Failed Parenting Strategies 1⧸9⧸17
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1 hour and 45 minutes
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169.2345
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The generation that we call the millennials, too many of them grew up subject to, not my words, failed parenting strategies. They were told that they could have anything they wanted in life, just because they wanted it. They grew up with a sense of entitlement.
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Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.
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It's a new week, a new day. Stu has decided to grace us with his presence.
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The discussion on millennials is they're lazy, they feel entitled.
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Simon Sinek, who is a friend of mine and a very bright, bright man,
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has diagnosed it perfectly in this interview that we were listening to earlier today.
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The future of our country depends on the millennials.
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I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand.
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Welcome to the program. So glad that you're here.
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In an interview that he did about millennials in front of a crowd,
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about what is really happening with millennials,
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What do we need to do to get them truly engaged?
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too many of them grew up subject to, not my words,
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Where, for example, they were told that they were special all the time.
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They were told that they could have anything they want in life.
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They were told, some of them got into honors classes,
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not because they deserved it, but because their parents complained.
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And some of them got A's, not because they earned them,
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but because the teachers didn't want to deal with the parents.
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Where did that failed parenting strategy come from?
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Who was it that was standing against the awards for last place?
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At the top of our lungs, we were screaming that.
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So, I think the first thing we just need to put up on the chalkboard,
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just point number one, not all of America was behind this.
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No way would Simon recognize that, but it's a fact.
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Yeah, it's even worse in the Ivy League school.
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When he talks about people achieving these things without achieving them.
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You shouldn't be giving half the grades an entire,
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And we should have the greatest school system in the world.
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And that actually makes the person who comes in last feel embarrassed
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So you take this group of people and they graduate school
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and they get a job and they're thrust into the real world.
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And in an instant, they find out they're not special.
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And by the way, you can't just have it because you want it, right?
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And in an instant, their entire self-image is shattered.
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And so you have an entire generation that's growing up
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with lower self-esteem than previous generations.
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is we're growing up in a Facebook, Instagram world.
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In other words, we're good at putting filters on things.
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We're good at showing people that life is amazing
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he wrapped all of that up, failed parenting strategies.
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Every strategy today is to make them have higher self-esteem.
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But it fails because you're not actually having to accomplish anything.
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You can't tell somebody they're great when they're not.
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When they're on the team and they know that nobody's really listening to me.
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For whatever reason, I've got pictures of the boss.
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I hear this from employee after employee after employee.
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I just want to do something that makes a difference.
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So when they're saying low self-esteem and when millennials say, I want to make a difference,
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what they're saying is, I have low self-esteem.
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This is what is propelling them, I believe, in their boots-on-the-ground kind of activities.
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Where they say, I don't want to just talk about it.
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They've heard the talk about how special they are their whole life.
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And because of that, they have low self-esteem.
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So now they're really motivated to stop talking about it and go actually do it.
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And everybody sounds like they got it all figured out.
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And the reality is, there's very little toughness and most people don't have it figured out.
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And so when the more senior people say, well, what should we do?
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So you have an entire generation growing up with lower self-esteem than previous generations.
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We know that engagement with social media and our cell phones releases a chemical called dopamine.
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So, you know, we've all had it where you're feeling a little bit down or feeling a little
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It's why we go back 10 times to see if, and if it's going, if my Instagram is growing
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Because we know when you get it, you get a hit of dopamine, which feels good.
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But dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke, when we
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We have age restrictions on smoking, gambling, and alcohol.
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And we have no age restrictions on social media and cell phones, which is the equivalent
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of opening up the liquor cabinet and saying to our teenagers, hey, by the way, this adolescence
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thing, if it gets you down, but that's basically what's happening.
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You have an entire generation that has access to an addictive, numbing chemical called dopamine
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through social media and cell phones as they're going through the high stress of adolescence.
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Almost every alcoholic discovered alcohol when they were teenagers.
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When we're very, very young, the only approval we need is the approval of our parents.
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And as we go through adolescence, we make this transition where we now need the approval
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It allows us to acculturate outside of our immediate families into the broader tribe.
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It's a highly, highly stressful and anxious period of our lives.
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And we're supposed to learn to rely on our friends.
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Some people quite by accident discover alcohol and numbing effects of dopamine to help them
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cope with the stresses and anxieties of adolescence.
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Unfortunately, that becomes hardwired in their brains.
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And for the rest of their lives, when they suffer significant stress, they will not turn
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Social stress, financial stress, career stress.
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That's pretty much the primary reasons why an alcoholic drinks.
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What's happening is because we're allowing unfettered access to these dopamine-producing devices
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And what we're seeing is as they grow older, too many kids don't know how to form deep, meaningful
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That is exactly, this adds fuel to the fire of my concern about gaming, the way it's being
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It is giving you a full, soon, a full sensory gratification.
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When the VR thing is perfected, it's going to be, it'll be the artificial thing they're
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Seriously, Japan, they can't get people to breed.
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They cannot get people to have sex with one another.
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Now, I don't know what weird stuff is happening in Japan that stops that, but it's not happening
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And there won't be any Japanese people left, you know, in a hundred years.
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Yeah, their replacement rate is, is it negative now?
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It's almost zero, but it's, it's certainly, uh, it's at an unhealthy level for sure.
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It's at a point of, past of, uh, point of, past the point of no return.
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So when we, now we're encouraging people not to have relationships.
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Now, Saturday, I heard my son, uh, he was in the kitchen.
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I was in the kitchen and he was playing, um, I don't know, Minecraft or something.
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And, and he was playing it with two friends together and they each had boxes up on the,
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They were two girls that he was playing them with who are his friends.
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I was, I was listening to them while I was working in the kitchen and, and listening to
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And it sounded like absolutely normal interaction.
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I'm trying to defuse myself from being so phobic about that.
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It's just not in person, but he's still looking at them.
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Uh, yeah, I think, I think it's just what is normal interaction changes.
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It's something we've talked about with going to a concert and you go to a concert and all
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you see are phones and every, uh, person like me or older says the same thing.
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Why don't you experience the freaking show you paid for instead of filming it?
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They don't experience the show by looking at the show.
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They experienced the show by holding up their phone and recording it so that they can post
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Some artists are starting to push back against that, right?
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Would you put the phone down and just watch the show?
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I would say, you cash the check, I'll watch it any way I want.
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Well, I will tell you though, that it happens all the time.
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I never, there's one person, if they're in a group, there's one person who I never actually
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interact with because they're the, you know, usually a parent standing there with a phone
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and they're only talking to me through the phone or talking to their child through the
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And I always feel bad because I always feel like they were ripped off.
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They never, they never had that personal connection.
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Now this, last week we talked about the coastal buffers and how they weaken hurricanes at
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Now scientists are calling this a lucky phenomena.
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Scientists are discovering how incredibly prepared mother nature is for dealing with natural disasters.
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By the way, do you remember, we have to play this, the, what's her name from, in Congress
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from California that said the Sierra Nevadas soon in like seven years or 10 years, she said
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We have to find that because they're about to have 20 feet of snow from the last week
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They had three, I think three feet drop on them yesterday alone.
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So we've been listening to Simon Sinek talk about the problem that the millennials face,
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They were raised with bad parenting strategies that many of us have fought against for a long
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time, and now we realize, oh, gee, everybody gets a trophy, isn't healthy for society.
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Which leads me to the fourth point, which is environment, which is we're taking this amazing
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group of young, fantastic kids who had just dealt a bad hand.
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And we put them in corporate environments that care more about the numbers than they do about
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It's not a corporation's responsibility to raise children when they're 32 years old, especially.
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Because we may be speaking different languages, so let me go there.
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I'm learning to speak the language that is being spoken all around us.
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So what he's saying here is, I think you're hearing this in a progressive way.
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First of all, do we generally agree it is their responsibility to fit in the world?
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So when he says, at no fault of their own, you can say, yes, they didn't...
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And they were used as guinea pigs to experiment on.
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Something that we took all eternal principles and threw them out the window and said,
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hey, being first is just as good as being last.
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However, once their life starts to fall apart, it is their responsibility.
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I mean, there's personal responsibility at every step.
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But when you're a kid and everything in society is training you to go one way, you generally
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don't say, well, I'm, you know, that doesn't make sense to me.
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Over your life, you should re-examine those things, of course.
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But what does it take for you to re-examine your life?
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And it could be just as much that I keep getting these trophies and I feel like crap.
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I keep getting, I keep getting everything I want and I'm not happy at all.
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That's the most likely crash, but that crash will lead to suicide.
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And that crash is coming with, I mean, yes, he cites some numbers.
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So that crash is a crash of no self-esteem because nothing has ever given you self-esteem
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because you've never been taught what self-esteem comes from.
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Even if it is, it's like when, you know, when you go clean your house or when you were
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a kid and you cleaned your room, you felt good after cleaning your room.
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There's something to be said for accomplishment.
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So now let me show you what he just said, I think, about it's the corporation's responsibility.
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Talking about millennials, but I think this is going to lead to talk about the border and
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This is, I was reading something early this morning about a study that was done in the
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1950s that I'm taking a course now on logic and I'm trying to, I'm trying to learn the
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And the first, the last paragraph of this online course is once you start to see how to use
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logic, warning, you're going to see how it has been unwired and rewired to make false
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And this was, this was done maybe 10 years ago.
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So this has nothing to do with, with what's, what's, what's recently happening.
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And he said, the professor said, but you have to make a promise to yourself now.
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You cannot use that way of logic to win arguments because there's ways that you can rewire it because
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I read a story from the 1950s about a really important test on crowds and how they, how
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And it's, it's fascinating because that's what we were doing.
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You know, in the 1950s and 60s, we're still trying to figure out Germany.
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How did Germany scoop up and kill all these people?
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You might want to look at Russia too, but how do they do it?
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Without the people rising up and putting a stop to it.
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Now, the same thing I think on a much smaller scale is happening with, with students.
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And I don't mean, you know, the Holocaust is a smaller scale.
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I just mean that a, a, a way to manipulate logic and a way to get people to just go, huh, maybe
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Remember, remember after that, we read the, the headline on Newsweek eight years ago, we're
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What was the slogan of the nine 12 project that got us to the mall with half a million
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We surround them because people were starting to feel like maybe it's just me.
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And it is, it's a way to get you to feel this way.
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And so now all of the students are coming out, all the millennials are coming out and
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Generally speaking, that they, they, they have low self-esteem because they didn't come
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They haven't had any real rules because the parenting game has changed and we used our kids
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I don't feel good about this and they don't know how to diagnose and there is no critical
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So Simon Sinek is a friend of the show and has always had really good diagnosis.
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Don't think his, his solutions are always right, but his solution so far is,
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It's the workplace that needs to handle this now.
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They care more about the short-term gains than the long-term life of this young human
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It's like saying Apple is supposed to, you know, reach out and take care of each and
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Apple is a corporation that sells products and that's their goal.
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And then they employ people and pay them a really good wage to work there.
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It is not, it is not a corporation's function to get into the psyche of each and every employee.
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It's, it might be their function to get the most out of their employees.
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So like if you can create an environment that doesn't hurt your company, that helps the
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company because you're getting more out of these employees than you otherwise would,
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But it's not your job to make them feel fulfilled in their lives.
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So, so I think we're, I think we're actually saying the same thing, but you're saying it
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in a way that someone on the left, yes, someone on the left will not understand.
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They will immediately say, in my company, the number one thing we focus on, the number
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I want to make sure that the people who I work with never have to worry about healthcare.
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I'm, I'm trying to show how I can say the same thing he just said to, um, to a conservative.
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He's not talking to a, probably a lefty audience.
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Let me say what he just said, which I believe is not exactly what he meant, but is the right
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A corporation, its job, because it has shareholders, it has a fiduciary responsibility for all those
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teachers, all those fire people, all the, all the policemen that have all of their money wrapped
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So their first responsibility is to make money for the shareholders.
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Now, what's the best way, the best way I have found is to, as Simon says, find your why, why
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If you're in existence just to make money, you're, you, you might make some money, but
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But if you're into it because you know, you can make people's lives better.
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Now you've got something because I know my product, my Apple computer, my Apple iPhone
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Yes, I'm building iPads and it's my job to build this iPad the best it can be.
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I'm building it because I know this will make people's lives easier and better and they're
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The best capitalism is the one that responds to the invisible hand of the market and the
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invisible hand of the market will give you what you want.
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So the best thing you can do as a capitalist is learn who you're serving and then serve
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Within five years, everyone's going to have this tablet on the planet.
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And I'll be able to change the lives in Africa because we were a success.
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Employees, we've all worked for companies where you were number 1174 and nobody cared.
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It's not because they're sitting down and going, oh, Stu, you're the best guy ever.
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What you wanted was to do something of meaning and do it well with a bunch of people who have
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You want to be paid a fair wage and treated with respect.
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You want to also, you could even, I would make the case, you'll even take a pay cut if
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So you'll work for less than you could work someplace else.
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I mean, not great, not great disparity, but you'll work less if this place is just the
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best and you feel like you're accomplishing something.
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And the corporation shows that, yes, Stu, you're important to me.
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I, because of the work you guys do, I can make sure that we provide the best health care
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And that is the most meaningful thing I can do as a company is take away all of your worries
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You have to go to the doctor, your daughter, your son, all of a sudden gets cancer.
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I don't want you to worry about, don't worry about where you're going to get your lunch.
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You come in and I know we don't do that because we don't have the money, but let's have,
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I think the line there though, and I think it's what he said, which is why I reacted
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that way, is I think it is part of the company's responsibility to try to make an employee fulfilled
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That's part of it because you want them to be happy and interested and productive.
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It is not a company's responsibility to fulfill your life.
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And that is, I feel like a weird target that we're setting that is not, that's not what
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And I could, see, again, the idea here of why we're talking about this and the way we're
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moving as a show is let's learn how to talk to one another.
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And I really think it's why I can have friends, Simon and I have a perfectly wonderful time
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There are things that I don't say to Simon, Simon, and there are things that I wait to
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Because Simon is a guy who lives in New York city, surrounded by people who think like
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And so when he comes down here, he's suddenly surrounded by people who don't think like
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And he, I don't think he realizes that he's in the normalcy bias.
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Well, this is normal for at least half the country.
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And so you come in and you're like, well, no, no, listen guys, you got this all wrong.
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So how do we talk to each other by arguing what he just said, unless he gets to the point
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to where he is saying something different, but we can make the same point and win the
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If we don't argue that it is a company's, it's not a company's job to affect people's
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It is in our best interest to care about our employees.
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It's, it's, it's probably for either side, right?
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But what happens is we'll get into this argument and we'll get bogged down in this 5% that might
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believe, no, corporations should actually be owned by the state because that's why you're
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Listen, everybody else lives in that reasonable zone, but they're not hearing that from us.
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When Samantha, when Samantha Bee was down here, she was shocked.
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I'd love to, I'd love to take the raw tape of that interview and edit it myself so I could
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She edited it to show me who I was, but you just saw her snarky comments during that interview.
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She just had never met a conservative who also believes the same thing that she believes
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Let's, let's take the refugees who are being sought by ISIS, et cetera, et cetera.
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I think your point is she actually has thousands of times.
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She just didn't realize it because people are speaking a different language.
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She just is surrounded by people like her who are being told or telling her all the time
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and constantly we're reinforcing by our language that that's not important.
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And our listeners see her show and think she's a liar because of the way she treats conservatives
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And she, I, yeah, I don't, she's not thinking of things like, she's still trying to entertain
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But she's also surrounded by, um, in the New York attitude.
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So she's surrounded by we're right, they're wrong.
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And yet she told me in their interview, I've never met an American I don't like.
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She just needs to understand we're right and she's wrong.
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As we talk about millennials, I will tell you that I don't think all millennials, it's really
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unfair to put people in a group and say all millennials are this way.
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As I was looking around the room at the camera people and, uh, and all the people that do
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They're not, they're, they're not the, you know, give it to me lazy.
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That's like that besides Stu and Jeff, I disagree on that one.
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And he's certainly, but I mean, the only thing millennial about him is he's been alive for
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a millennial, millennials, I think, want to make a difference and they may not know even
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It's because they instinctively know I haven't earned anything yet in my life.
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Individuals and businesses with tax problems, listen carefully.
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If you owe over $10,000 in back taxes or have unfiled tax returns, we can help you take back
00:36:04.080
The IRS is the largest and most aggressive collection agency in the world, and they can seize your
00:36:08.540
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We want to talk a little bit about the now possibly brewing scandal of George Michael.
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This weird timeline and excuse from his boyfriend on what happened that night doesn't seem to
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Also, we've been playing some audio from a guy named Simon Sinek, who is Find Your Why.
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I think he has pinpointed the problem that millennials face more or better than anybody else.
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And we wanted to bring in another friend, Roger Love.
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Right now, everybody is learning how to text, how to do everything virtually.
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No one is learning how to speak and speak publicly.
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Roger Love, author of a new book, Set Your Voice Free.
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Will you do me a favor and just tell me quickly the story.
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I think it's of Walk the Line, where the two actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon,
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The story starts with neither of them knowing when they accepted the roles to star in Walk the Line,
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to play Johnny Cash and to play June Karakash, that they were actually going to have to sing.
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Because neither of them think of themselves at that point in time as singers.
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So I get the call from Reese, and the two of them together have to record about 30-some-odd parts of songs.
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And trying to make Joaquin sing like the iconic Johnny Cash is no easy feat.
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And the discipline that both of them had to go from working with me and starting as not really singers to doing an incredible job in the film,
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I look at that as being one of the greatest collaborations in my life, something that I'm very, very proud of.
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Because the result was that she won an Academy Award for a singing role, and he won multiple awards for a singing role.
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And where we started three or four weeks earlier was not very much great singing.
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It was really, seriously, it was three weeks working with you?
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Believe me, I wish some of these pictures that I do, like Crazy Heart or Beginning It, I wish they would give me more time.
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But quite often I'm thrown in at the last minute to say,
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Hey, Raj, can you make this person who's not really a singer sound incredible?
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Over the weekend, I sat down with one of my daughters and I said, let's draw mountains together.
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Let's just draw, you know, some things that, you know, let me show you a picture.
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And she said, Dad, I don't have any talent at all.
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So she drew, and it was very simple mountains and looked like a kid's drawing.
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Then I went back and I said, honey, just draw with me now.
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Her painting, or her, you know, oil thing, you know, her sketch.
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It went from, you know, third grade to 12th grade.
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And I contend that 80% of, you know, an artist is just learning how to do it.
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But everybody can pretty much do what they don't think they can do.
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We think that we are born with a particular voice.
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All of a sudden, if we're singing happy birthday,
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and we sound better than everybody else, and we get the first piece of cake,
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Or if we have this nasal voice or really soft or aggravated,
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some kind of a weird voice, we think we're stuck with it
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because that's the sound that is coming out of the mouth.
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But I've spent my life showing people how simple it is
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and add a little bit of technique and then sound like however you want.
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So even a singer who is born with an amazing ability that Mother Nature gave them,
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And those people that were maybe born with a little less from Mother Nature,
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if they work a little harder and have that technique,
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they can oftentimes end up sounding better than the people that were born with a gift.
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and how nobody is learning how to talk to each other.
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Certainly, nobody is learning how to stand up in front of a crowd and speak.
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can you imagine in the world that we're living in right now
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that the number one fear in America is still speaking in public?
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if everyone is the most worried about speaking in public.
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And what I realized after about 17 years of just working with famous singers
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was that there was no difference between singing and speaking
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And once you have those kind of sounds come out of your mouth
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and you realize that you have influence over people,
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it's like you're singing someone's favorite song
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Because you end up liking the sound of your own voice
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and I had him go find a joke that he wanted to tell at the beginning,
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And I knew the minute he got that instant reaction
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If I go to a restaurant or you go to a restaurant
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you think that you're the funniest person at the table.
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And that's what I help people do just with speaking,
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to create sounds that people react to positively
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or whether you're speaking to a thousand people.
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Okay, Todd, I have to be honest with the audience.
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You have brought me from not being able to say a word
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Well, that is a joy that I could be a part of that
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What you did for me and you made those little tapes for me,
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you've just used me as a guinea pig for your book.
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So, it's basically the same thing that you've done for me.
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and speakers like Anthony Robbins and Susie Orman.
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I tried to explain what you do to a friend of mine
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because I could not explain to him what you do.
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as far as music goes and continuing to do that.
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Sure enough, found on the left side of my vocal fold,
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this sizable polyp that is just right on the underside
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So I said to him, you've got to talk to Roger Love,
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this last week, because I was silent for the last month.
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that so that they understand a little bit what that is.
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and you're rubbing your fingers against the strings.
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you basically start to develop like calluses on your fingers
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that creates a little bit of pressure on the vocal cords,
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It's really scary to think I'll never sing again.
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and has been, he's had a really, really tough year.
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I mean, what are the odds you'd have got on that?
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So let me go back to the millennial conversation
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How is the left dealing with the current environment?
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It's amazing to see this and it's so easy to mock,
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I'm starting my 11th year working on climate change,
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I'm saying this because I know many people feel deep despair about climate,
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How much did you struggle over the weekend when it was 11 degrees in Dallas,
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And I'm not saying that's not necessarily a healthy instinct.
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Had you been living in the last eight years in that bubble of,
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The other party is a regional party that will never win another national.
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I'll read a story and shut down for the rest of the day.
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We're sitting here January 9th and we are just a few days away from the
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I bet you there'd be a lot of people in our audience who would be like,
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Republicans and conservatives deal with these problems in different ways.
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The liberal way to handle it is you go and you shut down and you,
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That's not how a conservative is going to handle it.
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Now that's not the same as shutting down and not being able to work.
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Not paying attention to the news for a while though.
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There are many days when I think it would be better off without us.
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I think this is when we're supposed to be cute.
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I don't think the world would be better off without humans.
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which is what you're talking about with millennials.
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Our secretary of state is the effing Exxon CEO.
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Think of how we felt when people like Jeremiah Wright were,
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we need to cling to our God and our guns as the president of the United States.
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There's nothing different from what he's saying,
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So we may spend the last hour just mocking that guy.
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there's two other approaches to the reason that we should get to as well.
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So I wanted to call in because actually the interview that you had been sharing,
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And I think that many of the issues that you guys covered today are so,
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I guess I didn't notice them until it was brought to my attention.
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I've been doing the senior photography and it seems like year after year,
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the communication during the sessions when I'm trying to talk with my clients
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But then afterwards they would contact me on social media and go,
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but I guess that they find their confidence in the technology and they find
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themselves expressing themselves better through technology and social media
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and I started in 2010 and it seems like this year has been the worst.
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They're actually a lot better than the teenagers that I grew up with when we were
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They're actually very loving and they're very understanding and stuff,
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they get their confidence through social media.
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And it seems like maybe they can express themselves better that way.
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they know they won't encounter any kind of pushback and they don't know how to say the
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And that's why they're developing safe zones and colleges.
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You're not making it okay anymore to be wrong and to listen and to be understanding.
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back face on their message before they send or post or anything like that.
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I got a picture book from my daughter who has my two grandchildren for Christmas.
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And I looked at all of the pictures and they were beautiful.
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Then I went back and looked at some of the pictures,
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they're usually somebody looking very dorky in the picture.
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what we are failing to teach is there isn't a Photoshop for life.
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this incredible story out of Chicago that we told you about last week,
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where four millennials pick up this handicapped kid and,
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I'm having a hard time with the CBS story because it doesn't sound like the same story that we all saw last week.
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I just wanted to see what movies were going to get awards.
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Now we find out the real reason why Pat watched the Golden Globes.
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And so you're just watching anything that's in 4K.
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standard television looks now when you have HD?
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now I can save a lot of money on the standard definition ones.
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I think it was the smartest thing in the world,
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Pat has an open invitation to come over anytime.
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You're not going to buy one until it's like 800 bucks.
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So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners.
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You'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts,
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And a lot of people seriously disagree with that.
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I was hoping we could give all of the money to the MMA.
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but like the top five of the top six shows every single week are the NFL.
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do you care that some of the best shows on television now are,
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a few people of color and foreigners in sports.
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It's almost as if her point is completely inane.
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Trump's not talking about kicking out all foreigners.
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probably a president that was more closely aligned with Hollywood than Donald Trump.
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100% agree with Donald Trump on what he took today,
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which is a much more difficult stand than saying Meryl Streep's an idiot when she makes a political speech.
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And the true one is that Meryl Streep sucks as an actress,
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I've been saying it on this show for how many freaking years.
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But he's right on this one and give him credit when he's right.
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hopefully will correctly recognize that she's terrible.
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They just give her the awards before she even does the movies.
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we have a president that can recognize that because I don't even know what Reagan have done.
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luckily Trump's out there with the guts to say Meryl Streep.
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one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood doesn't know me,
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Meryl didn't lose big in the particular awards,
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they don't even recognize the rot in their own state.
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the people in California to do your food catering,
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Why do you have to fly someplace else to do it?
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there's these guys in Louisiana that are great.
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go to Louisiana and find a story that might be a show.
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It was supposed to be filmed large portions of it in New York,
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they went to Philadelphia and the unions were better.
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They found a more willing environment and they had to,
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one of the reasons they developed the steady cam and use the steady cam a lot for that
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at least because they basically had to run around and hide from people where they weren't
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and Facebooking about how this is why Trump won,
01:20:14.980
because they see people like Meryl Streep with these attitudes and,
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it is this understanding that everyone in this room is right.
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Even though people in that room aren't all in lockstep,
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And we're now being broadcast all around the country.
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So now we're going to tell all the little people.
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And so there's no way we're ever going to listen to one of your points
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but she delivered it maybe because she's a bad actress.
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She delivered it as a slam in everybody's face.
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And one of the reasons why is because I was away from my Casper mattress.
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You were in a chair sitting there and you moved.
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And I know this makes you guys feel good some way.
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but you're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
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I've never watched any of Tucker Carlson's shows.
01:23:00.320
You guys got in a little bit of a dust-up fairly recently,
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I mean, it's interesting you're going on his show.
01:23:17.860
but sometimes these media things blow up into stuff that they're...
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And if there's a way I can help him and be in a show,
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You guys obviously agree on the vast majority of issues.
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Will we see this recapped on the new glenbeck.com
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I wanted to share an experience from earlier today.
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This afternoon, I had a plumber over to my apartment
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I couldn't shake the sense of potential danger.