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	This is Julie Hartman, and my brand new show, Timeless, has just launched.
	In each episode, I talk about news, but also about non-political things like history, religion, and other aspects of life.
	And if you want to hear more, make sure to subscribe on my YouTube channel and also at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Rumble, or at the SalemPodcastNetwork.com.
	Enjoy.
	Hello and welcome again.
	Today is November 30th, 2022, the inaugural episode of Timeless.
	Some of you may know me from my show with Dennis Prager, Dennis and Julie, or from my radio guest hosting, and I am thrilled that you are finally joining us here for my very own show.
	Now, some of you may know that this show was supposed to launch yesterday, but literally five minutes before we were supposed to start, I was all mic'd up, I was feeling calm, ready to go, and my producers told me that there was this crippling technological problem that they encountered.
	I just think, what would be a first show day without something going wrong?
	At least that's how I'm going to view it.
	And people were probably so enthralled with the U.S. versus Iran soccer game, so they probably weren't going to even watch my show anyway.
	Just a little note on scheduling before we begin.
	So my show with Dennis, Dennis and Julie, premieres every Monday.
	And then this show, Timeless, is going to premiere the remaining days of the week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
	And you can watch these shows live at 1 p.m.
	Pacific or 4 p.m.
	Eastern.
	Or if you can't catch it live, you can watch it later on YouTube or, of course, listen to it in podcast form on Apple, Spotify, Rumble.
	All of those platforms.
	For those of you who don't know me, my intellectual journey, how I found Dennis Prager and how I ended up in this chair doing this job can be found online.
	I'm not going to repeat it for the sake of the people who have heard me talk about it so many times.
	But I want to start this show by talking to you all about a fascinating paradox That has permeated American life, and especially among people my age.
	America is among the freest countries in the world.
	Unfortunately, that seems to be decreasing now, but I think we can all agree that compared to other places, we're pretty free.
	We are certainly the richest country in the world.
	Our GDP is $23 trillion, and our GDP per capita is $70,000.
	We have the greatest access to education.
	In fact, this generation of Americans is the most educationally credentialed generation, not just in America, but in the world writ large.
	We've also experienced an unprecedented amount of domestic and international stability in the past half century.
	People my age, and I'm 23 years old, we've never experienced something like a World War I, a World War II, a Cold War, a Vietnam War.
	We've never had to go through those all-consuming conflicts that our parents and our grandparents had to go through.
	And yet, my generation is the most medicated and depressed generation in American history.
	We have less sex and we date less than our parents and even our grandparents did.
	The U.S. is one of the lowest among developed countries in terms of self-rated happiness levels.
	And our suicide rate has proliferated in the past quarter century.
	Since 2000, it has gone up by 35%.
	And the United States is in the top 25 countries in the world with the highest suicide rate.
	And by the way, I'm getting this information from the World Population Review.
	And it's fascinating because if you go online and you look at these country-by-country suicide statistics, you'll see that a lot of countries at the top As tragic as it sounds, it sort of makes sense why their suicide rate is so high.
	Number one is Lesotho.
	Then you see on the list Guyana, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
	And then, number 22, you see the United States, which is just plopped in there.
	The most privileged country in the world stands alongside those other countries that are war-torn, that have enormous economic instability.
	We are right alongside those countries in the top 25 of countries in the world with the highest suicide rate.
	So the question that just captures my attention is why is there this disconnect?
	Why do we have all of the trappings of success, fulfillment, and happiness, and yet, although we may be successful, we're not exactly fulfilled and happy?
	There are several answers to this question, but the biggest one for me is that I think that we have lost sight of certain eternal truths of life and human nature that used to guide us and strengthen us.
	Some things happen unexpectedly in life.
	Like earthquakes, tsunamis, plane crashes, etc.
	But most things are connected to essential truths about ourselves that make the world less surprising and more understandable.
	Now, what are some of these things, these essential truths, that we've forgotten?
	Number one is that the nuclear family is an essential component of any healthy, robust society.
	By a nuclear family, I mean two parents and a child.
	If you look at incarceration rates, dropout rates, unemployment rates, all of these phenomenons, you will find that they very closely relate with an unstable two-parent household.
	The second eternal truth that we used to know and that we've forgotten, and this one is probably the biggest one of all, Is that we have to have pride in our country in order to survive.
	We have to view our accomplishments and our history and our culture as worthy and distinctive in some sort of important way.
	I cannot think of any country, and I love history.
	Those of you who have watched me before, you know that I'm a history buff.
	I majored in history in college.
	And I cannot think of any country or civilization in history that has ever survived without viewing itself as distinctive in a profound sort of way.
	What we're doing in the United States is that we are convincing ourselves that we have a defunct and guilty culture.
	And I fear that we will see very soon that this is suicidal.
	The third eternal truth that we have lost sight of is that human nature is inherently flawed.
	All of us have a tendency to do selfish, self-dealing, sometimes violent, vile things to one another.
	Now, the worst of us, that is those who commit crime, need guardrails.
	We need things like arrest.
	Incarceration, sometimes long prison sentences, in order to serve as a deterrent for punishment, but also to serve as punishment itself.
	Now, for those of us who may not commit crime, but still have some internal impulses towards behaving badly, we need guideposts.
	We need things in civil society that keep us in check and help us Live fruitful and meaningful lives.
	These include religious institutions.
	They also include civic or fraternal organizations like athletic leagues.
	And unfortunately, those are sort of gone by the wayside now.
	Now the fourth eternal truth that we've forgotten, and I credit Ben Shapiro for making me think of it this way, is that our lives need to consist of a portfolio of roles that we fulfill with fidelity, conscientiousness, and integrity.
	For women, this used to be mother, daughter, sister.
	For men, this used to be husband, son, and father.
	For people who, for everyone, it used to be employee, neighbor, churchgoer, synagogue goer, after-school tutor, little league coach.
	We used to kind of all have these roles.
	What this did was this created a sense of responsibility to one another that existed beyond just political lines.
	And it made our lives rich and fulfilled.
	Now, all of these eternal truths I've mentioned, I think what's so remarkable about them is that we in 2022 have gathered this wisdom from thousands of years of human experience.

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