Here's a new voice, a brilliant young man, @tommys_podcast, facing great challenges he's completely open to share, but with so much to offer it's stunning. I met him yesterday, here:
2) If you ever have the opportunity to be the guest on a podcast, I must urge, do it. Tommy is extraordinary, as we'll discuss. But the truth is I have to express great thanks to all such hosts who have given me the honor of being their guest. Here's why...
3) Every time I have the chance to be a guest, I learn things I'd never have learned in any other way. These hosts are, in so many ways, today's heroes. They sacrifice HUGE amounts of time, energy, love, and commitment to America's mission. And they learn so much, themselves!
4) Today's podcast hosts are "in the know." Interviewing the most knowledgeable people they can find, show by show they learn what's really going on. I never cease to be amazed by their information and understanding.
5) Funny thing, I only realized yesterday that the great majority of the wonderful hosts I've interviewed with run most likely to be my own age, or so. I'm 61. You'd have to call it 50s and 60s for the majority of my hosts, right? Just a guess, but you get the idea.
6) An aside, but once you hit the big Six-Zero, you're just not young anymore. You might feel young in your heart, I sure do, but still, the wounds and scars of life are always too many to deny age by that point. We're NOT spring chickens, we aging, soon to be elderly.
7) Tommy, on the other hand, is a sprightly 31, precisely 30 years younger than me, oh my. I think he's the youngest podcaster I've ever been interviewed by. Now, a word about Tommy himself, in his great youth. He doesn't feel young, I assure you.
8) Like so many of his generation - more than any other we know of - Tommy faces the demons of depression and sorrow. He lost a brother to suicide - he mentions this in our interview - and is completely open about his life path since. His profound sadness is deeply present.
9) I would honestly NOT share this information, if Tommy himself were not so 100% open and forthcoming about it. If you watch our interview, you'll see him share with courage and integrity, and completely open honesty. Far more than I'd do, I can testify.
10) So what's his method, that is, how has he chosen to live, to face his inner demons and the external reality of our times? He is a podcaster, perhaps...a Podcaster. His track record is incredible. He does more than get the best people. He commits to the most important mission.
11) Podcasting is, for Tommy, more than just an art. It is how he makes his daily bread, and he has sacrificed an essentially easy path to wealth and power to embrace this journey. He could easily have been a scientist, physician, musician, etc. He masters anything he turns to.
12) So what did Tommy teach me? Let get down to it. He starts out with a single, irrefutable premise. I'll do my best to capture it.
You can't use a secret trick a second time.
The moment he said that, he much more than had me!
13) His point?
2020, a completely stolen election, can never be repeated.
That is NOT MY point. It's completely Tommy's. I'm still afraid to think that thought. See? I'm old. He's young. He can think a thought I'd never think on my own. Wow. I hate that, but there it is.
14) I won't attempt to get into all of Tommy's phenomenal research on topic. He does a flawless job conveying, convincing, and converting me in the interview. Seriously, watch it. You'll feel the power of his heart and soul, and MIND! I sure did.
15) As Tommy's student, I'll now try to put HIS point into my own words. No, these are still HIS words. The fact that they had to steal the election demonstrates, Tommy taught me, that they are AT THEIR VERY WEAKEST POINT. Contemplate that.
16) Okay, Tommy's not fully as sure of this as I am. I believe that they stole not just any election, but in fact the GREATEST LANDSLIDE REELECTION in all of American history. It's Tommy's point that they revealed ALL of their methods by so doing.
17) Watch this. Again. I know you've seen it hundreds if not thousands of times already. Watch again...
18) We still fear terrorism, Tommy states rightly. But, we do NOT fear the suborning of commercial jets to fly, wings loaded with fuel, into skyscrapers. That was a trick. A hellaciously significant one, but still a trick. It can't be repeated. We're not afraid of that anymore.
19) Tommy's point, but my words, the fact that we talk about Hitler all the time, still, means that no new Hitler has any chance of rising to power anymore. Hitler's power was based on lies. Those lies were caught out. No new Hitlers. What an extraordinary epiphany. Wow.
20) Another. Kennedy was shot in a convertible. Presidents no longer run around town in convertible cars. They run around town in virtual tanks that look like luxury SUVs. No rifle shot will take out a President, anymore. You can't do 1963 a second time.
21) Tommy tells me you can't do 2020 a second time. Wrongly (I have to say I hope), I'd never have thought that thought. I feared that they could do 2020 again and again. There is a term for what I do. It's called "catastrophizing." I project a bad event forward catastrophically.
22) There's a term Tommy uses. He calls all this, "my optimism." Now that's something. Here I am, an aging analyst, an I'd NEVER have found that optimism on my own. Hell, I'm scared to embrace it now. Hope can be a very scary thing.
23) When you watch our interview, you'll see Tommy goes on and on, he has historical example after example. Pay special attention to airplanes on a tether. Amazing. Tommy has done his homework and he comes out with hope. Hope. Painful hope. Expensive hope.
24) Speaking of hope, I hope I've given Tommy's insight an adequate representation. What I can tell you, for myself, is that I completely believe him. The other side cannot steal an election, again, the same way they did in 2020. It'll take me time, but I'll factor that in.
25) So that's what I learned yesterday. I can't wait till the next time I have the joy of being Tommy's guest, as I can't imagine what I'll learn from my new, young teacher. But whatever it may be, I will be his ready student.
2) Below, we'll consider the statement he posted yesterday. Before that though, there are a couple of things to cover. The first - and most important - is that, believe it or not, this website is a dream come true for me. I'll explain.
3) A critical point to remember is how, and 10 December 2016, outgoing POTUS Obama warned incoming POTUS Trump against General Flynn. This was unprecedented, unheard of in Presidential transfer history. It was 100% inappropriate. How dare he?
Over the past couple of days, I spent over 2 1/2 hours with a reporter from one of the great, liberal, MSM newspapers. It was absolutely delightful, and I believe significant. I'll explain why.
2) At one point during our intense deep dive, my new friend said to me, "Oh, I see, I can't separate myself from my profession." This excellent journalist did not create the narrative. He has merely been swept along with it, and never saw that that was happening before.
3) At least twice he said, "I've never heard the facts presented from that perspective before." I will share specifics in just a bit, below. Here, I need to assert he is both an intelligent man, and a good man. And he is a true journalist, not a liar.
We've talked about this many times. The debater out of ideas attacks a person. What's going on today, however, is the most depleted I've ever seen. Biden is going to war due to the "Shadow Of Trump."
2) I kid you not. The term in quotes comes from the New York Times daily newsletter I follow. Here's the twisted logic, forgive me if I can't make it make clean sense, because it's utterly nonsensical.
3) They say, Russia has 125,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine because Trump was so nice to him, and so mean to NATO, and our European partners. They say that Trump attacked NATO, supported Putin, and put in place Russia's bold aggressive stance.
As a student of the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution, I offer you @RealABundy’s work. In the great story following the 2020 stolen election, Ammon Bundy has been a source of calm for me.
2) If you take the time to read his work, he will be a source of calm for you, too. Ammon spent 7 years crafting his plan to Keep Idaho IDAHO. But, it's more than just a plan for Idaho. It's a plan for America.
3) Of those 7 years, 2 of them were in a Federal Penitentiary for a crime - get this - that he was ultimately exonerated from, 100%. An innocent man spent 2 full years in prison, a political prisoner, guilty of no crime whatsoever.
Before we dive in, I have to report that, by NOT posting over the past several weeks, much, my follower count has grown by about 1,000 good souls. Why might that matter?
2) Here's my theory. I'd have 100,000 followers or more, by now, if it weren't for Twitter Censorship. But, every time I post, Twitter watches me, and does all in its power to thwart me. Why they don't just suspend my account, I have no idea.
3) Turning to topic...Will Trump's vaccine push topple his 2024 bid? It won't surprise you that I say no, it won't. There is a very simple case as to why not. He did...and does...have good faith. He believed in what he was doing and achieved his objectives almost magically.
We're going to discuss New Year's Resolutions today. I have one I'm going to share. Before I do, I have to confess my many NOT completed projects lingering around. They matter.
2) My amazing and gorgeous wife @KateScopelliti was laughing at me the other day. One of my clients asked me what's the most important book I've ever read. I ended up selecting 20. Kate took one look and said, Sun Tzu. You've never talked about any book more.
3) Having read something around 50 different translations, ever since first picking it up in 1987, no, there's no book I've ever studied more. So she's obviously right, as always. Why don't I know these things, myself?