82. Horsepower Or Horsesh＊t： It's Your Choice
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In this episode of The Realists, Andy Priscilla talks about the importance of being the right kind of person and how to get where you want to go in life, and the difference between the two types of people in the world.
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told my teacher dumb bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living down spoke it
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till existence mold changed to 50 got mold cost than didn't i only weigh 180 but my watch cost
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250 what's up guys it's andy priscilla and this is the show for the realists say goodbye to the
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lies the fakeness and delusions of modern society and welcome to motherfucking reality guys before
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i get into this real talk episode i'm not even sure how long it's going to take i think it might
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be short i kind of think it might be long i'm not sure yet we'll see how it goes but before i get
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into it i want to remind you you know we don't charge for this podcast i don't run ads on this
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dome give a shout to your boy andy and the crew okay uh we're trying to help you guys win every
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once in a while we're going to talk about what's going on in the world and today i'm going to talk
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a little bit about that but not a whole lot uh but mainly what we talk about here is how to get
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where you want to go right in other words aka how to fucking win now winning isn't the most popular
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thing right now you know it seems like most people are more concerned with ranking themselves
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on how big of a victim they can be all right so if you're one of these people that likes to whine
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all the time and cry and thinks that life is a competition for the biggest sob story uh this isn't
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the show for you you're not going to like it this is a show for people that want to fucking win and
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people who are willing to work and speaking of work that's what we're going to talk about today
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okay now you all know there's two major political parties in america and they're represented by
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animals right republicans are the elephants and democrats are the donkeys and in the world of
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politics when you see an elephant symbol you know that that stands for something and when you see a
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donkey symbol you know that stands for something else these two animals represent completely different
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philosophies different ideas and different values now whether that's good or bad those animals they do
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help us classify people if someone's wearing an elephant uh you know we draw certain conclusions about
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them if someone's carrying a sign with a donkey on it we make other assumptions about them uh and right
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now the vast majority of the country is very divided based upon what preferred animal they identify with
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i'm actually going to take a couple minutes today and build an analogy around this animal to show you
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that there's basically three types of people in this world depending on what it is you want for your life
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you need to choose to be the right kind of person all right and it is a choice so what am i talking
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about what animal could i possibly be talking about right the animal i'm talking about today is considered
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to be uh an endangered species okay it's one of the largest breeds of horses on the planet it can be up
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to six and a half feet tall and weigh up to two thousand pounds all right they're versatile too
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it can be a show horse it could be a war horse that could be a pulling horse it's just an enormous beast
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of an animal all right these animals this horse particularly could pull up to eight thousand pounds
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and they didn't originate in america but america has more of these horses than any other country at the
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time and if you're from st louis you're going to know what horse i'm talking about i'm talking about
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the clydesdale horse a clydesdale is a flemish draft horse that a lot of people think comes from
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scotland but it's actually a flemish horse and it was exported all around the world to australia new
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zealand and the united states and many other places okay it's been used to build cities build countries
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and like i already said to fight wars it's an extremely important and valuable creature to the history of
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humanity and you've probably seen these horses you know in super bowl ads if you don't know what i'm
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talking about these are the horses that pull the budweiser cart you might recognize that right here
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in st louis this is a huge part of our culture anheiser bush is a family-owned brewery here in
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st louis uh if you're a fan of the cardinals you understand how important these horses are to the
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legacy of the st louis cardinals all right and if you're not a cardinals fan sucks to be you but
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regardless uh i don't think people understand how important these horses are okay i don't think
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people understand how much you should want one of these horses to represent what you're about a lot
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of people out there if they pay attention to horses at all they pay attention you know to the prancing
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horses the race horses they watch the kentucky derby or the preakness or the belmont stakes and then
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you know they get interested in these fast horses with the weird ass names right like sea hero and
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animal kingdom and california chrome right it's just like weird i know i'm not the only one that
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thinks these names are weird but i did find out in my research that in 1916 in kentucky derby there was
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a horse named the cock i thought that was a decent name but anyway uh you know these horses get all
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the glory okay and these horses they win the big race they earn millions of dollars for their owners
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they get paraded around they prance around everybody celebrates them with their fancy fucking hats and you
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know what happens next they get old they get slow and guess what happens they get shot all right
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that's what happens to these horses clydesdales don't get that attention or respect they deserve and i
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think that kind of sucks clydesdales are unlike any other creature out there in the world that's why
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i've built this analogy around this magnificent beast i've shared it with my team i'm going to
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share it with you this actually comes straight from my meeting that i gave this monday all right and
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here it is there's three types of people in this world there's clydesdales there's the clydesdale crew
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and then there's the clydesdale critic let's start with the clydesdale itself when you look at one
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what do you see you see a creature that's big and strong but i bet you didn't know it's also one of
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the most intelligent horses as well people don't generally know that these horses are extremely
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intelligent they're big they're beautiful they're powerful they're determined they're hard driving
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creatures that have literally shaped the landscape of many countries across the globe so when you see a
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clydesdale it's usually pulling something that's what draft horses do it could be pulling a plow
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could be pulling a cart but when you think of the budweiser clydesdales they pull this huge wagon
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of beer that's how most people think of them because that's what we see we see this team of
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eight beautiful clydesdales pulling this big red wagon of budweiser beer down the road and that's
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what's ingrained in our head that started in 1933 at the end of prohibition anheiser bush which is local
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here like i mentioned had a great idea the team of horses was gifted within the family and then used
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for promotions all over you know like i said if you're a cardinals fan you know how important the
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clydesdales are to st louis and to the culture of the st louis cardinals baseball all right if you're
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not a cardinals fan you probably should be that's just the facts but at any rate the bottom line is
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is whether they're pulling a wagon full of budweiser beer or they're pulling a wagon full of soldiers and
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equipment or whether they're uh pulling a plow clydesdales are workhorses they're very smart
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workhorses and in my analogy the clydesdale is the person who is the workhorse okay it's the person who
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puts in the massive effort to get things moving keep things moving to make sure that they and their crew
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get the job done okay they are the real power of the team they pull a lot of weight that's what a
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draft horse does that's what a draft horse is built for to pull a lot of weight okay and the wagon ain't
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moving an inch without them so nothing gets done without the clydesdale that's the first type of
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person okay now remember i said that clydesdales are considered in danger now i don't know if the
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people who are willing to be the workhorse so to speak will ever go and stick but i can tell you this
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they're a lot more fucking rare than they used to be and they're getting more and more rare every day
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so if you really are a clydesdale you understand that your job is to be the main strength of your
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team you understand that you are the main pulling power okay you don't complain about that you aren't
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surprised that you're sore from all the effort that you put in that you ache from that effort of
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training so hard and pulling so hard and straining so hard you don't resent the team that rides in
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the cart you accept it you know your role you embrace it i mean clydesdale guys is a workhorse a
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warhorse and a show horse which means you pull whatever the wagon you're hitched to and you pull
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it with maximum effort you attack the challenge like it's your worst enemy and you do it with some
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motherfucking swag you know why because you're a clydesdale people don't show up to watch
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donkeys pull a fucking wagon down the road they show up to watch motherfucking clydesdales okay
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now we all know that you can't do anything without the clydesdale but a clydesdale can't do everything
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itself that's why there's the second type of person the clydesdale crew okay these are the type of
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people that won't necessarily be the main workhorse but each play a super important role in getting
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things moving right they polish the wagon they check the wheels they maintain the axles they make sure
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the horses are fed and watered they make sure that that horse is healthy they hitch up the horse they
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take care of it they brush the horse they do all the things needed so that the clydesdale can do its
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part okay this is what they do they provide essential support for the clydesdale which pulls
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the most weight they know that he is the driving force that's moving them but they also understand
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that he can't do without them they don't say oh fuck you know that big clydesdale gets all the credit
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they don't complain when they're moving down the street and someone shouts damn look at the size of
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that horse it's beautiful right they're happy to be a part of the crew they know that when the horse
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and the crew work together shit gets done we get where we want to go people get helped products get
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served businesses get built cities get built wars get won okay and there's a lot of people out there
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that are these kind of people they're members of the clydesdale crew this is a great thing all right
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these are good people who understand that not everybody's a six and a half foot tall two thousand
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pound fucking workhorse all right they are happy to fulfill their role on the team if you're this
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type of person you should feel good about yourself as long as you know that your role is to assist the
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clydesdale as he or she does you know what he or she does which is all the heavy pulling all right
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do everything you can to make sure that big ass horse can do its job okay these people take all the
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little details seriously they take all the little details and take care of them so that the big
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horse can hitch up and start to fucking pull all right but then we got the third type of person
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which is the clydesdale critic i'm not using that term and you know an overly negative sense we hear
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the term critic now we automatically think like troll or hater that's not how i'm using it i'm using it
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the same way we think of a movie critic right movie critics don't make the movies they don't act they
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don't direct they don't produce they just share their opinion about whether the movie was good or
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bad clydesdale critics are the same right they may be positive they may be negative they may see the
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wagon go down the road and say oh you know what that's a nice looking horse or they may see it and
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say what the fuck is the point of a big ass horse you know a racehorse it looks way better right they
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may say shit like well the wagon's moving too slow or maybe we should paint that wagon blue instead of red
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the bottom line is whether they offer a compliment or talk shit clydesdale critics do nothing to help
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move anything they're spectators they're bystanders okay these are people that hang out and literally
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stand there and hang around and wait for the clydesdales to pass by and they don't do a damn
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thing this is what the vast majority of the human race is like the clydesdale critic okay they aren't
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powerful workhorses they aren't helpful members of the crew they don't do any of the heavy lifting
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they don't assist with the details they just talk they say nice things that really don't mean shit
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they say mean things that really don't mean shit they literally do nothing to provide any value or
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contribution to what the fuck we're trying to do okay these are non-contributing zeros non-contributing
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zeros okay now ideally everyone would be a clydesdale right like we all want to be the clydesdale
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right it sounds cool like everybody you know the clydesdale gets people oohing and ahhing and it gets
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people to brush it and it gets people to water and it gets people to feed it but you got to remember
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man that clydesdale works his fucking ass off okay and some people are never going to be clydesdales
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now you might be in the clydesdale crew right now and you might decide you want to be a clydesdale
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but guys i just have to tell you it's a different role all right not everybody's built to be a
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clydesdale some people are built to be part of the clydesdale crew but i'm telling you right now no
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matter what team you're on whether you're on a sports team whether you're on a church team whether
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you're on a business team whether you're and i'm not talking about just being the ceo i'm you know
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there's multiple teams inside of a big team you know be the clydesdale of your team right that's
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what you should aspire to be but still even so even with those aspirations not everybody's going
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to be built to be a part of the clydesdale crew okay so you have to decide which of those two options
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you're going to be because those are your choices clydesdale or crew because the third option the
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clydesdale critic is unacceptable non-contributing zero remember if you want to be happy if you want to
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be successful if you want to be a good human being who feels good about your life you can't
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be the fucking critic you can't just stand there sharing your worthless opinion doing absolutely
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nothing while the real contributing members of society pull their weight and move their wagons down
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the road of progress and productivity okay that's what we're here to do guys at the end of the day i
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don't give a shit if your favorite animal is a donkey or an elephant all right i don't care which way
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you vote america isn't going to be better off if we have more donkeys or more elephants it's going
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to be better off if we have more fucking clydesdales and more people committed to helping the big horses
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in our society pull their weight and do what they need to do to move the wagons to win the wars and to
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do the work necessary to make this country the best it possibly can be
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tell my teacher dumb bitch i'm gonna get millions watch this in the project living down spoke it till
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while i i'm from where you can't trust you so welcome to my