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29:39If we use these dollars correctly, we will return Americans to their optimal health. It's a hand up we're giving people, not a handout. If they're healthy, they'll work better, longer, and all that translates to remarkable growth of our economy. I'll give you a number. Take the average 61-year-old today, which is the, by the way, average retirement age. So the average person born in 1964 is retiring this year. Remember, Medicare doesn't start until 65. So they're retiring early. If you get that age group, just that one year to work three more years to age 64, just that one age, everyone is 64, born in 64 is going to work another three years.

30:17That's worth$1 trillion to the U.S. economy. Think about that. Basically, we can close our debt by just getting people to work a little longer. And if they're healthy, they might want to do that. That's the opportunity that health care offers us. I'll give you one concrete example, the work requirement that there was so much fighting over. Yeah, yeah. Now, when Medicaid was created, it never dawned on anybody's mind, never crossed their mind, that they would be offering free health insurance to people who are able-bodied but not working. Years later, as part of the Affordable Care Act under President Obama, there was a decision made to allow able-bodied members of the American population to join Medicaid.

30:59It was supposed to be transient. You get on it, you get off it. Now it's become basically a trap where you have you have generational unemployment. That's easy because you get health insurance for not doing anything. No one asks you to do anything. No one even asks you if you made money. You just sit there and collect the health insurance. And it was basically, it was basically you're in between jobs in essence. It was just a whole over. It was supposed to be. But it's become that you never have to work. Now the guy next to you, the department next to you is flipping burgers all day long, making$20 ,000 a year, exhausted, right?

31:31But you get the same life that he does. The state poverty level is$16 ,000. There's no real difference, by the way, at that level. So why bother working? So what we said was, you need to engage your community. You have agency over your future. You may not know that, but that's your God-given power, is to make a difference in the world. You were not put on the planet to watch 6.1 hours of television or leisure time, which is the data, by the way, for able-bodied people on Medicaid who weren't working. So what we said was, and this shouldn't be controversial, is we want you to go get an education, go volunteer somewhere, go get a job, or at least help take care of kids.

32:08I mean, do something. And guess what? Most Americans, when given that option, will take the deal. They'll go out and try to change the world. That's why I believe that the benefit of a work requirement will get more people into the workforce and get people to start to change their life for the better. Do you owe back taxes or haven't even filed in years? Now's the time to resolve your tax issues. With the national debate around abolishing the income tax system, the IRS is pushing back by becoming more aggressive than ever. They're sending more collection notices, filing more tax liens, and collecting billions more than in recent years.

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33:14Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit TNUSA.com for your free discovery call. Don't let the IRS be the first act. I mean, people know the sort of the public side of all this and leaving ESPN and the COVID stuff and canceling and all that. But in the midst of this, you were you were also getting a divorce. You were also living on your own for the first time in, I assume, plus 20 plus years. Right. Oh, yeah. And all that. And moving down here and everything else. And I've seen, you know, one of your daughters is here. I've seen the relationship that you've managed with your girls and everything else. And when I come back from the grid, I have to take a trip within two days of coming back because on September 3rd is your ish.

33:54That week. Ish. Maybe I got it wrong slightly. But ish, first week of September-ish is your wedding to, of course, Dave. Another Dave. I love Dave's in my life, you guys. So, I mean, that's a lot of stuff to happen in a short period. It's a lot. What did you make of those two things happening at once? I mean, basically going through the personal side, divorce and all that, and the career stuff. I mean, that's a lot of stuff to just be up in the air. It was the craziest time in my life. And I do look back and I'm actually trying to give myself some grace. I'm frustrated with some things that I didn't do quickly enough.

34:30Yeah, I think we beat ourselves up when we fail. And I think when you get a divorce, it's a failure in some ways. I was married for 20 years almost to the day. Together for 27 years. From 20 to 47. I met my ex-husband in college and first boyfriend, you know? Wow. But like, look what came of those. There were the majority of beautiful years. And I have three awesome kids from that. And, but I think when it fails, and as a Catholic, and you have Catholic guilt, Catholic guilt, Jewish guilt, black guilt, white guilt, oh, only half black guilt. Like, I've all of it. And like, I just had to forgive myself.

35:12And I mean, from a spiritual aspect, like I thought God was going to be really mad at me. I had, I talked to my priest and it was very helpful in saying, okay, have you prayed about this? What has been your process to get to this point? And then afterwards, and then, by the way, when you have three kids, and at the time they were all in high school, you know, like trying to make life as good as possible for them. And then to co-parent, which we did well, especially at the beginning, we did really well when they were younger. I look back on that time and the fear because then you have to go to work and support everybody.

35:50So I remember, you know, you get a difficult text message or talk, a conversation with an attorney. Sometimes in commercial breaks, then you're back on that light comes on. And whatever's going on in your personal life has to go in the back. Everybody does that every single day. When you go into work, everybody's got something. Did it ever bleed? Do you have one moment where it bled into it? Like actually on television? Not on television. Not on television. I think, you know, COVID happened at the same time. It was literally three months after my divorce, COVID hit. Like it was insane. And living in the Northeast, not in the free state of Florida, completely shut down and winter at the time, awful.

36:26I actually believe that from that moment on, like the beginning of those personal difficulties, through COVID, through suspension and cancellation and a lawsuit for the last 16 months of my time at ESPN that was public against the company for which I was still working, I did my best work. I just learned to become a master compartmentalizer. Is that the word? It sounded like a word. I know how to compartmentalize really well now, which cannot always be good. That can be a bad thing, I think, if you just put stuff away in your personal life and even professionally, too. I will say this. I hadn't given up on love or finding someone, but I had stopped thinking about it.

37:11And I never knew how to date, Dave. Like, I married my first boyfriend. Like, I never knew. So at one point, my kids used to mock me. They're like, you're the only single one out of all of us. And then one time, I only dated one guy kind of seriously during those five years that I was single. And Quinn, my oldest, one time she saw me texting him back and she's like, is that what you're sending? do not push send on that mom give me that this is what you need to say and she's like now wait half an hour don't send it yet like there's strategy that's not the guy you're marrying hell no but like i didn't know what i was doing and maybe my kids were like laughing at me and mocking um again i wouldn't i wouldn't change it and now to have met someone who went through something similar.

37:56You know, he has two kids and my three. You guys are like the modern Brady bunch. Kind of. Yeah. And I'm just, I'm so grateful, but I know. And sometimes I think, man, I wish I'd met him earlier. I wish we always say, I wish we could have had children together. They would have been really tall, athletic, curly hair, like all that. And I've met your kids. You're doing okay. They're phenomenal. Yes. But like to continue, I'm like, well, we're all dried up, babe. There is nothing left in here at this age, menopause fully in it. Like, no, it wouldn't have worked just like you with David, right? It takes every step of that sometimes painful journey to get to that day in that moment where I happened to be in Nashville, Tennessee, um, at a charity for veterans, cause I'm a daughter of a vet and he is a vet and the son of a vet happened to be there that one day on a Tuesday that if I hadn't stood up to ESPN and Disney.

38:52I would have been in Connecticut doing SportsCenter, not at this event where I met the love of my life. And it turns out you have a crazy connection between your moms, right? Your moms somehow knew each other. Yeah. 30 plus years ago, our fathers were stationed together in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. So in the early 90s, they graduated from West Point a year apart. My dad, 1970, his dad, 1971. Fast forward to the early 90s and our moms actually used to volunteer at a convent for retired nuns in Kansas. And I'm three years older. So I was in college when he was in high school. And fast forward to 2024 and we're at this event and he recognized me from ESPN and came up to say hi and said, by the way, you know, we kind of know each other.

39:39And I'm like, oh Lord, don't give me this cheesy ass line. I've kind of heard them all at this point the last couple of years. And when he said that and gave my mom's name, basically, I was like, excuse me? I heard you're really cute. Okay, let's talk. It sounds so lame, and you know this, but I knew that night. Got engaged five months to the day later. Crazy. What we said, Dave, that communism is the easiest sell in politics because every society is an inverted pyramid, right? There's always less wealthy people numerically, more people that are on the lower end of the economic pyramid. And so it's very easy to tell them, look guys, if things aren't working out, I have the answer.

40:19I'm going to use government. Government's going to be the vehicle to take more from these people. Let's flatten that triangle. Right. The problem is it's the opposite of all, you know, a rising tide lifts all boats. This is a sinking tide sinks all boats. Right. So it will literally, you know, I always joke about Fidel Castro that, you know, he'd said, give us all your property, give us all your businesses and we'll make everybody equal. And he did. He made everybody equally poor, equally miserable and equally destitute. And that's what's going to happen in New York, unfortunately. Is it that sort of Cuban PTSD that we have in Miami that will always save us?

40:54I hope so. In some sense. I hope so. I think that's part of, even why if a Democrat were to get elected in Miami as a mayor or a Democrat, we have a Democratic county mayor, even those people are very sensitive to the issues that Cubans and Cuban Republicans feel. And they, they toe the line very, very carefully because they know that they're one election away from being defeated if they mess around too much. I want to help my country and I don't want to bend the knee and I don't want to kiss the ring. I want Americans to walk erect and I don't want cults of personality. I don't want to genuflect every time Elon's name gets mentioned, nor do I want to be asked, are you on the Trump train?

41:31Yes or no? Because quite honestly, I was on this train a long time before Trump ever boarded. And this idea that a bunch of, you know, in particular, like the tech right, they just jumped on this thing four seconds ago, and now they're acting like they've been here the whole time. It's incredibly disrespectful. Way too much emphasis is being placed on the market. Even free market economists know that there's certain things that the market can't do, like public goods or principal agent public, what have you. So there's this sort of simplicity and this bravado and triumphalism that I find repellent.

42:07But when it comes to the reforms, Do I want these people to succeed? Oh, my God, you have no idea. Do I want to help? You have no idea. The problem is that I don't want to do it in terms of these cults of personality. I don't want to do it in an ugly way. I don't want to be triumphalist. I don't want to just stick it to people. And there's way too much of that energy. And I'm also going to just be very honest. We have a situation in which anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry are tolerated by both the left and the right to get votes. And if either of these groups would just kick out bigots like the Groypers or, you know, the pro-Hamas left, they could have at the middle.

42:50And it's completely alienating that these two sides won't call out their problem. Right. I don't see the symmetry on that in that, to me, the left has been largely, and the Democrat Party largely has been overtaken by, let's say, the Hamas thing. On the right, I don't see Trump really placating those people. I don't think he's… It's a question of you actually have to call this stuff out. You can't have open borders welcoming in people who hate you. Not everybody hates us who comes in, but lives number two, and there's no price to pay for hating the country you're in if you move to the West. And so I'm afraid, yes, that's my rather bleak prognosis.

43:31Terrorism is about the only thing that seems to wake anyone up. And even then, I mean. And even then, it does. I mean, we had a massive terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day, and nobody talked about it two days later in America. Yes. Take the Southport stabbings, which occurred last summer in a town in the north of England. A son of Rwandan immigrants goes on a knifing spree at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party for young girls, stabs three under 10 girls to death repeatedly, many others. and the authorities, government, much of the media, they say it's a man from Wales. And in some ways they were right, but this wasn't just some maniac Welshman.

44:20We have the right to know, I think, if girls are being stabbed to death at dance classes, we have the right to know how that person is here, how his family are here, and exactly what they brought to Britain. but the labor government and others, as you know, just say, shut up, don't talk about it. And if you even speculate on the motives, you'll go to prison much faster than the killer. So I think I want to share with you two important things. One is that we need to recognize that people will tell you that solar and wind is incredibly cheap. And that's technically true. This is why it's such an insidious argument.

44:59So everybody has seen this graph of, you know, over time, how solar and wind has just come down in price, and they're very cheap right now. So people will tell you solar and wind, some of the cheapest electricity on the planet. But what they don't tell you is, yeah, when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, but otherwise it's the most expensive power on the planet because it's infinitely cost. You can't get it. And so the reality is, if you actually look at, you know, if you look across the world for how much energy do you get, sorry, how much electricity do you get from solar and wind and how much is the price, you get a very clear upward sloping situation.

45:39You have cheap countries that have virtually no solar and wind, and then you just get more and more expensive. So you have China and India down here. You have the U.S. a little higher. They have your EU all the way up there. And the reality is there's no countries down here that are saying we have lots of solar and wind and cheap power that you need to know. So currently you're being sold a tall lie. So do you have any insight into what happened on the day that Biden stepped down? I mean, was there a meeting? It seems that there was likely a meeting. I'm trying to word this totally correctly, that there was likely a meeting with Schumer, Pelosi, at least, and Joe and Jill Biden.

46:18And it seems that Joe Biden wanted to continue. That's what he told the ladies of The View. He did not continue. So do you have any insight into what happened that day? That day, I don't think Pelosi was in person with him. I think Schumer had visited him days before, and it was much to his consternation that basically failed. Biden was stubborn AF, as always, and he was sick throughout this time. So mind you, there weren't many people visiting him. He had COVID. Also, that was a convenient excuse for him to hunger down. um what i will say is people were kept in the dark about the timing of the announcement including the highest echelons the united states government for example anita dunn whom i worked in close concert with had no idea she did a conference call that morning telling people that we would stay the course that they would stay the course and so she had only like a minute heads up that the announcement was coming.

47:21And I have to, I can't stress enough how high up Anita Dunn was. She was basically part of the council presidents. Dave, we didn't have a president in the past. We had a council of these unelected people that you've never even heard of. And they're Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, and Steve Reschetti. Three of them were running the country. Most Americans, I would say maybe like 1%, if that, have heard of them. Right? So just to be clear, you don't know who was in the room when he made that final decision, if we're to believe it. Steve Reschetti, Mike Donnellan, and his family. Now, Elon was a hero to people.

47:57Like, oh, so I'm making this electric car. It's going to save the planet. And yeah, wow, we're going to go to Mars? Cool. You know, it's just like very simple. People that hate him now thought he was the second coming. I mean, it's incredible. I think, yeah, because really when he was doing Tesla, I mean, he went bankrupt, basically. He's been public about this. I'm not speaking out of school. He basically went bankrupt. and a friend of ours was loaning him money to keep him afloat. And I famously had dinner with him one time and he showed me the Model S car on his phone. He was getting in the middle of his divorce and he's told the story publicly.

48:29And I was like, I have a couple of million dollars. I can loan you. He's like, don't bother. I'm done. Tesla's gonna go out of business in two weeks. And I was like, really? And he's like, cause I had seen in Gawker, they said it was gonna go out of business next month. I said, is it true? And he's like, no, it's not true. I was like, oh, thank God. He's like, we have two weeks, not four. Whoa. And I was like, whoa. This is like right before Christmas. Who do you take the money from? I don't know how I don't know this story. Well, we were at Boa eating a steak, just the two of us. You were at Boa on Sunset?

48:57On Sunset, yeah. It's literally the only thing from L.A. that I missed. That was my favorite restaurant. Right, yeah. And it's the only place I go back to. Two of us went there in our roadsters. He had P1 or P2, the prototype, and I had number 16. And he just had texted me like, hey, on our Blackberries, like to date this conversation, let's have dinner. I'm feeling kind of blue. I need some company. So I went in a dinner with him and he was like, yeah, it's kind of like, what's going on with the rocket ship company? It's like, yeah, well, we blew two up. I said, well, what happens when's the next launch?

49:24He's like, oh, the launch is coming next month. And I said, what happens if you blow that one up? He's like, SpaceX is gone. And I'm like, okay, well, I got a couple of million dollars. I'll ship it to you on Monday and, you know, whatever. I'll loan it to you. And he's like, don't bother. Not necessary. I said, well, Elon, there's got to be some good news. And he said, yeah, actually, I got some good news today. I said, okay. and he takes out his black brace don't tell anybody and he shows me the clay models of the Model S and he's flipping through it you know and the black brace he used to have that little trackpad thing and the ball yeah and he's flipping through it and I looked at it and it literally was clay models you know like little clay but I'm looking at it I'm like that's nicer than the Porsche it's like I've never seen a car it looks kind of like a futuristic Taurus or something it's like what is it going to cost it's four doors and it's like a sedan he's like yeah he's like what should I call it and I was like I don't know you call it like the model t he's like yeah we can't call it the model t he's gonna call it the model s because t is still yeah ford still has the trademark he actually looked into that i was like yeah that's a pretty good name model s is good likest whatever sedan and uh i said what's it gonna cost and he said i think i can do it for fifty thousand dollars i said if you can do that for fifty thousand dollars you'll change the fucking world you have this company has to survive and like he wound up over christmas in saint bart's uh closing some funding from some friends of ours and he kept the company alive.

50:46But when I got home, I went to my wife, Jade, I said, give me the checkbook. And I wrote two$50 ,000 checks. And I said, dear Elon, great looking car. I'll take two. Love Jason. And when did those get delivered? I sent it to him. I kid you not. He put it in his desk drawer. He didn't cash the checks because he didn't want to take the hundred grand and blow it. And I knew that would like maybe give him an extra day in payroll and i told jade that hundred's done we're never going to get it but i wanted to like let him know i was in his corner and uh i kid you not like three or four months later the checks get cashed he had handed them to somebody and said here's the first orders i got the first orders literally three years later your serial number reservation zero zero zero zero zero zero one zero zero zero zero 73 so i called him and said hey lon i can't take number one you gotta take number one.

51:39He said, take number one. I got four of these prototypes. I got no garage space. Right. His probably don't have a number on them. And he said, I want you to have it because you were the first person to order it. And it's like very important for me for you to have it. Did you guys know that much of the methylene blue sold online is the same grade used for fish tanks? Be careful with low quality products that are made overseas and not tested for heavy metals. You can trust the wellness company's Recharge, a doctor formulated supplement that combines It's powdered methylene blue with NAD plus MPQQ.

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52:46And the mainstream media, which was back at the time also controlled by the liberals, they started a political campaign against us. And they were portraying Hungary like like fascist dictatorship type of country. And no one else, and the voters, the politicians on the other side, actually no one knew who we are and what we're doing. So no one was speaking against it. And that was the liberal propaganda against Hungary everywhere. But then with Donald Trump, the situation changed because I think American people and many Western European people realized when the liberal media started to spread lies on Trump, they realized that, oh, they are lying on this issue.

53:34So you're seeing it in one place and the next thing you're seeing it. And then they realized that if they're lying about Trump, it's possible that they are lying about Viktor Orban in Hungary as well. And they are lying about many things. And people started to be curious about what's going on. And this is why we are very happy to have so many Americans who are here and they have field experience what's going on. And they can broadcast the different context, which is closer to the truth than the liberal one. The media compilation they showed beforehand, I mean, the things they were saying about Hungary and about your prime minister, it's exactly the same stuff.

54:14It's the same playbook over and over. Let's deal with the borders and immigration first, because that seems to be a top of mind. And here we're in Hungary, a place that closed their borders. And, you know, they're paying the price from a European Union perspective. I talked with Balazs Orban on stage. They pay a million euros a day to the European Union just because they keep their borders closed. It's quite absurd, frankly, from an American. What do you do? I mean, not only do you have illegals in the country, but you also have a lot of legal people that seemingly don't want to adopt the British values that you're talking about.

54:43So there are lots of different problems here. But what has happened is an orthodoxy has taken over British institutions in the same way as it's taken over European institutions. And that orthodoxy believes in mass migration, multiculturalism, toleration of Islamism. And we've seen appalling cover ups of grooming gangs in Britain, you know, girls as young as 12 being systematically raped and no national inquiry. it's been covered up. So there is a group of people who have essentially taken over our institutions with a particular worldview and they don't want to be challenged, which is why we're seeing free speech being suppressed, because they don't want people to know just how badly wrong it's going.

55:31And I think all of these problems are connected. So mass migration is putting pressure on housing costs, which means that Brits aren't able to start a family. They're not able to buy a home because it's too expensive that's creating a population crisis which then creates a demand for more migration you've also got a left-wing ideology in terms of things like net zero which is making british energy very expensive so our energy costs in britain are four times what they are in the united states so all of these things are compounded and people feel that things are getting worse and they can't even say what is wrong.

56:13So they can't even complain about the grooming gangs or speak out about what happened in Southport because they're literally fearful of getting arrested. We don't know, Dave. And when you look at, when you actually did a whole video on this, there's a package insert for the vaccine and it will tell you what pre-licensing studies were done. And the amount of days that they monitored the child for adverse events was five days. Five days. We don't know. It just, we don't know. And when you're taking this kind of a risk with a disease that your kid is probably never going to get, and if there is a risk, we can test for that risk before vaccinating them.

56:59What ended up happening was Merck created the vaccine. This is, this is, I don't have concrete proof of this. This is what I've heard. This is my opinion on it on the matter. But Merck was asked to create it. And it was initially, this is fact, recommended for intravenous drug users and sex workers. But that group of people, that demography is not really interested in preventing disease. So they didn't get it. And Merck's like, we're losing our ass here. Just FYI, we're getting killed. So they lobbied the World Health Organization to make it a mandate. They lobbied the CDC to get it on the schedule.

57:35They funded the Every Child by Two campaign, which I think was headed by Rosalind Carter. This is all true. And now it's a guaranteed sale once it's on the schedule. It is an$8 billion a year business projected to reach$13 billion by, I believe it was 2032. Wow. We don't know. I don't want this to sound arrogant, but I'm going to say it anyway. I actually think that a lot of people from a progressive side don't want to come on and have to justify their positions in terms of arguments, facts, reason, the basis of so much of our knowledge, which is historical understanding. They don't want to go there.

58:27As Ayan Hirsi Ali puts it, we're in danger of turning our democracy into an emocracy. Democracy can only work when you're clearly committed to reasoned, evidence-based debate. You will not produce good policy out of a truncated, a bastardised, a silenced debate. It can't happen. That's the story of the West today. We're not seeing good policy because the debating processes are so tortured, so maligned, if you like, so broken down, because we don't think truth matters anymore. Who was it? Thomas Sowell made that interesting observation. It's not that little Johnny can't think. He can think. It's not that little Johnny can't feel.

59:14He can feel. The trouble is that little Johnny thinks that feeling is thinking. And so very rarely do people say no if they're interested in having a debate about something where they've done deep research and where it really stacks up. But there's a lot of people now who have high public profiles that are not doing that research and can't justify their arguments. That's my impression. If it sounds arrogant, I'm sorry, but... No, I don't think it sounds arrogant. I think that's kind of just where we are at as a species, partly because of the internet and partly because of success of the West has left us kind of fat and dumb.

1:00:03Well, I guess that would be the next question. Do you think that some of this, what you just described, is just a function of the success of the West? In Australia, undoubtedly. That's interesting. Undoubtedly. Generally speaking, both Australia and Britain and also the United States have got far more to be proud of in their past than to be ashamed of. So why do you think that our countries and most of the Western world seems to be going through this internal strife about its history? Is this all connected to sort of leftist politics and guilt over the past, or is there something else going on?

1:00:38I think a lot of it has to do with cultural Marxism. A lot of it has to do with perhaps the decline of faith generally, faith in institutions as well as religious faith. I used to be very confident in the long-term survival and success of Western civilization because I thought that our civilization, unlike almost all of its predecessors and current competitors, had a capacity to learn and adapt from others. I think that self-critical capacity, which has been so important to our survival and success up till now, has to some extent mutated into a kind of self-loathing. And this is very destructive.

1:01:33It's very destructive. Yes, look at yourself in the mirror and say, this can be better and that can be better, but don't look at yourself in the mirror and despise what you see. In the recent two or three years, we've seen a massive influx of people. We think there are almost as many as 2 million new immigrants, which on a population of 27 million is a significant chunk, which has been a policy of this Labor government, including recently allowing widows or brides from ISIS to return to Australia, which is a very, very dangerous and controversial thing to be doing, of course. And so the dynamics change.

1:02:10What is their argument? In a place that has this many resources that is this big, what is the argument? So we're going to bring in 10 % of the population in two years or so? Well, the argument that would be used is that COVID, there was an almost a moratorium on immigration and we need to catch up. So that's the argument. And the argument is also always about skilled labour and we don't have the expertise in certain areas. The truth of the matter is that I think people are just coming in and working normal jobs. And of course, the net effect of that in many respects has been a press on housing, a press on living standards.

1:02:46And there are stories in Australia now of people, you know places like Sydney and Melbourne lining up with 200 people for a single you know bedroom apartment so the effect on on the cost of living and the the lifestyle in Australia has been quite dramatic in a short amount of time we're all very worried about that I'm very worried about it and of course you know this country was built on immigration so this is as I say not about hating the player it's about the game the numbers are extraordinary at the moment the United States had this same problem. It was illegal immigration. This is legal immigration, but the effects are the same.

1:03:19And, you know, you have to be in control of your borders in a country like this. And I'm very worried about where we're headed. One of the bullet points is that it's a field manual for understanding Washington. What do you think, if there was one thing that the average person that kind of pays attention to politics, but not the way you might or that I might, But that just kind of is paying attention. What is the one thing that they don't understand about how it all works or doesn't work that they should understand? Well, this explains a lot. I would explain to them that in Washington, D.C., normal is a setting on the clothes dryer.

1:03:59In Washington, D.C., common sense is illegal. It doesn't have to be. If we had a return to common sense, you'd have better government. and that's why I've said repeatedly in the book the water in Washington DC is not going to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek it's just that simple I try to make that point in the book it's it's not a policy book per se it's a story book I talk about policy through stories some of the stories are will make you laugh some are deeply bizarre they're all true and I think the book will, I hope it'll make folks think, understand how we can fix it. You know, might make people laugh a little bit, might make them day drink, but everything in the book is true.

1:04:48And I do it through actual stories and experiences that I've had. You know, it's a good book if someone starts day drinking while reading it, that kind of. Well, it's, I don't, it's unvarnished, man. I mean, it is unvarnished. I talk about President Trump, President Biden, Chuck Grassley, Xi Jinping. I met with him in China. I talk about Chuck Schumer. Everything in there is true. Well, we'll end with this then, because my team gave me, you know, I told you, we're always playing all of your fun quips on TV all the time. But my guys gave me a whole bunch of your quotes. And I want to I want to see if we can work through this one, because it's related to what I had for lunch today.

1:05:29You said Democrats are the well-intended arugula and tofu crowd. I'm big on arugula. I don't like tofu. I had a steak, but I like arugula. What lettuce should I be switching to? Well, don't switch to kale, okay? Kale would be worse. That's right. Kale to me tastes like I'd rather be fat. And those skills, that willingness to endure rejection as opposed to deferring to a frictionless relationship is sequestering people, especially young men, and not giving them the life skills they need, perseverance, how to open, how to talk to people, how to sell. And most importantly, the key skill and success, I believe, is the ability to endure rejection, to mourn and to move on, to develop those calluses.

1:06:1545 % of men ages 18 to 25 have never approached a woman in person to ask her out. I think that's really unhealthy. And a lot of these men, young men, have gotten mixed messages. No man wants to be the creep. I read a story about a guy who approached a woman in a bar, didn't go well. He was inartful and elegant. And then he finds out she works with JP Morgan and she complains about him. And so guys have gotten mixed messages. They have a competitor to life that makes us less mammalia. And I think ultimately over time, these people become very anxious and depressed. If you want to see an orca go crazy, stick it in a tank alone.

1:06:53The worst thing you can do to a human is solitary confinement. I don't know if you have pets, but leave your dog alone and see what happens. So I really worry that we've created, we've attached our economy and trillions of dollars in market cap to, again, sequestering young men from what they need most, and that is other relationships.