Episode 175

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Published on:

14th Feb 2026

Income Gap & Corruption Exposed (Full)

59% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, worst since the Great Depression. Former U.S. Congresswoman Marie Newman shares her take on the income gap, political corruption, and education's role. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley explore veteran mental health, government fixes, and getting money out of politics. They touch on stock trading bans and nonprofit shifts too.

Timestamps:

  1. (00:00) Introduction and Overview – setting the stage
  2. (00:38) Guest Introduction: Marie Newman – welcoming the former Congresswoman
  3. (01:33) Gun Reform: A Holistic Approach – comprehensive views on ownership
  4. (03:50) Personal Turning Points – key life moments
  5. (06:04) Challenges in Activism and Politics – facing obstacles
  6. (06:37) Money in Politics and Its Impact – financial influences
  7. (19:49) Veterans and Mental Health – support needs
  8. (25:49) Government Inefficiencies and Solutions – tackling hurdles
  9. (29:55) Getting Money Out of Politics – reducing sway
  10. (30:59) Addressing Campaign Finance Issues – donation impacts
  11. (31:57) Court Expansion and Supreme Court Rules – judicial changes
  12. (33:01) Conflict of Interest in Politics – ethical overlaps
  13. (33:47) Personal Background and Stock Market Education – life experiences
  14. (34:52) Banning Stock Trading for Congress Members – curbing advantages
  15. (38:35) Income Gap and Economic Inequity – wealth divides
  16. (45:45) Transition from Congress to Nonprofit Leadership – new roles
  17. (47:08) Final Thoughts and Call to Action – key takeaways
  18. (48:26) What Did We Learn? – main insights

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Transcript
Jerremy:

After every shooting, the same arguments come back

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on que, but the question.

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That actually matters is

the one we rarely ask.

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What changes, outcomes,

not just headlines.

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My name is Jerremy Alexander Newsom.

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I'm joined as always by my

co-host Dave Conley, and this

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is Solving America's Problems.

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This is our fourth conversation

on guns in America.

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We've covered the history.

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The rights case from gun owners and a

Psychology First Systems view of reform.

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Today we go straight to the

reform case with someone who

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has spent years working on this.

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From the ground up, we are joined

by the honorable Marie Newman.

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Former US Congresswoman from Illinois,

and a longtime gun reform advocate before

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Congress, she was a national spokesperson

for Mom's Demand action in Congress.

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She argued that gun violence

doesn't happen in a vacuum.

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and She approaches this not just

as politics, but as a public health

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problem that demands real solutions.

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Congresswoman Newman, welcome to the show.

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Congresswoman, before we get into policy,

do you mind just giving us an idea of

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when you say doesn't happen in a vacuum?

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Marie Newman: Okay

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Jerremy: what does that mean?

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Marie Newman: so nothing happens

in the world in a vacuum, right?

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This is we're all humans interacting

and humans are unpredictable

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interesting animals, right?

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And we have inst instincts, we have

intellect, we have emotion, right?

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And.

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What I typically say about gun reform

writ large is that it's gonna take all

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of us because originally, NRA actually

was a revered organization, right?

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They did good training, they

were helpful about storage.

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They were good with schools.

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They did a lot of really good work.

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And then, as we all know, Wayne LaPierre

decided that this should be a moneymaking

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venture and an extension of the major

gun manufacturers in the late nineties.

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And that's very unfortunate.

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'cause what was a really.

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Good organization fell prey to capitalism.

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So it's a, it's symbolic of where

everything went is that, everything

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is always about money, right?

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The root of the problem interestingly

is money and misinformation, right?

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Which is frequently the case

in any troubled area, right?

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From a gun reform perspective, how I

always approached it and when I would

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talk to gun rights friends and advocates

is that yeah, everybody should have

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the right to have a gun if they're

healthy and they know how to use it.

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Totally.

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Literally I.

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Dozens of friends that are hunters, right?

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If you wanna be a hunter, you

just like target practice.

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That's a fun sporting activity for you.

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If you feel like you need to have

that in your home for protection, you

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live out in the middle of nowhere or

you live in a place you feel unsafe.

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Godspeed, but you must be a healthy

person and you must know how to use it.

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You must know how to store it, and

you must know how to manage your

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life with all of those people.

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So it's about the holistic approach.

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Nothing happens in a vacuum because we

have to live as a full robust human,

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but we also have to live in society.

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So that's my general perspective.

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Dave: A couple of things that

occurred to me, one of them I think

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we'll talk a little bit later.

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I just want to put a pin in it,

which is it, there's so much money

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involved in this and it seems like

from a congressional point of view,

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from a legislator point of view, that

there's so much money to do nothing.

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But I wanna hold on that for a second.

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Because, most of, I'm old enough to

remember that most of this happened

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in the Clinton administration.

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That was the last major reforms,

and we had a member of the Clinton

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administration on last week.

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But I'm jumping ahead.

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I'm

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Marie Newman: Yeah.

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Dave: talking about the

human aspect of this.

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Really for you, was there a moment

in your life, a split, like a before

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and after, where, something that

occurred or something in your life?

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Marie Newman: Yeah, a few things.

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I had a few, what I would say turning

points in because I go in the way

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back machine to Million Mom March.

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I worked with that group.

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And I first of all, I should say probably

the first time it really was on my

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radar in a very visceral way was I was

held up at gunpoint and knife point.

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In my twenties.

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And I could tell that even, I think

I was 26 at the time I could tell

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the young man that was in front of

me and his friend, they were babies.

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They were like 18 and

they were very scared too.

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Now I was lucky.

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Two restaurant workers came out

of the alley and and saved me,

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and it was forever in their debt.

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The two ran off.

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I don't think they were ever caught,

but I don't think they were going to

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harm me, but they may have, when you're

scared, you do very dumb things, so

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I guess that was point number one,

but I never really got active in the

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gun reform movement at that point.

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It just really settled in me

and it's forever emblazoned

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on my heart and my head.

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Then when I think the next turning

point was Columbine, because I had

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my, literally my newborn baby next

to me, a month old not even quite

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a month old, maybe three weeks old.

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And Columbine happened and I, and

I'm not even a big crier guys,

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like I don't really cry that.

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And but I was a hot mess for three

days and I realized as soon as I get.

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Back into the world.

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'cause I was on maternity leave.

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I am going to do something about this.

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And I did I started working

with million Mom March, and

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then the third time was Sandy.

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And then I had waned for a while.

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I'll be honest, like I wasn't real active.

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In the two thousands the aughts,

like I was, not, I was busy.

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I had little kids and

all the things, right?

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But then when Sandy Hook happened,

I was like, oh, no ma'am.

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No ma'am.

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I am on this.

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And so I joined moms Demand Action.

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And so those were the three kind

of pivotal periods that really

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boosted me into where I am today.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Perfect.

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Thank you so much for sharing.

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And so since you brought it up,

you've been a Moms Demand Action

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spokesperson and you've also

had to count votes in Congress.

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Marie Newman: Yep.

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Jerremy: What's the biggest lie activists

tell themselves about how change happens?

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I.

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Marie Newman: so lie, that's

an interesting word, right?

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So I'm a ridiculously

optimistic and hopeful person.

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So

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Jerremy: Me too.

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Marie Newman: You may think

right, like to a fault where

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I'm like, oh no, we can do this.

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And so I guess.

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I guess I don't buy into the lie

theory, but let's go with it.

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I think the, false hope activists

give each other frequently is

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that it can be done quickly and

it never can be done quickly,

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particularly when money's involved.

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And I just wanna be clear, the

NRA gives millions and millions of

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dollars to the mostly Republicans.

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'cause I think there's maybe

only one Democrat that takes

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in Congress takes an NRA money.

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And I say that because, honestly,

bad decisions are made every day.

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The reason we don't have healthcare

for all in this country is because of

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money and corporate donations to all of

Congress, both Democrats and Republicans.

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The reason our drugs are all too

expensive and people die every day is

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because of money given to all members

of Congress, Democrats and Republicans.

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The reason that we have the.

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Prison system that we have

that's highly ineffective.

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And by the way, I'm a very big

fan of punishment when due.

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So you do have to go to jail

when you've done something wrong.

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But our system is awful and doesn't work.

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That's because of money and politics.

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The reason that we have trouble

around this nation with everything

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from social media to raising our

kids and all the things and is.

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Of money in politics, right?

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So for me, the way I, the frame

I always look at it is that

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activists can say rah, si.

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But until you get money outta politics,

you ain't going nowhere, baby.

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I gotta tell you.

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Dave: Would you say that there's

I think I, I heard a interview

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with representative Luna.

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She said that there's plenty of

money to not solve the problem.

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Meaning that they're giving,

basically giving to, to everybody.

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They're giving to the activist side,

they're giving to the reform side, and

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they're giving to the, both sides of this.

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And we're saying, okay, let's

keep this messy so that there

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is no substantive reform.

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Marie Newman: Oh, I think

that she's accurate there.

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I actually have never spoken

to Congresswoman Luna, but

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I think that's accurate.

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I think that, a lot of money is thrown

at the problem, but until those five

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hundred and thirty five hundred and

thirty five people in both chambers

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decide that something's gonna get

done and it has teeth in it, it won't.

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And so while she's right that

gosh, mom's demand acted and

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every town is pretty well funded.

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The NRA is ridiculously well funded,

and they receive a lot of foreign money.

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They outbeat us, I think nine to one.

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It's it's just not gonna get none.

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So it's the game of more money.

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And the same thing happens in healthcare

and a million different industries.

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So it's not, I'm just telling

you, money and politics.

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If you have a problem that isn't

being solved, it is because of money.

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Jerremy: You made an

incredible statement there.

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I think everyone would agree

with you also, by the way,

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Marie Newman: Yeah.

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Jerremy: and just the overwhelmingly,

the overwhelming awareness that the

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challenge, if you are an American citizen

and you're facing a very large challenge,

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the reason it hasn't been fixed is most

likely because someone is getting rich

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off of you not being healthier or better.

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Marie Newman: Ding

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Jerremy: wow.

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Marie Newman: Ding.

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You are absolutely correct.

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I, having seen it, these

lobbyists are very powerful and

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the organizations are bullies.

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They are, the NRA is a bully.

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I get why some of these

Republican Congress people

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continue to take the money.

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Because money, these people are scary.

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I'm just straight up.

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They're scary.

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It's not

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just money.

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Jerremy: Not to go down a crazy

tangent, but I would just love to

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get some insight from someone so

knowledgeable and so aware of this.

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When you say they get the

money, like what does that mean?

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Are they getting a check

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Marie Newman: Yeah, so there.

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Yeah, so the, there's a bunch of ways

they can receive money for the NRA.

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So there's a thing called you

can have your own committee pack,

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which is your campaign pack, right?

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It's the bank account from which

you run your, all your campaigns

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and your political side of your of

your life being in office, right?

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So they can give directly to that.

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So that pack check hacks out it, I

think five or 10,000 depending on if

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you're in the house of the Senate.

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You can also when you're

running for Congress, whether

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you're an existing member.

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Or a candidate, you can have the NRA and

there's 50 affiliates, just so you know.

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There's.

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Like 50 subgroups.

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They can all give into a super

pac, which is, there's no cap.

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They can give them millions of

dollars, they can give them $5, right?

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There, those are two methodologies

how candidates and members of Congress

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receive money for their campaigns.

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They can also run an independent

expenditure, which is a, another

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type of funding vehicle where

several entities can come together,

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call it something sunshiny like.

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Progress for tomorrow,

or sunshine on Thursdays.

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And it always cracks me up like the

names they choose, but regardless.

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That independent expenditure

model you can use too.

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And then all of the members of the

executive team at all of the gun

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manufacturers can give you and they

can max out as a couple so they can,

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depending on house or Senate, it can

be $10,000 or more, so on and on.

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It gets funneled in a

bunch of different ways.

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And then you can get other related, so

the bullet companies, the the gun range

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chains, the, all of the, think about the

industry, like everybody in the industry

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can jump on the bandwagon, so that's why

it's well funded and then all of the folks

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that you know, and as I'm sure you're

very learned in this space that 83% of

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all NRA members want training, storage

and all of the things and don't want

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people that are ill health to have things.

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That's very clear.

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It's just overwhelming.

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There's been a hundred studies,

NRA has done studies like,

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so it's not the gun owners.

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It's the money people

that are the problem.

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Jerremy: Wow.

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That is fascinating.

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So when you, when we say problem,

because you and I also and Dave and

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probably a lot of other people, to

your point, the NRA, they, we've done

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tests, they call and have called gun

violence, a public health crisis.

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Can you, for all of our listeners, help

us translate that into plain English?

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Like what are the risk factors

and what are the interventions?

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Marie Newman: So the reason that

we, that, we call it a a health

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epidemic or a health crisis

population or a public health crisis.

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It's a lot of, clinically it

meets that standard, right?

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Is that is it now 40 or

50,000 people die a year?

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A third of them are suicides.

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And then.

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I forget the number now.

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I'm, I haven't seen

this number in a while.

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Probably in a year and a half.

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The number of people that

are simply shot but survive,

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right?

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When anything is that lethal, clinically,

you are allowed to call it either an

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epidemic or a public health crisis.

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So it meets muster in

terms of the definition.

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No problem.

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It's right up there with

cancer and heart disease.

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So it, public health definition.

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That's correct.

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The problem is that, not

unlike some diseases.

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It's not just the, okay, you

have to take the medication.

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No so with mental health, right?

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You have to take the medication.

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You have to live healthy, have a

good diet, exercise, get sleep,

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and have healthy relationships.

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But the third piece of the

stool and mental health is you

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have to retrain your brain.

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Most mental health

patients refuse to do that.

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'cause that's the hardest work.

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And I know this very clearly 'cause

mental health is all over my family.

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So I have worked this program for

30 years and yelled at insurance

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companies and pharmacy benefit

managers and the whole deal.

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But I know this to be true.

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That aside there are, there

is no, I will call it.

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Like a general contractor on a

house construction that manages

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all of those spaces, right?

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That manages the health component,

the societal and the traditional

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component, the the physical

health, the mental health.

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Nobody manages all of that to

address said public health crisis.

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So now we are back to the money problem.

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There's no, the money source to

put together a more robust program.

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So then we go to best practices, right?

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So I'm a former management consultant.

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I tend to look at who's done

things well so that you can adapt,

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innovate, and do it better, right?

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There are a bunch of different approaches.

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You can go blanketly like Australia

and say, Hey, nobody can have guns.

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We had a good experiment in the

nineties when we saw that when

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we take away assault weapons.

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Wow.

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Both all kinds of death goes down

when assault weapons go away from

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the general public, allowing military

and obviously law enforcement to

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have what they need in terms of

semi-automatic and automatic weapons.

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But the general public

did not, and it worked.

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Then the manufacturers the the gun

manufacturers got super mad and

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started paying everybody off again.

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And we are where we are so

you can take a big chunk.

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We're never gonna get rid of it.

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That's silly to, anyone who says,

oh, we're gonna end all gun violence,

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that's, we are going to reduce,

we can reduce it dramatically.

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We can reduce it dramatically,

and we can do it.

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It just takes, a full 360 approach, right?

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Yep.

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To, to your point 60, I

think it's two thirds, right?

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Over 60% of gun deaths are suicides.

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And if we treat that as impulse meets

access, what would you say is the least

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invasive intervention, inter intervention,

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That would save the most

lives in that situation?

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Marie Newman: So the prevailing knowledge

used to be Jerremy that the, that the

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background check and the waiting period.

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But it kept on getting struck.

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So three days doesn't do anything.

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You can stay angry for three months.

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So it's that's a kind of a silly, like

I'm Irish, I hold a grudge once in a

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while, it takes me a little bit longer

to get over things than the average joke.

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So I think that again, and we're

back to the holistic approach.

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I don't think it's any one thing.

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I think that we need to expand you need

to require training a full on health

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assessment background checks and then six

months to a year before an average person.

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'cause yes, we need guns for law

enforcement and military and all

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of the things, but average Joe.

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Doesn't he have an

emergency gun situation?

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Nobody should be getting a gun in

an emergency fashion, so we must

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require that they have full training,

like six to eight weeks of training.

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Full on, get a certification, then you

have two weeks of storage training,

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and then you have six months to a

year to wait and think about it.

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But in that time, you also have to

have a psychological evaluation and a

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full health physical health evaluation.

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Then you should be gifted a

gun if you're just an average

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person, because there's no.

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Target practice emergency

that you need it for.

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There's no hunting emergency

that you need it for.

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There is no if you live in a place

where you don't feel protected in your

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home, do other things till you get

said gun, there and there are, you can

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get ring doorbells and have the local

police protect you and all the things.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Marie Newman: it's a full approach.

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It's not just one thing.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Makes sense.

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Dave, it looks like you had a question.

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Dave: I certainly speaking to.

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And advocates and even reform-minded

people that, that have guns.

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This is where I struggle.

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The politics around.

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This is very much on, on all the

things that you just mentioned, the

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waiting periods, the assault style

bans the, size of the magazines.

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I hear you.

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I, and I understand it because, if you

change that, then you see this result.

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And then on the other side with

the people who own guns and

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the advocates, they're like.

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This doesn't move the bar for the vast

majority of people because the vast

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majority of what we call gun violence

happens with men, happens, men killing

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themselves, and the vast majority of

those are our veterans that aren't

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getting the help that they need.

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Marie Newman: a hundred percent.

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Dave: Then the other mass part of this is

hyper localized 50 zip codes with youth

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on youth violence in urban settings.

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These are also young men who, aren't

getting the help that they need

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or the communities that they need.

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I hear you Congresswoman

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Ann.

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Marie Newman: So

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Dave: It feels like that there's simple

things that we could do like mental

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health and helping our veterans and

stop invading countries and 50 zip

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There's 350 million guns out there in the

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Said three, 350 million guns.

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That doesn't do a whole lot for them.

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back to the root source and it's, who are

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we isolating and where's the money, right?

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way, they're isolated depressed, angry

they have they have few opportunity

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economic opportunities, right?

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be one or all of them, right?

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That's a silly idea and it's a bit

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particularly our veterans to a health

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and wellness place that is free.

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I'm gonna get political and I'm

sorry, I know we have all stripes

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here, but I'm just gonna say it.

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When this president took away 67%

of the Veterans Administration

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budget, that was super ef.

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Already in one year, we have seen

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hurt themselves or kill themselves.

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So you're right, Dave.

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Stop creating wars and we've created

nine in the last 13 months, we've

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created nine wars that are not resolved.

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And we have veterans across the world,

away from their families, wrong.

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We have veterans that feel badly about

themselves because a number of reasons.

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They get it from all sides.

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They get it from the side of

Hey, go shoot and kill people.

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And then in the military,

they, propagate that.

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of amazing military people that

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understand the gravity of death

and teach them great things.

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There's a few that.

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Don't teach great things, right?

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So largely I'm a huge fan of our military.

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you get a bad apple here and there.

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So we do have to do something

particularly, and I would

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start with veterans.

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So you have to start with a, again, back

to my dorky management consulting days.

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Start with a pilot program.

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So start with veterans because it

is the that group has the Perla.

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Plurality, sorry.

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It's early.

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The plurality of problems within

that writ large group, right?

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So let's start that pilot program

with them and lift them up and

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get them to a healthier spot.

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And that again, needs to be a robust 360.

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So for me, what I would do if we look

at just the dorky government of IT

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stuff, administrative stuff is create.

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A section in the VA that addresses

this veterans interaction with

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firearms, from the get go.

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I think that's a good starting point.

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But there are other areas too where

you can, so in areas an interesting,

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the uptick in rural suicides because

what we do to our farmers is awful.

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And the uptick around youth that don't

have opportunities in rural areas,

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that uptick is a, is indexing at 127%.

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So it isn't just urban and

suburban, it is very much rural.

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And just so you know, per capita

rural, 'cause we have far fewer

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Americans that live in rural areas.

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It's like hovering around 30%.

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There's been some engagement with firearm

that they potentially hurt themselves.

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So that's really significant.

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So we do have to have problem, we

have to do some problem solving

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around that demographic that feel as

though and it's particularly in the

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Gen ZI have two Gen Z kids, right?

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One of them just got a job after six

months of being out of work and another.

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Got was part of this layoff

from the tariffs, right?

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With a fortune 50 company.

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And so we have to address

the economic piece of it too.

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So people our kids that are Gen

Z and some millennials can feel

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like they can get equity and buy

a home and all the things, right?

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Again, I wish there was

one intervention, but we

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can do a couple of small scale

pilots right, right away.

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We could do that.

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Right now the federal

government has lots of power.

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They could do that right now, today they

could start and they have the experts that

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would do it on all sides of the politics.

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Jerremy: Since we're brainstorming,

walk us through that.

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Walk us through that vision or that dream.

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I'd love

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Marie Newman: I mean it.

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so let's play the veterans

Administration piece out.

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So right now you could take money from

the DOD budget, which is, was re it's the

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largest it's ever been by a factor of two.

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Just take I don't know,

what would it take?

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A hundred billion.

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Jerremy: Dave, this is what, dear, this

is what I've been saying for years.

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Dude.

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Sorry.

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Keep going.

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Marie Newman: Take a hundred billion

and build a real veterans exit program.

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This is the problem.

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When we, when our veterans come

home, we treat them like crap.

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We do.

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I have relatives that were and none

of them, and I, full disclosure,

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my, my relatives did not see combat.

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But we still, you would be amazed at

veterans that don't even see combat and

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have been isolated for two years in some

weird place that is antithetical to their

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upbringing and they, that screws them up.

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We forget all the ways in

which we screw up our veterans.

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So if we did an exit program.

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You could lay I don't know,

7 billion on that and get a

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really robust program going.

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Jerremy: Totally.

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Yeah.

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Marie Newman: and by the way, the

other problem we have with our veterans

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is that while I think 70 million

veterans have been part of the army,

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had a tour, blah, blah, blah, there's

another probably 30 to 50 million close

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relatives that are affected by this too.

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Sometimes spouses and kids kill

themselves as relative to the trauma.

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'cause the trauma is in the home and it's

in your central nervous system, right?

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So if we did a, an exit

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program for veterans, I think that's

a really good place to start, right?

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And give them job training.

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Give them mental health training.

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Give them a safe place to live.

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A safe place to talk about their trauma.

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And all of those programs were taken

away in this administration and it

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wasn't great before, by the way.

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Biden didn't do a lot better, but

at least the programs were in place

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and now we've taken that all away.

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And now we're gonna see we're gonna have,

I'm just gonna predict, and I hate this

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'cause it, I hate to be true, but I'm

a little older and I'm true sometimes.

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We're gonna see a homeless

explosion in the veteran population

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because of what they've done to

the VA in the last 12 months.

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Dave: We've and over the last year,

we've covered so many different

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topics from veterans to we, we

did school shootings and safety.

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We've done so many, so homelessness,

so many different topics.

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The

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thing that seems impenetrable, I, and

I'm gonna speak for both Jerremy and

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myself, is where does the money go?

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Like you were on I believe you were

on SBA and transportation committees.

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Marie Newman: that's right.

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Dave: I was a senior executive

in the government for a while.

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Marie Newman: Yeah.

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Dave: I couldn't bend a paperclip

for under a hundred thousand dollars.

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This is whole.

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I just, it is unfathomable to me

where, the size of the US budget,

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how much we're spending on credit

card, the government credit card

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and where the money actually goes.

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So I, I hear you.

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But the Veterans Administration

has a huge budget.

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Like where do we lose the connection?

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Where does the money, what?

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Where's the black hole?

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Marie Newman: The, so hospitals and

clinics and healthcare providers

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are extraordinarily expensive.

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That whole so Tricare, you're

probably familiar, Dave, 'cause

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you've worked in the government.

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TRICARE is the is the health insurance,

if you will, of the veteran community.

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Tricare.

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Runs by itself.

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So it's like a mini Medicare.

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So think of that, think of

the D, the duplication there.

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We have Medicare, we have Medicaid.

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And then we have Tricare.

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What if that had one backend?

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Back to my dorky days we had

one back office for all three of

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those, and it was one single pair.

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Then we'd solve a lot of problems.

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So let's start there.

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But, so just in terms of the cost

though, to help you understand, there's

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duplicated back offices for all these

places, so it's a little bit like.

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And you'll be surprised

'cause I'm a raging democrat.

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For me to say this is that we

don't need all these townships and

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we don't need a fire department

for a town that has 500 people.

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Use your next door neighbors

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for god's sakes.

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Be efficient.

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And yeah, the inefficiencies and

what, so for me, what's funny is that

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Doge was absolutely wrong 'cause they

did the Eenie Minnie money Mo Okay.

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Take all that out if it had been a bunch

of dorky management consultants like

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me going and say, okay, what's working?

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What's not working?

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What's best practices?

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Boom.

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Cut this, cut that.

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Go with this.

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That would've been a good approach and

I would've been all in then, by the way,

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because there is, you are right Dave.

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There is there is, there's

not that much fraud, weirdly.

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There's incompetence and there's

there's duplication, but there's

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really not that much fraud.

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So if they'd gone in and said, look,

let's just get merciless about this

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and clean this thing up, that's fine.

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But cutting social services.

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Is now going to result in homelessness.

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Our morbidity rate is

gonna get a lot worse.

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Our mortality rate is

gonna get a lot worse.

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Our public health is gonna get

a lot, everything gets worse.

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So for me, the it would be the

first thing that I would do is

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consolidate Tricare Medicaid Medicare

to one entity with one back office.

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Jerremy: That seems like a pretty, I

know we said earlier that there's a

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lot, not tons of things that can happen

quickly, but that seems like one of them.

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Marie Newman: Oh, you could

look, Medicaid is set, or sorry.

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Medicare is set up right now to

absorb the entire insurance industry.

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We could do it in literally a series

of months and all the employees, by

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the way, so no one loses their job.

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So don't tell me this can't be done

because I have studied healthcare.

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Just so you know.

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I was a healthcare industry

analyst and studied it on

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both sides for three decades.

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Don't tell me it can't be done.

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No, ma'am.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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I can absolutely be,

that can happen for sure.

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Especially, you pretty much outlined it.

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Marie Newman: Yeah.

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And I'm, and I've, look,

I'm the rea I'll be honest.

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I'm working with a dear friend in

Congress who's thinking about running who.

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Knows about the system as well.

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Very well, and I'm, if he does run

for president I will support him.

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So we're, I'm in his kitchen

cabinet and we'll see what happens.

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But Yeah.

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because I am very, there are two

things that I will do before I

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die and I've got another 60 years.

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I'm very healthy.

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Jerremy: plenty.

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Marie Newman: I wanna get money outta

politics and I want every human in

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the US to have healthcare and period.

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Jerremy: Yeah, I love that.

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Those are two.

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Without, we're definitely gonna have

to derail a little bit because one

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of those is so near and dear to my

heart is the money outta politics.

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To Dave's point and.

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The money's everywhere.

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It's always going.

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No one knows why or where, who

has it, but none of the people

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who need it are getting it.

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And the people that need

it aren't having it.

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And the people that have

it aren't giving it.

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So it's kinda like where everyone

has it except the people who should

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have getting money outta politics.

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What would be an actual legitimate

step towards that happening?

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Marie Newman: So we already have

something set up and ready to go.

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Jerremy: Okay.

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Marie Newman: There is a a bill called

the Anti-Corruption Act that there's

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a congressman in California, his name

Ro Khana who put together, it would

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take away 80% of Citizens United.

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So quick for your listeners, not

necessarily for YouTube, but for your

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listeners citizen United was a Supreme

Court decision that maintained that

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corporations are allowed to fund.

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Candidates and members of Congress and

any elected official to their heart's

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content at any number because that's

your first amendment choice and they

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deemed that corporations are people and

have a voice, gross, all of it, right?

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So that's what we're dealing with.

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Citizens United.

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We cannot overturn Citizens United

until we have a different Supreme Court.

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None of those babies are gonna die

for a long time, I hate to tell you.

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And so those nine players, three

of them would vote to overturn

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Citizens United right now.

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Six would not.

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So what do we do in place of that?

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There's two things we can do.

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We can do this anti-corruption

act, which doesn't require.

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An overturn of a citizens unit.

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It gets rid of superpacs, it gets

rid of independent expenditures.

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It brings the individual donation

down to, I think 500 or a

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thousand from the max out level.

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And it get, gets rid of dark money.

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And then if there are any un itemized

expenditures, and I'm not gonna

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get in the weeds about the FEC, but

it makes everything transparent.

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So it would solve about

80% of the problem.

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And that has probably a hundred

signers right now, has one.

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Republican, which is good.

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The rest are Democrats, but all

of those Democrats and Republicans

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that take money are like, oh, ah,

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that's gonna be rougher for me.

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Yikes.

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So that would solve 80%

of the problem right away.

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And then we could also do an

expansion, court expansion to make it.

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Where the Supreme Court is 15 people.

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And you get a much more balanced

approach to America because then

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you could have independent thinkers,

you could have right, left, you

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could have whatever you wanted.

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And a different way to appoint them

versus an individual president,

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Democrat, or Republican or independent.

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It having the only say to it and then.

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And then some rules around not this

nonsense that Mitch McConnell wouldn't

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allow any of the Supreme Court

justice to get done during Obama.

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That was ridiculous because it's very

clear in the House and Senate rules,

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but whatever he did, what he did rules

around the Supreme Court would be helpful.

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And then this anti-corruption

bill would be very helpful.

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All by the way, it has teeth in it

too, which is what I screamed about

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and I got in trouble with all of my

leadership all the time is because I'd

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read the bill and I'd be like, no teeth.

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No reinforcement.

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No.

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There's no watchdog group.

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There's no, and be like,

oh, Marie, please be quiet.

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Dave: Could, any of this be sassy?

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I feel like we need

t-shirts on your website.

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You're so sassy.

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Could any of this be solved

with conflict of interest?

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When in private industry, like I, if I did

anything with conflict of, in, interest

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I could be like, in serious trouble.

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Marie Newman: thing, David.

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And yeah, so you're right

that we should do that.

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It would give it a little bit, not

like they might think twice, but those

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things are real hard to resolve in

court, as even in the, in, in business.

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It's real hard to resolve in

court and it takes forever

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and it's, so it's like an NDA.

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It's only as good as the goodwill

coming from the signer, right?

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I've been in those battles.

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They seldom go your way, so it's

it, that's, I would rather the

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teeth be real strong and real clear.

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And there's a it's in the penal

coat, that's when it gets yummy.

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Penal coat is yummy.

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Dave: Laws.

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Got it.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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What about, the one for me.

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Super quick background on me.

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Congresswoman, I, my specialty has been

in stocks and options and trading and

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investing, and I built and then sold

the third largest stock market education

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company that educated people for free

on just how the stock market works.

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Marie Newman: Oh God bless you.

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Jerremy: Oh, thank you.

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I spent tons of time going to schools

and colleges and just like middle

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schools, kindergartens, like just

teaching kids how investing works and how

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trading works and how the market works.

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And I've always thought it

very interesting and one of the

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components of that was for me.

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The disallowing of individuals in

politics, Senate, or the Congress

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or the House of Representatives to

invest into individual companies.

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Because again, back to the back,

to the that's an obvious, right?

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Marie Newman: Yeah.

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There.

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And there's a bill ready to go by the

way, that has 110 signers right now.

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There's two Republicans on that.

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God bless them.

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And so that one is ready to go too,

that, I forget the house number on it,

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but that is a bill that's ready to go.

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So no one, I agree with you.

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It's isn't it like such

common sense Jerremy, right?

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Nobody should be able to

invest in a single company.

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And by the way, I also would take

it a little further because right

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now how it's set up.

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As a member of Congress quarterly,

you have to do a report on

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all your finances, right?

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So have you sold a home?

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Have you bought a home?

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And if you are trading stock, you

have to list all of it individually.

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What is the status of your mutual

fund, ETFs, all the things.

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Do you have a trust, whatever,

like all those questions, right?

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Some of them are late with them and they

think it's funny because there's no teeth.

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Like they don't get, like if they

are late by a year or two, then

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they get brought before ethics.

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And then ethics is shame

on you, you're so bad.

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And which is nothing, they all

violate the stock Act all the time.

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'cause the Stock Act says that you

have to report everything, right?

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So we have to get beyond that.

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We have to have the Stock Act too, which

is this new bill that a hundred, we have

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a hundred members of Congress signing onto

that would forbid all members of Congress

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from trading individual stocks, all of

their families and all of their staff.

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Then you do take away the

conflict back to Dave's comment.

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So it would, and so you hit

the nail on the head again.

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That one's ready to go.

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It's just getting all these people that

and I'll give you a couple examples.

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Nancy Pelosi entered Congress

in the late eighties, early

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nineties, I can't remember.

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And she had, I don't know, 10 million.

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Now she has 300 million, right?

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Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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She started out her net

worth was under a million.

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Now she has 23 million in six years.

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So please.

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Please tell me what's going on

here, folks, and the, and I'm just

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picking on those two by the way

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Dave: No, it, yeah.

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Jerremy: Oh, there is a long list.

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It's a

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Marie Newman: Oh my God, it's, yeah,

I always laughed so hard because when

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I was in Congress and I filled out all

my forms every quarter, my husband was

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trading a couple of individual stocks

because it's part of our retirement.

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But here's what I would say is that

I still supported the Ban, the Stock

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Act, which was around when I was in

Congress, which is now three years ago.

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Because.

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I'm a good actor.

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Like I sat on small

business and transportation.

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I didn't own any transportation stocks.

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No small business stocks.

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Like I was very clear.

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But I will tell you the, almost

the entire financial services

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committee, Democrats, Republicans,

and independents, all trade stocks.

778

:

In the financial services

industry, so shame on them.

779

:

Disgusting.

780

:

And a conflict of interest.

781

:

And you do on financial, on the financial

services committee, you do hear things

782

:

on transportation and and small business.

783

:

We're always dealing with keeping

our union brothers and sisters

784

:

safe and keeping Americans safe on

transportation and on small business.

785

:

We're just trying to

bring their taxes down.

786

:

But on financial services and energy

and commerce, they hear so much.

787

:

I can't tell you.

788

:

Like it's disgusting.

789

:

So that's an infuriating.

790

:

So I'm with you, my brother.

791

:

Jerremy: And it's also very it's just

very I'm just trying to look for the right

792

:

word, but it's very calming for someone

to else hear and say that because it's.

793

:

On the in, on the outside

people that are looking in.

794

:

It's so obvious and so transparently

795

:

insane.

796

:

Marie Newman: it's 80% of Republicans

and 90% of Democrats all agree.

797

:

These people should not be

798

:

trading stocks, period.

799

:

Jerremy: Yes.

800

:

Yeah.

801

:

And getting back to the whole

money com money complexity.

802

:

That's really what it is.

803

:

Like it's money in politics.

804

:

And if you have money in politics,

money, you've heard how many times have

805

:

we heard the term money changes people.

806

:

And so when you start changing and

you're supposed to be representing

807

:

and you're supposed to be connecting

with and you're becoming too removed

808

:

from where you started and the whole

reason you started, and yeah, just

809

:

gonna become, create a big shift.

810

:

Marie Newman: yeah.

811

:

No, it's a I will tell you the one

lesson I learned and I wrote this

812

:

in my book that came out last year

almost in every chapter in some form.

813

:

I said, it's not just follow the money,

it's follow the people that are giving

814

:

the money and receiving the money.

815

:

And we do have to address

this at some point.

816

:

I it was, I was not popular in

Congress for a bunch of reasons,

817

:

but I was really pushing that, I

was pushing the anti-corruption act.

818

:

I was pushing the expand the court

Act because we can't address this.

819

:

It is the will to address it, and

it's, so that's what I I spend my

820

:

time doing now with my substack, is

I help people understand Congress

821

:

and why nothing ever gets done.

822

:

You do have control.

823

:

You.

824

:

The three of us have control and all

825

:

the other voters in the US have control.

826

:

And so don't vote for people

that take corporate PAC money.

827

:

Don't take, don't vote for people

that have bully Pac money from foreign

828

:

lobbies like APAC and Democratic

Majority for Israel and the like.

829

:

Don't vote for people that won't sign

on to the Anti-Corruption Act or the the

830

:

stock Act if they won't sign onto those.

831

:

That is a big red flag.

832

:

Jerremy: Big red flag.

833

:

Because again back from my, to my

background, I'm the stock tradings

834

:

expert and very familiar with it.

835

:

I'm not saying you can't

invest into markets.

836

:

I'm not saying you can't invest

into the US economy, but buy

837

:

an ETF, buy a mutual fund.

838

:

Buy something that you can't

individually can solely control,

839

:

own, operate, manipulate.

840

:

Marie Newman: And I think there should

be, in fairness, what I would add to,

841

:

with the amendment, I would add to the

current Stock Ban Act of individual stocks

842

:

within those mutual funds and within,

'cause you can model in there, right?

843

:

Like you can choose different models.

844

:

So like in an ETE there should be

rules around the ETF modeling and

845

:

the the individual transactions.

846

:

And that you can only do

it so often and it can't

847

:

be related to any of the, and you

can't, let's say if you sit on

848

:

transportation in your mutual fund,

you can't have United Airlines.

849

:

Jerremy: Yeah.

850

:

So something to that extent and to

your point, bank executives have to

851

:

do this all the time, by the way.

852

:

So if you work for a Citigroup, JP

Morgan, Goldman Sachs, like if you're

853

:

a higher up executive level, they're

banned from doing almost anything.

854

:

Marie Newman: Is not a new concept.

855

:

Jerremy: not at all.

856

:

It's just in politics.

857

:

Like they could do whatever they

want, but if you are the president.

858

:

Of a bank branch, a mid-tier bank, first

Horizon National in Tennessee, you can't

859

:

touch any stock that bank has business

with or that the bank has an account with.

860

:

You can't buy or sell that

861

:

Marie Newman: And I

like that a whole bunch

862

:

Jerremy: at all.

863

:

Marie Newman: Yeah.

864

:

So it's there, there's another

opportunity we would have to pull

865

:

this back and it's not necessarily

again, to back best practices, but

866

:

it's not necessarily exactly what

we would do, but conceptually.

867

:

In the UK what they do with elections

is they say, here's 30 K, whatever their

868

:

trans two pounds, here's three months.

869

:

Go and that's all you get.

870

:

So it's publicly funded.

871

:

And I'm not saying that's a

perfect answer, but it does

872

:

solve a whole bunch of things.

873

:

Jerremy: It does.

874

:

Yeah.

875

:

Yeah.

876

:

If you have a fund where every candidate

gets the same amount of money and this

877

:

is the most you can spend, that's it.

878

:

Enjoy.

879

:

Marie Newman: And you can't use your

own money and you can't sell fund,

880

:

and you can't use your friend's

fund money and blah, blah, blah.

881

:

Yeah.

882

:

Jerremy: Hey, I'm all about it.

883

:

I I agree.

884

:

I think I don't know, I don't know

if it would change necessarily

885

:

people's viewpoints or opinions

on politics, but what it would do

886

:

is it would bring a certain level

of different players to the game.

887

:

One of the things that Dave mentioned

is he's excited about the day where

888

:

Washington DC becomes the new sports

arena or the new place where people want,

889

:

instead of going to Hollywood to become

an actor or become a professional DJ or.

890

:

Wanting to become the

next big football star.

891

:

They wanna go to DC 'cause

they want to create incredible

892

:

laws and incredible bills.

893

:

And to your point, give healthcare

opportunities for every single person

894

:

in the United States of America or

take money out of politics where it's

895

:

something that is not as egregiously in

the face of everyone that's voting for

896

:

you, where we know that you're stealing

from us, but we just don't know how.

897

:

Oh, we can't do anything about it.

898

:

Marie Newman: That's right.

899

:

That's right.

900

:

Yeah.

901

:

Jerremy: so for our listeners, that's

what people love about the podcast to

902

:

the degree is we'll start on something

and there's we went down a new path.

903

:

But the reality is that's what

this product and program was.

904

:

Initially, we started discussing guns

and Dave and I were thinking, okay,

905

:

everyone's been telling us to go

and talk about guns and talk about.

906

:

Everything that's happening negatively.

907

:

And then we saw this incredible data

right in front of our face where it

908

:

was not even remotely what we thought.

909

:

We thought that, yeah, take away some

assault rifles and then man, every,

910

:

everything is solved and assignment an

911

:

Marie Newman: No.

912

:

Jerremy: And yeah, the data

was just showing us something

913

:

so different, so transparent.

914

:

Let's do a quick little lightning round,

915

:

Marie Newman: Oh, fun.

916

:

Jerremy: just Yeah.

917

:

Super fast.

918

:

Quickest answer imaginable that you have.

919

:

All right.

920

:

What's the most underrated fix you rarely

hear people talking about in politics?

921

:

Marie Newman: Oh, that's

a really good one.

922

:

It that is already in place,

is that what you're saying?

923

:

Jerremy.

924

:

Jerremy: Not necessarily.

925

:

Marie Newman: I, okay,

926

:

Jerremy: could be in, it could be in

place, or it could not be in place, but

927

:

something

928

:

Marie Newman: so

929

:

Jerremy: it is in

930

:

place, awesome.

931

:

Marie Newman: in place because

there's not a lot that has been fixed.

932

:

I am just, I have a my mother used

to say is that, it's not okay.

933

:

It's you can sometimes not

share every thought in your head

934

:

Jerremy: totally.

935

:

Marie Newman: yeah.

936

:

But Medicare for all, Medicare

would solve that huge healthcare

937

:

problem and economic inequity.

938

:

So about a third of everybody's budget

goes to healthcare and it would solve

939

:

that inequity right away for all

humans in the United States of America.

940

:

Jerremy: I love it, which is probably

also the answer to this question.

941

:

What's one policy you

would stake your name on?

942

:

So it's probably the same one, huh?

943

:

Marie Newman: That and

getting money outta politics.

944

:

So the Anti-Corruption Act I, both,

the Medicare for All Act and the

945

:

anti-corruption Act I would put

946

:

all my money on and all my reputation.

947

:

Jerremy: Love it.

948

:

If you could force Congress

to look at one chart for 60

949

:

seconds, what chart would that be?

950

:

Marie Newman: income gap.

951

:

Jerremy: Tell me more.

952

:

Marie Newman: So if we look at the

income gap from the:

953

:

unions have gotten so beat up that we

created our middle class through the

954

:

unions in the 1950s through the 1980s.

955

:

Then then they were beaten up a

lot, taken away, all their rights

956

:

taken away and things went down.

957

:

So now people that work a really

hard 40 hour week intellectually

958

:

and physically work really hard.

959

:

Are making a lot less and

their wages have not gone up.

960

:

Similarly, all of the middle

class wages have not gone up.

961

:

And then of course our minimum

wage has stayed at 7 25.

962

:

And if we look at it from a pure economic

standpoint, it should be $25 an hour.

963

:

So people that work at 40 hour, 40

to 60 hour week are making 50% less

964

:

than they did even 20 years ago.

965

:

Literally, legitimately in

each other, their households.

966

:

And then also with the, in that same

chart, you would see that it is now it's I

967

:

think 57 or 59% of the country, 59, 50 9%

of the country lives paycheck to paycheck.

968

:

That is the worst it's been

in since the Great Depression.

969

:

So that's the chart I want them to see.

970

:

Jerremy: Okay.

971

:

Thank you.

972

:

Thank you for sharing that.

973

:

After leaving Congress, you went

straight into running little city.

974

:

What's the biggest lesson from

that transition that you wish

975

:

more elected officials understood

about turning policy into real?

976

:

Marie Newman: I really enjoyed that job.

977

:

I only did it for about a year because

we went in and they had some budgetary

978

:

crisis that I resolved and then some

systemic and then they didn't have any

979

:

branding, what I learned because there,

there's a professional learning and

980

:

then there's a policy learning policy.

981

:

Was that people that are in government

so can be so helpful in helping

982

:

other folks understand policy.

983

:

So everybody from families of

those that are being served,

984

:

those that are being served.

985

:

The public rich writ large.

986

:

And then government.

987

:

So you can be very powerful as a

CEO or an executive in a nonprofit

988

:

because you have this knowledge.

989

:

And I had the crazy benefit and honor of

being in business, nonprofits, government,

990

:

then going to a large nonprofit.

991

:

So I was cra I was so blessed

to have that knowledge.

992

:

But then what you learn is I will tell

both of you, and this is a I tell this

993

:

to people all the time, so it's not

news, is that I'm addicted to learning.

994

:

And

995

:

so once I learned everything and solved

a bunch of problems, I was like, I'm

996

:

a little bored, so I'm a little bored.

997

:

So then I moved on.

998

:

But great place and great opportunity.

999

:

Former government officials

have a lot to offer too.

:

00:47:04,976 --> 00:47:05,646

Nonprofits.

:

00:47:06,646 --> 00:47:06,916

Jerremy: that.

:

00:47:07,216 --> 00:47:07,966

Love that.

:

00:47:08,026 --> 00:47:11,516

Thank you so much for sharing, and

we really appreciate your time.

:

00:47:11,516 --> 00:47:14,486

This has been a true pleasure

to, for me, Congresswoman.

:

00:47:14,546 --> 00:47:20,366

It's so lovely and bright to see

someone who is sassy and fun, but

:

00:47:20,366 --> 00:47:22,826

also incredibly smart and motivated

:

00:47:22,915 --> 00:47:23,485

Marie Newman: Oh, aren't you

:

00:47:23,486 --> 00:47:24,206

Jerremy: and aware.

:

00:47:24,415 --> 00:47:25,585

Marie Newman: Oh, I'll

just stay here every day.

:

00:47:25,585 --> 00:47:26,575

You guys are so nice.

:

00:47:26,676 --> 00:47:27,336

Jerremy: We can.

:

00:47:27,396 --> 00:47:28,776

I heard you mentioned Substack.

:

00:47:28,776 --> 00:47:29,796

I'm also on Substack.

:

00:47:29,796 --> 00:47:31,146

I would love to follow you.

:

00:47:31,176 --> 00:47:34,626

Can you promote or share something

with our listeners on how they

:

00:47:34,626 --> 00:47:35,946

can stay involved with your work?

:

00:47:36,230 --> 00:47:37,100

Marie Newman: You're so kind.

:

00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:38,720

So my substack is easy.

:

00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,830

It's Marie Newman on Substack, and

it's called Marie Newman Studio.

:

00:47:41,830 --> 00:47:45,500

But you can, if you throw in the

my name and the search bar which is

:

00:47:45,500 --> 00:47:48,830

Marie Newman, you'll get on Substack,

you'll get to my Substack right away

:

00:47:49,071 --> 00:47:49,581

Jerremy: Perfect.

:

00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:51,500

Marie Newman: And Jerremy, tell me yours.

:

00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,660

Jerremy: The Wealth Alchemist, same thing.

:

00:47:54,660 --> 00:47:56,700

You can just type it in

there and it'll pop up.

:

00:47:57,089 --> 00:47:58,019

Marie Newman: Okay, I'm on.

:

00:47:58,019 --> 00:47:58,229

You

:

00:47:58,740 --> 00:47:59,190

Jerremy: Yep.

:

00:48:00,190 --> 00:48:00,610

Marie Newman: Got it.

:

00:48:01,196 --> 00:48:01,886

Jerremy: Beautiful.

:

00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,480

Marie Newman: yeah, and we maybe

we'll do a collab one time.

:

00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,250

We'll write something

together on the income gap.

:

00:48:06,486 --> 00:48:07,236

Jerremy: That's gonna happen.

:

00:48:07,296 --> 00:48:08,706

That's 100% going to occur.

:

00:48:09,050 --> 00:48:09,890

Marie Newman: Fantastic.

:

00:48:09,906 --> 00:48:10,296

Jerremy: Yeah.

:

00:48:10,346 --> 00:48:11,126

Thank you so much Dave.

:

00:48:11,126 --> 00:48:11,846

Anything else?

:

00:48:12,188 --> 00:48:13,533

Dave: No, this was fantastic.

:

00:48:13,533 --> 00:48:13,773

Thank

:

00:48:14,006 --> 00:48:14,516

Jerremy: So

:

00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:15,280

Marie Newman: Oh my gosh.

:

00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,940

And thank you for all that you do and

keep talking about all the tough topics.

:

00:48:19,250 --> 00:48:21,500

And glad to help if I can

be supportive in any way.

:

00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:22,970

So thank you to all your listeners.

:

00:48:23,406 --> 00:48:24,306

Jerremy: Yes, absolutely.

:

00:48:24,306 --> 00:48:25,116

Thank you so much.

:

00:48:25,370 --> 00:48:26,030

Marie Newman: Okay, take care.

:

00:48:27,481 --> 00:48:27,961

Dave: Wow.

:

00:48:28,021 --> 00:48:30,001

White House Congress.

:

00:48:30,061 --> 00:48:31,111

I think we're moving up in the world.

:

00:48:31,161 --> 00:48:33,201

Jerremy: We're moving up my man.

:

00:48:34,201 --> 00:48:35,731

Yeah, we're moving up.

:

00:48:35,731 --> 00:48:36,451

Makes me happy.

:

00:48:36,451 --> 00:48:36,721

It's good.

:

00:48:37,721 --> 00:48:38,411

Dave: So what'd you learn?

:

00:48:39,411 --> 00:48:42,721

Jerremy: I learned that you and

I are not as altruistically crazy

:

00:48:42,721 --> 00:48:44,041

as some people might think we are.

:

00:48:45,041 --> 00:48:47,601

We gotta take money out of politics, man.

:

00:48:48,171 --> 00:48:52,731

That's that's what's all stemming

from, going down that ginormous list

:

00:48:53,361 --> 00:48:56,596

because I didn't wanna derail the

conversation too much and it did end

:

00:48:56,596 --> 00:48:58,336

up happening because it was like.

:

00:48:59,041 --> 00:49:05,101

Here's all the ways that every,

she said everyone, right?

:

00:49:05,201 --> 00:49:13,101

Everyone in Congress is receiving money

from all different types of organizations,

:

00:49:13,101 --> 00:49:16,671

and the NRA is absolutely one of them, is

stuffing the pockets of tons of people.

:

00:49:16,671 --> 00:49:20,391

And so if there's not something that

should be getting passed that we all

:

00:49:20,391 --> 00:49:22,521

believe that should be getting passed,

the reason it's not getting passed

:

00:49:22,521 --> 00:49:23,386

is because there's money behind it.

:

00:49:24,277 --> 00:49:24,607

Dave: Yeah.

:

00:49:25,607 --> 00:49:26,327

Jerremy: That's what I heard.

:

00:49:26,597 --> 00:49:27,317

That's what I learned.

:

00:49:27,367 --> 00:49:32,307

And I knew that was obviously there,

but I didn't, everyone, dude it's

:

00:49:32,307 --> 00:49:35,157

just this is, everyone's getting

money, everyone's getting paid.

:

00:49:35,593 --> 00:49:37,633

Take our money, don't vote,

don't make any changes, please.

:

00:49:38,129 --> 00:49:38,369

Dave: Yeah,

:

00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:40,799

And raise money on the other side of it.

:

00:49:40,913 --> 00:49:41,783

Jerremy: Exactly.

:

00:49:41,813 --> 00:49:42,443

Exactly.

:

00:49:42,443 --> 00:49:45,883

And then, man, I liked how she

said I'm a raging Democrat.

:

00:49:46,333 --> 00:49:47,593

I like that a lot

:

00:49:47,983 --> 00:49:53,943

because she is, and she, and it's

really refreshing because I like I

:

00:49:53,943 --> 00:49:58,093

like understanding and just sensing

where she's at and it's, I like

:

00:49:58,093 --> 00:50:03,663

hearing the perspective from the

democratic viewpoint because so many

:

00:50:03,663 --> 00:50:05,853

of, so much of my feed and news.

:

00:50:06,273 --> 00:50:10,533

That's thrown at me is so conservative in

:

00:50:10,533 --> 00:50:12,473

nature and is so Republican in nature.

:

00:50:12,833 --> 00:50:19,363

And so I, I really do respect hearing

both sides and for her to address the big

:

00:50:20,363 --> 00:50:24,843

notion that our defense bills weight, our

defense bill is way our defense spending.

:

00:50:24,843 --> 00:50:26,588

Department of Defense is way too high.

:

00:50:27,438 --> 00:50:32,608

Way too high, and you could take a

hundred billion of that and spread out

:

00:50:32,608 --> 00:50:34,258

and solve pretty much almost anything.

:

00:50:34,858 --> 00:50:36,148

I was over there like that.

:

00:50:36,628 --> 00:50:37,888

Does that make me a Democrat?

:

00:50:38,888 --> 00:50:41,408

Dave: I think we represent, right?

:

00:50:41,458 --> 00:50:45,258

We represent the unanswered middle,

a little bit right of center, a

:

00:50:45,258 --> 00:50:47,478

little bit left of center, but

it depends on the issue, right?

:

00:50:47,528 --> 00:50:53,318

I can be a Trump MAGA person on some

issues and I can be a communist on others.

:

00:50:53,318 --> 00:50:55,038

Like it's, how America works.

:

00:50:56,038 --> 00:50:57,118

I don't know about this one.

:

00:50:57,148 --> 00:50:58,828

I love Congressman Newman.

:

00:50:58,828 --> 00:51:00,538

I thought this was a

fantastic conversation.

:

00:51:00,538 --> 00:51:02,778

I want to have her on every time we're on

:

00:51:03,438 --> 00:51:03,648

Jerremy: Yeah.

:

00:51:03,648 --> 00:51:04,248

exactly.

:

00:51:05,134 --> 00:51:09,454

Dave: and this I feel like we I, and

I also love that we went off, went off

:

00:51:09,514 --> 00:51:11,644

into the world of politics because.

:

00:51:12,559 --> 00:51:15,679

So much of our politics

feels so anti-democratic.

:

00:51:15,769 --> 00:51:18,849

See, it feels, again, back

to my term, anti-human.

:

00:51:18,919 --> 00:51:22,629

Like the vast majority of people

are saying, fix our healthcare and

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nothing's happening and, fix violence.

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Nothing's happening.

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We're spending too much money on defense.

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Nothing's happening.

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It's going up.

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So we, we heard it in our voting

reform that all of these, all of our

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Congress people are picked at the

primary, by a few thousand people,

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and then it's just flooding money.

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So there's a little bit of part

of me that it's like getting

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a little black pilled on this.

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It's oh, we have the illusion of

democracy Now, saying that when we talk

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about solutions, I do keep on coming

back to suicides as being fundamental

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and 50 zip codes being fundamental.

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And if we learned anything from

Trump is that simple matters.

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And it also Bernie Sanders, like

he's speaks very plainly, very

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simply and straightforward so

that everybody can understand it.

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And I believe future leadership

like yourself is making

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this, just powerfully simple.

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It's like we're just gonna solve suicides.

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And then with that you get

all the gun stuff right, or

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we are just going to solve.

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Youth violence in these 50 zip codes.

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And that's gonna solve

a, another ton of this.

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So attacking this indirectly, because

as soon as we get into seizing all

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the guns, now she didn't say that.

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But, as soon as we get into this

world of education, which I love as

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soon as we get into waiting periods

and red flag laws and all of that.

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Where I've seen the Democrats really

falter is that they're too smart and

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they're over overcomplicating this,

and it doesn't resonate with 300

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million Americans when we can say,

look, we're just gonna solve suicides.

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And that's where the veterans,

or we're gonna solve, we're gonna

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make our cities not suck, right?

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Like those two phrases would

resonate with everybody.

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And with that you get gun violence solved.

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That's, so that's, what I

heard was a little bit of, I

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dunno, that's what I heard.

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That's what I learned.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Dave: Does that make sense?

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Jerremy: It does and I think

ultimately what we also learned

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and are continuing to learn, but

the big portion of it certainly is.

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The gun debate is very well funded.

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I did love love, love how our

girl Maria's bro, love guns.

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They're awesome.

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So

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cool.

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Let's have all of them.

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Let's do all, let's do

all the things, right?

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Should we have assault, assault weapons?

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Probably not.

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Not a huge need for those,

but you wanna go hunt great.

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Incredible.

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You wanna go shoot some at a range.

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Awesome.

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But mentally, are you

healthy enough to have a gun?

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I mean that,

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that's really what I heard her say.

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And man, I think the real topic

there, probably like deep under

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arching is like, are you mentally

healthy enough to do insert anything?

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Dave: I think that would

probably outlaw all of us.

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Really.

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Jerremy: Ki

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kind

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Dave: I don't know if I'm mentally

healthy for this podcast sometimes.

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No podcast for you, Dave.

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Jerremy: yeah, no podcast for you,

but you're not, you can't physically

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hurt anybody with this either.

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Geez, man, like ul ultimately,

yeah, that, that's a big one.

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That was a very obvious.

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Can we have, is there a mental

health protocol that we can have

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people go through that we can

have people check in that we can?

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Oh man.

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I'm just trying to think of

if Universal healthcare would

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actually would solve that problem.

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Because I don't think it, I don't

know if it would like it because

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the veterans that I know that have

faced and struggle with suicide are

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too proud to go to the VA anyway.

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Or to get care or, so it's probably,

it probably starts earlier than that.

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Again, obviously I know that

there's no perfect press this

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button and all problems are solved.

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But ultimately it just seems to me

like there's an in-depth conversation

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that happened at an earlier place,

an earlier stage in someone's life.

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Where they know that,

number one, it's okay.

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00:55:22,027 --> 00:55:27,277

And then number two, they have the

resources and it's available to them.

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00:55:27,487 --> 00:55:32,087

'Cause reality man, again, like

she mentioned, Tricare a bunch.

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Like I, I have 412 very close.

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Friends that are all veterans

and dude, they got awesome care.

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00:55:41,452 --> 00:55:45,902

Like they can go essentially into

all, any va they can do anything

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tomorrow and it's taken care of

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medically if they want to.

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00:55:50,622 --> 00:55:54,282

And the question is, will they now

granted, will they get prescribed pills?

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00:55:54,312 --> 00:55:58,112

Maybe are they gonna be

prescribed holistic things?

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00:55:59,112 --> 00:56:03,552

Probably not, but that really is the

medical health system of the us, right?

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00:56:03,552 --> 00:56:07,302

If you go in and they're, you're gonna

get treated for a common cold, they're

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00:56:07,302 --> 00:56:11,752

gonna give you a Zack, they're, they're

not gonna give you garlic or whatever.

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00:56:11,852 --> 00:56:14,292

Yeah, man it's just, it is, it's

an interesting viewpoint, the

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mental health of having a gun.

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Dave: Back to your favorite topic,

I we talked about a lot of solutions

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that are way down the road, right?

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00:56:21,983 --> 00:56:25,493

These are for adults and these are

focusing on the problems we already have.

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00:56:25,733 --> 00:56:30,603

And, certainly education

being a huge component of,

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00:56:30,603 --> 00:56:31,983

but again, that's for adults.

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00:56:32,073 --> 00:56:36,963

And we've heard over and over

again how our education system has.

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00:56:37,963 --> 00:56:41,283

Taking opportunities out of the hands

of our children, like they're not

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00:56:41,283 --> 00:56:45,403

getting resources, they're not, they're

not learning emotional regulation.

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00:56:45,403 --> 00:56:49,433

They're not learning how to deal

with problems interpersonally.

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And, that's leading to

violence in our youth.

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00:56:53,643 --> 00:56:58,773

And despondency and I get back

to certainly look healthy.

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People don't shoot other people.

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00:57:01,368 --> 00:57:06,358

And it's really at our, it's,

we're doing a huge disservice to

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our kids and we keep on doing it.

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00:57:09,308 --> 00:57:14,168

It's that's where, and this is a

generational thing, so I think getting

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00:57:14,168 --> 00:57:17,658

some social media out of the hands

of our, and oh, that was my point.

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00:57:17,868 --> 00:57:22,118

And it's young boys, like girls

are not shooting each other.

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00:57:22,328 --> 00:57:23,198

Young boys are.

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00:57:23,448 --> 00:57:26,638

And the men who are veterans, I

don't think that's selection bias

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00:57:26,638 --> 00:57:28,648

of just that most men are veterans.

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00:57:28,648 --> 00:57:30,598

I think it's that they're men again.

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00:57:31,388 --> 00:57:36,938

So bit of we've done a big disservice

by, not by focusing on other people,

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00:57:36,938 --> 00:57:42,248

but focusing on other populations

at the exclusion of young men.

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00:57:42,398 --> 00:57:45,518

And I keep coming back to this as a topic.

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00:57:45,518 --> 00:57:46,538

What do you, what are

your thoughts on that?

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00:57:47,508 --> 00:57:48,078

Education.

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00:57:48,918 --> 00:57:50,568

Education around our young boys.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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That's what needs to change, man.

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That's it.

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Because me knowing again, the veteran

community very well, the majority of

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00:58:00,158 --> 00:58:04,998

individuals that become veterans or

sorry, I should say that join, is because

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they don't know anything else to do

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00:58:07,128 --> 00:58:07,728

initially.

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00:58:08,524 --> 00:58:09,454

They're like, what else do I do?

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I don't know.

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00:58:10,144 --> 00:58:10,954

I'm just gonna do this.

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00:58:11,854 --> 00:58:15,454

And it has a good,

reward system at the end.

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00:58:15,604 --> 00:58:18,424

You get all these benefits, you get all

these opportunities, you can do all these

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00:58:18,424 --> 00:58:27,779

things and then they enter this global

workforce taskforce watchdog that is gonna

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00:58:27,779 --> 00:58:30,024

send them all over the place just because.

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00:58:30,684 --> 00:58:34,044

Whoever is the current president wants

them to do whatever the president

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00:58:34,044 --> 00:58:37,104

wants them to do for whatever power

he wants for this country to have.

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00:58:37,974 --> 00:58:43,804

And it's almost like if, would they

have made the choice to become a

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00:58:43,804 --> 00:58:47,094

veteran if there was, or, to become

an active military participant.

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If there was a different alternative

or different choice or something

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00:58:49,759 --> 00:58:52,309

that they were definitely aware of

that they would've learned through

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00:58:52,309 --> 00:58:53,569

a better educational system.

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00:58:54,499 --> 00:58:56,509

And maybe yes, maybe no.

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00:58:57,464 --> 00:59:02,819

And then at the same time, like from the

ground, from the top down, do we go to

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00:59:02,819 --> 00:59:06,809

war as quickly or do we solve problems as

quickly as we solve them with violence?

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00:59:06,809 --> 00:59:07,619

If there's other.

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00:59:08,619 --> 00:59:12,159

Thoughts or perspectives or awarenesses

or alternative solutions that have

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00:59:12,159 --> 00:59:15,519

been pondered over for a longer

period of time, other than just seeing

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00:59:15,519 --> 00:59:17,524

it from a lens of rage and anger.

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00:59:17,894 --> 00:59:21,524

Are there other ways to solve these

problems that does not involve military?

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00:59:22,224 --> 00:59:24,894

So there's tons and tons

of questions for sure.

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00:59:24,894 --> 00:59:31,764

Always be muddling over, but I do

believe vhe and inherently that.

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00:59:32,754 --> 00:59:38,034

Knowing my personal bout with anger and

rage and frustration in my life as a

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young male and knowing how to not only

take it out safely and non-threatening

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00:59:43,974 --> 00:59:49,834

ways, but to do it and to heal and to come

into a place where I know how to channel

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00:59:49,834 --> 00:59:56,854

certain whatever rage moments that I have

so that it doesn't hurt anyone at all.

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And feel better and to heal

both internally and externally.

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01:00:01,714 --> 01:00:05,104

That's something that needs to be taught

and needs to be taught in a large way.

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01:00:05,344 --> 01:00:13,334

And I absolutely agree that

it is a huge shift to take a

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01:00:13,334 --> 01:00:16,604

stepping stone towards finding.

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01:00:17,604 --> 01:00:22,854

Very direct ways for both men and

women, but for sure men to heal.

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01:00:23,194 --> 01:00:27,784

And to come to a place of alignment

and to purpose and to spiritual

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01:00:27,784 --> 01:00:33,754

enlightenment so that they don't have

to create so much chaos and animosity.

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Dave: Love it.

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