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McDonald’s CEO pushes back on entitlement culture with blunt career advice · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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You're listening to the Hidden Likeness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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I'm your host Jimmy Hinton.
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Well, wealthy people added again.
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McDonald CEO delivers career advice in an Instagram video.
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He has been very active on social media and Instagram specifically.
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He has nearly 50,000 followers on Instagram.
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And he's given advice to our young people.
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In fact, he says it's career advice that may hurt your feelings.
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Well, uh, we wouldn't want to do that, would we?
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So welcome, welcome, welcome.
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We're getting closer to Christmas, and tis the season for giving.
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And uh here we have wealthy people giving advice, free advice.
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And I'm seeing more and more of this, and it's really encouraging.
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I think that our young people are getting a much better education by free videos like this.
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Free information that's out there.
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Kevin O'Leary.
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Uh, he he offers advice all the time.
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Uh you have Wern Buffett offers advice all the time, free advice.
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On and on and on it goes.
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Elon Musk, free advice constantly.
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And they're all saying a very similar thing.
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And that is that we don't have to wait around and have other people tell us what to do.
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That we don't have to go to a four-year college in order to make money and have a great career path.
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You know, it makes me think of the video I saw a recent video of, or at least it it reappeared again.
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I think it's fairly recent, you know, a few months ago, but AOC was trashing Elon Musk.
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And she's like, he's he's not an engineer, he's not that smart of a guy.
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He's just uh he's he's a billionaire who rips people off, and that's how he got his money.
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I'm like, oh, AOC.
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You know, you don't get it.
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You really don't get it.
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You don't understand how incredibly intelligent he is.
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That he didn't need six different college degrees.
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He learned virtually everything all on his own.
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I he searched the internet and read books and he learned, he learned how to engineer things.
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He surrounded himself with very intelligent people.
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And it's this whole narrative that people have to go to college.
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It's still, you know, this narrative is still being peddled out there a lot.
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That you have to go to college or you're never gonna make it.
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Uh we need to we need to give free college.
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You know, that's a big talking point still with the Democratic Party.
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They love this socialist idea of giving free college to people, free degrees.
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Well, the issue is that having a degree doesn't make you employable for most careers.
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People don't really care about what your college degree is.
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They want to know do you have the skill sets?
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Do you have the personality?
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And are uh do you have the work ethic?
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Are you gonna show up?
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Are you gonna do the job?
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Are you gonna contribute to the company?
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Because if you're not gonna do that, who cares about your college degree?
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And especially who cares where you got your college degree.
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I've heard Dave Ramsey talk about that a lot.
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And he's like, you know, this whole idea that we have to go to some special private university and pay quadruple what we would pay going to a state school, that's just stupid.
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A degree is a degree, as far as employers are concerned, they don't care if you went to Harvard.
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You know, if if if you're an accountant, you think somebody cares whether you went to Harvard or at Penn State.
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What they care is do you have the degree that you need?
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Do you have the degree or certification?
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Do you have the work ethic?
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Do you have the personality?
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Are you a decent person?
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You know, do you treat other people with kindness and respect?
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And you know, or are you gonna run customers off?
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That's what people care about.
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So the fact that McDonald's CEO is putting videos out there, and a lot of them.
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You know, I was just looking, kind of browsing through.
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He's offering all kinds of free advice to people.
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And I love it.
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I think it's fantastic.
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Tis the season of giving, and he's giving.
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He's giving free advice, is what he's giving.
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A lot of, you know, a lot of people still, well, those rich CEOs.
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Yeah, they're they're wealthy.
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I don't have a doubt in my mind that he's worth a lot of money.
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He's also working for it.
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He's also giving advice to people.
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He's giving career advice to people.
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You're literally getting a college degree without having to go to college, and that's that's great.
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This information is out there.
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Now we have artificial intelligence that I mean, you can literally just it's unreal the amount of opportunities that are out there for people to learn.
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You can use it for good, or you can use it for bad.
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You can be a doomsday scroller and just kind of scroll through looking for entertaining videos and waste your time all day, or you can refocus and spend your time in in a constructive way and start searching for free resources that are out there that point you on a career path.
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And it's kind of interesting.
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I was looking at the the comments in an article that I found about Chris Kempzinski, he's the McDonald's CEO.
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Um, he's the one offering the blunt advice that might hurt your feelings.
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And I'm looking at the comments, and it's the boomers who are commenting, and they're, I mean, they're not wrong, but they're like, wait, people need to be told this.
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You know, back whenever we were working, we just figured it out.
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We just did whatever we had to do to make life work.
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And I do want to talk about that contrast in a little bit, because I think it's really important.
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You know, we we are living in a time where there's never been as much opportunity to make money as what there is right now.
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But at the same time, we have this disconnect where people aren't taking advantage of that, or they don't know, and they buy into these age-old narratives that if you don't go to college, you don't have the degree, if you don't bury yourself in 16 trillion dollars in debt in personal debt, then uh, you know, you're never gonna make it in life.
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So there is a disconnect there, and that's what some of these wealthy people are trying to communicate to the younger people.
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You know, where the the boomers, and they're absolutely right, they used to, not used to, I mean, they still do it, but they would just hunker down and and they would stop spending.
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They're like, wait a second, times are tough.
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The economy, the economy always goes through downturns, always.
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You know, there's an ebb and a flow, and there are ups and downs, and I think that we're entering in.
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I've been saying this for a while, but I think we're gonna we've already been since before Trump became president.
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We're entering into a time of economic downturn.
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Where the economy is it's going to slow down.
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The markets are way overdue for a correction.
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I mean a big correction, bigger than the 20% drop that we saw at the beginning of Trump's term, where it's since rebounded at end some.
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I think we're I think we're overdue.
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You know, looking at some of what the economists are saying and just the the history of how the economy works, I think we're in for a very big correction and a lengthy correction.
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Which translation, it's a recession.
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Robert Kiyosaki from Rich Dad Poor Dad, he's been sounding this alarm for a long time.
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He's like, look, we're we're already there.
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Grant Cardone, same thing.
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He said about two years ago, he's like, we're we're in a recession.
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He's like, it might not look like it.
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They said, dude, we are absolutely in a recession.
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You're gonna see, you're gonna see housing skyrocket to where houses are not affordable.
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Look what happened.
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He was exactly right.
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And it keeps getting worse.
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So it will correct.
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I mean, there's gonna be a period of correction, but times are gonna get tough.
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There's no doubt about that.
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I I just it it's a it's a math.
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Medical certainty.
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But the question is, how are we preparing for it?
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And specifically, how are we preparing the young people for it?
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Because right now their spending habits don't reflect it.
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You know, it's not like the boomers.
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Where the boomers, I mean, they would, they'd run ratty old cars until those things wouldn't drive anymore.
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And then they'd they'd put them on life support and they'd revive them.
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They'd restore the car once it was, you know, once it didn't have any life left, they'd tear the engines down themselves.
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They'd go work a full day shift, come home, figure out how to tear an engine down, and they'd rebuild it.
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You know, that's that's the old school way.
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They wouldn't go out and be like, oh, I, you know, my car's three years old.
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I need a dependable car.
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And they trade their three-year-old car in and buy it, buy another $70,000 car.
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You know, some of the boomers are that they're just absolutely looking in disbelief.
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So, you know, I do want to talk about that contrast because I think it's really important.
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And we need to teach our kids how to be frugal and how to not spend.
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Not spend frivolously.
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Um, you know, to to overspend, to spend money on things that that don't matter.
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You know, the endless toys and the endless gadgets and the endless um gaming and all that stuff that gets so expensive.
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Sports, my goodness, the amount of money.
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The parents pump into sports.
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You know, so we teach our kids to to go in the woods.
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Go do what we did when we were kids and make a fort.
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Well, I can't make a fort, then figure it out.
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It's this beautiful thing called trial and error.
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And it's completely free when you're when you're uh building something in the woods with rocks and sticks.
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There's something beautiful about that whole process, and you're dealing with free materials.
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And I know not everybody lives in the woods.
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Um, you know, just hear me out here.
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But we've got to teach our kids to go experiment and to make mistakes to experience failure.
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You know, a lot of times, a lot of parents, they they shield their kids from ever having to fail, and they spend, spend, spend, spend, spend, and they put money on credit card because God forbid their kid might have to miss out on a sport that they wanted to sign up for or something like that.
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No is it's an important word, and it's an important sentence, and it's a complete sentence.
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No, period, that's a complete sentence.
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And a lot of our younger people don't hear those sentences because parents are like, well, I'll figure it out one way or the other.
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I'm gonna figure out how to pay for whatever it is.
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And they just they spin themselves into oblivion and they justify it.
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So the boomers are like, we didn't do that.
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You know, we we wore sandwich bags around our shoes.
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When the souls split and they were taken on water, we would tie garb, you know, the um sandwich bags, the plastic sandwich bags, and they would twist tie them around the uh around the shoes.
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My mom talks about it.
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Heck, we did that kind of stuff when we were kids.
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The recycled clothing and uh the hand-me-downs.
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We were taught that you don't just throw things out because they they don't look new.
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You use them until they can't be used anymore, and then you figure out a way if you can, if it's possible.
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You figure out a way to recycle and to stretch them even more.
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Yeah, I grew up with that mentality, and I still, and it's just what I was taught.
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I worked on a farm when I was 11 years old.
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I was working on a farm, and we learned how to stretch everything and how to be resourceful.
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You know, at 11 years old, I was put on a tractor, put in a field.
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We didn't have cell phones back then.
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Um dating myself here.
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We didn't have cell phones.
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We're out in the middle of nowhere by ourselves.
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I was by myself.
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We had one little toolbox with a couple tools.
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We had like a 916 wrench, a half-inch wrench.
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I can still remember what the tools were.
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There's a 916th wrench, a half-inch wrench, a pair of vice grips, two screwdrivers.
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There was a flathead, and there was a um a Phillips, and a couple other, you know, black electrical tape, a couple little odds and ends, and that was it.
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And if we broke down, we were expected to at least try to figure it out.
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You know, the the rule was don't let me come back and find you just sitting doing nothing.
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If you're broken down, try to figure it out.
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It may not be fixable.
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You may not, with the tools that you have and the limited knowledge you have, it might not be fixable, but you better try.
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You better darn well try.
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And so it taught us how to be resourceful.
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How to not be dependent on other people.
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You know, now it's uh it it's it's crazy.
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Like people can't find the end of the parking lot without putting it in GPS.
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And we've got to do something.
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We've got to educate our young people.
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And I'm not talking down to them.
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I'm not belittling them.
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I'm just saying, you know, it's we need to educate them.
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The boomers might not have needed that education because they just kind of figured it out.
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But I think it's great that we have people given education to young people.
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I think it's fantastic.
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So when I saw this story, and I'm like, the the McDonald's CEO is giving free advice to to young people.
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I'm like, it caught my attention.
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I'm like, this is really cool.
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I got to do a story on this.
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We need more people like him.
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And he's not making fun of young people.
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That's the thing.
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A lot of people want to point fingers and laugh at the young people.
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I've seen people take videos of younger people trying to change a tire and they're they're mocking them, making fun of them.
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They're like, oh, you don't you don't know how to change a tire back in my day?
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I'm like, why don't you teach them?
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Let them do it, but talk them through it.
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Isn't that better than pointing a camera at them and making fun of them?
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So that's why I like this story so much.
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It's it's very practical.
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McDonald's CEO, Chris Kempzinski, recently shared some hard truths and advice, career advice to young people.
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He said it may hurt your feelings.
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I love that he's doing this.
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I love that he's on Instagram.
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You know, this is so much better than uh our governor here in Pennsylvania, TikTok Josh, who's putting, you know, trying to look cool.
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And uh, you know, he's uh it's just getting weird.
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He's doing
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A lot of really weird stuff, and I I don't know what it is about politicians and the ick factor where they're they're making these cringe videos trying to be relevant, trying to look cool, and you just see them and you're like, yeah, you're trying a little too hard, buddy.
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Like tone it down a notch.
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Next thing you're gonna see some of these politicians in their skinny jeans, you know, they're ripped skinny jeans trying to trying to look super cool.
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They're already doing like these weird music videos, and it's just it's getting bizarre, folks.
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I mean, it's entertaining, don't get me wrong.
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But boy, is it bizarre?
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So when people are using people who have power and they have a platform, when they're using social media for good, I am all over that.
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I think it's great.
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So, in a video posted to his Instagram account, he titled a video called Tough Love with the McDonald's CEO.
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Chris Kempzinski.
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He encouraged people to take full ownership of their professional journeys rather than waiting around for others to open up doors for them.
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In the video, he said this.
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The advice I would give is remember, nobody cares about your career as much as you do.
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So this idea that there's somebody out there who's looking out for you, who's going to make sure that you get that opportunity, who puts you in the right thing, great if it happens, but at the end of the day, nobody cares more about your career than you do.
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That's so spot on that I can't pick that apart.
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He's absolutely right.
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Nobody's looking out for you.
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Nobody's gonna push that door open and pull you in and coddle you and tell you how great you are and how smart you are and how fantastic you are.
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And this is important because this is the line of crap that young people are being taught in schools and and colleges, you know, the universities, they're being taught that we need people to stand up for your rights.
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You know, we're gonna fight until everybody basically rolls the red carpet out for you and bows down to you and kisses your pinky ring.
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And so the sense of entitlement is being taught.
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It's being taught to the young people that you're entitled, you're entitled to free college, you're entitled to free health care, you're entitled to you name it.
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You know, you're entitled to property.
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You're entitled to a really nice car because you've you've earned it.
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Nobody's entitled to any of that stuff.
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And in what world?
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I mean, think about think about your life.
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In what world do people bend over backwards and roll the red carpet out for you because they just they treat you like royalty?
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I've sure not experienced that in my life.
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Not saying that I don't have great friends and people who've been there beside me, you know, through tough times.
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Yeah, we we all we all have a handful of people, but those are friends.
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I I've never had people just roll out the red carpet and treat me like royalty and just kick doors open for me, and I just walk through because somehow I deserve it.
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That's not been my experience, not been my wife's experience, it's not been any of my friends' experiences, and I'm certain that's not been any of your experiences.
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But yeah, they're being taught that socialism, wasn't it?
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Um, what was her name?
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Amanda Sayfried.
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She's been uh mouthing off, you know, running her mouth on online and just being absolutely crude, and uh then she wrote, I don't know if it was just to get her eyes or if she really believes it.
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I sadly I think I think she believes it, but she said something like socialism is such a beautiful thing.
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Then go to a socialist nation.
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Better yet, go to a communist nation.
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Go to Venezuela.
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If it's such a beautiful thing, go to Venezuela, go to Cuba, go live there, Amanda.
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That's such a beautiful thing.
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We gotta bring it here to America.
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We don't need to bring it here, just go live somewhere where they they already have it, they have it implemented.
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If it's such a beautiful thing, just go check it out.
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Nobody's stopping you.
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It's tried and tested, and it's been implemented for years.
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We don't have to start over, we don't have to convince people to be socialists.
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They're already socialist nations.
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Just go check it out, go live there.
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Here we go.
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I I'm gonna read this article.
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I looked it up.
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Amanda Sayfried.
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Um it's not a beautiful thing, it's a gorgeous idea.
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That's what she said.
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Socialism is a gorgeous idea.
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She said that during a podcast.
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And I want to look at the quote here because I I think it's really important to see how people think about this.
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I mean, this is how this is what we're up against.
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So again, when I see the McDonald's CEO pushing back against this idea, I love it.
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I think it's fantastic.
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And you know who I'm more likely to listen to?
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Somebody who's wildly successful at running a business, at hiring people.
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Somebody who employs thousands of people.
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So here's the article.
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During a conversation on Variety's award circuit podcast, say described what the word socialism meant to her as she and host Michael Schneider lamented the state of the country.
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Here it is, you know, America's just so terrible, it's full of terrible people, it's awful, we're on the wrong track.
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This goes back to that study.
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I I think it was the uh Pew Research study that I did a show on where I was I was showing that the Democrats have pulled the the percentage way in the wrong direction, where they just they hate America, they think it's terrible, they think we're on the wrong path, they think negatively, uh, we're all doomed.
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And and Republicans are like, no.
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It's like something like 80 some percent, almost 90% of Republicans are like, no, we're we're happy in America.
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But Democrats are they're embarrassed to live here, they're ashamed of our country.
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So when you get this kind of negativity and this kind of crap, it fuels hatred, it fuels violence, it makes people depressed.
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This is what the news media pedals all the time, you know, it's America's such a terrible place.
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Look at all the bad things going on.
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That's why I push back against this, and and that's why the show exists.
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To show that, yeah, I mean, certainly there are bad things that happen.
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There are everywhere.
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We'd be ridiculous to deny that there's not bad in the world.
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But here's the deal.
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There's a whole lot of good going on.
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So at any rate, here's the conversation.
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You know, America, terrible place.
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That's what I lament, it's such a terrible place, it's awful.
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There's so much bad going on.
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So they agreed that they didn't want to leave the U.S.
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Isn't that fascinating?
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You know, on the one hand, you have some people who do leave.
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By the way, I heard I I didn't look this up, but I uh I saw that there were articles floating around that said that Ellen de Generous is like really not happy that she left.
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She left the US and um she wants to come back.
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Isn't that fascinating?
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Yeah, don't say.
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Yeah, here we go.
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I looked it up because I don't want to give misinformation to the best of my ability, but here, um recent reports late in 2025 indicate that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRousey are planning a return to the US, specifically California after you've moving to the UK post-Trump's election.
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They miss Hollywood, their friends, and the warm weather.
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And Portia wants to act again.
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Huh.
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Um you don't say.
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So you have those people who want to leave, and some actually do, very few.
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I mean, there's a very small amount who actually do leave.
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But they leave, and then they find out how long's Ellen been gone.
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What?
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A year?
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A little over a year, maybe.
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She wants to claw her way back into the U.S.
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She doesn't like the cold.
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It's it's cold, it's a lonely.
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It's not the life she thought.
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You know, get away from this horrible country, America, and we're gonna, you know, under this tyrant Donald Trump.
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Well, now, guess what?
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They want to come back.
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I love it.
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I think it's hilarious.
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So anyway, then you have the other people who don't want to leave.
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They just want to bring socialism to America.
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Well, again, why don't you go to a socialist nation if it's such a gorgeous thing?
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Go try it out.
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So the pair agreed they didn't want to leave the U.S.
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following a discussion about Amanda Sayfried's role in The Testament of Anne Lee.
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It's a musical about the founder of the Shakers religious movement, Anne Lee.
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Um, here's what Stafried said.
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We're kicking our own out.
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And then I keep thinking, what's she talking about?
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We're kicking our own out.
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I keep thinking, thank God we're talking about Anne Lee so much because there's a direct relationship to what she created and what we're lacking.
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How about we all don't have any kind of agendas?
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How about our agenda is take care of each other?
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There it is.
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It's exactly what the McDonald's CEO is pushing back against.
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This idea that we're all here to, you know, people are going to take care of you.
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They're going to open doors for you, and they're going to build your career path for you.
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Stayfried goes on.
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This is a direct quote.
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Socialism is a gorgeous idea, and I know why it doesn't work perfectly.
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Uh-huh.
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There it is.
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Yeah, it's a gorgeous idea.
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The idea of socialism.
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Oh, it's so gorgeous.
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It's so beautiful, this utopia, and everybody lives happily ever after.
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And you take from the rich and you give to the poor, and you read uh redistribute the wealth, and you know, there are no more homeless and no more sick people and no more sad people, and everybody's happy and they're all getting along, and there's no crime, and it's just so beautiful.
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What a gorgeous idea.
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And I know why it doesn't work perfectly.
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It will never work.
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It doesn't work.
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It can't work.
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It's a terrible idea.
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It's not a it's not a gorgeous idea.
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It's actually a terrible idea.
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The very idea of people taking against your will, taking your money and giving that.
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I mean, it's it's it's Robin Hood.
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Right?
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Stealing money from the rich and giving it back to the poor.
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As if somehow you don't deserve to build wealth.
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We're gonna keep you humble.
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We're gonna keep you from getting uh too big of a head.
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By stripping away everything that you put your life into.
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We're gonna take that away from you, and we're gonna give it to the poor people.
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And specifically, we'll give it to people who don't want to work.
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We're not gonna discriminate under socialism.
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Everybody's equal.
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We're all the same, and uh, we're gonna redistribute that wealth.
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And for the people who don't want to work, that's a beautiful thing.
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Because at least they'll be fed and at least they'll have houses, beautiful houses.
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Socialism doesn't work.
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Schneider in in the podcast said that people don't know what the word actually means.
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Uh, here we go.
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So we're we're gonna socialism's been around forever.
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We just need to re-educate people.
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We need to reframe it.
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People just they need to know that they're actually missing out.
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It's not been properly defined.
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That's the problem.
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The reason it's not working is because we haven't defined it properly.
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So listen to what he said.
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For me, it's taking care of each other.
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Oh no, that's Seifried who said that.
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For me, it's taking care of each other.
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If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people.
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Isn't that right?
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Yeah, it's called free will.
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It's called be a decent human.
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It's what the Bible talks about.
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Don't be tight-fisted towards the poor, but you do it willingly.
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You do it because you want to do it.
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What does Paul say?
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For God loves a cheerful giver.
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You do it out of your abundance.
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You do it because you want to, not because you've been taxed into oblivion, and the government forces that money out of your hand and into the pockets of people who you don't get to decide who it goes to.
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I don't know about you, but I don't want my hard-earned money going to people who refuse to work.
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And again, that's not all poor people.
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But there are people.
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I've literally had multiple people tell me, why would I get a job?
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I'm living quite well, living off the system.
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I get health care.
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I get assistance, I get lie heap.
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You know, in the wintertime, I I get my utilities paid for.
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I get all these benefits that I wouldn't get if I was working a job.
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Why would I, why in the world would I want to work?
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I've literally had multiple people tell me that.
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It's not where I want my tax dollars going.
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Not just tax dollars, it's my money.
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The money that I earned, and especially for entrepreneurs, it's hard enough to run a business and to keep that business going.
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And now all of a sudden that they they want to tax you to the point where you're overhead so high that you can't, you can't afford to keep your business open anymore.
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Nobody wants to do that.
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But yeah, Stafried, you know, she said, well, you know, they brought up nine 9-11, you know.
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There was a sense of unity after where everybody had each other's backs.
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Yeah, because it wasn't forced.
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Stafried said everybody dropped everything for each other.
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People sacrificed their lives without a thought in the world.
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So now let's force people to do it.
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So bizarre.
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McDonald's CEO is dropping some hard truths for people, specifically for young people.
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And I think this is really cool.
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I think it's inspiring.
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Is and how we care about people, right?
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That these rich people, these rich CEOs, they're not the greedy fear mongers and nasty people who politicians want you to think they are.
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So here's what he said.
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I want to read this quote again.
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This is Chris Kempzinski, CEO of McDonald's, wildly successful.
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He's kind of a younger dude.
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He said the advice I would give is this.
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Remember, nobody cares about your career as much as you do.
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So this idea that there's somebody out there who's looking out for you, who's going to make sure that you get that opportunity, who puts you in the right thing, great if it happens.
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But at the end of the day, nobody cares more about your career than you do.
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I love that.
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You know, when I went into ministry when I was young, and I was the youngest in my class, and I skipped my senior year.
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So I was young.
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I was just barely 17 years old when I started college.
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And you know, of course, young people, they think they have it all figured out, and um, at least some of them, but uh I I just I was kind of floundering, and finally I was like, you know, thinking about going into ministry.
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Do you know that I had zero people who are supportive?
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There was not one person who said that that is a fantastic idea.
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In fact, let me kick some doors down, and let me make sure that that's the career that's gonna work out for you.
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Let me give you people who you can talk to who've been in ministry.
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Let me let me point you to the right people.
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You know, I didn't have any of that.
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In fact, what I got was the polar opposite.
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I had people telling me, you run from ministry, do not go into ministry.
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It'll tear your life apart, it'll tear your family apart, it doesn't pay well, you're always gonna be living in poverty.
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You know, I I heard all of those things.
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And there are some truths to it, and I get people are trying to protect me.
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Ministry, I'm very open about it.
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It does not pay well.
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Um, I'm making way below what it what is average.
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Um, even for people in ministry.
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I have a master's degree.
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Um, I've spent a lot of time, I've spent nine years in college and graduate level getting my degrees.
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I don't get benefits, I don't get health insurance, I don't get retirement.
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You know, and so I was told it's gonna stuck you dry, it's you're gonna you're gonna die poor.
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You know, all these doomsday scenarios.
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And guess what?
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I'm doing quite fine.
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I I learned how to be resourceful.
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I learned that nobody out there is going to take care of me, right?
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I was brought up with that mentality, and it's true.
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I mean, no offense to my church.
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I love them, they're fantastic, but they don't care about my retirement.
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If they did, they would they would offer it to me.
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They don't care about my health insurance.
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If they did, they would offer it to me.
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They don't care about my kids' health.
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If they did, they'd cover a policy, they'd find a way to make it work.
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But I'm on my own.
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And I'm okay with that.
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I'm not complaining.
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You don't hear me complaining.
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You know, I could I could go find a job and make double what I make.
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I mean, literally.
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I could walk out the door and make double what I make and get benefits.
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But I love the work I do.
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I love ministry, I love the people.
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So I figured out how to be resourceful.
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I figured out how to not overspend and overextend myself.
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I figured out how to put money into my own retirement, open my own retirement account and other accounts.
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I learned how to build wealth and prepare myself and my family for retirement.
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I learned how to find when Obamacare passed and I had unaffordable health insurance.
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I figured out, I didn't come to the church and was like, you know, socialism is a gorgeous idea.
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You need to take care of me.
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I didn't come back and say that.
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I said, I'm gonna look and see what options are out there.
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We found a marvelous, marvelous, very affordable way to get around.
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We don't have traditional health care.
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We found a marvelous way to be covered and to not put that on in the church.
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I never asked the church.
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I could have come back, I could have used that as leverage.
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I could have threatened them, I could have been like, you know, if you don't give this to me, I'm gonna walk out the door.
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And believe me, it's hard to find pastors.
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It's very hard.
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You know, when when pastors leave, it puts the church in a very, very tough spot.
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I could have used that as leverage easily and said, you either do this or you're gonna spend the next six years trying to find a replacement.
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And they probably would have probably would have found a way to make that work if they had to, if I forced them to do that.
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But that's not me.
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I don't like socialism.
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I don't like forcing people to do things, forcing people's hand, telling me what they have to do because it's owed to me.
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So, yeah, um Chris Kemzinski is 100% right.
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Nobody cares at the end of the day, nobody cares more about your career than you do.
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You take pride in what you do, you figure it out, you make it work, you go down the right path, and you're gonna be taken care of.
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So he goes on.
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He said, You've got to own it.
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You've got to make things happen for yourself.
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He's a hundred percent right.
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This is so right.
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I just I'm shouting from the rooftop, and like I'm getting loud here, even talking into the microphone.
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I'm applauding him 100%.
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This is what capitalism looks like.
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You go figure it out.
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Don't worry about what other people tell you that you have to do, or what career path you have to take, or what education you have to get.
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Don't worry about what other people are telling you to do.
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Nobody cares more about your career path than you do.
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Nobody.
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That includes your parents, that includes your friends.
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Nobody cares more about your career path than you do.
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So this is great.
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50,000 people are here in this.
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He's got 50,000 followers, and I hope it continues to grow.
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I hope he gets more.
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Clearly, he's not a social media guru.
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He's not like, you know, building this massive millions of followers.
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But that's not what he cares about.
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He cares about his job.
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He cares about putting the hard work in, making McDonald's work.
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Hiring people, structuring it in a healthy way.
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Dropping truth bombs for people, helping guide the young generation because unfortunately, their teachers aren't doing it.
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Their teachers are putting them on a really bizarre path.
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You have the Amanda Stayfried's of the world.
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Socialism is such a gorgeous idea.
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Now I know why it doesn't work.
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If you're that smart, go to countries where they're they're implementing it and fix it for them.
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And then Schneider, well, we just need to, it's a it's a terminology issue, right?
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People just they don't know that it's good for them.
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Right?
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We just need to rebrand it.
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That's that's the problem.
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We've got to educate people.
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We've got to teach it in the schools.
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We've got to rebrand it and teach people that socialism is good.
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It's good for them.
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These people are nuts.
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So again, to quote Amanda Safe Reed, for me, it's taking care of each other.
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If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people.
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Isn't that right?
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No, it's not right.
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You know why?
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Because you're not gonna have more money.
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Because socialism takes it away from you.
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The harder you work, the more they take.
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Am I wrong?
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Look at Venezuela.
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People are losing weight.
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There are videos.
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I saw a recent video of a Venezuelan, and this man is showing how he had to poke more holes in his belt because he keeps losing more and more weight because he's literally starving to death.
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Meanwhile, their good old Prez is getting fatter and fatter.
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It's kind of like Kim Jong-un, right?
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In North Korea.
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He's obese.
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And he's literally starving the majority of the people in his country on purpose.
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Socialism is such a beautiful idea.
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You have more money, right?
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So you can spend it on other people.
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Isn't that right?
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No.
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It's completely wrong.
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We should just, this beautiful, this gorgeous idea.
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We just take care of each other by forcing money out of the hands of wealthy people and putting it into the hands of poor people.
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Isn't that a beautiful idea?
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Isn't that a gorgeous idea?
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Nope.
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It's a terrible idea.
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So this idea that we're all going to take care of people are going to take care of you.
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And right, Biden did that crap.
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He was out there telling telling people the government's going to take care of you.
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We're going to eliminate your debt.
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We're going to wipe out your debt.
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Okay, what about the next round of people?
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You're going to do that indefinitely.
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Nope.
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You know why?
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Because there's not enough money.
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People are going to catch on and uh there's they're going to revolt eventually.
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So they they tied this somehow into what happened after 9-11.
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Sayfried said uh everybody dropped everything for each other.
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People sacrificed their lives without a thought in the world.
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And we shouldn't have to have a meteor or a house on fire situation in order to drop everything for each other.
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That's just what we are as human beings.
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Well, you know what, Amanda?
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Like out here in the real world where people aren't living in their gated communities.
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People aren't waiting for a meteor or a house fire situation to drop everything.
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People just do it.
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I do stories on it literally every single day.
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Every time there's a natural disaster, literally every single time.
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People are there, not just short term.
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They're there to stay.
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They hunker down, they do the hard thing, they just help each other out.
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They do it happily.
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But you know what people do when you start forcing them to do it.
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All of a sudden it takes the joy away.
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It takes the will away from people.
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And people refuse to step in and help.
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When the government takes over, it takes the will of the people away.
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And they don't want to help anymore.
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They're like, well, if this is how it's going to be, I just, I'm not going to lift a finger because then the regulations come in.
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I experienced this.
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When there were a tornado outbreak in what was it, 2009?
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Like 500 tornadoes that broke out across the United States.
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I went and helped in Virginia, and the government came in and tried to keep all volunteers out of the state of Virginia.
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I was told by the mayor of the town that we went, we went anyway.
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We were like, screw you guys.
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We're going to go help because that's what we do.
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But we're told that there might be government officials, and if they see you working, they're going to fine every volunteer.
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The number of hours that you worked, they're going to fine you what Virginia was going to be paying government workers, government contracted workers, they're going to fine you that amount, the number of hours.
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It's like hundreds of dollars an hour.
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I was like, sign me up.
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We're going.
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We cleaned up the streets.
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And we did it voluntarily.
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We did it on our dime.
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We did it happily.
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We prayed with people.
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We weren't regulated.
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When the government comes in, when you have socialism, they regulate the living daylights out of everything.
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So back to the CEO of McDonald's.
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He's 100% right.
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Do not you dare let other people tell you that all these people are lining up to take care of you and to they're going to guide you and direct you and everybody's going to have your back.
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He says, nope.
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Here's the hard truth.
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Nobody cares about you.
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It may hurt your feelings.
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Nobody cares about your career more than you do.
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You put the hard work in.
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And when you do that, my oh my, is it rewarding?
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When you put the time and the effort in, it is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt, rewarding and great and grateful and fantastic and beautiful.
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That's what's beautiful, Amanda Seifried.
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When people figure it out on their own and they're resourceful and they're blessed, and they let God bless them.
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You know, it's interesting.
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Seifried never mentions God.
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It's all about forcing having the government force people into being kind.
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Isn't that a gorgeous idea?
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Nope.
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Nope, it's not.
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I'd much rather have God bless us.
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And we willingly help people, whoever we choose, we get to decide.
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We get to pick who we help.
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We don't have the government do it for us.
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And tell us, oh, we've got your back.
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Wink wink.
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We'll help guide you into the right career.
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No thanks.
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I'm good.
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So I love that Chris Kempzinski, CEO of McDonald's, is dropping some truth bombs on people.
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Fantastic.
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What a stand-up guy.
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