Ben Brock Johnson
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Yeah, God damn it, Family or something like that.
inside the schools, you know, with all that aggression, you know, you skip right past the lunchroom, you know, right to the shooting range and get some target practice in.
Even if the targets were, you know, six-year-old boys and girls as the targets, you know, if that saves a life, then, hey.
He even told Ben that he had, in fact, called AOC an effing day.
Yoho didn't catch on to any funny business until Ben agreed to help him record a God Family Country interview with former Republican presidential candidate and representative from Minnesota, Michelle Bachman, in person at Liberty University in Virginia.
And that's when he realized, okay, yeah, this isn't right.
But he had to really put it in his face.
If you haven't seen it, Free Solo is a documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold, who climbs huge mountains without ropes.
In the documentary, we find out his amygdala, the part of the brain that processes emotion, including fear, isn't as reactive as most people's.
Maybe I need to get my amygdala checked out.
And a lot of times I feel for the people and I have empathy for them and I'm not trying to, I don't want to be, it's hard for me to be mean to people, even if I disagree with them or they're saying something ridiculous.
But yeah, like, you know, the only time my amygdala goes off is when I'm wondering if they know who I am.
And that's, that's where I get a little, sometimes like every time I talk to him on the phone, I go, is this the call where he's going to go, Hey, I found out who you really are, you know?