and never assume anything that could ever be confused with risk. tucker: that is really deep. when you say safety first no! this is one of the many unarticulated assumptions that govern our society and no one ever examines them in the light of day and you just did.cu explain that a little more. when you say a safety first, you assume someone cares about your well-being more than you m do. mike: i m saying that on dirty jobs, my crew sat through over hundreds of mandatory safety briefings. to the first couple of seasons, they were very effective because we listened like this. we were very concerned. we were in a dangerous, hostile, unknown environment. over time, the big safety first placards and at theon mandatory boxes that you have to check and the lockout, tag outut procedures, these things start to sound like the teacher in charlie brown.
tucker: couldn t be better. t but bewild bewildered. maybe you can clear this up. starbucks announcing that you know longer have to buy to lounge around it stores or use the bathroom, meanwhile 30-year-olds are suing to stay in the parents basements. are these stories connected? do they tell us something bigger about where the country is going? dogs and cats living together. personally? i m in the midst right now of doing what i do every year, which is try and give away work ethic scholarships. it gets harder every year. tucker: it gets harder to give away money? mike: we ve given away $5 million over the past five years and yes, every year it gets increasingly difficult to affirmatively reward work ethic. there are some things my
probably make a pretty interesting case that there is a fissure running through the expectation of what happens when we elevate safety and feelings to a level of privacy? i think it creates an a real disconnect. tucker: are you sayingg that safety is not the most important thing ever? mike: i m saying that everybody wants to go home safe at the end of the day. safety always would be a delightful bromide, a wise platitude. safety first is the stuff of idiocy. it allows us to begin to believe that somebody other than us might care more about our well-being than we do. the minute we buy into that nonsense, we embrace the warm grip of complacency. no, safety is not the enemy. but if you make it the priority, let s wrap ourselves in bubble pack and drive at speeds approaching 5 miles an hour
capitol. i m aishah hasnie. back to tucker. tucker: the 2020 democratic president of candidates made it known what they want the most, illegal immigrants, radically extending the border, taking away the second amendment, helping families thrive is way down in their agenda present at all, but accidentally democratic candidates stumble ea the right idea. elizabeth warren may have doneen that. in economics, recently, she has been single republican been saying what republicans should been saying a long time ago. we praised what she said in their academic program, only warning what would happen if republican ignores it. let s begin with a thought experiments but what if the republicans bothered to learn what if they cared enough to do that? what if they understood and embraced the economic nationalism that was at the heart of donald trump s presidential campaign? what would the world look like now two and ap half years
whatever his faults, a person who instinctively understood who republicans needed to be for. at the end of the day, they didn t necessarily want the republican party to be for those folks. they do not like the policies that come from it, they do notan like the country that would come from it, so there s a lot of vitriol directed at people who voted for donald trump, whether excitedly or not. tucker: a u.s. combat veteran lost all four of his limbs fighting in afghanistan. he is still serving his country with a charity that sends wounded veterans on all expense paid trips to maine. he joins us to talk about it after the break. it it after the