Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And I just, I try to avoid that being in the calculus, right?

Like I like to show up and exist based on merit of what I've done and what I look to do and what's happening today.

But I do understand it's a bit strange, my age.

And so it is something that gets talked about.

Yeah.

And I think, look, I think there are folks who will be 70 to do these things.

I think there will be folks who are 20 to do these things.

I think it's just I hope we exist in a future where like these things can happen regardless.

You worried?

Do I worry?

Are you worried about the future?

I am.

I think it's important to be institutionally optimistic about America, but not so institutionally optimistic that you have like you fail to realize the risks that are present.

I think it's a balance and I think if you fall on either end of that balance, it can be quite dangerous.

So what I mean by that is like American democracy is unique because it was set up to be very, very dynamic and actually like in many ways, most specifically touched on with the Second Amendment, actually set up to have a feedback loop on making sure that it changes at the right rate.

And we're just talking Washington.

If you went back and installed American democracy back then, I think it would make our founding fathers throw up.

But similarly, if you went and installed the government that existed back then, today, it wouldn't work.

And so...

democracy has to be this living, breathing thing that adopts as society changes, but ideally gets better over time.

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