00:00:45.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:02:36.000Glenn Beck, who's a friend of mine, and I have a lot of respect for Glenn Beck, makes Teddy Roosevelt the most public enemy number one of, and he argues that it is the beginning of the progressive movement.
00:02:46.000Ben Shapiro in his book was awfully critical of Teddy Roosevelt.
00:02:49.000Teddy Roosevelt, I think, gets an unfair and really bad rap amongst conservatives.
00:02:54.000And you actually dive deep into what Teddy Roosevelt believed and why he believed it.
00:02:58.000I think that there's a lot to be learned, and there's some things we can disagree with.
00:03:02.000But first, kind of going into the history of Teddy Roosevelt, interestingly enough, he was born in New York, Harvard-educated, where he said, quote, I learned nothing of great value of my time at Harvard because Harvard hasn't changed very much in 100 years.
00:03:15.000He ended up becoming governor of New York.
00:03:18.000But before that, really interesting, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the first advocates of the American police force.
00:03:25.000He was the commissioner of the New York Police Department.
00:03:27.000The New York City Police Department did a great job.
00:03:58.000He wanted to run for the presidency, wasn't really sure the way to do that, ended up becoming selected for the vice president position for McKinley.
00:04:06.000McKinley ends up getting shot, and then Teddy Roosevelt takes over almost the entire term for William McKinley and serves two terms, almost three.
00:04:15.000Teddy Roosevelt was best known for his trust-busting, going after the massive companies that were basically running America.
00:04:22.000In very strict libertarian circles, they will say that this was an awful overreach of power.
00:04:29.000It's a misrepresentation of history to say they were abusing their power.
00:04:32.000There might be some truth to that, but the more I've studied it from impartial observers, I think it's fair to say that that mass consolidation of corporate power was a violation of human liberty and freedom in certain parts of the country.
00:04:44.000And I think that Teddy Roosevelt generally acted correctly in that sense.
00:04:48.000Teddy Roosevelt built our national parks.
00:04:50.000This is probably what I think we can learn the most from him.
00:04:53.000He was a huge believer in preserving our national treasures of Yosemite National Park, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton National Park, the Glacier National Park, the Dakota Badlands is actually where he got his start as an outdoorsman.
00:05:07.000Teddy Roosevelt probably could have ran for a third term and won a third term.
00:05:11.000He stepped down because of precedent, something that his distant cousin relative, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, decided not to do, where he was elected to four terms, really only serving three died in his fourth term.
00:05:22.000Teddy Roosevelt decided to groom a successor.
00:05:25.000He groomed the very large William Howard Taft, big guy, the fattest president in American history, and actually famously got stuck in a bathtub because he was so big.
00:05:34.000William Howard Taft changed the direction of the Republican Party from a way that Teddy Roosevelt just didn't like.
00:05:41.000Because of that, Teddy Roosevelt felt betrayed, ended up primaring William Howard Taft in that Republican primary, unsuccessfully, then ended up starting the Bull Moose Party.
00:05:50.000William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt both then split the Republican vote about 25-25 each, which then elected one of the worst presidents in American history, Woodrow Wilson.
00:06:00.000Now, look, Teddy Roosevelt was a complicated figure.
00:06:03.000That's a fun cocktail party fact for ending the Russia-Japan war.
00:06:09.000I think we can use Teddy Roosevelt as someone who was a patriot first, might have pushed the boundaries of executive power too much for some people, but generally made decisions that were in the best interest of the middle class and the worker and the everyday man.
00:06:24.000I'm also a big fan of Dwight T. Eisenhower.
00:06:26.000We've talked about that in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:06:30.000Next question: Charlie, what are your thoughts on President Trump's recent announcement that he will be sending a surge of troops into cities like Chicago to combat growing violence?
00:06:54.000Let's just have a little update in Chicago.
00:06:57.000In July so far, there have been 75 people shot and killed in Chicago, 357 people shot and wounded, 432 people total shot, and 85 total homicides.
00:07:06.000Just in the last week, just in the last six days, 13 shot and killed, 66 shot and wounded, 79 total shot, and 14 homicides.
00:07:14.000And so far in 2020, 383 shot and killed, 1,767 shot and wounded, 2,150 total shot with 426 homicides.
00:07:25.000A person is shot in Chicago every two hours and 16 minutes, and a person is murdered in Chicago every 11 hours and 28 minutes.
00:07:33.000So to say that Chicago is going in the right direction would be a complete and total misrepresentation of the data.
00:07:40.000The average age of a shooting victim in Chicago is 29.2 years old, and the average race is unfortunately black, and most of the people doing the shooting are black on black crimes.
00:07:51.000So look, Chicago has long been a center of violence, a center of destruction and blood in the streets.
00:07:57.000I fully support President Trump bringing in the troops to quell this conflict.
00:08:03.00077% of all the victims that die in Chicago are black every single year.0.99
00:08:07.000So, first, I want to start with Lori Lightfoot, who's an imbecile.1.00
00:08:10.000She's a complete and total imbecile.1.00
00:08:12.000She's a corrupt individual who's probably owned by the street gangs.1.00
00:08:16.000It's very well known in Chicago that politicians and aldermen take money under the table from street gangs.1.00
00:09:28.000Since we, the president and his team, started to rattle the saber that they were going to do exactly the same thing in Chicago that they'd done in Portland.
00:09:51.000The only way you can solve this problem is you bring federal troops into the city and you start solving these crimes using the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:09:58.000You say, we are not going to leave until there are no more children being shot in the streets.
00:10:04.000Now, President Trump has defended the move based on a refusal of local politicians to protect their citizens.
00:11:03.000And this is what's so funny to the NBA, the National Basketball Association.
00:11:06.000They have just revealed their new court that says black lives matter on the court where they are going to be playing their social justice playoff in their self-contained little bubble in Orlando.
00:11:20.000What they do not mention at all is the 77% of black homicides, 77% of homicides in Chicago every year are black.
00:11:29.000They don't mention it because all that matters to them is the fact that a black individual was killed by a white police officer, despite the fact that they knew each other for quite a while leading up to it.
00:11:41.000The NBA doesn't care about that at all.
00:11:44.000There is one downside, which is they are going to try to use this against President Trump politically if it doesn't go well.
00:11:50.000Don't see that possibly happening how it doesn't go well, but they're all of a sudden going in and blame all the violence that might continue to happen on President Trump.
00:11:59.000This is something that I can tell you that governors and mayors in these cities have failed their citizens so horribly.
00:12:05.000Laurie Lightfoot J.B. Pritzker, who's a trust fund baby who has never worked a day in his life.
00:12:10.000He was born on third and thought he hit a triple.
00:12:12.000And if you think William Howard Taft was a big guy, J.B. has him beat by double.
00:12:32.000He is a socialist through and through.
00:12:34.000He's never worked an honest day in his life.
00:12:36.000He inherited the Pritzker family fortune.
00:12:38.000And every time you stay at a Hyatt hotel, you're making J.B. Pritzker and Penny Pritzker richer.
00:12:43.000Related to all this in Portland, recently, Joe Biden accused federal law enforcement of, quote, brutally attacking peaceful protesters around the federal courthouse in Portland.
00:12:52.000Federal officers are operating, quote, without a clearly defined mandate of authority, Biden said in a statement, adding that the White House is, quote, trying to stoke the fires of division in our country.
00:13:03.000Peaceful protesters, Biden probably has not seen the videos of the nightly assaults on the courthouse.
00:13:09.000And I encourage you to look at the videos of police officers literally under fire, literally being having things thrown at them and 48 of them being injured.
00:13:18.000But of course, the media decides not to cover that.
00:13:20.000The media decides not to talk about that.
00:13:22.000Instead, the activist media talks about how Donald Trump wants to take over the inner cities.
00:13:26.000Well, it is America to him, too, and these are not autonomous zones.
00:13:29.000And actually, Donald Trump cares about black lives being lost.
00:13:32.000Donald Trump cares about black children being shot.
00:13:35.000Donald Trump cares about black families being torn apart.
00:13:38.000Joe Biden does not care about black lives being lost.
00:13:41.000The Democrats don't care about black lives being lost.
00:13:43.000Barack Obama does not care about black lives being lost.
00:13:46.000For them, they think, oh, yeah, a couple thousand black people a year being killed in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.
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00:17:17.000Just so you understand, the ruling class across the world, not the same ruling class I always talk about here, but people in the royal family and heads of state, they have a very perverse and dark fascination with taking advantage of young children.
00:17:28.000It's just something that has always existed in the highest levels of authority and power all across the world.
00:17:36.000It's a very strange thing when you start to look at even thousands of years ago in Aztec and Peruvian archaeology and Egyptian archaeology, how people were so invested in child exploitation and child sacrifice.
00:17:50.000I'll let you draw your own conclusions there.1.00
00:17:53.000However, Ghelaine Maxwell is now public enemy number one because she has all the secrets on all these people that actually went to the island.0.78
00:17:59.000Now, mind you, I think we have to dismiss from our nomenclature, oh, that's a conspiracy theory.
00:18:11.000I was at a dinner with Palm Beach with three billionaires that were very well connected.
00:18:16.000And one of the billionaires said, yeah, you know, Jeffrey, who lives down the street from here, you know that he's sex trafficking girls to his mansion.
00:18:23.000And two of the people said, that's a lie.
00:19:56.000Now, I think this is being really played up as something that it's not.
00:19:59.000I think that people say, oh, Donald Trump wants what's best for a child sex trafficker.
00:20:02.000No, I actually think he was sarcastically saying, I don't think this is going to end very well for her, and that's all I can say about that.
00:20:09.000I think that just knowing Donald Trump and the way he communicates, I'm going to totally defend him on this.
00:20:12.000I think it's unfair to attack him on here.
00:20:17.000I think that he's saying, I don't think this is going to end well for her or people around her.
00:20:20.000That's kind of the tone I got from it.
00:20:22.000I think it probably wouldn't be better if he said it, but I found nothing wrong with what he said because I put it in context of his prior statements.
00:20:28.000I don't actually think he was saying, I wish I want something good for Ghelain Maxwell.
00:20:33.000So again, I will defend President Trump on this.
00:20:35.000But look, these are the worst of the worst criminals that use their wealth and their power and their connections to prey on young children.
00:20:42.000Every single one of them should be put in prison for life quickly and given very little hope of living a meaningful life after that.
00:20:53.000I can't think, I can think of something more evil than this, but it's just at the top level of how evil a human being can become.
00:20:59.000And they thought they would get away with it.
00:21:01.000They thought what they were doing was perfectly fine to create sex slaves and bring them to New Mexico and an island in the Caribbean.0.80
00:21:07.000And Bill Clinton, I can't wait to see you in handcuffs.
00:21:11.000If Bill Clinton does not go in handcuffs because of this, then we don't have a justice system.
00:22:03.000The only time I comply is on the airlines because I actually need to fly the airlines to be able to do my job and travel the country so I can deliver truth to you and make an income and grow Turning Point USA.
00:22:14.000But every single time I go into one of these grocery stores, where's your mask?
00:22:17.000I say, well, first of all, the science around masks is very questionable, very questionable.
00:22:22.000In fact, some people, some doctors think that masks actually make you sicker and have you less likely to be able to get oxygen and more likely to infect yourself and less likely to be able to fight the virus and actually more likely to be able to die sooner.
00:23:17.000If you fly through the window of a car because you didn't want to wear a seatbelt and all of a sudden I have to pay for your health care, that's ridiculous.
00:23:46.000When I see a four-year-old wearing a mask, I can't think but help.
00:23:49.000We have let them down and we have robbed them of their childhood.
00:23:52.000I think there's something innocent and something special with a childhood about children being able to communicate with facial expressions, and we have robbed them from it.
00:23:59.000I encourage you to go back and listen to Dr. Simone Gold on the Charlie Kirk show.
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00:25:54.000If your friend thinks Trump means bad, then you have to try to dispel that first.
00:26:00.000And that's a hard thing because who actually knows whose motives are what?
00:26:03.000How can you actually be able to articulate what a certain individual's motives are and what they are not?
00:26:08.000I think it is actually really difficult to be able to articulate what a human being's motives are and why they act in a certain way.
00:26:15.000In fact, I think it's dangerous to do that.
00:26:17.000I think that if you just try to go out of your way to say, I know exactly why a certain person is doing something, well, you need a lot of evidence to do that.
00:26:25.000And we do not have that evidence at all.
00:26:26.000We actually have evidence to the contrary as to why Donald Trump is doing what he is doing.
00:26:34.000Donald Trump is the first incoming president in American history to support gay marriage.
00:26:38.000Now, I support biblical marriage, one man, one woman.
00:26:41.000I do believe that gay individuals should be able to have equal access to hospital visitations and file taxes together.
00:26:47.000But I do believe in biblical marriage, one man, one woman.
00:26:52.000With that being said, I do believe that gay people and gay conservatives should be given a full and equal footing in the conservative movement.
00:26:58.000I do not believe, as some people do, that gay people should have no place whatsoever in the conservative movement.
00:27:03.000I push back against that categorically and completely.
00:27:06.000We have gay individuals that work for us at Turning Point USA.
00:27:09.000Some of my best friends, Dave Rubin, other entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel, are openly gay.
00:27:14.000So I just think that this idea that you cannot be in the conservative movement because you are gay is rubbish and nonsense and should be categorically rejected altogether and completely.
00:27:25.000And then this idea of Trump being a racist.
00:27:27.000Well, wouldn't you think that someone is a racist has been showing their colors for multiple decades?
00:27:31.000Donald Trump was revered by the black community.
00:27:33.000Donald Trump had rap songs written about him.
00:27:35.000Donald Trump was one of the most loved individuals in pop culture America for decades.
00:27:41.000Then, all of a sudden, when he decides to run for president because he was worried about losing his country, he becomes the worst thing you could possibly call somebody in our country.
00:27:49.000And the problem is, because of what he said post-Charlottesville, which actually he said nothing wrong.
00:27:55.000He did not call the people that were the white supremacists fine people.
00:27:59.000In fact, he said that they were fine people on the both sides of the statue argument, which is a completely different thing.
00:28:05.000And you literally cannot refute this argument enough.
00:28:08.000They found what they wanted, they found what they thought they needed, and they tried to create him into a racist.
00:28:15.000This is incredibly dangerous and destructive.
00:28:19.000And in a lot of different ways, it has created something that is categorically untrue.
00:28:25.000At Turning Point USA, we have hosted the nation's largest black leadership summit for two years now with hundreds and hundreds of black leaders.
00:28:32.000I've yet to see Joe Biden be able to host a black leadership summit.
00:28:36.000Here's the point: I think that there should and can be a seismic change happening in the black community in support of President Trump.
00:28:44.000BLM Inc. is trying to make your skin color directly connected with how you vote, which is a highly racist way of looking at the world because I think that BLM Inc. are the actual racists.
00:28:56.000So, look, best of luck to you continuing to try to communicate that.
00:29:00.000Try to be as clear as you can and convince them that Donald Trump is the opposite of a racist.
00:29:06.000He's actually a decent, open-minded, and very accepting person who looks at people on character, not based on skin color.
00:29:18.000Here's a longer question, but an important one.
00:29:21.000My name is Jonathan, and I have been a huge fan of yours since I turned 18 in 2016 and voted for the first time for the amazing Donald Trump.
00:29:28.000I listen to your podcast every single day, and I watch all of your videos.
00:29:32.000You are really a great person, and I'm truly glad we have you on our side.
00:30:47.000And the furthest extension of it actually creates very miserable people.
00:30:51.000So, first thing I encourage you to do, I'm sure a lot of people have told you to read the Bible, but it's actually really good advice.
00:30:57.000There's two books of the Bible I encourage you to read: Proverbs and the book of John.
00:31:02.000Those are the two books I encourage you to read.
00:31:04.000John is a great book for new believers to read.
00:31:06.000It's about the testimony and the life of Jesus Christ.
00:31:11.000It's written incredibly well, and it's one of the most read, if not the most read, book in the entire Bible, with the most famous verse in the entire Bible, for God so loved the world that he gave us as one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
00:31:28.000See, I encourage you, if you're trying to find belief in God, to ask yourself, look at the world around you.
00:31:34.000Look at how men and women are made for each other.
00:31:37.000Look at the laws of nature and how they work, the laws of physics and chemistry and how we have oxygen and how the sun comes up for just about half the day.
00:31:44.000And all of a sudden, you start to see there's a harmony to all this.
00:32:44.000Prayer is a direct connection to the Almighty, a way that you can connect deeply to him.
00:32:50.000And finally, I'm happy to go through the archaeological argument, the apologetic argument of why Jesus Christ was a real person who walked the earth, lived a perfect life, died a brutal death, and then rose again in three days.
00:33:02.000I could summarize and say it, it just happened.
00:33:06.000But more than that, we have four eyewitness accounts written from four different perspectives, all saying the same thing, never contradicting each other about Jesus Christ's testimony, all within a couple decade window of Jesus Christ walking the earth.
00:33:22.000Look at how fervent and committed the early Christians were to the creation of the church.
00:33:27.000Look at how much they sacrificed, from Stephen being stoned to Paul going from a Roman Jewish persecutor to someone who died a horrendous, martyred death.
00:33:41.000All of the disciples died martyr deaths.
00:33:44.000So I think that might be helpful to you because you strike me as someone who really enjoys history.
00:33:49.000But more than that, there is an experiential side to your faith in Christ or your faith in God.
00:34:06.000If you are a more logical person and you're just like, I just need facts, read The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.
00:34:16.000It is one of the most factual defenses of the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
00:34:25.000Someone who started as an atheist and then became a Bible-believing Christian and one of the most effective evangelists across the world.
00:34:34.000And I can tell you this: you will go through ups and downs in your struggle in believing or not there is a God.
00:34:41.000And you might say, God doesn't love us.
00:34:45.000How could God create all this suffering, but God created you and you believe that you have agency, I'm sure.
00:34:55.000And if you believe that you have agency and you have some choice, then you are able to choose that gift he gave us, which is Jesus Christ.
00:35:03.000And for those of you that are out there that might be struggling right now and say, is life even worth it?
00:35:13.000And as a Christian, of course, I talk about how you need to accept Jesus Christ and go to church and take responsibility for your life and stop doing things that you know are bad for you and feel good in the short term and believe in delayed gratification and maybe stop drinking and maybe stop doing drugs and maybe stop watching that harmful thing on television and maybe stop playing video games all day and maybe you should exercise more.
00:35:35.000You know what's good for you and what's not.
00:35:36.000I'm just telling you to start doing those things because that will actually give you a more meaningful life.
00:35:41.000It's really interesting because the way the culture is programmed towards us, we are supposed to believe that the late nights on Friday night till 2 a.m. where you drink endlessly and you don't even remember what you did or you're promiscuous in some other capacity like that's going to give you meaning.
00:35:56.000It'll actually make you really miserable.
00:35:59.000In fact, what will give you meaning is actually stopping doing those things because you're aiming at something that will actually give you fulfillment.
00:36:07.000And so if you're going through a really tough time right now, I get it.
00:36:09.000Our whole country is shut down and we're in political turmoil.
00:36:37.000It might feel like it is, might feel like an endless rut.
00:36:41.000See, we as Christians don't talk enough about how we are able to apply the teachings of Christ and not necessarily live a more flourishing life.
00:36:50.000I think that is nonsensical prosperity gospel stuff, but a more meaningful life.
00:37:01.000And I think the more flourishing we have, we'll be able to give back to the kingdom.
00:37:05.000But let's talk about meaning before we talk about material flourishing.
00:37:09.000Meaning, in the sense of the word, is that you wake up every single day and you have something worth protecting and preserving.
00:37:15.000That you have something when someone tries to go and destroy something, you're willing to sacrifice for that something that is beautiful, that is good.
00:37:21.000It might be kids, it might be a job, it might be work.
00:37:23.000And that's one of the big tragedies of our generation is that you've been told not to marry, you've been told to not marry until a certain age, you've been told to just indulge yourself in endless substances, and somehow that's going to make you the happiest person in the world.
00:37:35.000You know that's not the case if you're listening to this.
00:37:38.000But even beyond that, I'm a big believer in self-authoring.
00:37:48.000And you take out a piece of paper and you map out for a couple minutes straight exactly what you think your life might look like with meaning a couple years from now, two years from now.
00:37:56.000And then you start to take tangible steps and you remove three things from your life that might be getting in the way of you achieving that.
00:38:04.000This idea of nothing but indulgence and no responsibility will create a miserable generation.
00:38:09.000So to kind of tie the question together, Jonathan, I meandered in a direction there.
00:38:13.000I truly believe that if you believe in God, if you believe in a higher power, you truly do, and you act like God exists.
00:38:22.000You don't just say God exists, but you act like God exists, a God that judges you, a God that loves you, then I think that you'll really be able to break yourself free, which Christ does, from that suffering that you once encountered earlier in your life, which is horrific.
00:38:38.000You didn't go into detail in it, but I can understand it.
00:38:41.000Because the kind of suffering that you go through early in your life can be very formative and can be almost a form of a prison sentence for you for the rest of your life.
00:38:52.000However, what if I told you that that doesn't have to be your destiny?
00:38:56.000What if I told you that the shackles that you think you're wearing does not have to be the life that you have to live?
00:39:03.000In fact, it can be the exact opposite.
00:39:05.000In fact, it can be a place that you are proud once happened and you learn so much from it and you saw that you can actually live a meaningful life and you can.
00:39:14.000So if you're asking yourself the question, do I give up?
00:39:19.000The answer is that you live in a country that gives you agency, that gives you freedom of choice and religion, at least to the recording of this podcast.
00:39:31.000And you should go pursue what is meaningful and good and what is true and what is proven to make people live lives that give you responsibility and fulfillment.
00:39:57.000I can tell you, though, what gives me meaning is when I start to get messages from people where they say, Charlie, I used to believe this and now I believe that.
00:40:04.000Or Charlie, I was close towards self-harm and you were able to help me.
00:40:12.000In fact, it's a lot more meaningful than just getting some award from somebody.
00:40:16.000And that doesn't really give you, what gives you meaning is when you actually have a connection to a human being and you're able to see that you're helping them.
00:40:23.000So I encourage you to pursue that, Jonathan.
00:40:32.000I can't thank you enough for your podcast on Cancel Culture.
00:40:34.000I needed to hear everything you said, having been through some really bad thoughts of late since the political issues have escalated.
00:40:40.000I have had a difficult situation at church.
00:40:42.000The pastor whom I've followed forever has helped ground me in Christianity and happened to mention, speaking with Al Sharpton following the Minnesota Minneapolis riots.
00:40:51.000There's more, but that's the short of it.
00:40:52.000Anyway, it has made me question everything.
00:40:54.000I know this pastor is not in God, but that, along with this country and my personal issues right now, have left me in a really difficult and confusing place.
00:41:01.000I don't even know why I'm on this planet any longer.
00:41:54.000And if you make a series of very methodical choices and believe in the principle of delayed gratification, that life is right there for the taking.
00:42:02.000And I know it might not seem that way, but if you do something that is good every day for a long period of time, all of a sudden good things will start to happen.
00:42:13.000So if you save a dollar a day for a decade, you'll have a very serious amount of money.
00:42:19.000If you go out of your way to act as ethically as you possibly can, and at the very best tell the truth, but at least don't lie and don't lie to yourself.
00:42:29.000You see, a lot of self-misery comes in lying to yourself.
00:42:34.000As soon as you are brutally honest with yourself, then all of a sudden you can break yourself free.
00:42:38.000This is what Christ talks about, setting yourself free from sin.
00:42:42.000Because when you lie, you're actually then a captive to that untruth that you told the world.
00:42:49.000So, for example, when you say to yourself, it doesn't really matter if I keep on eating ice cream to 2 a.m.
00:43:42.000Number three, learn something by the end of the day you didn't know at the beginning of the day.
00:43:48.000It might be listening to this podcast.
00:43:50.000It might be reading a great book, which you can do so on thinker.org/slash Charlie, which we have talked about before, thinker.org slash Charlie.
00:43:58.000It might be exploring a philosopher, but instead of watching that trash on television, on Netflix, and I flipped through Netflix the other night, I was repulsed.
00:44:08.000I mean, it's all just social programming designed to hypnotize us to hate our country.
00:44:43.000So if you stop doing that one thing, you exercise every day and you wrestle with a big idea, all of a sudden you're going to start to realize that your entire tonal level will elevate.
00:44:54.000All of a sudden, you're going to start to think more clearly.
00:44:56.000You're going to see things with direction.
00:44:58.000And I'm going to tell you, if you make good choices, you will be rewarded for those choices.
00:45:20.000But ask yourself, am I generally moving in a direction that will make my life have more meaning and the people around me have more meaning?
00:45:30.000See, we are not meant to just be self-isolated individuals.