10⧸11⧸17 - Hollywood Stars are Beginning to Fall (Kelly Shackelford & Erick Erickson join Glenn)
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 52 minutes
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155.98602
Summary
In California, it's no longer a felony to knowingly expose a sexual partner to HIV with the intent of transmitting the virus. California is trying to destigmatize HIV by making it easier to get tested and provide access to care. President Trump wants a massive increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Transcript
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The telephone rang. Hello? Silence on the other end.
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The silence on the other end suddenly turned into hysterical and maniacal laughter.
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The man who picked up the phone dropped it. He knew who the caller was.
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The man, Daryl Rowe, on trial in England right now.
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For knowingly and maliciously infecting four men with the HIV virus without their knowledge.
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This despicable human being had a terrifying system.
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He would lure men in for sex and then he would sabotage any protection.
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He would send them abusive texts and phone calls.
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Who within the sound of my voice doesn't think this monster should be in jail?
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he would not be behind bars awaiting a court date like he is now.
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And he would probably be swiping right to meet his next victim.
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Why, why, why, why, why has California decided to change the law?
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The bill sponsor, Senator Scott Wiener, explained,
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and we'll, we'll do so not by threatening people with prison time,
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but rather getting people a test and providing them access to care.
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So let me see if I have this straight, California.
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by letting terrible human beings continue to spread HIV infections
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And I'm also sorry to break it to you, California,
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What do you think all those little pictures are up on,
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that you post on all of the walls in California?
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Whenever you walk into a, uh, an establishment,
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I don't know why you care about the fetus in the first place,
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But the disgusting people who intentionally affect,
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Your state is burning down in more ways than one,
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Your efforts to normalize and condone this terrorism,
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will have the opposite effect on HIV infections.
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They have just released a story about President Trump.
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according to three officials who were in the room.
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not the bottom position on the downward-sloping curve.
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Trump's advisors, among them Joint Chiefs of Staff
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come as the U.S. is locked in high-stakes standoff
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to respond to any form of North Korean aggression
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Strategic bombers were flying over South Korea yesterday.
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Two B-1 Lancers flanked by Japanese and South Korean fighter jets buzzed North Korea in yet
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Perhaps the weirdest thing about all of this is how routine all of this is beginning to feel.
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This wasn't an elaborate air show or even, you know, a recon mission to take pictures.
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This was a mission to deter against nuclear war.
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The tough talk and the saber rattling between Kim Jong-un and President Trump has become so
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common, it's easy to miss just how close to war we literally get every single day.
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It was the 72nd anniversary of the founding of North Korea's ruling Workers Party.
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Kim Jong-un typically uses these holidays to have, you know, those big, you know, parades
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where, hey, look at all of our cool missiles and look, we can get everybody to wear a hat
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and it will spell out something like happy anniversary to us.
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And the last threat we heard was a possible hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific.
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Now, Trump has set the stage just last week when he said, we're at the calm before the
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And everybody began to wonder, what, wait, what does that mean, Mr. President?
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Friday, Secretary, the Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she confirmed that there were
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world issues and that world issue namely was North Korea.
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Over the weekend, Trump doubled down and gave an ominous tweet.
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He said, you know, democracy hadn't worked for 25 years and that, quote, only one thing
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So now early yesterday morning, he called for a meeting with the Defense Secretary Mattis
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and Secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and they discussed, quote, a range of options
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to respond militarily to North Korea aggression.
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Now, they've had these these planning sessions a hundred times since the crisis began.
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Why'd they pick Tuesday morning for another one?
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And then just a few hours later, B-1 bombers and Japanese and South Korean fighter jets are
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Was it a show of force or are we getting close to waiting for an attack order?
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The threat of war with North Korea is greater than it has been in 50 years, and Kim Jong-un
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apparently got the message yesterday and back down.
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In the midst of twin medical crisis, the 2016 presidential campaign was in full swing, and
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I was a conservative who didn't support Donald Trump.
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They called my office daily, demanding that I be fired.
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Everybody was convinced I had destroyed my career.
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My two children were yelled at in the store by an angry man who was angry with me for not
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At school, other kids made sure that they knew that their dad was not liked in their household.
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Some of them wondered aloud if something bad was going to happen to us.
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Eric is, of course, radio host and commentator.
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The book is called Before You Wake, and he joins us now.
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So, Eric, tell me, first of all, for anybody who doesn't know, tell us about the twin health
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So, I just assumed it was the stress of last year, back in April, having protesters at the
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house, and my kids yelled out at the grocery store.
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And I was having a harder and harder time breathing.
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My chest was tight and went into the hospital and then got wheeled into an ICU unit, not expected
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to make the night my lungs had filled up with blood clots, blood oxygen less than 90 percent
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And literally, as they're pushing me into a CT scan to scan my lungs, doctors from the Mayo
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Clinic called my wife and told her they think she might have a rare form of cancer.
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And sure enough, she has a rare, incurable genetic form of lung cancer.
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And so, we're going through all of that as we're having protesters at our house, armed
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guards protecting us, my kids coming home from school crying with other kids saying,
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I'm going to get shot for not supporting the president.
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It was a, 2016 was a rather miserable year in the Herxson household.
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So, you started to write this book because you didn't die and you wanted your kids to
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And I really did think for a while when it happens, if Christy and I, if something happens
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to us, I remember walking into the bedroom one night and told Christy, I just did not
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And she just burst out crying that she'd made a deal with God.
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And I thought I need to actually sit down and write to my kids.
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What do I want you to know about your family, about God, about faith?
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And what are your favorite recipes in case something happened to your parents?
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How would you make the cinnamon rolls I make for you?
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And it all wound up being a book that's part cookbook and part life lessons and part
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Because, you know, I'm mindful if my kids were to Google me tomorrow, there's a joke
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at our kids' school that I'm the one parent they're not allowed to use as an example for
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Google because God knows what they'll find on me.
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And I want my kids to know the true things, the bad things I've done, the good things
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I've done, and why I want them to believe in God.
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So on the other side of eternity, we'll see each other again.
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Eric, what did this, going through all this, teach you about prioritization?
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Oh, that, you know, my life involves politics on radio, on The Resurgent, on TV.
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And I want my kids to understand that I think it is far more important for them to have a
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relationship with their next door neighbor, whether they agree politically or not, than
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to be online yelling at people about the politics of the day.
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That there's so much more to life than politics.
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You actually wrote something, I'm trying to find it here, I read it this morning again,
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about how you just, the social media thing is just, you feel is a real problem.
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Yeah, you know, I think Twitter in particular brings the worst out in all of us, myself included.
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You know, there's that scene in the Bible where Jesus, I'm actually in seminary right now,
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we studied this two weeks ago, where the possessed man comes to Jesus and he's like,
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he says to the demon, possessing, what is your name?
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And Christ throws the legion into the swarm of pigs, which run down the bank and drown
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And I think what the Bible leaves off after that is that after the pigs have drowned and
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the demons get out of the pigs, they all got Twitter accounts.
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And I want my kids to get their sense of self-worth by being ethical people created in the image
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of God, not because they got a bunch of retweets or likes on Instagram or Facebook.
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As I've gotten older and dumber, I've come to realize how much more I need forgiveness
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Well, you know, there's a lot less grace in the world today.
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And I've done dumb things in my life, things I regret.
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And I find 10 years later, people still want to throw them in my face of, you're no moral
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authority on this because look at what you did 10 years ago.
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And I can't tell someone to get over that, but I can get over it myself with other people.
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I can show forgiveness to other people who have done good and not still define them by
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I think more and more in this world, people want to define you by the worst thing you did,
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And if we do that to each other, we have no incentive to improve as people because we're
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So, Eric, I was up in Nantucket at a conference, a summit, and I was...
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And so I was up there for three days and it had been a horrible, horrible experience.
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And there were some other things that were happening in my life at the time that just,
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That weekend was just a really hard weekend for me.
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And I had to speak on Sunday a second time to this crowd.
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I got up in the morning and I was in the bathroom in front of the mirror and I was on my knees
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And I've never understood the plea for mercy more than I do right now.
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It's a remarkable gift that I think Facebook and Twitter, you're exactly right, will never
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And I think that's why we have an obligation to do it.
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And, you know, I decided a couple of years ago, I kept getting asked to give Sunday sermons
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Because I talk about culture and faith on my radio show and decided I'd probably ought
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to go to seminary, which was the greatest thing I did.
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Although the moment I went, I stopped getting the invitations to preach when I found out
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And one of the things that's made me appreciate is that our ways aren't their ways.
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And whether you're a person of faith, you're a conservative, however you view yourself,
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And you start by showing grace and extending mercy to people who don't do it to you.
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And show that your way actually is a way forward.
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And I fear that as conservatives look more and more towards political solutions to spiritual
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problems, that they're going to become more tribal like that as well and not show grace
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And those of us who do, I think, stand out more and more.
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It's a humble thing, knowing that you've got to be willing to extend the hand to people
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It's almost if I ask a crowd of Christians, how many believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ?
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But even Peter denied God, denied Jesus three times.
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I'm not sure how many of us are even at Peter's level, because it's not that hard to offer
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mercy and forgiveness to people who are saying and doing horrible things to you or to your
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country or whatever, and trying to have compassion and forgiveness and empathy for them.
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And yet, so many Christians see that as a sign of weakness.
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Well, you know, one of the things I wrote in the book for my kids, and I hope one day
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they will read this, is that my wife has a very hard time with grudges, and she will admit
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And I have told her before, as I wrote in the book, that if you can't forgive someone, you
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are saying that your conscience was pricked more than Jesus's, who, having been beaten,
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tortured, bloodied, and nailed to a cross, on a cross, before he died, said, forgive
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If you can't forgive someone for slighting you after what they did to him, and he said,
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forgive them, you're saying you were abused more than he was on the cross.
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Let me tell you, it puts me in the doghouse, but sometimes you've got to make your wife
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feel guilty, because she's making me feel guilty every day.
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I mean, she guilted me into buying her a Harley.
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Eric, if God forbid something does happen to you, you know your kids will obviously
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read this book, but if everything goes okay, at what point do you become angry at them for
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My 12-year-old has tried twice, and she can't get past the introduction.
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At least they know where their line is to be a good kid.
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So, Eric, I have been concentrating lately on what matters most in my own life, and I
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think we can all get to this point to where you say, this is garbage.
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And you start to look and say, what matters most?
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I always fall back on the first question in the shared catechism of a Catholic and Protestant.
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As long as I think I'm glorifying God, then it's okay.
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And I'm in politics, and I spend a lot of time trying now to write about conforming my
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politics to my faith instead of my faith to my politics.
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And it has made it much more difficult for me in life to have that realization I have
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But I think as long as I'm doing that, I'm okay.
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They may stop listening to me or stop reading me.
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It makes it much more difficult for me to find the easy solution, whether it's on immigration
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There are lots of easy solutions when you abandon your faith.
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And when you have your faith, there's a more difficult balancing act.
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And I like that challenge of doing that every day.
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And part of it is understanding there are real priorities, and politics isn't one of them.
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Eric Erickson, of course, he started The Resurgent, the website you should definitely
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be reading, as well as Before You Wake, Life Lessons from a Father to His Children is the
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I would have been down to, you know, sweet and sour soup, you know, by day number two.
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Eric and I are on kind of the same path right now, and I don't know if you're joining me
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on this journey or finding this important in your own life of just finding out what is
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I just want to do something meaningful in my own life.
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Um, and I, I want to do, uh, I want to be part of good and, um, and I want to raise my
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kids right and do what matters and, and that's it.
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And, um, today I was reading something, 27 rules for gentlemen to live by.
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And I'm like, I don't, I don't, I don't have any of these.
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The height of incivility is paying more attention to your white, uh, to your watch.
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These are old, your watch, your pipe, or your notebook than to the person you're having
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Even if you're bored and tired, make no sign of it.
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That's the, that's the fourth amendment of this list.
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Sometimes even a demand for specification may sound impolite.
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I mean, don't cut another person's speech short, even if you already know the story that's
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Number three, don't try to prove your point by raising your tone, tone of voice, insolent
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Endeavor to always be gallant and modest, free of any dictatorial attitudes.
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I want to go through these tomorrow and see if, if we can actually try to live these.
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Just try, just try to live these for a week, a day.
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I was going to go hope for the end of the show.
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Never, unless you're asked to do so, talk about your own business or your own profession.
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Devote little time and little attention to yourself.
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Well, if it isn't my good friend, Pat Gray, who is actually, yeah, it is, it is, who does
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the radio program on the Blaze Radio Network immediately following this program.
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I was thinking about Unchained, but I thought it would be better to go with Unleashed.
01:36:12.320
Yes, too many, too many connotations there we would have run into.
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And so what that's done for me is I can never say the name of Pat Show because I always think
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it is Unchained and it's not, it's Unleashed, but he has been Unleashed and he's got a lot
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Well, I've finally developed courage enough to admit that I was sexually harassed by Harvey
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No, I didn't know that you were even around Harvey Weinstein.
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Well, I, you know, I, I, uh, I don't like to talk about this time in my life very much.
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But I was, uh, an incredibly promising, uh, uh, key grip and best boy for, for a long
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And with Harvey Weinstein, a key grip and a best boy might take on different.
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And when I rebuffed his advances, I never worked in Hollywood again, either best boying
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Uh, is it amazing that this might be, this might be taken as a little insensitive?
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It should be because I can't believe that for 30 or 40 years, everybody in Hollywood covered
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Um, every major star knows every producer knows every comedian knows they all know that
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he's a douche bag and they do nothing about it until now, until now incredible, incredible
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Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, both involved, by the way, with Brad Pitt, who was informed
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Um, and he's on record apparently at the time, um, that he went in confronted, I think it was
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He said he was going to give, give him a beating, a Missouri beating or whooping or something.
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Um, cause we were talking about this and we didn't get in depth on it, but I mean, let's
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be honest with each other, not on sexual harassment or anything else, but did we not all
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know, and let's be honest, that Roger Ailes, we dodged a bullet, we're the only ones to
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walk out of Fox News that wasn't completely destroyed by Roger Ailes.
01:38:50.680
Well, but that was a, that's, that's different than sexual harassment.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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You and I, we all know there are many things that we believe that we shall never say, but
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we shall never say the things that we do not believe when it comes to Roger Ailes or Fox
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We spent years avoiding and trying to tell the truth, but not pissing him off because
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There's no, there's no need to create additional enemies.
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If we would have known something about sexual abuse, we all would have said, no doubt.
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There is a reason there to create an enemy, right?
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It is worth stepping up for something like that.
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How many times have we destroyed our career because we're like, you know what?
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So, when you're Harvey Weinstein and you're going up, you're just, even if you're Gwyneth Paltrow,
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How alone did we feel when we went and we said what we've said in the last two years, even
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though people from behind the scenes will say, you're right, you keep it up.
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Although, we were alone on that quest, but I don't think these actors and actresses are
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Because everybody knows and everybody felt the same thing.
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People, you know and I know, there are people that did not want to take the stand that they
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did on the air, but they took that stand because they were being told by their corporation,
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One person lost their job over it, and it's Michael Medved.
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But people were told, you're not going to have a job, and so they acquiesced.
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But it's the same thing, just a smaller version of it, but it's the same thing.
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So, if Gwyneth Paltrow would have come out, it would have been her word, and I can guarantee
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you, none of the other women would have come out at the time because they wouldn't want
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How about the Ben Affleck's, though, who knew the whole time, and now are all of a sudden
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She was the most gracious woman I think I've ever run into.
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So, she was there, and I'm missing Cheyenne, all of a sudden, my daughter, okay, who's
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a huge fan of Jennifer Garner, and so I'm kind of looking around, and she's gone for
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So, I turn around, and I see her over there just commanding an audience with Jennifer
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And so, I walk up, and I walk up behind Jennifer, and I don't introduce myself to her or anything, and I just walk behind her, and I give a dad stare to my daughter, and I point
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And she looks at me, and she says, Dad, it's Jennifer Garner.
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She tolerated my daughter for like probably eight minutes with a smile on her face, okay?
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And, you know, it wasn't hard, but that happens to people like that all the time, and they want to chew their arm off to get out of it.
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And I'm having dinner with Jennifer Garner and Dick Cavett and the president of Rwanda.
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And so, Jennifer is standing there, and I just kind of stop because she's talking to somebody.
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In this hallway that I have to kind of go through to get to the table.
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Because I like her, and I don't want anything wrecked.
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I don't want them to ruin my impression of them.
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So, she doesn't stop talking, and my wife is like, please, can we just go so we can sit
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I can't believe how gracious you were to my children today.
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And she said, Hannah, or I mean, Mary and Cheyenne, oh, they were so nice.
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You remembered my daughter's name three hours later?
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That's why I have a Capital One credit card, because of that interaction.
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So, I don't understand the Ben Affleck connection there.
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Because he does not seem to be like a good guy.
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It seems, you know, if you read the front of the tabloids as you walk past on your way
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to your checkout stand, it seems like he was a real big dirtbag to her.
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You know, drinking, carousing, gambling, gambled away a lot of their money.
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A lot like the Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown thing when that first came around.
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Although Whitney wound up matching better than we did.
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Whitney didn't, wasn't the one who I would have been trying to get Cheyenne away from
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I would have been like, no, don't put that in your nose.
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Good guy uses a gun to protect his family from criminals and he's the one arrested.
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It's weird because you don't hear about the good guys with a gun.
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You know, I did an experiment probably five, six years ago with the Blaze.
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And I said to the editor-in-chief, I said, I don't want you to tell anybody, but I want you to find a story.
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Good guy has a gun, thwarts criminal every day.
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And within about, oh, about a month, I think Pat was the first one that came up to me.
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And he said, have you noticed, have you noticed how many times now criminals are starting to, like, be afraid of people with guns?
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And he hadn't put it together that it was, yeah, on the Blaze.
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That's the only place you're seeing that is on the Blaze.
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The perception of people who are reading the Blaze was that this was going up, when indeed it wasn't.
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So now, when you do see a story that is in the paper where a good guy has a gun and he stops the bad guys, you will always see that that person was arrested.
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I told you a story a couple of days ago about the guy who was a military veteran.
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Guys come into his house, three guys with weapons.
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When the cops get there, he's arrested for, what was it, threats with a deadly weapon or whatever it is, assault with a deadly weapon.
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He was lucky enough to have the USCCA behind him.
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Now, this is the United States Concealed Carry Association.
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They do all kinds of training and everything else.
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But they also have this insurance that you need.
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If you have a gun in your house, you need this.
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They got him home back to his family without the financial ruin.
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You need somebody to protect and defend you if you're protecting and defending your family.
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Oh, so I'm going to get nothing but heat and grief today.
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With all of the fake news coming out of NBC and their networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their license?
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You know, Mr. President, what's bad for the country is the president of the United States saying, perhaps we should get involved with a free press and obstruct them.
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First of all, they don't have a broadcast license.
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NBC doesn't know the affiliates do, but the but you have to challenge the, you know, the the local affiliates, which is not what he's talking about.
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He doesn't even understand that they don't have a license and they do have a right to be wrong.
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I think they've been shameful, shameful, and they've been shameful for a very long time.
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I mean, I stand for the right for Alex Jones to be able to broadcast, and there is no more fake news than him.
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But I don't want to see him run out of the public square.
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You cannot start telling people what they can and cannot say.
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There's a an interesting part of this document I once read.
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It was the first thing they listed under this amendment section.
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Those are like changes to your iTunes agreement.
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I mean, that's, look, that is, we have fought how many years?
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We have fought the left trying to shut down talk radio for 30 years.
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How do you think it's going to be used by the next president?
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You must stand for principles because this, as I said to the left, your guy is going to
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get out and the next guy you may not agree with.
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You must stand for the Constitution and the First Amendment.
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And the only speech that needs protection is the speech you despise.