Ben Myselish

And not politics, not does this fit into a left-versus-right framing, is this pro-Democrat, pro-Republican, is this moderate, is this whatever?

I think all those labels, I think they're bullshit.

And I think you see also how these other networks often use those labels in order to divide, in order to signal to their viewers that what you're about to see, you should not trust, you should mock, you should laugh at.

As we saw in that Fox clip of Geordie, when they said, and now let me show you what those guys at the crazy leftist podcast, the Midas Touch podcast are talking about.

Look at the ridiculous stuff that they're saying.

And Geordie said something that's incredibly logical and intelligent, and they're the ones who look insane and ridiculous.

But they

They put that word there, they throw the leftist word there, they throw that in to signal to their viewers, don't treat these people like they're human, essentially.

So I think it's important as we move forward, you know, that we continue to root all of our coverage here in our shared humanity, and that the folks who are listening to this podcast come from a variety of different backgrounds.

And that, you know, I think one of the reasons that people come from a variety of different backgrounds, I get emails every day, comments every day from people who say, I'm a Republican, I want nothing to do with

whatever the hell's going on here.

I used to, I voted for Trump in the past.

I voted for Trump three times.

I don't know what the heck I was thinking.

You get people who are as far left, left, left as you could be.

You get people who consider themselves moderates, who consider themselves centerline, whatever the labels are that people want to give themselves or what people want to place on people.

I think this entire community that you see here at the Midas Touch Network is connected with our shared humanity, and I want more leaders who share that sense of humanity.

It's one of the things I admired about President Biden, even more than any policies he passed, any laws he passed, anything that he signed into law, anything that he did was that he constantly put empathy first.

And what we've seen, and they're pretty public about it, we've seen what people like Elon Musk have said on podcasts like the Joe Rogan podcast when they say empathy is a weakness.

I think the opposite.