Chip and Wenndy are joined by comedian Dan Crenshaw to talk about the recent deplatforming apocalypse on social media, Game of Thrones, and much, much more. Plus, a special guest star-spanking-special guest-caught-on-camera appearance.
00:02:18.000We'll be talking about the recent sort of de-platforming apocalypse, I guess.
00:02:23.000We wanted to talk about the recent transgender vice powerlifting video, but it'll still be there Monday.
00:02:27.000So question for you, question... It's still there.
00:02:30.000Has the recent de-platformer that's occurred to a lot of people on Facebook and Instagram, has it been jarring or do you, like me, worry that it might just become white noise now?
00:02:38.000And how close are any of you to deleting?
00:03:32.000Both influential women of Hollywood tweeted following Sunday's episode in which the show's only named character, who was a woman of color, was killed.
00:03:41.000Spoiler alert, I should have said that first.
00:04:55.000Who's more diverse than you should play this role.
00:04:58.000And it's like, well, it never ends, right?
00:04:59.000I mean, soon you have women of color that are transgender that have arms, and then you need the ones without the arms, then without the fingers.
00:05:23.000This transi is making the case that Venezuela, we just saw this video and I promised you it's real, Venezuela more democratic, better off in the United States.
00:06:47.000So we were in the middle of our final exam, you know, close to summer, and we're doing a math exam, and Wei Fung gets out from his desk, with incredible purpose, by the way.
00:06:57.000Gets out from his desk, stands up in the middle of the exam, AHHHH!
00:08:15.000And then now we're just like, now you just have some kid who's very smart and, you know, has to wear earplugs when he sleeps and we call them autistic.
00:08:27.000It's just some folks choose to ignore them and exploit the labels for whatever they want to do.
00:08:30.000I mean, they take something that is scientific and legitimate.
00:08:33.000And certainly the boundaries are, you know, they have to be adjusted at times as more information comes.
00:08:38.000There's different variants of different things.
00:08:40.000But to be able to say wherever you want and whatever you think you are is just going to somehow be on the continuum of the spectrum just doesn't make any sense.
00:10:08.000Not orthodox, sorry, it's the wrong word, sorry.
00:10:10.000He claims to be a Christian, and then he questions Mike Pence's belief in scripture.
00:10:14.000He says, maybe Mike Pence doesn't believe in scripture now anymore, and I'm like, Sir?
00:10:18.000Would you like to talk about homosexuality and the potential verses that could be in the Bible that affect that?
00:10:22.000You're telling me that because you've got a bad guy, your word's bad guy in office, that Mike Pence doesn't believe the Bible anymore and your lifestyle probably doesn't?
00:10:52.000The week's trivia contest winner, by the way, is Sam Moore at Samtastic 300 for correctly identifying that the plus-size model test holiday's blood type was pudding.
00:11:00.000So you'll be getting a free t-shirt and DNA scraping of half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond in the mail.
00:11:06.000So, we're going to talk about, and I was super glad that half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond was here, and I can never tell, you know, he has a newborn, if he's tired, if it's just Asian face.
00:13:37.000And I think that's an important distinction that people need to make.
00:13:39.000It's either dishonest business practices or not knowing where they line up and not applying the law equally.
00:13:44.000Well, I think even just the point in our own experience has been the company is often unclear left-hand, right-hand about what the rules are.
00:13:51.000Even day-to-day, even kind of handling the same videos being handled differently in different times by different people means that there's a level of subjectivity that means that when the company's out there selling its platform as A, in reality it's B. And that is where you get to the heart of a fraud that Yeah, there's an exchange of services here.
00:14:19.000Like you said, the data is one of the big things that drives the revenue, obviously, of any of these companies.
00:14:24.000Having access to consumers and understanding their habits, being able to crunch that data.
00:14:28.000You've given your part, and now they're saying, no, you can't be on this platform anymore because of rules that we can't even tell you how to enforce.
00:14:34.000And they clearly don't honor their own rules.
00:14:36.000So just in case you think I'm making this up, Democratic State Representative, we'll talk with Dan Crenshaw about this in a second.
00:14:41.000Brian Sims, did you guys see this, where he videotaped himself?
00:14:44.000I don't know if videotape is a term anymore.
00:14:45.000People are like, what does that mean, videotape?
00:15:43.000An elected official offered money to anyone who would dox pro-life prayer volunteers.
00:15:50.000You could live the rest of your life with singular purpose and unbelievable focus in an attempt to... and still not accomplish anything that shitty.
00:16:09.000By the way, you're a pseudo-Christian because you don't support my point of view.
00:16:13.000That's also, Alexandria Cortez, she was talking about, Cortez was talking about this week, she says billions of people don't know anything about women's bodies.
00:16:30.000Can I not understand that because I'm a man?
00:16:33.000Or do I actually just understand you're the party of science?
00:16:35.000That if you have two hearts, you're a medical marvel!
00:16:38.000Someone get Ben Carson to separate you two!
00:16:41.000And by that logic, men should only be able to operate on men and women on women, because you can't possibly understand a female body if you're a man, so why would you dare try to operate on them?
00:17:39.000We should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles and see if mother will stand up against the giant asshole she is married to.
00:17:47.000Now I know at first glance that seems pretty cut and dry.
00:17:50.000But then I see the blue check mark and I'm all, I don't know what to believe anymore!
00:17:55.000And then he's still up on Twitter, by the way, right now.
00:18:23.000That's not all she's done though, right?
00:18:24.000But there's so many things that they have done that would, under the ban that just happened, would easily have gotten them kicked off if they were on the right.
00:18:31.000By the way, this is also something that's important.
00:18:56.000We have people who say, I agree to appear on camera, it changed my mind, and then go to YouTube and say, I don't want to be on there anymore.
00:19:07.000them give information. So we don't care because we just don't want to deal with the problems.
00:19:11.000That is the issue. These offenses are actually illegal. By the way, hit the notification bell.
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00:19:24.000So let's compare this with what gets a ban on the right in direct contrast to leniency given to
00:19:29.000leftists. Do we have anything right or wrong so far legally?
00:19:31.000No, I actually was going to say that the exact other point would be probably people would hear
00:19:35.000hear the end of the first comment and say, okay, so wait, what's your position?
00:19:39.000That they should be allowed to say these things?
00:19:40.000That they shouldn't be allowed to say these things?
00:19:42.000And the point being that there's a disparity, right?
00:19:44.000The whole point is people are being treated differently not because of, you know, the certain what they're saying, it's because of the view that is being espoused by what they're saying.
00:19:53.000And Jonathan Honig was just making the point that I don't like what they're saying and so they shouldn't be able to say it.
00:20:00.000Well, that's what I went through the whole private platform thing and that's not what we're talking about.
00:20:02.000We'll get to that difference between publisher and platform.
00:20:04.000That's the most important point here that I think a lot of people have missed when they're calling for regulation.
00:20:08.000So on Twitter, though, before we get there, several of the accounts that were banned, I think, within the last two weeks, the Ocasio-Cortez, the Parody account, James Woods was suspended.
00:20:16.000The Magaphobia account, which was very surprising to me, it tracked violence against conservatives.
00:20:22.000It's like a block parent on Twitter, effectively.
00:21:13.000You're telling me that the problem is that I say stuff that should be completely untrue and nobody should believe it and that they believe it and that I'm the problem?
00:21:30.000He really sounded like he was that mad about Pringles.
00:21:32.000This person has emulated his voice remarkably.
00:21:36.000And then, of course, Facebook and Instagram, they banned people like Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, which I really don't understand the Paul Joseph Watson thing.
00:21:52.000But again, the reasons here hardly make any sense when you're... Splendid!
00:21:57.000The show is continuing just as I'd hoped, though many do not know my name nor recognize my face.
00:22:04.000It is by my gentle hand that this ship is guided, unnoticed.
00:22:09.000And once that ship has served its useful purpose, I shall coax it into the rocky shore as a beautiful siren does, in beckoning from the dark sea.
00:22:21.000So is there a legal precedent there for dangerous individuals?
00:22:34.000It's possible that they have drawn from some statute, but it's not expressly referenced, so no.
00:22:39.000The policy itself does not refer to any particular law when it says dangerous individuals.
00:22:44.000What's really dangerous to me, ironically, here, is that they say someone like Gavin McGinnis, designated dangerous individual, came out of Facebook.
00:22:50.000And now they're saying that anyone who associates with these people could also be a dangerous individual.
00:22:54.000I don't know how far that necessarily extends.
00:22:56.000Obviously, Gavin has been a colleague of mine.
00:23:05.000And they said something about, you know, just taking a picture with Gavin McGinnis.
00:23:08.000Well, Louis Farrakhan was one of the guys that was banned on this.
00:23:10.000By the way, I would stand up and fight and say I hate everything that person says, but I feel like they should be able to say it.
00:23:16.000I'm pretty sure that presidential candidates, presidents, and plenty of people in the Democratic Party have had pictures with this guy, have attended his church, have sat under his tutelage, and they're still out there.
00:23:36.000Keep in mind, by the way, this is the platform that actually banned any pictures of anyone even seen wearing our Socialisms for Fig shirt, which, by the way, can be purchased at leathercuttershop.com, along with this wonderful new d-platform, this Crest t-shirt.
00:24:55.000This is really why I want to get bills taken.
00:24:58.000This allows all parties the freedom to choose, OK?
00:25:01.000And I think it just needs to be as simple as a question needs to be answered officially, legally, on the record.
00:25:06.000These social media companies, in a court of law, they need to decide whether they're platforms or publishers, because those two things are very, very different.
00:25:14.000A publisher, something like the New York Times, or even Lauderworth Crowder, or this channel, they can monitor content published on their site, They have to take responsibility for it.
00:25:22.000If they publish defamatory information or they incite violence, they can be sued for that because they're responsible for the content.
00:25:28.000A platform, which would be more like, say, a cell phone company, they provide a network, they don't monitor, they don't censor your calls.
00:25:34.000Now the reason that people have referred to these social media companies and have come to know them as platforms is because they've legally been afforded some of those rights not granted to a publisher.
00:25:44.000And what are those, some of you might be asking, ones that protect them from being sued as
00:25:48.000So if someone tweets, for example, something defamatory about me, like, I don't know,
00:25:51.000puts on a fake Nazi symbol or says that I want them to kill all the Jews, Twitter can't
00:25:55.000be sued for that as long as they're a platform.
00:25:58.000But that means if they're a platform, this is how I understand it, and then Bill's going
00:26:01.000to correct me here, they cannot determine which point of views are allowed, disallowed,
00:26:04.000picked sides, or try to determine winners and losers just based on point of view.
00:26:08.000There's a difference between a publisher and a platform, and I think that lately they've been acting in a way that will put them firmly in the territory of publisher, and people don't know the rules.
00:26:17.000I would give the analogy to explain it to the left of when you hear folks on the right say, guns don't kill people, people kill people, right?
00:26:36.000For people who got really... No, I'm not pushing Pizzagate.
00:26:40.000So the idea is that is the tool doing it, or is it the person controlling it?
00:26:45.000And if you're not controlling the tool, then the person who is is the one that's in trouble.
00:26:49.000So it's the publisher, the one who's putting the message out, and the person who is just the phone line, the tool provider, the platform.
00:26:56.000There has to be a protection of that, because otherwise there would be no financial incentive to be, for example, any kind of platform to provide those kind of tools.
00:27:04.000If a criminal orders a drug deal over a cell phone, does that mean that we should punish the cell phone companies because they should be controlling it?
00:27:11.000And in that same way, the companies have changed.
00:28:26.000It's been in a creative change over the years where now they are firmly over the line, especially, you know, platforms like Twitter and the new policies that are coming out from platform and YouTube, or for Facebook and YouTube.
00:28:38.000That are making it increasingly different.
00:28:40.000I mean, we knew, what, a year or two ago When it was open hunting season at Twitter on conservative views.
00:28:48.000That's because when you move the center so far left, everything on the right is far right.
00:28:53.000Which by the way is also very important to conservatives out there.
00:28:57.000If we do this, and this is I think the route that we should take, again comment and let me know, that means that if you're a conservative, you're going to have to accept these rules for everybody.
00:29:06.000Don't criminally trespass, right, and videotape someone, I'm gonna use that word again, film someone on their private property and then claim that you're being, please don't do that because you can film in a public area in a single party consense state.
00:29:18.000You cannot go into someone's home or on their lawn and film them there.
00:29:22.000Just like you can't put out there a false meme that you know to be false to harm somebody just because you don't like them.
00:29:28.000And that means conservatives are going to have to allow Ilhan Omar, Farrakhan, to post all the anti-Semitic crap they want.
00:29:35.000By that same token, Twitter, you can't allow Hamas to recruit people.
00:29:40.000So at that point, when we say you're a platform, then at least we know, okay, you have to, at least there has to be some semblance of abiding by the law for which all of us can have reasonable expectations.
00:29:51.000Right now there's their rule set, and then there's law.
00:29:54.000And sometimes you can be obeying one and breaking the other.
00:29:57.000For example, Peter Fonda hoping that Barron Trumps get raped by pedophiles.
00:30:09.000We're a little murky on the legality at that point.
00:30:12.000I just want to know what the rules are, and I think that's what conservatives need to be pushing for, not locking arms hand in hand with people like Pelosi and people like Cortez, who also want sweeping regulation of these companies.
00:30:21.000Yeah, and the point that Trevor Noah made that we want, like, it's because of retweets and likes and we're not getting it, that's not the point at all.
00:30:28.000The point is that you have to have, and this is where it does circle back to a free speech argument, the only reason these things are coming up is because in the world, not on social media, there are free speech fights going on right now on what is hate speech.
00:30:42.000Is it okay for you to try to understand what's in somebody's head when they commit a crime and it's a hate crime or what they say and it's hate speech or it's some pseudo-protected group that all of a sudden we can't say anything bad about them because they're the cause.
00:30:56.000Well, I don't think hate speech is not an actual thing in the United States.
00:31:06.000Because in Canada and the UK, hate speech is an actual legal term that is an actionable offense.
00:31:11.000In the United States, hate speech, is that a thing?
00:31:14.000I'm not sure if there are some states or... I mean, each of the states could have their own law, so there's certainly some states that probably have that as a definition.
00:31:28.000And that's filtering into these platforms.
00:31:30.000The things that are happening out in our culture today are filtering into the platforms, and that's why they're kicking people off like that.
00:31:35.000It's because there's social pressure from other people saying that's wrong.
00:31:39.000That's why it is a First Amendment fight on that ground.
00:31:41.000Yes, and I think it's important that people do understand the legality of it and understand the difference between a platform and a publisher.
00:31:47.000And by the way, unlike where we're talking, we'll talk about Bill Barr with Dan Crenshaw, we have to get to him, he's probably waiting for us.
00:31:53.000He's under no requirement to speak with more lawyers, by the way.
00:31:57.000He's under no requirement to provide a completely unredacted report to the public and or all members of Congress.
00:32:03.000This is a legally relevant question here, unlike the Barr situation, because I know people will accuse the left and the right, no man, you're all just playing politics.
00:32:39.000It requires social media companies to put their money where their mouth is.
00:32:42.000And if they want to continue to benefit from the umbrella and the legal protection of a platform, Fine.
00:32:48.000Or do they want to remove it, edit, and censor content based on point of view, like a publisher?
00:32:52.000This can all start with just two yes or no questions.
00:32:56.000And all that's needed to start a revolution, really, right now, in fairness and transparency and honesty, is to get these big tech CEOs, the owners, in the hot seat.
00:33:05.000And all that's required is to get them to answer yes or no.
00:33:09.000That's what I think a good starting point would be.
00:34:04.000And now for Barely Legal with Bill Richmond, sponsored by my club.
00:34:11.000For Louder With Crowder, I'm half Asian lawyer Bill Richmond.
00:34:14.000Today's question comes to us from Ethel in Beaver Lake, Kentucky, who asks, as I have often heard them used interchangeably, I'd like to know what is the difference between a TRO and an injunction?
00:34:38.000So the types of injunction generally, and these words and terms kind of differ depending on what state you're in, you'll have a temporary restraining order, which is that TRO.
00:34:45.000It generally only lasts a finite amount of time.
00:34:48.000In certain states, like Texas, it will only last for two to four weeks.
00:34:52.000In a temporary injunction, you will have, in for example, some courts, it will last the entirety of the case.
00:34:57.000So while you're fighting for your life under a mountain of discovery, a temporary injunction will be in place.
00:35:02.000Finally, at the end of a case, you may have a permanent injunction, which is a piece of paper that will control your life
00:37:44.000Our next guest, he's been on here recently, but he's making waves because, first let me list his qualifications, and then I'll tell you why he's making waves.
00:37:50.000Of course, he's a United States representative, second district, second congressional district in Texas, two bronze star medals, former Navy SEAL, Purple Heart, went to Harvard after the military service, and recently was on The View.
00:38:05.000You can follow him at Dan Crenshaw, TX.
00:38:08.000Representative Crenshaw, thank you for being here, sir.
00:38:14.000Now, right before we went to air, I asked you, and you said you have very strong opinions on this.
00:38:19.000Before we get to what happened with The View and Omar and all that stuff, can you name me an instance where it would be appropriate to wear black athletic socks with shorts?
00:40:39.000It's anecdotal, but you know, I want to be like, I want to be like Magnusson someday.
00:40:44.000No, it's not, listen, it's not going to protect it if you actually really pull it back into your shins, but it can protect with a little bit of like the friction burn.
00:40:50.000That's supposed to smack your shins with deadlifts.
00:40:52.000You're supposed to lean back on those deadlifts.
00:40:54.000Oh yeah, we've had Mark Ripto in here and he's given me hell for not leaning back enough.
00:40:57.000He's like, well, I deadlift more than you, so.
00:42:07.000What happened to our country's promise of give me your tired, your weak, and your poor people?
00:42:12.000But as it turns out, about 80-90% of those don't have a valid asylum claim once we actually get their documentation.
00:42:17.000Because what they've learned over the years is that they need only to raise their hand and say they're claiming asylum, and that they need a child with them.
00:43:57.000So you gotta stay on your ground, but do it in a respectful way, and that was our whole goal.
00:44:02.000Do you find that it's tough, though, to express your, the whole idea, for example, behind camp, like we've done debates on this show, and obviously I've gone on, I mean, every network actually not named MSNBC at some point.
00:44:11.000Sometimes I've never been invited back.
00:44:14.000But do you find, and the idea behind Change My Mind was to remove the constraints of a network show, or cable news, where we go, let's not edit it, either mine or their responses.
00:44:22.000Do you find it hard to make a convincing argument Within those constraints of traditional media and a commercial break, because what I saw was you talking about the illegal border crossings, you know, a hundred thousand last month and how, uh, border patrol agents, I think you said, um, I think the number you said it was, they say one, they maybe catch one in three and Sonny just saying, no, that's not true.
00:44:41.000And not presenting any, any evidence or numbers of her own.
00:44:44.000You don't have enough time to call her on it.
00:44:45.000I mean, you just kind of have to move on.
00:44:48.000Well, that is a constraint and it's just something you have to deal with.
00:44:51.000As you know, when you're on these, you know, very quick segments, I think that's why Americans, by the way, are so much more enthralled by these long-form conversations.
00:45:01.000That's why people are downloading podcasts more.
00:45:03.000They want to listen to people talk for an hour or two hours.
00:45:07.000They want to see a more drawn-out debate.
00:45:10.000And there's a real hunger for that, which I think is a good sign.
00:45:14.000It's a good sign that people are more interested in that.
00:45:17.000But it's a constraint we have when we're on TV, and you've just got to anticipate the arguments so that you can quickly hit them back.
00:46:48.000The median conservative demo on traditional outlets used to be really old and now with podcasts, you know, that's why they're trying to change social media.
00:46:56.000They're trying to, because the demographics going younger, Generation Z, it skipped millennials.
00:48:45.000And I brought that up, you know, this is what now not to teach your young boys to act because, you know, I think a lot of us would agree that there is there is a cultural trend towards where we're not teaching young boys how to act.
00:50:21.000And I and I think a lot of conservatives see that we're like, that's It's something we deal with quite often where we're dealing with another side that
00:50:31.000That seems a little unhinged sometimes.
00:50:35.000And I do think it would be very different.
00:50:36.000The fact that it was a representative is especially why I... I probably wouldn't have commented on it otherwise.
00:50:41.000It's very scary that this man was elected at all.
00:50:45.000And like you said, not only do I think if it were Republican, but let's be honest, your mugshot's not going to make a lot of friends with people who don't like you already.
00:51:13.000Uh, finally, and then if we actually would like to go to a web extended really quick after this for people who are Muggler members, but final question before we go to that, uh, house judiciary, um, just this week voted to move ahead and holding bar and contempt of Congress for refusing to show up to yet another hearing.
00:51:28.000Before we go, your, your thoughts on that.
00:51:41.000To begin with, and I don't see a problem with him saying, no, I'm not coming.
00:51:45.000And also, I think we all have a pretty good idea of the circus that the Democrats are trying to put him through at this point.
00:51:54.000The contempt issue is also regarding his unwillingness to release the fully unredacted report, which they know, Democrats know is perfectly illegal because of the grand jury testimony necessary in there.
00:53:42.000And when you frame it that way, you go, huh.
00:53:44.000Okay, maybe I should look into what's been confusing me a little bit.
00:53:48.000Because yeah, I'd say we do have a constitutional crisis, if those things were illegal or legally required.
00:53:53.000All right, if you can hold on for another couple minutes, that is Representative Dan Crenshaw, 2nd District of Texas, Dan Crenshaw, TX, on Twitter.
00:54:00.000We're gonna go quick web extended for everyone who's in Mug Club because you gotta keep it longer.
00:54:17.000As these unwitting imps fulfill what they believe to be their destiny, they will soon realize that they have merely been fulfilling their roles as hollow puppets, and I as their puppeteer.
00:54:49.000I bet you're expecting me to plug Mug Club.
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00:58:10.000It just means you don't want any of the content anymore.
00:58:13.000I wanted to talk about something here today.
00:58:15.000You know, I was talking with someone the other day, and I realized this has always aggravated me.
00:58:20.000And I kind of knew why, but I hadn't articulated why, and then it came up again.
00:58:25.000How often do we hear this all the time when someone describes somebody?
00:58:35.000And I've heard that a lot, and I heard it recently with someone who had a daughter who was telling them, well, you know, I think this, I think that, I think who she's dating, he seems like a nice guy.
00:59:31.000But let me just let you in on something, and I think everyone knows this who's been actually betrayed in their life or who has had something happen with a friend.
00:59:59.000And just as certainly the flaws that you may, and we've talked about this a lot on this show, trying to correct ourselves, trying to work towards self-improvement, the flaws that you may look for What's in yourself?
01:00:09.000They're not often going to show up as festering sores.
01:00:11.000Sometimes they show up as pretty bows that you wear to cover them up.
01:00:15.000And none of this is to say that you should not be nice.
01:00:58.000Socialism passed off as nice, but it's wrong.
01:01:02.000Osama Bin Laden in particular was apparently very nice to children, but he was wrong.
01:01:07.000And that's why I've always said I don't believe in political centrism or middle ground for political centrism's sake, because people say, well, look, we found common ground, and oh, well, that's nice.
01:01:39.000Because some things, this is important here, and I know this may sound like, again, I'm saying not to be nice.
01:01:44.000Some things in life are worth fighting for, and fighting by its very definition is not nice.
01:01:51.000And sometimes we use the disproportionate value that our world places on nice to advocate our responsibilities, to avoid what we know is worth fighting for, or to avoid even looking at what is worth fighting for in the first place.
01:02:06.000And because the fight, even though it may be righteous, we know is going to piss some people off.
01:02:26.000It's important to be a well-rounded person.
01:02:28.000Just as it's important to be physically healthy.
01:02:30.000As it is to be mentally healthy and spiritually healthy.
01:02:33.000It's important to learn to be polite, to learn to be respectful, and to learn to socialize with others.
01:02:37.000But just as important, and something we don't often talk about, is to learn how to fight, to learn when to fight, to learn when conflict is appropriate, to learn when the value of nice should be trumped by the value of actually standing by your convictions.
01:02:52.000So, the next time you think about someone, this is my challenge to you this week.
01:03:02.000The next time you pass judgment on an idea on a person this week, I want you to stop yourself and say, hold on a second.
01:03:08.000Am I thinking, is my first value here, whether they're nice or not?
01:03:12.000Are you looking for what they stand for?
01:03:14.000By that same token, are you looking at your own ideas and your own actions, and are you saying, am I a nice person or am I a righteous person?
01:03:23.000If I could change nothing else this week, it would be that at least even just a few dozen of you go out there and place a different importance, a different level of priority on following, believing, living out your principles, fighting for them when appropriate, and then let's have nice somewhere toward the middle of the pack.