that s the state capitol of nashville in the background. jesse, as a born and raised nashvilleian, the reason that i believe this city is skyrocketing in popularity is because we have a lot of people of a lot of different backgrounds. when you have people with different backgrounds, and they creatively clash, you end up with something new. the if you have everybody woke and on the left wing, they don t create new things. if you have everybody on the right wing, they re all super conservative, they don t create new things, the reason why the city of nashville works in a cultural way is because you have so many people from different backgrounds with different opinions colliding, and that s what produces something new and dynamic, and this to me represents a repudiation of everything i love about this city. i m disgusted by what i m saying. i hope wiser heads will prevail, and the full fulcrum of creativity will flourish in nashville for years and years to come. are you going to the bb
i spent my whole life being ashamed. it worked. me too. why do you think someone like kamala wants to remove the shame factor from the equation with drugs? listen, i grew up with kamala. she was the da in oakland when i grew up there. she was tough on crime back then. the she got me at 16 for possession of marijuana. she s turn changed her tune. i lost the ability to get my driver s license until i was 18. she took away your driver s license for two years. yeah. kamala harris when she was out in california, and now they re finding bags of coke in the white house, and everyone is saying, oh, my goodness, who cares. people evolve, i guess, or devolve, you know. she s certainly changed a lot. all right. jared, thank you so much. again, we have a lot of respect for you, what you ve gone through, where you are now. we appreciate that. thank you so much, jesse.
and do you feel, just listening to how you talk about it, do you feel that what was morally wrong about it was that it involved an abuse of power because you were an older guy who had more power than him? that. obviously, that criticism has been levelled at me, but. well, i ve never done that in my whole life. i ve never abused my power anywhere. i m not a bully. i don t. i mean, there are. god, you read the things that you re supposed to be. you know, we don t, i don t lord it around tv studios. everyone is a friend. i ve gone through all of this time. most of the messages i ve got are from people that i work with saying, oh, my god, i can t believe they re saying this. we love working with you. i don t. i snapped once, around about the time that i was coming out, i snapped at one of our producers. and after the meeting, i immediately got up, went to her and apologised. it s not me. i don t do that. i m not rude on the studio floor. i don t bully people. i don t lord it around. we
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