Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide at the age of 81, and no one knows why. Was it an accident? Was it foul play? Or was there foul play involved in his death? On today's show, Alex Jones takes a look at the possibility that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
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00:05:06.000So, I'm going to be doing a little bit of a commentary on this. So, if you're new to
00:05:22.000this, I'm going to be doing a little bit of a commentary on this. So, if you're new to
00:05:43.000By the way, we have Alex Jones on the show today, so this will immediately be monetized.
00:05:50.000We'll be talking about Donald Trump being the first black president, as well as recent impeachment proceedings, and, uh, spoiler, nothing has happened.
00:05:59.000I was on Glenn Beck's radio show a long time ago, and what happened was he was doing a commercial for a chair, and I was just looking for something to talk about when I came back from the break, I said, hey, I tell you what, that chair looks really cool.
00:06:10.000This chair is a piece of crap, as a joke.
00:06:12.000And apparently he bought me a top-of-the-line X-chair.
00:06:15.000He's like, I really think Steven's going to like this.
00:06:32.000So, question of the day before we move on.
00:06:34.000Do you think that President Trump has done... Well, first off, do you feel that he's done more for black Americans than President Obama ever has?
00:06:42.000And then, objectively, do you think so?
00:06:44.000Spoiler alert, if you say no, you're wrong.
00:06:46.000My half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, is with us.
00:15:10.000I don't know if you know this, but that's what they do to throw off the scent, because people are more concerned about being called a racist than a pedophile.
00:16:05.000Trying to throw us off the scent, Brad Pitch and Adam Sandler revealed in a recent interview, by the way, the lengths they go to to avoid being recognized.
00:16:13.000Their methods include wearing sunglasses, pulling down their baseball caps, and not being in anything good for the last 15 years.
00:17:20.000Also, by the way, before we get to impeachment and Donald Trump is the first black president, I really do want to know if you think that there's a valid argument to be made.
00:17:52.000It's the we're going out of business post.
00:17:56.000The fear is these fully, this comes from Daily Star, these fully autonomous robots could have dire results with the machines able to decide who lives and dies.
00:23:13.000You've heard that he's a high-ranking government official handpicked by Trump to help lead the quid pro quo sort of conspiracy until his conscience couldn't allow him to do anymore, that he was being complicit.
00:23:21.000So he came forward with his first-hand information of the president's wrongdoings.
00:23:27.000is that his own supervisors testified they had concerns about his judgment, his being a potential leaker, that he didn't respect the chain of command, and he himself admitted the Ukrainians never mentioned any pressure from President Trump or this administration, lest you think I make this up.
00:23:42.000Let's do what the young Turks and Seth Meyers don't, an accurate clip.
00:23:46.000I asked you, Mr. Morrison, whether others raised the concern that Colonel Vindman may have leaked information?
00:26:02.000Vindman admitted that he leaked the code.
00:26:04.000Lest you think they were like, well, you know what?
00:26:06.000We were concerned that Nirenman didn't respect Chain of Command and he might be a potential
00:26:09.000It's like, well, where'd you get that from?
00:26:10.000He admitted that he leaked contents of the Ukraine call to people outside the White House.
00:26:14.000And when he was asked who, he started to respond only to be interrupted by good old Schiff in a clip that, by the way, I can only describe as- I hope you actually, if you fast forwarded, I guess now, unless you have a time machine, I would say come back because this clip is worth it.
00:26:31.000Adam Schiff interrupts in a clip that I can only describe as perfect.
00:26:35.000As you know, the intelligence community has 17 different agencies.
00:27:17.000The question was, who, what agency did they work for?
00:27:21.000Oh, I guess it's one of those agencies that only has one employee.
00:27:24.000So when you identify the name of it, it tells you who the whistleblower is.
00:27:27.000No, it was clearly an attempt to cover up the tracks of who actually was known about this, when did they know about it, who was back-channeling, who... Well, and what access they had to information.
00:27:38.000The federal government is known for streamlining agencies.
00:27:43.000You know what no government employee has ever heard when they've been laid off?
00:28:14.000People will take this clip, and I want to piggyback onto what you just said because it sounds incredibly ignorant, but I'm going to throw my lot in with you because I'm ignorant as well.
00:28:21.000Because this is not a criminal investigation.
00:28:34.000The reason is because the congressional hearings fall in either the completely criminal or completely Civil.
00:28:39.000So even if you were to say, oh, okay, you've been accused of a crime, the fundamental question is, is it a state court crime or is it a federal crime?
00:28:46.000But then when you get to impeachment, it's just wrongdoing.
00:28:48.000There's specific language there in the Constitution, but it's not limited to just crimes or civil liability.
00:28:54.000In fact, it doesn't have to be either of those.
00:28:56.000So here, the person who is in charge of the committee, under the deference and the rules that are typically done in these kinds of hearings, They're getting to set some of the rules.
00:29:40.000Ambassador to the EU, it was Gordon Sondland.
00:29:43.000And again, I know I'm rehashing some of this, but it's just for anyone who doesn't know, this is pretty much everything that you need to know and I hate to have to cover it.
00:31:08.000And this is the problem, is you can't put that genie back in the bottle.
00:31:11.000CNN runs with... I don't have all of the headlines in front of me, but I remember we were doing a Change My Mind, and so when I do that, I'm very much in a focused mode, so I don't get to read the news, and I try to catch up as much as possible, and the headlines made it seem, initially, as though there was new exclusive information that people appropriated.
00:31:24.000They were, at first hand, I did the same thing.
00:31:28.000Every day I go and I look and I'm like, okay, if there is a real bombshell, the first place that someone's going to pull it out would be CNN.
00:31:32.000So I go look and you click through every link that has a brazen incredible title and you click through and you're
00:31:37.000like, okay Surely there'll be more beneath this, you know, Hope
00:31:41.000Diamond commercial Crying Oprah on the treadmill exactly you got all these
00:31:47.000just add add add Okay, I get to the end of the article and I'm like, oh, I
00:31:50.000don't see there's nothing. Well, let me go back to the time Okay, no the title. No, there's not actually any right here
00:31:55.000and then it's like 25 child celebrities who are dead I'm like my colleague Hogan died and I click it. Well, I
00:32:25.000But how, with that crown down there that says, yes, that there was quid pro quo, how are you supposed to know what's real?
00:32:31.000Because the guy on the screen was saying the exact opposite of that.
00:32:34.000And yet, CNN is running that headline every single time.
00:32:36.000This is important, since we already have the direct transcript right from the Zelensky call.
00:32:39.000We know what happened at the root, the heart of the exchange between Trump.
00:32:43.000All of his testimony is about other conversations revolving around that key info, which has been public for weeks, and not a single one could say that Trump said a single thing ever about quid pro quo.
00:33:08.000It is, and it seems like the Democratic strategy here is just basically to try to grab some headlines to rile their base up in time for an election.
00:33:14.000And that's it, because this isn't going anywhere.
00:33:16.000If it goes to the Senate bill, correct me if I'm wrong, it's not going anywhere.
00:33:18.000Well, it actually is going somewhere, because polls show that support for the impeachment investigation has dropped two points since the beginning.
00:33:26.000And opposition to it in favor of Trump went up by three points, and his overall approval rating has gone up.
00:33:33.000So think about that for a second, because it's not exactly the same thing as Barack Obama.
00:33:59.000And why are they so desperate to discuss impeachment?
00:34:01.000Well, I think it's because they want to maybe take the focus off the economy, which is booming, particularly for the POCs, the people of color.
00:34:09.000That's always, whenever Barack Obama was president, they wanted to talk about the improvements to the economy.
00:34:13.000You've heard time and time again, it's the economy, stupid.
00:34:16.000I'll get to why we have the best economy ever, and now it's like, it's not so much the economy that's stupid, is what they're trying to sell you.
00:34:22.000But first, hit the notification bell if you're subscribed, please, because subscriptions don't mean a whole lot.
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00:34:29.000Of course, we have a new video every day.
00:35:13.000If we turn and we look at the economy, okay?
00:35:15.000It's going really well for all Americans, but black Americans specifically.
00:35:20.000And I want to make sure that we understand this.
00:35:23.000But first off, before I get to it, Trump, you know, President Trump recently launched the Black Voices for Trump coalition from Atlanta, and he's caught some flack for it.
00:36:30.000So you have some kind of scale to understand it.
00:36:32.000OK, so I want to make sure that I frame these numbers, hopefully in a way that makes it understandable, because sometimes people say, well, wages have gone up and they don't account for inflation.
00:36:39.000Everything that I present to you here right now tries to account for those variables, so I give you the most accurate information possible.
00:36:46.000I'm not a regular Thomas Sowell, but I definitely try harder than Samantha Bee, so you're welcome.
00:36:51.000So, under President Trump, we've had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.
00:36:56.000Record number of workers returning to the workforce.
00:36:57.000We have very high labor force participation rate.
00:37:00.000Worker layoffs hit a 20-year low this year.
00:37:04.000Wage growth just hit a 10-year high, despite all of the models predicting the opposite.
00:37:09.000And it appears that it's going to keep accelerating.
00:37:10.000And by the way, this is important, because we've done an entire segment on why the average hourly earnings or hourly wage is not the most accurate barometer to use, but you should actually use average individual wages.
00:37:23.000Basically, a fillet of fish being made ten years ago, when accounting for inflation, isn't really worth more today as a job.
00:37:30.000But people tend to make more money, and that's been consistently on the rise for a long time.
00:37:34.000But right now, we are using their measurements.
00:37:38.000So what I'm saying is, growth, people making a fillet of fish, are actually making more hourly, when adjusted for inflation, today than they were five years ago.
00:37:45.000Using the lowest possible common denominator.
00:40:26.000You only really hear about it when it's the anniversary of the concert, or occasionally there'll be something about the victims themselves, but there's nothing about the shooter.
00:43:01.000But what they cover is, in April they go, black unemployment has risen, or sorry, in June, black unemployment has risen for the first time since May of last month.
00:44:20.000So Obama blacks did horribly, black Americans did horribly.
00:44:23.000President Trump comes in, reverses policy, tax cuts, business incentives, cuts red tape, deregulation.
00:44:30.000He didn't continue what Obama did, aside from spending, and I have a problem with that.
00:44:35.000Economic policy has been a total reversal, and now we have good fortune.
00:44:39.000Secondly, if Trump is riding the expected Obama wave, as they're now claiming, then why did all the experts claim that it would be completely impossible for President Trump to see the economic growth that he predicted?
00:44:52.000Remember, Obama claimed himself that President Trump couldn't create new jobs, which is just, looking back, such a stupid thing Yeah, right.
00:47:30.000I think this is one of the things where when you compare the headlines, you have to dive beneath them, because if he's continuing the policies, then you would continue to see the results that were happening under Obama.
00:47:41.000But if you reverse the policies and you compare the headlines from one period to the next period, it's just like when you focus on an 800-point drop in a record-setting week.
00:47:49.000You're not worried about percentages, you're not working about historical, you're just trying to get that soundbite.
00:47:53.000And these soundbites, when you put them side by side, show the falsity.
00:47:57.000You guys are all having great points, but we are going long today, and we have Alex Jones on the show, so oh my gosh.
00:48:01.000That's going to have to be mostly web-extended, so please don't join up at Mudd Club.
00:48:38.000I don't think anyone can make that case.
00:48:40.000Changed my mind, by the way, next week.
00:48:42.000Another thing that's important, I think this is one too, we've gone through the economy, but let's get to something that, you know, is a little more personal.
00:48:48.000President Trump passed criminal justice reform, a bill last year, that helped non-violent drug offenders be rehabilitated into society.
00:48:58.000I think that prison should involve some form of punishment, and then you have places like Sweden, where they get effectively an Ikea suite with an Xbox and a mocha pot.
00:49:06.000But they have to put it together, that's the punishment.
00:49:08.000Well, not for them, because they can read the Swedish instructions.
00:50:44.000I understand the point, and it would be a valid argument to make.
00:50:46.000Like, Half-Asian Bill, you're more libertarian.
00:50:48.000If you said, I think it's a good thing that nonviolent drug offenders are now being allowed a second chance at life, but I am worried about the scope of the executive powers.
00:50:55.000But okay, that's a totally legitimate point.
00:50:58.000Anderson Cooper has never cared about that, and consistently b**ches about how the racist Republican Party wants to disproportionately put blacks behind bars.
00:51:07.000President Trump uses... Here's the thing, that's a great example of an executive order.
00:53:05.000The more science comes in, I do think there are some medical uses for marijuana.
00:53:08.000I don't want kids eating a bunch of edibles and biting people's faces off when they have a chimpanzee on Vicodin with a clicker, but I do think that... You shouldn't do that.
00:53:17.000My opinion has changed on that quite a bit.
00:53:20.000Anyway, the point is, everything that's bad about Donald Trump, these are things that they should be supporting.
00:53:25.000When you look at what he's been doing for black Americans, it should be a good thing that the economy is doing well and black Americans are doing well.
00:53:31.000I'm happy that any Americans are doing well.
00:53:33.000And this is why the media is desperate to cover impeachment.
00:53:37.000Things are undeniably better under President Trump.
00:53:56.000I said, Ben Shapiro, you might get a complaint.
00:54:02.000They would say when President Trump is going to be, if he's in office, or a Republican, it's going to be bad for us, because the voice of opposition, we always do better in ratings.
00:54:08.000I never believed in that, because I believe that the opposition, the establishment, the man, is the media, is the media-entertainment-industrial complex.
00:54:18.000They are the ones who control the narrative.
00:54:19.000But I'm so glad that President Trump is, because it allows us to be objective.
00:58:01.000And that's why we make sure to carry firearms legal protection in the event, God forbid, we have to use our firearm.
00:58:05.000They are, you know, I'm supposed to say that, like, not the leader in prepaid self-defense protection plans, okay?
00:58:11.000This is what you hear in a lot of, they're the best.
00:58:13.000They are the best, period, bar none, because they have plans specifically designed especially to protect you and your family.
00:58:19.000Attorneys, Half-Asian Bill Nose can cost you tens of thousands of dollars in a situation like this with your FLP prepaid legal team, a plan, there's no deductible, no copay.
00:58:29.000How much do lawyers cost if you defend yourself?
00:58:32.000If you go to the far end of Yelp and there's many dollar signs, that's where lawyers are.
00:58:38.000It's like the menu item that's expensive when they're comparing the fillet of fish and the spider monkey in a vice on the side of your table.
00:58:46.000By the way, this is something important to note, they're the only company of theirs to cover red flag laws.
00:58:50.000And I know we're not big fans of red flag laws as conservatives, but they'll pay for bail bond, they'll help you get your firearm back, get you through an arraignment, trial, witness selection, even lost wages, the reimbursement for that.
01:00:01.000And if the M&M did have pockets... He is a pocket, that's what the song is saying.
01:00:03.000But if an M&M did have pockets, assuming that there are pockets, otherwise why mention it, why would the fact that he's an M&M preclude you from wondering where the pockets are?
01:00:37.000It's good to be here as we see the twilight of basic American liberties as we join Europe In butchering all of our basic, cherished rights, and in many respects, Trump just stands idly by and is the guardian of the destruction of those liberties.
01:01:21.000That's like three quarters of Justin Bieber.
01:01:23.000So you've got Justin Bieber off your back.
01:01:25.000All right, but go back to, I know you had some documents there.
01:01:27.000And for people who are watching, we went over time, so this is going to have to be a little bit short, but we are going to have a very long web extended interview, which we'll release later.
01:01:33.000So continue with the destruction of America, Alex.
01:01:40.000We're all trying to be more like Steven Crowder here.
01:01:43.000But seriously, I agree with you that government involvement in what corporations and companies and media do Is bad.
01:01:52.000And we don't want a government coming in and censoring companies.
01:01:58.000But when companies get together as groups, led by Tim Cook and others, and say, we want to go after conservatives, we want to go after nationalists, we're going to call Christian conservatives Nazis, we're going to call Stephen Miller a Nazi, we're going to call for him to lose his job.
01:02:09.000This is a witch hunt like all the other witch hunts.
01:02:12.000And so now Apple gets told by the Chai comms, get rid of the Hong Kong and the Taiwanese emoji.
01:03:05.000The fact-checkers even said it was true, but Facebook linked to it saying, look, this says it's not true, when they said it was totally true, even though these fact-checkers have been proven to be very partisan, like Snopes and others.
01:03:15.000But exactly, but all I'm saying is, it's not just ban Alex Jones and his videos off platforms, it's now move to, don't show that emoji, and the OK symbol is white supremacist, and now the fist bump can't be used, and it's official ADL religious orthodoxy, and Southern Poverty Law Center leftist orthodoxy, Banning this, and now you can't show Obama and Hillary clips from PragerU, the most scholarly organization, you know, that's just very politely, lovingly putting this out.
01:04:53.000But Trump's up there with Tim Cook, saying how great he is and everything, instead of saying, hey, how about you stop censoring all the conservatives?
01:05:00.000Tim Cook is leading the authoritarian censorship.
01:05:05.000Now they're banning all these pro-life groups, and they're trying to ban Focus on the Families podcast on Apple with his No, it's worse than that.
01:05:12.000I don't know if you know this, but Live Action on Twitter, I believe, they were told they wouldn't be allowed to be on Twitter unless they removed all ultrasound photos from their own website.
01:05:21.000So I know you've talked about this and Matt Drudge about social media ghettos, but now these social media ghettos are saying, and YouTube did this with us with our merch store, they're saying if you even have something off of our platform that we don't agree with, we're going to ban you.
01:05:39.000In fact, Facebook four months ago and they said you can't even say my name in a positive way or you'll get banned.
01:05:45.000They said, by the way, in that same update, they said we will punish you for off Platform, even stuff that's five, 10 years old, we're watching you.
01:05:56.000And why do you think, we were just talking about, you know, listen, I've been critical of Trump where I think he deserves criticism and try to be as fair as possible, but it is disappointing he's there with Tim Cook or Tim, Tim Apple, as some people lovingly refer to him.
01:06:09.000What do you think when you watch that and Donald Trump doesn't talk about that at all?
01:06:16.000When I see that, It just lets me know that Ivanka and Jared Kushner, that are best buddies with Tim Apple, have basically gotten Trump to sell out free speech for the idea that Tim Cook's going to build a bunch of factories here.
01:06:30.000But I mean, I think the First Amendment goes right along with the factories and is, quite frankly, even more important.
01:06:35.000And Trump has said, we're going to take strong action against big tech censorship, which is coordinated, discriminatory, targeting whole classes of people.
01:06:44.000They just demonized me, took some colorful stuff out of context.
01:06:47.000And said, hey, we're just banning Alex Jones.
01:07:21.000But we don't need Trump to become Hillary light in this campaign process,
01:07:25.000or we've lost everything that we've been trying to fight for.
01:07:28.000This is kind of the way I describe it to people, let me know whether you agree or disagree.
01:07:31.000I think Trump's existence as president, and he wasn't my guy in the primaries, I didn't trust him,
01:07:36.000but his existence as president, his ability to sort of cut through the BS
01:07:40.000and shoot from the hip, you know, that in and of itself has been a real blow
01:07:43.000to political correctness and sort of this culture of censorship.
01:07:47.000So his essence is very valuable there, but he doesn't take a lot of proactive actions to try and combat it, and I'd like to see more of that.
01:07:56.000I was trying to say that on my own show today.
01:08:00.000I was trying to explain, like, he's doing great, and he's amazing, and he's able to do all these things, and he's able to change the story when they're trying to, you know, keep it on some lie.
01:08:09.000He's got great energy, and I really love the guy, and I'm sure he means well.
01:08:13.000It's just, we're hanging out here twisting in the wind.
01:08:56.000He is literally the antidote to what they're doing.
01:08:59.000We just simply need Trump on the censorship areas and on some other areas like that to come to the rescue because he's having his own megaphone, his own amplification system cut out from underneath him.
01:09:25.000Then they just went, oh, well, we don't want his tombstone there.
01:09:28.000Just nothing of him, unless it's negative.
01:09:31.000And that's the only thing I don't like, is these platforms can all have people attack me and say the most outrageous lies, and then I'm in solitary confinement and can't respond.
01:09:38.000My audience knows what's really going on.
01:09:41.000But again, it's almost like the man in the high tower.
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01:13:10.000Um, and I was, I just said, so let's just create, like, this is what they had, this is the kind of bed they had, there were no bars, so this is how we'll create sort of the, the set.
01:13:20.000You guys, they actually built the entire bedroom.
01:13:24.000They were bringing in, I mean, they were bringing in beams like the Seven Dwarves.
01:13:49.000We have a device we had to order, spared no expense, that measures the force as well as the torque and the shear force from its anchor point to see if we can generate the amount of force necessary to break my spine.
01:14:09.000And then we also have, I changed my mind on Wednesday, so we want to really just load this up because before we go to Thanksgiving, I'm obviously not going to do a show on Thursday.
01:14:16.000I want it to be worth your while where you have a ton of content to enjoy going into the break.
01:14:22.000I'm going to take a sip of water, really.
01:14:27.000By the way, the black guy from the gym from the last Crowder Closes, he came up.
01:14:30.000I was with Johnny Boy at the gym, who's just strong as an ox.
01:14:33.000So if you guys haven't watched, I think it was last week's episode or the week before, I was talking about red pilling a black guy at the gym.
01:15:06.000And then later I was talking with Johnny Boy, we were talking with someone else, and I said, you know, I said, yeah, Blank, I don't want to give his name, I said, is a real character from across the gym, without skipping a beat, I said, yeah, Blank is a real character.
01:15:29.000I'm so—I really am grateful that I get to share this stuff with you, and that I—honestly, like, it was a tough week, because we had to change my mind, traveling, and I'm running on four hours sleep at most for several weeks.
01:15:38.000But at some point, I have to change my mindset, and when you're tired, I just go, you know what?
01:15:51.000Often, I will say, the most challenging things that we do, and this is kind of what I've been going through these last couple of weeks, are the things that aren't required of us.
01:16:01.000You're assigned a job at the office where you work.
01:16:06.000You have to pick up your son from school or he'll get kidnapped.
01:16:09.000You have to wear a hat in the winter or you get AIDS.
01:16:12.000These are things, when they're required of you, they're not difficult to do.
01:16:16.000And I've talked about this, but I want to get into a little more of what's far harder.
01:16:21.000And this is the reason that most human beings choose to be employees rather than business owners.
01:16:26.000What's harder is what you do, what you accomplish, and what challenges you overcome when it's not required of you.
01:16:34.000And by the way, that's also why I want to talk about this, because I want to see more business owners in the United States.
01:16:38.000We just talked about how, you know, record level of black business owners.
01:16:40.000I think that's a wonderful thing, if you want to save the economy.
01:16:43.000And one thing that I hate with identity politics, both from the right and the left, and they go, you know, whether it's, you know, you should, you should have bought American!
01:16:53.000Business owners need to be able to have competent employees.
01:16:56.000Business owners are a part of the American fabric.
01:16:58.000They employ more Americans than non-business owners by a margin of 100%.
01:17:03.000So, I really do think it's, if we're going to talk about this as conservatives, right, people always go out and say, well, you know, the educational establishment is a bit of a sham.
01:17:11.000Not everyone needs to go to a super expensive university.
01:17:45.000This is why most people are gainfully employed, but they're also out of shape.
01:17:48.000It's why most people's kids, they're fed, they're sheltered, but that garden patio out back was never completed and it's just brown recluses are piling up there in their bark lounger.
01:18:04.000It's why we have countless veterans who've, and they've told me this at our meet and greets, They can blow up buildings, secure areas, even drag their brothers in arms out from blast zones, and then when they come home, not only do they struggle with PTSD, often depression.
01:18:18.000And again, I don't say this at all to belittle our troops, but to draw attention to something that we often ignore.
01:18:25.000And to a point, this is not only our troops, but this is a part of the human condition at large.
01:18:29.000But with veterans, they often say that when they come home, they feel directionless.
01:19:39.000If you can do through business what people try to do through charity, I always advocate the business route first.
01:19:44.000That's why I have a problem with all of the conservative organizations that are all these 501c3s, 501c4s, and they're beholden to the government, right, for tax exemption.
01:19:50.000Not c4s, c3s, sorry, there are different exemptions for political organizations.
01:19:59.000And so even better than charities for veterans, Black Rifle Coffee, they are a sponsor of the show.
01:20:03.000They specifically and proactively hire veterans to help with that problem of reintegrating.
01:20:10.000And not, reintegrating someone who is a, and we misuse this word a lot to the point where it dilutes it, kind of like Donald Trump with Powerhouse.
01:20:20.000Reintegrating them into a society where no one is telling them to be a warrior anymore.
01:20:25.000It's not required of them to be a warrior anymore.
01:20:27.000So companies like Black Rifle Coffee and hiring them and having them run businesses, it creates structure and purpose, which is so important.
01:20:34.000But that's only a piece of the puzzle.
01:21:20.000I want you to think about something that you know you should do, or that you know you were called to do, or you know what, even just something that needs to be done.
01:21:28.000Maybe it wasn't put in your lap, but it is something that can be done, and it's been in your mind for a while, but no one's requiring it of you, okay?
01:22:12.000Now if you've paused it, I want you to now tell me, comment, or tell someone else, what is it you are going to do to accomplish this when you are in this position where, comparatively, there's no accountability?
01:22:26.000Because here, let me put a little twist on that.
01:22:33.000And just as sure as the most corrosive lies that we tell are the ones that we tell ourselves because we never believe them and we have to lay our lie on top of lie on top of lie on top of lie to try and face ourselves in the mirror, just as dangerous are the things that you don't do That you know you should be doing because you're not accountable to anyone else, but you are accountable to yourself.