Sept. 11, 2025
Where Did My Country Go
I just don't recognize my country. I got to see someone shot in the neck and die today. Then people cheered because they didn't like his opinions. It just seems so weird. Meawhile the mainstram media fans the flames of the divided states of America, and nobody knows how to have a dialogue anymore. All we do is shoot each other, and the bad news is I don't know how to fix it, and I don't trust the people in power.
So welcome to my rant as I scream into the void.
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Unknown: And I got to see a very
graphic video of that, and it's
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different than in the movies.
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Live from the basement. It's
building a better Dave. Check us
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out@betterdave.com
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Email us at dave@betterdave.com
or call in your comments,
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888-563-3228, now here's your
host, Dave Jackson,
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hello, hey, this is going to be
one of those just me shouting
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into the void kind of episodes I
I was aware of who Charlie Kirk
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was. He was very much a right
wing guy. But what I liked about
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Charlie is he would go to
people, and he would listen to
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them, and then he would give
his, you know, response, and
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then they would say something
that may or may not make sense,
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and he would say his he would
have actual dialogs with people.
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And today he was in Utah, of all
places, not really known for
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their crime, and the guy got
shot in the neck, and I got to
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see a very graphic video of
that, and it's different than in
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the movies, and that was
shocking enough that a guy was
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simply voicing his opinion and
was murdered for it. But I
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always hear how bad Twitter is.
And when I go to Twitter, I'm
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looking at my friends and, you
know, colleagues, and we're all
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talking about podcasting, and
I'm like, I don't get what's so
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bad about Twitter. I don't get
it. So I see on the right that
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Charlie Kirk is trending, and I
click on it, and that's where I
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saw the video. But then I saw
people that were cheering like,
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not kind of cheering like
cheering like, All right, one,
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you know, part of the patriarchy
is dead, and heart emojis and
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rainbows and, you know, pictures
of Kamala Harris laughing. You
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know, obviously she's not, but
just the fact that this is a guy
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with two little kids, two
daughters, and their dad's dead.
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And you know, eventually,
somewhere, they're going to end
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up seeing that video. And I can
only imagine how scarring that
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would be. Then I fire up
LinkedIn, and my buddy Larry
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says it's day two in Portland,
and I have to say it's been a
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complete shock to the system.
The streets are covered in
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graffiti. Homelessness is
everywhere, and people lost to
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fentanyl slump on every street
corner. I've been across all the
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country, but I've never seen
anything quite like this. Within
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two hours, a stranger ran up
yelling at me to guess the name
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that three police officers had
given him. I had to play a real
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life game of Minesweeper to
dodge human waste on the
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sidewalks, and when I tried to
buy a monster, meaning an energy
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drink at Walgreens, I couldn't
even grab it off the shelf
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because everything in the store
was locked up. I can't wrap my
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head around how this became our
normal, or how policy makers
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allow an environment like this
to take root. It's disturbing,
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it's disheartening, and it's
hard to accept. And then I'm in
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Akron, Ohio, and look, I'm a
huge LeBron James fan. He has
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done a lot for this city. Every
spring, he comes back and gives
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away a boatload of bicycles, and
all these kids ride down Main
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Street. He's taken an old
restaurant that was kind of one
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of the pillars of Akron, but had
really been run down, and he
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turned it into a work center to
give people skills they need. He
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built a school where he pays all
the children. It's actually now
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part of the Akron public school
system, but in theory, they're
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supposed to get free college.
And there are kids that are
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graduating, you know, like the
eighth grade, and they can't
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read. And part of that, I saw a
YouTube video of a teacher that
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taught there that said the kids,
if they don't feel like
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learning, can just get up and
walk out like that's the norm.
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And it seems to be a lot,
especially with children, where
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we're kind of letting the
inmates run the asylum and there
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needs to be order. So that's
crazy. But it was just weird.
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And then throw on top of that, I
had a friend of mine yet another
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one drop dead this week. And
it's weird because I I just saw
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him two weeks ago. He had lost
30 pounds. Was looking really
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good. His doctor gave him a
great bill of health, like, keep
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up the good work. And then he
had a blood clot and was gone,
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and I'm like, Okay, I instantly
go to the internet, like, what
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causes blood clots? So it's
really weird, and I don't know,
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because the news makes their
living by only. Like, there was
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a video when I was on Twitter
of, I believe it was CNN. And, I
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mean, this guy gets hit in the
throat, right? It's and, and,
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you know, they said, Well, maybe
it was one of his supporters
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firing off a celebratory shot.
And I'm like, really like,
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you're, you're, you're that
biased that you can't say, Holy
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cow, somebody shot this guy. And
that's when I was just like, we
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are so far left and so far right
that the mainstream media just
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makes a living out of stoking
the files the fires of
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recreational outrage. They just
want us mad at each other. And
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now I was listening to a podcast
called no agenda, and they were
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talking about how, like, the
latest shooting at the Catholic
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school, and that person was
mentally ill and was on all
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sorts of drugs. And everybody
was like, pointing at them
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because this person happened to
be trans. And they're like,
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well, this isn't like, just
because he's he or she is trans,
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like, that's not it. And then
that show, because it's not the
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mainstream media went back and
there were, like, six of that
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situation, and they weren't even
pointing at the transfer.
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They're just like, hey, can we
look into some of these drugs
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people are taking that are
prescribed? And it's just, but
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the Twitter thing, I now go, oh,
that's a cesspool. It really is,
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where the cesspool myself
included, I guess. I mean, I go
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there to talk to my friends, and
I don't look at other things.
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But I just, I could not believe
people, you know, shooting
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confetti cannons and jumping up
and down. And I just was like,
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that's a that's a person, a
young person, who's, what, 36
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something like that, and he got
shot for speaking his opinion.
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And this is where, you know, he
could say one thing, and we're
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not communicating, because if he
says something about, you know,
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there are only two sexes, you
know, that is translated as they
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want to kill us all. We have to
kill them first. And I'm like, I
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don't think that's what he said.
It's just so weird. And I didn't
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know how to feel my body, the
whole my whole body was just
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tense, like, What? What?
Because, being a man, I want to
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fix stuff, and I go, I don't
know how to fix this, but I am
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starting to understand why more
people are homeschooling,
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because we're not. We don't feel
like our kids are safe at
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school. And I'm starting to
wonder. This week, I went and
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saw Tom Segura at a theater, and
he's kind of crazy. He does some
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Nazi for work stuff. And is this
a case where we're all because
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that's what they want. They want
us all scared. And are we just
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going to be afraid to go to any
kind of public events, you know?
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And the bigger it is, the the
better the chance, you know,
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somebody's gonna, and I don't
know about the whole gun
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situation, because this wasn't a
machine gun. It was a rifle, you
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know. So it wasn't like he had a
ak 47 or what. I'm not a gun
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guy, you know, he shot one
person, and so it wasn't a mass
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shooting, it was the direct
opposite. Was very targeted. And
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my heart goes out to his family.
And I I'm it's weird because I
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heard they don't have a suspect,
and I'm like, wait, no. But he
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saw this guy, so I don't know.
We'll figure it out. I hope I
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just feel so bad for his kids.
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And I'm just letting you know
don't go looking for the video,
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because there was one guy that
was like three rows from him,
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and you just see him get shot in
the neck, and blood just comes
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flowing everywhere. And then
there was the video I missed,
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this story of the one woman on
some sort of train or bus, and
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the guy behind her just stabs
her, and nobody does a thing,
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which I don't know what I would
do in that situation. You got a
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crazy guy stabbing people, but
it again, it's way different
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than the movies, when all of a
sudden you just see a river of
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blood go flowing down this bus,
and I'm just like, what's going
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on? We need to teach people how
to de escalate things. And maybe
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we need to start looking into,
you know, remember when Reagan
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emptied all the the quote,
asylums, you know, maybe we got
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some people with serious mental
problems that need help. And
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that's a tricky that's a
slippery slope, because some
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people are obviously mentally
ill, and then other people are
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kind of on the borderline, if we
go locking up everybody, but we
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got to be safe. I don't know. I
don't have the answers. I just
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know I don't recognize my
country anymore, and I don't
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think it's a case where this has
always happened. You just didn't
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see it before. Now, with 24/7 I
don't think that's the case. I
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think because I remember growing
up when you could say what
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political party you were, and
then you'd be like, Oh, you're a
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Democrat, oh, I'm the other guy,
oh, I'm a Democrat, oh, you're
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the other guy. And then you kind
of talk about things it wasn't
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any big deal, because I think we
all knew in the end, they're all
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crooked politicians owned by the
banks, and so why lose a
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friendship over it? I don't know
it's very weird. Everything's
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very extreme, but I just know
right now, I don't recognize my
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country anymore, and Twitter,
Twitter makes me depressed. If I
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go into Twitter and look at
whatever's trending, we're all
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just it's just amazingly
horrible. So is it gonna get
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better? I always end by saying,
well, it's gonna get better. I
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Sure, sure it is, because in the
mortal words of John and Paul,
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It can't get much worse. You i.
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Unknown: And I got to see a very
graphic video of that, and it's
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different than in the movies.
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Live from the basement. It's
building a better Dave. Check us
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out@betterdave.com
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Email us at dave@betterdave.com
or call in your comments,
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888-563-3228, now here's your
host, Dave Jackson,
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hello, hey, this is going to be
one of those just me shouting
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into the void kind of episodes I
I was aware of who Charlie Kirk
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was. He was very much a right
wing guy. But what I liked about
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Charlie is he would go to
people, and he would listen to
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them, and then he would give
his, you know, response, and
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then they would say something
that may or may not make sense,
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and he would say his he would
have actual dialogs with people.
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And today he was in Utah, of all
places, not really known for
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their crime, and the guy got
shot in the neck, and I got to
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see a very graphic video of
that, and it's different than in
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the movies, and that was
shocking enough that a guy was
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simply voicing his opinion and
was murdered for it. But I
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always hear how bad Twitter is.
And when I go to Twitter, I'm
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looking at my friends and, you
know, colleagues, and we're all
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talking about podcasting, and
I'm like, I don't get what's so
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bad about Twitter. I don't get
it. So I see on the right that
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Charlie Kirk is trending, and I
click on it, and that's where I
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saw the video. But then I saw
people that were cheering like,
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not kind of cheering like
cheering like, All right, one,
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you know, part of the patriarchy
is dead, and heart emojis and
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rainbows and, you know, pictures
of Kamala Harris laughing. You
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know, obviously she's not, but
just the fact that this is a guy
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with two little kids, two
daughters, and their dad's dead.
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And you know, eventually,
somewhere, they're going to end
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up seeing that video. And I can
only imagine how scarring that
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would be. Then I fire up
LinkedIn, and my buddy Larry
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says it's day two in Portland,
and I have to say it's been a
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complete shock to the system.
The streets are covered in
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graffiti. Homelessness is
everywhere, and people lost to
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fentanyl slump on every street
corner. I've been across all the
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country, but I've never seen
anything quite like this. Within
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two hours, a stranger ran up
yelling at me to guess the name
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that three police officers had
given him. I had to play a real
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life game of Minesweeper to
dodge human waste on the
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sidewalks, and when I tried to
buy a monster, meaning an energy
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drink at Walgreens, I couldn't
even grab it off the shelf
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because everything in the store
was locked up. I can't wrap my
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head around how this became our
normal, or how policy makers
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allow an environment like this
to take root. It's disturbing,
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it's disheartening, and it's
hard to accept. And then I'm in
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Akron, Ohio, and look, I'm a
huge LeBron James fan. He has
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done a lot for this city. Every
spring, he comes back and gives
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away a boatload of bicycles, and
all these kids ride down Main
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Street. He's taken an old
restaurant that was kind of one
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of the pillars of Akron, but had
really been run down, and he
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turned it into a work center to
give people skills they need. He
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built a school where he pays all
the children. It's actually now
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part of the Akron public school
system, but in theory, they're
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supposed to get free college.
And there are kids that are
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graduating, you know, like the
eighth grade, and they can't
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read. And part of that, I saw a
YouTube video of a teacher that
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taught there that said the kids,
if they don't feel like
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learning, can just get up and
walk out like that's the norm.
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And it seems to be a lot,
especially with children, where
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we're kind of letting the
inmates run the asylum and there
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needs to be order. So that's
crazy. But it was just weird.
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And then throw on top of that, I
had a friend of mine yet another
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one drop dead this week. And
it's weird because I I just saw
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him two weeks ago. He had lost
30 pounds. Was looking really
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good. His doctor gave him a
great bill of health, like, keep
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up the good work. And then he
had a blood clot and was gone,
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and I'm like, Okay, I instantly
go to the internet, like, what
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causes blood clots? So it's
really weird, and I don't know,
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because the news makes their
living by only. Like, there was
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a video when I was on Twitter
of, I believe it was CNN. And, I
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mean, this guy gets hit in the
throat, right? It's and, and,
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you know, they said, Well, maybe
it was one of his supporters
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firing off a celebratory shot.
And I'm like, really like,
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you're, you're, you're that
biased that you can't say, Holy
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cow, somebody shot this guy. And
that's when I was just like, we
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are so far left and so far right
that the mainstream media just
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makes a living out of stoking
the files the fires of
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recreational outrage. They just
want us mad at each other. And
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now I was listening to a podcast
called no agenda, and they were
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talking about how, like, the
latest shooting at the Catholic
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school, and that person was
mentally ill and was on all
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sorts of drugs. And everybody
was like, pointing at them
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because this person happened to
be trans. And they're like,
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well, this isn't like, just
because he's he or she is trans,
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like, that's not it. And then
that show, because it's not the
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mainstream media went back and
there were, like, six of that
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situation, and they weren't even
pointing at the transfer.
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They're just like, hey, can we
look into some of these drugs
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people are taking that are
prescribed? And it's just, but
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the Twitter thing, I now go, oh,
that's a cesspool. It really is,
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where the cesspool myself
included, I guess. I mean, I go
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there to talk to my friends, and
I don't look at other things.
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But I just, I could not believe
people, you know, shooting
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confetti cannons and jumping up
and down. And I just was like,
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that's a that's a person, a
young person, who's, what, 36
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something like that, and he got
shot for speaking his opinion.
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And this is where, you know, he
could say one thing, and we're
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not communicating, because if he
says something about, you know,
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there are only two sexes, you
know, that is translated as they
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want to kill us all. We have to
kill them first. And I'm like, I
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don't think that's what he said.
It's just so weird. And I didn't
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know how to feel my body, the
whole my whole body was just
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tense, like, What? What?
Because, being a man, I want to
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fix stuff, and I go, I don't
know how to fix this, but I am
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starting to understand why more
people are homeschooling,
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because we're not. We don't feel
like our kids are safe at
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school. And I'm starting to
wonder. This week, I went and
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saw Tom Segura at a theater, and
he's kind of crazy. He does some
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Nazi for work stuff. And is this
a case where we're all because
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that's what they want. They want
us all scared. And are we just
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going to be afraid to go to any
kind of public events, you know?
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And the bigger it is, the the
better the chance, you know,
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somebody's gonna, and I don't
know about the whole gun
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situation, because this wasn't a
machine gun. It was a rifle, you
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know. So it wasn't like he had a
ak 47 or what. I'm not a gun
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guy, you know, he shot one
person, and so it wasn't a mass
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shooting, it was the direct
opposite. Was very targeted. And
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my heart goes out to his family.
And I I'm it's weird because I
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heard they don't have a suspect,
and I'm like, wait, no. But he
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saw this guy, so I don't know.
We'll figure it out. I hope I
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just feel so bad for his kids.
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And I'm just letting you know
don't go looking for the video,
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because there was one guy that
was like three rows from him,
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and you just see him get shot in
the neck, and blood just comes
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flowing everywhere. And then
there was the video I missed,
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this story of the one woman on
some sort of train or bus, and
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the guy behind her just stabs
her, and nobody does a thing,
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which I don't know what I would
do in that situation. You got a
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crazy guy stabbing people, but
it again, it's way different
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than the movies, when all of a
sudden you just see a river of
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blood go flowing down this bus,
and I'm just like, what's going
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on? We need to teach people how
to de escalate things. And maybe
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we need to start looking into,
you know, remember when Reagan
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emptied all the the quote,
asylums, you know, maybe we got
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some people with serious mental
problems that need help. And
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that's a tricky that's a
slippery slope, because some
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people are obviously mentally
ill, and then other people are
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kind of on the borderline, if we
go locking up everybody, but we
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got to be safe. I don't know. I
don't have the answers. I just
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know I don't recognize my
country anymore, and I don't
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think it's a case where this has
always happened. You just didn't
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see it before. Now, with 24/7 I
don't think that's the case. I
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think because I remember growing
up when you could say what
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political party you were, and
then you'd be like, Oh, you're a
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Democrat, oh, I'm the other guy,
oh, I'm a Democrat, oh, you're
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the other guy. And then you kind
of talk about things it wasn't
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any big deal, because I think we
all knew in the end, they're all
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crooked politicians owned by the
banks, and so why lose a
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friendship over it? I don't know
it's very weird. Everything's
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very extreme, but I just know
right now, I don't recognize my
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country anymore, and Twitter,
Twitter makes me depressed. If I
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go into Twitter and look at
whatever's trending, we're all
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just it's just amazingly
horrible. So is it gonna get
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better? I always end by saying,
well, it's gonna get better. I
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Sure, sure it is, because in the
mortal words of John and Paul,
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It can't get much worse. You i.
