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Chapter 1: What is the background of John Fetterman?
Well, and I saw the record of Whitesnake, but all those things. Yeah, no, I mean, I think we're both in the 50s, right? And, you know, we grew up with the crew. Yeah. And all those kinds of things. So some people might judge me based on my taste on music. But, I mean, that's kind of where it's at.
Listen, people are going to judge you no matter what. You're a big, giant guy who wears hoodies and you're a senator. Yeah. No matter what, they're going to judge you. Who cares? But I'm just trying to understand what is going on with the captioning because you can hear, but so there's some sort of a disconnect between hearing and understanding. Like, what is it?
Yeah, I wouldn't say it's necessarily disconnect. It's just about being precise on that just to make sure that. So, you know, like for an interview, just to make sure of those things. So it's really just about captioning. Really, it's just a tool, no difference. I mean, this is like my eyes in the sense for glasses. Right, I understand.
So it just gives you a little bit more precision in what you're saying and understanding. What was it like running for senator right after recovering from a stroke? That had to be a nightmare.
Yeah, I don't recommend that. I don't recommend that. Because you seem to have recovered quite a bit since then. Oh, yeah. No. But during that time, you were really struggling. Oh, sure. Absolutely. It was a rough conversation after that. They brought me into the hospital, and then I went under, and then I woke up. uh, and they said, they, uh, they said, Hey, we got it. We got it.
We got the clot, the clot that, that essentially just, but killed me. And I'm like, Oh, that's good. Uh, and then just kind of went back under. And, uh, at that point I had no idea where we were at on those things. Uh, and then I had, um, the next morning I woke up and then they, uh, a doctor came on and he had kind of a, a grim kind of a look on his face and things.
And my dad was there sitting next to me at the bed. And I was like, well, Hey doc, I mean, what's, uh, what things, what do you think? What do you like? Uh, and he's like, well, um, you know, you're, Your heart is functioning at an incredibly low kinds of percentage. And I'm like, well, what do you think? And he was like, well, you know, I mean, there's some issues.
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Chapter 2: How did John Fetterman recover from his stroke?
And and it's like I'm relieved that my oldest is like he has no interest in being in politics. And so it's I can't imagine it's going to get better until, you know, we address this idea that unlimited money is unlimited wealth.
And it's unlimited cruelty and hyperbole and just all kinds of poisoning the will that, you know, half of us are going to hate your guts and the other half, hey, that's my team.
Yeah. Well, I strongly feel that the Internet should remain the way it is in terms of people being able to post on social media anonymously if they so choose. But the problem with that is it can be captured by money and it can be captured by these enormous groups that have bought farms.
Whether it's state actors, whether it's other countries, other nations that are doing that to try to attack our system and to try to promote certain narratives. Or whether it's our own country itself doing it. Because I think we do it too. And I think that PACs do it.
People hook themselves up. It's like you self-select your cocoon. Yes. You know, and like I'm a big fan of Apple News and it's like 13 bucks a month. And but I read everything across the spectrum, you know, very, very left and very, very right in between. And I think it's really I think that's your responsibility, especially if you're an elected leader to to.
be challenged, to challenge yourself on the ideas. And it's like clearly one side doesn't have all the answers and the other side can't be 100% wrong. And it's just like being challenging and living or taking in other kinds of perspectives. I think that's a responsibility because otherwise if you only just cocoon yourself into And it's just it turns into one gigantic circle jerk.
And and that's why it just turns people to just kind of dig in. And it's like, hey, you know, the problem is them. And we. Yes.
Well, it's a problem with human beings in general is that we tend to be very tribal and we tend to commit to an ideology where they're comfortable.
Yes.
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