Janine Turner
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And follow her on X, Janine Turner, just like it sounds. Janine, welcome to the program.
Hi. Great to be with you, Dr. Trout.
So tell us, you had a cancellation experience. Tell people about your history a little bit, if you don't mind.
Well, it's funny. I just put a poem that I wrote in my book, which is mixed with poetry and prose and, you know, well-health type of scenarios, about being silenced and being confined to a box. And I've experienced that a lot in my life. I'm actually working on a novel right now called Silenced. And, you know, it...
It's I'm an actress and I love my fellow humanitarians who I believe my fellow actors are humanitarians and they're good people. And I love so many of them. But if you have an opinion that's different than theirs, you are told to keep your mouth shut, which is what I was told. You can be here, but you need to not. So I've been experiencing that since I was about 18 years old.
I moved to Hollywood at 17 and New York City at 15 to model. And so it's been a big part of my life.
I think I saw, I'm looking right now on your X feed. I think, did I see that poem up on X today? It sounds very familiar. I'm looking around.
Yeah, you may have. I did it in two parts because it's long and you have to do it in 90 seconds.
Yes. Okay, that's what it was.
And I think that's really how I have felt so much in my life. No matter what scenario you want to, what decade of my life I'm in, silencing has been a big part of my life. And I really believe in the freedom of speech. And I'm a Texan, and I was raised by a West Point father graduate and a very opinionated Southern woman.
And so I speak my mind, and I'm not going to let anybody stop me from speaking my mind.
So does it shock you that the First Amendment was suddenly something that was sort of, you know, something we could live without? Something that maybe is a little bit of an inconvenience? I mean, was that shocking to you?
Yes, it was shocking to me. And I love philosophy as well, Dr. Drew. Hegel talked about the dialectic, that you need to hear my interpretation, different points of view in order to grow. And I'm a real advocate of reason. And you cannot reason if you don't hear both points of view. You really need to hear this point of view and not be indoctrinated, which is happening in our schools.
But let's listen to this point of view. Why don't I make up my own mind? And I think that that's been what's really been missing in America. And I'm very encouraged about this election and that Trump was elected because Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, since I'm a constitutional scholar, so to speak, talked about the genius of the people. And I was really relieved with this election.
And I feel that the genius of the people have spoken. And now let's see what can be accomplished.
That is a great frame to resurrect. Because people talk about the wisdom of crowds and things like that, but the fact that Hamilton framed it as the genius of the people, I think is a very, very important thing for us to remind ourselves of. The other thing I'm thinking of when you mentioned GWF Hagel is that a little known statement he had that I just find really important.
And when I read it, I was like, what? Now I get it. He said essentially, he talked in a lot of code and he said, the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the setting of dusk. The point being is that you can really only look back and understand history as it's closing. And I thought, yeah, that has never been more meaningful to me than in recent sort of years.
So looking back on COVID and looking back on so many things that have happened the last 10 years, it's like, oh, I understand it completely differently now.
Well, and I like what Voltaire says, you know, which is, you know, I may disagree. I may disapprove of what you're saying, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it. And I think we've lost that in America. We've been shut down. We haven't been able to express ourselves. And we have a speaking program at constitutingamerica.org.
And one of them is how to have a civil civic conversation because I've been shut down so much of my life. You know, whether it's Hollywood or as a single mother or whatever it may be. And I think that we must be able to have civil civic conversations where we listen to each other. And I'm not always the best at that, I will admit. But I think it's a goal worth achieving.
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