Tucker speaks at the RiskOn360! Global Success Conference
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Summary
In this episode of his new show, Tucker Carlson is joined by an old friend of his who is a financial analyst. They talk about how to deal with paranoia and anger and what to do about it. It's a really important topic to talk about, and it's one I think a lot of people need to be thinking about. I don't know about you, but I think most of us are a little more paranoid than we should be, and I think that's a good thing. I think we should all be more aware of our own paranoia, especially when it comes to things we don't have any idea what's going on in the world around us. And I think there are a few things we can do to help deal with it, and maybe a few ways to make it a little less scary, but probably not a whole lot more scary than it should be. I hope you enjoy this episode, and tweet me what you think of it! if you liked it, tweet me and let me know what you thought of it. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Timestamps: 4:00 - How to deal in the real world 5:30 - How do you deal with your paranoia? 7:00- How do we deal with our own fears and anger? 8:15 - How can we handle it? 9:20 - What should we do about paranoia 11:30- How can I deal with fear? 13:00 14:40 - Is paranoia a symptom of anxiety? 15:40- What do you need to do? 16:30 17: What are you looking for? 18:20- How to cope with paranoia 19: How do I know it's not a bad thing? 21:40 22:10 - What s your intuition? 23:10 Is paranoia real? 25:00 Do you know what s going to help you? 26:00 Can you trust your gut? 27:30 What s the best thing you're going to do with your perception of what you're seeing? 29: What s a good idea? 32:00 What s going on? 35:00 Is there a problem you can do about this? 31:00 Are you listening to your intuition or not a lie? 33:00 Does it matter? 34:30 Is it creepy?
Transcript
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Well, I've never had an introduction like that.
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I didn't hear the introduction because I was backstage
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with an old friend of mine from television who's here.
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And he's probably the greatest financial analyst on television.
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since he deals with markets and, you know, real companies,
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And that kind of, and by the way, I'm not giving investment advice.
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You would never take investment advice from someone who's never had an actual job.
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Don't buy real estate from a homeless person, et cetera, et cetera.
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But I'm only saying that to highlight what everyone in this room already knows,
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I flew out here across the country this morning and spent five hours texting people,
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mostly people I know, but also the entire mentally ill community in America has my texts.
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But also a lot of people I really like and who are smart and temperate and reasonable people
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I'm 54, you know, kind of seen stuff and have measured opinions on things.
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And I got to tell you, every single person I texted with, with the exception of my wife,
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who's not on the internet at all, was angry and paranoid.
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These are normal good people with like kids and stuff.
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These are the, you know, these are the people you want voting.
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Every single one of them, some of them really angry and some of them really paranoid.
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And I have to say, after assessing their views for five hours, I think they were justified in both.
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Like they had every reason to be angry and all the evidence required to become paranoid.
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I'm just telling you once again what you already know, which is this is going to be the next year,
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is going to be, I think, I'd bet my house on it, really like nothing we've ever seen in the country.
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You know, most of our perceptions come through intuition rather than reason.
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And if you have dogs, you know this because they can't understand literally a word you say
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But if you're close to your dog, you know the dog knows exactly what's going on.
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Because they don't hear anything, they just watch.
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And if something bad is about to happen, everybody gets jumpy.
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So I'm not here to, you know, make your anger and paranoia worse.
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I'm here merely to suggest a couple of things that I think you could do about it.
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And that might be useful rather than pointless.
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Like spending a ton of time on social media screaming at people.
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And I would never discourage anyone from doing it.
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You know, probably aren't going to solve your problem.
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So the first thing I think that's really important as you stare down the next 12 months is to accept the fact that all your senses are telling you the truth.
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A good friend of mine called Gavin DeBecker once wrote a book.
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The thesis of which was every feeling, every gut level feeling you've ever had is real.
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That your gut is the one thing that doesn't lie to you.
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It is not trying to sell you a product or convince you to vote for it.
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So if you get a very strong message from your viscera, from your intuition, obey it.
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As I always tell my children, if you're talking to somebody and the person seems creepy, he's creepy.
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It doesn't mean you can convict him in a court of law for creepiness, though maybe you should try.
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All you need to know is that what your senses are telling you is absolutely true.
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Now, you may not know how you're being lied to or why you're being lied to, much less what the truth is.
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But if you feel you're being lied to, you're 100% right.
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And if you feel that something very intense and history-changing is about to happen, don't ignore it.
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So, I mean, just ask yourself, just on the merits of the facts.
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You've got the two frontrunners, just for president, just in this country.
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And there are, by the way, 150 other countries where there's similar volatility unfolding, certainly in every Western country.
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But just in our country, you've got two people running for president.
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It's being, the White House is being run by a cartel of people for whatever ends.
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We know the guy they claim is running it is not running it.
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I try not to because I feel bad for him because I don't believe in making fun of old people or the disabled.
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I feel guilty every time I say it, including now.
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He's not running the country, and yet he's standing for reelection at the age of 80.
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Opposing him is a man who has been indicted four times and is facing life in prison.
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And every time he gets indicted and every time they tack years on to the sentence, this potential sentence, he becomes more popular and now he's winning.
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One, the side that's indicting him doesn't want him to be president so badly that they are willing to indict him on what are transparently ridiculous charges.
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And two, the public is not only not buying it, it is incentivizing them to support him.
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It tells you that the people currently in charge have no idea how the country works, what the country wants, and they don't care.
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They're desperate and they'll do literally anything.
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I mean, I could give you a thousand potential scenarios.
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I personally think the governor of California will get in.
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I have no evidence whatsoever that that's true.
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Other than he's the single most ruthless and evil person I've ever seen in politics.
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Therefore, he has to come to the top of that party.
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All I know for a fact is that this can't be resolved in an orderly way.
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Well, the first thing you need to do is understand the terms and the stakes of what's going on.
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The big lie that we tell ourselves and that I have told many times is that this is political.
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Politics is a human conceived system whereby civilized people settle their differences without violence and by consensus.
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Neither of us is going to get exactly what we want.
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But we'll each come away thinking we didn't get totally hosed and we can continue to live together.
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And that's why nobody wants to watch it because it's filled with horse trading and accommodations.
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And while it's unattractive like watching heavyset people have sex, it's absolutely necessary.
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And everyone deserves to live in a country governed by politics, not force.
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Nothing that is happening now or that has happened for the last five or six years can be explained through conventional political terms.
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You find out that someone's getting a vig on something.
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And you know, if it were only about the money, we'd be fine.
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Just in the same way that I understand, being totally honest here, most crimes.
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Because the penalty is too high and you try to be a decent person.
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But when someone who is poor robs a bank, or even if someone who's greedy robs a bank.
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Or someone who's greedy and makes up a fake cryptocurrency and buys his parents' houses in the Bahamas.
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I'm not pointing at you, Sam Bankman-Fried, but I'm just saying, I get it.
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I don't approve of it, but it makes sense to me.
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If people do something for power, I understand it.
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You cheat in an election so you can become president even though you're senile.
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But it's certainly not foreign to anybody who's alive.
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What's happening is bad behavior for its own sake.
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There is no upside to the great trends of our age.
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There's no upside to pushing transgenderism on kids.
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Not for the parents who will never have grandchildren.
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You've got to figure there's some percentage of the population who decides I want to switch
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But it involved a hundredth of one percent of the population.
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If forty percent of the girls in your kid's eighth grade class identify as non-binary,
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That's not an organic conclusion they have reached.
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That is, someone has decided to tell them that there are more than two sexes.
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I mean, maybe to some extent, but it's bigger than that.
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What you're seeing is evil done for its own sake.
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Hurting people done for the sake of hurting people.
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When you see a war like the war in Ukraine, and I think, and I have always thought since day one,
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that good people can have differing views on that.
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But I think decent people can come to any variety of conclusions.
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But in the end, no one really benefited, actually, from that war.
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I saw a video today of the latest class of Ukrainian army recruits.
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And these guys were at least as old and much closer to death.
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But for American policymakers, for Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary,
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to announce yesterday that we must continue this war, what is that?
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When the best possible outcome is a generation of grandfathers gets slaughtered?
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What you're looking at is someone who is thrilled, and I mean Janet Yellen,
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our Treasury Secretary specifically, who was thrilled by the prospect of people dying.
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And I'm not attacking anyone who's for Ukraine or Zelensky.
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I'm really saying at this point, right now, if you're rational at all,
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and you take 10 minutes to read about it, there's no other outcome other than prolonged human suffering.
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And if you're endorsing that, you have to ask why.
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And the question of lying since I'm in the media, though I don't admit it very often anymore.
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Well, I guess now I'm unemployed, but I was in the media.
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I mean, when I started in this business, following my father who was in this business, in 1991,
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there was really just kind of one, well, the unspoken rule was have an interesting life
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and learn how to tell a story at dinner and, you know, don't pass out until you get home.
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But the explicit rule in journalism really was just one was to tell the truth.
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The basic requirement of, like, seeking the truth is admitting when you don't find it,
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That's how you know an honest person, when he admits he was wrong.
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And if you're dealing with people who never admit they're wrong, you're dealing with liars.
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So there have always been liars, and there always will be.
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But what we're seeing now is very, very different.
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Because the kinds of lies, there are two things that make it different.
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The kinds of lies that we're hearing are not conventional lies at all.
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And anyone who has kids knows exactly what I'm talking about.
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This is how you know it's inherent to the human condition.
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So you come down for breakfast, you open the cabinet, and, like, half the Oreos are gone.
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And instead of, you know, smacking him and saying, you liar, you get it.
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If Dylan worked in the Biden administration, he would stare right in your eyes and smile
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And so certain of your guilt that in your mind you would think, shit, did I eat the Oreos?
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Because we're not used to dealing with people who can lie without guilt.
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Irony of ironies, they lie about the lie detector test.
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They're like, oh, it's not admissible in court.
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But if you work for a big company or CIA or DOD or if you work for any organization where
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telling the truth is a high stakes matter, they will polygraph you.
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And if you've ever been polygraphed, you know how effective it is.
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And it's effective because people don't like to lie.
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They do it because they feel they have to because they're hiding the truth about themselves.
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And something in your body, literally in your body, rebels against lying.
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You tell a lie, your palms will sweat involuntarily.
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So it takes a very rare person to lie in the way that we're being lied to.
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And it takes a very rare moment to see lying at this scale.
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But the final fact that makes this moment different is that they're not just lying.
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They're offended by things purely because they are true.
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There's a group called Media Matters, which is a, you know, it's a censorship organization
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funded by Soros and a lot of other people who hate Western civilization designed to prohibit
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Well, the things that they're prohibiting people from saying are 100% true.
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Somebody sent me a piece today where Media Matters attacked a guy for suggesting that
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And there had, in fact, been advanced civilizations in earlier moments in time.
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And that they had been eliminated somehow through climactic events, through natural disasters.
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And that we're not aware of them in any detail.
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I don't, you know, I'd like to learn more because I think it's really interesting.
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We have no idea how the pyramids were built, for example.
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We sent a man to the moon and you can't replicate the technology that created the pyramids?
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You can't even, you don't have any good guess as to how they were built?
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So a normal curious person would say, well, why don't we know that?
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And what does it tell us about ourselves and about the past that we don't know?
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They were attacking this guy for asking that question.
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And I was like, why would Media Matters care about your opinions on the pyramids?
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Or whether they were big civilizations in Illinois 10,000 years ago, which there were, by the way,
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And the current version of history that we've been told is not only incomplete.
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But I know that what I learned as a kid is wrong.
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And so it is much closer to the truth to say, we have no freaking idea how they built the pyramids.
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Every person, and I just, by happenstance, because of the nature of my job, know like
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80% of the people who have been canceled, which is to say had their lives destroyed by the censors.
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And I can't think of a single case where someone was destroyed for telling the truth.
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If they had lied, if they repeated whatever dumb slogan they were told to repeat,
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whatever, we're in a climate crisis, diversity is our strength, or whatever.
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Whatever the approved script is, if they just read it, like a good little robot,
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they would have ascended the ladder at NBC News.
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They wouldn't be living in their weekend house.
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And if you don't believe me, look back, and do it when there's no one else around,
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because everyone's afraid even to have unapproved thoughts now.
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But go through like the last 15 famous people who were canceled for saying the wrong thing.
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And ask yourself, is the thing they said wrong?
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Some of the things people get canceled for are kind of offensive in my opinion.
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The measure always and everywhere has to be in a free society, in an honest society,
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In fact, there was a guy who used to say, facts don't care about your feelings.
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And even more important than the facts, the truth of the facts.
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I always say to my children, never tell the truth about other people in their presence
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The only lies that hurt people are the true ones.
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But in the end, that's a function of politeness.
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I was telling my children to be polite, to care about the feelings of others, which I
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But as a legal matter and a cultural matter, you cannot punish people for telling the truth.
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Both in a literal sense and in a spiritual sense.
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And if you are governed by people who actively hate the truth and who lie for the sheer animal
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thrill of doing so, you are living in a dark time under very dark people.
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It's not about, it's not about who gets elected.
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It's about what happens to the world in your soul.
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And so my advice, like what, you know, what can you do about that?
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You know, it's a very action oriented, practical country.
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So people are always like, well, what can you do?
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Write your congressman, he's not going to read your letter.
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Go to your school board meeting, you're going to get arrested.
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I think the only way to stay alive and fully human in a moment like this is to resolve
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that you are going to tell the truth in every and all circumstance.
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If it's going to hurt the feelings of someone you love, that's an absolutely justifiable reason
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But in every other circumstance, whether you're standing in carpool line with all the, you know,
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fashionable ladies in your neighborhood at the stupid private school.
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Or whether your wife's friends are over in their SoulCycle outfits talking about something and you disagree.
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You can be gentle, you can be empathetic, and you always should be.
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But you should never allow yourself to repeat anything that you know is not true.
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That is the mark, not of a free man or a citizen, but of a slave.
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That is the difference between freedom and slavery, is the right to say what you actually think.
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And anyone who is trying to force you to lie is A, your enemy, and B, believes that you are subhuman.
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They may have different views, different interests, different goals, and you have to contend with them
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through the aforementioned process of politics, through negotiations.
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I want this, you want that, let me convince you.
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You are not allowed to say to a free adult citizen, shut up, you must do this.
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You can't do that under any circumstances, or else you are no longer a citizen, you are a slave.
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And worse than that, you have degraded yourself.
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Clearly the people who run things see the rest of us as slaves.
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They are not interested in the public's opinion.
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The overlap between the list of things that people care about in this country and the list of things that Congress and the White House actually do, there's none.
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Go look at the last ten Gallup polls on what Americans care about and compare those to the policy priorities of your government.
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They're not reading it because they don't want to because it doesn't matter to them.
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I'm not exactly sure how, but I know that it begins with the strength inside you.
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And that explains their determined effort to make you weak by feeding you poisonous garbage, by trying to make you take medicine that is not at all medicine, by their insistence that you shut up and hate yourself, by their claim that your children are not your own.
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In fact, your dignity and strength is a threat to them.
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That's why they closed the gyms and kept the weed dispensaries open.
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That's why the churches were shut down, but the strip bars weren't.
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And of course, it's a determined, systematic effort to weaken the population in order to limit their resistance to what they planned for us.
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No, I just have lived here for the last four years.
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I'm calling instead for a population that becomes stronger inside and also outside, you know, physically stronger.
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It's retaining your dignity and your self-respect.
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And by the way, when you allow people to lie to you without saying anything, when you're too afraid because of whatever you're trying.
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And I had to sell my house because I ran out of money.
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I'm not, you know, I'm not doing the woe is me thing.
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It's fine, actually, as long as you're married to someone who can handle it.
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You know, you should try harder to explain it and rally the troops at home.
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But the point is, you know, getting fired, being unpopular, maybe even getting arrested, those are not the worst things that can happen to you.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is becoming a slave inside.
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I would rather be a free man in my grave than live as a puppet or a slave.
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You don't need to, like, start a rebellion or order ammo on the Internet, though you should.
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And your dignity is rooted in your sense of self as a free person.
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And there's literally nothing you can do to make me do that.
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I don't want to be killed, but I'm willing to be.
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And if you actually make that decision, and if you mean it, a couple of things will happen.
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The first thing that will happen is that your marriage will improve.
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No woman, and I know there are women, I don't have my glasses on, but I know there are women here.
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No woman wants to be married to a man who will take that kind of abuse.
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And most of them are pretty nice, and so they won't say anything about it.
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But their respect for you will diminish, and why wouldn't it?
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So that's the first thing that's going to happen.
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And the second thing that happens is the more you tell the truth, the stronger you become.
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And you don't have to believe in the supernatural.
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But you don't even have to understand, and I don't really understand, where that comes from or why.
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But I've experienced it, and anyone who has told the truth experiences it, too, instantly.
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In the same way that lying and crappy behavior and being drunk all the time, I've been there, too, makes you weaker.
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Telling the truth makes you stronger, and you can feel it.
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And the third thing that happens over time, if you tell the truth persistently, quietly, gently, politely.
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The third thing that happens if you adopt that posture is that they will back off.
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They can't even admit that the president's senile.
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But the operative word, the verb in that sentence is hiding.
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And I'm sad to say the population has given them very little reason to be afraid.
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They know nothing they do or say is justifiable.
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And on some animal level, they are terrified of the day that the average person, not some
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stupid talk show host, but the average person who works at some big dopey company and shuffles
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to work every day in some pod with a drop ceiling and fluorescent lighting, that that guy is
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going to be like, no, I'm not going along with it, sorry.
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Because I don't think you should discriminate people on the basis of their race.
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And we've got a monument on the mall that shows that it's immoral.
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We're not going to discriminate against people on the basis of their skin color.
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If enough people do that, and things like it, this whole nonsense will end immediately.
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You don't have to take Saturday off to hold a candle, carry some stupid spray painted sign
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All you need to do is tell the HR lady, I'm opting out.