Role Reversal…

What’s been keeping me up? HYPOCRISY! I am so tired of it I can’t sleep. To the people upset by the consequences Karmelo Anthony will be facing, I ask you, why? What are you upset by? Let’s close our eyes and imagine if this EXACT scenario happened but the person that died was BLACK? Given every, single statement, testimony and scenario being IDENTICAL would you be protesting, if a WHITE kid did the stabbing? NO! NOPE! You’d be CELEBRATING! 
I discuss the gross hypocrisy and audacity some people have. I talk about pride being a great thing to have. Being proud is a good thing. 
I also discuss what’s going on in the UK and France. Not going well at all. My heart goes out to those that wanted NO part in illegal immigration. But to those that welcomed Muslims and criminals into their countries, look what you’ve done? 

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Hello and welcome to another episode of The Ramblings of an Insomniac. I am Courtney. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to everybody. Welcome. I so appreciate every single person that has chosen to tune in and check out my silly podcast. My podcast that is done on my iPhone. I am just walking around talking into my phone like an idiot. But that is the nature of my show. I am um one day maybe going to um transfer to doing this on my laptop. And um then you can also like see me, which is not gonna, you're not gonna want that, trust me. It's much better that you don't. I mean, granted, obviously I do videos that you can see my face, but I don't put on makeup and I don't really take great care of my skin because I don't drink enough water and I don't put on enough lotions, so I get comments that I look like the Cripkeeper, and I do because I am not I'm taking care of myself physically, like I get a lot of exercise, I don't eat terrible, um, and all of that. I'm you know, I I shower, you know, brush my teeth, all of that stuff. But I just don't spend unfortunately enough time with hydrating and putting on lotions, and I, you know, I'm out in the sun with no um with no sunscreen. So yeah, I end up looking like the Cripkeepers. So honestly, you it's better that you don't see these videos. However, you know, um at some point I think that those, you know, attract more attention. I don't know, but I appreciate every single person that has been listening to me since day one and everybody that that this is their first time listening to my podcast. I welcome everyone. And contrary to what some might say, I do welcome everybody, meaning I welcome people from polit all political parties, sexual orientations, every religious background. Um, and sorry, I've got some golden retrievers that are panting in the background, but um both genders, whatever. It does not matter what you identify with, it doesn't matter what skin color you are, what religious background you are, I welcome everybody, and I say this all the time. What I don't like, I judge people by their character, I judge people by, you know, their morals, their at their ethics, you know, how they treat others, how they treat themselves. Um, that's what I judge people on. And if you're an asshole, no matter what color you are or what political background you're from, Republican or otherwise, because um just to get this out there, I identify as a Republican. I am a Republican, but that doesn't make me a bad guy, and I get tired of people thinking that because I'm a nice person, okay? I love helping people, I really do. I love it too much, probably. I love it to the detriment of my own health. I've been told that I say yes too much, and um yeah, I don't like telling people no. It's I mean, strangers, I can um, I can say no, but like family and friends or people that I care about at all, it's tough for me. So I'm a nice person, dang it. I genuinely would give someone the shirt off my back. I like to help people, but if you're an asshole, I'm gonna call you out. And that doesn't matter if you're a female and a Republican, and you know, someone that has all the exact same beliefs as I do. If I think you're being an ass, I'm gonna call you out. Whether, you know, you're someone that I agree with normally or not. And people try to say that on my comments, like, well, what if a Republican said I would be like, well, that's wrong. Because to me, it doesn't matter. Wrong is wrong. You know, it doesn't matter what color you are, it doesn't matter what religion you are, if you've committed a crime, you know, you've committed a crime. Crimes aren't, you know, racist. I mean, they don't crime sees no race, it's just people that commit crimes. And there are people that commit crimes that are from all walks of life. All walks of life, unfortunately. Unfortunately, anybody could be capable of committing a crime. So um, I judge people by how they treat others and just who they are, and we all have bad days. Sometimes people can be assholes because they've had a bad day and they've met their quota of stuff going on in their world and they've met their threshold. And we are humans. Humans have a threshold, and you could be, you know, Gandhi. And I'm sure that there's, I mean, maybe he doesn't have that point, but you can't just bottle up. I don't think everybody can be happy every moment of every second, you know, 365 days a year. Now, the level of unhappiness or happiness, of course, varies. I'm not saying that people should skip around singing zippity-doo-daw out their butts. And I'm not saying that, you know, that that there aren't people out there that the majority of time are very positive people, and that's amazing. But I say this all the time: feelings are there for a reason. We have all the feelings for a reason. It's like that movie, what that I always forget the name of, that's so cute, um, that has all of the feelings and the emotions. Um, I love it because they are important. Now, how long you live in sadness, you know, or how long you live in anger or frustration or whatever, that's not so good if you live in those negative emotions for, you know, a long period of time. That's when those emotions, you know, we need to work on. Because if you're angry all the time, if you're negative all the time, if you're anxious all the time, nervous all the time, you know, then of course that's when things become an issue. But otherwise, it's good to experience those feelings, even if they're negative ones sometimes. And so, um on that note, I'm just gonna super, I'm not even gonna make this political actually. I just wanted to comment real quick on the um Carmelo Anthony Austin Metcalf, um, the sentencing of Carmelo Anthony, and that he got 35 years, and that there are people out there that are genuinely upset that um Carmelo Anthony was sentenced at all. Now, this kid has been allowed to be um on home confinement, you know, and so he didn't have to go to jail. Most people have to go to jail if you don't pay the bail. If you don't pay the bail, or if there is a bail, a lot of people don't even have a bail, but if there is a bail and you can't pay it, well, you go to jail. You don't get to be at home. Now, uh, they racked up an absorbent amount of money from like GoFundMe and different fundraisers. People have donated an exceeding amount of money. Now, I don't know the actual numbers, so I don't want to say them. The last one I saw was like $750,000. That's the last one I saw, but I don't want to be quoted on that because I'm telling you that I've seen a lot of numbers. I've seen anywhere from um $600,000 to $750,000 that they have had. So they could, you know, and then his bail was reduced significantly, significantly. So now people are upset that this kid was held accountable for his consequences because they don't believe that he did anything but defend himself. Now there are black students, black students, so same skin color as Carmelo Anthony, that testified that Carmelo Anthony did not do this in self-defense, did not do this in self-defense. Black kids said that about Carmelo Anthony. Now, you don't bring a knife to attract me, you don't bring a knife to school, you don't carry around a knife and then go around and provoke somebody and just start shit and have people be like, oh, and have him be like, oh, I had no intention on using it. And when he's actually provoking, there were several witnesses, and I just want people to put the shoe on the other foot. All these people that are sitting here protesting against a kid being um responsible, he admitted he did it, he he himself said he did it. Oh, I'm being can hear an airplane in the background. He himself, Carmelo Anthony, um, said that he did the stabbing. And so um I want people to put the shoe on the other foot. If this were a white kid in this exact, literal, I'm talking literally the exact situation, but roles reversed. White kid did the stabbing to the black kid. All these people protesting right now and having the audacity to threaten the lives of Austin Metcalf's parents and twin brother. The the disgusting, disgusting audacity for human beings to not only be protesting and rioting and pissed off about the fact that this kid got sentenced because he actually took someone else's life and more than deserved it, he did it on purpose. It was premeditated because he had the knife with him. To me, that's premeditated. He should have got premeditated murder. That's probably why he got there 35 years, because it was premeditated. When you're bringing a weapon somewhere, you know, um, well, I guess you can make the argument that um if someone has a concealed carry permit that you're making the argument that they intend to use it. Well, yeah, if they need to, if they need to, in self-defense. Now, if that person is has a concealed carry permit and they have their gun on them, or let's say they just, you know, they carry their gun on them and um they're keeping it for protection. They have no intention whatsoever on using that gun, it is strictly for self-defense, strictly for protection. So people could go, oh, well, that is what Carmelo did. Okay, but he also went and provoked the kid. He went and provoked Austin, and there were witnesses that even said that. And so my point is if the situation were reversed and this were a white kid that were stabbing a black kid and every single thing, all the things are equal and everything is the same. Do you think that black people would be protesting? No. See, even the dog agrees. Did you hear that? Even she agrees. No, no, they wouldn't. They'd be like, justice, and then if it were Austin that did the stabbing and he got 35 years, you bet your ass that there are people out there that would be protesting that he should get more, that she he he should be sentenced to more than 35 years. They wouldn't be protesting that it was unfair, they wouldn't be protesting that it was self-defense. Hell to the no. We all know this. This isn't something I'm just making up. People are like, oh, people are gonna be like, well, you don't know, you don't know. That's just hearsay, that's just you making things up. I do know because I can go by the last 10 years. I do know because I can go by exactly what's been happening and all of the riots and all the protests and all of the social media um videos that are put out there by black people. I'm not against black people. I absolutely am not racist against black people. I'm saying the black people that are currently right now protesting and ticked off that Anthony, that Carmelo Anthony was sentenced and got consequences for his um murder, I'm speaking to the people that um disagree that Carmelo Anthony should be in jail. I'm speaking to those people, white or black, I don't care what color you are, whatever color you are, if you genuinely, and you're not doing it for clicks and likes and to be the cool kid, but if you genuinely in your heart agree that you feel that Carmelo Anthony should suffer no consequences, I want you to flip the rules and tell me then if you think the white kid deserves the consequences. I bet you you'd go, oh heck yeah! Burn him, burn him, burn him and his entire family. I've seen it, I've heard it, I have seen so many videos. Charlie Kirk, anyone? Have you heard of that man? Because look what happened there. People rejoiced and celebrated in his assassination. People are rejoicing and um celebrating in Trump's attempted assassination and then asking and begging for people to quote do the job and oh shucks, too bad it missed. Now I want you to again close your eyes and pretend that a Republican said that about AOC, about Kamala, about Biden, about Obama, about Obama's kids, because people really, really attacked. Um my gosh, why did I just for Barron. Uh they attacked Barron when Trump first became president, and the kid was like, what, 12 or some crap like that? Could you imagine what would happen if anybody attacked Sasha and Malia? Oh my god, the world would end. So it's amazing how people think something's right and tell the shoes on the other foot, and then watch everybody just eat their entire foot, just swallow their foot in their mouth and choke on it. But of course, they'll never admit it. We all know if the situation were reversed, exactly, exactly the same situation, but the white kid was the one that did the stabbing, there would be no protesting, there'd be celebrating. And that's messed up. Why do we not care about human lives anymore? All of these people claiming racism are being the actual definition of racist, and it boggles my mind that people can't see how blatantly obviously obviously racist you're being. That is the definition of racism when you only give a shit about your own race, and not at all the lives we are having so, so, so many now. Black people attacking white people and Muslims attacking white people. And no one cares. No one cares about white people anymore because somehow, hundreds of years ago, people that had nothing to do with us um had slaves. Excuse me, but my family actually has documentation of working in the Underground Railroad. My family has never been racist or owned slaves. My grandparents did not own slaves, thank you. And I've never ever ever done anything to deserve any of this, and neither has my family. But you're gonna cry racism while you're actively going out on the streets now, and Muslims are going around beheading white people? Muslims are actively shouting out death to America, and illegal immigrants are going around just unaliving people, willy-nilly, especially white people, mainly white people, almost all white people, and no one gives a shit because somehow a hundred years ago you never ever suffered a damn thing, and now you think you deserve shit? What about all the white people that have been slaves? You did not, you know, um invent slavery. You're not the only people that have been oppressed. Ever hear of women? There are so many um people that have been oppressed. Ever hear of, I don't know, the Jewish people? What the hell is wrong with people? Honestly, I don't want my grandkids being part of a world. I don't want anything to happen to them at all, but having knowing they're part of this disgusting, disgusting mentality that's going on right now scares the crap out of me. I will not raise my kids to be ashamed of the fact that they're white. What people should be ashamed of is acting like your race is superior, is promoting and encouraging the death of someone else simply because you disagree with them or you don't like a hat they wear. Remember the elderly man that was brutally murdered because he was a patriot? Because he was wearing um hats and had a had um patriotic stuff on his fence, and then a liberal went and unalived them because he didn't like it. I don't like looking at it. Close your fucking eyes then. Walk the other way then. How about that? Those are options. You don't need to unalive every single time you don't like something, and that's all that's been happening. Every single time a liberal doesn't like something, they unalive it. Why? Because they're souped up on hormones that they were given while they're already hormonal. Because teenagers are hormonal, and their hormones need to, you know, do their job before you start injecting them with a bunch of foreign crap. And now look what's happening, and look how many people are detransitioning and making videos about how absolutely mortified they are by the pain and suffering they're going through and how they wish to God they never transitioned. Now you're gonna go, well, there's other people out there that are happy about it. Good. That's few and far between. But I also love how the statistics are supposed to be, according to liberals, that only like 1% of the population is transgender. Interesting because every other person I talk to seems to be transgender nowadays. And all of Hollywood has like all of their children. They'll have like eight kids, and six of them will suddenly be transgender. I mean, Megan Fox claims that all three of her sons are transgender, and now that she has a girl, I'm sure at one year old she's also transgender now. So she's gonna have four kids, and then like what is it, Charlie's Theron and Jennifer Lopez and Jamie Curtis and all of these people. Jennifer Garner. Everybody has trans kids now. It's like the new hot item. And how gross is that? You're using your kids as like an accessory and for followers to feed your narcissistic crap, to live through them because your career is in the toilet, J-Lo. Because no one likes you, J Lo. Because you don't really have a lot of gigs anymore, Madonna. Ew. Did you guys see that Madonna video? Oh, so uh so gross. I don't care how old you are. If you want to rock your body, rock your body. That's not my problem. My problem with Madonna is not the fact that she wants to show off her body, whatever. You know, I far be it from me to say at what age you're not allowed, but it's the way she does it and the fact that she thinks that she moves around slower than my. I have a cat, you guys, that's 23 years old. My 23-year-old cat could absolutely run circles around Madonna. Madonna always, every time I see her now, have you noticed she has to be holding on to someone or something? Watch her. She has to be holding on to someone or something because she's either drunk, high, old, crazy, who knows. But she can't stand up. She can't stand on her own. And when she moves, she moves like she is incredibly drunk and has no idea where she is or what she's doing. And then she made a video for gay pride where she's like crawling around on her bathroom floor, which ew, with a cigarette out of her mouth, and she looks like she is drunk. She's in co she's incoherent, as I say it incoherently, but I'm exhausted. Okay, I have a I have an excuse. Um she is barely forming sentences, and she thinks she's sexy. Stop. I'm not saying you can't be sexy, you can't be sexy at 60 something. Not what I'm saying. I'm saying Madonna can't. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying she's she needs to hang up her cones, okay? Ill. I'm just done with the hypocrisy. It's so exhausting. I just want to live my life. Hang out with my sons and my grandkids and just my animals, do my podcast, smell the flowers, go on some hikes, live my life. I don't know when it's gonna end, and I certainly don't want to spend it being scared all the time. I don't know how the people in the UK and France and Ireland, I don't know how they're doing this. They intentionally allowed Muslims into and Haitians and these these wild. Wild people from third world countries into their country. They welcomed them, they wanted it, they said, America, you're horrible, racist, bigot pieces of crap if you don't allow these people that want your country and its citizens to die. I mean, they tell us blatantly to our faces, shout it in the streets, death to America, death to America. And yet all these countries are like, what a bunch of racist pieces of shit in America, because they won't allow these people that are terrorists who have already terrorized their country once before, and they're all pissed that we won't let them back in. And then look what happened to their countries when they allowed them in. France. Hello, France. I know you guys listened to my podcast. What is going on in your country right now? Is it better than America? No. That's the answer. Um, UK, the whole of UK. Is what going is are the things going on in your country better than America right now? No. So F off about talking smack about my country. Shut the fuck up, honestly, because your countries, you don't get to say that when your countries are absolute garbage right now. They're unsafe, very, very, very unsafe. And you've lost control. It's been taken over, it's been conquered. And you wanted America to feel bad. You berated us because we didn't want them in our country. And now you're probably going to ask for our help because that's what happens. Other countries make poor decisions, and then they're like, hey, America, come bail us out. After they've talked smack, after they have gone on and on and on about how terrible we are, after they do nothing but show race, I mean propaganda that is nothing but showing how America sucks. It's like misinformation and propaganda that the UK and France shows to the citizens so that they think that America is horrible. And then people actually visit America. And they end up doing reaction videos and falling in love with America and wish to God they could live here. Look how many people want to live in America. Do you think they want to live in America because it's like Iran? Do you think people want to live in America because it is like Palestine? Because it's like France right now? Because it's like the UK? Because it's like Canada? Because it's like Australia? No. No. They want to come here because they don't want and they see what's going on in these countries that have allowed the Muslims to take over. And now they don't want any part of it, and they desperately wish they could get out. And now they know that they screwed up. And you did. You screwed up. You screwed up horribly. And I am sending so many thoughts. And there are a lot of people that didn't vote for that. And my hearts go out to the people that did not want that. The people in France and the people in the UK that did not want this, that tried and tried and tried to push back, those people I feel sorry for. Let me make it clear. I do not at all have any sympathy for those of you that made your bed and spoke ill of everybody else for and called everybody names and said horrendous things about people because they didn't want Muslims in their country. I'm not speaking to you. You guys made your bed. Now you're lying in it, and I don't feel sorry for you. It's called consequences. But those of you that did not vote for this and didn't want this, I feel incredibly sorry for you. My heart genuinely goes out to you. You didn't want this, you didn't do this, and now you're suffering consequences that you did not want, that you protested against, that you fought hard not to happen. But people bought into the propaganda, people bought into wanting to be cool. You gotta be cool now. You gotta have followers now. And you can't have followers unless you're hating on America. That's like the latest trend. Hating on America, hating on straight people, hating on white people. You know the very people that helped end fucking slavery. You know the people that got rid of slavery. You know the people that are really incredibly diverse. We have people from all countries, and our flag, our flag is the original the OG diversity flag, which I've made many podcasts about. It is the OG diversity flag. But no, people just like to talk about how terrible America is until you ask them, hey, I'll give you a one-way ticket to France, I'll give you a one-way ticket to England, I'll give you a one-way ticket to Ireland, or I'll give you a one-way ticket to America. Yeah, we all know where this is going. Raise your hand if you picked Ireland. Raise your hand if you picked France. Raise your hand if you picked England. Now raise your hand if you pick America. I'm not hating on those other countries. I would love, love, love to go to Ireland. It looks beautiful. I'm sure the people are fucking amazing. I am not picking on these countries. I am picking on the people that live, the citizens in those countries that want and fight for Muslim people and fight for hate against America and fight for your rights to be taken. Not having like fight for censorship. The people that are fighting for censorship, the people that are fighting for um illegal immigrants coming in. I'm speaking to you. I'm not speaking to the people that didn't want this. I'm not speaking to the entire country of England or Ireland or France. Again, I'm speaking to those that make bad choices constantly and then somehow don't want to suffer any consequences for it and want everybody else that used their brain and used their knowledge. You want those guys to suffer. It's just like the people that don't work at all want the people that do work to pay all of the consequences and pay all of the taxes. Why they sit around and do nothing and act like they deserve it. Why do you deserve it? Because you're born? Because you came out of a vagina? Congratulations. So did the rest of us. Or maybe we were C-section, but you know what I mean. Congratulations. You did what every single other person that exists on the planet did. Unless you were somehow made up in like a science lab. I don't know why people think they're so fucking special. There's billions of us. Isn't that kind of the definition of not being special? I hate to burst your bubble. You're not special. You're a human. There are billions of us. Billions would they be. That means you're not rare at all. Now, what you can call yourself is are you a good person? Are you athletic? Are you hardworking? Are you kind? Are you trustworthy? Are you respectful? There are so many things that make people who they are. And being born, I don't think is anything special. What makes you special in my eyes to me is how, again, how you treat others, who you are as a human. But even then, it doesn't mean you're special. I don't feel like that's a special thing. I think that's like, oh, good for you. You're a good human being. Congratulations. Actually, it is a big deal because there doesn't seem to be a lot of good humans around anymore. And I don't want to think that way. I want to think that, you know, I did a podcast back when I was dog sitting in Beaverton, and I was saying that everybody that I came across was pleasant and kind and happy and positive, and that I didn't want to believe the internet because the internet will show you whatever you're looking for. If you're looking for negativity, man, it will flood you with negativity. If you're looking for positivity, it'll flood you with positivity. So it's that, you know, whatever you're looking for will be. You know, if you're looking for a yellow taxi, you're gonna see yellow taxis. So I started actually opening my eyes and looking around, and you know, the humans that I run across are usually pretty good. They're usually pretty darn kind. But I also see a lot of people that are pretty darn terrible these days, and man, it's terrible like next level. Like we're not just talking a little bit, we're talking full-blown crazy. Like we're just going around unaliving everybody, just like it's nothing. Human lives apparently mean nothing to people because we've gotten so used to the internet that I don't think we attach a human to it. We've gotten so desensitized, we're we never have to talk face to face with people. And when we do, apparently we have no social skills and can't handle it. We can't handle normal everyday confrontation. We're like, uh, I'm scared, stab, stab, stab. Oh, I'm scared, shoot, shoot, shoot. Oh, I'm scared, punch. Like, that is our go-to thing now is that when we don't understand something or when we don't like something, we're just going to annihilate it. We're gonna burn it, punch it, stab it, shoot it. Because we have no social skills anymore. Because everyone sits behind a computer and doesn't put feelings or emotions or DNA and blood and tissue onto a human anymore. It's just wires and robot. So people have no problem taking lives. It's like they don't even think they're taking a life. And then when there aren't any consequences, well, pff, why not keep doing it? When certain groups of people can get away with whatever they want, I see why they do it because they're like, well, why would I stop? This is great. I get to not work and I get to be fed, so why would I work? I get to commit crimes and not go to jail or have consequences, so why would I stop doing that? It's so bizarre. I just I want people to start putting things, uh, their shoe on the other foot and switching roles and see how you would feel if the roles were reversed. Again, let's pretend that AOC was up talking and someone just shot her point blank, and then made videos rejoicing in it, and then dressed up as her corpse, and then made fun of her partner if she had one, she doesn't, but if she ever gets one, um, sent her partner death threats, constant death threats, as she's grieving for the loss of her the loss of her loved one, and people are sending death threats, and people are rejoicing, and people are dressing up as her corpse, and threatening her family. Let's pretend Republicans did that to AOC or Obama or whatever. Insert Democrat there. You all know that would not go over well. You don't get to go, oh, but no, there's no but. It is never ever, it's not okay for one and not the other. It's not okay for one and not the other. It is not okay for one and not the other. There is no but and oh, insert excuse here. Why is there an excuse? Because someone's white, it's it's I just can't. Pride is not a bad thing. Pride is a good thing. We used to teach kids that all the time to be proud of themselves. Be proud of who you are, be proud of your heritage. That doesn't mean you think your heritage is better than someone else. Because you're proud of your heritage. Um, look at there is Black History Month, there's Native American month. That means they're proud. Proud of their background. Why can't white people be proud? Why? You can't tell me not to be proud of myself. Guess what? I'm proud of myself. I'm pretty fucking proud of who I am. I'm amazing. Thanks. Do I have my flaws? Oh hell yeah. Am I perfect? No. Have I ever claimed to be perfect? No. I don't think anybody is. But am I proud of who I am? Yeah, I really am. Because I'm a very hardworking, caring, trustworthy, respectful person. So you can't tell me not to be proud of myself because you don't get that right. I mean, who has the audacity to go around telling someone you don't get to be proud? You can disagree with someone all they want. You can think that someone is wrong and disagree with their opinion, but pride is a good thing. Pride, you should have pride in yourself. I mean, you know, if you're not a serial killer or something, but it's okay to be proud. Why are we teaching pride as a bad thing? But yet, it's not a bad thing if you're black or gay, apparently. It's only it's only bad if you're white. Listen to the massive damage you're doing to our children. All our children are hearing is you're white, don't be proud. You're white, be ashamed. You're white, you're guilty. You're white, you're bad. You're white, you owe. You owe everyone else. Do you know what that is gonna do to our kids? Do you understand the psychology behind what you are doing to our children? Don't anybody ever fucking come near my kids, my grandkids with that bullshit. I will take you the fuck out, and that is so not a threat. I will fucking knock your ass to the ground if you come up to my child and tell them they shouldn't be proud of themselves and treat them as if they should be ashamed. How fucking dare people do that to kids? How dare you? Would you like it if I walked up to your child and went, hey, little Native American, did you know that your people used to scalp others? Yeah, be real ashamed of that. No, that's just part of history that some Native American cultures, some Native American tribes, I don't know which ones to be honest. So I do know that some Native American tribes would scalp. Part of their history. Does that mean that Native Americans are bad people? No. I respect the crap out of Native Americans. I'm not saying that as an attack on Native Americans. I'm saying we all have our skeletons. We all have our imperfections. There's not a single race out there that doesn't have skeletons in their closet. So why are white people somehow the only ones that are being crucified for it? All of a sudden. Is it to somehow right a wrong? Because whatever happened to two wrongs don't make a right. How does that right the wrong? So then we're gonna go, okay, now we need to write our wrong, and then you're gonna go, no, now we need to write our wrong. And then pretty soon all we're doing is fighting over, no, you did this to me, so I'm doing it to you, and then retaliate, retaliate, retaliate, and then we're getting nowhere. Then we're just fighting all the time. That's not a world to live in. A world to live in is having my podcast on where I'm happy and I'm peaceful and I'm calm, and you're doing some yard work, but listening to my podcast. You're going to a job that you like, but listening to my podcast. Because I don't want to be grumpy in podcasts. I like positive Courtney. I don't like grumpy, irritated, frustrated, scared Courtney. That's no fun. Why can't we just look as at a life as a life? Why do we have to add gay, straight, and color and religion and everything? Again, it's part of what makes you you. It should not be your entire identity. Your sexual orientation, if that's the only thing you have to bring to the table, if that's the only thing you have to offer, then you need to do some maybe growth. You maybe you need to do some looking in, looking inward, and do some introspect because people should be more than their religion, more than their sexual orientation, more than their political point of view. All of those things together make you who you are, not just one of them. In my opinion. So I'm gonna try to do what I've been working on, and that is I'm gonna try to be looking at the good today. It's a beautiful day in my neck of the woods. I am at a house with an amazing view with two awesome dogs, and I am looking out at that amazing view while the sun is shining and birds are chirping, and there are literally soaring falcons. I'm looking at a falcon just soaring looking for its food. And I'm going to choose to believe that um, like Luke Bryant says, I believe most people are good. I'm gonna try to keep that thought in my head. I know that a lot of people have been um listening to my podcast, and I get fired up and I, you know, I get upset. But I'm sorry that uh no, I'm not gonna say I'm sorry. I am doing what I said I was gonna do, and that is basically journaling my thoughts. And sometimes my thoughts are kind of not great. Sometimes my thoughts are not the nicest, but you're gonna hear them because I'm gonna be honest about it. So I appreciate the people that can handle and stomach my podcast because it's not for everybody. Sometimes I'm lighthearted and I joke and it's happy and it's positive. Sometimes I'm cranky, sometimes I'm in between. You never know. That's why it's great to listen to my podcast because you don't know what it's gonna be. You know, there's a little something for everybody. You know how sometimes, if you're in a bad mood, you want to listen to like aggro music, you know, you want to listen to like pissed off music instead of music to make you happy. Sometimes my podcast, you want to listen to a cranky one, I've got that. Other times, if you want a little happier and positive, I've got that. I gotcha. But to everybody that's been listening, I honestly appreciate you so very much. I've got my YouTube and my TikTok and Instagram and Facebook. If you want to check those out and like and subscribe, that would be super awesome. Not telling you what to do, but I would appreciate it. Spread the word. Um, oh my gosh, that falcon's coming close. Wow. Cool. Anyway, um, thank you so much. I appreciate you guys. Until next time.