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E59: White Plight - DUI is Still a Problem · The Junto Podcast

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Hello America, welcome to the Juneto podcast where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I'm your host Edgar Mills. Thank you for.
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Hey, America. Welcome back to episode 59.
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Thanks for sticking with me. I really do appreciate all you people.
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But I don't get too much feedback, and I would like to. Maybe I'm just not controversial enough, I guess.
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Or maybe I'm not juicy enough. I don't know. Anyway, I would appreciate your feedback.
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I'm going to pause here for a moment. Oh man.
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All right. Well, I can hear myself in the mic, which I normally don't.
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And it's kind of weird, but I'm going to carry on.
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In previous episodes, I talked about things like the disproportionate numbers
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of black men involved in Airfinger's, quote, gun violence.
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I talked about importing Islamic extreme culture and behaviors.
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And those things are very real, and they should be openly and honestly discussed for sure.
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But today I'm going to target another group, and it's white dudes.
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Now look, I'm not trying to assign
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any collective white guilt or any whataboutisms or any crap like that.
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But I was compelled to look up what crime in America is.
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Predominantly white male driven or committed.
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And I've asked different people this question and I'd get different answers.
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Well, the answer that I landed on, and this is statistical numbers that like
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bear it out is is DUI drunk driving,
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now I know well we'll get into it but culturally drinking is normal in America
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that's the thing it's just normal and we'll get into that but,
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Now, we'll get into it.
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DUI, yeah. And the reason I did this is not to equally crap on different races to, you know.
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Exonerate myself for critiquing the blacks or the Muslims.
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Now, I did it to make a point that, one, every demographic has bad apples, no matter what.
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Two, if I'm going to be honest and consistent, I have to call out,
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well, the crime or the badness where it is.
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And I have to apply equal standards to it.
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I don't think it's okay for white dudes to DUI. And I don't think it's okay
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for black dudes or Muslim dudes or any other dudes.
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Right? I don't think it's okay. But the reason DUI came up is because there's
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significant numbers still.
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Still now i remember i want to
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say in the 90s there was
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a big giant campaign you know against dui and their friends don't let friends
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drive drunk and that kind of thing and i don't i didn't look at like long-term
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numbers on it but i'm but what we're going to look out here right now Now,
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there's numbers from, let's see, 2024.
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Now, first, there is self-reported or surveyed data from the FBI.
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And what those surveys and that self-reporting showed was that white men openly
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admit to drunk driving in higher numbers than anyone else.
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And then I'm going to make a little comparison. And that little comparison is
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I'm going to compare firearm homicides and firearm accidents,
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deaths, death from firearm accidents.
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And I'm going to compare those to DUI numbers.
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And I will start with the number of intentional homicides by firearm in 2024 was about 15,000.
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And that's a lot. The number of accidental death by firearm in 2024, about 450.
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Three digits, 450 deaths. Okay.
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In 2024, how many deaths by DUI were there?
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12,000. Yeah, 12,000. And we can assume every DUI,
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though it's guilt simply by being drunk, but they're clearly accidental, right?
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So if you compare accidental firearm deaths, it's a crazy disparity.
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But even with intentional homicides, the disparity is still only about 3,000.
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So my point to this is that DUI is nearly as big an epidemic as,
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quote, gun violence, unquote.
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Yeah. But we don't hear about it. Nobody carries on about it.
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There has been in the past campaigns.
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And there's still some little groups out there that focus on that.
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But it's not nearly as prevalent.
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And if you live in the city, and you probably say, oh, well,
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that problem's been solved, Edgar. But the numbers don't bear out.
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And we'll talk about geographic stuff here in a minute.
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So, and the numbers on those, so here we go on the numbers.
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Across the board, the numbers are overwhelmingly male, right?
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Yeah, overwhelmingly male, like over 80%.
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But in the DUI crashes, the numbers from white male drivers are somewhere in
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the neighborhood of 80%, and that's a lot.
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And obviously the age range, somewhere from about 21 to 34, you know,
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dominate versus homicide, right?
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The white numbers on homicide are about 40% of all homicide.
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So, yeah, that goes back to the podcast where I talked about,
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air fingers quote, gun violence.
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So there's high representation there why
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why is that it's crazy i don't know
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well we'll we'll see let's look
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at it let's examine it let's figure out why do
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white dudes think it's okay to drink and drive well i can tell you now i've
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done it folks i have drank booze and got behind the wheel of a car and it was 100% immaturity.
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Immaturity in that I thought I was indestructible and probably lacked the capacity
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to look beyond myself and think, what if?
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Yeah, you know what I'm saying? That was me personally.
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So white males do not dominate DUI arrests or death by DUI because the police target it, white dudes.
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I would say white dudes have the luxury and I'm going to say the word privilege
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of not being profiled, generally speaking.
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But again, surveys and stuff like that show that, well, just in general,
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alcohol consumption, but also binge drinking is highest among white males.
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Yeah, white males.
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So that's the thing. And one of the reasons, I think, is, well, social drinking.
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That's what I call myself. I'm a social drinker.
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And here's the way I do it. If I have a course on a Saturday,
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maybe that evening my son and I will go and have one or two pints.
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Yeah, that's it. I call that social drinking.
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And social drinking in America has been glorified and romanticized throughout American culture.
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Our founding fathers drank, if you look at the volumes of alcohol that they
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consumed during their various meetings, especially pre-Revolution,
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they were gathering at the pub.
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Yeah, booze. It's just a way, it's a European thing for sure.
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And it's been glorified, romanticized throughout our entire existence.
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And and let's
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say in urban life urban now look
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urban is not synonymous with ghetto understand
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cities are vast thriving little ecosystems there and in the urban elitist cultures
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you know they have these they go to some high-end swanky nightclubs or like
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private clubs they have their little soirees,
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or they'll have galas where there's champagne and whatever, whatever.
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And whatever else it is rich people do usually involves booze.
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High-end booze, to be sure, but booze nonetheless.
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What about rural and suburban America? Well, one, rural and suburban America are largely white.
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Demographically. But where does social life happen there?
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Yeah, it happens at bars. You have in some states, you know, college sports, right?
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You have tailgate parties like football is a big deal and people will drink
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into obliteration or hunting clubs where the good old boys gather out in the cabin, house parties.
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Yeah. When you were in high school, I mean, you know, how many house parties
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you go to and it was a bunch of teenagers, but somebody's, you know,
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22 year old brother bought, you know, would go and pick up the booze.
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Yeah. And then of course the, the average working man, you know,
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have a couple of beers after work.
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That's a normal, it's so normal.
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But for some reason, white males are most likely to drive after,
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you know, more than three drinks.
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So, you know, usually one or two, you're not near the legally impaired limit.
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And okay, that's legally impaired. But then if you're a thick neck dude,
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you can probably drink four beers before even catching a bus.
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So you don't feel drunk, but you might be legally impaired.
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You don't even feel buzzed, but you might be legally impaired.
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So there's that disparity, right? Well, yeah, I had a couple of drinks, but I wasn't drunk.
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Well, the numbers say you are, and that's, that's law. That's what the law does, you know?
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And then what's another thing, you know, about, and I'm talking about rural and suburban areas.
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Public transportation is nearly non-existent and suburbs and,
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and rural spaces aren't set up like, like,
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like cities like metropolises where everything is walkable or there's a Uber
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on every corner or a Waymo or whatever.
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So like even Uber out in the rural spaces is lean, man. Like,
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yeah, it's, it's not, so it's you and your car is usually the prime way to get home.
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And here in Rome, I see there's taxi cabs still, but man, those taxi cabs look
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like you're going to catch some lung cancer when you get inside.
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Cause the driver's sitting there chain smoking and car looks like it's about
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to break down at any moment.
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But anyway, so you have lesser options out in these suburban rural spaces.
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Now, urban and metro, you have more options.
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Yeah, that's true. And I can remember a good thing when I was in the military, especially in 82nd.
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Well, and 10th Group did it too.
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If you were out drinking and you got hammered, you know, you could call the battalion.
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They had like a pickup, you know, cruise out there and pick up a few dudes and bring them home.
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Yeah. I mean, that's good. That is good. You get a free ride home.
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And some people didn't trust it. Like, oh, they're just going to hammer you
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for getting drunk and using the cert.
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Well, that's what the service is for, man.
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They would rather you call at 2 a.m., 3 a.m. than get a DUI.
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So even in the military, they were trying to figure out ways to help curb that.
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But, yeah, Uber, that's the magic in metro and urban-type areas for sure.
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And out there in the rural spaces and suburban space, right? Distance is your enemy.
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Yeah. Even some of the services, like you got little shuttles in town and things,
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but they ain't going to drive you 15 miles out in the sticks.
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So that distance gives you more opportunity to make bad decisions.
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So that's that, right? And then another high number demographic is specifically,
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now they didn't define affluent,
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Affluent white male teenagers have exceedingly high numbers of drinking and driving.
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Yeah, and we'll get to that in a minute.
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There's a lot of reasons, right?
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There are zero excuses, but there are a lot of reasons why people do the things they do.
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And so where does the alcohol, never mind just the social drinking, Never mind that.
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Now there's potential alcoholism, you know, and for whatever reason,
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childhood trauma, whatever it is. My dad was an alcoholic.
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My granddad was, whatever it is.
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And then you have sort of a culture, right? Let's look at white male,
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predominantly white And the Appalachians, right?
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What's it known for?
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Moonshine, man. Yeah. You hit three, four swigs of moonshine,
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you're beyond the legal limit. I can tell you that.
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And then what about like the Midwest, right? You got working class dudes working
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in factories and steel mills and shit.
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And what is it? Yeah, that's, you stop at the pub on the way home, man.
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And then, well, and then there's sort of generational or hereditary, you know, alcoholism.
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Or there's, and then there's like the stoic, tough guy, you know, kind of drinker.
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I drink nothing but 20-year-old scotch.
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And you sit at the bar and you sip on 20-year-old scotch.
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And then four scotches down, you know. You know, you're still stuck and tough,
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but now you're absolutely drunk.
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You know, you might not cause a scene, but that don't mean you're not drunk.
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And if you get behind the wheel, yeah, who knows?
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So these are a lot of looks at it, right?
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These are all things that kind of explain the risk, but they don't explain the decision-making.
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And here's the thing. Your decision-making is compromised because it aboves.
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And I mentioned it a little earlier, but yeah, alcoholism has a genetic sort
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of component from European populations,
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especially probably maybe irish and scottish and whatnot i heard a thing yesterday
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i think somebody said oh yeah he's down with the irish flu,
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hung over you know irish flu i thought it was hilarious anyway you,
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Yeah, so there's that. So even biology might be a reason, but that don't give us an excuse, right?
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There's millions of people all across the world who are traumatized,
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you know, and they never get behind the wheel of a car.
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It still comes down to individual agency.
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Now, if you want to get Christian about it, Like, we got sin and repentance and all that stuff.
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And I don't even think most Christianity hammers drinking too hard.
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It ain't about having a drink or two.
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It's about excess.
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That's what it's about, to where the focus becomes the booze and not,
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you know, God or whatever else. But even amongst the many Christians,
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yeah, they're still out there drinking and driving, man.
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Because why? Well, I'm about to get into it, and some of the white boys are going to get upset.
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I think the word white or the phrase white privilege is thrown around too much
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and apply it to things that it doesn't apply to way too much,
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but I think it applies here.
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In some circles, you know, middle class and above,
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and especially rural circles where you got the good old boy, you know,
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sort of networks or groups, there's an attitude that the DUI has,
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enforcement the dui law they'll apply
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to to them to everyone
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else those folks not me
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i can handle my liquor the cops
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won't pull me over because i because i know i
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know scott or tim you know what i mean so i'm not gonna get pulled over well
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that attitude alone how many Many of you out there listening to this has said
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that I can handle my liquor or have said that, well,
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I drive better after a few drinks because I'm more careful.
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So that exposes a bit of that, well, we can call it soft privilege if you want, but it's privilege.
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You are fairly confident that you're not going to face any racial profiling.
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And because you're a known entity, right, you're a regular or you grew up,
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you know all the cops and you know this and that and the other.
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I mean, that's that soft privilege to where, well, I'm not going to get targeted
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as long as I don't do anything crazy, I'll be good.
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That's privilege. That's privilege.
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Now, there are data points out there that show that white males statistically get more warnings.
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Or even if they end up going to court,
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that they get softer plea deals than minorities for similar DUI,
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you know, comparatively speaking.
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And what that does is those warnings and those softer plea deals feeds into the problem.
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So it makes, you know, the consequences of driving drunk feel like,
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well, it's still over there for the bad people.
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They didn't punish me because they know I mean well, or I'm one of them, or whatever it is.
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Now, I'll tell you this, usually this privilege usually disappears the moment
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your DUI kills somebody.
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Because your intent and your good old boy whatever became irrelevant once you
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murdered an innocent family with your vehicle.
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Now, I said usually there have been cases where still somebody well-to-do, affluent,
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deep pockets are able to buy their way down to lesser punishment.
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Judgment, thus escaping justice for the people who've lost family to you and your ignorance.
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But once a drunk driver causes death, right, killing a young family or a kid
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on a bike, intent is completely irrelevant.
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Don't matter how happy you were or how anything.
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It don't matter. Well, I was just going home. I just live a couple miles up
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the road. None of that matters. None of it matters.
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And what I think is just and correct is that most states.
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They treat DUI, vehicular homicide,
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with very low, there's a Latin phrase called mens rea,
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where or you know
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like state of mind right there's a very low
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threshold you don't have to have ill
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intent if you kill somebody while drinking that is enough the negligence and
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the recklessness alone is enough to get a conviction they don't look at it necessarily
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as an accident in your Never mind, it was an accident,
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but because you were impaired.
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That's your intent, right? So I didn't mean to, or it was an accident,
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or, oh, my God, they jumped out in the road.
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None of that cuts it. You're guilty, man. You're guilty.
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Now, those circumstances may, in sentencing, you may get slightly lesser or whatever.
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But intent, it's irrelevant when you're drinking or on drugs, by the way.
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If you're impaired, if you are impaired, and this is good, this is proper, this is justice.
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You shouldn't get a free pass for taking out innocent life. You shouldn't get a free pass.
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The outcomes outweigh your intentions, whatever they were, even if you had no
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intentions, even if it was just ignorance, blissful ignorance.
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Yeah, innocent life. Talk about it fairly often.
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Innocent life is to be guarded. Innocent life is to be protected at all costs.
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So this, we're not talking about
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what about is, and well, what about white guys? What about black guys?
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It's not about that. I said it earlier. It's about consistency, application of,
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well, the law for sure, but standards, you know, application,
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expectations, how a person is acceptable behavior in public.
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It's acceptable to go get shit hammered at a bar. That's become commonplace.
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It's not acceptable to then go out and get in your car and drive away.
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And the consistency I'm talking about goes back to the previous episodes, right?
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We criticize cultural factors pretty hard that contribute to black violence.
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Fatherlessness gang glorification you know no snitch you know gangster culture
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that kind of thing we call it out we call out islamic extremists and and this
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islamic supremacist attitude.
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Supremacist yeah attitude where
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you know certain muslim communities i mean they will vocally tell you they're
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trying to take over if you're a non-believer you're lesser than we call that
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stuff out as we should it's not compatible with the united states constitution.
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So we have to, with the same level of scrutiny,
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call out our own, hey, it can be a social, like,
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does DUI have the same national implications as Islamic takeover?
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Nah. But what is the same?
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What about black violence, inner city black violence?
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Does DUI have the same implications as the number, however many people in Chicago
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get killed every weekend?
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Nope. But here's the thing that liberals love to say. I know I always got to
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bring in like slam on liberals.
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But they say it about guns. well if
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it saves only one life then it's
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worth it well what about DUI is it is that do we ban booze nah we don't ban
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booze and we shouldn't because why yeah because it's individual responsibility.
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Did you ever hear that? Individual responsibility and accountability.
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Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Every group out there,
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every, every demographic lives under some kind of,
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you know friggin dark statistical
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shadow right there's something that you can point to to go this is why this
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group is bad but folks everybody has that so from an objectivism perspective um,
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It all comes down to the very simple answer, and it's the same very simple answer
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to many, many very complex issues,
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and it's that we are individuals first, period.
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Christianity places emphasis on personal accountability and free will.
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Yeah, there is no collective salvation, right? Your group, you don't get the
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blanket salvation for your group.
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Every individual has to accept Christ.
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And probably a lot of people that go to church kind of feel like that's the case, I think.
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But that's just me talking there.
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But you're not in a protected class.
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You're not, whether it's a victim class or a protected privilege class.
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Now, we know, folks, there's at least a two-tiered, if not three or four-tiered
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legal justice system, right?
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Rich people get away with shit that poor people don't get away with.
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And they are, in a way, in a protected privileged class. But that's not justice and that's not correct.
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It's just money will do a lot of things, and we have to hold our officials accountable
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for that as much as anybody else.
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But personal responsibility, that's the great equalizer.
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If we hold everyone responsible for their own actions, that is the great equalizer.
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That is equal application of justice.
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So, you know, white men aren't above law any more than anyone else is beneath it.
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Drinking's a big problem in America. Drinking alcohol,
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and look, I'm about to say some stuff I don't know numbers on,
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but I think alcohol contributes to large health issues.
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Alcohol contributes, obviously, to excessive death by DUI.
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Alcohol destroys families. Alcoholism.
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How many college kids every
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year get alcohol poison yeah
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a lot of stuff alcohol but also look
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i'm i'm a casual drinker i'm a social drink i like to go to the pub i like the
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environment a proper pub a proper pub and i like to sit and talk business or
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whatever over a pint of guinness Yeah, I like it.
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But like all things, and I've said this about a million times throughout the
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various podcasts, all things in moderation. That's it.
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So if you have a drinking problem, I mean, by no means get behind the wheel of a car.
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Call a taxi or rideshare or Uber or a goddamn Waymo.
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Yeah, at least take that responsibility.
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If you think you're invincible or if you're in the gutter and you're just like,
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oh, there's no reason to live, I'm going to drink myself into a stupor,
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that's fine, man. Do your thing.
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The minute you get behind the wheel of a car, everybody out there in the wild
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is subject to your, well, irresponsibility for sure.
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But potentially, you're now driving a $4,000 killing machine. Yeah.
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So at least don't subject other people to your misery.
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Teach your son's responsibility and accountability.
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You're a sports dad and you're not teaching your kid young about like responsible
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drinking because you're going to send them off to college.
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And when they go off to college, there's drinking, there's lots of it.
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And if they don't have a foundation, like nevermind all the things you taught
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them about everything else.
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But if you never specifically address alcohol, they,
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They may be that date rape guy or they may be the driver in a car load of kids
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going from one bar to a house party or whatever it is.
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Teach them about the booze.
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We got a catchphrase, me and my best friend, Timmy. You lose with the booze.
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Yeah, man, moderation, it's got to be handled correctly.
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And hold your own communities and your own demographic to the same standards
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that we demand of other demographics.
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Hey, your demographic, by the way, starts with you and your friend circle.
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Don't let your friends be irresponsible
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a-holes and if it seems offensive
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for you to tell your friend hey bro you've had too much you need to xyz well
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one if he gets pissy about that are you a good enough friend to stand fast or
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are you just going to be like all right bro do your thing.
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That's what you want to say, right? All right, bro, do your thing.
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But that's not the good friend thing to do.
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That's not the good friend thing to do at all.
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This ain't a hot topic, DUI. This ain't a hot topic.
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And it's not a new thing at all. Like I said, there was, I want to say in the
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nineties, there was a big giant push on DUI, like, like campaigning and government, you know, well,
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lack of a better word, propaganda through like the
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early early 2000s and oh
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man in the 82nd and in the army in general there was a while there like there
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was DUIs every weekend like it seemed like the harder the campaign went the
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more dudes would go out and get in trouble.
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Yeah and and then you
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know careers like in the 80s
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and 90s a dude get a DUI you know
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get smoked maybe maybe not
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even possibly catch an article 15 go on
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to become the sergeant battalion sergeant major you know what i mean and
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i'm not making shit up that there's
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plenty of old school csms out
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there with a couple duis under their belt and then in a very change of the times
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or you might want to say hypocritical fashion they then you know come out busting
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hard against DUIs and stuff, but that's another story.
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Anyway, what I'm saying is there was a hard, heavy campaign against it for a long time.
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And to think about it now, I don't think it's been that prevalent.
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Yeah, every now and again, you'll see somebody had DUI or there was a crash that killed somebody.
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And then it comes out a couple of days later. Well, yeah, their blood alcohol
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showed that they were drinking.
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But nobody goes into a frigging homosexual panic over, oh, my God,
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they were drink driving.
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We have to put an end to drink driving, drunk driving.
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And how do you put an end to it anyway? If you guys remember,
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nobody remembers because we're
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not that old, but they tried prohibiting alcohol in the 1920s or 30s.
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And what became of that?
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Well, it lit a fire of efficiency and productivity beneath the organized crime world.
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The underground became prolific bootlegging.
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And now that's what everybody, like in the Appalachians and stuff is bootlegging.
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My grandfather was a bootlegger.
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Yeah. And that industry, that's what happens when you try to outright ban a thing.
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The underground just thrives. And that's not what you want. You want things
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above board so that they're more visible.
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And I'm not pro-regulation on that.
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I'm just saying if things are above board, they're easier to sort of monitor.
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Yeah, prohibition didn't work.
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He's saying, I mean, like, did it create criminals?
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Well, yeah. As soon as a thing becomes illegal, anybody doing that thing is by default a criminal.
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So, yes, it did create criminals.
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But moonshiners were brewing up the Mountain Dew there long before alcohol was prohibited.
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And let's go back in history just a wee bit. Every now and then,
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I bring up the Whiskey Rebellion, and I can never get the date just right on the Whiskey Rebellion,
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but it was one of the very first cases of the newly formed U.S.
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Government taxing, laying a tax against whiskey. Yeah.
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And that was in, well, it lasted from 1791 to 1794.
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So 1791, the government, when was the Constitution ratified? Like 1789.
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Two years later, the government started overreach.
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And so they tried to lay a federal excise tax on whiskey, and these boys in
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Pennsylvania weren't having it.
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Yeah, and it was essentially a violent protest against taxation,
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and they called the whiskey tax.
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Yeah, this was George Washington, folks.
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Yeah. So it wasn't imported booze.
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Any domestically produced booze was to be taxed so that they could pay for the
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bills on the Revolutionary War.
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Man and and brewing booze was
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in those times just a simple uh
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it was a thing that was a way of life yeah because there
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was you know wheat and barley and corn everywhere and yeah they made whiskey
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they made whiskey and back then there was a lot of drinking yeah a lot of drinking
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so you didn't have to worry about DUI back then.
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Hop on your horse. Your horse knows which way to go.
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That's the truth right there. A horse will take you home.
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Maybe we should go back to riding horses or horse-drawn carriages.
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Oh, man. Well, I got off track. I'm sorry. I got off track.
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Let's see if I can find where I'm at here.
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Yeah, white men drinking and driving. Yeah. So if you want to complain,
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now look, okay, let me back up again. Sorry.
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You got to stay with me. Stay with me.
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Now, I mentioned rape numbers a couple of episodes ago,
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and there was a higher number of white males than any other demographic,
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but it was like 50-something percent.
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So not overwhelmingly. When I started doing the research on this,
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I thought that's what I would find would have to do with sexual crime,
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but it turns out it was DUI.
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Which, folks, think about this for a minute.
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15,000 intentional gun homicides in 2024 versus 12,000 accidental DUI deaths.
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Excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry.
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That's big. That's bad, right?
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If you're going to make an epidemic out of gun stuff, if you're consistent and
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intellectually honest,
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you have to have the same angst and passion when talking about drinking and driving.
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You have to, or else, well, I don't want to say you're a hypocrite,
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but possibly you're definitely dishonest, and you're either ignorant willfully or,
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well, just ignorant unintentionally.
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Equal standards in your analysis of all things, not just the political hot buttons.
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Yeah. And the answer, good people, just in case you're wondering,
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is not to ban and regulate at all.
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Now, you can make consequences of crime steeper.
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There's a legal limit for drinking and driving. I don't know what it is, 0.0 something.
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I ain't saying make that lower or, well, yeah, even higher.
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Just make the consequence exceedingly painful.
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And don't give any free passes, you know, because of privilege or demographic.
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And don't have all these legal loopholes. Well, Edgar, now you're trying to
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violate people's rights. Bullshit.
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I'm all about individual rights.
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But taking another life off this planet is a very serious, serious thing.
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It needs to be treated as such. across the board, whether it's a gun or whether
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it's intoxicated driver.
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All right. Damn, man. I'm not trying to get fired up.
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So look, in the name of this consistency,
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I mean, if we are truth seekers,
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right, if we really want truth and we really want justice, not our version,
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not a twisted version of it, but legitimate, objective truth and justice,
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We have to critique all these patterns,
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all these statistical patterns, across demographics, across crimes.
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We have to critique them with equal and consistent scrutiny if we are being
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legitimately concerned about truth and justice. Right.
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That's what I had. I wanted to point that out, not because I'm anti-booze.
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I mean, I've had my share. I used to be a hard, hard drinker,
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and I have gotten behind the wheel whilst drunk.
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And I regret and I'm ashamed of that.
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And I'm sure there are many of you out there, I'm sure of it, that have done the same.
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I ain't telling you to go out and admit it to the world. I'm just telling you.
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Be responsible. And when you're out at the pub drinking, you have to consider what if.
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I mean, it should just be a blanket. Nope, I will not drive after one or two.
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Whatever your body type is, whatever it is, right?
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Have that number. I will not drive. at this point and have a backup plan.
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Always have the backup plan.
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Always have the backup plan.
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Contingency planning. We talk about it all the time in different contexts.
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It applies here. Have a contingency. Have a pace plan.
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I can tell you this. I've executed pace
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plan also plenty of times go to
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the pub primary i'm only going to have two alternate well if i have more than
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two i will whatever ride my bike i used to be a bike messenger messenger and
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did a lot of drinking during that time and there were times that i had too much booze to ride my bike.
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I said we should ride horses because your horse knows the way home.
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Well, your bike don't know the way home. And it requires a significant amount
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of coordination to keep between the ditches.
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And you can very easily wander off into the middle of a street on Peachtree Street at midnight.
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So, you know, have a pace plan. Have someone to call or some agency to call
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or an Uber or whatever, a taxi, a friend.
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Have something. Don't be that asshole who thinks you get a free pass because
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you're you, for whatever reason.
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And then you are responsible for somebody losing their life.
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Don't be that. Please, for the love of God, don't be that.
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Because there's second and third order effects to all things.
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Everything. There's a ripple.
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And if you DUI and kill someone's young family, well, they have family members.
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And they may not take that too well.
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And the next time you are seen in public might be the last.
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There's second and third order effects to all things be responsible even when you're drinking.
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To be merry. And when it goes beyond that, stop and get a ride. All right.
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This wasn't a lecture, I guess, but I, but it's still, it's still happening.
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And as you get older and more mature, you're like, God, you know,
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what's wrong with these guys?
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What I'm not, look, I'm not, I'm scrutinizing myself Right At the same level
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I was an asshole And Thank God That.
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I wasn't a regular drinker and driver.
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I mean, I'm just saying it could have happened just the same.
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So understand that. And that's not to be a Debbie Downer while you're sitting
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at the pub having a good time.
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That's just to say you need to have that moment of clarity when it's time to go home.
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Okay. All right. I've had fun. That was great. That was awesome.
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I want to do it again tomorrow.
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I don't want to end up in jail tonight. And I certainly don't want to hurt anybody
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else in the pursuit of my happiness or the pursuit of my misery or whatever it is.
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All right. God dang it. Now I'm going to stop.
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Not meant to be a lecture. I wanted to bring numbers to the light to people
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who listen to me. because I don't know what my demographics are.
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I can look and tell you how many people from across the world listen to my podcast.
52:32
But like, for instance, I'm sure there's a significant number of Christians
52:37
listening to my podcast.
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But also, I'm sure that there's a significant number of heathens listening to
52:46
my podcast because I'm sure that I resonate, well, probably more with the heathens
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than with the Christians.
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But so, yeah.
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Help you. This might help you just to think about it.
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And if you are one of those out there, there are a few who might consider me a mentor.
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You've heard it from me before. You lose with the booze.
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Don't let yourself get to that point. Don't get out of control.
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Make the right decision at the
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right moment, whether you're in your right mind or not, it's back there.
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The right thing is back there.
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So make that right decision in the right moment.
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And by God, if you are in Georgia and the worst case comes to the worst case,
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reach out and call me just as a last ditch effort,
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and I will get you there. All right?
53:59
All right. Dang, here we go again. All right.
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Good people, thank you so much for listening to this. Drink and be merry by
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all means. Let's do it responsibly.
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Listening. I appreciate each and every one of you.
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We are steadily growing week on week, and I appreciate that, and I love that.
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June is coming. It's right around the corner. We have a lot of things in June.
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We have, main thing, OSS Challenge, OSS to Green Beret Edition,
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And this is sponsored by Mike Pearson over at Athena Target Solutions.
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And he's a great human being. And he's helping us out with some prizes.
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Excuse me. And we are doing this in support of the Special Forces Foundation,
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which is a nonprofit organization, I think based in Colorado Springs.
55:04
And they do great things for Gold Star families and Green Beret kids and all
55:15
kinds of stuff to help guys in crisis,
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just all kind of great things.
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As we grow, we're going to continue to support them.
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And as we grow, you know, hopefully more financially than, than in spirit, but, but also in spirit.
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And we're going to have a Special Forces Foundation rep down at the match,
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which by the way, is on June 6th.
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And there's plenty of spots. Look, people, for some reason, it hasn't filled up yet.
55:50
So normally that's a pretty big one.
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So let's spread the word.
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It's physical. Yeah. And it's a shooting event. I think it's going to be four
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robust stages and it's a two gun. Yeah.
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So there's physical stuff going on and there's challenging shooting going on.
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So get out here. challenge yourself, bring friends, sign up.
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Okay, good people. as always i
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