Rod Blagojevich
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4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Mar
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Well, but I mean, some of these, we call them jailhouse Jesuses. Some of these guys, you know, they'd walk around with their Bible, tote their Bible, and they were stealing, you know, and rip you off.
That's right. By the way, congratulations on your magnificent success. Thank you very much. And you're a comedian too, huh?
Wow. You know, I was stuck when you were on the rise. So when I came home, I didn't know who you were. I hope you don't kick me out of the room.
When I can talk to someone and they don't know who I am, I'm like, this is great. But it wasn't long before I got home, I would say within a couple of days, that I got this thing called an iPhone. What's this? And this guy Joe Rogan had this big deal on this podcast. I said, Joe who? And they told me. It's remarkable. That's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's crazy. Can I go back just briefly to the spiritual end of it all? You can go where you want. I just want to say that, look, I consider myself, I think I have testicular virility. You know what I mean? You got balls. Yeah, I really do. I know I do. And I have a certain toughness to me. But I'll tell you something. I wasn't strong enough to get through prison by myself. I needed God.
And it was that, my love for my daughters and my wife, I could never possibly give. And I had to survive and somehow find my way home, however long it might take.
And I had to do it in a way where I could be so strong and be constructive and actually plant seeds for a better life later on, where whatever I did, my little girls can see that, you know, God forbid when tough times come, because it comes to all of us. How do you deal with those hard times? Do you embrace the adversity, try to turn it into something good, or do you just give into it?
And so that gave me the purpose I needed in prison. And I spent a lot of time not just reading the Bible, but reading all kinds of books, because you've got time. I mean, you've got a lot of time. I read a book three times, and I talked about this to Tucker Carlson, called Man's Search for Meaning by a guy named Victor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor who had gone through
things a million times worse than anything I went through. He lost his wife, his family through genocide. He was at Auschwitz and survived it. But he said that the last of the human freedoms, after everything's been taken from you, the last of the human freedoms is our freedom to choose our own attitude in any given set of circumstances. And that if you could find a why to live in
You can find the how. And my why was my little girls and my wife. No matter how hard this was going to be, I had to survive this. I had to endure it. And I needed to do it in a way where it would be the best possible way to do it that could help raise my daughters from afar. Because I didn't raise them. My daughter did. I mean, my wife raised our children, our little girls.
And so that gave me real purpose. And I had those moments when despair would creep in. It's very natural. I mean, a lot of blue moments, as you can imagine. I could never, ever, ever let myself get so down that I would not be active in any given day. I had to go out there and run those miles and lift the weights, do push-ups, whatever it was, read those books, do the stuff I would write about.
because I love my daughters and I'm doing it for them. That was my purpose. Not running for government anymore. I'm not trying to be, you know, successful in the real world because I'm not in it anymore. My success I'll measure by whether or not I'm strong and tough and I'm productive because I'm doing this for my kids. Does that make sense?
I like to think that it did. I think I'm more humble. I think. I was never good at that.
Well, that's why what you're doing, I'm not here to kiss your ass, but I am grateful for being on your show. It's very nice of you to have me so I can talk about my stuff.
But no, this is what you're doing and Tucker Carlson and so many of you podcasters who are out there offering another place for people to get information in the free exchange of ideas in a free country that cherishes free speech supposedly but no longer does. I think most people do. People do, but the government and the power centers. It's just when it's not convenient for them.
Listen, that's interesting.
Because they're people. They have their own prejudices and their biases, right?
Conceited ignorance.
Yeah. Right. Socrates called it conceited ignorance. And by the way, they made him trick the hemlock and kill him because supposedly he was corrupting the youth of Athens in Greece. He probably was too. But he was also challenging confessional thinking.
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