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Changing values in American history · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Just reading through some of your social media posts, and
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  Speaker 1: you people make me trouble just saying which is better
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  Speaker 1: than making me sick? Was I gripe it about what's
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  Speaker 1: her face? Gilbert yesterday? Yes? I was. And I got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of notes on that. People don't understand why
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  Speaker 1: how I can be so vigilant when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: protecting children the exploitation of children. Stories like this ai
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  Speaker 1: being used to exploit children. And I was okay with
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  Speaker 1: the Melissa Gilbert storyline and Little House on the Prairie
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  Speaker 1: of getting married when she was fifteen to a man
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  Speaker 1: who is twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: When does Little House on the Prairie take place?
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen fifty two? I think it was something like that
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  Speaker 1: back in the eighteen hundreds, when it was not uncommon
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  Speaker 1: for people in their teens to get married.
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  Speaker 2: It's not uncommon to marry your cousins and stuff in
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  Speaker 2: the South to like the fifties.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Times for difference.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying not to be mad at the question of
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  Speaker 1: why I'm not offended by this, but honestly, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean this in a mean way. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to use your name. This is not mean. This is
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  Speaker 1: this is a legitimate response. It's a ridiculous question. The
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  Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds are not today and back then. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you lived to forty years old, you had a
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  Speaker 1: good long life. So getting married at fifteen, sixteen years
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  Speaker 1: old not uncommon. Having four or five kids by your
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  Speaker 1: twenty first birthday not uncommon, because chances are you'd be
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  Speaker 1: dead in a couple of decades.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you could get a cut on your leg
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  Speaker 2: and get infected and die, yes, just that easy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you couldn't run down to the emergency room again,
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  Speaker 1: let yourself some amoxicillin or something like that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was a The storyline from the Little House on
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  Speaker 1: the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, based on her
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  Speaker 1: actual life, was completely legitimate. There was nothing wrong with it.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that he in the in the television show,
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  Speaker 1: her husband was represented as being twenty four years old
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  Speaker 1: and she was fifteen years old or sixteen whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: that too, was very common because a young girl didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to get married to a young guy and both
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  Speaker 1: of them trying to feel their way through life. Parents
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  Speaker 1: wanted to marry their daughters off to an established young
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  Speaker 1: man who was out there making his way, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: already owned himself. A few acres was a little dirt farman,
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  Speaker 1: or raising a few cows, or or something.
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  Speaker 2: That average life expectancy back then was thirty eight to
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  Speaker 2: forty two.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Forty years old, you're dead, which
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  Speaker 1: is why people were getting married at fifteen sixteen years
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  Speaker 1: old not uncommon at all, and even our laws today,
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  Speaker 1: you know when you talk about statutory rape sixteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: which I think, frankly is ridiculously young for a law,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what it is, and that's based on that
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  Speaker 1: old premise that at sixteen you are capable of consenting
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  Speaker 1: to susch relations. But to compare my outrage over people
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five who use and abuse children to
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  Speaker 1: a storyline in a television show that is based but
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  Speaker 1: two hundred years ago. I'm sorry, but I don't get you,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope you understand what I'm saying here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mad at you. I'm not trying to be mean.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm mad, but I have I'm giving you a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate response to your question because I think you asked
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  Speaker 1: it legitimately. I really think you're off based on that
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  Speaker 1: and that's the way it is American. I just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we keep trying to do stuff that is the equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of tearing down the Christopher Columbus statue. As far as
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  Speaker 1: I'm concerned, what it was in fourteen ninety two and
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  Speaker 1: what it is in twenty twenty five are not the
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  Speaker 1: same blasted thing. Quite Applying today's standards, which are not
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  Speaker 1: universal by the way, to four or five hundred years ago,
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  Speaker 1: they don't apply. We change, we progress, we evolve as
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  Speaker 1: human beings, as a country, as a culture, as a
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  Speaker 1: philosophy called America.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, back then, you could get in a card
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  Speaker 2: fight at a saloon and shoot somebody in the face
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  Speaker 2: from the butt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The guy, the the.
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  Speaker 2: Cop would be like, take your guns. Yeah, okay, it's
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  Speaker 2: a little out of control.
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  Speaker 1: Why'd you shoot him? He called me yellow? Okay, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just it's it's a different world. And that's I guess
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  Speaker 1: what we have to accept. Quit quit going back the
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  Speaker 1: same people who you know, they laughed at Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: when he was talking about the you know, the memories
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  Speaker 1: of America, what we used to be, and and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. You can't go back to the fifties, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: You move forward. That's coming from the same people that
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to pre civil war and get reparations. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why can you guys go back if it means a
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  Speaker 1: check and he can't go back if it means a
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  Speaker 1: nice memory. We were better. Yeah, we had a problems,
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  Speaker 1: and we got our problems today. We had our problems
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years ago. We will have our problems one
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  Speaker 1: hundred years from now. But as people, we were better
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  Speaker 1: toward one another. There was even in the oppressed let
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  Speaker 1: me say this right here, right now, right straight to
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  Speaker 1: your face, even the oppressed black faces of the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America in nineteen fifty. While there were the
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  Speaker 1: struggles and the challenges and the discrimination and all of
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  Speaker 1: the things you could not have, there was a dignity,
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  Speaker 1: a dignity to life. This is your place in the
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  Speaker 1: ecosystem as it stands right now. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: Dad was there, married to mom, raising the children, church
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, children respected, no drive by shootings. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say it was all bad. There were bad elements. There
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  Speaker 1: will always be bad elements, but it wasn't all bad.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think it was, there's a a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good chance you didn't live through it. You're going by
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  Speaker 1: the stuff you hear today. I'm not going to get
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  Speaker 1: to the state of Ohio story, and I really wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: but once again they're they're screwing around with the cannabis.
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  Speaker 1: And look, it came before the voters. The voters legalized it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just say here very quickly. This new plan
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about includes banning, of course, the intoxicating HIMP.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where it gets interesting, and sending money to
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  Speaker 1: cities where legal marijuana is sold untill those who are
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  Speaker 1: selling the legal marijuana can legally put their money in
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  Speaker 1: the banks. That's a stupid plan. I understand it's legal
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  Speaker 1: in the state of Ohio now, but at the federal
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  Speaker 1: level it's not. So if anything, you ought to be
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  Speaker 1: dealing with that at the federal level. Get it legalized.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate the stuff. I can't stand it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like people who rely on it. I can't stand
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  Speaker 1: the smell of it. But it is what it is,
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  Speaker 1: so let's do it like it makes some sense instead
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  Speaker 1: of like an agenda means everything