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Democrats Destroy Every Institution in Our Country
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WTOP 24 Hour News
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A highlight from MONEY REIMAGINED: A Rant | The Labyrinth of Digital Feudalisms Grip and the Quest for Intentionality
"You're listening to Coindesk's Money Reimagined with Michael Casey and Sheila Warren. Hello and welcome to Money Reimagined. I'm Michael Casey. This week, it's Sheila and I just doing what we do from time to time just to sort of do a bit of a roundup of what's going on and like get in each other's heads a bit. We are, of course, available. We can listen to us weekly on the Coindesk Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you've enjoyed this episode or any of our episodes, we would really like to hear from you. If you didn't like our episode, you could also talk to us and you could email us to do so at podcasts .coindesk .com with the subject line of Money Reimagined. As always, there's just lots going on, Sheila. Maybe we can talk a little bit later about the ongoing saga that is Sam Bankman free. He's in jail now, of course, but he's now pled not guilty to his latest indictment. We had some news of Coinbase acquiring a stake in Circle, which has got people intrigued. Markets aren't looking so great. A bit of a weird, wild collapse in Bitcoin. And that's, obviously, a determinant of all sorts of other things. But look, you came on, I don't know, saw text messages from me before we started this. You were obviously in a bit of a mood, a bit angry about a few things. You just want to rant about a few things. And you talked about comparing the United States to Japan and maybe the regulatory framework in each country. I thought we can get you under that. But it got me thinking that maybe we should, and if we do these two -way things, the one -on -ones, that we should just have a section just called Sheila's Rant. And I'm trying to think about what - The Rant of the Week. The Rant of the Week. The Rant of the Week. There's always something to rant about. I could just like a now. I could bring a now BBC voice. It's time for Sheila Warren's rant. Sheila, rant away. She's like, over to you. Over to you. Please rant away, Sheila. But your rant, actually, I thought you were going to rant about, you know, the US v Japan. I was. But then you joined us and you started talking about problems with your Google connection on things that was actually undermining your ability to actually do things, which got me thinking that this is a perfectly good rant because it is a way to speak about the whole dependency on centralized platforms. Yes. Yeah. Let me let me just walk our listeners through the last hour of my life. So I have a new laptop. Yay me. Hooray. That's very exciting. And I was trying to do what I thought would be a fairly simple task of pairing my Bluetooth mouse with my new laptop, which you would think would just be a very simple click a couple of times and things are done. No, apparently not. So in the course of this, I restarted my laptop and now I don't have access to Google Chrome. I literally cannot use Google Chrome. I can't download it unless it comes from someplace, whatever this that bottom line is without Google Chrome. What the realization I was late to our recording today because without Google Chrome on my machine, I have to use my laptop, not my phone, because I have a mic and I have to plug it in whatever for a variety of reasons. I'm dependent on my laptop for our particular from any reimagined to record this podcast and between Apple and Google and their willingness to interface in some ways and not others, etc. And then throw in Zoom, which is where we do our recordings for the podcast. I wasn't able to access my Zoom account. So then I had to like back into my Zoom in a different way. And then I had to like reset a password. It was just like, you've got to be kidding me with this. But all of that, I think, Michael, just it's just emblematic of the problem that I think we talk about, even not as pointedly as this, but more generally on this show, which is we are beholden in ways we don't even realize. Like I'm at a point now where, thank goodness, I've got people on the back end working on figuring out how to get me Chrome. Yeah, you've got an army of people trying to. Well, I wish I had one person, but regardless, I've got someone helping me with this and it's going to figure it out on our IT support side. But without access to Chrome, I basically can't really do my job unless I'm on my phone, in which case if I work on my phone for too long, I'm just going to like lose my eyesight, which is a whole other issue. You know, it's just it's just we're beholden in ways we don't even understand, because when these things function, the point is that when these things function, we don't even realize how connected they are. I don't know that I deliberately set my Zoom account up to run through Google, but at some point I did that or someone did it for me is probably more likely what happened, to be very honest. But regardless, the whole thing just kind of falls apart. And yes, you can very deliberately choose. I'm very conscious about data person, right? I mean, we've talked about this many times. So I do tend to use different kinds of browsers for other things, this and that. But when it comes to kind of hyper efficient work product oriented things, like we just default to the big platforms because everyone else is on there. It's a lot easier. You can make different kinds of connections. We work in Google Docs, whatever it is, right? If those things don't function, the integrations are somewhat default. And if those don't function, your productivity takes a massive hit. But your ability, I think, to engage is really complicated. So this isn't so much about data capture and control. It's about the ability to actually engage online, engage digitally in a meaningful way, which is is not it's just it's so beholden to these gigantic entities. And I find that today I find it deeply irritating and annoying and frustrating. I want to throw my machine out the window. But as a general matter, it's highly problematic. Well, the two are related, right? Like it's not just that there's data capture going on. It's that they create such a level of dependency. Yes. And such an integration of all these other elements of your life that the data is all the more rich from their point of view and therefore valuable from their point of view. Right. So, I mean, it is all related. But yeah, there is this convenience of the network effect of everything tied together. The one that I often think about lately is what's happened to email. So we often talk about how, oh, at least email, right? SMTP, it's this independent protocol. And you can send an email to anybody on any email server anywhere. And then whatever client you're using, you're fine, right? Well, I'm not so sure about that anymore because everybody has Gmail, right? So many corporate accounts are now just Gmail accounts. It is so big that Gmail's spam filtering system will, if you happen to be from a smaller server, I mean, there's not really not many left. People have ProtonMail for privacy and there's a few Yahoo and a few others that are still there. But any of the little guys, any independent email provider, you're going to be interpreted by Gmail's spam server as spam and just pushed out into the... You're not going to get your stuff read because you're not using... So there's this backdoor way in which Google has created control of what we thought was at least an architecturally far more decentralized system. And that is problematic in addition to all of the other ways in which Google just sits there in the middle of our lives. When you're using Waze in your car, it's Google. If you've got Google Home, it's Google. And of course, we can say the same about Amazon with Alexa and Prime and AWS and everything else, but this is the reality. We've built these dependencies. In fact, as anybody who listened to last week's episode will now know, I'm actually in the middle of writing a book with Frank McCourt, as I said then. More information will come about what it's really going to be about, but maybe it's going to come out in a drip form because I'll just offer this little tidbit. I mean, I'm just in the process of working on a chapter to try to give it a little bit more context to what we mean in the book by this concept of being a subject or a vassal in a new modern form of feudalism, as opposed to being a citizen in a kind of a republic and a democracy. Given that our information system is fundamental to who we are as a society, like it's critical to democracy, it's critical to a free market. If that information system is so controlled by these powerful platforms and that they are using that data to then actually feed back on you to direct you to what to read and what to say and how to behave and all that behavior modification stuff, which by now is very well documented, by the way, then in effect, we've lost agency. We've lost our citizenship, right? So this goes into digital feudalism. And I think one of the ways to describe it is this, right? It's the same way that like, oh, you can't actually go to this part of the country unless the king lets you go there or this dependency on the say so of some powerful lord is very similar to, I think, what we're at here right now. And that's a cause for great concern. I completely agree. And I think what's really even more disturbing about it is unlike physical feudalism, right, where there are boundaries and markers and you physically could not cross. Here, it's very invisible. And so to your point about Gmail's ubiquity, I think most people know this, but I don't think people really realize that your domain name does not say anything about the corporate master behind the email account, right? So most companies, to your point in tech, do use a Google interface. And so they have their own domain name of their own company. It's going to be whatever .com or whatever .org or whatever it is. But that's all run on the back end by Google. It's a Google account. It's all a Google workspace. And that's very common in tech. And unless you're a competitor of Google, in which case you have your own interface that you're using, right? Microsoft being a great example of this. But regardless, I mean, there is almost complete capture of many parts of the ecosystem through that functionality, not to mention servers. AWS servers come up with some regularity. But the idea is that most companies are back ended into an AWS server. AWS is actually a bigger portion of Amazon's profit than Amazon, than the brick and mortar kind of the retail facing part. And you can imagine, given how often the frequency of how people use amazon .com to buy things, you can imagine if that's like a drop in the bucket compared to what AWS is making in terms of gross profit. It's pretty wild to think about that. But our entire digital infrastructure is really dependent in ways that when they break down, it's like, you have a day like I'm having today, it's really abundantly in your face and obvious how problematic that is. When it functions well, it's something that is pretty invisible in ways that I think regular feudalism, if you will, was pretty in people's faces. It was a pretty obvious system. This is invisible to a lot of people. You don't think about it until it breaks down. And when it breaks down, you're just annoyed about it and you're frustrated because you can't, like I'm a person who's incapable of not contextualizing things. But I think most people in my position today would just be very irritated and want to just fix it and move on without the reflection necessarily on what it means, right? Right. We were talking before about how this is actually very different from, say, a regular tool breaking down, right? This is not just getting a flat tire on your car and being annoyed with that. But I think most people will see it that way. They'll just go, oh, damn it. Yeah, it's a temporary problem. The dishwasher's got some problem with the detergent rinsing function and that's it, right? But no, it's actually a very clear reflection of the dependencies that we're talking about. I'm glad you mentioned Amazon because we should recognize this is not just one company, there are a few of them that have these particularly powerful roles. But I'm going to go back to Google because I was thinking as you were saying this, one of the ones that, like back in January, of course, there was the ruling from the Department of Justice that sued Google successfully for monopolizing digital advertising technologies. Right. And like, yes, now there's been a response to that, thankfully. But it's just the very fact that we've managed to create this system, I think is one of the most clearest reflections of this power, right? So, again, Google controls Chrome, Google is control search. And so every aspect of how we actually find things and therefore all of the ways in which every single website is incentivized through search engine optimization, which is a buzz word that we journalists have to deal with every single freaking day, SEO is designed to keep that Google algorithm happy. So we are shaping the way we design our content and curate our content specifically to keep Google happy. So that's on the content side. But how is our content monetized? Well, regardless of whether or not it is on Google, it's like, you know, like it's not just Google ads, but our own ads themselves have to really play through the sort of the big Google network. So our content enter ads because there's the Google ad exchange, which has a sort of a combination ad of network technology to actually broker that the amount of space that's taken up inside the whole real estate of the Internet by bringing the sell side components together with the buy side, right? You've got folks who are publishers trying to sell that space and you've got folks who want to buy media space. Google sits right in the middle of it because it's engineered this perfect ecosystem in which you have no choice but to sit in the middle of it. Why this isn't looked upon as something that is, I don't know, 10, 20 times worse than Standard Oil was or rubber barons and the thing that led to the antitrust movement and Teddy Roosevelt's very important laws at the turn of the century. It baffles me. We've never seen anything like this level of monopolistic control over our economy. Well, I think it is in part because a lot of it is, as we were discussing, it's somewhat invisible. People don't really realize the interconnections and the way that it kind of reminds me of this show 30 Rock, which probably most of us are familiar with. And there was this running joke of like the corporate map, right, of 30 Rock and who owned the studio and the fact that they owned like it was a microwave or whatever it was, but all rolled up to this one central company. And Alex Baldwin character, Jack Donaghy was his character, which joke a lot about the fact that everything rolled up to this one company and there are all these different things and they were all in the do product placement of the other kinds of parts of the company and whatnot. But when it comes to our online world, people just don't really they don't even understand the different things that go into making these services possible. Right. And how they all interconnect. And I also think that there is an element of just sort of embarrassment, like I think most people like I am beyond this in my personal life, but I'd say probably a decade ago when everything failed on my laptop like this morning, I would have been like, oh, my God, it's user error. I did something wrong. I messed it up. Now I'm like, no, no, it's not me because I'm sophisticated as an Internet user at this point. And I know what is me and what is a pepcak issue, as they say, problem exists between keyboard and computer. Right. And what is not. And I know this is not. But in many cases, people feel a level of tech illiteracy or embarrassment around it because they don't understand it. They don't they know they don't understand it. They don't really get it. There's nothing visual about it that you can really process. You just know it's not working and you feel an immediate. It's part of partially the addiction of it. You feel stress. You feel a tremendous amount of stress that you're not able to get this thing to function. And then you feel, I think, according with that embarrassment and shame. And this has been documented by many sociologists that when people's tech is not working, they feel shame and embarrassment in ways they don't feel when their microwave fails or they get a flat tire or whatever. They don't have that level of anxiety and shame around it, which they do. Right. Which they have when their online tools aren't working. It's another form of control in terms of like the trust us. We got this because we know don't get this. That differentiation is dividing divide. You don't understand this. You don't. And you can't trust. And you can't. Right. So we build up that even if you could easily just by building up that expectation that you can't by holding out these tech geniuses as sort of the lords of everything you can only only once you can get it. We build that expectation and therefore we ultimately lock ourselves into again, more dependency. I think that that's what I find even more challenging about this. Right. Just to take this out, go out even one more layer is when we think about how this is affecting a lot of the ways that elites think about education and not just elites, but really, but the way that the focus on technical mastery, being a coder, all this stuff is now considered the pinnacle of educational achievement in many ways. And there's some backlash against this around liberal arts education. You need to have other kinds of skills and talents and creativity, all these kinds of things that really matter. I think anyone who's been in tech for a long time will tell you that the EQ component is the thing that really makes or breaks a career in tech, not so much your technical ability or capacity to do things like code. Nevertheless, the emphasis on that, I think on the one hand, it's important to be competitive in the global economy. That is certainly an important thing. But the overemphasis I would say on it, it reinforces this concept. So as demographics get older, there's a sense that, well, I'm too old to understand this is too complicated for me. My oldest kid and I are watching the show called Avid Elementary. Highly recommend. It's phenomenal. I'm Avid rewatching Elementary. It's fantastic. 110 billion. I mean, we're going back and rewatching season one, and it's really funny. But there's an older teacher who's been teaching for many, many years. And there's an episode we just watched last night that's called something like tech or whatnot, new tech or something like that. And they bring in this tablets, right? And they're like, this is how you're going to teach the kids to read. They're going to use these tablets and you're going to do all this stuff. And the older teacher who's probably in her 40s or whatnot, she's not that old, but relatively speaking, she is like, I don't know how to do this. She just kind of like does an end run around the technology and winds up coding in that her kindergartners are reading it like fourth grade level. Okay. So of course there's an assembly and they want to pre it's really funny. It's a great episode. But part of it, I think she talks about having a hot male account, all this stuff. Right. But I was watching that and I was thinking about this idea that we have basically created a generation of people. We've kind of told them and shamed them into thinking that they are just not capable of understanding these technologies. And in countries, I think where you're getting older and older versus younger and younger, there's this kind of flip, right? This flip has happened where not only do we prize youth and vigor and all that kind of thing, but we also think there's something about their brains that makes them more capable of understanding how a computer works or how an online, which is just absolute nonsense. That's just completely untrue. It makes no sense whatsoever. If anything, the logic that underlies how a lot of these systems work is something that age and experience actually are helpful in comprehending, right? Because you understand systems, you can be a systems thinker, the older that you get. So I find all of this kind of cultural framing of tech and our dependence on tech equally challenging to how complicated tech itself is, which is not to say that tech is not complicated. It is to some extent, but it's not, it's not unparsable by anyone, frankly. We hit on something there that I think is really, and I do want to get to another quick rant before we go, because I got to run this out, but a different topic. But you said systems thinking, which I think is really important here because to me, the biggest insight that I think I've had, and I really do believe that being in the blockchain space has allowed me to think about these things, about what is wrong with this web two world, these centralized platforms is the business model, right? Is the idea that there are literally incentives amongst everybody to keep drilling down on this model and building out essentially a system of data extraction, this abusive manipulative system that we have, because it pays, because everybody's locked into that system. And I think one of the things that I find talking to my daughter sometimes about this is that she knows there's something big, bad, and wrong about this. And yeah, she gets tech as well, and she's comfortable using a whole range of technology, but she doesn't have that economic understanding. I don't think of business models of thinking through what's driving Wall Street. What's driving capital? Where is the actual profit motive that's driving all this? That is definitely something that you acquire as an older person. Right. And so in some respects, what you're talking about as well is a system that prevented those of us who have that knowledge, that EQ, that broader knowledge of systems from being able to then apply it to this model. Oh, it's tech. I can't. I couldn't. You know what? How could I possibly? You would see the same old stuff that we've seen for years that drives business decisions that leads to these extractive, broken systems. That's kind of where the book's going to be all about, by the way. Anyway, look, the segue I'll try to pull off here is, of course, I thoroughly believe we need not just blockchain technology, but a range of other decentralizing mechanisms that will require perhaps some centralization as well, but to redesign this whole thing. And that's where the policy challenges come into place because we really need to be thinking creatively about enabling these technologies to develop in the right environment to emphasize what's leading centralization. And of course, you've been looking at different models around the world and the U .S. is really lagging. And I keep writing about it. And so now we've got Japan somehow strangely leading the way over here. Well, that was my original rant. So I just got back from family vacation in Japan, 11 out of 10 recommend. Phenomenal. It was really amazing, even with the really little kids. And part of the reason it was so incredible is just the infrastructure. And so not only I immediately noticed a couple of things since my last trip, which was in 2019, which is a work trip. A, the transit system has gotten even more efficient and effective, which is remarkable considering in the United States, our transit is just, I mean, infrastructure bill and all that, but that's a long time coming. And oh, my God, that's a whole battle. It's going to be fought and how that all gets implemented. But, you know, grateful for at least a step in the right direction. But also the accessibility, just the way that accessibility is modeled into urban design is something I just found remarkable. And I live in San Francisco, and we're pretty thoughtful about these things here. But it is my kids were asking, like, oh, why is there this thing there? Why is this thing over here? Why is there the sound or why is there this bumpy thing in the road or whatever it is? I was like, that's all for people who are visually impaired. And it's just built into urban design in a way that I found remarkable. I don't think I've seen that as prominently a feature of urban design anywhere else. My co -author Frank McCourt will be loving, I mean, he's going to get into this next episode. He'd be loving to hear this because this is this idea about building architecture with people in mind. Right. As opposed to the company that runs things. It's truly human centered. Right. And part of that look is the demographics in Japan. We talked about demographics. And the Internet was built for machines, not humans. This is one of the problems. That's exactly right. So looking at AI, for that matter, is built as a tool to help make machine learning. Right. So just put there, leave it there and say what you will. I think, though, that there is a demographic thing there. There are older people in Japan. It's an older demographic. There are fewer and fewer children being born in Japan to the point that the government's providing incentives for people to actually have more children to kind of try to alter and adjust the demographics. So there's a real practical need for this. But imagine if this were the default in everywhere in the world. It should be. There's really no reason. And I looked a little bit, because I'm a nerd, into the kind of cost structure behind all of that. And it's marginal. It's negligible if you do it from the beginning and do it intentionally. So I've always loved Japan. I used to run an office in Japan and have major Japanese colleagues in my last role. And we, of course, have engaged in Japan at CCI as well, because to your point that you were making earlier, it is quite robust and thoughtful in how it's thinking about crypto regulation in ways that I find very impressive, especially around NFTs and stablecoin as well. But regardless, I hadn't been there as a tourist and as a regular person in quite some time. And it was just a remarkable experience. And I can't say that I came back overly impressed by the American offerings in these areas like infrastructure and accessibility, which I have not been historically, but I was even more deeply unimpressed when I was faced with the parallel option of what could be, with a little bit of imagination, a little bit of political... I'd love to really understand some of the aspects of Japanese culture that makes this sort of instinctive recognition of building for use and for humans so automatic almost, because there's one little example that I just thought was so fascinating. If you walk through the streets of Tokyo and look down, I don't know if it's right across the city, but certainly in a number of them, you'll see manhole covers sometimes in the city, which one has its own little design with colors and artwork in it. Somebody decided that it would be of interest to the society to have artwork that was differentiated across each of the manhole covers. That's a unique thing to decide to do. And it's a lovely thing to decide to do. It brings a whole new experience to being walking outside and looking down and being part of the environment that you're in, right? It's fascinating. It's something really quite magical about that capacity. Look, Japan's got lots of problems as well. Yeah, no culture, no countries, but on an infrastructure level, it was really hard to argue with the manifestation of a vision that really did put people and their needs at the center of the plot. You know, there's a place called the Shibuya Crossing, which is the biggest intersection in the entire world. It's got the most foot traffic of any intersection, apparently, in the entire world. And so we, of course, my kids wanted to see that and they wanted to cross it multiple times and whatnot. It just functions. It just functions. And you look across a city like that and you think about what that would look like in many other cities in the world. And suffice to say, it's not the same experience. Just not the same experience, right? It's organized. Part of that's cultural. Part of that is a cultural politeness, which has its own challenges, right? I'm not here to say that. I'm not here to laud any particular aspect of that or anything else. I think there's individualism is not as highly prioritized that has its own challenges. But nevertheless, just from a straight up urban infrastructure perspective, it was pretty hard to argue with how it functioned, how it was maintained, how efficient it was. All of those things I found not only admirable, but really compelling. And so coming back, I have to say, you know, I'll be in D .C., New York and San Francisco and none of those cities, I'm sorry to say, have anything to compete with that with what you've got on offer. So there you have it. That was actually less of a rant and more of a kind of a bit of a wistful observation. Yeah. And a little bit of an acknowledgement, a love song, if you like, almost to Japan, which is I mustn't say I love the place, the food. I love going to those little cocktail bars where the guy will spend like, you know, 10 minutes gently stirring you a martini. There's something very, really unique about it. All right. I'll wrap up there. Hopefully, this meandering conversation has actually landed in a place that our listeners found useful. Hopefully, it'll lead to people thinking a little bit more about intentionality. When I think about Japanese culture, the number one thing that comes up to me is intentionality and intentionality and how we engage online, intentionality and how we engage with each other, intentionality and how we build in our infrastructure, both digitally and physical. All of those things, I think, can only benefit us as a society. And I just don't know that that is a, I think the intentionality is there in our digital environment based out of the US, but it is intentionality to your point around a particular business model, which is not one that necessarily puts people and their needs and their desires at the center of anything. Well, the connection between the two ideas is the physical infrastructure into Japan being built with its intentionality to humans. And we need to really start to think heavily about the infrastructure of the internet, our infrastructure digital being built with humans in mind. And that is a major challenge that every one of us needs to be confronting right now. Okay. Let's leave it at that. We didn't get to talk about Stan Bankman Friedman, talk about Bitcoin price. Those of you who are looking for that, read Coindesk. There's loads of great material on that, as always, because it's the one stop shop for all of this vital employment information. A little bit of a housekeeping note for everybody, since I am writing a book, just so you all know, those of you who are subscribers to my newsletter that comes to the same name, Money Reimagined, thank you for doing so. Unfortunately, I'm putting on a hiatus for a little while. So if you're not getting in there wondering where it is, it will be back. But I need to kind of get this book project done. The podcast will continue every week. Don't worry. This is Sheila and I doing this. We're never going to stop, Sheila. This will go on to where like, I don't know, 105 years old. I'll be dialing in from, you know, wherever I need to dial in from when I'm 80. We're hopefully not a Google Chrome problem at that time. But otherwise, yes, just stick with us. It's great to have you around. And if you do have anything to say about this episode or any other ones, of course, you can reach us at podcasts at coindesk .com. Subject line Money Reimagined and certainly, you know, tell it to all your friends, subscribe. You can listen to us weekly here on the Coindesk Podcast Network or wherever you get your podcasts. That's all for now. Bye. Bye.
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"Systems are working properly and that we can receive and transmit the alert in a timely fashion. Mike Murillo WTOP news coming up after traffic and weather. Why we are unhappy at work? I'm Jeff Glabaw. It's 508. Michael and Son's heating tune up for only $59. Michael and Son! Traffic and weather on the 8th. Let's get started this morning with Rita Kessler in the traffic center. Good morning John and you're gonna like what you see on the roads if you're going out there right now. Not too much going on. No major delays. No accidents. Looks like a lot of the earlier work zones may have picked up as well on the beltway. No reported issues. Things look good inner and outer loop through both Maryland and Virginia. Southbound 270 at speed coming from I -70 through Urbana and Hyatt's town. Making your way into Rockville to the lane divide onto either loop of the beltway. 95 in the Baltimore Washington Parkway are good between the beltways. beltway. Headed Both 50 inside and the the BW Parkway in good shape. Whether you're heading on to New York Avenue toward the 3rd Street or onto southbound DC -295 toward the 11th Street Bridge. Northbound I -295 looks good from beltway the to the 11th Street Bridge. And no worries yet on the inbound Suitland Parkway from Silverhill Road to Firth Sterling crossing the Douglas Bridge on to South Capitol Street. Now in Virginia northbound 95 still good. looks Out of Stafford into Springfield onto 395 to and across the 14th Street Bridge. Southbound 66 no worries out of Haymarket to the beltway. And then inside the beltway things running well headed to and across the Roosevelt Bridge. Get Lido Pizza's football deal an 18 inch one topping Lido Pizza plus 12 Dumbo Wings for just $38 .99. Order now at Lidopizza .com. I'm Rita Kessler WTOP OP 7 traffic News First Alert meteorologist Brian Van de Graaff. Well we continue with this warm streak. Once again a little bit of fog possible this morning but then a pleasant afternoon with temperatures low maybe some middle 80s.
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"In today's episode I speak to Rhona Lewis about purposeful play and its role in increasing engagement and productivity in companies. We discuss the concept of purposeful play and how it can be applied in training courses and the importance of building trust and psychological safety in teams through play and games. Tune in to today's conversation where we discuss the importance of finding joy and fulfillment outside of work. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organization. And today our guest is Rhona Lewis. How are you doing, Rhona? I'm fantastic, Judith. How are you? I am brilliant. I am. But first of all, tell me why you are fantastic. Well, you know, I, I always believe that we, we really need to believe that we are happy and, you know, happiness and feeling good comes from inside. You know, I think Eleanor Roosevelt said, no one can make me feel bad without my permission. And I just choose to be happy most of the time. You know, I'm human. I have my, my moments. And I just, I'm, I'm, I'm just grateful every day for what I have. And the fact that most people are negative and look at what they don't have is a shame. You know, so I wake up, I'm feeling great and crappy things may happen, but overall I have a roof over my head. I have a great job. I have a wonderful dog. I have friends. I'm fantastic. And what dog do you have? I have a border collie mix. He's a border collie, chow chow, and I think flat coated retriever. He's a little bit of everything, but he looks like a border collie. He's 11. His name is Roscoe. He's great. Roscoe definitely sounds quite interesting. Super fun. I love animals. So tell me more about you besides Roscoe. Well, I am the co -founder and CEO of a company called Playful Mind Project. I call myself a play. Well, I'm a play facilitator, but I'm really a play instigator where I work with companies, managers, teams to focus on positive psychology, brainstorming, innovative thinking, psychological safety, all the things that companies need to push themselves forward to increase profits. Okay, so I am curious. So what exactly is purposeful play and how does that work in terms of engagement and productivity? Well, when you think of the word play, Judith, what do you think of? I'm thinking of children and giggling. Okay, excellent. Now, when you think of your inner child, how often does the inner child come out? Quite a lot to me, actually. Excellent, okay. Now, think about people at work. How often do you think their inner child comes out? Not often because most workplaces kind of squeeze that out, don't they? Exactly. And play at work is a little bit different than play just for play's sake, which of course is always important because it keeps you in the present moment. They have a parallel because when you play, you are in a better mood. You are in the present moment. You're having fun. You're not judging. You're in that childlike mind. Well, purposeful play takes that positive mindset and brings it into the workplace and makes a purpose for what you're doing. There's a method to the madness. If a team needs a little bit more help with their bonding because they are remote or hybrid or everyone's new or there's a lot of change going on, we come in and we offer programs where we get people to talk to each other and in better moods and trusting each other. Psychological safety is the basis for all of this, and that includes emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and all of this can come forward with purposeful and attuned play. When you attune to people, you meet them where they are emotionally, physically, psychologically, all those things, and combining them allows people to learn better. Stop to think about it, Judith. People learn better when they're more open and having fun, right? When was the last time you were cranky and were really able to take in new information, you know? When we give people exercises, activities, I'm always hesitant to use the word game. People talk about gamification a lot, and gamification is great. Gamification is not the same thing as play. You will play games, and a lot of times when you gamify a way of learning, you have to do it for whatever reason. Well, that's called forced fun, and we don't want forced fun because for me, if someone says, oh, everyone's going out and going to karaoke, I would be miserable. I do not like karaoke. I can sing on key. I just don't like it, and so I would be miserable. Well, that's not playing, you know? So you have to tune to them, meet people where they are, and if they don't like the game that they're playing, how else can you get them involved in whatever you're doing, whatever you're learning? So they have elements that run into each other, and there is a big difference. Does that make sense? Yeah, but I have a question. So I see play as unstructured and spontaneous in the sense that this just happens, and yet you talk about purposeful play, so how does that work? Well, if you think about play, when kids even are on a playground, that playground is your parameter, okay? That's where you are. Everything, even spontaneous play has parameters. Stop to think about when you're playing tag. You remember when you were, you know, or pin the tail on a donkey, anything. There are rules within that spontaneous game, so there is structure in everything, even in improv, and we do a lot of improv things with our programs. So the world is a playground if you stop to think about it like that, and there are parameters. So let's say, all right, we're in the office, and we'll do a fun photo contest.
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"Details showroom hours and directions at diamonds direct dot com diamonds direct your love our passion october fourth wednesday morning at four twenty seven coming up after traffic in weather next step on historic first lawmakers house house speaker declared vacant i'm mitchell miller today on the hill locally owned novak means solid as a rock customers enjoy almost perfect power and competitive rates a nine ninety point nine nine percent reliability rating reflects novak's strong electric system and dedicated employees they help ensure dependable safe electricity twenty four seven while other costs are on the rise novak's base rates are among the lowest in the region and are projected to remain stable novak liable power stable rates rock solid wednesday in the morning on wtop traffic and weather on the eights and when it breaks twenty four good seven morning to rich hunter and the wtlp traffic center good morning to him good start around the capitol bellways in maryland and virginia now for now no major issues on either side traffic's moving pretty well if you're headed into the district early still looking good on both uh... i two ninety five north and d c two ninety five south headed into the district parkland south capitol street without early issue the freeway both three ninety five and six ninety five in good shape new york avenue from the anacostia headed into northwest through the third street tunnel and beyond again nothing in your way so far to slow you down maryland side i ninety five in the baltimore washington parkway running well headed the toward capitol beltway parkway was also moving well inside the beltway headed down toward the district in two seventy south from frederick down the both loops of the beltway in bethesda you're in good shape early as well sixty six eastbound i believe they have cleared the work eastbound between route twenty eight and the fairfax county park we should find all lanes open and beyond that nothing else anyway all the way through rosalyn and roosevelt bridge now in sixty six westbound they're still working as you enter the rosalyn tunnel again single file right gets you by and continue they the paving project on sixty six westbound as you approach route seven single file left gets remember you by and no access to the ramps to either east or west westbound seven and also the on ramps some seven east and west to go west on sixty six we're also blocked as part of this work zone why montgomery is county the best place to do business find out with mcedc's new podcast something talk to about go to thinkmoco .com forward slash podcast to learn more of utopia traffic a little patchy fog early this morning other than that looking forward to plenty of sunshine later afternoon with daytime high temperatures that will range anywhere from the lower to middle
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"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Rough Riders. Rough Riders, yeah. He was not a boring guy. He lived a full life. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. MyPillow's 20-year anniversary. They're celebrating over 80 million pillows sold. Mike Lindell of MyPillow wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history on their MyPillows. You'll receive a queen size MyPillow for $19.98. Regular price is $69.98 and just $10 more for a king size. With this special anniversary offer, you'll receive a deep discount on all MyPillow products, such as their bedsheets, mattress toppers, pet beds, mattresses, my slippers, and so much more. Go to MyPillow.com and click on the radio podcast square and use promo code Kirk to receive this amazing offer on the queen size MyPillow. It's time to start getting the quality sleep you deserve. Go to MyPillow.com and use promo code Kirk or call 800-875-0425. That's MyPillow.com promo code Kirk. Receive this amazing offer on the queen size MyPillow. Let's support my friend, Mike Lindell, MyPillow.com promo code Kirk. It's MyPillow.com promo code Kirk. So Rick, tell us, we're going to kind of jump around Theodore's life here, but the one that I want to talk about is the election of 1912. Talk about the events that led to that and the historical significance. I'm so grateful you're asking about that because a couple terms come up in relation to that populism, progressivism, and they had different meanings then than they do now, but when he ran in 1912, you know, he had promised that he would, he pledged that after his resounding victory in 1904 that he wouldn't run again, but he meant consecutively. He didn't plan to run in 1912, but Taft, who he hand-picked, really betrayed his policies. He carried some out on a slab and he betrayed Roosevelt in other ways, largely forgotten by history. For instance, his environmental policies. Alaska was pretty much off the boards and Taft let the Guggenheim syndicate go in, lumber interests and such, and really have a chance to rape the whole state, and Roosevelt considered that a betrayal and things like that. So, and there were other things with the United States Steel Corporation and Taft implied that Roosevelt, to end the panic in 1907, let J.P. Morgan and others pick Roosevelt's pocket or pick Uncle Sam's pocket. Taft was in the cabinet then and he went along with it, so Roosevelt just felt personally betrayed and his policies were being betrayed too, so he jumped into the race, but Roosevelt was not a populist. At the beginning, populism, William Jennings Bryan was really on this golden cross, sure, 1896, but eventually came to adopt a lot of the populist program. Times were changing and Roosevelt started the administrative state, but he would be appalled today at the Frankenstein's monster, at what happened, and he pretty much coined the term progressivism, but there was a big difference, Charlie, between his progressivism and Wilson's progressivism, and largely forgotten today, when Obama pushed for the health care changes, he kept saying, oh Teddy Roosevelt favored this, well he did not favor it, he never was in favor of a national health care system or any of the stuff that modern day progressives favor, and Wilson's progressivism turned into FDR's progressivism and Johnson and then Obama and everyone, but Roosevelt today would never favor all that stuff, he would not have, he'd be appalled. So he was a nationalist, he did favor some government intervention, but as a referee in things, and the problem with Roosevelt's progressivism is that every generation does not produce a Theodore Roosevelt, to have a referee you've got to have a sensible nationalist, constitutionalist, and you know Roosevelt's come along, we wish every generation, but not that often, so it always was a challenge, but would that we had a Roosevelt, certainly in foreign policy and in nationalism and in domestic policies, the way he managed things, and we don't, and that's a problem. If people were more inspired by Roosevelt, and that's one reason I do the book that's my third on him and do my speaking and such, is so we'd be inspired and could follow Roosevelt as we should. The most interesting American is the name of the book, make sure you sit on this program, who I really enjoy and love, says Theodore Roosevelt, no good. Tucker Carlson says Theodore Roosevelt, hero. Help us understand this. I'm very grateful to be bringing it up because some people on the right, and they're smart guys, Glenn Beck, you know even Judge Napolitano wrote a book a couple years ago taking Roosevelt to task, Roosevelt and Wilson, and people on the right, and okay, some populists, modern day populists, and a lot of, okay they don't understand this, modern day progressivism, and it was Roosevelt's progressivism, and I mentioned in the last segment that Wilson's progressivism has been a straight line to AOC today, and the monsters who run the administrative state are trying to. Roosevelt's progressivism was not of that sort, and he was at his core a nationalist, and he was an individualist, and his progressivism was what a generation in intervening years called rugged individualism, so he wanted the government to play a role, but basically to preserve what individuals could do and what nationalists could do, and not to reject as Wilson originally wanted an agrarian vision, Jefferson's American, just small town farmers, no, Wilson wanted, and was in his writings, and it's distilled in Obama and AOC today, the administrative state, and that was not Roosevelt's vision at all. He wanted people to stand on their own two feet, he wanted people to fail or succeed according to their lights, and he just wanted the government out of the way, and if it took a strong government to keep, okay, the corporations from calling the shots and interfering with free enterprise, we can debate whether he was a capitalist, he did not like crony capitalism, that's why he wanted to block the trusts, but he wanted people to fail or succeed according to their talents, and make an even playing field, and that has been lost, not completely, but that has been lost to a lot of people in history, and Glenn Beck and Napolitano should realize that, and he's not only the most interesting American, but he was the most American American. So one thing I don't think Theodore Roosevelt only gets credit for, I mentioned this previously, is that there was a fair amount of economic anxiety that was brewing in the 1890s and 1900s. We saw William Jennings Bryan, and he tried his best to capitalize on it politically. Russia ignored a lot of this economic anxiety, which is why in 1917 you have the Russian Revolution and Bolshevik's rise to power, because we had one of the most transformational economic transitions ever from the farms to the factories. Is it fair to say that Theodore Roosevelt was able to build that bridge successfully, that he was able to calm some of those economic anxieties through prudent government programs while being focused on a strong American middle class? That, you've actually, you've distilled his programs and his policies, yes, that's the core of his argument. After he left the presidency, and especially through the teens, and then with the Russian Revolution, there was a lot of agitation, and including a lot of his former followers, now you mentioned 1912 before, a lot of his followers through the end of his presidency and through the Bull Moose campaign really veered toward the left and were very seduced by Bolshevism and such, so a lot of his followers fell in with that, those movements. But we need to remember, you know this, but what a lot of people forget is that some of the people who followed him into the Bull Moose campaign, he called immediately afterwards, he was grateful for their support, but he called them the lunatic fringe, because they went overboard, they took the ball and ran with them, and instead of reform they wanted revolution, and he just completely was turned off by them, and a lot of them who wanted him to run again as a third party candidate in 1916, he utterly rejected them, and he didn't even say thanks but no thanks, I mean he really scored them, and as I say called them the lunatic fringe. He regretted, you might say he started some of those balls rolling, but he knew what was dangerous in America, and you know, he died in brief. Yep, that's right. It was when World War I ended, everyone came home and there was this big recession, right? Yeah, exactly right, and there were labor problems and the radicals really, you know Eugene V. Debs ran for president. He was indicted, wasn't he? Sorry to interrupt, but he actually was indicted, I think. Sound familiar? Sorry, please keep going. Oh no, he was, and unfortunately it was not for this economic lunacy, it was for his opposition to World War I and all like that, and Roosevelt was a big interventionist and everything, but America was really on the brink in 1920 of turning radical, and okay, so it didn't, and Harding and Coolidge, Coolidge is not as appreciated as he should be, I think, but Roosevelt really was at the, he bridged those two movements, and he was able to reign in sort of like Luther did after the Reformation. He had to calm a lot of the reformers at the time, and there was a counter-Reformation, but Luther had to be on board in, you know, smashing stained glass windows and statues and all like that, and Roosevelt pretty much had to do the same thing and remind his followers to stay on the straight and narrow, so I'm glad you recognize the difference between those who revere Roosevelt and those who might not. No offense to Glenn Beck, but no, no, and this is not an attack on Glenn, I just see it differently, and I understand, so but this is how I actually think we prove it. Was Theodore Roosevelt a German historicist believer? Was he a believer in the arc of progressive history philosophically? Yes, he was, yeah, but you know, it's all with qualifications. We have to remember that one thing that made him the most interesting American is that, you know, he's probably the only president we've had who, it's plausible that in the first paragraph of his obituary, being president of the U.S. would not necessarily be the first item to check off, you know, so he wrote more than 40 books, and he would have been a famous and respected naturalist, natural historian, and a biographer and historian and all like that, you know, the movement you mentioned, yeah, he was in those currents and he taught and he lectured and he wrote and he was at the whirlwind of history too, but he was, let me put in another context if I might, but with Manifest Destiny, I mean, he saw the broad scope, the broad sweep of history and he saw America's role not just in a racial sense or an ethnic sense or a geographical sense in that way with Manifest Destiny, but he surely saw the sweep of history and when he would talk about social and industrial justice, he was not talking about socialism, he rejected socialism, but he really saw that the government and the state had a role, but he was, not that he was ever scared silly about anything, but he did not want the mechanism of government to co-opt the ideals of individualism and nationalism that he saw America as embodying. I would be remiss on my behalf if we did not talk about just some of the unbelievably interesting personal stories of Theodore Roosevelt, true or not true, he was shot while campaigning and then finished a speech with a blood-stained shirt, is that folklore or is fact? It's fact, he was shot at point blank range five feet away and they wanted to take him to the hospital, of course, and he insisted on going delivering a speech, he had 90 minutes with blood streaming down his shirt and he finished his speech and they said now you can take me to the hospital. And understand the context, he became president because McKinley was shot and died and so then Theodore Roosevelt gets shot and he finishes the speech. Yeah, one of the, you know, that one anecdote about that is he was an outdoorsman, he was a hunter, he was a police commissioner, he was carried a gun with him in case someone would attack him, he didn't have the chance because someone came up point blank range and he was always in harm's way and he wrote a friend after he was shot that always being at risk, always having a gun, always shooting, loving firearms and such and such and he wrote a friend after this happened, he said he felt like the old maid who found a burglar under her bed one night and said there you are, I've been looking for you for 30 years. So there he was courting death, being a soldier, San Juan Hill and all like that, never being shot and then he was and he wasn't able to shoot back. Hey, Charlie Kirk here. If you guys love this program and you want to support this program, if we have impacted or blessed your life in any way, I want to tell you about a new thing that we are starting it up. 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Yes, there's gonna be a lot of goodies, a lot of engagement, a lot of fun stuff, but even more than that, if you feel moved and compelled that our show is impacting you and impacting the world, it would mean a lot if you became a member at members.charleykirk.com. The most interesting Theodore Roosevelt stories, safaris, rhino hunting in North Dakota. What are the ones that just stand out? You've done unbelievable research here. Well, thank you. And you've done your questions are great. I can answer that question by saying the way I organized the book was 10 aspects of his personality and he has many more facts than that. But the fact that he was born sickly, a severe oddness, a child, he fought his way back and became a physical specimen, a boxer and a hunter and all like a cowboy. So I tried to break it down. Conservation is a family man, a chapter on his faith, his Christianity. Of all things he did not wear on his sleeve, it was his faith, but the three of his books he named after he took verses from the Bible is an intensely faithful man. Patriot, of course, you know, his wife and his mother died, a lot of people don't know this, his wife and his mother died on the same day in the same house of different causes. It devastated him, it did, it would anyone. That's when he went out to the wild west for two years and just rode the range, became a rancher and a cowboy, finished building his body and that was an aspect of his personality too. Just everything he did, you know, I was attracted to him as a child. Why? I was a student of history. I was too young to be a student of history. I discovered this man who vaguely looked like my grandfather, but even then when he was not as respected, they even went through a decline. It was kind of a caricature in history books and everything, but it just struck me that this man was so honest. He courted controversy and the phrase that was said about Cleveland was said about him. People said we love him for the enemies he has made and he just didn't care who he offended. He stood for the flag, he stood for America, he stood for himself and he was incorruptible. He had enemies in politics, but no one ever could did accuse him of being personally corrupt or in his private life or anything like that and who can we say that about in history especially? And is it fair to say he was a man's man, an alpha male amongst the rest? Thrift on that for a second. Well, that was absolutely the case and by the way, not that this is what you're implying, but the subject is collateral. He wrote one of his papers in college in the 1880s on advocating the vote for women and he was for women's rights, but he said about that equality of rights does not equate to equality of function. So I mean he believed men should be men and assert themselves and have the manly virtues, a phrase he was not shy about using. He brought up his sons that way and it was a hard thing when one of his sons all went into World War I and one died on the battlefront and he was haunted by that, he inculcated those virtues in his sons to volunteer and fight and do, but that was part of the package. He was a man's man. He went to Brazil, he almost died. Because you had a bug bite or something, right? Or he got infected, right? He got infected. They got lost. He was charting a tributary to the Amazon and they got lost and it was a virtual stream, no GPS in those days. They were starving. There were attacks from natives and the porters went crazy and one killed the other end to the jungle.
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"That work but beyond that no real significant issue getting to the beltway inside the beltway there had been a disabled vehicle in the near right lane west morland street exit sixty eight that has since been cleared away and the rest your trip headed toward roosevelt bridge in good shape no early issues along the george washington parkway in either direction ninety five northbound should find the works on approaching route three now wrapped up and cleared the lanes reopen and beyond that else nothing in your way headed up toward the beltway in springfield three ninety five north looks good two and across the inbound fourteenth street bridge want to test an electric car plug into fitsmall .com and find your electric ride today check out the subaru solterra hunday ionic or the toyota bz4x at fitsmall .com that's the fitsway rich hunderd of youtube traffic after a bit of early morning fog temperatures later this afternoon under mostly sunny skies will rebound to around eighty to eighty five degrees clouds arrive tomorrow seventy five to eighty and a cold front on
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"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"And he once said that he had, matter of fact, he often said that anyone who called him Teddy didn't know him. So he discovered that. So in my books, careful to call him Theodore. But his father Theodore was nominated to be collector of the customs office in New York City by President Hayes, because it was a cesspool of corruption and he knew that the famous philanthropist Theodore Roosevelt would be incorruptible and could run it honestly. And he would have, but one of the New York senators, it was under his skin that he wasn't consulted on this. And he also saw it as a source of bribery and so he opposed the Republican president and a Republican nominee and fought him like crazy in the Senate and persuaded the Senate to reject the nomination. And for a period of several weeks, it was in the news and it was dirty and Roosevelt's father was besmirched. It was just awful. Al Roosevelt was away at Harvard at the time and was not really aware of the controversy. And after he was defeated, his father was defeated in the Senate. He had, he didn't know this at the time, but he had stomach cancer. And right after the defeat, he wound up in severe pain, died very quickly. And of course, everyone connected the humiliation of that defeat with his death, but had a big impact on Roosevelt's life. Came home. He was not there when his father died and famous at the time, just the idea that an incorruptible hero could be besmirched that way. And it affected Roosevelt greatly. He decided to go into politics and we know from his writings that he always was affected by that and kept his father's ideal in his mind. So when he went into politics, he was incorruptible. He fought in the 1884 convention, 26 years old, but was a major figure in that convention, trying to defeat the nominee who was a famous crook Blaine. And then whether it was in the civil service commission or the police commissioner office, as you asked, and then as president, it was really, he kept his father's example before him. So a lot of the influence on him was his morality, his Christianity, his ideals, his heroes in history. But really, I think he tried to live up to his father's ideals and it was a very important thing in his life and not sufficiently recognized. The book is The Most Interesting American by Rick Marshall. Some parallels that we're seeing, potentially that election of 1912 sticks out, third party upset. And I'm sure Rick wrote extensively about that. I'm just genuinely curious what was Theodore, former President Roosevelt, thinking at the time, because based on my recollection of reading history and biographies, he was angry at William Howard Taft. But maybe there's more to the story. I will say this, and I think you would agree, Rick, he lived a full life. Theodore Roosevelt, he lived a full life in every possible way, from winning a peace prize for ending the Russo-Japanese conflict to his, what they call the Roughnecks in Cuba.
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"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd.com. One of my favorite historical figures is Teddy Roosevelt. We have a historian joining us to explore it. Rick, I think it's Marshall. Is that correct, Rick? Welcome to the program. It's Marshall and it's Theodore. All right, well tell us about the book. Yeah, it's called The Most Interesting American and it sounds like you're already sold on that concept. Yeah, there's the cover. It's my third Roosevelt book and the angle of this, Charlie, is that everyone knows Roosevelt, what he looked like and he's on Mount Rushmore and he's on stamps and we know the caricature and things he did, all his tremendous accomplishments, but as a lifelong Roosevelt addict, I was realizing that the essence of the man, what his personality was like and what he was, why he appealed to people and how he could be so persuasive, that's being lost to the public. So I gleaned about 500 quotations, impressions, reports, diary entries, all that from people who knew him and encountered him or maybe just met him once or saw him in a crowd. So that's what the book is. Took 10 aspects of his personality. So it's none of his quotations. It's just what people thought about him and how they encountered him. So we have a portrait of him through people who knew him and met him. So that's a book in a big nutshell. Well, he lived a full life. And so let's go through a couple different parts of his life. The one that people might not know, if I'm not mistaken and my memory serves me correctly, he was police commissioner of New York City. Is that correct? Walk us through that part of his life. Yeah, that's one of the things he did. He was, it's about in the middle of his career, but he was in the New York legislature and civil service commissioner in Washington. Then, yeah, then he was a police commissioner in New York and is in everything else he did, ugly, honest and incorruptible and colorful. And he did that. The police department was very corrupt then. And he came in and enforced the closing laws and among the colorful things he did, he would go out after a full day of work at the police office, the commissioner's office, and he would roam the streets at night looking for policemen on the beat to see if they were doing their job or asleep or taking bribes, you know, like that. So the press loved him and the public loved him and the crooks didn't, and it just added to his growing reputation at that time. So here's a question that I'm were the most significant contributors to Teddy Roosevelt's worldview. You know, they call him a populist, a nationalist, but in his own words, what informed his politics? All right. Well, glad you're asking that. He was a student of history. You know, he went to Harvard and he wrote, he made history, but he wrote history books, but he was informed by a couple of things. And I will say besides his heroes and the figures in history and his morality and such, a lot was his father. And a lot of the books about him have not really explored the influence of his father. You know, he was a blue blood. He came from New York aristocracy and his father was a philanthropist at that point and a do-gooder and such, but his father was a reformer and he favored reform. He was never in politics, Charlie, but at the end of his life, President Hayes asked Roosevelt's father Theodore Sr. And by the way, if I can say this, the Roosevelt we're talking about did not like to be called Teddy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"You've spoken and we've heard you loud and clear. We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. We're redoubling our efforts to beat back the radical left's attack on your constitutional religious freedoms and to defend the sanctity of human life. This is your moment to get in the fight. Every tax-deductible gift will be doubled. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. As always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Become a member members.charliekirk.com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa.com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Legend of Theodore Roosevelt with Rick Marshall
"You've spoken and we've heard you loud and clear. We're proud to announce our brand new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you, life and religious liberty. We're redoubling our efforts to beat back the radical left's attack on your constitutional religious freedoms and to defend the sanctity of human life. This is your moment to get in the fight. Every tax -deductible gift will be doubled. Join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. As always, freedom at charliekirk .com. Become a member members .charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
American Memoirs
A Deeper Look at Warren G. Harding's Fascinating and Scandalous Presidency
"Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919, which left the door wide open for someone else to come in and take the reins. And so that person ended up being Warren G. Harding. Now, Harding was a lesser -known Ohio senator who had made himself a fortune and fame as a businessman. He was specifically good with newspapers. He had bought a newspaper back in his local town of Marion, Ohio, and he generally was more of a compromise candidate. He met more checked boxes than the other candidates that were presented in the stead of Roosevelt. And so people backed Harding as their candidate, but he quickly captivated the American people. So most of the times compromise candidates may not work out as well due to their lack of strong base. But Harding wasn't really like that. He captivated the American people. And at the time, I think the populist movement was a desire for a more isolationist foreign policy and stronger mandates back home. So we had joined World War I. We didn't like it, and we didn't want that to be the status quo from here on out. So Harding easily defeated the Democrat up for election. His name was James Cox. And fun fact of history, which I didn't know leading up to this, was that James Cox's vice presidential candidate was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR. So back in 1920, FDR got his first taste of national electoral campaigns as VP, which would play a strong part in his eventual election up to As the economy soared under Warren Harding's administration, by 1923, he was probably one of the most popular presidents ever during his presidency. So the aftermath of war, it's historically, it's a great time for technological advancement. So if you think about war in the aftermath of it, people are forced to innovate basically for the sake of their own lives. They want to get a technological advantage over their opponents. And so they start to invest more heavily in technology and in research and just ensuring that they understand as best as possible what edge can we get on our opponents. So examples of that is going to be investments in vehicles or investments in radio, which were all or both of those were strong investments and inventions within this era of history. So they were receiving engineering attention. It was allowed to be built more in mass and at scale. And so as a result, society became faster, more informed and culture evolved, which effectively made the 1920s a very fun time. So during the presidency of Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover was appointed Secretary of Commerce. So Hoover made his mark during World War I. He was the leader who spearheaded the Belgium Relief. And I will probably make an episode on the Belgium Relief because it's a really great story coming from World War I. But the footnotes, the summary of it is basically Belgium was starving because the French and Germans and the British were fighting just south of their country. And so Hoover, who had just happened to be happened to be in London at the time when World War I breaks out, he kind of just takes control of this Belgium relief. He starts to gain funds for it. And it was a very neutral affair. The Germans condoned it. They allowed basically the Belgian population to survive during these years of war. And as word got out of his efforts in that, he grew very popular. So he was almost one of the strongest war heroes at the time, despite not being a general or really partaking in the war at all, besides the volunteerism efforts. But Hoover had been away from the country for several decades. He had been in London. He had been in Australia and China. And so when he did come home, he wasn't as politically in the know in his homeland. And he didn't know really who was deserving of trust. So there was a couple of people who did want Hoover to run for president in 1920. And he ultimately decided against it for various reasons. But he did join the administration for Harding. And so Hoover recounted in his memoirs that when he joined President Harding's administration, he kind of thought of it that there was a lot of undesirable characters in it. And the characters, they would eventually be known in history as the Ohio Gang. So Ohio Gang was basically just a big ol' corruption ring. So Harding, he was a boy's boy kind of guy. So it felt to me, reading about him and trying to understand this, that he was the 1920s version of a big partier. So upon becoming president, Harding took a very strong nepotism track. He appointed many of his friends from back home into prominent cabinet positions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Figure it out. I truly believe, and I have to go on and think about this, we have a big crisis of masculinity in America. We really do. You want to solve part of the crisis of masculinity in America? Put forth a challenge for the young men. For one week, can you just eat what you have? I'll give you the ammunition, I'll give you the rifle, I'll give you whatever, can you eat what you have? Prior generations say, yeah, of course, that's what we do every night. They've got one of the reasons we're seeing the rise of, let's just say, very feminine men and it's sometimes men who think they're women, but some of you get me started. I promise I'm going to talk about that stuff tonight, but is anyone drinking blood lead tonight? I sure hope not. It's not too blood lead. It's all awesome. We have a nation of young people and a generation that is out of touch with what is most natural to them. We are proud and thankful to bring this message. Now, millions of young people at Turning Point USA, we are reaching millions of people on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and make no mistake, all these things come together. There is a war against hunting, just the same there is a war against the Second Amendment. I don't have to convince you of that one. Just in the last couple of days, the state of Washington has passed an assault rifle ban. Illinois, I think it's not the same, right John? Illinois just said something wacky and crazy and I know there's a lot of lawsuits against it. I'm one of the few people that has a scienceable platform that's willing to say what needs to be set off the Second Amendment. I'm going to just reiterate it for tonight, which is the Second Amendment is not about hunting. I'm glad we're able to hunt. The Second Amendment is not even about personal protection. I'm glad we have that. The Second Amendment is, God forbid, for us to defend ourselves against a government that might go tyrannical. That's why we have the Second Amendment. Now that might freak some people out that might make people nervous, but you have to say that over and over again. You know why? Because if we say it's just for hunting, then they're going to get rid of any gun except things that are only used for hunting. The point is this, is the founding fathers were explicitly that the intent of the Second Amendment was to protect all the other amendments. And who are we to all of a sudden turn our back on 20th century history? Every major totalitarian, tyrant, despot disarmed the citizenry before they did their mass acts of evil. I pray it ever comes to that in America. But boy, I'll tell you what, the people that want to take our weapons away, I do not trust their intentions. I don't trust their intentions because they're unwilling to talk about some of the root causes that are actually driving gun violence, which is the lack of fathers in our home in America. If there were more fathers in our homes in Chicago or Philadelphia, there'd be less gun violence. We're the only country in America, the only country in the world that counts death by suicide with a firearm as a firearm death. Do you know that? There's a point of about 32,000 gun deaths every single year. Far less 32, 35,000 deaths by gun. Two-thirds of them are death by suicide with a gun. That's a problem, but that is not a gun problem. That is a mental health crisis that is being used as a way to try to take our weapons away. Those are two totally different issues. The second issue, the next biggest population of gun crimes, is gang-related urban pistol gun crime, mostly of black on black or Hispanic on Hispanic crime in 10 cities. You remove those two things, death by suicide and gang-related firearms, you're talking about less than 2,000 gun deaths every single year in a country of 330 million people. Every death is a tragedy. I'm not minimizing. I'm instead adding context because if you watch the major networks, they'll make it seem as if gun deaths and mass shootings are a problem. Here's a fact. A young person is exponentially more likely to kill themselves than die in a mass shooting. Mass shootings are a problem. We could solve them if we had people with guns protecting our schools the same way we have people with guns protecting our sporting events and our banks and our airports. Be very simple. More good guys with guns against bad lunatics that come, you can end these shootings very, very quickly. The issue at some point might disagree. Some of you might say, I just came here for hunting and conservation. That's fine. But hear me out. That the liberties we enjoy, Fourth Amendment liberties, 10th Amendment liberties, First Amendment liberties, all hinges on our ability to defend those liberties. And just again, look at the 20th century. Over a hundred million people were murdered after they disarmed the citizen. Now we must be willing to say this repeatedly because that is the true intent of the Second Amendment. And I love the Constitution because the Constitution, we talk about this every day at printing point USA, the Constitution are not rules for us. This is why the founders were so brilliant. The Constitution is rules for our government. Think about that. They started with what the government cannot do. Shall not infringe on our speech. Shall not be infringed. Shall not search and seize it. Why would they do that? Because their biggest fear was not individual people doing evil. The biggest fear of the designers of the Constitution in particular, James Madison and John Jay Alexander Hamilton, the biggest fear was government coming after free people to make them free no longer. The purpose of the United States Constitution is recognizing God-granted rights and making sure the government doesn't come after us. And this is one of the things I love that the international order Teddy Roosevelt is doing so beautifully. You guys are pushing for states to now allow hunting and fishing access because the other beautiful wrinkle of the Constitution is that it's the states that created the federal government. The federal government did not create the states and now in some ways this is troubling. It's troubling because almost different Americas are being created and honestly in some ways it's promising. It's promising that we're able to be here in Naples, Florida that is significantly a freer state than Connecticut. That is a good thing. It's a good thing that certain states can say you know what we're not going to do the woke stuff. We're not going to have these crazy gun laws. We're going to have open carry concealed carry. States are willing to save so many of our liberties everybody and that is a bottom-up citizen-led movement. I want to mention a couple other things and when I visit these college campuses I'm asked frequently by these students they say what is good about America and for them what they're saying is they've been taught that America is the worst country ever. If you were to support our work it's very simple. If you do not teach a generation why their home is worthy of protection they will not protect that home. Excuse us analogy it's a little bit blunt but we are a nation suffering from Alzheimer's. We have forgot our history and we're unwilling to articulate it. We are the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world. Not only do we have a history to talk about. We have a history we should celebrate every single day in the classrooms of America. We have a history that we can clean in and say no other history has been made in no other country has been able to be so generous so benevolent so productive so uplifting of all people different races and backgrounds and of course sometimes they'll say well Charlie what about slavery? Here's one thing that we all have in common. We're all born into a world we did not create. Every founding father was born into a world where slavery was everywhere. By the time those founding fathers died slavery was on its way up. The first anti-slavery convention was hosted by Benjamin Franklin in 1775. The first state ever to abolish slavery was Vermont in 1776. Nine out of thirteen of the original colonies had independently eradicated slavery by the time the constitutional convention came around in 1787. This country started the abolition of slavery and before your liberal friend gets on their high horse this remind them there are more slaves alive tragically today on this planet than any time during the transatlantic slave trade. In fact one of the only more plants there are slaves still today on the United States southern border that are being trafficked into our country every single day. It's America that deserves credit not blame for enduring ending the sin of slavery in the world that spread like a wildfire. How many kids are actually learning that every day? Answer not enough. The point is this is that our history is just complicated and we've made mistakes but it's a story of heroes of courage something that we have to lean in because I'll tell you you read the 1619 project in the New York Times you read all these what these academics are teaching they want to make they want they want to create many revolutionaries in the world where it's not one. Let me say one thing that Mike Ingram asked me to talk about which is slightly political so I might get in trouble but whatever you guys okay I am not going to talk about my preference of who I want the candidate or the nominee to be let me just say one thing very quickly we need to learn that regardless of who is running for the presidency of the United States that the American democrat machine believes they can elect someone that is clinically brain dead.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"I'm really surprised and honored to be here, everybody. There's so many familiar faces. I just want to first express my gratitude. Many of you came up to me in the SCI, or Dallas Safari Club, introducing yourself or whether it be. I was talking to Sackmans earlier and so many amazing friends here. And it really is this community that helped get Turning Point USA to the level it is today. And I got to tell you, what we're doing every day, I believe, is America's best hope. We are on thousands of high school and college campuses across the country, fighting for the Constitution, fighting for American exceptionalism. And I see Rene Snyder back there, who's been a great friend for many years. So many amazing people. And many of you entertained me when I said, hey, we're going to try to start a youth movement. And it sounded a little over the top and a little bit of grandiose and very bold, but so many of you supported us financially and believed in us and I'm eternally grateful for that. And so thank you. And a lot's changed in 10 years. 10 years ago, we were a completely different country. There were some of these forces that were growing in America, but the idea that 10 years ago, we would have in our schools, outward anti-Americanism, as bad as it is today, it would be on the fringes, maybe in Seattle, right? Maybe in Portland or maybe New York, but it wouldn't be institutionalized. What we have lived through over the last 10 years, I want to emphasize why it's so important what you are doing to that life, what you're doing to that is so important, is we've kind of lived through our own version of the cultural revolution in the last 10 years. And that's a radical thing to say, but the fact that our own military now, our military, is saying that men can give birth, that that's the United States military. That's turned into almost a college campus with Omaha businesses. And this cultural revolution we've lived through over the last couple of years has started because, in my personal opinion, we did not do the education of our young people correctly or boldly. Our mission statement at Turning Point USA is very clear. We want your grandkids to live in a free America. We want your grandkids to live in a country that is a free society. In fact, some people say internally it's political. I have very strong political views. It's actually not political. It's not political to say that you want American values to pass down from one generation to the other. People who think that's political, they're part of the problem in the country. It should not be a political statement to say that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers and Abraham Lincoln were some of the most exceptional people ever to live and were recipients of this incredible project that we call the United States of America. You see, I visit college campuses so you don't have to. And bringing the good message of conservation and the second amendment and hunting and the constitution. And I can tell you, as I visit these college campuses, it's very clear that a majority of our nation's young people, they're going into debt, they're somebody asked me the other day, so Charlie, what does success look like for you? I said, I want to create a younger generation that has gratitude and is thankful to be an American. One of the biggest issues in our country is that if you're not thankful for something, then why wouldn't you destroy that something? And that's why what I think you're doing with the international order of Teddy Roosevelt is so beautiful and so important because isn't that conservation is all about is it's rooted in gratitude and understanding. You know, I made a quip at the table is that Charlie, you talk about conservation tonight. So I absolutely will. I'm also going to talk about the greatest conservation project of all, conserving the United States of America for future generations. That's the biggest conservation project. I want to mention one thing, Teddy Roosevelt, one man, and I am so thrilled that you decided to name your entire over around Teddy Roosevelt. I'm going to riff on Teddy Roosevelt for a second. For those of you that have not studied the courage, the boldness, the eccentricity of Teddy Roosevelt, I encourage you to do it. Teddy Roosevelt, of course, was a hunter and a conservationist. Very few people know that he was a full police captain of New York City. He was governor of New York, an accidental vice president, and then became an accidental president because of assassination. Teddy Roosevelt didn't take crap from anyone. In fact, he was accused of being, let's just say, if Teddy Roosevelt had Twitter, I think we know exactly what people would say about Teddy Roosevelt. Let's just put it that way. Teddy Roosevelt would be sending out a lot of mean tweets, but you know what? Teddy Roosevelt loved America, and Teddy Roosevelt left an impact. He left a permanent footprint of something that was very rare in the early 1900s, citizen-led government. He started something that could be called the Populist Movement. Honestly, I call it the Pro-American Movement, where he said, you know what? There's some things that I love in that treasure. For example, he was very worried about the destruction of the American middle class. We should be also worried about that today. The middle class is disappearing. But Teddy Roosevelt had a heart also for the things that he believed were created by God, natural beauty. And we can thank Teddy Roosevelt for being America's greatest conservation president by far, for giving us Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, hundreds of millions of acres of now untouched beauty that future generations can enjoy. Teddy Roosevelt, I mean, most people don't even know this, he brokered peace and won a Nobel Peace Prize. People don't know this, for ending the Russo-Japanese War very quickly. You see, he had a very interesting negotiation style. Now, we would have no comparison today of anybody that was like this, grandiose, bold, talked a lot, you know, he was hated by the press, called the news fake news. We would have no idea anything like that. It's a foreign concept, actually. Teddy Roosevelt ended a war that people said was on, and he's never going to end. He was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people. He did it in basically an afternoon. He was great, great, great with God. More than anything else, Phil, the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt that I hope all of you appreciate and enjoy, and you dwell on and you pray about, is a legacy of action. My favorite quote of Teddy Roosevelt, and I'm going to paraphrase it, but the essence is what matters, is he said, the man in the arena is what counts. It's not enough to be a spectator or a bystander. It's the man who gets stuffed up, it's the person who gets spat at, the person who gets insulted, it's the person in the arena. And I think we need more citizens right now in the arena fighting for the future of America. We need more of that kind of Teddy Roosevelt spirit. And I'm really told you guys decided to name your organization after him. There's a lot we can learn from him. He lived a full life, and pumped it was a big part of his life. It was his release. But he was also just a physical specimen. If you read about Teddy Roosevelt, he would exercise like two or three hours a day. I mean, most people don't know this. And that was back before air conditioning. And I mean, he was an absolute beast. And he loved America and was willing to do a lot about it. But Teddy Roosevelt did wrong. And this is one thing he did wrong. And we could probably take some, again, I'm not sure how hopeful this is. My one piece of advice for let's just say a former president, do not run as a third party. Let's just say that. Teddy Roosevelt ran, a lot of people don't know this, Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party in the 1912 election against William Howard Taft, and gave us one of the worst presidents in American history, Woodrow Wilson. So as we're learning lessons from Teddy Roosevelt, let's just all agree, we're not going to put up with former presidents running in third parties. I think that's a good idea, right? I don't think that's something we should do. I'm not sure how hopeful it is. But the point being is it actually gave us the progressive era, Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson was an academic from New Jersey. He was former president of Princeton University. And Woodrow Wilson is a complete 180 opposite of Teddy Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election won with 46, 47% of the vote. He won because William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt split the then Republican vote between the old moose party and the Republican party. Woodrow Wilson was the first American president to declare war on the American founding. Woodrow Wilson as an academic represents everything that many of your grandkids and kids learn if they go to college. And it's everything that we are fighting against and everything the international order of Teddy Roosevelt pushes against. Woodrow Wilson believed that you must change your truth claims, you must change the constitution because the times change. For example, he'd say, you know, now that we have a steam powered engine and we have the industrial revolution, who needs the founding fathers? We could throw that document away. He basically said that repeatedly. It's exactly what we hear today, isn't it? We now hear from our leaders that the second amendment is completely irrelevant. Now that we have Twitter and we have airplanes, we no longer need the first amendment. But we, as people not understand the American tradition, know that the constitution is actually more applicable today than any other time in American history. The constitution is, it's rooted on eternal truths. And this is something that we talk about every single day at Turning Point USA, which is that times change, technology changes, but human beings do not change. Human beings are just as broken and awful today as they were in the 1780s and 1790s. Why is that important? It means that regardless of all the technology around us, that the boundaries and the promises of the constitution do not change. Said differently, the constitution was not written for the times, it was written to stand the test of time. It was written to be able to stand up against tyrants that want to take our guns away, against tyrants that want to prevent us from being free and engaging in self-government. And we're partnering every single day with the international order of 10 year olds, but I'm pleased to announce, thanks to your support and what you announced tonight. Last week, we had an amazing thing, over 170 of our Turning Point USA chapters, that an entire conservation activism week, high school and college kids that are talking about hunting and conservation, this is in the grassroots. This is real impact stuff. In fact, so much, I just have these notes, we have over 200 other college chapters that want to do the conservation week and bring speakers on campus and talk about hunting. This is a grassroots movement, and this is something we talked about when we did the board meeting last summer. I think this is the greatest, one of the greatest opportunities for the hunting community ever, to be able to tell the beautiful story of what it means to go out in the woods, without your phone, without TikTok, and be in touch with something that God created. You see, this is the most depressed, miserable, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history. You know who some of the happiest people are in the world? Hunters, because they're not staying with their phone all day long, they're doing tough stuff. They're not the rancher, they have to figure out how the, I mean, some of the pumps that you go, I mean, Barbara Sackman, I gotta tell you, Reedy Snyder, I mean, I couldn't do those hunts. I mean, you're not in the right place. Something that takes you five weeks to find, in a row, I mean, it's unbelievable, but you know what? That's a lot more fulfilling than just scrolling through your Instagram feed all day long. We want to heal some of the mental health problems. It's a big problem in our country. Let's get more young people to get out in the woods with hunts. Let's get more people to get out in nature. It's going to solve a lot of problems, and it's something that I think is not to overthink it, actually. It's who we are as a species. It's what we did. You see, this idea that all your food is given to you with almost no effort, and you have to sit in the air conditioning. I think it's making us deeply disturbed as a society. My favorite book of last year that I recommend for all of you to read is called Comfort Crisis. It's fabulous. In fact, when I read Comfort Crisis, I thought of so many of you, Wes Bates and Mike Ingram, and those of you that do these unbelievably adventurous hunts, and you go into the wild and you go into the wilderness. The argument that author Michael Easter writes in the book Comfort Crisis is that we are unhappy as a people because we're no longer in the wild. That's what the whole book is about, and he proves it scientifically. He proves it neurologically. He proves it that this generation is the most out of touch generation in history to what it takes to survive, and we do not have the ability to then replace going out in nature, physical activity, charting around the forest, having to survive for an evening in, let's just say, less than ideal climate, that three meals a day provided to you in perfect 71 degree temperatures, staring at a screen all day long. His argument in the book Comfort Crisis is that the crisis facing us today is a crisis unlike any other. A hundred years ago it was a crisis of how do we solve communicable diseases. The crisis 500 years ago is how do we feed everybody. The crisis a thousand years ago is how do we get drinking water. The crisis actually today is how do we keep our young people from killing themselves because they have everything that they need and they don't know what to do with themselves. The answer is not that complicated. Put them out in the wild and say they'll kill something. It's not that complicated.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"roosevelt" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"The U.S. dollar has lost 85% of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24-carat, one-fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. That's noblegoldinvestments.com, the only gold company I trust. Hey everybody, my conversation at the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt. Amazing people. I talk about Teddy Roosevelt and the need for us to educate the next generation. Become a member. We have a new way you could support the program. Don't worry all of you that support us at charliekirk.com slash support. Don't worry, we have a migration plan for all of you. Legal migration, of course. But I wanted to say thank you for those of you that are joining in huge numbers. It's amazing. At members.charliekirk.com. It's a way for you to support our program. We believe it's affordable for all income levels. It's a way for you to get behind, for you guys to get behind the work we are doing. Members.charliekirk.com. In fact, I want to mention and name some of the people that became members overnight. It's really exciting. Janet from California. Thank you for becoming a member at members.charliekirk.com. Mary Lisa from Idaho. Thank you. Janet from California. Scott from Utah. Linda from California. Dorothy from Maryland. There are levels for all types, by the way. You guys could check it out. Eight dollars a month. Members.charliekirk.com. Maybe you're on a fixed income, but I bet you could squeeze eight dollars a month. And you might say, well, what do I get, Charlie? Well, we're doing exclusive Zoom calls. We're going to have a message board. We're developing all this stuff. And you get to hear the full conversation with the legend Tucker Carlson. Here's a little tease. I was watching the other day. I'm actually not a huge Martin Luther King fan or whatever. Super flawed guy. But I was watching the last. The audio was listening the audio of the last speech that he gave the night before he was killed. April 3rd, 1968. He was killed the next afternoon. And he gave this speech and he had just been like cheating with a bunch of different women. Okay. Yeah, he had a tendency. Oh, my gosh. No, he was like a ridiculous sexually out of control. But he gave this speech in which he clearly predicted his own death. Like, there is no doubt, if you listen to this, that God is speaking through Martin Luther King. And I get I don't like Martin Luther King's program. I don't like his behaviors. A lot of worshiping Martin Luther King is absurd to me. But I got to say, if you listen to that speech, God is speaking through Martin Luther King. There's no other explanation for that. And you're like, well, that's kind of consistent with what we know. We're all flawed. The people in charge tend to be more flawed. But it doesn't mean that they're not capable of greatness. So let's just be honest about it. The second you have to feel the need to pretend that you're perfect, you become a liar and you become paradoxically even less perfect, in my opinion. Boy, if that piqued your curiosity, join as a member. Get behind us so we can keep talking about the issues that the regime doesn't like. Vaccines, immigration, Ukraine, members.charliekirk.com. Thank you, Brett from Michigan for joining, joining Charlotte from Texas, Lynn from California, Matthew from Texas, Summer from Arizona, and more, members.charliekirk.com. Also, please get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. It's already a high school or college chapter today at tpusa.com. You can always email me, freedomatcharliekirk.com. That's freedomatcharliekirk.com. And subscribe to our podcast and listen to the end of this episode for a free giveaway opportunity. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Man in the Arena: My Speech to the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt
"The U .S. dollar has lost 85 % of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24 -carat, one -fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments .com. That's noblegoldinvestments .com, the only gold company I trust. Hey everybody, my conversation at the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt. Amazing people. I talk about Teddy Roosevelt and the need for us to educate the next generation. Become a member. We have a new way you could support the program. Don't worry all of you that support us at charliekirk .com slash support. Don't worry, we have a migration plan for all of you. Legal migration, of course. But I wanted to say thank you for those of you that are joining in huge numbers. It's amazing. At members .charliekirk .com. It's a way for you to support our program. We believe it's affordable for all income levels. It's a way for you to get behind, for you guys to get behind the work we are doing. Members .charliekirk .com. In fact, I want to mention and name some of the people that became members overnight. It's really exciting. Janet from California. Thank you for becoming a member at members .charliekirk .com. Mary Lisa from Idaho. Thank you. Janet from California. Scott from Utah. Linda from California. Dorothy from Maryland. There are levels for all types, by the way. You guys could check it out. Eight dollars a month. Members .charliekirk .com. Maybe you're on a fixed income, but I bet you could squeeze eight dollars a month. And you might say, well, what do I get, Charlie? Well, we're doing exclusive Zoom calls. We're going to have a message board. We're developing all this stuff. And you get to hear the full conversation with the legend Tucker Carlson. Here's a little tease. I was watching the other day. I'm actually not a huge Martin Luther King fan or whatever. Super flawed guy. But I was watching the last. The audio was listening the audio of the last speech that he gave the night before he was killed. April 3rd, 1968. He was killed the next afternoon. And he gave this speech and he had just been like cheating with a bunch of different women. Okay. Yeah, he had a tendency. Oh, my gosh. No, he was like a ridiculous sexually out of control. But he gave this speech in which he clearly predicted his own death. Like, there is no doubt, if you listen to this, that God is speaking through Martin Luther King. And I get I don't like Martin Luther King's program. I don't like his behaviors. A lot of worshiping Martin Luther King is absurd to me. But I got to say, if you listen to that speech, God is speaking through Martin Luther King. There's no other explanation for that. And you're like, well, that's kind of consistent with what we know. We're all flawed. The people in charge tend to be more flawed. But it doesn't mean that they're not capable of greatness. So let's just be honest about it. The second you have to feel the need to pretend that you're perfect, you become a liar and you become paradoxically even less perfect, in my opinion. Boy, if that piqued your curiosity, join as a member. Get behind us so we can keep talking about the issues that the regime doesn't like. Vaccines, immigration, Ukraine, members .charliekirk .com. Thank you, Brett from Michigan for joining, joining Charlotte from Texas, Lynn from California, Matthew from Texas, Summer from Arizona, and more, members .charliekirk .com. Also, please get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. It's already a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. You can always email me, freedomatcharliekirk .com. That's freedomatcharliekirk .com. And subscribe to our podcast and listen to the end of this episode for a free giveaway opportunity. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Wrath of Wray with Matt Gaetz
"Hey, everybody. Today on The Charlie Kirk Show, who runs the country? Is it the administrative state or is it the people? We ask that question. Matt Gaetz joins us to help explore this civilization -altering question. Email us freedom at charliekirk .com and subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast app and type in charliekirkshow. As always, you can support our program charliekirk .com slash support. You can email me freedom at charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Who runs the country? Do the people run the government or do the government largely run the people? The American founders established a system. They established a form of government. There should be three branches. They should check and balance one another. The complaints laid out in the Declaration of Independence that we celebrated on July 4th were largely addressed and solved at the ratification of the Constitution. The Constitution did not come ex nihilo. It did not come out of nothing. It came through an English constitutional republic tradition. It came from Roman Republican influences. Came through the study of the classics. Came through an understanding of what is a human being. How are we able to interact with one another? Biblical principles. The Constitution understood that your rights do not come from government. Your rights are given to you by God or your creator. It says very clearly in the Declaration the laws of nature and nature is God. God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution understood that there must be first and foremost rules for government, not rules for people. In fact, it said a government shall not be able to shut you up, shall not be able to take weapons, shall not put soldiers in your home, shall not be able to spy on you, shall not be able to detain you indefinitely without a speedy trial. The United States Constitution and the following bill of rights that was ratified in 1791 was the great leap forward in self -government. That all changed with Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson, one of America's worst presidents, an evil maniacal man who actually his wife was largely running the White House towards the end of his presidency, former college professor and former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey, basically the accidental president who became president in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt decided to run the Bull Moose party and primary William Howard Taft running three parties and Woodrow Wilson won with a plurality not a majority of votes. Woodrow Wilson threw away the Constitution and the promise of the founders. He said, we're more advanced than this. Blake, can you find that exact quote from Woodrow Wilson? He was more eloquent than that but I'm summarizing it rather bluntly. Woodrow Wilson basically said, we know what we want. Why do we need all these checks and balances? That government should work like a machine. It should work administratively and with that he birthed the bureaucracies, the desk workers, the administrative state. Now America was a very free country back then. You can make a lot of arguments, well we needed a department of labor and we need department of this and department of that and the entrepreneurs, the creators, the soon risk takers became outnumbered by the desk workers. The administrative state, the deep state, was exploded under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson said, quote, the Constitution was founded on the law of gravitation. The government was to exist and move by virtue of efficacy of checks and balances. The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine but a living thing. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other as checks and live. Woodrow Wilson made the argument, this idea of checks and balances, the tension, the slow arduous process of government, we need no more of that, we need the harmony of government and thus a fourth branch was born in defiance, a middle finger to Madison, John Jay and Hamilton. Woodrow Wilson expanded the administrative state and the administrative state was involved in displacing presidents. According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the administrative state killed JFK. The administrative state took out Richard Nixon. The administrative state controlled Reagan in some sense, controlled H .W. Bush. H .W. Bush was actually a product of the administrative state. He ran the CIA before he became vice president then president. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush did whatever the administrative state wanted. Barack Obama quickly learned a lesson, you know, he ran a very populist campaign, we're going to reform government, we're going to restore power to the people. And made Obama a very quick realization, I'm not going to war with this, I want to last all eight years and I want a Netflix deal and I don't want to get shot in a convertible and I don't want to be removed from office like Richard Nixon. What do you want admin state? And I will do as you wish. The one president who decided to wage war in the administrative state was Donald Trump. He ran against it, he said he's going to drain the swamp, he wasn't going to put up with it. Donald Trump built things in his life for 40 years in New York City, big buildings, saved Central Park, saved Wollman Rink, the New York Convention Center. And so the administrative state for him it didn't make sense, he said where is this in the Constitution, it's getting in the way of self -government. And then of course Chuck Schumer, the clip that we've played many times on this program that we might play again, comes out and he said, for a very shrewd businessman, he's being really dumb because the CIA has six ways from Sunday to get back at you. Now the administrative state, you can call it the deep state, you can call it the shadow government, they outnumber the people's representation. Congress is supposed to be the people's representation in D .C. and we don't do a very good job of it, but we're doing better. We gave the House Republicans a majority, we have some great fighters there, we have Thomas Massie who does a good job against the administrative state, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz who's terrific, who's going to join us in a little bit. If an unelected bureaucracy has any power at all to take out actual elected and appointed members of government, they are too powerful and it's against the promise of representative government. Yesterday Christopher Wray testified and something quite rare happened. In real time, you saw representative government versus administrative government collide and it was so clear who actually runs this country. It is clear that we are no longer a country of the sovereign of the people. The new sovereign are the unelected, arrogant, smug members of the plutocracy of the Kingdom of Washington D .C. Christopher Wray believes he's better than you, he's untouchable, he runs the secret police, he is the head of the Stasi, he can spy on you, warn you, get you arrested, he flies on Gulf Streams at his liking, he's going to outlast any politician, he is a permanent installation of the bureaucracy. Here's Cut 85, Christopher Wray forgetting information, unaware of information, unable to talk about information. Does this strike you as someone who is afraid of congressional oversight? Play Cut 85. I can't remember the dates. Again, I just can't speak to that here. I'm not an expert. I'm not sure yet. I would really have to see more closely. I'm not sure that I can give you that number. I can't get into. I'm not aware of any such evidence. Not going to speak to that. I'll decline to comment further. I will work with the department to make sure we can figure out what information we can provide. Again, I'm not going to get into that here. Well, again, I don't want to speculate. I can't speak to the specifics. I can't speak to the specifics. The founders intent was never to have this fourth branch of government. It's totally unnecessary, but it fits a trend, a trend of humanity that you might have liberty and self -government. But over time, the failure to pass down those values to one generation to the other, the people slip and they slip and they slip and they clamor and they clamor. It's the same trajectory the Hebrews went on in the Old Testament. Congress's job is oversight and accountability. Wray wants nothing to do with it, but you could just tell. He's just like, I'm in charge. He's probably thinking to himself, I have dirt on all of you, Gates. He believes he is supreme, better than, above, superior. Remember, J. Edgar Hoover luxuriated in that exact same power and hubris. I'm going to play more from the hearing in a second. It's noteworthy because some of our superstars did very well, but Christopher Wray sits atop the throne. The American people don't any longer. So what is on the ballot in 2024? What is at stake in this next election? This won't necessarily resonate with, you know, non -political voters, but this is important with repeating. It is a philosophical election of what form of government do you want? If you vote for the American Democrat Party and Joe Biden, you do not believe in self -government. You believe in a permanent oligarchy. You believe in dozens of Christopher Wray's philosopher kings that have outright authority over you. Donald Trump is the only candidate in the race, maybe Vivek Ramaswamy and others. DeSantis has talked a good game on this, to his credit, but there's a reason why he's indicting him. And I'll show you contrast because the traditional Republican view is to cozy up to these intel agencies. They're doing good work. They're keeping us safe. How? Are you guys going after child sex traffickers or are you going after political dissidents? Like before you, I don't know, indict Rudy Giuliani or raid James O 'Keeffe's home or go after Steve Bannon, why don't you go after the human smugglers that are highlighted in Sound of Freedom? Chris Christie goes on television to defend Christopher Wray. This is the unit party position. This is the orthodoxy. The FBI is necessary. This is showmanship. Play cut 79. I want to respond to something that Chris Christie said on Fox News earlier today. He said that Christopher Wray had delivered extraordinary results. The problem is they're just extraordinarily awful. And like Chris Christie criticized us for engaging in fundraising theater during this committee. And I'm not going to take my notes on fundraising from a guy who was a lobbyist and was snout down in the lobbyist financial money laundering situation when he was raising money from them as governor of New Jersey. So I'm more likely to take like Chris Christie's exercise plan than I am his fundraising strategy. I think that's Gates on Fox News. That wasn't a clip. I could tell immediately person's way too skinny to be Chris Christie's. I could see it right on there. OK, I think it's 78. I don't know what's going on here. Play cut 78. What you saw today, I think, was an animated and combative FBI director who's defending the men and women who work for him every day and do a great job and protect us from domestic terrorism, from international terrorism and from these drug cartels and are helping state and local law enforcement every day with their things. So, yeah, I think Chris Ray has done a very good job. And I think, Luke, a lot of the stuff you see today, John, is theater. The people trying to raise money for campaigns doesn't mean there are problems at the FBI. There are. But I believe Chris is a guy who can get it fixed and he's fixed a lot of them already. Chris Christie represents a Republican vision. Again, he has no political support, but it's there. Donors love this. Some donors love Chris Christie. He's going to raise a ton of money, already has, which is we should make friends with the regime. We should cozy up to the UN party. Eat me last. I want to get invited to the parties. The administrative state can help me help me get contracts, help protect me. What form of government do you want? Mike Pence, remember, defended the Department of Justice. Chris Christie defends the Department of Justice and the FBI because they just don't want to get indicted and they want a comfortable life. They want a life that they can feel good. Oh, I'm on the right side of history. So who is sovereign in this country? Founders and the promise of 1776 and 1787 and 1791 is the people are sovereign. That country no longer exists. And you could see it, by the way, we're going to play more and more tape. We have Matt Gaetz coming up next. Just the smugness, the smugness, the lack of wanting to answer questions. Let me just give you another here. Christopher Wright asked by pick pick your pick your fighter ISA. How many people were there on January 6? He doesn't need to answer. He doesn't care. He's not afraid of Congress, but Congress is afraid of him. Makes you think how much blackmail Christopher and the FBI has on these members of Congress. Play cut 67. How many individuals were either FBI employees or people that the FBI had made contact with were in the January 6th entry of the Capitol and surrounding area? So I really need to be careful here talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources. Was there one or more? Was there one or more individuals that would fit that description on January 6th that were in or around the Capitol? I can't again, I just can't speak to that here. You can't speak to it because I don't work for you, Darryl ISA. I don't work for the people. I'm the king. I run the secret police. Do you know who you're talking to? I'm the guy that gets to put you in jail. I am the law. Silly Congress person that's to deal with elections.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Hadley Arkes Discusses Judges Second-Guessing Military Decisions
"My conversation with Hadley Arkes, A -R -K -E -S. The book is Mere Natural Law, Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution. So, you just mentioned Korematsu. This has to do with judges not second -guessing military decisions. Talk about this a little bit. This is the limits of what a judge can do. This is after they accepted curfews for Japanese. Then they're now willing to stand back while Japanese… Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're talking about World War II? World War II. Japanese… They Japanese moved into the interior. Which is a shocking moment in American history. It was. So, what did the judges say at that point? Some of them, like Robert Jackson and Frank Murphy and Owen Roberts, said, no, this is really just racial discrimination. These are people who were born here. But these are American citizens who have rights. And the idea that their ethnicity would affect those rights is legally nonsense. Right. But you have the judges, other judges appointed by Roosevelt, Hugo Black and Felix Frankfurter, just taking the side of the executive and saying judges can't be held responsible for what goes on here. Judges don't have the judgment to sort of second -guess what is being done. That gets pretty tricky because we're talking about foundational principles and that's like saying, well, when they created the Constitution, they didn't think about this stuff. Well, that's the Constitution. But judges the may not be the best people to vindicate. They may simply have to rely on elected officials, Congress and the executive, to bear these things in mind and to honor the Constitution. So
The Charlie Kirk Show
Biblical Figures Every Man Should Emulate With Sen. Josh Hawley
"You mentioned something interesting. You say some either biblical or historical figures tell us a couple of those. Teddy Roosevelt, maybe you talked about Moses, who I think is one of the great figures of the Bible who was really a man's man and a lot of different ways. Who are some of the men of the Bible or of history you talk about in your book that we should try to emulate. We'll start, let's start first with the Bible and Charlie, I make no apologies for the fact that I spent a lot of time talking about Bible stories in this book. Listen, the Bible has been the foundation of western culture. It is truly the faith of our fathers. It has been the ancient faith of this nation and the bedrock of our system of government. So for all the haters out there are like, oh my gosh, he spends a whole book and tells a whole bunch of stories from the Bible. Yeah, exactly. Right. And I apologize, not good at all. In fact, if you're offended by that, you probably should read the book and more importantly, you should probably go read the Bible. But I would just, let's pick one of those stories. Let's pick David. He's one of my absolute favorites. A king, a warrior, also a poet. I mean, you talk about a guy who really has it all. I mean, he shows the masculine virtues. And I talk about him as a warrior. I talk about him as a king. I talk about him as a leader as a priest, somebody who is in touch with the eternal, right? And brought a sense of the eternal everywhere he went. Also imperfect. And that's part of the message to men. You know, he wasn't perfect. So it's not perfection that we're after as men, you know, we know that, hey, our lives aren't perfect. It's okay. It's not about being perfect. It's about being better. It's about being what you can be, who got its call you to be. And I hope that the stories that I tell are really about encouraging them to say, okay, how can I get better? How can I be better at my job? How can I be better as a husband? How can it be better as a father? Better is what we need.
AP News Radio
NYC converts hotels to shelters as pressure mounts to accommodate asylum seekers
"New York City will open a migrant center at a midtown Manhattan hotel as pressure mounts to accommodate asylum seekers. The Roosevelt hotel on east 45th street closed three years ago will eventually provide as many as a thousand rooms for migrants, according to mayor Eric Adams, the asylum seekers are expected to arrive in the coming weeks because of the expiration of title 42 that allowed federal officials to turn them away. The mayor says the city is running out of room and has come up with other plans that send migrants to hotels in other counties, but still take care of their food and basic needs. He says the city has now cared for more than 65,000 asylum seekers already opening up over a 140 emergency shelters. Many of his plans have been met with criticism and opposition, Julie Walker, New York
The Charlie Kirk Show
Ed Reitz, World War 2 Veteran, Speaks Out
"Very special guest with us, Ed Wright's World War II veteran and has seen a lot Ed welcome to the program. Thank you. So Ed, tell us your story. Well, I began my life in Seattle, Washington. And the World War II came when I, when I was very young, and at 18, three days before 18, I joined the navy. The reason for that is my brother had already been drafted, and if he waited until you were 18, it was too late to do anything else, and you were whatever they wanted you to do, you did it. So I went and joined the navy instead. So my time was in the navy. So you've seen a lot over the last many decades. I sure have the the country used to be freer, I'm sure you could agree with that. Absolutely. Tell us about it. Tell us about what the America that used to get used to exist. Well. It's so totally different. And many, many ways. And much of this has come on in the last 15 years. I'll give you one example. I graduated from William Cullen Bryant, grade school, in Seattle, in 1939. And we had a school of about 900 people. And it was just absolutely common to have the nativity scene. We acted out the nativity scene of Jesus. And one of my classmates sang ovally night. Evolution was not taught. No evolution was taught in that school. I graduated from Roosevelt high school in 1943. As a school of about 2500. And again, evolution was not taught.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Can a Free Market Work in a Large Economy? Amity Shlaes Explains
"Interesting issue that in reading and preparing to talk with you today and tell them that Coolidge is your opinion of scale. The 20s, 30s economies compared to, say, the 60, 70, 89, even up until the days of comedy. Is the scale economically still viable? As you said, coolers would have followed the past precedents, whereas Roosevelt Hoover even to an extent followed a new president of bigger involvement in government. Is that where can that still work today? Many of us like myself believe it can. But is that? Is that about it? And can a free market work in a very large economy such as we have today, that's what you're asking? Yeah, without the quote, because we've heard it the last couple of weeks. Oh, well, we've got to protect these investors. Government has to step in. But that's related, but of course you can think of the European Union, it used to be individual countries that got together. It's policy isn't frankly that much different than the policy, the EU of the individual countries. I think with the banks, you know, in a little economy like Iceland suffers as much as a big economy when it's caught in a policy storm or a wild downturn. I think it's more we have a fatherly state. A patriarchal or matriarchal. It's not a gender. And we've trained voters to believe government must always step in. So our real problem is education in America. We've undermined Americans by giving them the impression they need a permanent babysitter.
The Doug Collins Podcast
How History Can Inform Future Economics With Amity Shlaes
"Dad rather early in the 1930s. He didn't have a sense of the whole, you know, set up, but if he was to say, had lived another 15 years. And was looking at the 30s from the site of the perspective of the 40s maybe or at least, but what would you say because he was and I've heard you say this for all the fun and some other interviews, how do you think he would have approached or looked at what happened in the end of the beginning through Roosevelt in particular, the government interaction with the economy? Was you're posing a counterfactual, but it's a great question, sir, because policy the thesis of my forgotten man book, the truth is the government made it worse. In Coolidge's own lifetime, there have been a number of crashes. Serious panics of Wall Street worse than what we're seeing this week as bad as 2008 in terms of the market going down. And those responses were different to the response to the government under presidents Hoover and Roosevelt more importantly. So you probably want to say Coolidge would have reacted as his predecessors and authorities preceding him would have done. A good example there is and remember, there was no SEC. Right, right. And there was no fed up until the mid teens, right? So first of all, I would have said, I'm not sure that that's Washington's job. Do you hear the lawmakers today talking about the banks that are scrambling about signature? And so on and Credit Suisse, they would have said, well, that's happening, but it's not our job, but there are many, many crashes in what was the collective if you ask all the institutions that did exist and evaluate them. What was the collective leader response to a rough depression in the early 20s? Well, one, they doubled interest rates. That's interesting. Wait, you're not supposed to double interest rates in a downturn. That's what we're hearing on the radio this morning. Here we are in March 2023. And they cut the government back farther.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Lord Conrad Black Unpacks Trump's Latest Strategy
"Question president Trump's wisdom. I rarely do this, but I question it in this case where he's holding up the santas as a Reagan Republican. I don't think that's anything to be embarrassed about. And I guess it's the best he can do, but I wouldn't do it if I were him. I'd make my arguments at the he was a he Trump as a preferable candidate to desantis on another basis. But I think that Republican Party between Reagan and Trump, the bush McCain Romney party. I think they did basically they failed. And the Republican Party will not go back to them. And president Trump repositioned the Republican Party, approaching upon traditional democratic fiefdoms in less advantaged areas in particular. African American and Hispanic American areas and he did it by transporting traditional Theodore Roosevelt Dwight Eisenhower capitalism, Republican capitalism into those districts with the tax incentivized investments creating employment in those districts. And it was a stroke of genius. He used traditional Republican capitalism to attack the democratic stranglehold on African American Hispanic American voters and unless the Republican Party has a collective IQ in a negative area. I mean, less than zero.
Mark Levin
Biden's Budget Proposal Is Excessive With Massive Tax Hikes
"Group like the committee for responsible federal budget said this is excessive It's way excessive And they provide a chart the New York Post and there's a red line that goes through the paper through the top of the paper And you have the House Republicans who are trying to stabilize the debt And I want to remind you that Mitch McConnell in 18 of his Republican rhinos voted with him for this massive spending on top of everything else Massive So massive tax hikes which is going to be a major additional dislocation factor in the economy Massive new entitlements which is going to be an incredible new drag on the economy What does this damn fool think he's doing We're being run by a bunch of Marxist amateurs and a bunch of phony historians who tell Joe this is how you can be famous for the rest of time This is how you can become immortal Like Franklin Roosevelt He's destroying the country In every respect and then he wants to run and he wants you to think it's the Republicans who are cutting cops in social security and Medicare On top of everything else he is a pathological liar and an incredibly dumb inane human being And he always has been As I've pointed out for 20 years on the air
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Why Is Biden Afraid of East Palestine? Lord Conrad Black Explains
"I'd like to talk about your piece on Ukraine and The Epoch Times. But as I look at the coverage on television right now, there are interviewing a resident of east Palestine on why Biden hasn't visited yet. And president Trump has visited, even before the transportation secretary, you've written books on president Trump and prior presidents, such as Roosevelt and Nixon, I'm sure they probably would have visited by now. What does it say? Is it an out of touch Ness? What is your analysis that more than three weeks in? The current chief executive hasn't gone to the side of this awful calamity. It's terribly hard to explain Sebastian. And he appears to be averse to going to any domestic setting that is unsatisfactory from his political standpoint. I mean, it has become, I think, a virtual national outrage that he has only made one visit anywhere near the southern border. Which he has turned into a sieve through which millions of past without documentation. And including a carrying amongst them, not every one of them, obviously, but amongst them, literally tons, tons of fentanyl. And he made one peremptory visit to an area that wasn't heavily traveled by illegal migrants and stayed for a few hours, and that was it. And he seems to have an aversion to visiting a scene that is unfortunate in itself. And potentially are actually politically problematical for him.
Mark Levin
Whoopi Goldberg: Nikki Haley Is Not a 'New Generation'
"Now I want you to hear from Karen Goldberg That's right Whoopi Goldberg's first name leased her birth name was Karen Pretty hilarious don't you think mister producer She's the original Karen In a current supposed to be sort of this white yuppie suburban woman that's how they use that term and I apologize to all you Karen's out there but this is their way of promoting a racist attitude So Whoopi Goldberg is caring Goldberg And she's on the view today And she regurgitates what Sarah Lennon said on the constipated news network Kind of 11 go The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again It's time for a new generation of leadership You're not a new generation You're 51 What are you talking about Clapping seals It's a D.C. that's a new generation But it's not a new generation She may be she may be younger than most of those people but her rhetoric is the same She said the same BSN I love the young kid but you know what The only way you're going to get younger people to run dude is if you're out there talking to people and saying don't shoot me Slow down Got to deal with the genius here Dude There's a woman a dude mister producer Do that right I'm so behind the curve it's unbelievable When you're 51 years old and you're running for president that's a new generation The youngest president we had was Theodore Roosevelt who took office on the assassination McKinley Second youngest president we had with JFK
Mark Levin
Joe Biden Won't Acknowledge Lynching Terror by Democrats
"Want you to listen to what Joe Biden says you have to listen all the way through to the last comment Cut one go In my career the Emmett Till and I miss you there making lynching a federal hate crime You know folks lynching is pure terror Actually federal hate crime Anti lynching actually the first bill was passed under Harry Truman It was blocked with a four terms of Franklin Roosevelt Blocked And I want you to know that If an Eleanor Roosevelt kept pushing it and Franklin said no what harm is Election efforts even in his last race for president as fourth term Sick as he was Another push was made and he said no So let's be abundantly clear That will be left out of everything Biden has to say Go ahead America not everyone is created equal Pure terror to systematically undermine hard fought civil rights Innocent men women children hung by noose from trees bodies burned drowned castrated their crimes trying to vote trying to go to school trying to own a business Trying to preach the gospel falls False accusations of murder arson robbery Lynn's for simply being black nothing more With white crowds white families gathered to celebrate the spectacle taking pictures of the bodies and mailing them my postcards Hard to believe but that's what was done And some people still want to do that Some people still want to do that
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"roosevelt" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, and like Washington went to sleep in the summer. Yeah. And they shut down December, I don't know, 6, 7th, whatever. Those days are gone. They're so gone. Paul, can you help me here with the outlooks for this year? My head is absolutely spinning. In the uncertainty that's embedded in those outlooks. I think I can say I've never seen it. I've never seen it. Let's put it this way. We've had maybe the most telegraphed recession of all time, potentially for 2023. And so the discussion that we seem to have Tom with a lot of the economists that we speak with is kind of the duration of that slowdown, maybe the depths of that slowdown, and I think the consensus is it's generally a shallow recession, and I think we hear that well, we've got a strong labor market, the consumers kind of hanging in there. Yes, maybe it's running up consumer debt that might be filling that. So that's a concern, but generally buying large, you have a strong consumer backed by a strong labor market. Suggesting that any recession in 2023 will be shallow. But I think the main question I seem to have is just where a lot of strategies like Gina Martin Adams is, what's the fed going to do next year? Are they going to pause? Are they going to pivot? I don't know. Michael Darden, I thought was really good. And the other question here is Paul's over the holiday break. I mean, I think you can do this with your LA Hollywood experience. We need from you a Supernatural mystery comedy. Oh yeah? Completely unspoken is knocking. Harry and Meghan off the pedestal at Netflix was Wednesday. Which is like, you know, Charles Adams, you know, I don't know. It's Tim Burton and Netflix. Well, we're going to have a we're going to have a classic RomCom coming to the theaters Tom, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. I mean, classic 1990s. I think that sound now. It's coming out. But I mean, the big a list stars are still putting stuff into the theaters. But again, most of the Hollywood is trying to still figure out how do we play this new game here and how do we make the maximize the money on all the money we're spending? We all know that. And after stranger, danger, whatever it is, you know, a Supernatural mystery comedy. Yeah, there you go. This is where the money is. That's where the money. And it's all about and we don't get ratings or any of that kind of stuff. It's just about how many subscribers do you have and do you add subscribers because you put on some cool new programming and that drives your revenue and presumably that? Netflix is killing it. My whole cell in the stock. Look, but between what they did with the offshoot of the royal family and with this Wednesday, which seems to be unmeasurably ginormous hit. Wow. He spent $17 billion in programming, I guess you're bound to have some hits. So that's what they do every single year. They say they're putting a cap on that though. So no more crazy increases in programming. We will see up 9 tenths of a percent in the Dow up 290 points. Stay with a SPX up 27
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"That was with an agricultural Bill. Yeah, it was an agricultural. That was hilarious. Well, I like a lot of this bill. I don't like that part of the bill. Looks like I have ten days for the constitution. I guess we'll, I guess we'll burn the midnight oil. You can't make everyone make another pot of coffee. Here we go. You can't make any new forests in these states. Well, I'm going to make some new forests in those states before this takes away. And I do think that this is an interesting thing to bring up. When we think about some of these really impactful big presidents. In my mind, there's a distinction in life between to not sound too much like I'm given a TED Talk now, but there are managers in their leaders. Managers in my mind, they keep the machine moving. They understand what the rules are, what their role is. And leader will have an actual vision and take things in a certain direction. Now, wartime presidents, we see more of that, partly because of the war brings urgency that you kind of have to. Yeah, there's no choice. So Lincoln, FDR. Teddy is one of those, frankly, rare er, presidents that brings that sort of urgency that I have ideas and I'm going to pursue them outside of a war situation. That's just what I see playing out here, you know? I mean, he is less constitutional in his approach. Much less. Maybe putting that much. But generous. The quote Mark Twain. Oh, okay, the Mark Twain quote. That was even the one I was going for, but that was great, right, yeah. What's your favorite? Doesn't care about the constitution quote. Well, I share yours. That feels like a show in your mind. But how do I say doesn't care? Yes. That he does. And the 1902 call strike, right, where he's being confronted by a congressman who is worried about property rights with the coal strike in Pennsylvania. And he's saying, well, you know, what about the constitution and teddy's response? The constitution was written for the people, not the people. People are for the constitution. are some strong words. It tells you where he stands. And for me, I found myself kind of contrasting that in my head with the far more legal mind of the lawyer turned president Abraham Lincoln, where you see him very methodically carefully. Like with the Thirteenth Amendment, he's not willing to leave something out an executive order. He's always thinking about, okay, this can be undone if it isn't done in this way. He says bad laws need to be followed to expose that they're bad laws. For me, it was interesting to think about the two very strong but very different presidents. You did refer to Lincoln as the lawyer who became a president. I will say Teddy Roosevelt did go to law school and it was like. Right. He's like, well. I could do this, or write a book about the war of 18 12. I could. I'm bored here. I don't want to learn about rules all day when I could go climb the Matterhorn. And that right there, again, kind of sums up. Yeah, that speaks to teddy. I think that
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"roosevelt" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Which one did you reference? William Henry. And not that they didn't bring their life experiences or what have you. But teddy, he only becomes president initially, as we know, because will McKinley's assassinate it. He is not the type of person that wins with the party we know that. He would piss off the party bosses. Mark Hanna calls him that damned cowboy. Exactly, right? So this is a guy who is, I don't mean this in a cynical way 'cause I really try to not be cynical, but he's frankly too honest to get into some spaces in life. And if it weren't for that occurrence of certainly he's too honest for Gilded Age politics. Yes. Which is notorious. I don't mean that as like a knock on teddy. I mean that as a virtue that you wouldn't expect someone who is that honest to be able to, as you're pointing out, to be able to succeed and Gilded Age politics. And it's difficult to imagine in the same historians don't do well with counterfactuals. But it is, it is difficult to imagine an America without TR. In the same way it's difficult to imagine in America without a Lincoln or a Frederick Douglass or George Washington, some of the or Benjamin Harris and or William Henry Harris and we kind of do have an America without fears. William. There's a national park service employee assigned at something to do with his former house right now. It's going to be a big month. Big WHH fan out there. Makes me think of that parks and rec episode. Sure. There's one where they're trying to find historical artifacts or something that links William Henry Harrison. To this part that they want to make a national park or something. And they're just grasping at all the straws. See everything. I'm glad we got parks and rack in there. Me. But get it back on teddy. You're right. He doesn't like bullies. He hates bullies. The way that he overcomes his own physical condition, right? He's scrawny. He's asthmatic and he turns himself into this jacked boxer by the time he gets to Harvard, the dude, as you know, I appreciate climbs the freaking Matterhorn. That is an incredible feat for anyone. The fact that he comes from being someone who is not physically gifted will that into existence. I'll be honest, one thought I had a few times. I'm glad this worked out for teddy. I would be mildly afraid. Oh, right, so I just will my way out of some of my medical conditions. I don't know that that works. I don't know that you should always take your health advice from Theodore Roosevelt. I mean, to some degree, sure, perhaps just we'll just avoid getting into this space. But I mean, I was just absolutely impressed with them. And that sort of, I will do attitude. It follows him in the politics. And his personal life, jeez, having his mother and his wife die. I couldn't listen to that part. I had to like stop part of the way through and go and actually watch something happy. Yeah. And then come back and finish listening because I was like, nope, I can't. Yeah. A listener, let me know. That was, it was a playful message saying, thanks for making me almost crashed as I tried to drive through my tears. Yeah. Thanks for that. If that was a book that we had written and had tried to submit to a publisher, I think they would have rejected it for being too obvious. For being too obvious, because that can't happen. His mother and wife die on the day that his wife gives birth on Valentine's Day, which is the fourth anniversary of when they got engaged. And he gets the news while everyone's cheering for him because he's such a great guy. That would have been Teddy Roosevelt. He really is. I mean, I don't say that in a romanticizing sort of way as though he doesn't have his flaws in his imperfections like everyone does, but the life that this man lives lives. He is larger than all overcome it. I'm suffering with grief. I will go to the badlands and reinvent myself. And go from elite New Yorker to rugged cowboy to damned cowboy. And there we have a repeat of the boxer that we met in the Harvard. These were many episodes that didn't make it into the main feed, but we covered his go ahead, Zach and his his boxing episode. There's this story with his future wife watching him box at Harvard and TD, then turning into teddy. Starting to become teddy. If you have the opportunity, dear listener, to look up the picture of him in the Harvard boxing club, he is a handsome young man. Those TR mutton chops. Oh, he's pulling them off. They're a sight. Totally unbiased opinion. In my unbiased opinion, TR is very handsome historical figure, second only to William Jennings Bryan. Kelsey, check your timer. No, the dude looks like he's an underwear model. I know you're talking a 100% sitting there shirt off. His hands kind of crossed. He's got this cool look. He's got the smoldering. Like too cool and for this all the way. He's doing blue steel. Oh, a 100%. Yeah. And he's not even trying. That's when the camera exploded. And you would think that this young asthmatic boy has turned himself into a good boxer by that picture. And then he gets into the ring. He gets cracked across the face. The other guy whose boxing is just punching the heck out of him. And there's this one part where right after the round ends, his opponent punches TR. And the crowd starts to boo his opponent and teddy black eye, blood just streaming down, raises his hand to the crowd and is like, no, he didn't know the round was over yet. Don't boo him. It's all right. It's fine. And then goes back to his corner. And again, this is teddy's sense of fair play, right? Yeah. He's not gonna let somebody take crap. Exactly. For something that wasn't their fault. Even if the person who just cracked him in the face. Who's beating the hell out of him? Yes. That was supposed to happen. Yeah, 'cause it is what's supposed to happen. So again, we're seeing the pain that this man can withstand. I mean, that's the sort of guy who reinvents his body. It's like, yeah, I have asthma. Well, Matterhorn anyway. And goes out to the badlands, and in that space, he's in a bar and a drunken bully comes up, calls him four eyes, tells teddy he is going to buy him a drink. The dude pulls his revolvers on Roosevelt. I mean, I just, I try to put myself in his situation, imagine if you're out by yourself, Friends doesn't matter. There you are. Chilies.
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"roosevelt" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"What if he is? That night, the bespectacled mustachioed ambassador braves a snowstorm and makes his way to the train station. He's traveling all the way to New York City to consult with the German consul general there. Carl bunts. Carl and the president are friends. Surely, if anyone knows if the American leader is serious, it's Carl. Once a Manhattan, Theodore finds no comfort in his colleague. The New York based diplomat informs him that teddy doesn't bluff. Dear God. The German ambassador realizes he hasn't a moment to lose. He sends word on December 16th of tomorrow's deadline and urges arbitration. With only 24 hours to go before admiral George Dewey and the Caribbean fleet moves south toward Venezuela. Teddy and his White House advisers are preparing for the worst. The British advised the president that they agree to arbitration and principle, meaning the Germans stand alone if the Americans intervene. But then, right at the wire, Germany acquiesces. Two days later, December 19th, both the British and German governments invite teddy to arbitrate their claims in Venezuela. A great war has been avoided, at least for now. Both sides of the Atlantic breathe a massive sigh of relief. As I mentioned earlier, some historians doubt the narrative I just relayed to you, which is TR's narrative. There are no official records of certain visits or messages transmitted. But as teddy's biographer Edmund Morris points out, these sorts of omissions make sense in the delicate realm of international diplomacy. To quote him on the German ambassador's December 14th visit to The White House. It suited everybody concerned that blank paper should obliterate the diplomatic record. Wilhelm was still free to end the crisis without evidence of being coerced. And surely, teddy's good with that. He understands the need to let national leaders save face. After all, his goal isn't to use the big stick, which, in this case, is George Dewey and his fleet. Taze approach is to keep that metaphorical club in hand while being such a straight shooter that, when he softly says he'll swing it under a given condition, his opponents know it isn't a bluff. As the German ambassador now clearly understands. Of course, this philosophy also means that the United States stick better be big enough to strike fear. And we know teddy's already thought that way for a long time. He's pushed for a stronger, more modern navy, a bigger stick, if you will. Ever since his days as assistant secretary of the navy. But the Venezuela crisis isn't just an example of TR living by his beloved West African proverb. It's just after this experience that TR expands on the 80 year old Monroe doctrine. In brief, teddy says that while the Monroe doctrine stated that the United States has the right to manage foreign relations in the western hemisphere by preventing European powers from further colonization in the Americas, it's time to go a step further. The U.S. is now claiming the right to intervene in the domestic affairs of its American neighbors, which it will do as needed to tamp down on bad actors or again prevent European colonization. This add on is known as the Roosevelt corollary, and Teddy Roosevelt will share this new twist on the Monroe doctrine next year in his 1904 address to Congress. Here's an excerpt. It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger, or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the western hemisphere. Save such as are for their welfare. All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows they didn't know how to act with reasonable, efficiency and decency and social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the western hemisphere, the adherence of the United States to the Monroe doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly. In flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence to the exercise of an international police power. Our interests and those of our southern neighbors are in reality identical. They have great natural riches, and if within their borders, the reign of law and justice obtains prosperity is sure to come to them. While they thus obey the primary laws of civilized society, they may rest assured that they will be treated by us in a spirit of cordial and helpful sympathy. We would interfere with them only in the last resort, and then only if it became evident that their inability or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had violated the rights of the United States or had invited foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations. It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom. Its independence must ultimately realize that the right of such independence can not be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. And so, it's with this line of thought that the old NYPD commissioner turned U.S. president will soon anoint the United States, the western hemisphere's police force. But it raises questions with his critics. Who is the United States to decide when a nation has crossed the line? She decide which South American nations are righteous in which they're not. 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"Speak softly and carry a big stick. You will go far. Theodore Roosevelt loves this West African proverb, and it comes to play in his foreign policy, which is exactly what we'll cover today with the stories of teddy's big stick diplomacy and dealings with the world abroad. Having seen his gift for logic and delicacy in helping to end the Russo Japanese war, will now observe how he uses a powerful combination of death negotiation backed by military might in the arena foreign policy. I'll give you all the highlights. Including the Al Jazeera's conference and the great white fleet. But we'll focus on two stories above all. First, the spat between Monroe, doctrine, upholding TR and the German Empire over Venezuela, and second, a project that far outlasts teddy's presidency. The Panama Canal. The first of these is classic big stick diplomacy. Meanwhile, the Panama Canal, which is an epic tale in and of itself. Will prove world changing. We'll see how teddy justifies actions his critics call straight up imperialism as he picks up this costly, deadly project from the defeated French. And can the Americans do it? If so, it will be an engineering marvel that'll change world trade. It'll also greatly strengthen the United States big stick. So ready to avoid a few wars and split two continents asunder over the next hour, sounds doable to me. Let's back up a few years then and tackle the Venezuela crisis. Rewind. Ah, Venezuela. A land of natural beauty with a long, Caribbean coastline, it has nonetheless had a rough go of late. Corruption, Civil War as a result, this verdant South American nation has accrued serious debt in the United Kingdom and Germany by late 1902. Around 62 million bolivars, or several millions of dollars to express that in U.S. currency. But now, Venezuela's sharp bearded, dark haired president. Okay, dictator cipriano Castro is neither paying up nor willing to discuss the matter with his two powerful creditors. But both the UK and Germany intend to collect what's theirs. At gunpoint, if necessary. President Theodore Roosevelt is good with that. While we saw in episodes one O four and one O 5, that teddy is a fierce advocate of the Monroe doctrine, which I'll remind you is the assertion that the United States will not tolerate further European colonization or other unsavory shenanigans in the western hemisphere. We also know from our recent square deal episodes that he's all about treating people fairly. That goes for nations too. Therefore, teddy doesn't see the Monroe doctrine as a free pass for Latin America to thumb its nose at European powers. So, in teddy's view, if Venezuela took the loans, it needs to honor that and pay up. If it's president won't pay or even discuss the matter, he understands Germany and Britain, sending warships to blockade the coastal nation. Fair enough. But can he trust Germany not to go further? Now, teddy loves Germany. He's got German blood, briefly lived in Dresden as a child, and speaks the language, which along with his French makes him trilingual, but TR doesn't trust that the rapidly expanding second Reich will hold back in Venezuela. Kaiser Wilhelm the second has already spurned the open door policy in China by snatching up jiaozhou. So why wouldn't he do the same in Venezuela? If that happens, then TR will have to act as that would be a clear violation of the Monroe doctrine. That's why teddy has asked the two European empires for assurances that they won't seize any land while blockading Venezuela. Britain has obliged, but Germany isn't so forthcoming. Sounds like it's time for teddy to speak softly and carry a big stick. It's December 8th, 1902. The German ambassador, Theodore von halden, and his retinue have just arrived at The White House. The meeting is entirely ceremonial, but the similarly named president is happy to take advantage of this time to talk with the walrus mustache wearing German. Once the two of them are alone, TR speaks his mind about Germany's intentions in Venezuela. Tell the Kaiser that I have put George Dewey in charge of our fleet to maneuver in west Indian waters. That the world at large should know this merely as a maneuver, but I regret to say that I will be obliged to interfere by force if necessary if the Germans take any action which looks like the acquisition of territory in Venezuela or anywhere along the Caribbean. George Dewey. That name should ring a bell. We bonded with this living legend and admiral of the U.S. Navy in episode one O 5. When George essentially kicked off the Spanish-American War by demolishing the Spanish fleet in Philippine waters. Now teddy's got George down in the Caribbean on standby in case the Germans get up to no good. Conversation continues. The German Theodore assures our American Theodore that Germany has no intention of seizing Venezuelan territory. Aha. Well, with thoughts of Germany's track record in China, teddy doesn't buy it. He lays out an ultimatum. Kaiser Wilhelm the second must provide a full disclaimer stating that Germany will not take Venezuela and territory within the next ten days. If not, George Dewey and his nearby fleet will move in to observe Venezuela's coast closely. Far, far more closely. Teddy feels he's been polite yet clear. If we trust his singular telling of things, that is, some historians discount his ultimatum narrative. But will the ambassador relay this message and its serious implications of military muscle? The next day seems to indicate no. The UK and German blockade sees four Venezuelan gunboats. The Germans destroy three of them. President cipriano Castro then asks the American government to intervene on his behalf. And Secretary of State John hay forwards the request to the British and Germans, letting them both know that the U.S. is willing to step in and arbitrate peacefully. But the days are passing and TR's ultimatum deadline is drawing closer with nary a word of assurance from the Kaiser. Seems TR and his excellency Theodore von halden may need another chat to full on wars to be avoided. It's a good thing he's coming by. It's a dark and dreary Sunday morning. December 14th, 1902. In German ambassador, Theodore von halden is just arriving at The White House. He soon greets the rough riding president, likely in the executive office, and they begin to chat. His excellency starts with small talk. The cold gloomy weather. Tennis. And then, it feels like the ambassadors wrapping up. In fact, he's standing and starting to leave. But teddy stops him and follows up on the Venezuela situation. He first asks if Germany will accept the Secretary of State's offer to arbitrate. The German Theodore responds quickly and sharply. No. In the clearest of terms, TR answers that the Kaiser is risking war then. To drive the point home, he reminds his fellow Theodore of last week's ultimatum and tells him it's no longer ten days. Now it's 9, and with 6 days already passed, that puts the deadline 72 hours out on December 17th. That's right. TR spoken softly. But he still caring a big stick. The ambassador leaves, still insisting that the Kaiser will never arbitrate. He can't believe the president is serious. But dread sets in.
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"roosevelt" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"What if he is? That night, the bespectacled mustachioed ambassador braves a snowstorm and makes his way to the train station. He's traveling all the way to New York City to consult with the German consul general there. Carl bunts. Carl and the president are friends. Surely, if anyone knows if the American leader is serious, it's Carl. Once a Manhattan, Theodore finds no comfort in his colleague. The New York based diplomat informs him that teddy doesn't bluff. Dear God. The German ambassador realizes he hasn't a moment to lose. He sends word on December 16th of tomorrow's deadline and urges arbitration. With only 24 hours to go before admiral George Dewey and the Caribbean fleet moves south toward Venezuela. Teddy and his White House advisers are preparing for the worst. The British advised the president that they agree to arbitration and principle, meaning the Germans stand alone if the Americans intervene. But then, right at the wire, Germany acquiesces. Two days later, December 19th, both the British and German governments invite teddy to arbitrate their claims in Venezuela. A great war has been avoided, at least for now. Both sides of the Atlantic breathe a massive sigh of relief. As I mentioned earlier, some historians doubt the narrative I just relayed to you, which is TR's narrative. There are no official records of certain visits or messages transmitted. But as teddy's biographer Edmund Morris points out, these sorts of omissions make sense in the delicate realm of international diplomacy. To quote him on the German ambassador's December 14th visit to The White House. It suited everybody concerned that blank paper should obliterate the diplomatic record. Wilhelm was still free to end the crisis without evidence of being coerced. And surely, teddy's good with that. He understands the need to let national leaders save face. After all, his goal isn't to use the big stick, which, in this case, is George Dewey and his fleet. Taze approach is to keep that metaphorical club in hand while being such a straight shooter that, when he softly says he'll swing it under a given condition, his opponents know it isn't a bluff. As the German ambassador now clearly understands. Of course, this philosophy also means that the United States stick better be big enough to strike fear. And we know teddy's already thought that way for a long time. He's pushed for a stronger, more modern navy, a bigger stick, if you will. Ever since his days as assistant secretary of the navy. But the Venezuela crisis isn't just an example of TR living by his beloved West African proverb. It's just after this experience that TR expands on the 80 year old Monroe doctrine. In brief, teddy says that while the Monroe doctrine stated that the United States has the right to manage foreign relations in the western hemisphere by preventing European powers from further colonization in the Americas, it's time to go a step further. The U.S. is now claiming the right to intervene in the domestic affairs of its American neighbors, which it will do as needed to tamp down on bad actors or again prevent European colonization. This add on is known as the Roosevelt corollary, and Teddy Roosevelt will share this new twist on the Monroe doctrine next year in his 1904 address to Congress. Here's an excerpt. It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger, or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the western hemisphere. Save such as are for their welfare. All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows they didn't know how to act with reasonable, efficiency and decency and social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the western hemisphere, the adherence of the United States to the Monroe doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly. In flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence to the exercise of an international police power. Our interests and those of our southern neighbors are in reality identical. They have great natural riches, and if within their borders, the reign of law and justice obtains prosperity is sure to come to them. While they thus obey the primary laws of civilized society, they may rest assured that they will be treated by us in a spirit of cordial and helpful sympathy. We would interfere with them only in the last resort, and then only if it became evident that their inability or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had violated the rights of the United States or had invited foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations. It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom. Its independence must ultimately realize that the right of such independence can not be separated from the responsibility of making good use of it. And so, it's with this line of thought that the old NYPD commissioner turned U.S. president will soon anoint the United States, the western hemisphere's police force. But it raises questions with his critics. Who is the United States to decide when a nation has crossed the line? She decide which South American nations are righteous in which they're not. 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"Speak softly and carry a big stick. You will go far. Theodore Roosevelt loves this West African proverb, and it comes to play in his foreign policy, which is exactly what we'll cover today with the stories of teddy's big stick diplomacy and dealings with the world abroad. Having seen his gift for logic and delicacy in helping to end the Russo Japanese war, will now observe how he uses a powerful combination of death negotiation backed by military might in the arena foreign policy. I'll give you all the highlights. Including the Al Jazeera's conference and the great white fleet. But we'll focus on two stories above all. First, the spat between Monroe, doctrine, upholding TR and the German Empire over Venezuela, and second, a project that far outlasts teddy's presidency. The Panama Canal. The first of these is classic big stick diplomacy. Meanwhile, the Panama Canal, which is an epic tale in and of itself. Will prove world changing. We'll see how teddy justifies actions his critics call straight up imperialism as he picks up this costly, deadly project from the defeated French. And can the Americans do it? If so, it will be an engineering marvel that'll change world trade. It'll also greatly strengthen the United States big stick. So ready to avoid a few wars and split two continents asunder over the next hour, sounds doable to me. Let's back up a few years then and tackle the Venezuela crisis. Rewind. Ah, Venezuela. A land of natural beauty with a long, Caribbean coastline, it has nonetheless had a rough go of late. Corruption, Civil War as a result, this verdant South American nation has accrued serious debt in the United Kingdom and Germany by late 1902. Around 62 million bolivars, or several millions of dollars to express that in U.S. currency. But now, Venezuela's sharp bearded, dark haired president. Okay, dictator cipriano Castro is neither paying up nor willing to discuss the matter with his two powerful creditors. But both the UK and Germany intend to collect what's theirs. At gunpoint, if necessary. President Theodore Roosevelt is good with that. While we saw in episodes one O four and one O 5, that teddy is a fierce advocate of the Monroe doctrine, which I'll remind you is the assertion that the United States will not tolerate further European colonization or other unsavory shenanigans in the western hemisphere. We also know from our recent square deal episodes that he's all about treating people fairly. That goes for nations too. Therefore, teddy doesn't see the Monroe doctrine as a free pass for Latin America to thumb its nose at European powers. So, in teddy's view, if Venezuela took the loans, it needs to honor that and pay up. If it's president won't pay or even discuss the matter, he understands Germany and Britain, sending warships to blockade the coastal nation. Fair enough. But can he trust Germany not to go further? Now, teddy loves Germany. He's got German blood, briefly lived in Dresden as a child, and speaks the language, which along with his French makes him trilingual, but TR doesn't trust that the rapidly expanding second Reich will hold back in Venezuela. Kaiser Wilhelm the second has already spurned the open door policy in China by snatching up jiaozhou. So why wouldn't he do the same in Venezuela? If that happens, then TR will have to act as that would be a clear violation of the Monroe doctrine. That's why teddy has asked the two European empires for assurances that they won't seize any land while blockading Venezuela. Britain has obliged, but Germany isn't so forthcoming. Sounds like it's time for teddy to speak softly and carry a big stick. It's December 8th, 1902. The German ambassador, Theodore von halden, and his retinue have just arrived at The White House. The meeting is entirely ceremonial, but the similarly named president is happy to take advantage of this time to talk with the walrus mustache wearing German. Once the two of them are alone, TR speaks his mind about Germany's intentions in Venezuela. Tell the Kaiser that I have put George Dewey in charge of our fleet to maneuver in west Indian waters. That the world at large should know this merely as a maneuver, but I regret to say that I will be obliged to interfere by force if necessary if the Germans take any action which looks like the acquisition of territory in Venezuela or anywhere along the Caribbean. George Dewey. That name should ring a bell. We bonded with this living legend and admiral of the U.S. Navy in episode one O 5. When George essentially kicked off the Spanish-American War by demolishing the Spanish fleet in Philippine waters. Now teddy's got George down in the Caribbean on standby in case the Germans get up to no good. Conversation continues. The German Theodore assures our American Theodore that Germany has no intention of seizing Venezuelan territory. Aha. Well, with thoughts of Germany's track record in China, teddy doesn't buy it. He lays out an ultimatum. Kaiser Wilhelm the second must provide a full disclaimer stating that Germany will not take Venezuela and territory within the next ten days. If not, George Dewey and his nearby fleet will move in to observe Venezuela's coast closely. Far, far more closely. Teddy feels he's been polite yet clear. If we trust his singular telling of things, that is, some historians discount his ultimatum narrative. But will the ambassador relay this message and its serious implications of military muscle? The next day seems to indicate no. The UK and German blockade sees four Venezuelan gunboats. The Germans destroy three of them. President cipriano Castro then asks the American government to intervene on his behalf. And Secretary of State John hay forwards the request to the British and Germans, letting them both know that the U.S. is willing to step in and arbitrate peacefully. But the days are passing and TR's ultimatum deadline is drawing closer with nary a word of assurance from the Kaiser. Seems TR and his excellency Theodore von halden may need another chat to full on wars to be avoided. It's a good thing he's coming by. It's a dark and dreary Sunday morning. December 14th, 1902. In German ambassador, Theodore von halden is just arriving at The White House. He soon greets the rough riding president, likely in the executive office, and they begin to chat. His excellency starts with small talk. The cold gloomy weather. Tennis. And then, it feels like the ambassadors wrapping up. In fact, he's standing and starting to leave. But teddy stops him and follows up on the Venezuela situation. He first asks if Germany will accept the Secretary of State's offer to arbitrate. The German Theodore responds quickly and sharply. No. In the clearest of terms, TR answers that the Kaiser is risking war then. To drive the point home, he reminds his fellow Theodore of last week's ultimatum and tells him it's no longer ten days. Now it's 9, and with 6 days already passed, that puts the deadline 72 hours out on December 17th. That's right. TR spoken softly. But he still caring a big stick. The ambassador leaves, still insisting that the Kaiser will never arbitrate. He can't believe the president is serious. But dread sets in.
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"Glad handing and welcoming over, everyone sits down for dinner. And it's excellent. Mouth watering. TR biographer Edmund Morris sums up the menu perfectly. So I'll let him describe it. We have, quote, little neck clams on the half shell, coqui, a fresh Caviar, strained gumbo, cold salmon baader, squab Al as to fad, fillet, peak richly. Ice cream, praline, fancy cakes, and coffee. Truly, a feast fit for a king. Or rather for governors. No speeches, no toasts, not tonight. Teddy just wants his guests to enjoy good food, company, and conversation. That last bit aided by the free flowing sherry claret and so town. The meal finished, this group of about 70 men retired to the west terrace for drinks and cigars in the open night air. And it's at this point that teddy has a chat with his erstwhile political foe. William Jennings Bryan. Teddy and the cross of gold candidate sit together for over an hour lost in conversation. What all is said will never know. But a passerby are overhears teddy tell the former and future democratic presidential nominee. I confess to you confidentially. That I like my job. Is that a moment of honesty or a burn? Even if the latter, the fact is, the two gentlemen are cordial, warm, and kind. Teddy later calls W JB a wonderful man owing to their conversation tonight. They chat as governors and justices congressman and businessman. Senators and secretaries from different parties states and backgrounds all choose cigars and drink together. It's a great testament to the uniting force of nature and the American wilderness. Over the next several days, the attendees at this conference listen to leaders, professors, scientists, and others who have devoted their lives to the study of natural resources. Teddy himself compares the conference to the gathering of men who signed the constitution. He suggests that, as the founders forged the constitution in part to settle a dispute over water and land rights, so these men gathered at the governor's conference must join together to protect America's vast natural resources now. And teddy's successful in this regard, he scores enough points over the next three days to convince the members of the governor's conference to roll back their opposition to his conservation plans during the remainder of his term. They issue a declaration calling for the continuation and extension of teddy's policies toward natural resources and also proclaim that, quote, this conservation of our natural resources is a subject of transcendent importance, which should engage unremittingly the attention of the nation, the states and the people and earnest cooperation. Earnest cooperation that's what teddy wants, and that's what he's got. He successfully demonstrated that the country, though perhaps divided over other aspects of his square deal. Can nonetheless come together on the issue of natural resources. In the weeks to come, TR creates a national conservation commission, headed by dear old Gifford pinchot to compile a comprehensive list of present natural resources, as well as recommended plans for conservation, even after teddy's time in The White House draws to a close. It's difficult to overstate the immense impact Theodore Roosevelt had on the conservation movement in the United States. During his presidency, TR not only established 5 new national parks, thus doubling their numbers, he created 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game reserves, as well as 18 national monuments, adding up to roughly 230 million acres of protected land. And from Florida's pelican island to Arizona's Grand Canyon, is likely the case that teddy prevented several species from going extinct. But more than all that, he made conservation part of the American national ethos. Even a century later, we have plenty of public lands to enjoy in the United States largely because of Theodore Roosevelt's influence. Because he convinced a generation of Americans to see preserving the wilderness for everyone. To use his words on national parks, as essential democracy. And worth doing for their children, their children's children, and for all who come after. In brief, teddy wanted to preserve the nation's natural wonders for you and me. And all who come after us. And he did. Of the three seas of teddy square deal, conservation was nearest and dearest to his heart. He was indeed, as the poet and senator Amos Russell wells describes him. The Woodland president. If I may quote the last stands of the senator's poem entitled Theodore Roosevelt. Those stars direct our Woodland president, steady his course with quiet influence. Lead him right onward where the triumph is, draw him right upward where the blessing is. And ever through the crowding cares of state. Poor the serenity of hills and trees. And so we conclude our last sea of the square deal. But even as serenity, pours through teddy's national parks and forests, trouble is brewing abroad in the international arena, and the rough rider is eager to take it on. Next time, we'll listen as teddy speaks softly, but carries a big stick. History that doesn't suck is created and hosted by me right Jackson. Episode research and written by Greg Jackson Zachary beaver. Production by airship sound designed by Molly Bach, the music composed by Greg Jackson. Arrangement and additional composition by Lindsey Graham of airship. For bibliography of all primary secondary sources consulted right in the episode. Visit HTTPS podcast dot com. HTTPS is supported by fans at Patreon dot com slash history that doesn't suck. My gratitude to kind souls providing funding to help us keep going. Thank you. And a special thanks to our patrons whose monthly gift puts them at producer status. 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