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Are Democrats Cool? - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 706, the 55KRC talk station. I love this moment in
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  Speaker 1: time in the 55KRC morning show. It is the time
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  Speaker 1: of week when we all get to sit back and
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  Speaker 1: pull our popcorn out, put our feet up, and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the brilliance of Jack Atherton with what we call the
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  Speaker 1: big picture with Jack Atherton. Welcome back, my friend. Love
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  Speaker 1: having you on the show, and I sure appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: willingness to join us every week.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me back, pal. Here's this morning's question.
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  Speaker 2: Why are so many kids voting Democrat? And I mean
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  Speaker 2: kids of all ages, from arrested adolescents to senile flower
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  Speaker 2: children of the 60s. I think because it's cool to
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  Speaker 2: be revolutionary in kidspeak, Mohamed El-Sayed is lit for socialists
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  Speaker 2: who love torching cities from Minneapolis and Portland to now
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  Speaker 2: Paris and Milan. James Tallarico with his two-week mystery flu
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  Speaker 2: is sick for kids who love skipping work. The Texas
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  Speaker 2: Senate Democrat finally coming back. He's lied about having always
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  Speaker 2: backed border security and fossil fuels. And here in Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: even disheveled old Sherrod Brown is fresh if you want
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  Speaker 2: him to rubber stamp another $ 32 trillion in debt for
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  Speaker 2: nationalized health care, which stinks. Ainsley and I have a
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  Speaker 2: daughter living in the UK, and we pray she doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get sick. Brian, I contend there's nothing revolutionary about Democrat socialists. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they may wear Che Guevara berets or these days burqas
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  Speaker 2: and hijabs, but all Democrats want is a return to
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  Speaker 2: the oldest form of government, top-down authoritarianism, as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: the still revolutionary American idea of bottom-up limited government. From
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  Speaker 2: clan leaders in caves to warlords, priest kings, emperors, and
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  Speaker 2: modern-day dictators, most every nation throughout history has been top-down. Today,
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  Speaker 2: Democrat socialists are pledging one-party rule by eliminating the U.S. Senate,
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  Speaker 2: turning the president into a parliamentary prime minister, and packing
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court with woke judges. They also want to
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  Speaker 2: squelch freedom of speech with another Joe Biden disinformation board,
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  Speaker 2: like the one that... It's still hard to believe this happened.
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  Speaker 2: Set up an office at Facebook to recommend which social
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  Speaker 2: media posts should be hidden and who should be shadow banned.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats want to complete what Barack Obama promised, the fundamental
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  Speaker 2: transformation of the United States. They want to reverse the founders' idea,
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  Speaker 2: the American idea, that government flows from individuals, and replace
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  Speaker 2: that idea with what the godfathers of the left, Jean-Jacques
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  Speaker 2: Rousseau and Karl Marx, called the general will, the collective
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  Speaker 2: will of the state. America's founders set up a government
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  Speaker 2: not for kids, but for adults. From the pilgrims to
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  Speaker 2: legal immigrants, like the parents of Avik Ramaswamy, Everyone who
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  Speaker 2: has voluntarily come to America to become an American has
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  Speaker 2: been a kind of entrepreneur, seeking the opportunity to reinvent themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They want to be free, not fed, crumbs by top-down
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  Speaker 2: authoritarian elites. Our founders made that possible by granting the
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  Speaker 2: new federal government they created strictly limited powers. All other
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  Speaker 2: powers are reserved to the states and to the individual citizens.
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  Speaker 2: But wait, there's more. Our Constitution, the greatest political plan
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  Speaker 2: in the history of the world, and that's not just
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  Speaker 2: chess beating. The Constitution also places limits within the federal
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  Speaker 2: government through checks and balances. That's why Democrats want to
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  Speaker 2: ditch the Senate. Each state, whether big or small, now
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  Speaker 2: has two senators. They have the power to check the House,
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  Speaker 2: which can be dominated by socialist cities and college towns.
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  Speaker 2: The Supreme Court can also check big government socialism. So
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  Speaker 2: Democrats want to neuter that too. We cannot let them
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  Speaker 2: do it. That's what's at stake in this election and
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  Speaker 2: in 2028. Brian, we always look way back in history
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  Speaker 2: to put today's issues into context. The very first book
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  Speaker 2: we have on politics, Plato's Republic, was written 2,400 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Plato proposed an ideal form of government, which would be
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  Speaker 2: ruled by the best and the brightest, philosopher kings and queens,
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  Speaker 2: chosen for their wisdom, experience, and most important, their unselfishness.
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  Speaker 2: But Plato admits in the Republic three times that his
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  Speaker 2: ideal regime is impossible. Why? Because as Lord Acton would
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  Speaker 2: later say, and we always say, tends to corrupt. All
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  Speaker 2: top-down rulers, aristocrats, military dictators, rich political bosses, all of
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  Speaker 2: them become tyrants, as Plato shows. And a democracy like
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  Speaker 2: the one Plato lived in, ancient Athens, that can turn
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  Speaker 2: to tyrants as well. Demagogues who promise their people something
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  Speaker 2: for nothing. As Benjamin Franklin and the other founders realized,
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  Speaker 2: democracy works. only as long as citizens are willing to
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  Speaker 2: take care of themselves. Not every citizen can. So America,
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  Speaker 2: the most generous of nations, always helps those who truly
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  Speaker 2: cannot help themselves. But today's Democrat socialists oppose requiring welfare
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  Speaker 2: recipients to work, or at least look for work, or
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  Speaker 2: at the very least, train for future work. Democrats say
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  Speaker 2: placing any requirements on welfare is cruel because today's Democrats
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  Speaker 2: don't want Americans to be self-sufficient. Democrats want us to
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  Speaker 2: see ourselves as victims who cannot possibly take care of ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: They want our chief job, often our only job, to
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  Speaker 2: be voting for big government. This is not heroic or revolutionary.
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  Speaker 2: This is infantile, and it's not cool. Babies are cute.
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  Speaker 2: They're not cool. If you want to be cool, grow up.
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  Speaker 2: Do the hard work it takes to support yourself, your family,
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  Speaker 2: your community, and humanity. And even if it means holding
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  Speaker 2: your nose, as we've been talking about for weeks now,
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  Speaker 2: because neither you nor I agree with all our GOP leaders,
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  Speaker 2: go out and vote for the only party that defends
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  Speaker 2: the American idea. What do you say, my very cool friend?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't. Well, as always, Jack, I come to agreement
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  Speaker 1: on most every single topic we come across. Speaking of,
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  Speaker 1: we always help those in need, and you're right, that's
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  Speaker 1: maybe not a uniquely American thing, but the whole concept
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  Speaker 1: of helping those truly on life's margins, not everybody, used
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  Speaker 1: to be the purview of charitable individuals, charitable organizations. There
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  Speaker 1: were no government services, and somewhere along the line, like
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  Speaker 1: so many other things, the government decided it was in
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  Speaker 1: the best position to take on the role of of
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  Speaker 1: the benefactor. And like all things government, you mentioned politicians
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  Speaker 1: who get that power always end up becoming corrupt. Well,
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  Speaker 1: like everything else, once government gets a hold of something,
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  Speaker 1: it always ends up falling apart, is poorly administrated, or
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  Speaker 1: is in and of itself corrupt. We see all the
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  Speaker 1: revelations from Nick Shirley in announcements yesterday about all the fraud, waste,
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  Speaker 1: and abuse, and now offering assistance from the general public
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  Speaker 1: to ferret it out and get a slice of the
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  Speaker 1: action if they find fraud, waste, and abuse out there.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I... You know, I agree with that because right
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  Speaker 1: now there's no incentive to face the firing squad and
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  Speaker 1: metaphorical risk of going out and blowing the whistle on anybody.
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  Speaker 1: But once the government gets in and takes over, it
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  Speaker 1: tends to screw it up so dramatically. And speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the state of America and how young people think it's
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  Speaker 1: somehow cool to be socialist, I believe that is an
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  Speaker 1: absolute epic failure of the education system, something the government
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  Speaker 1: has almost exclusive control of. They've created a couple generations
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  Speaker 1: of useful idiots who don't have any concept of how
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  Speaker 1: socialism always ends up leaving people in want. If France
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  Speaker 1: has everything that these leftists are clamoring for, early retirement, pensions,
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed vacation, free health care and all that, why the
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  Speaker 1: hell are people rioting in the streets over it? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that what everybody's clamoring for, Jack? I guess it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: We could all pay attention to that reality if we
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  Speaker 1: all had common sense enough to look around us, but no. Socialism,
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  Speaker 1: cool man. Evil orange man, bad. This is just what
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  Speaker 1: we've come to be as a society. And I really
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  Speaker 1: believe it's largely to blame in the education, i.e. indoctrination
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  Speaker 1: camps that we all send our children to.
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  Speaker 2: France is broke in every sense, as we've discussed. And
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  Speaker 2: speaking of Europe, you're right. America did not invent social
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  Speaker 2: welfare as we mentioned perhaps last year. It was the
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  Speaker 2: Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in Germany in the 19th
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  Speaker 2: century who came up with social security. As for the kids,
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  Speaker 2: the hard part is convincing kids that it's cool to
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  Speaker 2: be conservative, a future adult, not an aggrieved victim. Too
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  Speaker 2: many parents stopped doing this starting in the 1950s. They
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  Speaker 2: let television raise their children. We've got to monitor how
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  Speaker 2: everything from social media to music warps our kids and grandkids.
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  Speaker 2: and offer instead positive influences, places of worship, sports. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I love the kids who still join 4-H and bring
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  Speaker 2: their animals to the state fair. If that sounds corny, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know the kind of music and movies I like,
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  Speaker 2: but it beats a lot of the poison the kids
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  Speaker 2: ingest today.
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  Speaker 1: Jack, I read a story about a nine-year-old who's got 80%
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  Speaker 1: burns over his entire body because he was on social
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  Speaker 1: media and there was a viral challenge going out there.
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  Speaker 1: Set yourself on fire. I mean, think about that, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Set yourself on fire. And there are kids doing it.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool to set yourself on fire. I mean... That's
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  Speaker 1: the influence social media has. I mean, you can just
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  Speaker 1: suspend your natural, innate, you know, common sense, God-given reality that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everyone seems to have an understanding that fire
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  Speaker 1: can be dangerous. Once you get burned once, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go down that road. And yet, here's a
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  Speaker 1: viral thing saying, kids, set yourself on fire. And then,
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  Speaker 1: lo and behold, I got this article from the other day,
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  Speaker 1: Janice Heisel reporting on, after a surge, fewer teens identifying
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  Speaker 1: as lesbian or gay or bisexual. After this wave of
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  Speaker 1: embracing of LGBT and everything like that, it shows that
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  Speaker 1: over time, young people between the ages of, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it was nine and 12 or a ninth grade and
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  Speaker 1: 12 year olds have decided that, you know what? Uh, I,
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  Speaker 1: I tried it. I'm not gay or lesbian anymore. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I got convinced into thinking it was the cool thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. And it turns out that, well, they were only,
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  Speaker 1: you know, embracing what was a moment in time, a
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  Speaker 1: cool thing to do logic, reason, and our innate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sense of, uh, wanting to, uh, I guess procreate built
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  Speaker 1: in God, you know, that, that means you're a, a
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  Speaker 1: linear sort of gut accepting of the idea that men
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  Speaker 1: and women should be together. I don't care if people
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  Speaker 1: are gay or lesbian, but, you know, social media can
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  Speaker 1: influence people into deciding that they are something that they
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  Speaker 1: are not.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we can't wait for the kids to put
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  Speaker 2: their fingers on a hot stove and find out they
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  Speaker 2: can burn themselves. I don't blame social media. I blame
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  Speaker 2: the parents. Yeah. When Amesley and I were by no
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  Speaker 2: means perfect parents. Nobody is. But we had only one
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  Speaker 2: computer in the house when the girls were growing up.
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  Speaker 2: And it was right next to the kitchen. Aimsley worked,
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  Speaker 2: but she spent a lot of the time in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't go on unless somebody was nearby. And the
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  Speaker 2: kids didn't have phones until they were older. We simply
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  Speaker 2: have to be parents. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And to that point, what parent out there thinks it's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea to let a nine-year-old have unrestrained access
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  Speaker 1: to whatever social media account that would suggest setting yourself
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  Speaker 1: on fire is a good thing?
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  Speaker 2: The ones who don't want to get involved, who want
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  Speaker 2: to shift all the responsibility to the cloud.
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  Speaker 1: Full circle to your point. Kids that believe socialism is cool.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Atherton, you are great. I love you, man. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for being on The Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: I get so many comments about your segment. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: I'll look forward to next Wednesday. We'll do it again.
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  Speaker 1: And as always, best of health and much love to
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  Speaker 1: you and your better half.