Eric S. Deems and Chase Geiser debate college's rising costs versus its necessity, arguing that inflation since the gold standard ended disproportionately hurt minorities while asset appreciation aided the wealthy. They critique systemic racism as a failure of bad actors rather than inherent design, noting how student loan bankruptcy strategies exploited by Harvard graduates highlight financial loopholes. Ultimately, they propose making education affordable and curbing university executive pay to restore American ideals against a backdrop of declining traditional media and shifting generational values regarding freedom and safety. [Automatically generated summary]
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Fight for Humanity00:03:44
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One another.
In this world, there's room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world.
Millions of despairing men, women, and little children.
Victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass and dictators die.
And the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes.
Men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fire.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men.
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
You are not machines.
You are not cattle.
You are men.
You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
You don't hate.
Only the unloved hate.
The unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers, don't fight for slavery.
Fight for liberty.
In the 17th chapter of St. Lucas is written, the kingdom of God is within man.
Not one man nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you, the people, have the power.
The power to create machines.
The power to create happiness.
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world.
A decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie.
They do not fulfill that promise.
They never will.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
Now let us fight to fulfill that promise.
Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason.
A world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite.
I am, I probably need to get sophisticated like you and set it up and go down that path.
But right now, I've just been recording my producer, JB.
He comes in, sets it up.
We were in a mastermind together, which is how this whole thing started.
And he said, Eric, I heard a couple of your first episodes.
Why haven't you done more?
And I said, his name's Jake.
I said, Jake, I can't, I'm just overwhelmed at the idea of everything behind the curtain.
I just want to be on stage performing.
Just let me go out there and do what I want to do.
And he said, well, you know, I moved to town to be a songwriter, so I know how to do all the technical stuff.
I have all the equipment.
Will you let me produce it for you?
Yeah, absolutely.
So he was showing up once a week, right here, sets everything up, and away we go.
So that's how we record the show, usually on Friday mornings.
We do the weekend review first and then record ahead of time for the Tuesday show, which is more of what I call Midwestern pragmatism, the things I grew up with, you know, where I grew up with two neighbors.
I didn't know that one neighbor was black.
I didn't know the other neighbor was a lesbian, but one neighbor was black.
The other neighbor was a lesbian, but I knew them as Lou and Regina.
But yeah, in a town that was 97.2% white and only 6,000 people, you know, it's kind of hard to a lot of the buckets that you're being forced in just don't apply.
And then I begin to think, well, this is the majority of America.
And so that's kind of how the podcast has morphed into kind of those conversations.
But JB, if it wasn't for him, these dulcet tones wouldn't be on the airways.
Yeah, I don't think, I actually think it's when I hear the white privilege nonsense and all this kinds of, you know, stuff that's, I mean, just polluting the airwaves, you know, systemic racism and all that stuff.
Yeah, it existed at one point in our history, but it doesn't exist today.
And when you start scratching your head and asking, why, why do we keep seeing more and more of this?
Well, think of where the narrative, from where the narrative is coming.
It's coming from major cities.
It's coming from really urban environments.
And so I think it's the big cities versus the rest of us.
That's actually where I think the breakdown is.
And the rest of us is most American.
They're sitting back saying, you know what?
When everybody's making money, the problems go away.
So, and we're too busy to watch cable news every night anyway.
You look at those numbers.
It's not even 1% of the U.S. population tuning in to any one of those stations.
So that tells me that the narrative that's taken over the country has been Hijacked by just a handful of people in elite circles in certain uh media markets, right?
And uh, you know, as long as big tech censorship is uh under control, I think the future of media is what we're doing right now.
Um, not necessarily you or me specifically, but I think that people are turning to influencers rather than brand name media conglomerates for information.
And it's happening on both the left and the right.
And it started to kind of happen, I think, you know, maybe 10, 20 years ago.
You started to kind of see it a little bit where people would be like, oh, I really like Larry King.
And, you know, you started to see this like shift away from what network do you watch to who do you watch on that network, right?
And my wife today, she's like, oh, I love Tucker, but she doesn't like Fox, but she loves Tucker, you know?
And so I think that we're moving to an influencer platform.
My only concern is that we might wind up in a spot where we're only listening to people that we agree with.
And those people, opposition is not communicating back and forth.
So I've been trying so hard to have people that I disagree with come on the podcast.
And none of them want to do it.
And maybe it's because I'm inflammatory in my tweets or whatever, but I don't want to be like, you know, rude or in some sort of debate or, you know, try to get a bunch of clicks with some sort of, you know, crazy behavior.
And the good thing about kind of the democratization of media is you're at least going to know where people stand.
And so when you tune in for Tucker or you tune in for Rachel Maddow or whoever it is, wherever they are, as everybody can have a platform, right?
Anybody could do what we're doing right now if they have, you know, a webcam and an internet connection.
So a couple of things are going to happen there.
You're going to have a whole lot more voices out there.
That's a good thing, but it's going to be a lot harder for folks who want to break in and be kind of a media star.
That's probably going to be a whole lot more difficult.
But I think it's actually going to be better for the conversation because people won't have to pretend like they're riding the fence or pretend like they're objective because it just hasn't been for so long.
And, you know, you hear folks say journalism is dead.
I think one of the main changes that happened in journalism is that I don't think that these major media networks are investing the money like they used to in the investigative reporting, right?
Because that's right.
And, you know, there used to be a really good case for subscribing to the New York Times as like a citizen because you're funding someone going over to Syria with a Kevin vest on and capturing the story, but they're not even doing that anymore.
So you might as well just be doing what we're doing, right?
And this is to my point of the deterioration with the 15-minute news cycle.
You don't have time to go corroborate with primary and secondary sources because somebody else may tweet it out first.
And, you know, what do they say?
A half-truth or a lie gets around the world six times before the truth has had a chance to put his shoes on, something like that, you know.
And that's just it.
You know, so I actually don't, I actually do not have Twitter or Facebook on my phone.
I have to get onto my desktop to do that.
I stole that from Tim Ferriss.
I follow what he puts out and he recently did that.
I guess he did it a while ago, but he recently talked about it in his five-bullet Friday email.
You know, that's a pretty good deal.
Yeah, because I found myself just pulling out my phone and refreshing my email and then going to social media just out of habit.
You know, I'm sitting on the couch at night watching television, watching a show maybe my wife and I are connecting and bonding over, or somewhere else.
Governors and Unelected Bureaucrats Slapped00:03:04
I can't, I just can't believe if you would have asked me 18 months ago if the government would have been able to go in and tell us not to go to church, I would have been like, no way, maybe in 100 years.
Our legal system is the best in the world up to this point, right?
It's we're a great experiment here, and we have the best thing going so far.
The legal system, unfortunately, takes time.
And so that's, I think eventually it will get caught up and will show that there was so much overreach and governors and unelected bureaucrats are going to get their hands slapped.
I mean, the CEC is already getting its hands slapped.
You know, you're not allowed to make these kinds of mandates and restrictions and force them on people.
You know, you have no authority to do that.
I think we're going to see more and more of that.
So that'll be nice precedent for the future.
And so hindsight, it'll be nice to say, well, at least we endured and got through that so that it won't happen again.
And there are states, if you travel to a place that it was a lockdown state versus a free state, they're still taking this very seriously.
There are places where they, I mean, the masks are still on and the distancing and all that, even though the science is already in and all that stuff is pretty much BS.
He was a professor of, I believe, evolutionary biology at Evergreen University.
And a number of years ago, Evergreen University had like a Solidarity Day on campus where nobody who was white was supposed to go to campus.
It was just supposed to be for like minorities.
And he refused to stay home as like a Jewish man and an intellectual.
He's like, I'm not, that's racist.
I'm going to work.
And he went viral, basically defending himself, not physically, but verbally defending himself in front of a mob of students basically screaming at him for being on campus.
And Brett has a podcast called the Dark Horse Podcast.
And as an evolutionary biologist, he is somewhat of an expert in a tangent and relevant way to the whole COVID crisis.
He's not a virologist per se, but he's familiar with genetics and variants and determining whether or not something may be manufactured or naturally occurring, right?
And he has, he did an episode with Dr. I believe his name is Dr. Pierre Corey, but I could be butchering that.
And they sat for like three hours and laid out all the evidence that ivermectin works as a preventative measure for COVID and as a treatment for COVID if you catch COVID early enough.
And they basically, and this is just my understanding, so I could be getting this wrong, but they basically implied or made the case that it appears the pharmaceutical companies and the government intentionally wanted to shut down any knowledge or awareness of the efficacy of ivermectin for two reasons.
Well, and I think the challenge is the First Amendment, right?
So, you know, you have consumers that are saying, hey, this violates my First Amendment right, but not really because it's not the government oppressing your speech.
And then at the same token, it's like the private businesses are like, look, it's our First Amendment right as a private business to determine what we want or do not want on our platform, which gets hairy for a couple of reasons.
The first one is, well, if you're determining what is or is not on your platform, then you're not a platform anymore.
You're a publisher because you're editing.
And then 230 may not apply to you, right?
And then if you go beyond that and you look at all the federal government contracts that these major tech companies have, international government contracts that they have, constant explicit pressure from specific leaders on Twitter, like threatening antitrust lawsuits.
I mean, you can't really say that they're private businesses.
I mean, they're obviously behaving in a reactionary way to the government because they're afraid of increased regulation.
And so I'm not sure that it's actually a private business.
So, health tech, you know, we put that on the shelf.
That was a, it would have been great had we started that thing a year before COVID.
Had we had it in a year earlier, I guess is what I should have said.
Because we launched it summer of 19 and we were getting LOIs and getting some early stage investment, and that was very good.
Fast forward, the pandemic hits, literally the week of St. Patrick's Day, 2020.
I have several major meetings to finish up, finish inking the deals that we had agreed to.
And this would have put this technology, which was essentially a communication platform for seniors.
So they could have a tablet that was in their living space in the senior living facility, and it would communicate with the other sensors in the AI that was in their living area, you know, a sensor in the floor, sensor in the bed to know if somebody had fallen, if they'd gotten up, that kind of thing.
Voice activated.
So it would connect not only with those things, but also connect to social media so that this person, so grandma, grandpa could be connected with their family, as well as the health team and their caregivers and that kind of thing.
So, especially for smaller groups that had maybe three to 20 locations, senior living facilities, this was a great, a great solution for them.
And so that week when everything shut down, it was kind of an interesting, interesting moment.
My co-founder and I, Tim and I, we were like, well, what's going to happen here?
You know, everything has been canceled because, and in fact, one of the facilities we were talking with, they had one of the first outbreaks of COVID.
And so my contact inside was like, dude, this is nuts.
We have people from the CDC that have just moved in essentially.
They're trying to figure out what's going on.
It's going to be a while before we can talk about this.
And so because of that, the big boys, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, they were able to step right in.
And they already, you know, our solution was compatible with Google, Home, Nest, as well as Facebook Portal and those things.
I think there may still be a solution at some point.
It'll be a different version.
We've continued to iterate.
We still have kind of weekly meetings to talk about that.
We've morphed that into some consulting.
So it's not over yet.
It's just, it's not going to be the solution that we initially had.
So we're waiting to see kind of what is a post-pandemic senior facility need and how can we take all of the data?
Because we had so much data gathered from healthcare providers and seniors, folks in the field, folks in corporate healthcare that were great resources for us.
So how can we continue to use that data to create the solution that's needed?
So if anything, all the trends that were already in place were sped up.
That's what I think COVID, that's going to be the greatest gift from COVID is the speeding up of trends for technology and healthcare.
So that's still there.
But real estate is my first love.
So I'm still chasing and doing a lot of real estate on the commercial side.
I think the older stuff, I think the owners that own the older product, they're thinking, do we really need to turn this C product into B plus A minus, or is there a different play here?
I think he tries to be a Republican, but on in talking points.
But when you look at his voting record, he's not.
He's pretty leftist.
So he's a nice guy.
You know, we're in Rotary together.
So he shows up.
He's in town all the time.
Pre-COVID, I'm assuming he's still here now.
But he also has one of the best internship programs.
I know friends who have interned for him in DC, and he's one of the members that actually spends time and actually is involved in the curriculum for you learning what's actually happening.
There hasn't been a Republican elected to represent District 5 since 1875.
Interesting.
So I think part of the problem is that he's never felt threatened.
And I think that's right.
And I don't think he's just intentionally coasting, but I think that's just kind of what happens when you know you have job security after 20 years in any strategy.
They were, there were security cam footage for a business across from the cemetery that would video them coming in about seven in the morning and then leaving about 7:15, 7:20.
She's really full of herself, if that's who I'm thinking of.
But they're going to draw that district in such a way that, or they're going to draw a Democrat district in such a way that maybe it's not as Democrat as it once was.
And they're just going to, I think they can leverage two into three or four net gain for Republicans.
I've not had the pleasure of meeting him yet, but I think he's pretty good at, you know, so far, I like what I hear.
He has everybody, he's okay with folks calling him Greg.
He's personable.
He walks around without a tie on, you know, willing to get to know folks.
So so far, I mean, we're only a month in, not even.
But so far, I like what I'm hearing.
And a lot of the feedback I'm getting from students, faculty, board members, they really like what he's bringing to the table, too.
So I think Dr. Fisher served a really good purpose for building Belmont to where it is.
And I think Greg Jones is going to have the ability to let Belmont fill out and get comfortable in the identity of, okay, we're now a big player.
And Greg Jones also has a lot of experience raising big money.
And Belmont's endowment, while it's the strongest it's ever been, it needs to get stronger if we're going to, if we believe where the trends are for higher education.
Speaking of, how does how I've been curious to know if you're in, I'm not really in touch with Belmont at all, but how has Belmont fared during as a small private Christian school during all this critical race theory bullshit that's going on nationwide?
Has it just dodged the bullet?
I mean, the student affairs department, when I was there, was atrocious, and I think they cleaned that out.
And it's a lot of the growth has happened too in the graduate programs, really big headline kind of things.
So I'm not sure how that plays to the other things.
Know they did the Bridges to Belmont program that Milton Johnson helped launch, which was to find folks from the Edge Hill neighborhood to find three black kids every year to go to Belmont and be in all the pictures.
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Well, I think I know you're still connected.
I don't want to make you uncomfortable, but I'm totally liberated to say whatever I think.
I went and spoke to a group of maybe it was 25 high school students from the Edge Hill neighborhood that were in a summer program.
This was a couple of years back, a summer program that was to prepare them for college life, Belmont or otherwise.
And so that all kind of stemmed from them putting the academic, not the academic, the athletic fields at the Rose Park Elementary School, if you recall.
And so we've got to be good neighbors.
You know, now you look around, and when I went to Belmont, there were girlfriends of mine who were being held at gunpoint in 12 South, and their house was being broken in June.
Now, that house that they lived in was purchased for $350,000, and two million-dollar houses were built in its place.
So the neighborhood has completely changed as well.
So I have a theory about why we've seen, I don't want to use the word decline because it's not a perfect word.
It's not exactly the right word.
But I'm going to use it just as a placeholder because it's close.
But why we've seen a decline in minority communities since the 70s in terms of nuclear family status, household income, crime, things of that nature.
And I think that all of our problems today with the racial tension that we have, with the poverty, with the income gap, I think they all go back to inflation.
Because I think what was happening was I think these minority communities in the 60s and the early 70s were struggling, but they were getting by, you know, sort of paycheck to paycheck.
And when we went off the gold standard and inflation skyrocketed in the 70s, I think that that put them over the edge where they had to start taking extra jobs.
Maybe they weren't home as often.
And then you start seeing kids aren't looked after as much because mom and dad are both working now.
And I think that, you know, there's never any one cause, but I think that inflation may have had a very significant impact on what we're seeing today in terms of all the tension that's going on.
And I think it's a ripple effect from some of those decisions that were made.
And, you know, to just put the images and the interviews from then and juxtapose to what you see now in terms of the riding over George Floyd and all that stuff that we saw this past year.
It's like a completely different society, right?
And it's only really one or two generations apart.
And the only explanation that could come up is like, why is it that this entire community is, you know, like they're staying married, they're having kids after they're married.
They're, you know, they're working.
They're poor, but they're not desperate.
And why is it this entire community within one generation seems to have been totally crippled?
And inflation was really the only thing I could think of as like a cause.
The other piece is when I see the folks out there, you know, taking to the streets for the cause, the biggest difference that I see is these aren't, you know, in the 60s, the conversations and the movement was led by leaders of the faith community.
And so is this idea of we're part of something bigger than ourselves.
We're here to create something that's fair for everyone.
Fast forward to today, it goes back to that critical race undertone, critical race theory undertone, which is we're just going to abolish everything because everything is inherently wrong.
And any institution in society is, if it exists, by definition, it's racist.
When everything's racist, nothing is racist.
And so we just attack everything.
And now it's just a big power grab.
So the goal now is to just grab as much power as possible to topple the system instead of, no, we have a righteous cause and we're going to be part of this community because we're all in this thing together.
That's kind of, that's the biggest difference.
But the economic, I mean, economics, when everybody, like I said earlier, when everybody's making money, problems go away.
The economics are huge because you also think of the systemic racism that did exist prior to us getting off the gold standard.
I mean, you have black families that couldn't even get loans to purchase homes.
Yeah, I need to look into it more in terms of the numbers too.
But I mean, if you're getting by paycheck to paycheck and then within a very short period of time, we're talking 36 months, you know, there's 10% inflation.
And we saw a double digit inflation in the 70s and your income's not going up.
So that could put you over the edge.
And if it happened on a massive, it would affect the most vulnerable first, the poorest first.
And everybody that had enough money to have assets or wealth in the market, you know, they would just appreciate what the inflation and kind of write it out.
So paycheck to paycheck people really got hit.
But one thing that I think is interesting when you look at the civil rights movement versus what's going on now is that there was this entire theme during the original civil rights movement that the system of America was good and the leaders in America were not fulfilling the promises made in the system by the Constitution.
And now it's inverted where all the politicians think that they're good and that the system's broken.
Right.
And that's one thing Jordan Peterson kind of mentioned that it's like, like, you can't really say that there's systemic racism in the United States because of all of the things that the system has done over the last 200, 300 years to eliminate racism.
Like it was in that, in my opinion, it was inevitable the day that the Constitution was ratified.
It was inevitable that slavery would become illegal in this country eventually because you just, it was, there was too much of a discrepancy between the principles of that document and this country and the culture behind it and the actual behavior that was going on in terms of slavery.
It was inevitable that that was going to come around.
And it was inevitable that the civil rights movement was eventually going to happen.
And there were bad actors along the way that got there were the Jim Crow people and there were the KKK.
So inflation, to your point, has affected our generation.
And so when we graduated college, I was working in DC and I wanted to stay in DC, but I couldn't stay in D.C. on 26 grand a year when I had to pay $1,000 a month in rent and $1,200 a month in student loans.
It just couldn't happen.
So I had to look around to where I can make money.
Survival is the motivator.
And real estate, there were people that I didn't think were very smart, making a whole lot of money.
So I thought I'd fit in pretty well, you know.
But I was having to survive instead of going and buying a house and going and buying a car.
And we have an economy that is driven by consumerism.
But our group wasn't, we were not out buying.
We weren't getting married.
We weren't having kids.
That's all being delayed by a decade or so so that we can have our career, you know, whatever that needs to be.
And I think there's a lot of disappointment.
So fast forward a few years.
And now, okay, now's the time.
We've been out for a few years.
Maybe here we're going to do something.
And then the housing crisis happens.
They're like, wait a minute, you did what?
And we're saying this to the generations older than us.
You've screwed us over now that we can't even get a mortgage.
I mean, that's that was my first kind of my oldest Nashville friends came from my time at Belmont and still having those folks in my life that that's great, you know.
So, but I think you're onto something.
And I think the trends, again, are being sped up.
COVID did this.
Do we really need to send?
I mean, people were suing universities because, wait, showing up to a Zoom call is not the same thing.
I don't think I'm going to continue to pay the tuition you thought I was going to pay.
Right.
And I think our generation as well, back to my point on the millennials, I don't know if you've seen this.
There are a lot of millennials retiring because what they've realized is the life that they thought they were pursuing and setting themselves up for, they don't want.
And a year of a pandemic is like, wait a minute, why was I waking up and leaving my family, leaving the people I love to go work with a group of people that maybe I don't necessarily like or I tolerate to do something that isn't fulfilling so that I maybe one day could.
So, so, yeah, and I think that the reason people kind of get hung up on these, um, these, the jobs that are that sort of a drudge is because they take comfort in the security of it, right?
So people settle.
They say, you know what, I'm willing to be 70% as happy as I could be in order to make sure that I'm not 100% as unhappy as I possibly could be if I fail at doing anything else.
And I think It goes back to courage to just like you don't, especially if you're young and you don't have a family and you don't really need.
I mean, you can find a way to put food on the table and you can find a place to live bare minimum.
I mean, there are morons that do it.
And I think to myself, like, we have evolved for hundreds of thousands of years, millions of years before that, to survive.
We are the cream of the crop of all of humanity, right?
Despite how fucked up our culture is right now.
And you will figure out a way to survive because it's wired in you and your DNA knows how to stay away from a tiger, how to build shelter.
You might not think it does, but it's there.
And there's nothing, it's hardwired.
You are a survivor, and you just have to believe that in order to take the leap.
I don't know.
Maybe it's sort of a romantic feeling, but I like Tim Ferriss's view.
Well, I think this is not a novel or, you know, this isn't original for me, but I think a lot of times folks have to create controversy because they have it so easy.
It's such a soft world that we're living in because survival, I mean, even the folks that are the poorest among us are still, they still have a phone.
You go into any place where somebody's getting paid minimum wage, they'll pull out a thousand-dollar phone out of their pocket.
And so that's something to think about.
We take for granted how great capitalism has enabled the largest growth of wealth for the most amount of people.
And so while folks are sitting around in comfort, well, they may not call it comfort.
You know, there is something to be said about having to manufacture or come up with a reason of why they're oppressed.
And I think there might be a little bit of generational envy going on.
I don't know if you ever get this feeling, but it's like if you watch, you know, Saving Private Ryan or something, you're like, man, if only I could have fought at Normandy.
You know, like there's a lot of it.
You know, obviously it's terrible.
And like, no one wants to do that.
But my point is, I think our generation really wishes that we had a Vietnam to stand up against, a Nazi Germany to stand up against.
And we haven't really had real problems other than internal domestic corruption.
And I think that people got a little antsy and weird and maybe feeling unfulfilled.
And I think that, you know, a lot of these 22-year-olds that you see throwing Molotov cocktails in the name of BLM, like it's a manifestation of wishing that they it's a manifestation of them psychologically needing to feel as if they're fighting for something important.
But, you know, well, I think the solutions are kind of clear.
I just think that it's so politically painful to do them.
Like, look, obviously, all the government programs that pay for tuition have driven up the cost of tuition.
And no politician is ever going to withdraw those programs because they would get massacred by the mob for, you know, not caring about minorities that were using the, but it's like the programs cause the problem.
And so I'm worried that no leadership is going to be talented enough or courageous enough to do what needs to be done to solve these problems.
And that is just going to have to kind of fall on its ass.
I think he said something about it in one of the Democratic debates.
I recall watching something where people were doing the kind of the flip-flop, you know, where here's what he's saying now and here's what he said then.
I started this podcast because it occurred to me that there was a concerted effort to shame America and what it means to be American.
When I asked myself, what can I do about this?
It's really hard because I'm not a political action committee.
I don't have a tremendous amount of followers.
I certainly didn't when I started.
I am one American.
One American podcast reinforces the values and ideals of America.
It reinforces Americanism by having conversations with key influencers of all sorts of different backgrounds, beliefs, but with one thing in common, the belief in America and that America is inherently good.