Bill Thompson

Yeah.

And now why would we ever like I'm voting to get rid of the Joe Rogan experience from the National Archives because he drove a gas car.

You know what I mean?

Like someone stores your stuff for profundity's sake for the future to hear about this.

I've always loved your podcast, Joe, and it was because you're a genuinely curious person, and I'm not kissing your ass right now.

You're a genuinely curious person that was saying things that were not in the current zeitgeist at the time, and you refused to apologize for it.

And it led to a lot of great things.

But it led to an updating of the system.

And you did it with dialogue, with the dialogos, with two people trying to learn things about each other.

And it led to an updating of a system.

I think it's very important for culture to have free and open dialogue so we can update our system.

So bad ideas can die so we don't have to die instead of our bad ideas.

Because if I can't express a bad idea, I have to act it out.

And if I act out the bad idea, it could kill me.

And the celebration of good ideas.

And it's just really there's just been such a weird inversion in politics where the free hippie loving liberals of yesteryear are now the ones telling you what words you can use.

There are no borders, all of these crazy things.

And I always say to people, I said it to Andy on my last podcast with him, I'm like a 1996 Bill Clinton Democrat.

If you go watch his State of the Union and he talks about lowering debt, getting out of debt actually, working with Newt Gingrich to get out of debt.

securing the borders, making work and education freely accessible.