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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Sheep You Sheared podcast, open road edition.

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I'm your host Austin Creed.

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Oh, that's right.

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My friends, I'm still on the road, the open road in the middle of Utah.

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And my friends, you know, it's hard for me on a long road trip to not get bored, as I'm

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sure you've gotten bored before on a long road trip.

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But I'm sitting here in the car, looking at the open road, looking at the sites, looking

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at the different trees and hills and bushes and lights, splits, all of that good stuff.

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And as I'm sitting here driving, I'm listening to a lot of political commentary because it's

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an election year.

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It's impossible to avoid this different political stuff in an election year, especially with

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the Olympics going on and the juggernaut of the DNC with all the entertainers and all

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of the big tech and all that other stuff.

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So I thought to myself, how can we discuss this?

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That has just more normies, looking to point about things we can't control because that's

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a waste of time.

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Instead I thought to myself, how can we put the good old biblical bachelor spin on this

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about thinking for ourselves, avoiding being exploited and opening our minds.

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And I thought to myself, we need to discuss navigating through the political swamp because

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let's be real.

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The difference between the Democrats and Republicans are a lot of ways is very minimal.

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Now I didn't say entirely now.

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I didn't say entirely.

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But in general, you can divide most people today in politics to like three different

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categories.

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Category one is left wingers who are usually more towards the communist slash socialist

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side.

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Then you have libertarians who are pretty indifferent.

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They want to just be left alone.

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And then you have the more conservatives on the right wing who, of course, there are some

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people who are racist.

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There are some people who are very anti immigration.

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Again, I'm not here to tell you immigration is always good because it's not in the same

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way that progress isn't always good because it's progress.

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However, comma, I think it's important for us to understand the modern political structure.

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The two party system we call a system, which is laughable when you think about how many

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different political parties and representation they have in England, for example, or in other

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countries that have just a wider range of political conversations, discussions, you

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name it.

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But my friends, it's very easy to get caught up in the trap of politics, getting trumped

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up to care about things you can't do a damn thing about getting activated over things

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you couldn't change.

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It's so dumb, in my opinion.

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Now, when it comes to political times such as this, every four years, especially arguably

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over two years, depending on how activated you are in the political circus, make no mistake.

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The political system is a circus.

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And some of the three ring circus like P.T. Barnum had the two ring circus, arguably

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a one ring circus.

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All you got to do is look at who the big donors are to the Democrats and the Republicans.

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And you'll notice the list of people, the list of organizations, the lists of donors

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gets smaller and smaller and smaller.

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And so you realize, just look at Trump.

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I know I say the word Trump immediately.

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I'm going to get your attention.

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So when we look at Trump, for example, before he even entered politics, when I was still

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a teenager and Trump was largely still just a businessman known for his show, the apprentice

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known for just being that rich guy with with cool air and an attitude of I don't give a

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flying fuck.

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Funny enough, if you actually go back to like 20, I think it was 2012.

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There was I think it was HBO or somebody, somebody did a a roast of Donald Trump.

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You got guys like Snoop Dogg.

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You got guys like Seth Macarland.

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You got these guys who are pretty well known entities going and talking about Trump and

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you know, obviously making fun of them, but all in good fun.

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You go fast forward to now.

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He's probably the most recognizable and most controversial person in America.

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But back to his business days, he donated in his own words.

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He donated to Hillary Clinton.

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He donated to Nancy Pelosi.

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He donated to everybody.

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Why?

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Because that's good business.

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It's good business to not play politics unless your business is politics.

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And so we understand that a lot of the political circus is driven by the ring masters, which

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are the people who own pretty much everything that you read, everything that you hear, everything

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that you see.

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Once you realize that, they start to make a little more sense and you're less likely

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to get activated and more likely to get educated on how you're getting exploited and how they

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use both sides of the aisle, they being the billionaires, the guys who you never, some

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of them you might know their names, others you don't know their names or you've forgotten

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them.

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And I'm not so much here to discuss their names as I'm here to discuss what it is that

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they want.

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And what they want to do is make more money.

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What they want to do is they want to expand their empires.

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And the best way to do that is to own both sides of the aisle to donate to both sides

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so that no matter who wins, you still win.

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It's almost like the military industrial complex, which Eisenhower warned about back

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in the 1950s when he was president after World War Two.

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He talked about the military industrial complex.

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I played that speech on the show where he talked about how we must guard against the

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activation of the military industrial complex because they have a natural they their business

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is war.

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And so when you look at when their business is war, they're going to run drum up as much

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war as possible so that then they can stay in business.

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That makes sense.

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They're also going to try to get contracts from people in the government by putting key

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figures and key positions and so on and so forth.

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My friends, what you understand that the game is like the World Series back in I think the

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1960 or 1968.

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I don't remember the exact year.

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Maybe somebody who really is into sports more than me knows.

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But Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series once.

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Nobody thought it could be done when he did it.

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And so if the World Series could be fixed, do you want to sit there and tell me the political

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system or circus, which is a more accurate description?

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Is any different?

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I don't think so.

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And this fits into our principles of the biblical bachelor lifestyle with understanding how

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you're being exploited by the Wolfs of Wall Street, by the coyotes and the corporations

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and by the hyenas and the vultures in government.

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Once you understand these, you'll get less mad and more understanding of why things are

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the way they are.

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And you could screw it instead of seeing it how they want you to see it, which is at face

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value to get you to read and react emotionally, which is the worst way to respond.

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When someone's appealing to your emotions, they're trying to circumnavigate your logical

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faculties, and this, my friends, is how they get you to make very short-sighted, very stupid

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choices.

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All you have to do is look at the lack of logic and a lot of politics, and I'm more than happy

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to go into it and I'll do it right now.

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In fact, I don't care if they cancel me for this because all of this is true.

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Let's take, for example, the lie, like, for example, how many times do you hear an ism

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or a phobia from especially the left wing in America?

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The right wing does it too, but especially the left wingers, they talk about, oh, they're

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Nazis, they're they're they're homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, racist, all that, the

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pluribals, you name it, all that type of stuff, right?

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Well, my friends, when you look at the insults that are often flung, like monkeys fling their

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feces at people, what do you realize that a lot of the insults are actually just projection?

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What do you realize and you would dig through anything?

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Okay, what are the policies that they're talking about?

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What is the legislation they're talking about?

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What is the actual policy being discussed here?

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Not oh, he called him a racist.

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Oh, he must be evil.

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Oh, they must be bad.

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No, no, this is a diversion tactic.

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I attempt to manipulate you into not focusing upon what was said, but how what was said

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is supposed to make you feel or how they interpreted what was said into how it makes you then feel.

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That is what the media does in my estimation.

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Because again, going back, the media is supposed to be the watchdog, the fourth branch of government.

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Instead, they've become largely lap dogs and a fifth column, the fifth column referring

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to the Mexican American war, where the generals I forget the name of the general.

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My memory is great, but I have lapses once in a while.

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I forget the name of the general, but he was standing outside the fort.

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All outside the city with four garrisons ready to be sieging began the siege of the city.

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And they said that his the general sat down, waited in his his officers came to him and

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they said, why are we not starting the attack?

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What are we waiting for?

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And then the general pointed up at the city on the hill and it was already on fire.

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The fifth column was the one inside the city gates.

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And it was Cicero, a fourth century Roman historian who discussed the idea of the enemy

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within.

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The enemy within, meaning the people who speak the language, they understand their ideas

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are talked about in the halls of government.

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They are not foreigners.

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They speak in in ways and dialects, familiar to their victims and everything.

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And what happens, my friends, is before you know it, you've been cheated out of your birthright.

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You no longer have what was given to you by your father or your grandfather, because instead

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of thinking through things logically, you reacted emotionally.

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And my friends, this is exactly what has led to the situations we find ourselves in this

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very day.

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Also, throughout this show, I apologize that the audio sounds bad.

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I'm in the car right now.

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I'm going to try to tweak it to make it sound as good as possible.

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Trust me if this is your first time tuning into the show, my audio is usually a lot

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better than it is right now, because I'm traveling and whatnot.

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But my friends, this is how we navigate the political swamp.

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It's all too easy to get caught up in the garbage and the sewage that saturates the political

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landscape.

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And instead of focusing on actual issues, we focus on what this person said, what this

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pun didn't implied.

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And it gets us in a downward swirl spiral that is only going to lead us to more rhetoric

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and not looking for real solutions.

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Ones that not only affect the nation, but ones that can help affect your life for the

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better.

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Because a lot of things don't always directly impact you.

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So therefore you are inclined to ignore it or push off as somebody else's problem.

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So my one piece of advice, my friends, would be not to dismiss what's happening in politics

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necessarily, but to understand it for what it is, which is an active attempt to get you

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activated so that the people who fund their campaigns, the people who own the corporations

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who are benefiting and benefactoring these individuals, these entities and these organizations,

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that they are trying to make more money off of your back by using your emotions to get

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you to a react.

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I know a lot of you, or at least some of you have told me that you're not really that

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politically interested anymore, which is good.

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But I think it's important for us to know what we are willing to negotiate on and what

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we're not willing to and understand that politicians are largely paid liars.

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The showmen, a lot of ways they're better entertainers in Hollywood because they get

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you to buy into a fantasy that's not actually real or that they have no intention of actually

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bringing about.

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My friends, let me know how you've navigated elections in the past and how you plan to navigate

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the one now because right now there's a lot of speculation and a lot of funny business

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happening already.

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And I don't always think it's a point to discuss politics on the show because there's

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so much more to life than politics.

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But when we were living an election year in a very politically turmoil nation, it's

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very hard to not address it as we're looking at the overall big picture and a holistic

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lifestyle.

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My friends, let me know what you think.

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Let me know how you navigated the past and how you plan to navigate not only this election,

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but the one after.

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Are you what where you aligned politically and what led you there?

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All of these are very important questions that I look forward to hearing you answer

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because I want everybody to sound off on this, even if you've been really disagree with

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me or you think you will.

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I'm not going to I'm not going to tell you you're an idiot if we disagree.

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Now if you're an idiot, I'll call you an idiot, but you're probably not.

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You're probably just misguided or you fundamentally are just an idealist, which everybody's been

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at that point.

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But it's understanding that you are an idealist and then trying to find a way towards being

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more of a cynical realist that will lead you to having a more balanced mindset and not

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just see things the way you want to see them, but you see them for how more they truly are

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from a lot of different perspectives, especially ones you don't like.

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That's why I sometimes quote Karl Marx on the show.

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Why not?

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Because I agree with him.

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In fact, I vehemently disagree with almost everything he's ever said.

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But does that mean that I'm not going to pick up little nuggets of things here and there

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that I think are worth discussing, of course not.

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My friends, let me know what you have to say.

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I hope you answer the question asked.

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And again, this is a conversation.

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This isn't just a lecture from me.

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I'll put you understand that and that you're willing to pitch in and that you know your

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voice matters to me.

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My friends until next time, take care of yourselves.

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I might do more of these when the inspiration hits because I have many hours on the room

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still ahead of me.

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Take care of yourselves.

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I look forward to hearing more from you about this and many other topics.

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Take care.

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I'm out.

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Peace.