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April 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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And I let off the program today one hour ago with a piece by Charles Cook in a Wall Street Journal in which he details how he has basically devoted his life to learning about studying and facilitating the notion of people improving their lives.
That begot a discussion.
I got a couple of calls on freedom and liberty and how the left defines it and how we define it.
You know, it's interesting.
By the way, uh welcome back.
It's great to have you, folks, as always.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282882.
And if you want to send an email, Lrushbow at EIB net.com.
Which of the first ten of the Bill of Rights have Democrats fought to expand?
Forget expand, which of the first amendments of the first tenament bill of rights did the Liberals even fight to defend.
Well two they want written out.
The right to keep and bear arms.
They don't even think it's in that.
Freedom of religion?
No way, pal.
No way, Jose.
Uh uh uh freedom of speech, no way.
Political correctness, their version of censorship.
They don't want freedom of speech.
You've got to say what they want to hear, or you have to be shut up.
Destroyed.
You've got to be taken out.
They uh it just in the last year alone, but it's it's constant.
They have fought hard to limit free speech.
They have fought hard to limit religious freedom, and the second amendment, the right to bear arms.
They fight to expand dependency and restrict.
In fact, they don't even like the Bill of Rights.
They don't even like the Constitution.
I'm talking about the intellectual leftists.
Forget the these these idiots.
You know, we I was gonna say if you want to have some fun, but I'm not gonna.
I'll just tell you what the hell.
I've I've run across an app, my iPhone called Fire Chat.
And now I've done it.
Now I've done it.
Free app.
It is being downloaded like gangbusters.
And there's and it's because, but it uses a new kind of way to communicate.
Ever since an Android has its with iOS 7, Apple introduced something called multi-peer connectivity.
You do not have to be connected to the internet in order to use it.
Now it's a little bit more complicated than that, but the the point that I want to make is I downloaded it just for the fun of it, and it's depressing.
You are communicating, anybody in the world who downloads the app can post anything to it they want, and it is the bottom of the barrel.
It is the most depressing.
You'll find out exactly how stupid the people surrounding you are.
Now the way the multi-peer connectivity works, if I can explain this correctly, I'm gonna give it a shot.
Two iPhones can connect to each other directly via this app without having an internet connection.
It it happens over Wi-Fi and over Bluetooth, Bluetooth 4.0.
Now, if one of those two people, follow me on this, if one of those two people happens to be connected to the internet, so is the other one automatically by virtue of being connected with the internet.
So you can have a number of people not connected to the internet in a chain where only one person is.
Multi-peer connectivity.
In this way, for example, if you had a bunch Of people flying with you on an airplane.
You could connect to them.
You could have a chat with them on this app without being connected to the internet.
As long as you were within 30 feet of each other.
That's the range that I'm sure they I'm I'm sure I I'm not going to give you my screen name.
I came up with a screen name.
I I asked the first time I got it.
What do you think the average IQ on this on this app is?
It came back 19.
Any it it's it's a now, it's a fascinating thing technologically.
It's a fascinating thing it's also it's it's fascinating to just read it.
I mean, every other post is obscenity here, obscenity there.
It's it's it's it's bottom of the barrel.
But that's just because it's new.
Here's the thing about it that makes it intriguing to people.
It makes the device, your iPhone a transceiver without an internet connection.
If you're within 30 feet of somebody, it also has the app.
So you can be on a camping trip, for example.
You can be out in the middle of nowhere and still connect to people and chat with them as long as they're within 30 feet of you.
And if one of those 30 people, or one of those people in your chain happens to be connected to the internet, then all of you are.
Multipeer connectivity protocol is what it's called, and it's causing people to download this app left and right.
Now, the developers, there are two places you can go.
You can have everybody and uh nearby.
And nearby there'll be nobody on it unless one of your friends was in a 30 feet of you.
So you're connected to everybody around the world.
Now the developers are behind the scenes category.
You're not uh they're limiting you to uh some sort of proximity.
No, they can't get in and get your stuff that way.
The hackers can't get in and get your stuff that way.
They can just connect to your, it's just a they're not given access to the device.
It's uh it's just a it's a it's a connectivity protocol.
How did I get started on it?
What was I some of the Koch brothers and freedom and so on?
Oh, yeah.
It was just the whole notion that Charles Koch has this piece on improving your life and what is what is involved in it, and then we began a discussion of the left and how they do not like the Constitution because it limits the government.
And what I meant to say was the elite leftists, the leftists who are intellectuals, the uh the lawyers and and so forth, the professors.
They don't like the Constitution.
They they consider the Constitution a charter of negative liberties because it only limits the government.
The purpose of the Constitution is to limit the scope of government in people's lives.
People like Obama don't like that, and he doesn't.
They want the Constitution to be something that spells out what the government can do to people, they would say for people, but it really bothers them.
So when you get into a discussion, okay, what of the ten amendments, the first ten amendments that the left stand for expanding, they're not many, they're not for free speech.
They're not for freedom association.
They don't want you hanging around with people they don't approve of.
They don't approve of the second amendment at all of religious freedom they they don't believe in at all.
They are fighting to expand dependency and restrict freedom, restrict individual freedom.
They they fought hard and are continuing to fight hard to forbid a free market and insurance policies for health care.
On the other hand, they are desperate for a free market in marijuana.
They really want, and they would love for the government to get involved in marijuana, in fact, and license it and produce it and tax it.
Until the taxes got too high, then they would join us in that.
Now, the the idea of the Supreme Court was to make sure the rights established by the Constitution were preserved.
It's one of the many uh intended purposes of the Supreme Court.
But now the left even tries to use The Supreme Court to do the exact opposite of that, and that is to enforce their view on the restrictions of individual freedom that they support.
They're threatened by it.
They are threatened by freedom.
They're threatened by freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of religion.
They're threatened by it.
Now stop it.
Do you care are you secure in your life in your life?
You care enough.
As long as nobody's trying to tell you what you can't do say or think, do you care what anybody else does?
I mean, you've got the moral code, and you've got you hope that people obey the law, this kind of thing.
But you're not none of you run around demanding everybody agree with you about everything.
You're not demanding everybody live their life the way you live theirs or yours.
You're not demanding that people not do what you don't like.
I mean, if somebody wants to smoke, you can find.
As long as they're not in your presence, you don't care for the most part.
But that's not that's not who they are.
Now, the reason I brought up this app is to draw the distinction between the intellectual left and the hoi polloi left.
I knew I was going to do that.
You know, I should have followed my gut and not mentioned it.
I knew I was going to do that.
Oh, they're thanking me for mentioning it.
Okay.
Well, it's uh now I folks, I don't want you to be confused on something here on this app.
You are all connected to the internet using it right now.
That's the point.
But in the if you're using the app on the nearby tab, that only applies if you have somebody you know who has the app and was in 30 feet of you.
So Snertley, if I turned on my phone, if I fired that app right now, you would show up and I would show up in your nearby tab.
And you could you could you could tap on that and you and I could connect direct phone to phone, not to the internet.
That's what multi-peer connectivity is.
And that way it's private, by the way.
If you want if if you can have totally private conversations, nothing is on the internet when you connect that way.
There's all kinds of potential for this, is is why this app is exciting to people.
It's it's the multi-peer connectivity protocol is what it's called.
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out, my friends will be back and continue and roll right on right after this.
Do not go away.
There are loads of ditto heads out there on fire chat.
I just checked it during the break.
They're all saying hey.
All saying hi, what's up?
They're all identifying where they're from, at what station they're listening to.
And they're all across the fruit and plain.
Dominating fire chat.
Here's uh here's Ian in Fort Myers, Florida.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, pretty awesome.
Appreciate it, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
First of all, I just want to let you know that truly appreciates your perspective and all the ideas you share every day.
I'm gonna do my best trying to articulate the point I was making to the screener.
Um with regard to the Koch brothers article, and just uh the message there that they're trying to communicate.
Uh I just think I think the Republican Party is struggling to connect with the average person.
Now, wait, but before you continue, I just I want to I I want to uh make sure that we identify the this is Charles Koch.
The Koch brothers are Charles and David.
There are two other Koch brothers that are not part of the Koch brothers as the Democrats use them.
Sure.
And uh if you uh they're they're all one of them lives in a castle in New York.
Uh one lives here in Palm Beach, that's Bill, and he's the winner of the America's Cup.
Yodre's Bill Bill is is his own.
They're all great guys.
Uh and Bill and Charles, or Bill and Bill and uh David are are twins.
Charles and David Koch are the quote unquote Koch brothers, and they are libertarians, is what I wanted to tell you.
Okay.
Well, no, you know, you're you're saying Republicans, but but they are libertarians first.
Yes, well, just the conservative group that's out there.
I mean, obviously we understand what they're saying, but I think when it comes to trying to persuade people about who they want to vote for and who they want right in the country to go out there and tell them that they need to distance themselves from the government.
Most people are afraid of that.
Um, in the masses at least.
I mean, you've got to understand these people follow the advice of these progressives for the last 40, 50 years.
No, I agree with you.
I I think it's a it's it's it's a scary thing for a lot of people to to to to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.
Absolutely, and I think that to try and win, which this is what we need to do is to to win, the there has to be some way of communicating without putting the onus back on the individual who is vulnerable and scared to be out there independently trying to achieve what let's take this down to the basic level.
How old do you have any kids?
Not yet.
No, yeah.
How old are you?
Thirty-three.
Thirty-three.
Well, let's pretend for a moment that you have a son who is twelve or thirteen, maybe maybe fifteen, just on the verge of getting a driver's license in a car.
And let's let's also, as part of our hypothetical, let's stipulate that you have you've spoiled.
You and your wife have spoiled your son, and your son is way too dependent on you, and you are worried that he hasn't learned and isn't interested in learning how to take care of himself.
Sure.
What would you do?
Well, the reason I ask is you just said we can't confront these people with the idea that they've got to take control of their own lives.
No, I just think when it comes to trying to win the presidency, i know you know you have somebody that's in there like we have now that that's not being honest about really what their objectives are, but they've been elected now twice to the White House and they've implemented all kinds of damaging um things that are gonna cause pain throughout the country.
So I'm just talking about on a basis of trying to win the presidency.
That the messaging has to be not one where we're always telling people, you know, you're at you know, you're gonna go at it alone, and that's gonna be the best avenue.
I don't think we need to talk about that at all.
I think it's a good thing.
Wait, wait, no, hold it, hold it.
Give me a chance to get in here, because you're saying some provocative things.
Why do you assume that self-reliance equals going in alone?
Well, that's what these people are hearing.
That's what they're hearing, and that's what they're being told, then on top of that, from the other side.
So they're you know, they're telling them, you know, you've got nothing.
You know, they they want to take it away from you.
It's all you.
And that scares the average person, I think, away from voting for the conservative candidate.
And that's why we've just been able to do that.
But the conservative there is not one conservative candidate who ever says he wants to take things away from people.
No, but they don't have to, because the the language that they use, the points they make are are not clear enough to to say otherwise.
And and they're still being told that from liberal outfit.
So you you heard me read Charles Koch's piece.
Let me read to you the opening.
He says, I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives.
It's those principles, the principles of a free society that have uh shaped my life, my family, our company, and our and America.
So are you think that is not appealing?
The the idea of improving your life.
That is appealing to anybody's anybody that's there.
But well, it's such a small percentage that's there that have have achieved that.
What do you mean there's what do you mean there?
That level, somebody who's achieved personal uh financial success, somebody who's achieved any level of success, maybe educationally, um, in a job, um, whatever.
That that appealed to them because that's probably the route that they've relied on to get where they're at.
They didn't rely on the government to get them there.
They relied on themselves.
But we're dealing with a society now where that's not the masses.
And it's not going to be appealing to somebody to say, hey, guess what?
You know, the best way to do this is to rely on yourself and get the government out the way.
We know that it works.
I'm not saying that it doesn't work.
I'm just saying we've got to be careful, especially.
Well, that's why I ask you.
See, I think politics, if done right, is a one on one, it's a one-to-one relationship.
You keep talking about appealing to the masses.
I'm like, that's the way to do it.
Look, it's my point, but that's why I asked you if you had a son who you feared was gonna spend his whole life depending on you, and you didn't want him to do that, and you wanted him to improve his own life, what would you tell him?
What would you make him do?
How would you how would you get the message across to him?
Well, I can tell you this much is if if you think that talking to people as though they're the children, that's not gonna appeal to them.
And that's what I'm saying is to win votes and for us to get somebody in there, they've got to they've got to stop making people fearful that they're just operating alone out there.
This is why we have stuff like Obamacare, because people are fearful of being alone.
They're still fearful of losing their job, they want some type of backup.
And I'm not saying that we need to provide a backup.
I'm just saying we need to quit making them think that they're at it alone.
That's what I'm saying.
And to tell them and talk to them that, you know, moving forward.
I want to know you're gonna have to help me understand specifically what you mean.
If you can, give me an example of a politician who says something that's making voters think like they will be on their own if they vote for the guy.
Can you give me an example of what you're talking about?
Well, I don't mean to put you on the spot.
I'm not No, no, I mean, I I understand what you're looking for, some type of concrete example of somebody saying something specific once that calls some type of fear or panic.
How about if how about if how about if a presidential candidate on the Republican side says we got too many people on food stamps, we can't afford it, it's not the best way to improve your life.
We've got to cut back on are you saying that would be the wrong approach to take, because that would scare people, think, oh my God, I gotta feed myself.
Exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
And that no, I can't think of an instance where that was specifically said by somebody, but some form of of that type of comment, those types of things are the things that well, let's go from there then.
Now hang on a minute.
I gotta take a break here at the uh at the top of the hour, check in with Fire Chat, and I'll be back to you after the break.
Okay, back to uh let's see, back to Ian in Fort Myers, Florida.
Okay, you've have you heard of the term compassionate conservatism?
Yes, and I I the word compassion scares me.
All right.
Well, okay, we're running out of options here.
Be persuasive the way it works for you.
The thing that I'm that I just want to make a point about, if we've got one in five or one in six, whatever it is, on some form of government aid.
That's right.
No, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, try try uh you know, try try it two and a half out of six.
Even worse.
So with these types of t of uh statistics, if we ever want to communicate the right message to get people to vote for the people who we know should be running the show, we just can't we gotta recharacterize things so that it it's not it's not a message where they're gonna feel vulnerable voting for this guy that's coming in.
And I'm not saying that anybody needs to promise anybody anything.
We just need to stay away from so much of this messaging about self-reliance and the governments just in the way.
We all know that to become successful if you're a conservative, you've got to do it on your own.
You're not gonna get a handout.
But when we have this many people in society now out there who are living off the government, how in the world are we ever gonna win?
Rush, what are you even doing on the radio except entertaining if if we're not trying to win?
And we're not gonna win by by telling people things like this.
It's just not gonna happen.
The problem has already happened.
Well, now wait a second.
So this is where I this is where I kind of have uh a differing opinion of yours uh from yours.
Um why is it that people today are immune from lessons in life?
Why why are people today somehow?
We can't talk about taking care of yourself with this group.
We can't talk about um providing for yourself.
We can't talk about making your life your own.
We why?
What is it about this group that that so scares them?
I mean you wouldn't my point is you would not raise your children that way.
Yes, so you keep going back to the children.
If it these types of morals that you're talking about that would groom an individual to think this way, it's not being able to happen because No, I'm talking about education, and I'm trying to bring it down to the most basic level for you to explain to me how you would do this.
Well, I'm not looking at these people as kids or children.
I'm just asking in my example, I'm trying to get from you if you were running for office.
Let's let's forget that you've got a kid that's gone off the rails and he's dependent.
You're running for office.
You want to reach these people.
Okay, you've said we can't make them feel alone.
We can't humiliate them, we can't tell them we're gonna take things away from them, but we still want them to vote for us, so what would you do?
What would be your pitch?
I don't think there needs to be a strong of a pitch like you're assuming to get people to vote for the person that they're confident in.
I don't think Obama had a uh a super strong pitch when he first won.
He was just somewhat of a likable person.
And even though these ideas that you share on a daily basis are pretty much the gospel to get yourself to a level that's a very good thing.
I disagree with you.
I think Obama did have a pitch, and it was he was going to take care of you, and he was gonna fix everything that was wrong, and he personally was gonna guarantee you that things are gonna be okay.
And he personally was gonna guarantee that the country be loved again, and he personally was gonna do all these wonderful things.
I think he made people feel comfortable.
Uh you know, I think he did that.
Yeah, yes, absolutely.
But what I'm saying is from our side of things, the things that conservatives believe in, I just don't think that we need to be out there hammering it and browbeating people as bad as as what's been done by telling them that you know the only way to make it is on your own, totally eliminate the government from your life, and the next year you're gonna be a self-humanist.
Who is who's telling people that?
I I just think that the overwhelming theme that's No, give me a name.
Give me the name of somebody who's running around for office saying you're on your own, the only way you're gonna mount to anything is to get off of government.
Who's telling people that you must think that you must think the party's got somebody saying that?
Who is it?
It's not the conservatives, not the conservatives that are doing that.
It's the the seeds that are planning from you know, the the Democrats that are making people believe that the only way, you know, to to live a comfortable life is to have some some support there from the government.
And all I'm saying is when you read the letter like Mr. Coke wrote, and they talk about the individual and place the emphasis on the individual to achieve some level of success, that that that makes people feel vulnerable, Rush.
It makes people feel as though they're on it them own on themselves.
It's all on themselves.
They they've got to make it or break it themselves.
And I think that that type of message is not gonna win.
Well, uh f I don't uh I didn't.
I didn't I read I read the Coke piece.
I don't he doesn't the the word individual isn't even in it.
You heard something in it that was that that that you heard a uh uh Bud's phrase or something, it's caused you to have a knee-jerk type reaction to what he said.
No, it's it's just the fact that.
Oh, I just get so tired of these things that you see and you hear every day, and and the problem is the conservatives are just not communicating.
They're not communicating with the average individual in society, and it's because we think that the stuff like Mr. Coke wrote is gonna relate to the average person, that they're gonna find some type of comfort in the fact that the best way to get to his level is to do it how he did it, and that the government is just nothing more than an obstacle.
And the government is an obstacle.
We we know this.
Yeah, see, this is the the problem the problem that we have based on what you're saying is that if I'm hearing you right, for us to win, we're gonna have to acknowledge that people are, for whatever reasons, deeply flawed and cannot ever agree with our message.
So we're gonna have to change our message and adapt it to the way people are to make them think we get them and care about them and understand them.
The the problem is from everyone.
And if we do that, we watered down our message.
No, it's not about well, you can look at it that way, and and we can go to the grave never winning another election, but what's it gonna do to the country in the meantime?
Okay, if they were to bring up George Bush who was president for eight years just six years ago, how do he do it?
You know what?
The guy was likable.
I I don't care what people say.
He was likable.
I think he was a lackable person.
I think he had a likeability about him.
He was a came across as well.
You am starting to hear things now.
But so Romney wasn't like you think Governor Christie's likable.
I I think I think Romney would have came around, came across as a little bit more artificial than a Bush would have.
Um Christie, I'm I'm I think Christie's just trying to say the right thing and in the right moment.
Um, is there any Republican out there right now that you think has a chance of reaching people in the way you think they need to be in order to get their votes.
It's tough, Rush.
I mean, I think it's really tough right now.
The answer is no.
As far as you're concerned, there's not a there's not a Republican you know of that wants the presidency that has a chance for it right now.
Rand Paul?
I mean, I I don't know.
Rand Paul.
Uh-huh.
Rand Paul.
See, if you stick with this stuff long enough, you'll finally get appealing layers back from the onion.
So you like Rand Paul.
Well, I mean, there's there's there's not a whole lot of inventory out there.
I understand.
Don't be defensive.
I'm not don't don't misunderstand my tone.
I'm just I'm trying to draw things out.
When I pick on this article here from the Koch Brothers, I mean, that's just one area of society that or one area of things going on in society that are that is preventing.
I know what you're saying about that.
I know exactly what you're saying about it, and I'll admit to you, it troubles me.
Here is somebody who is an excellent role model, and you're saying he doesn't qualify because he didn't know what he's doing.
It's a sad reality.
If a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model, it's just it's okay, maybe he's got fifty billion dollars and nobody else is gonna have fifty billion dollars, but he's that's not his message.
He's not his message isn't you too can have fifty billion dollars.
He's talking about a wholesome life.
He's talking about a rewarding life that is filled with improvement and getting better.
Standard of living and all of that.
Rush, the other areas of society that would have reinforced his values and beliefs, such as the education system, that's no longer there.
So kid kids, children these days are not getting that.
That's exactly what we're doing.
Well, now there are those of us that are trying to deal with that, which is one of the reasons why I've indulged my patience and hung in here with you.
I'm trying to do it in my own little way with my books that I'm writing here on the truth about American history.
And and I've I do it every day on this radio program.
And there are I can tell you that this this radio audience is filled with converts.
People that used to be dependent liberal Democrats who now listen to this program.
Um you think that might not be possible because of the way they're being approached, because I make them f afraid or feel vulnerable or whatever.
But nobody that I know of anywhere is demanding that people be alone.
That is not what self-reliance and individuality means.
It doesn't mean alone.
It doesn't mean with no help.
It doesn't mean with no assistance.
What it means is be yourself.
Find out what you love, find out what you really want to do and go do it and don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart, i.e., Democrats and the government.
If we've gotten to the point where we are literally destroying people's futures by creating this dependency, and then we can't wean them off of it because that's gonna make them vulnerable, then it's Not just we're gonna go to the grave never winning an election, we're gonna go to the grave with the country never recovering.
And that for me isn't an option.
Uh tough love, you may think that's too direct and so forth.
But I'm telling you, this the the the question I asked you about how you would take care of somebody in your immediate orb that you feared was ruining their life is relevant here.
If you love people, if you love the country, if you believe that everybody in the country contributes to making it great, then you love everybody and you want the best for them.
And if you know how they can achieve the best for them, you can't be afraid to tell them.
And if it's gonna take baby steps because we're worried about people feeling vulnerable and being thinking about thrown to the wolves, nobody's advocating that.
But it sounds to me like what you're really saying is Republicans aren't cool and nobody likes them, and they do like the Democrats, and it's no more complicated than that.
If somebody came along that was likable on our side, then they would listen to whatever the person said.
They wouldn't feel vulnerable because they would trust the guy, because they would like the guy.
We just don't have anybody likable.
Anyway, I gotta take a break.
I'm way long here, but I've got a yeah, I'm too long.
I wish I could continue to look Ian, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it, and I'm glad that you um you hung in.
Now I gotta go deal with people in the email who think I hang on too long with you.
So sit tight.
We'll be back in a second.
Don't go away.
Ah, how are you?
Welcome back.
I don't tell you, folks, I don't know.
After that last call, I don't know.
Uh I don't know whether to blame the Republican establishment, the media, or the culture, but we had we just had a conservative on the air who does not think conservatism will work as a message.
Well, he does not think that liberty and self-sufficiency can win.
Now also he's 33.
So he has never been alive during a successful conservative presidential campaign.
He does not know.
He did not live with any awareness of the of the Reagan years, which is why I didn't ask him.
When I found he was 33, it wouldn't have mattered.
Um but I think Ian is a great example of what we're up against on our own side.
He just can't deal with hurting people.
He can't deal, he thinks he thinks conservative, he's a conservative, but he thinks the message is harmful.
He thinks it's it's it's in it's intimidating.
But it's a classic example of what happens when you when you have people coming of age who do not have any life experience relating to victory, to winning.
Lord knows you would not want this guy as a football team coach, for example.
Nothing against him, but this that that's he basically thinks people need to be coddled.
That's why I kept asking about how he would raise his own kid, because I think that's that's often the uh a very telling point.
He didn't want to go there because he thought it it wasn't relevant.
But when you have when you have conservatives who are afraid of the message itself, you have conservatives who think that the message itself is the problem, that's one of the things that we're uh we're up against.
I just don't think he's heard it properly articulated, money buddy, other than me.
And when he when he heard the Koch piece, he heard things in it that Koch didn't say.
Which is really fascinating.
Yeah, he heard I read the Charles Koch piece.
You are on your own, and you can forget any help, and you can forget any, and that's not anybody's message.
And it uh But you know, you you've got this this.
Well, no, no.
I that the difference.
I wanted to be on my own.
I couldn't wait to be on my own.
It did not scare me.
And I was dependent on my parents.
I wasn't dependent on government, but I was dependent on my parents.
I started working when I was essentially 16, but I was still dependent on my parents.
I couldn't wait to be on my a message of being on my own was liberation.
It was liberty.
It was freedom.
It was responsible.
It was the greatest thing in the world getting old enough to be on my own.
And today, we have to deal with the fact that being on your own is so frightening and so scary and makes you feel so vulnerable.
I wouldn't be where I am today if I had that attitude.
If I had been afraid to be on my and that's the point.
Anyway, another obscene profit timeout has uh approached us.
We must do it.
We'll be back and continue after this.
And my Wi-Fi's still dead.
Oh, sorry.
We're back.
But not for long, folks.
We got just enough to say hang in there, be tough.
Do we have?
We do.
There's some people that want to react to Ian.
We better have.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
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