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unidentified		Alright everybody.
dave rubin ▲ ● ▼		It's May 25th, 2022.
		I'm Dave Rubin.
		This is the Rubin Report Direct Message.
		As always, we are live streaming on Rumble YouTube and Blaze TV.
		We're going to do something a little bit different today in light of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas yesterday.
		You know, I always do this show basically unscripted.
		We have a sort of loose outline that we put together in the morning, and obviously we have certain clips that we want to throw to, but I don't write out the script.
		Whatever I do on this show is kind of just coming out of my brain as it's happening, for better or worse.
		But, you know, we saw the news of this shooting yesterday afternoon, and immediately, like everybody else, I jumped on Twitter and you start seeing stuff and all you see, basically, is fighting and endless fighting.
		And not only fighting, but everyone going to their political partisan side, trying to own everybody else.
		People saying, you know, this should be blamed on this person or this group or this political party.
		I mean, it was just it's just like the worst of everything.
		Right.
		And one of the things that I'm so proud of that I mention all the time is that, you know, especially after being on tour over the last couple of weeks, is that the nicest thing that people say to me is the thing that people usually say to me.
		It's the thing that people say to me most often, which is that I've helped people stay sane over the last couple of years.
		And if you've stayed roughly sane, you know, approximately sane over the last two years, like you've done pretty good.
		Right.
		And so I was trying to think, how do we do a show today?
		First off, there's other things going on in the world, right?
		There's another shooting.
		It's another shooting.
		Every day there seems to be another shooting.
		There's another disaster here or a war there or we got problems with the economy or just like the endless stuff, right, that is constantly happening.
		So how do we do the show?
		Do I just do a quick segment on this and say there was a shooting and here's what happened and let's move on because we know there'll be a shooting next week.
		And let's talk about, you know, what silly thing happened at the White House press conference or what did Biden stumble over or whatever else.
		Do we do that or do we try to do something a little bit different?
		Because as I was watching everyone, and I mean everybody across the aisle, so this is not something I'm going to put solely on the feet of the lefties, who I'm usually criticizing.
		It was everybody.
		Everybody, you know, this is about we need more guns.
		We need less guns.
		I blame the Republicans.
		I blame the Democrats.
		All of this stuff.
		So I was really trying to think, like, how do I do this in any kind of sensible way?
		So we're going to do something completely different.
		The normal today.
		There's no video on the show today.
		There is no outline whatsoever, other than I'm going to just give you some basic information on what happened yesterday.
		But this is an extraordinary tragedy.
		And I get it.
		All of these shootings are incredible tragedies.
		Right.
		The idea that someone shows up to work, shows up to school, whatever, and gets shot like you send your kids.
		I mean, in this case, I think the one the reason that this one's feeling like particularly awful You know, we see these in high schools, we see these in junior high schools.
		This is an elementary school.
		It doesn't make it worse at some level, right?
		But, like, it does in another way.
		And then yesterday I was also thinking, it's like, we're about to have kids.
		And I was thinking about these parents.
		These parents, you send your five-year-old, your six-year-old off to school, and that's it.
		And that's it.
		So I thought, well, what can I do today to not add to the craziness?
		Is there anything I can do today?
		So I don't know that I can do anything to not add to the craziness, but I am going to try.
		And I also try to do something that I consistently try to do here, which is what can we do actually not to just sort of address what's going on here, but also figure out what is a plan of action so we can get out of this.
		Because I think really what's happening is that we're all sort of in this slow descent to hell together, right?
		So we kind of pick up on these nice moments and I try to focus on the nice moments
		and you know we've had some wins lately. I don't want to get
		into all the political stuff but you know about the political wins.
		But we seemingly are just slowly going to someplace worse. We're slowly just giving away
		the freedom and the joy and the incredible culture that we had in this
		country.
		We're just letting it go.
	And we're all part of it.
	And I would include myself in that.
	I try to do a little bit better.
	I sometimes fail at it.
	But everyone, everyone, we're all a piece of it.
	You watching are a piece of it.
	Everyone's a piece of it.
	I suspect if you're watching this, you're probably not quite as guilty when it comes to some of the destruction, right?
	And you're probably doing the best you can for the most part.
	And how do we reverse this?
	But we're all kind of guilty.
	So it does seem like it's like when kids, we have 18 kids at least, are now killed.
	And it's like, what are we all doing?
	There's not even a, there's barely a moment online.
	And maybe this is because of what social media has done to us, the speed at which we get information and can share information and the dopamine desire to get clicks and own our political opponents.
	And again, it's on both sides.
	So, you know, the guy on the right can own the LibTard and the LibTard can own the guy on the right
	and the rest of that stuff.
	But we're just all constantly doing something that is just bringing us close to that abyss.
	And I suspect that when we get to whatever that abyss is, to the bottom of the abyss,
	Is there a bottom of the abyss?
	I think we'll all go, man, remember the good old days?
	So I'm going to try to clean some of that up here.
	So that's what we're going to be doing today.
	I will give you a little bit of information specifically about the shooting and then we'll go from there.
	So I don't know if this is going to be a 12 minute show or a hour and a half show, but Bear with me and let's see if we can make some sense out of any of this.
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	Okay, so let's just get into the specifics of what happened yesterday.
	When we were sourcing this, I thought, all right, why don't we actually try to go to a place that I wouldn't normally source from because I'm going to try to do this as apolitically as possible and just give you the facts.
	So we have some information on what happened yesterday in Texas from the New York Times.
	A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago.
	The slayings took place just before noon at Robb Elementary School, where second through fourth graders in Uvalde, a small city west of San Antonio, were preparing to start summer break this week.
	At least one teacher was among the adults killed, and several other children were wounded.
	The gunman, whom the authorities identified as an 18-year-old man who had attended a nearby high school, was armed with several weapons, officials said.
	He also died at the scene, they said.
	So I'm going to just talk for a moment.
	We have some images from the aftermath that I guess we can get to as I'm talking for a second.
	Or do we want to do the names first?
	Yeah, OK, so we're just going to show you a couple of images here.
	And what I wanted to say just sort of first up top on this thing is that one of the things that that social media has done to us is I noticed, you know, when I first saw the tweet that something had happened and at first it sounded like two people were shot.
	It's just like, oh, there's another shooting and you don't know much.
	And then the numbers started to jump and jump.
	You know, there's this weird thing that happens online where everybody, everybody starts thinking
	about politics first.
	So you start forgetting that these are human beings and that these are kids and that you're
	looking at parents right there who just lost their young children who they had just sent
	to school, who were about to wrap up the school year and enjoy the summer and all that stuff.
	And everyone goes to that political place first, right?
	So you think, oh, well, depending on the skin color or religion of the shooter, I'll think this.
	Or depending on the skin color or religion of the victims, I'll think this.
	Or if we find out their manifesto said they were right wing, then I can blame Tucker Carlson.
	Or if it said they were left wing, I can blame Bernie Sanders or all that stuff.
	So there's this weird moment when we hear about these things first, where the initial
	reaction is not to sympathy, it's not to empathy.
	I even noticed that in myself.
	Like, you hear of the shooting and it's like, there's barely like a moment of, of, oh my God, there's a human tragedy here.
	It's now like jumping on, well, what happened and sort of how, and how are we going to fight about it?
	I think that's a much bigger problem than I can probably explain.
	right at this moment, like the lack of empathy that we're all sort of going through right now,
	or not that we're not, not that we're all going through, we all have it within us,
	but it's being covered up by the layer of social media that's sitting on top of us right now,
	and the way that politics has become religion, politics has become everything.
	So if something horrific happens, if 18 children are killed, the immediate reaction is not even,
	is barely a split second, barely an iota of empathy.
	It's how can I now use this for whatever my political means are?
	So not all the names of the students or teachers have been released yet, but I thought we would just show you a few to just humanize this a little bit.
	Irma Garcia, her picture is not released yet.
	She was a fourth grade teacher who was killed.
	There's Eva Moreles, who is also a fourth grade teacher.
	Uzziya Garcia, who's a fourth grader.
	Amari Jo Garza, a nine year old fourth grader.
	Xavier Lopez, 10 year old fourth grader.
	Got a couple more, Anabella Guadalupe, age 10, fourth grader.
	Elijah Cruz Torres, another 10 year old fourth grader.
	There are gonna be more names released.
	Apparently they haven't even fully figured out exactly what's what here.
	But I think it's just important.
	I think it's just important.
	And by the way, before some people jump on me, and I have no doubt that they will,
	I know that there was also a horrific shooting about a week and a half ago in Buffalo.
	I was not here, I was not in studio.
	We obviously would have covered it.
	So I'm just putting it out there.
	So look, I'm not gonna name the shooter, right?
	I'm not going to name the shooter because many times the shooters, and it's irrelevant to me what his ethnicity is, and in some ways it's, not in all ways, but in some ways it's irrelevant to me what his political ideology was, if he even had a political ideology.
	He happened to be an 18 year old, I can tell you that.
	I'm not going to tell you his immigration status or any of those things.
	It's not that they don't completely matter, but maybe they don't matter just this very second.
	OK, but everyone wanted to jump to, oh, it's this person and he's this skin color.
	And how did he feel about immigration and and all of these things?
	So I'm not going to tell you his name.
	I think that's the most important part, because many of these shooters we find out later, you know, they have all sorts of psychological problems, right?
	They have all sorts of mental problems.
	And we rarely talk about that, right?
	We don't talk about mental health in this country.
	And perhaps what we're all dealing with is a collective mental health problem, right?
	We've unearthed something about all of us that the algorithms have weaponized against us and it has led to a mass collective mental health problem.
	But we do know that many of these shooters, they want to be famous.
	You know, they feel so lost.
	They feel so irrelevant, for whatever reason it might be, that they want to be known as someone.
	And you may remember years ago, after the Boston massacre, When Rolling Stone put the shooter on the cover and tried to make him kind of look sexy and like he should be appealing and And it was absolutely horrific Absolutely horrific that they did that it instigates more of this so we can all point figures everywhere We can point fingers at ourselves.
	We can point figures at the way the media looks at this at the way we we worship and and it's not that we're worshiping the murderers, but the way we react to To all of this.
	The way we care about some things and don't care about other things.
	For example, right now there are plenty of people all over the internet screaming about this shooting.
	And they should be.
	They should be.
	And we can have a discussion about guns.
	And we can have a discussion about school safety.
	And we can have that mental health discussion.
	And all of those things.
	But the same people who will be screaming about all of those things and a lot of those things, they're not going to mention that 48 people were shot in Chicago this past weekend.
	48 were shot in Chicago, six of them fatally.
	That's not going to be on CNN.
	It's not going to be on MSNBC.
	It's not going to be in The Washington Post or The New York Times.
	That's just one of the inconsistencies that we have.
	So it's like, oh, when a certain set of people shoot a certain set of people, we don't really care.
	And when they do it in a city like Chicago, which has the most stringent gun laws, we don't really care because that's really hard to grapple with.
	That it's generally black people shooting black people in a place that there's a lot of gun laws.
	That one's hard to grapple with.
	If we can take one where it's a white guy shooting a black guy, Or whatever.
	We do that whole politicization and we have to back up from that.
	We have to stop thinking about everything is just about policy, that everything is just about politics.
	You know, I did watch a little bit.
	I did not watch all of it.
	I watched some of Biden's speech last night.
	Now, look.
	I don't agree with Joe Biden.
	I don't think he should be president of the United States.
	I don't think he's mentally fit to be president of the United States.
	I think his policies have been horrible.
	I think that the Democrats are actually, at this point, intentionally destroying the country.
	I really believe that at this point.
	However, I was hoping, when I was watching the speech last night, that he could try to do something a little better than politics.
	Right, that whoever writes his speech and tells him what to say could do something a little bit better and not blame the gun lobby and not blame the Republicans and all of this stuff.
	And he couldn't.
	It was an absolutely horrific speech.
	I'm not, you know, we discussed, OK, maybe we could show some clips of it.
	I'm not going to show you the clips of it today.
	Maybe we'll show it tomorrow.
	Today has to be about something else.
	But it's like we have these brief moments, these brief moments where we can all B-U Biden.
	Everybody.
	We can all be a little bit better than ourselves.
	And he chose not to.
	He chose not to.
	He chose to make it political.
	Oh, this is about the people that, you know, are for guns.
	And it's just not that simple.
	It's just not that simple.
	It's just not that simple as blaming the NRA.
	The NRA, which basically protects the Second Amendment.
	And by the way, the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, that protects the First Amendment.
	And in the last two years, with all of the horrible stuff that governments, not only in America, but all over the world did, I think a lot of people are very happy that the Second Amendment exists.
	And there's a lot of new gun owners because of that, myself included, because of the overreach of government and realizing that law enforcement can't do everything.
	There's also a certain set of people that think if we just had more laws, if we just had more regulations, you could stop all the bad things from happening.
	And I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what being human is.
	We can create every law.
	We can have every regulation.
	And bad people are still going to do bad things.
	Bad people generally don't listen to laws.
	Bad people generally don't listen to regulations.
	Bad people, if they want to find weapons, they will find weapons.
	And if they can't kill you with a gun, they can find other ways to kill you.
	And we can get good people to behave in certain ways.
	We can maybe get a bulk of people to behave in certain ways,
	but most people aren't killing other people.
	We're talking about fringe people, and we can talk about background checks.
	And by the way, we do have background checks.
	And we can perhaps talk about little loopholes that maybe sort of still exist, but none of it is as simple as the media portrays it, is if we just had sensible gun laws.
	We do basically have sensible gun laws.
	Bad people are going to figure out a way to get things.
	From what I understand, and I don't want to get too into the specifics of this kid, but he just turned 18.
	He got the guns.
	He got the guns legally, from what I understand.
	There was a background check involved.
	Some of this is unfolding right now, so don't hold me to all of this.
	Do a little research on your own.
	But the point is that you can have all these checks, and a person can pass checks and still do bad things.
	We can talk about all of these things, but if we're immediately going to say, Something horrific happened.
	I'm not even going to take a moment to think about those kids, those faces that we just showed you.
	And that's barely 10 percent.
	No, it's whatever it is.
	It's 2 percent.
	It's just a small percentage of the kids that were killed.
	Maybe more of us are in the hospital right now.
	It's like if we're just going to jump to, oh, and this just proves that I'm right politically, then we got a big problem.
	And I think what we're all seeing right now is we're going from one crisis to another, whether it's a COVID crisis, to an abortion crisis, to an economic crisis, to a shooting crisis.
	And every time we have a little reprieve and we have these little moments, there are these little brief moments where we'll have like two weeks where everything, you know, there was one, uh, what was it last summer?
	Remember last summer around June when COVID things started opening up and people started feeling a little bit better and there was this feeling like, Oh, things are going to be okay.
	And then suddenly COVID came back.
	And here, it's like we had a good month, about a month ago.
	Remember, there were a bunch of wins in sort of the culture.
	I don't mean to make this about politics, but culturally there were a couple good wins.
	The masks came off because of Judge Mizell.
	There was the Elon and the Twitter thing.
	There was all the good stuff that Ron DeSantis is doing here in Florida that's being exported throughout the country.
	There were wins.
	And then suddenly this Roe v. Wade thing came in and we all started hating each other again.
	And then in the last week, that seemed to die down.
	That seemed to die down a little bit.
	And now this.
	And now we'll start hating each other again.
	And it's like, I don't know, are we all being played by the system?
	Are we all just in some Truman-like show that we're just being manipulated by forces that we can't quite see?
	Perhaps, but...
	We have to figure out some ways out of it.
	We really do.
	And I think the only way out of it is figuring out how you are going to react to it.
	So why does any of this matter?
	How is this all related?
	And what do we do?
	What do we do?
	All right, so I'm gonna try to give you some answers in just a sec.
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	Okay, so I want to be very clear.
	One of the reasons that we wanted to do no assets today, so I'm not showing you any video, I'm not showing you any pictures, I'm not showing you any tweets, any of that stuff, is because it was actually making me crazy.
	It wasn't just the people I don't like, right?
	It's always easy to find tweets from the ridiculous lefty politicians and the blue check people that I don't like.
	I could do that all day for the rest of my life and we can laugh at them and we can make fun of them and I can say silly things about them.
	I can do that all the time.
	Even the people I like immediately jumping to politics, right?
	And I just didn't want to show you any of that.
	I will say we are going to do a cold close today.
	It's about a three minute video that we found about how precious America is and what we're sort of seemingly giving away at the moment that I thought would be a nice way to end this.
	But beyond that we're not showing you any elements.
	But also I think it's also an inappropriate time to do it, right?
	I mean, try to imagine if you're one of the parents of these kids.
	Think about, so there are 18 or 19 kids that are dead right now.
	Again, they were alive yesterday at this time.
	They are dead right now.
	There are now thousands of people that are mourning directly, right?
	If you extrapolate that from parents and aunts and uncles and friends and family and local community and church and synagogue and all of those things, where are you going to go with all of that?
	Thousands of people are in direct mourning, not just the distance of a guy in another state talking about this.
	So, I didn't want to just dive into, oh, look what this idiot said and look what that moron said and the rest of it.
	But also, it's not going to solve anything.
	It's not going to solve anything.
	I can sit here and tell you that I'm a strong defender of the Second Amendment, probably stronger than I've ever been in my entire life.
	I can tell you that I, for the most part, don't think that this is a gun problem.
	If every single person in America had a gun, 99.9% of people would not run around shooting people, right?
	It's what you do with the weapon and why you do it.
	It's whether you have a mental health problem or a perceived grievance or whatever it might be, right?
	So that's really what we should be talking about.
	Why do people do this?
	Not what did they do it with?
	Because we already have laws around how they can or cannot get these weapons.
	So we have to talk about something that's within all of us.
	So it's not, it's not just, the thing is that they're going to distract you right now.
	We're now going to deal with two weeks of a fight about guns.
	And that's not really what this is about.
	It's not what it's about.
	I want you, person watching this right now, think about it.
	If you might have guns, You might not.
	But do you think about randomly going around and shooting people, whether they're at a church or a school or anywhere else?
	Do you get upset with people in your life?
	Yeah, you probably do.
	Do you have some people you really don't like?
	Yeah, you probably do.
	Have you had it with the other side politically?
	Yeah, you probably do.
	But what causes you not to run around and shoot people?
	What causes you not to do it?
	It's because you're sane.
	You're mentally healthy.
	You have figured out that there is some value in life, in your life and in other people's lives.
	That's really the issue.
	But we're not going to talk about that.
	Instead, there's going to be a mass move to destroy the NRA, to blame.
	They're going to try to blame Trump.
	They're going to try to blame Ted Cruz and all the Republicans and everything else.
	And what we should be talking about here is how do you have a healthy mind?
	In this insanity.
	How do you have a healthy mind?
	I think one way you can have a healthy mind, this is one of the things that I write about in Don't Burn This Country, is that you have to have a healthy community.
	And what I mean by community is not a community based on your skin color or even your sexuality or your gender, but a community based on shared values.
	That's what we have to return to.
	That's why the culture thing, that's why we've been in this culture war, right?
	What war have we really been in America in the last 10 years?
	It's been a culture war.
	There's a political war, meaning there's a political policy war.
	We're obsessed with politics all the time.
	Okay, the Republicans voted this way for this, and the Democrats voted this way, and if it wasn't for Manchin doing this, then this would have happened and all those things.
	But that's secondary.
	That's still below what's really going on here.
	There is a culture That we have to have in this country and in every country, but it starts with you.
	It starts with you saying, all right, what kind of person am I going to be?
	And I do not sit here as the perfect person.
	I make mistakes.
	I sometimes act in ways that I wish I would not.
	I can be short-tempered occasionally.
	Not that often, but I can be.
	Whatever it might be, right?
	We need to talk about the culture.
	What is leading us to a place where people would do these things?
	And again, Even in a system where we do everything we can to teach all the right things.
	Whatever that means.
	I mean, I don't think it can be done federally.
	We're a country of 350 million people from every walk of life, from every corner of Earth.
	I don't think that the federal government as one unit above us can teach us all of the right things, right?
	You and your family have to teach your kids to be better people.
	You have to teach them what meaning is and if you believe in God or wherever you get your ethics from and all of those things.
	But it needs to be done locally first.
	That's really what it needs to be.
	All we're going to focus now on is what can the government do to stop these things from happening?
	And it's like pretty much nothing.
	That would be my take on it.
	Joe Biden is not going to save you.
	He's not.
	And guess what?
	If Donald Trump was president right now and this had happened, Donald Trump was not going to save you.
	I think the only thing that can save you is figuring out what works at your local community.
	Now, what that might mean.
	I can tell you this, that growing up when we would go to temple on the high holidays, so we'd go to temple on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, whatever the holidays might be, at the temple that I grew up in a nice area in suburban Long Island, we always had armed security there.
	There was always armed security there, and we'd have to go in and pass armed security.
	And when you're a kid and you walk by, you kind of, you don't really think about it too much, but there's like this moment of like, why are these guys, you know, in uniforms with guns, why are they standing here?
	And then there's this thing, well, there's a certain amount of people that would like to just randomly kill Jews.
	It's just a thing, and it exists, and it's existed for a long time.
	So, what you can do as a community, I have no doubt that the people at the synagogue, my dad was somewhat involved with it, would have to make sure, okay, we have to make sure that we have security guards here so that we can pray and worship and come together in a safe manner, right?
	We have to be able to do that.
	And I think everyone's going to have to think about that a little bit differently.
	Like, if your answer is take away all the guns, again, the bad guys are going to still have guns.
	So maybe we have to talk about at the local level, at the real local level, like, what are the entry points to schools?
	Do we have to have an armed guard at every school?
	And does that armed guard really have to be a member of the community, not just some guy you're paying 12 bucks to stand there and not really pay attention?
	Does it need to be parents that come together?
	We have to figure out the mental health situation.
	And does all the funding for mental health have to come from the government?
	Does the government do anything?
	You know, I remember when I was in Los Angeles, there would always be signs everywhere
	about like Los Angeles mental health and call this number.
	And I always thought like, who in their right mind, I guess there's a little irony there,
	would be thinking, man, I have mental problems.
	I'm going to call Los Angeles government and they're going to help me.
	It's like that's not really where the help is going to come from.
	We got to nip it in the bud before it gets to that point.
	And what that means is.
	It's family, it's friends, it's your freakin' neighbors.
	You know, I talk about it all the time since I've moved to Florida.
	I've really tried.
	When I walk my dog, I do it every day, including this morning walking Clyde.
	I try to say hello to my neighbors when they walk by.
	You know, everyone always, they let dogs say hi.
	And who's this?
	Oh, this is Clyde.
	Who's this?
	Oh, this is Bernard.
	Okay, they say hi.
	And it's like, I try to say, hey, by the way, I'm Dave.
	How you doing?
	We just moved in.
	And try to know people.
	And if you maybe know a few more people in your community, then maybe your community will be a little safer.
	Because maybe, If a shady guy shows up at night and is lurking around, maybe somebody's going to make a call on their behalf and on your behalf.
	So that is the only way we will get out of this.
	Not doing this all day and staring at this thing, but reminding each other that we're humans.
	I know it's cliche, I don't think I'm reinventing the wheel here, but man, a little bit of a pause might be good.
	Because when something like this happens, the easy answer, and I can sense it, you can feel it right now, what we're just gonna do is gonna get more divided.
	So let's say we're a country and we're a whole unit, right?
	We're a whole unit, we're an apple.
	And it doesn't mean that that apple is the most perfect apple, but it's a pretty damn good apple, right?
	Now the choice is something bad happened.
	So the apple now got split in half, and some of us are going to go this way, some of us are going to go this way.
	Do we want to just keep chopping it up, keep chopping it up, keep chopping it up, and then we'll just sort of have nothing.
	We'll just have some mush.
	That's what we can do.
	But I think there is another way, and that is relying on one another.
	That's really all we can do.
	And I don't know exactly what that means, but I do know that, again, from being on tour, I know that's what people are looking for.
	I know that's why people, when they did the meet and greets and they give me the hug and they smile and thank me, it's like, there was something you're doing, Dave, that is sort of what I was looking for.
	And the only reason I'm doing this is because it's kind of what I was looking for.
	And I was like, well, nobody else is doing it.
	I guess I'll do it.
	And that's why I wanted to approach the show this way today and not make it purely political to the best of my ability.
	And that's also why we have to stop obsessing over government and politics.
	And it's ironic, I suppose, for a guy that hosts a political show to say that.
	So what would that really look like?
	Well, we'd have to get back to a little bit of old America.
	That's a little bit of knowing our neighbors.
	That's a little bit of being more involved in our communities.
	We have a flea market here on Sundays that's all local vendors.
	We try to go on every Sunday and we bring Clyde and we try to buy from the local vendors
	and I try to talk to a few of the people around there.
	Like it's something, it's something that's not this endless chaos.
	You know, knowing that you could rely on your neighbor for something, right?
	Not just like, oh, I'm out of butter, but like, you know, in a pinch, you know,
	if there was an emergency and, you know, you had to go away for a weekend that your neighbor
	would look after your house or look after your dog or whatever it is.
	So it's your community, it's your faith, it's your family, it's all of those things
	which we all do inconsistently and we take for granted and all of that.
	But out of that, out of that base is what will spring something stronger so that when the bad things happen.
	And the bad things are going to happen, whether it's a Democrat that's president or a Republican that's president, whether we have stricter gun laws or less strict gun laws, whether abortion is legal in all 50 states or it's not, or it's kicked back to states, whatever the issue of the day is.
	If your community is strong, if you stand up straight with your shoulders back, if you try to put truth into the world, then you're not going to be, every time the wave hits you, it's not going to completely obliterate you.
	The house will still be standing and it might be dinged up a little bit, but the foundation will be strong.
	I think that's the only way we get out of this thing.
	I think that is the only thing, the only way we get out of this thing.
	So look, is it obvious that my general position Would be that the answer is not to take away guns.
	Yes.
	Is it obvious that my general position would be we should be defending our schools more with guns?
	Yeah, it is.
	I don't think that's exactly for today.
	So how can we act today before we wrap up?
	Let's just try to do a little bit better.
	Let's just try to do a little bit better.
	Doesn't matter who's in charge.
	They're not here to take care of you.
	You're here to take care of yourself.
	Be a little bit more self-reliant.
	Maybe say hi to your neighbor today.
	Maybe don't spend all day on this thing.
	I'm not doing social media today.
	I'll jump on Locals.
	Maybe I'll do a live chat on Locals later just to talk to you guys.
	But don't spend all day on this thing today.
	Don't spend all day on Zoom and on social media and Postmates and DoorDash and Uber and Amazon and Netflix for a week
	Maybe try to get off this every now and again, maybe on the weekends
	you know, I do my off the grid August which for me this year is gonna be quite different because
	we're gonna have a baby and that also maybe is why I'm a little more a
	Little more emotional over this because I just seeing these kids
	It's like man, I'm about to enter parenthood and I just can't even imagine how these these parents are feeling right now
	but Control this thing a little bit more.
	These things that are removing us from the real world.
	These things that were promised to make us more social that make us more anti-social.
	I think maybe if we try to do all that, that will do a little something.
	So I hope this provided a little bit of value for you.
	I know it's a little bit different than we normally would do.
	We'll get back to the normal thing tomorrow.
	Obviously, the story in and of itself is not gonna go anywhere.
	There's gonna be all sorts of political repercussions, and it's not to say that those things aren't important.
	We should always be fighting for what we believe in politically.
	You should always be voting for people who you think can sort of direct the ship a little bit more in the direction that you wanna go in, of course.
	But I also think it's OK to occasionally step back from that.
	I think that's important.
	So I was thinking before, like, how can we end this right?
	Maybe, maybe not me.
	How can we end this right?
	And of course, immediately, America.
	And, you know, I've been playing some of these Ronald Reagan clips.
	So here's three minutes of Ronald Reagan when he was president talking about how precious America is.
	Maybe think about that a little bit.
	And we'll do this again tomorrow.
	Thanks, everyone.
unidentified		This national feeling is good, but it won't count for much, and it won't last unless it's grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge.
		An informed patriotism is what we want.
		And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?
		Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America.
		We were taught very directly What it means to be an American.
		And we absorbed almost in the air a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions.
		If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood.
		From the father down the street who fought in Korea.
		Or the family who lost someone at Anzio.
		Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school.
		And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture.
		The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special.
		TV was like that, too, through the mid-60s.
		But now we're about to enter the 90s, and some things have changed.
		Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation of America is the right thing to teach modern children.
		And as for those who create the popular culture, well-grounded patriotism is no longer the style.
		Our spirit is back, but we haven't re-institutionalized it.
		We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom.
		Freedom of speech.
		Freedom of religion.
		Freedom of enterprise.
		And freedom is special and rare.
		It's fragile.
		It needs production.
		So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.
		Why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant.
		You know, four years ago, on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, I read a letter from a young woman writing to her late father, who had fought on Omaha Beach.
		Her name was Lisa Zanata Henn, and she said, we will always remember We will never forget what the boys of Normandy did.
		Well, let's help her keep her word.
		If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are.
		I'm warning of an eradication of that, of the American memory that could result ultimately in an erosion of the American spirit.
		Let's start with some basics.
		More attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.
		And let me offer lesson number one about America.
		All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
		So tonight in the kitchen, I hope the talking begins.
		And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let them know and nail them on it.

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