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#63 - 'What did you do last week?' Elon Musk’s Email to Federal Workers · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  What did you do last week? I don't even remember what I did yesterday,
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  but the federal workers are being asked by Elon Musk Through email over the weekend.
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  What did you do last week? Also, Dan Bongino gets appointed by by Trump to be
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  the next deputy FBI director And then also the eagles are shunning the white
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  house and refusing to go My name is brandon fogle.
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  This is evolution and let's just dive into it
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  we got a lot to cover today a lot happened over the weekend and i
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  hope you're ready i hope you're ready because i i know i
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  hope i am i know i hope i am i know
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  i hope i am okay all right so let's just dive right
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  into it so dan bongino if you if you're not familiar with him he is he was he
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  was actually a part of the secret service in the white house and also he now
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  he transitioned over to being a basically a big prime time podcaster he's just
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  hitting the like the airwaves like,
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  He's doing an amazing job in podcasting.
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  But now he's been given the right hand by Donald Trump to serve as the FBI deputy director.
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  So a position that would be underneath Kash Patel.
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  But, I mean, something that's really stood out to me about these appointments
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  that Donald Trump is making...
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  Because in his first term, he threw out some guys out that could get stuff done.
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  But these guys basically basically got clout.
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  These guys are ones that are out on the airwaves and speaking their opinion.
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  They're podcasters. They're Fox News hosts.
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  They're guys that can actually get out there and communicate to the American
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  people what they're doing. And they're not just guys that can get in there and
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  get their hands dirty, but they're actually guys that can go out there and push forward the agenda.
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  They're comfortable doing that, which is which is amazing. Dan Bongino
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  and when he transitioned because he was it
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  was like secret service he worked in the secret service for like I believe
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  Obama correct fact checkers correct me
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  if I'm wrong but I believe Obama and he was it worked in
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  the in that arena and then he's he transitioned over to being a podcaster he
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  was on Fox News for a while just a guy that was out there and when he came it
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  seemed like when he first started off and maybe this hope maybe this is for
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  a lot of people when they get on to doing speaking and communicating on TV and
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  on radio and on the internet that he was,
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  he wasn't as like just bolsterous and like, it's just like hardcore.
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  And just, he didn't speak his opinion as harsh, like hardly as he does now.
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  Like he, he's very clear in what he believes, very clear in what he wants to
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  get done. And he doesn't shy away.
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  I like, when he first started, I remember he was a little bit shy.
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  It seemed like he didn't like, and I think that goes for anybody,
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  but like Since then, he's got his own show.
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  I don't follow too many podcasts out there on Apple, but his is one of them.
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  I love his show and I love what he does. He's great at what he does.
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  And actually, I wanted to switch this up because something about him,
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  Tim Pool, another person that I really, really like, what he said about him,
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  I hope people realize the sacrifice that Dan Bongino is making for his country
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  with one of the most successful shows in podcasting.
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  He's choosing service to his nation over his personal enterprise.
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  America, American honor is back. So that's Dan Bongino.
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  He is there. There's the guy. I mean, and him going in there,
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  this is guy that's going to be cleaning house. He was a person that helped Trump.
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  He was very open and pushing Trump's agenda and getting him back in the White
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  House. He doesn't shy away from that.
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  So him being appointed to be to go in there as the FBI direct deputy FBI director,
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  he's going to actually get in there and get things done as well.
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  So I'm, that's, I think that's pretty good news.
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  I don't know if you're, if you're familiar with him, but he,
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  I think he is a guy that he's not going to sit back and let just the FBI continue on what it's doing.
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  So he's going to be another bulldog in the fight that will get things done and
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  him to step away from what he has.
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  He has a pretty sweet gig right now, a pretty sweet gig.
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  He, as one of the top podcasts that are out there.
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  I think him stepping away, that shows a lot of just honor and just,
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  willingness to sacrifice for his country. So that's a pretty big deal.
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  That's a pretty big thing to just step away. But I mean, that's almost what
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  service to America should be.
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  It's public service. It's not a place to go in and get rich and get fame doing
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  so, but it's a place to go in and get things done for the American people.
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  The government, it sounds so odd, but they're there to serve us.
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  We shouldn't be afraid of Big Brother. They shouldn't even be big brother.
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  They're there to serve us, the American people.
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  You know, American people, we are not, there's one king above us.
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  There is, we are all sovereigns of this nation.
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  We are the ones in charge. The American people are the ones in charge and we
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  are the ones that choose to who we're gonna put to kind of basically handle
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  things, handle things that we know needs to get done.
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  So I'm really excited about that. I think that'll be, it's an awesome appointee
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  by Donald Trump. So another thing across the weekend that happened.
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  Can you imagine over the weekend your boss emailing you and saying, what did you get?
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  I mean, and not just your immediate supervisor, but the top guy of your company
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  where you work emailing you over the weekend and saying, what did you get done last week?
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  And listed out in five bulletin points and depending on your answer,
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  it might determine whether you get to continue working here or not.
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  That's what Elon Musk did.
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  He did to the entire government. He sends out a mass email that goes to everybody's inbox.
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  And there is just, through Sunday, there is widespread confusion on what's going to happen.
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  Elon Musk has made it clear that this is really just to determine who is not
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  doing anything at all, that they're not even going to respond to this email.
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  So there is to kind of just basically weed out that, that waste immediately.
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  So he's putting that out there. This is pretty controversial,
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  but this is the same thing.
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  This is the same Elon Musk that I remember like with Tesla.
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  And when he went into Twitter, what he did, when he went into,
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  when he was at Tesla, I remember years back that him emailing his people,
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  his company over the weekend, basically doing the same
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  thing and just it seemed like the the narrative was that he is driving his people
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  too hard way too hard and so him to switch it up and like do he's basically
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  doing the same thing he's not a new dog doing new tricks he's the same dog doing
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  the same tricks he's getting things done he's he cares what,
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  people are actually doing i've always heard about
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  elon musk and if he has a meeting happening in any of
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  his companies and if somebody's in there and they're not contributing and
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  they're not getting anything from the meeting and it has nothing to do with
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  them they're to immediately get up and get out of there so elon musk he's about
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  efficiency and we know that but this is this is hard this is this is very hard
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  like for me because as a federal worker because i'm trying to put myself in their.
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  Shoes and their shoes and what they're feeling going through this.
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  I mean, it's, I think the way that we're going is all about meritocracy.
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  And if you're doing it right and you're doing what you're supposed to do and
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  you're contributing and you're like, you're giving 110%, you're going to stay
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  along for the ride, you know?
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  But if you're not, you're going to be kind of taken away, at least from the
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  positions that are going to have power and influence, power and influence.
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  These aren't you aren't how maybe how much I wish that we are all given a government
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  job and we all had security and everything was was great and hunky dory.
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  It's not it is a privilege to work for the federal government.
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  And I think a lot of people we've gotten away where it's just like you get in
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  and it's just a cushy job and you're you're set for life.
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  And Elon Musk is completely breaking that. And he's being bolstered by Donald Trump.
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  Donald Trump is saying you're not doing enough. Be more aggressive.
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  And Elon says, yes, yes, sir, Mr. President, I will do that.
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  So Elon Musk is being extremely, extremely aggressive in what he's doing.
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  I know it's kind of controversial in it, in the way he's going about it sometimes, but it's the same guy.
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  It's the same guy who made PayPal awesome, and he's not there anymore,
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  who made Tesla awesome, and it is awesome.
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  It's like the best electric car
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  out there, and who completely transformed Twitter and X and has made it,
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  i would say even better now i
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  mean at the beginning when you first took over it was not better it was
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  not as great as it had previously been and i would grant that
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  it but it has since then become the place
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  the place everything happens on x and i think that's you can't flip a switch
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  and make everything right overnight and so i think with elon musk he does things
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  extremely fast But there's only so much warp speed that you can do,
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  especially when you're trying to cut through red tape and bureaucracy and the American government.
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  So what he's doing, I think, is extremely good, but it's tough.
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  And I am trying to visualize myself if I was on the other side of the fence,
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  if I was the federal worker.
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  I mean, most of these, if they do get cut, they will have a good severance,
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  a very good severance, like eight months severance.
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  I mean, where do you get, where else do you get that?
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  And to just go out there and find something else, but maybe this will light
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  a fire under you that you'll go actually, that you'll go out there and,
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  and a lot of them probably are doing amazing work, you know,
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  but a lot, but some of them aren't.
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  So it's, I think it's just cleaning out and weeding out what,
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  who, who is not doing the amazing work.
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  Maybe get them doing something that they would be better doing all
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  right so and lastly i wanted
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  to kind of talk about the eagles and
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  what they did what they are saying right now
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  that they are refusing to go to the white house this this
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  one kind of struck a chord with me it kind of it kind
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  of hurt me deeply it kind of hurt me deeply because it's
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  the same thing i remember like other teams that have done in the past that
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  they just want to say i'm not going to go to
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  the white house because i don't like who is in the white house and this
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  i i hope jalen hurts steps
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  up and changes this because this this is the thing that put me on like when
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  i kind of walked away from the nba when like i i used to love the golden state
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  warriors and curry and and those guys and just and they were doing they were
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  so awesome but they they just showed so such.
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  I don't know, just distaste for our country and refusing, like,
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  because if someone is in the White House, you're refusing to go.
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  I don't care if they're on the other side that you don't agree with.
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  If you are going to say that you're not going to go to the White House,
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  that is like, that's patriotism.
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  That's like, you're American.
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  Because I mean, that is, to me, that is troubling. And I hope Jalen Hurts steps
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  up and does not allow his team to go through this, you know,
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  because he is the leader of that team.
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  You know, we are all Americans. So it's like we can get on board together and
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  we can support our nation.
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  It's the same thing as kneeling for the national anthem.
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  It's disgusting. It's disgusting. So I hope that the Eagles do something and
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  get this fixed and do not go forward with not going to the White House and just
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  shunning the White House.
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  And because somebody I don't like that's in there, I'm going to bow the knee
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  to the public opinion of the people that are close-knit to me.
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  Instead of just stepping up, you know, if they're on the other side, do the same thing.
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  It's like, it's troubling to me, and I hope Jalen Hurts, because he is the one
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  I would call out for this.
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  He is the one, I actually, I like Jalen Hurts a lot, and the team is awesome,
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  and he makes the team run and perform amazingly, and I'm sad to say that because I am a huge Chiefs fan,
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  but he, he, they were the better team, but let's see if you have better character
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  or if you have even equivalent character to Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs,
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  because the chiefs would not have like said,
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  depending, I'm not going to go to the white house. If we would have won,
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  the chiefs would not have done that.
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  They would not have done that. I don't think, but so I hope that I hope Jalen hurts.
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  It takes what he, his leadership role seriously and turns this around and says,
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  no, we're going to be good American citizens and support our country and do
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  what's right and go to the White House.
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  So, all right, we'll leave it at that. Peace.