John are you a victim . I am. I stutter my brother is smarter than i am. And i and deficient and social skills asked my coworkers. Don imus said that was socially awkward and i am right. He was right diet deficient if only i was more like a bill reilly. He doesnt care. I want to be like barack obama he is talented and charming and taller than me but he is black. He is a victim. You get where i am going. Everybody can be a victim there are real victims the mentally ill, and children neglected or abused, the people who must try to live on 1 a day. But something odd is going on the most successful country in the history of the world we spend 22 trillion on programs that promise to help those who need help pay yet more people than ever say i am a victim and lots of politicians say that is why i ran for office. And Hillary Clinton announced her campaign she said. I am running for everyone who has ever been knocked down. People working to with three jobs. Watching politics you would think am
Were streaming live on facebook. Were also connected directly to the live stream at our locals page and we love doing these live streams whether its long form interviews like weve done with david marcus and kira davis encourage schlichter and earlier this week with chris de gall or our book Club Interviews that were doing tonight with the great julio rosa about his book fiery, but mostly peaceful and weve done a couple of other book interviews already. Oh next week. I want to actually is it next week . Hold on no in 10 days, june 1st, were gonna have a very special exclusive live stream Book Club Interview with the great jack carr. Former navy seal now with his fifth thriller out this week and i by the time we talked to him on june 1st. It will be a New York Times number one bestseller and in july the premiere of the brand new streaming series of this series of books, jack carters books, which will a star chris pratt. The guy is big time and hes awesome and hes great and he loves his c
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With david marcus and kira davis encourage schlichter and earlier this week with chris de gall or our book Club Interviews that were doing tonight with the great julio rosa about his book fiery, but mostly peaceful and weve done a couple of other book interviews already. Oh next week. I want to actually is it next week . Hold on no in 10 days, june 1st, were gonna have a very special exclusive live stream Book Club Interview with the great jack carr. Former navy seal now with his fifth thriller out this week and i by the time we talked to him on june 1st. It will be a New York Times number one bestseller and in july the premiere of the brand new streaming series of this series of books, jack carters books, which will a star chris pratt. The guy is big time and hes awesome and hes great and he loves his country and i just dropped the book and hes an hes gonna be with us june 1st. So mark that down. Heres the deal guys all of this stuff right now is live eventually. Its all gonna go with
Having given hostages to our cause and i think the last two years have really given families across the country a frontrow seat into how many ways their children really have been held hostage to a system that for too many of them is simply not working. And so this is a book about what we do to fix American Education and and that is thats the reason for the title and the subtitle about American Education freedom, which im sure were going to talk about. Absolutely. We definitely going to talk about it, but before that, you talk about your childhood in holland, michigan. Tell us about growing up in holland. About your family. Were you inspired by a mentor or teachers that got you on your on your lifes journey . Sure, so i was born and raised in holland, michigan both my parents are, you know children of immigrant families from the netherlands and started out with virtually nothing my parents mortgaged everything when i was just a young child who for my dad to start a business. He was an e