Rod Blagojevich
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701 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Mar
Rod Blagojevich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's it. No matter who you are. You can be Joe Rogan, a kid who's 15, getting on the public transportation to do kicking and martial arts and become what you are. You can be me.
And no other place in the world offers it like this place does.
That's right. Opportunity.
Very discouraging. Well, that's the socialist mindset. That's the new Democratic Party today. It isn't about celebrating somebody else's success and saying, hey, I want to be like him. Or that guy's success has actually created more opportunities for me to be better off than what I am now. It's instead pull him down so we can make everybody equal.
You see, in my life experience, what I've learned, the fun part, really more the fun part is the journey, less so the destination. When I look back on the success I've had in different places in life, like being the governor of Illinois, not so easy.
It was nice to be that and have that power and be able to do it for serve good purposes. But it was more fun actually trying to get there, working hard and overcoming the obstacles. The quest. Yeah, and the competition of it all, right? The quest. In any aspect of life, I think it's, frankly, embrace the quest. And if you love what you're doing, you pursue what you love, success will ensue.
You don't have to chase success. Just be great at what you do.
Yeah, well said. But even if you don't have success, the fact that you gave your best at something should be a version of success that you can be happy with.
Yeah, that's right.
No, yeah. And so I have purpose in life at this stage. You know, they took everything from me. You know, they passed laws saying I can't run for anything in Illinois. Believe it or not, just me. It's unconstitutional.
I could. It's a good place, I hear. They would love you. You could totally be the king of Vegas. But, you know, I could... I have a new beginning. A lot of my friends are retired now, you know, and they're retired, and that's fine. But I'm excited about this new beginning I've had. Could you run for president? Yeah, the irony is I could run for federal office.
I could run for president of the United States, but I can't run for alderman in the city of Chicago. Imagine that.
But I have something to get up every day and chase. I'm lucky that way.
My wife, who is a remarkable person. I think about all these different heroes that I've known, that I've read about in history books. I think about my wife and her quiet way, her heroism, how she kept her home, raised our daughters. They're both good kids, our daughters. My older daughter, Amy, is a therapist, good education. She would like me to advocate for the Puppy Protection Act.
I told her I'd try to get it on.
Protects puppies. We love dogs. Something to have your listeners consider, the puppy protection act.
I don't know, but it's got to be good. I didn't read it.
You're right. Bernie Sanders was right on that. He was the only one who voted against that. I'm looking at him when that happened because I was with him in Congress then.
I know.
Right. It's got a good chance of passing with a name like that.
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