happens

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behind these closed door meetings or boardcorporate jets at forty one thousand feet right
now, we're just getting a lookbehind the curtain on this privileged society,
on their sexual purient interests. Right, this is just the tip of the
iceberg. We're going to learn alot more about who these men are in

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the women, but right now we'retalking about a lot of the men and
what happens when men in power,men and women in power that get this
much wealth, in this much power, what winds up happening to the societies
that they can control. And we'restarting to see the counter revolution, right

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These Ivy League presidents certainly loser job. We're seeing a counter revolution. The
pendulum's coming back. The people arewaking up and before the break, the
biggest, most power, powerful politicalbody in the world right now are the
American people. The three hundred plusAmerican people, the biggest global and political

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power, and the American people arethe ones they're going to have to continue
to push this pendulum back to thecenter. Welcome back. I'm Attorney Brad
Kaufel. That is the general Attorney, Eric Willison. This is for the
defense of the American people, poweredby Chess Round Automotive in the Gill family.

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Thank you for supporting us Chess Round. We were talking about change.
We're in our new year. We'reseeing the real change of college football.
We're going to see the change happeningin college basketball. That's more and more
of these amateur athletes turn into prosand have options. We're getting a peak
inside this new superclass, the globalelite. Let's just say, maybe there's

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ten thousand spread across the world thatreally have the ability to move markets,
institute, make changes inside institutions,lean in on military decisions. This inside
the world of business, government,the cultural elites, the redefining power in

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the global era. And we're gettinga little peak here on the Epstein Island
stuff. Locally, we have LesWexner. His name keeps being brought about.
I'm curious to see what OSU doeswith his name on any of this
stuff. You know, as faras I can tell, that no one
has been convicted of anything. Therehave been no charges brought up on anybody.

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I think it's very important that wedefend those who can't defend themselves.
Certainly he can defend himself, Ithink. I think with Wexner, the
only allegation was that he had originallyinvested money with Epstein, But Epstein didn't
start off as a guy on anisland. He started off as a legitimate
hedge fund guy. Yeah, anda lot of people invested with him and
it was all just straight up investing. Yeah. I think it's very important,

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especially as criminal defense lawyers, weencourage everyone just like pump the brakes.
Just because someone's name pops up ina deposition without the context of the
question, the issue, the angle, just having your name in there doesn't
mean I mean, Stephen Hawking's namepops up, well, the court reporter's
name popped up. Yeah. True. Fascinating is this pendulum swings swings back.

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The revolution always winds up going afterits own revolutionaries, and the YEP
and the modern robes. PA isa former Harvard Havid president Gay, So
let's start here at number one.The Left has spent decades consolidating power across
the institutions of American academic life.Right, Absolutely, That's how they're trying

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to govern and craft the narrative.Right. The crowning achievement for them has
been DEI, divers equity and inclusion. I think that the inclusion I should
be in the middle, not atthe end. The diversity, inclusion,
equity die. Yeah, Yeah,that's right, big, big bureaucracy of

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wokeness. It was intentionally designed toperpetuate progressive dominance of higher education by keeping
conservatives out of the institutions of learning. Brilliant, actually brilliant. No one
saw that one coming. We started. I mean, we are not talking
about just us, but many conservativeobservers of American society saw this what was

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happening, and really have been barkingabout this since the eighties. Harvard.
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay is nowthe modern day American robes Pa who led
the French Revolution of left wing fascists, who wound up losing his hit in
the guillotine. Her head went inthe basket. What happened? Well,

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we have an African American political scientistwith a thin publishing history that's putting it
nicely from what I've read, likeChris Christie's. Then she is Harvard's two
factsire General, Harvard's thirtieth president.Harvard was founded in sixteen thirty six.

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Think about that. You talk aboutan exclusive club. It's a job that's
hard to get fired from. Butapparently she's the thirtieth since sixteen thirty six
that jumped off the page of mewhen I saw that. So as we
as we've said many times, aswith all revolutions, eventually the other side

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comes for you, and many timesit's the people that you empowered. But
here the other side has come forher in this civil rights revolution that over
the last fifty years just went toofar. When the color of your skin
or your sexual orientation means more thanmerit, eventually that doesn't compute. Truth
always prevails, and you're going toit swept away, and that's what happened.

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Public support for DEI is creating,and interestingly general, it comes in
the wake of the pro Hamas protesters, the anti Semitism on campuses of these
IVY leagues and around the nation.That unquestionably has exposed what millions of us

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have already seen and been pointing out, the ideological rot within the academic institutions.
So it comes on the heels ofthe pro Hamas revolutions, right,
not revolutions, but terrorist attacks.Then what we see are the counter revolutionaries.

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The conservatives find the billionaire class andthe elites and power that people actually
have the ability to put their thumbon the scales, and we're seeing that
with that Bill Ackman from Harvard Alumbillionaire. Change then kicks in. So
conservatives always have faced enormous disadvantages inpublic discourse because the progressive left has a

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near monopoly on media. And itgot to the point where I know you
don't read the New York Times,and I know you don't read the Washington
Post, and I know you don'tread the Atlantic, but all three published
op ads calling for her to resign. When those three turn on you,
and they are historically traditionally in yourcamp, your toast thoughts, well,

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it's Robesba being led to the guillotineand no one more surprised than him.
And you know, it's lived bythe sword, died by the sword.
There's a lot of ways to sayit, you know, sixth temper tyrannus.
I mean, you can say itin many languages. But in the
end, if your position is owedto a standardless rise where you were appointed

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merely because of some passing frivolity ofthe day, you're taken out in the
same manner. Well, General Wellsaid, so as America begins the reformation
of our institutions, we are nowentering institutional trench warfare. We have to
stay in the trenches. Disney targetbud Light Havid, the other Ivy's Havid's

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applications are down. Did you seethat article? Why would anybody want to
go there and get a below gradeeducation. The Southern schools, the SEC
schools, their applications are skyrocketing.So we need to depoliticize our institutions,
especially the academic universities and high schoolsand middle schools and elementary schools. And

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we need to rebalance the faculty politics. Rebalance that, not eliminate one side.
We need all voices to be heard. We have to get that back.
We will get that back. Butfolks, we are in. We're
now entering the trench warfare. We'rein. We're winning battles. We're in
the trenches and stay there. Butwe have to continue to pursue the truth

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and protection of the Constitution and thebill wrights. How are we doing on
time? General? Oh? Iwant to talk about time? All right,
let's start. Let's just before thebreak. Let's tee up. Keeping
Trump off the ballot for Colorado StateSupreme Court justices. Did you know they're
unelected? No? I did not. They were selected by a commission and

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then appointed by the governor, fourunelected political justices, but to be fair,
three Democrats did vote to keep Trumpon that ballot, but four unelected
disenfranchise the Republicans or the people thatwould otherwise want to have the option to
vote for Trump, and Colorado fourIn Maine, one the Secretary of State

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unilaterally determines the entire voting population ofthe Pine Tree State should be from casting
their ballots in their upcoming primary forformer President Donald Trump. Her name is
Shenna Bellows, also unelected. Andwhen they take off rfk's name, and
they take off Mary and Williams,and when they take off Cornell West,

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there's only gonna be one name onthe ballot, it'll look a lot like
nineteen eighties Russia. So we haveRussia. We have five unelected individuals in
the United States that have disenfranchised overa million people from voting Maine and Colorado.
And some thoughts on this after thebreak and the dangerousness, this one

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may be the closest too. WhenBen Franklin said, we've created a We've
created a republic. If you cankeep it, this one I've got.
We've got some thoughts after the break. This might be the closest one to
risking our republic. Happy New Yearto everybody, general, Happy New Year

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to you and you sir, twentytwenty fours. Here we have a very
very unusual situation that's going to haveto be dealt with by the Supreme Court
of the United States. And atthat is, can state supreme courts take
President Trump off the ballot? Cana secretary of state in any particular state

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take President Trump off the ballot?And if you're just joining us, the
four Colorado State Supreme Court justices thatdid this in Colorado are unelected. They're
selected by a commission and then appointedby governor. The secretary of State in
Maine won Shenna Bellows singularly disqualified PresidentTrump from appearing on their ballot primary ballot,

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which is in March, and sheis also unelected. She is chosen
by the state legislature to be secretaryof state. This is pure case of
election interference general. If we wantto talk about election interference, and the

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right has seen plenty of election interferencefrom the left, this is unvarnished pure
election interference and disenfranchises almost a millionregistered voters in Maine. By the way,
Section three of the fourteenth Amendment,which references insurrection or rebellion. Let's

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make sure everyone's crystal clear on this. This was to keep former members of
the Confederacy from serving an elected office. Also, Section five says that all
provisions of the fourteenth Amendment will beenforced by Congress. It is not get
enforced by Colorado Supreme courts. Nowspell differently. Maybe Biden fought in the
Civil War, but I don't thinkPresident drump Hey. So if we're going

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to talk about disqualifications, let's talkabout Joe Biden. If we want to
talk about about insurrection or rebellion riskingthe Republic, let's talk about Biden giving
aid and comfort to the enemies ofthe United States on at least three counts.
Number one, the Islamic Republic ofIran sixteen billion dollars freed up that

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amount to be used for its nuclearcapability, funding terrorist organizations, which clearly
are bringing the United States into thatMiddle East war which could kick off World
War three. Number two, hisfirst day in office, taking us from
an energy independent nation to an energydependent nation. And then have we forgotten

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that he sold off oil reserves tothe CCP. Well, we're getting hammered
at the gas pumps all across thenation. We've forgot about that, And
that was the strategic patrol aum reserveshe sold off to our enemies. And
he's also letting hundreds of thousands ofmilitary aged men walk across the border one
division a day. Yeah, andif it's that easy to be an insurrectionist,

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then I declare him an insurrectionist.Therefore he's ineligible. Well that was
easy Biden's Wow. The bidens along time ago. Biden's regime and the
cabal that put him into power havea disastrous open border policy that has allowed
what we read eight to ten millionunvetted illegal immigrants into the United States,

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which clearly you're going to have embeddedin there an unknown number of known terrorists
and unknown terrorists. Many have beencaptured, there are scores of gotaways.
Clearly, it doesn't take a rocketscientist to conclude that perhaps terrorists plotting the
furious acts inside the borders of theUnited States, we are letting them in.

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As Steve Bannon says on his show, One Battle Division a Day.
Yet Trump has not been charged orconvicted of anything. That's the important party
is not even being nor has Biden. But these Democrats have opened the door
publicly to election interference after their covertoperations of twenty fifteen, sixteen, seventeen

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eighteen. Every year you can lookback. Now we know the efforts that
they will go to to disenfranchise DonaldTrump and Trump voters or conservatives, the
efforts that they will go to keepthis man from representing from being the president
of the United States. As withany other fraud crimeate, dishonesty, and

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deceit, you continue to do ituntil you get caught, and they're then
yell with indignation when you are caught. This is then there can be no
debate about this. This is onehundred percent election interference. You took COVID,
you rewrite the election rules for castingyour ballot and mail in ballots all

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of a sudden, which is thenumber one way to corrupt the integrity of
an election. And that was foundin nineteen ninety under the Carter two thousand.
Well, yeah, Carter and JamesBaker, after white paper on that,
after a bush Y Gore. So, the fundamental premise of our democracy
is freedom to choose who governs USThirteen additional States general have lawsuits to bar

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Trump from their bouts. Have youseen this, most of which have already
failed. Yea, Alaska, Nevada, Joise, New Mexico, New York,
Oregon, South Carolina, Texas,Vermont, Virginia, West Virginny,
Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Now Republicansare almost certain to carry Alaska, South

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Carolina, Texas, West VIRGINNY,and Wyoming. That's fifty eight potential electoral
votes Trump would be excluded from garneringand an almost certain defeated the polls.
Let me say that one more time. The establishment that's allowing this to happen,
both parts parties to keep this manfrom running because impeachment one didn't work,

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impeachment two didn't work, Lying defisa court didn't work, indicting him
ninety times. Yeah right, Sothirteen states are trying to keep him off
the ballot. And out of thosethirteen states, you have six that Trump
would carry and get their electoral votes. That's fifty eight potential electoral votes.

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So the attempts to remove Donald Trumpis the mo of the elite, primarily
driven by the Democrats. They willstop at nothing to try and maintain their
power. These are the same peoplegeneral who want to topple dictators abroad.
They're driving this. These are thebagmen for that global beggar Zelenski no again,

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beggar. Yeah, and we're weirdone hundred percent supporting the government of
Ukraine. Their salaries, their pensions, their healthcare, their military, their
Epstein Isle wherever that is, don'ttell. Oh, absolutely, Zelenski's got
an Epstein island. There's Aleski Islandsomething there. Uh. The Supreme Court

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will take this, it has to. The Supreme Court will rule unanimously.
I'm predicting right now they will votenine oh, because they have to.
Anything short of total unanimity will sendthe wrong message. A divided court,
even eight to one leaves the dooropen for the possibility that the future court
will determine states can willing nearly barrowcandidate from the ballots to remain in power.

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And as I said before the break, this was Ben Franklin's main concern
that tyranny would take root in thenew Republic. And when people lose their
freedoms of speech and religion, theylose their ability to vote and vote for
who they want. They lose theirability to peacefully protest their government i e.
School boards, We become less Americanand more despotic, and we are.

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We are being run by despotic regime, and our enemies know it,
and they're just kind of waiting.And Ronald Reagan one of your favorite quotes.
I love it. We think wesay it frequently. Ronald Reagan quote,
freedom is never more than one generationaway from extinction if we don't pass
it along to our children. Itdoesn't just come naturally through the bloodlines.

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You've got to show them what itmeans to be an American and you have
to fight for that. In general, I want to talk about something that
is a little off topic, andI think it's very very important. New
Year stress mental wellness. A lotof damage was done during COVID psychologically,

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I think, mentally and emotionally thatI'm starting to see in my practice bubble
to the surface. A lot offractured relationships from the twenty two on the
election, disagreement about masks, disagreementabout vaccinations just have destroyed friendships, family

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relationships, co worker relationships, andinto the closing out twenty twenty three,
I've seen in the last several monthsmore and more clients, older folks over
forty come to us on a ona routine arrest, if there is such

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a thing, and they are absolutelytheir zone of tolerance, their ability to
handle things is shot. They're isolated, they feel lonely, depressed, hopeless,
helpless. I'm hearing these things andI'm you know, been doing criminal
defense for thirty years, and I'veheard anyone who gets indicted or arrested,

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they're going to go in the valley. They're going to feel like crap going
to But I will vote for you, they will. But this is different.
This is different. I'm now hearingfrom moms and dads, career folks,
people with good jobs. They're workingharder, they're not being able to
save as much. The financial pressuresare real. Maybe they've got kids that

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are between eighteen and thirty, andthey're maybe subconsciously concerned about war and what
could happen. They're very concerned abouttheir financial savings. They're concerned about the
rising interest rates. They're concerned aboutthe border crisis and what's happening to our

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cities, because every city now isa border town. We've added a trillion
to our deficit in just one hundreddays. We all know that that bill,
some point in time has to bepaid. And then you get into
the holidays and I'm seeing, probablyfor the first time my career, very

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lonely people that appear to have noreason to feel that way. And they
come in and we talk about theirarrest, maybe for drunk driving or maybe
for they're under a criminal investigation forsomething else, and then after about ten
or fifteen minutes, they're in tears. And it's not just from the threat

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of being prosecuted or the invoice fromyou or the invoice, right, it's
more than this. And I thinkwe're also saying after a decade of decade
plus of growing up with phones onour hands, which is a substitute for
healthy relationships. And again this isvery important for the American people to understand,

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we have got to take control ofourselves. We have got to be
aware that one day you are goingto wake up in your career is not
as rewarding as it was. Yourjob is not as rewarding as it does.
Your kids have kind of moved onand they don't need you as much.
Your spouse is kind of you know, your marriage is in a spot
where maybe they don't. You've takeneach other for granted. Your friendships that

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you lost because of COVID and vaccinesand the elections maybe need to be restored.
Your cat is suddenly aloof can alwayscount on you to bring in some
humor and a serious topic. SoI feel compelled to share something that not
only this experience and what we're seeingin our practice Monay through Friday, but

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to share with folks as you're listeningnow, maybe you're after a walk with
your maybe you're going a walk withyour dogs. Maybe you're driving and just
listening to us. Minimize your screentime. That brings isolation. It also
adds sleep disturbances. You've got tohave good sleep. Melatonin is made a
lot in the Serotonin is made inthe gut. Serotonin is your your good
hormone that kind of keeps your youbuoy to keep you up. You've got

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to get your body in to aparasympathetic nervous state. The sympathetic nervous states
kind of your fight flight cortisol.I think a lot of us live too
much in that state, and youneed to get into that parasympathetic state.
Breathing, meditation, if yoga isyour thing, try that. We a
lot of us abuse caffeine and toomuch caffeine stresses out our adrenal glands,

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which affects our sleep disturbances as wellour ability. What we call a zone
of tolerance shrinks. What we usedto be able to handle, we can't
handle as much anymore. And you'vegot to get back to spending time with
friends and family with long term,sturdy relationships, not the cocktail chit chat

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conversations, social media conversations with peopleyou don't have long term Stop scrolling and
start rebuilding relationships. This is anepidemic. Tim Poole calls it touching grass
every now and then. For sure, we have to have steady, long
term relationships, and they have beendestroyed culturally and politically and technologically. Say

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no. Say no to things.Stay no to that extra hour at work
or two. You may need tomake that little bit extra money, but
you need more than that. Youneed to spend that extra hour two maybe
with a friend or friends or familymembers. You have to recharge the batteries,
yeah, you have to. Youhave to take care of yourself.
But then that's also part of theproblem. We've been told for so long,

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do what makes you feel happy.You know this, this spring of
individualism and just be yourself and thisis who I am and everyone else can
pound sand. You can't live lifein a selfish mode like that. It
will catch up to you. Andwe have a younger generation that we are
we are modeling poor living standards tothem. We are not putting guardrails in

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on our youth and their use ofsocial media. They're scrolling their self absorption.
They our kids will wake up oneday and they are going to feel
empty because those dopamine hits that theygot from their likes are no longer there.
Their dopamine hits that they got fromwhatever else they were going yeah,

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is gone. So we're encouraging andI'm encouraging my friends, myself, my
clients, my staff. Exercise,even if it's just going outside for a
walk. Go for a walk witha book, audible book, Go for
a walk with a friend. Fifteenminutes, turn around, come back fifteen

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minutes. You got a half hourwalk minimum. You didn't have me wash
your car the other day. Verymuch good, Eat good food, Avoid
sugar, avoid too much alcohol.You already know this stuff right. Minimize
your screen time and find that wayto get into that parasympathetic nervous, parasympathetic

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state instead of that fight or flight, watch your caffeine and text someone today
that maybe you used to have abetter relationship with and start mending fences.
It's so so important because if weare if we become a nation of self

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absorbed adults, we become we eventuallywill become a nation of disabled adults.
You can't function if you're in thatrabbit hole of isolation, desperation, hopelessness,
helplessness, suicide, ideation, suicidethoughts. Of course, we know
with teens that suicide is skyrocketed overthe last decade four hundred percent. Some

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studies say, well, they're themost vulnerable because they don't have they have
not built up the wisdom to howto get through life. Now it's this
hole at thedemic has moved into theparent group and the older parents, and
you really we have to take careof each other. I think that's so
important. So one of the resolutionsthat I'm making for twenty twenty four,

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and I think it's very important toshare your resolutions for accountability purposes, is
reduce the screen time, backing offthe practice of law a little bit,
staying engaged with your spouse, beingof service to your family, others,
your friends in general. You're adear friend of mine and I you know

(37:37):
anytime you need me, we're here. Thoughts on this, I appreciate that
I'm getting rid of all of myzebras. I do have a concern something
we need to talk about the MiddleEast. There is an expansion of the
scope of the war, and aswe wind up this show, twenty twenty

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four is going to be it's crazy. We've got we've got to keep an
eye on what's going to happen inthe Red Sea. Yemen's probably give me
meeting some bombs. Lebanon that iscertainly kicking up anything to distract the narrative
that Biden's not doing well well.They're artificially trying to bring down interest rates

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and they're telling us that our economyis fine. But you know, the
people know your gut, knows yourinstincts know we know we're not We know
we're just not in a good spotright now as a nation. The big
problem here is that I've read thattwelve percent of the world shipping traffic goes
through the Red Sea and the SuezCanal, and you have the H's the

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hoodies, Hamas Husballah, all backedby Islamic fundamentalists, and there is no
practical solution to the Israel Palestine problem. This show isn't the form to go
over all the arguments about who stolewhat land from who. It goes much
deeper than that. This is aconflict between Jews and Muslims. You've got

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two billion Muslims in the world,most of whom take their religion very seriously.
You have maybe seven million Jews inIsrael, six million more in the
United States, a couple million morescattered elsewhere. Not great odds that Jews
are now extremely paranoid because of theRiver to the Sea, march is everywhere
in the West. Everyone's got nukes, it seems like, and it's the

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Middle East problems can't I'm not evensure the Middle East problems can be solved
at all in the United States andAmerican people are going to have to figure
out what role we are going toplay, what role we're going to play,
and there's just there's really nothing.I just don't think there's really anything
we can do about it. We'regoing to have to decide ultimately as a
nation, is Israel our fifty firststate starting to feel that way. It

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does. I almost not necessarily abad thing. No, I will close
with Thomas J. Jefferson's advice peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations, entangling alliances with none.That ship may have passed. May that
ship may have left the doc.Maybe the Middle East quiets down general,

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Maybe the neocons and neolibs will stoppedprovoking the Russians. Maybe we'll stop provoking
the Chinese. The country is themost divided it's been since the War between
the States. Twenty twenty four isthe most important election of our lifetime.
It's going to make a huge differencein the direction of this country. Thanks
for listening. Take care of eachother, take care of yourself, and

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we'll talk to you next week.