00:04:23.200we need to get home but she's not right and it's not just about the fuel it's the overpopulation
00:04:29.180housing crisis it's the health service it's ipas it's a whole lot of things that are an issue
00:04:42.400money going out of the country we are struggling we need support over government by a government
00:04:48.900who cares there's loads of money there rich there's loads of money there yeah
00:04:54.740we're allowed to make money we have plenty of money for everyone else can i just say another
00:05:02.340thing okay sure yes tuesday we have special things to be doing on a tuesday
00:05:09.380for our livelihood for our children's livelihood and for the future of the generation we have
00:05:14.420These are a majority of farmers, they have crops to look after, animals to look after.
00:05:20.980And Kevin, who's the government putting the priority on right now?
00:05:25.040Is it the migrants that have come in, or is it the farmers and the working class of Ireland?
00:05:34.320Well, it seems that the government upheld the confidence in their taxes, which would include IPAS centres and...
00:05:44.420All right, folks, a little bit of a signal issue there coming all the way from Dublin, Ireland.
00:05:50.620But there's incredible footage of Kevin Posobiec and the workers of Ireland, the fishermen of Ireland, the farmers of Ireland, family farmers, families that have farmed their land for generation upon generation only to have the government of Brussels come in and hand it over to third world Algerians and Somalians and migrants, give them all the money.
00:06:13.480And then when the fuel shortages come is in because of the Strait of Hormuz, it's all intrinsically connected, all connected.
00:06:21.540When the fuel shortages hit, who does the government go to bail out?
00:06:52.940In many cases, women, children raped and murdered the daughters of Ireland.
00:06:59.000And now to hand away their livelihood.
00:07:01.800Farmers who may have to sell their lands, their family's land because of all this, because of Brussels.
00:07:07.180they've had enough and that's why the protests will continue in Ireland. Jack Posobiec right
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00:09:08.300844-577-7676 well folks after we finished the show yesterday and you may have seen this online
00:09:16.460i'm sure you've seen the news by now congressman eric swalwell has punched his ticket he is out
00:09:25.400He has resigned from Congress after a video or I suppose you could say a series of videos posted by Martin Shkreli and myself this past weekend.
00:09:39.380videos that show him in what appears to be in bed with a woman that is not his wife and
00:09:49.540a woman who was later identified on an escort site and just very disturbing behavior that
00:10:00.960was seen from what appears by all accounts to be this individual.
00:10:06.180And so, you know, the fact that you're seeing all this, it speaks to a wider climate in our Congress.
00:10:13.900And I've said from the start, I said from the start that if anyone else who's been in one of these situations or if you're a staffer who feels that you're restricted by an NDA or you want to come forward or remain anonymous, reach out to human events.
00:10:35.840reach out to me and I'll get you in touch with Harmeet Dillon at DOJ. I'll get you in touch with
00:10:40.960the proper authorities. If you want to go that route, we'll be able to get information out like
00:10:46.200this. The email is 1776 at humanevents.com. 1776 at humanevents.com. Come forward. I don't care
00:10:56.540a party it is. Republican, Democrat, I don't care. If people are up to stuff like this,
00:11:05.140and believe me, we know they are. And there are more videos. And we are working diligently
00:11:13.060to obtain those videos, to verify them, and then present them to you. Because this isn't
00:11:20.860just about one person. It's about a corrupt culture. It's about the toxic swamp. And there
00:11:27.680was someone who warned us about this culture of corruption and about the moral and personal
00:11:34.440corruption. A couple of years ago, people laughed at him. People mocked him. People said he was
00:11:40.320wrong. It was that it's not possible. His name, former Congressman Madison Cawthorne, and he has
00:11:48.800been absolutely vindicated on this. Madison Cawthorn joins us now. Madison, what is your
00:11:59.000reaction to seeing these videos and just the last 24 hours, 48 hours of the flurry of information
00:12:07.000because it's not about just about Eric Swalwell. We've now seen Tony Gonzalez and the talk of the
00:12:14.000town is that there are other shoes that will shortly be dropping. Well, Jack, I'll tell you,
00:12:20.380it seems like I'm having a flashback to my time spent in Congress. And, you know, I came out and
00:12:25.840said what was going on inside of Washington, D.C., something that I assumed was common knowledge all
00:12:31.080across America, which rightfully so it is. But the swamp did what the swamp always does. They
00:12:36.840systematically targeted and attacked. You know, the swamp is so accustomed. The uniparty, I'm
00:12:42.100talking about both sides of the aisle, is so accustomed to patriots getting elected to Congress,
00:12:46.940getting there for the first time, and then them realizing, oh, this is too big of a problem for
00:12:52.320me to tackle on my own. I really am not going to be able to get anything done. And these people
00:12:56.220are offering me power. They're offering me position. They're offering me money. Why would
00:13:00.160I try and mess up this apple cart? Obviously, this wave's going to crash. I might as well just ride
00:13:04.640it as long as I can. I called the swamp out. And then when leadership called me into the office,
00:13:09.980and said, hey, listen, we can make sure you have a swimming primary. Everything's going to go
00:13:14.040great. You'll have a great election. We just need you to be a team player. I held my ground and I
00:13:19.800said no. And you saw exactly what happened. They unleashed all hell upon me trying to destroy my
00:13:26.260name, trying to destroy the reputation of myself and the reputation of my family. But even that
00:13:31.240wouldn't stick, Jack. It wasn't enough. So then they changed my state constitution to then go in
00:13:36.980and redraw my congressional district to give me a very moderate, easily confused and easily
00:13:42.980manipulated district. Why did they do this, Jack? Because they wanted to cover up the sexual
00:13:47.760perversion and the drugs that are being done inside of Washington, D.C. And Jack, I don't
00:13:52.700have to wait for vindication that came just now when we saw Tony Gonzalez have everything that
00:13:58.340came out with him. What happened to Eric Swallow, which has been the fact that it hasn't come out
00:14:02.560earlier is insane because he sleeps with Chinese spies. But really, just mere months after I was
00:14:07.760ousted out of office by members of our own party and on the other side of the aisle,
00:14:12.400then we saw sex tapes coming out of staffers videotaping themselves inside of the Senate
00:14:18.200hearing chambers. And then we find cocaine inside of the White House. This kind of behavior inside
00:14:24.360of Washington, D.C. is pervasive. I thought it was disgusting. I thought the American people
00:14:28.760needed to know. And this swamp destroyed me for it. And that's why I'm coming back with a vengeance.
00:14:34.740Well, and Madison, we see these, you know, the videos that Martin and myself released. There's
00:14:40.600also, I think the New York post has a video, this yacht party that's running around. And
00:14:46.520these are videos that were out there. These were guys. And here's what gets me on this. All right.
00:14:51.960Here's what gets me on this. It's, it's not just the videos being there, but just that,
00:14:55.540what is this culture? What is this culture of our highest elected officials that this is what
00:15:01.460they're doing behind closed doors? And they don't seem to be trying to hide this very much. They
00:15:07.440don't seem to be bothered by this very much. Help me to try to understand what it's like
00:15:12.900when you're sitting there in a seat like that. And then you find out that this is what's going
00:15:18.840on after hours. Well, I'll tell you, you're kind of walked through something when you start talking
00:15:25.300to your staff about it, you know, the rumor mill starts going up saying, oh, well, you
00:15:28.860know, Madison Cawthorne said this, or this person's thinking about ousting this person
00:15:44.060You know, maybe you've got a speeding ticket here, or then we're going to call your governor
00:15:48.060and have your state police try and give you tickets every second that you can.
00:15:52.760They're going to make your life very, very difficult. And I live a pretty great life. I have an amazing family. My friends are really true and loyal friends. So I felt pretty untouchable. I'm financially extremely secure, blessedly so. The only thing not going for me is the fact that I can't really stand up.
00:16:09.420aside from that i've got a golden life but even me they were able to attack so ferociously and so
00:16:16.280aggressively and they wanted to use me as somebody that said hey this is somebody who can talk to
00:16:21.200millions of people with the press of a button he gets more news and more press coverage than
00:16:25.420anybody else inside of congress he speaks at all the major events he's you know a superstar within
00:16:30.220the maga movement and if we can take him down imagine what we can do to you and that is
00:16:35.760essentially what the environment is like inside of Washington, D.C. And, you know, you ask yourself,
00:16:41.780well, obviously, if that was the case, so many people would stand up. My friends, look at the
00:16:46.740country we've lived in for the last eight decades, you know, whether it's because of outside influence
00:16:52.700coming from super PACs, whether it's because of, you know, the threat of illegal action being
00:16:58.000carried out against you for slandering somebody's name, or whether that's the actual threat of them
00:17:03.320trying to take your seat away from you for many people this is the greatest job that these people
00:17:07.920have ever had it's the first time they've ever felt like they were cool and funny in their entire
00:17:12.080life and so they're trying to do everything they can to not upset the apple cart and then if it's
00:17:18.680they're not going to be able to threaten somebody when it comes to carrot to sticks then they'll
00:17:22.640offer them carrots they'll say well wouldn't you like this subcommittee chairmanship imagine all
00:17:27.500the goods you could do if you didn't take this one guy down because he was just having a little
00:17:32.040fun. And now, listen, I'm a guy's guy. I like to go have a good time. I like smoking a cigar and
00:17:36.480having the appropriate amount of drinks and having a good time with my friends. But it's very
00:17:40.680different when you are somebody who's inside of Washington, D.C., who is married and who's out,
00:17:45.560you know, just gallivanting with women. And, you know, Eric Swalwell, listen, that looks a lot like
00:17:51.000hookers in the bed with him with to me. And I think that should include some criminal prosecution.
00:17:55.820But I'll leave that up to the DOJ. Well, and I mean, look, it's it's real simple. And we got a
00:18:01.380quick break coming up. But look, I'm not in Congress, but, you know, I work eight hours a
00:18:06.180day, sometimes 12 hours a day, sometimes more. I don't have time to be away from family out at
00:18:11.980clubs or on the yachts and doing all this. And yet here comes this congressman who's paid by
00:18:19.000the taxpayer to do his job and he gets to live the life while, you know, he's supposed to be
00:18:25.540serving while the rest of us, you know, we're over here working. They're treating it like
00:18:29.780an 18 year old on campus they're not in college for the education and you know you guys you're
00:18:35.520not in congress to to do that you are there to serve you're there to serve the people when you
00:18:41.640stand up and put your name on a ballot you are doing that for the people of your district
00:18:48.300and instead that unfortunately i think this confirms so many people's view of what actually
00:18:55.480goes on in Washington, D.C., and in these circles, which you, of course, talked about and rang the
00:19:02.340alarm bells about several years ago. Right back, Jack Posobiec, Real America's Voice, Human Events
00:19:08.660Daily. You talk about influencers. These are influencers, and they're friends of mine.
00:19:18.540Jack Posobiec. Where's Jack? Jack. He's done a great job.
00:19:25.480all right folks back live real america's voice human events today we're talking about the fall
00:19:32.060of swalwell but also this culture of corruption moral corruption and decay in washington dc and
00:19:37.700it's it's shocking in the sense that everybody seemed to kind of know about this and yet you
00:19:43.060know we don't usually get video confirmation the way that we have with congressman eric swalwell
00:19:48.220here but madison cawthorne we're on with you and you've talked about this openly and you took
00:19:52.740uh furious uh slings and arrows when you did talk to us you know what's it like you're you're in
00:19:59.140congress and and then you get invited to something like this you hear about this what's the reputation
00:20:03.860of these types of things how does it start normally i mean the way i found that these
00:20:09.980things start getting taken off the ground is that you know it starts out you're just at maybe a
00:20:14.700donor dinner or you're getting dinner after a late night of votes and then you know you everyone has
00:20:18.860friends inside of congress so you start hanging out with friends and then maybe you grab a drink
00:20:22.720or you're on the way back to Capitol Hill, or you go heading back to your homes.
00:20:26.440And then, you know, you start building these relationships.
00:20:29.200And then, you know, most congressmen like to hang out with other congressmen
00:20:33.080just because there's so many problems when you hang out with either staffers
00:20:35.960or there's people with different angles in other parts of the Beltway.
00:20:40.420And I will tell you, normally, the way that I came across this
00:20:44.360is that people started inviting me and saying, hey, why don't you come back?
00:20:47.140And, you know, my wife would love to hang out with you.
00:20:48.800And we could see what could be going on here.
00:20:50.240and you know i think we'd have a really good time if we all got together in this way and then you
00:20:55.300just started piecing together you say well wait a minute what kind of invitation are you inviting
00:21:02.100me here this sounds really weird what what do you mean leave my phone at the house that doesn't make
00:21:06.400any sense all these random things they're saying and it becomes very clear that you know they're
00:21:10.900looking that that's the big one is just hey you know check your phone at the door that kind of
00:21:16.140thing and you know i had no interest in anything like that i've got a phenomenal life you know i
00:21:20.020was I was only 25 years old when I was in Congress. And so that interested me not whatsoever. But,
00:21:25.260you know, I thought that the majority of people inside of the United States of America were
00:21:29.000very cognizant of that. And so I came out and talked about it. And they tried to destroy me
00:21:35.020for it. And I'll tell you, there were 16 people that, you know, I really hold responsible for
00:21:40.440the people that were the architects of trying to take down my political career. And I want you to
00:21:45.880ask yourselves out of all the people who notably came out against me or who, you know, sent funds
00:21:51.360to make sure that I was pushed out of Congress, ask yourself, where are those people now? And I'm
00:21:56.360very happy that I was able to take the majority of them down or the majority of them are now out
00:22:00.460of office or have terrible personal lives at this point. But I will tell you, you know, there are so
00:22:05.640many people inside of Washington, DC that have much worse on them than what's going on inside
00:22:10.100of this video. And normally it's used so that people can hold this over their head for certain
00:22:14.220kind of votes. I mean, you know, whether it's a honeypot operation or whatever it is, but in the
00:22:18.740most circumstances, and this is something that I would tell anybody when they get elected to
00:22:22.760Congress is, you know, Hey, you are not that funny. You do not just randomly get significantly
00:22:27.140more attractive. If you were in some normal town in the middle of, you know, good old heartland
00:22:32.860of America and three outrageous looking, you know, tens walk up to you and say, Hey, we'd like to
00:22:38.540have a foursome. I promise you are not that funny and you are not that attractive. They are there
00:22:42.700to hold leverage over you. And that is what's going on. That's what these people get caught up
00:22:46.840in. And so then I, this is, you know, what I, what I have seen from a lot of other members of
00:22:51.660Congress is that once they get caught in these kinds of rings of people holding this over their
00:22:56.280head, they said, well, you know, if this is being held over my head, might as well just go ahead
00:23:00.000and go out and have a good time. And so then they start willfully going out and doing this. Now,
00:23:04.240I don't know if normally they're out there trying to solicit, you know, prostitutes and things like
00:23:09.440that. I had no experience witnessing anything like that, but I do know that there is a lot
00:23:14.020of sexual perversion, a lot of people who do not care about the rings they wear on their left hands.
00:23:19.260I mean, it sounds like the Diddy freak offs, right? So that's, that's such a good point.
00:23:23.920I never even thought about it that way, that it doesn't start with the first video, but once the
00:23:28.420first video is already, you know, in the cloud or, or, you know, on the, you know, in the archive,
00:23:34.560it's like, well, you know, might as well just cut loose because what's the, what's the point?
00:23:39.160So he just gets worse and worse and worse.
00:30:05.720my wife is watching. See, sweetheart, this is how I can be so smart on air. But then when I get
00:30:10.900around you, it just all falls apart. It all falls apart. And she says, why can't you just say the
00:30:16.500right thing? It's because my IQ drops when I'm around you, sweetheart. Yes. And I love Tay-Tay's
00:30:22.540posts, by the way. I follow her on X as well. So Tay-Tay, if you're watching, you got a big fan
00:30:27.280right here. So yes, it is true, Jack, to your point, when you have those dropping IQ points,
00:30:35.720When that mental awareness, that sharpness, that focus, in fact, again, even just where the blood is literally going in the body versus the brain, those men are not making their sharpest decisions.
00:30:48.180Moreover, there's something else that's interesting, which is on a personality trait level, we all have a need for nurturance or a need sometimes even for power in a positive way.
00:31:01.220It can be an interest in oftentimes in politics, in, you know, running things and creating
00:31:08.180The dark side of that, however, can just become a need for power and a need for control.
00:31:14.920And so that can absolutely be manipulated, as you said, when you have someone who might
00:31:19.280even start off innocently coming from, you know, humble beginnings and their heart is
00:31:25.300in the right place when they go to D.C.
00:31:27.180But then that same trait of just wanting to kind of be involved in the community and help people can be twisted into more of a manipulative control cycle.
00:31:39.820And so this is where it comes in because now suddenly you can basically create an addict out of this, can't you?
00:31:51.100Exactly. And so I'm glad you mentioned that word addiction.
00:31:54.460So as a clinical psychologist, I have mixed feelings about people using words like, you know, sex addiction to get out of responsibility for what they're doing.
00:32:04.880So I have some questions about some of the assumptions underlining the so-called disease model.
00:32:10.680But what we certainly, I think, can all agree upon is that when somebody is addicted to something, they're chasing and increasing and increasing high.
00:32:20.740So, you know, like you and Madison Cawthorn were talking about, maybe the first time it just starts off with, you know, an inappropriate flirtation or interaction with an office staffer. And then it escalates to, you know, well, let's, Jack, I don't know, I know you're a family friendly show, but you can imagine that these types of activities, next thing you know, you're, you know, in a hotel room, like some of the video footage that we've seen allegedly of Swalwell.
00:32:47.760So, you know, with the factors of addiction, unfortunately, people can spiral into a deeper and deeper and deeper need to get that rush of dopamine and power and control and just a new level of feeling on top of the world that they haven't experienced before.
00:33:03.700Especially, I must say, when we're dealing with somebody like Swalwell that was on the House Select Committee for Intelligence, this can get to be extremely dangerous in terms of national security, I would think.
00:33:14.680Oh, no, you're exactly right. And I've tweeted this out in the past, but I'm remiss of myself to not bring it up initially that, yes, this guy's on the intelligence community and he's running around on yachts and he's gallivanting out with these these these these evening women.
00:33:30.600And and suddenly, you know, this guy is the keys to the kingdom when it comes to our most precious and most secret military operations.
00:33:41.240We're currently involved in these operations with Iran.
00:33:44.320And regardless of what everyone's of anyone's opinions are with the war, I mean, you could have you have Americans in harm's way in situations that he knows about.
00:33:54.020We had the downed airmen a couple of weeks ago.
00:33:56.520I mean, my goodness, if someone had used him as a source of the Chinese Communist Party with Fang Fang and others had used him as a source for congressional information to get that out of him, then you could have Americans killed because of this.
00:34:11.080But but Dr. Khloe, what what Madison was saying was that actually it people like this who are attracted to power, where power is sort of, I guess, an aphrodisiac, if you will, that they actually throw sex at them.
00:34:24.800They ply them with these sexual escapades to make them more and more malleable.
00:34:31.920And then, boom, it comes around that now there's leverage over you.
00:34:36.760And, you know, when someone's in that leverage position, what are the psychological underpinnings there?
00:34:45.200And, you know, as you're talking about there, there's a huge issue of egoism.
00:34:50.540And so if it's the very same ego that could make somebody vulnerable, you know, to being plied in that particular manner, that would then, that very same ego issue becomes a double risk.
00:35:02.860Because now they're also terrified of being, you know, publicly humiliated because their public image is so incredibly important to them. They don't even want to admit it to themselves maybe when, you know, they begin to suspect that maybe Feng Feng doesn't just, you know, really love, you know, to be in my circle.
00:35:22.280They don't want to admit it to themselves, and they certainly don't want other people to know.
00:35:26.220And so then they could be particularly vulnerable to some of the ugliest kinds of blackmail, specifically because their ego is so strong.
00:35:34.060And I think maybe this is what you and Madison were also saying.
00:35:37.280But, of course, people in places of, you know, intelligence and security, they would be absolutely targeted for this.
00:35:43.720And there's not only the fact that sometimes people who go into politics might have, you know, a need for nurturance that can be twisted into a darker need for power, but there can also be a need for acceptance.
00:35:56.120You know, when you're being loved and accepted and getting voted in, it's almost like a high school popularity contest.
00:36:01.840There can be kind of a bottomless need for acceptance that can get tapped by some of these, you know, political figures.
00:36:08.180So that would also be a vulnerability to, you know, a beautiful woman or, you know, somebody who knows just how to push your personality buttons.
00:36:16.840That's making you feel loved and accepted and wanted. That can be an aphrodisiac as well.
00:36:23.420That's so fascinating. And there's a lot to unpack there.
00:36:27.780But you just said, because you're right, you know, in so many ways, you know, running for Congress is actually a it's a strange thing.
00:36:35.600Um, there's, there's no real formula for it.
00:36:38.580It's kind of just, as you say, it's like a high school popularity contest that there's,
00:38:13.680We're on with Dr. Chloe Carmichael, the clinical psychologist who's walking us through the
00:38:19.220psychology of how it is that members of Congress who we look to for leadership, we look to
00:38:24.720for service, public service, who people, many people put their hopes in their, their finances
00:38:30.920in, in many cases, and then they turn out to be absolute scumbags.
00:38:35.400And how do you turn someone from that, uh, public servant into something like this?
00:38:42.380And Dr. Chloe, I, there's something you mentioned in the last segment that of all the things
00:38:46.940that, you know, I'd, I'd love to, you know, understand about this phenomenon that we see.
00:38:52.000The one thing that you mentioned that I thought was really important is when I mentioned about how this stuff can become an addiction to that person, you said that you had a problem with the way that people talk about sex addiction as if it's some kind of, you know, and to be sure, people use it as a phrase to almost take away a responsibility of that person and take away their individual responsibility, their personal responsibility, the actions that they've done.
00:39:20.140because i want to be clear about this um when i got that video on like it was saturday night
00:39:25.800and with the verification on it and i'm sitting there thinking this is a person with kids
00:39:31.600you know this is a person with a family with a wife and all i could think of was how could
00:39:41.380you do this to your family how could you do this to them that that i could never think of
00:39:49.620doing something that would hurt my family and my kids like that. The sheer thought of it just
00:39:54.580makes me have a physical reaction. So when people say, oh, I have a sex addiction, is that a cop
00:40:04.720out? Yeah, personally, I think it is. And in fact, I believe it's also actually disempowering
00:40:10.400to the addict to suggest that this is some disease that they just can't control. I mean,
00:40:16.460And what's interesting is that in the Journal of the American Medical Association, when
00:40:21.060alcoholism was, you know, shifted to being a, quote, disease model, what they don't
00:40:27.660tell you is that if you pull out that old edition of the Journal of the American Medical
00:40:32.720Association, there will be side-by-side articles of other physicians at the time saying, no,
00:42:51.640But there were some seriously, extremely dark moments in that childhood.
00:42:57.180And you look at where he is now and you look at how successful he's been.
00:42:59.880And I'm not, I'm not saying that everybody can do that.
00:43:01.780I believe in talent, too, and all the rest. But at the same time, he made decisions to better his life and that those decisions are available to anyone at any time, especially in this country.
00:43:14.220And that's why the United States of America is the greatest country on the face of the planet, because we allow people to make those decisions.
00:43:19.320So, Dr. Chloe, what happens then if you have a client, you know, in general, obviously I'm asking personal stuff, but, you know, a client who comes in and says, oh, I think I'm, you know, finds themselves falling into this because we hear that in pop psychology all the time.
00:43:35.600So, Jack, like you said, you not only don't get to, you know, blame your problems on external factors, but the good news is you also don't have to.
00:43:44.760That means you're not consigned to external factors.
00:43:48.300And so to answer your question, yeah, it's been interesting.
00:43:51.440I've had some times where clients have come to my office expecting that I'm going to do
00:43:55.860the traditional therapist thing where I just validate everything that they say and, you
00:44:00.580know, suggest maybe they are the way they are because of society or their mother or
00:44:28.080I've been waiting to hear a therapist say that.
00:44:30.240So many therapists have told me because, of course, it is endemic to my profession to want to, you know, blame everything and everybody.
00:44:36.480And we'll tell you that boys can be girls and, you know, all kinds of other nonsense.
00:44:40.220So, you know, people tend to either love me or hate me as a therapist.
00:44:43.120i i i love what you said there because it's it's something that i hear all the time and you hear
00:44:51.480this pop psychology just running all over the place and oh you've got this you know you you
00:44:56.380experience this trauma is another one right it's always and by the way and i'm not saying that
00:45:00.640trauma is not real okay i'm not saying that none of that any of those things are not real bad
00:45:04.680relationship with a with a you know with a parent bad relationship with a spouse but all of these
00:45:09.840things are real. Of course, they're real, obviously. And I'm not going to bring up any
00:45:15.460personal stuff, but I'm like, you know, bad things happen. OK, bad things happen. But how we react to
00:45:21.540them is on us. Do I have that right? And that's good news. Yes. You know, you're absolutely right.
00:45:26.240It's not what happens to us. It's what we do with it. And yes, you know, that increases our sense
00:45:31.620of personal responsibility, which is a certain amount of work, you know. But I keep emphasizing
00:45:37.160Again, the good news is, is that this means it actually is within your control, how you choose to deal with it. That's, you know, one of the things I talk about a lot in my book, Can I Say That Why Free Speech Matters and How to Use It Fearlessly, is because what we say we're going to do, our belief and our ability to do what we say we're going to do, is strongly correlated with positive mental health.
00:46:01.060And so, you know, why my own profession sometimes seems so intent on convincing people that it's society, it's their parents, it's all these other things that are sandbagging them, it's really counterproductive.
00:46:13.940I sometimes wonder if maybe they just want to keep the therapy sessions cranking out or something like that.
00:46:18.420I was just going to say, yeah, no, because why cure the problem?