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Ben Brock Johnson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
345 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Ben Palmer's Brain

Yeah, God damn it, Family or something like that.

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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.

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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.

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Yoho trusted Ben.

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He even told Ben that he had, in fact, called AOC an effing day.

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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.

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And that's when he realized, okay, yeah, this isn't right.

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But he had to really put it in his face.

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How did he react?

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If you haven't seen it, Free Solo is a documentary about rock climber Alex Honnold, who climbs huge mountains without ropes.

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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.

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Maybe I need to get my amygdala checked out.

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I never thought about that.

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I'm not trying to embarrass people.

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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.

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But yeah, like, you know, the only time my amygdala goes off is when I'm wondering if they know who I am.

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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?