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#82 - You Have to Lose Everything Before You Rise · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  You got to hit rock bottom before you can rise. You got to die before you can be resurrected.
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  Embrace being a loser because when you do, then at that point,
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  you have nothing to lose.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. This is Evolution.
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  Let's dive into it. All right, so there's a lot of news happening right now,
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  but I wanted to start it off with embracing who you are because who you are
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  is not necessarily meant for everyone.
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  And until you forget about how everyone looks at you, you won't really be free.
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  You're only going to be confined in a box in your own mind.
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  You're going to be controlled by how others view you and how you perceive that others view you.
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  Who gives a crap? Who cares? Who cares?
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  Why would we care about anything? there's only one opinion that matters.
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  And you might think I'm going to say it's your own opinion about yourself.
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  No, the only opinion that matters at all is God's.
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  God's opinion on you, that's the only thing that matters. Who cares what other
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  people think? Throw it out the window.
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  Don't live in this prison of your own mind.
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  And I'm not talking to everyone out there, because a lot of people out in this
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  world are, you know, it's all about image. It's all about self-confidence.
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  It's all about building yourself up and just making you so you can make it through each day sometimes.
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  Or you're just, or you're, everything is circumstances. Everything in life is what controls you.
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  You're a prison, prisoner, even though you might not literally be in a prison,
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  you are a prisoner of your circumstances.
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  You're a prisoner of whatever you are, whatever's thrown into your lap each
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  day, as opposed to living in freedom,
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  not thinking that I got to get to that point and then I will have happiness
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  and then I will have success and then I will have meaning to life.
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  But every day is a journey and embrace the journey.
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  The journey is all that matters. You know, you don't have to reach the end of
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  the rainbow and then I'll have happiness.
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  You know, it's the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit. And that's why every moment can be joy.
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  Every moment can be meaningful. Every moment can be awesome as opposed to just,
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  well, what I got to get through today so I can get, you know,
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  get home so I can watch some Netflix.
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  What do I got to get through today so I can go home and throw back a few?
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  What do I got to get through today so that I can have some happiness with whatever
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  it is I have put in my mind for that moment in time, because it's always changing.
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  Everything's always fluctuating.
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  You know, life is meaningless until you find the one meaning.
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  You got to find the one meaning first. There is one meaning out there.
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  There is one meaning out there for, for everyone.
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  And you got to find it. You got to find it. But if you are just,
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  if your head is on a swivel and you're just looking in all different directions
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  and you don't, and you're not finding it, it might be because you're not looking for it.
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  And you're just drowning in
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  your own circumstances, drowning in the waves of life that hit everyone.
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  And everybody's living in their own world. Everyone is living in their own world,
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  you know, experiencing what they perceive as their own reality.
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  And there's a lot to that, you know. What you perceive and what you are going
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  through is the reality you have.
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  You don't know what anyone else thinks. You're not inside their heads.
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  You can't get anyone else's intentions, though you might try to get everyone
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  else's intentions on anything.
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  And what they, all you can do is look at everyone's actions,
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  the actions of this world.
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  And you got to live within your own head. You know, don't get outside of your
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  own head and embrace the journey that you are experiencing in your own head. There's joy.
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  There is definitely joy and you got to find it. You got to find it.
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  You got to seek it. You got to seek it out.
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  You know, it's lost treasure because you can, you can like throw this off,
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  throw this to the side and say, oh, that's a lunatic talking.
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  You know, I got stuff to do. I got bills to pay.
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  I got money to make. I got to create something in my life that is going to have
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  real significance as opposed to there is significance already out there.
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  It's just, you got to grasp it. You know, it's got you and you're not going
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  to find it by just, just toying around and by just stumbling through life.
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  All right, so I say all that to say because I've gotten to the point where,
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  and I might not be talking to everyone, you know, I'm not talking to everyone. I'm talking to you.
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  I'm talking to you. Have you thrown away the chains in your life?
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  Have you thrown away the thought that everybody else's opinion matters?
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  Or are you entangled in that? Do you feel like a loser? Do you feel like a winner?
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  I've went back and forth like, do I need to build myself up?
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  Do I need to make myself? I am a winner. I'm going to achieve.
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  I'm going to do great things.
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  As opposed to, heck yeah, I'm a loser. Whatever.
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  I'm a loser. Because when you hit rock bottom, you got nothing to lose.
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  You have nothing to lose. There's nothing more to lose.
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  You have peace. Because, and that's the only point you can do.
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  You can only rise unless you hit that bottom, you know? And everybody's bottom is different.
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  Everybody's rock bottom is different. But I would encourage you,
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  if you haven't, if you, because you might not be there yet. Everybody else,
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  everybody is in their own season.
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  Things might be going great. Things might be going terrible.
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  But what I'm trying to get across is it doesn't matter the circumstances.
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  It doesn't matter how big our bank account is.
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  It doesn't matter how, if we got every, if everyone out there that we love loves
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  us, all that matters is the one opinion that matters is God's.
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  That's all that matters.
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  And then you can have freedom in that. You can have freedom in that, you know?
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  All right. So I want, we're going to switch gears a little bit.
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  I'm going to, we're going to change over to, if you have not heard,
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  There's a lot of news happening, as there always is. You know,
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  that's why it's called the news. It's new every day.
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  And the news I'm talking about is the dismantling of the Department of Education
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  was enacted by President Trump, signed an executive order yesterday.
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  What's that going to mean for everyone? And I know because, I mean, anybody can see this.
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  Anybody can see this show right now and across the world. And this might not
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  matter to anyone outside of the continental United States.
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  But in the United States, this is what I grew up with, you know?
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  The Department of Education was all we ever knew, you know, and things were
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  and there were good intentions when enacting it and putting it into place.
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  And everybody has their own opinion.
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  Do you think the school system that we have built up, that we have created,
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  is it a good thing for our young people?
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  Because I remember like years ago, there was a book called, you know,
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  it's all about dumbing us down, you know, and it's just the education's all
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  about teaching kids to be, you know, robots and to obey.
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  To when the bell rings, you go to the next class.
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  And I mean, it is, in a sense, become just a daycare. It's become a daycare in a lot of ways.
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  And maybe to keep kids off the street, you know, they're not doing,
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  they're all not up to no good.
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  But I mean, I just think there's, we lose a lot of freedom of choice in the
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  educational system with the way that it is now.
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  There's not from the ground up with what people want to send their,
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  where they want to send their kids and just the governmental waste that is in
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  it. But there are a lot of good things.
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  You can't throw out everything because with, like, with charities and all that,
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  with organizations wanting to do, have charities and take care of good things.
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  A lot of times the government is the one who has to step in,
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  you know, so I understand that. I'm not a person that is just throw out all the government.
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  We need government. We need, but we need limited government.
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  We definitely need limited government. And when the government.
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  Because that is like, when you think of churches, they'll get that tax exemption.
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  They'll get that whatever, 501, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
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  So, but then it's like the government has got a hand on you.
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  The government has got paws on you that, yeah, we're going to give you an exemption.
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  We're not going to make you pay taxes or something, but then you step out of line and
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  Maybe you go against the current culture of the day and you say something that
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  is biblical and something that aligns with the Bible and is not the accepted norm.
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  The government might step in, you know, those who are in power that are not
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  in line with what God has laid out, they might lose power.
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  They might lose the ability to have that money because it's like everything
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  comes with strings attached.
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  Everything comes with strings attached. I mean, it's the same thing with the
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  Department of Education.
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  You know, when we allow the government to do everything and they're controlling
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  everything as opposed to from the ground roots, let the people decide where
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  I want to send our kids, what I want them to be learning,
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  you know, bring it back to the states, bring, let localities have a say in how
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  they want their kids being raised and what they want to be taught.
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  Because there's so many things in school.
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  It's like, we really got to rethink this. Like, why are we teaching some of
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  the things that we're teaching?
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  And it's not to say at all about the teachers because they're wonderful teachers
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  out there but let's change like maybe,
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  what we're teaching, what is valuable does everyone need to know the elemental
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  chart, which everyone forgets after they leave that class,
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  as opposed to just general principles and really think when somebody goes out
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  into the real world because a lot of times people go out into the real world
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  because you just gotta go to school so you can go to school and go to school
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  and go to school and get a degree.
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  It's definitely still good things
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  but it's like, does everyone have to be going the same lockstep way?
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  So I think we should, this is a good thing for us going into maybe a different direction.
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  You know, the pendulum's always going to swing. I always say that it's always
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  going to swing back and forth.
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  So don't overstep, but I think Trump is doing a great thing by dismantling something
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  we know is wrong. Let's rebuild it. Let's rebuild it.
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  That's not to say that all schools lose funding. It's not to say that all teachers
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  lose their jobs because teachers are wonderful, absolutely wonderful,
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  but people can get set in their ways and people can get where they are untouchable.
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  They feel untouchable and they are going to drive home their agenda as opposed
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  to in whatever area you're in.
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  You say you're in LA, you're in California, do your things your way.
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  Say you're in Kansas City, do your things your way.
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  What you think is right, what the people at that locality have decided on is
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  the direction we, and things we should be teaching our kids,
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  you know, things that we, let's just not have a government overreach that everything is controlled,
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  you know, from the top down, but rather from the bottom up.
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  It's not to say remove all funding,
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  you know, and I don't, I don't think that this is going to do that.
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  This is not going to do that. You know, people will not allow it to do that,
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  but it's something that is major changes are happening. major changes are happening.
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  And can we rebuild? You know, it's from the ashes up, from the ashes up,
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  everything can be great.
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  We have the potentiality to make things great and whatever we're doing.
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  So there's a personal element to this, you know, for like, because for you,
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  are you finding joy in life?
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  Are you finding significance and purpose?
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  I would say definitely you have to die before you can be resurrected.
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  And this department of education.
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  It's got to die before it can be resurrected into something that is great.
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  And it will be something that is great. I know it will.
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  The way that we are going to change the direction of how we are educating kids,
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  you know, education is a great thing.
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  Indoctrination is not a great thing. Let people learn what is going to be useful and valuable to them.
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  We are United States, Americans, we are sovereigns of our nation.
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  We do not have a king ruling over us. We do not have a king ruling over us.
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  We are the sovereigns of this nation. We are the ones that control the government.
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  We are the bosses of those politicians.
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  We are the bosses. They are not the bosses over us. We got to flip that.
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  They are not this oligarchy that is up there that is controlling us, but we are in power.
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  We are in power, and they should do what we tell them to do.
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  It starts with a mindset, but overall, unless we do rash things,
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  unless we do things that are meaningful, things that are going to.
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  Change how things have been done for years, because it's been done this way
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  for years, the Department of Education, and this goes for all of government.
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  We got to cut things so that we can rebuild them, so that we can make them great.
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  I think that education in our country, there's good things about it.
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  There's bad. There's good and bad in everything.
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  Let's try to let's try to remove the bad and decide together wherever we're at.
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  You know, not overall as a country, because people that are in different parts
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  of the country, different states, that's why every state is its own like sovereign.
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  There has to be that. I understand there has to be the federal government over
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  everything that keeps us together.
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  We don't need Texas drifting and departing from the nation.
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  We don't want that. We got to keep us together. I understand that.
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  But each state is its own sovereign, and it can decide how it wants its state run.
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  Every state is an experiment, and let the best experiment win.
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  Whatever is going right, that's why people flee certain states and go to others.
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  So let's not lock everyone in and say, you have to do things, everything this way.
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  Let's change it. Let's change our mind. But overall, I mean, it starts personally.
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  It starts with you, how you feel about life, how you feel about your day,
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  how you feel about going into everything that you're going into.
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  Do you have purpose and meaning? I say, embrace being a loser.
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  Embrace it. When you are a loser, you have nothing to lose, and then you can truly win.
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  If we had eyes to see that everything is upside down in this world,
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  and we're flipping it right side up, God's going to make everything right in the end.
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  He's going to make everything right in the end. So know that you have a calling,
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  you have purpose in life, and you can embrace being a loser.
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  You can rise from the ashes.
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  You be resurrected every day. Live the journey in your own mind and have peace and joy through it.
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  Have joy through it. You go, that's the only way you're going to get joy.
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  Keep going and keep evolving to the best version of you.