July 8, 2025

Epstein “Client List” Doesn’t Exist, Ted Cruz’s Greek Timing, and TSA's Quiet Shoe Policy Shift

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The Justice Department says there is no Epstein “client list,” despite years of speculation—so what was Pam Bondi waving around on Fox News? Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is caught vacationing in Greece while deadly floods devastate Texas. His office says he came back “as fast as humanly possible,” which apparently means “after dessert.” And finally, good news: the TSA might be letting us keep our shoes on—but what does that mean for TSA PreCheck?

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Caalaruga shark media.

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From Washington, d C.

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Where there is no list.

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We never said there was a list.

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This is ballot, that's right, and good news from the

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TSA for a change. Let's get this. So the Justice

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Department just to release a memo saying there's no Jeffrey

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Epstein client lists in their files, which is probably the

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most disappointing news conspiracy theorists have heard since they found

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out the moon landing was real. Attorney General Pambondi had

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previously suggested on Fox News that she had this mysterious

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client list on her desk, ready to expose powerful people,

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but now the DOJ is saying, sorry, no list exists,

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which is either the truth or the most elaborate game

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of the dog ate my homework in government history. The

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memo also confirmed that Epstein killed himself in prison back

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in twenty nineteen, which invests instigators concluded years ago. But

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telling conspiracy theorists that Epstein actually committed suicide is like

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telling kids that Santa isn't real. They're just not ready

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to hear it. Right Wing media personalities who spent years

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promoting these theories are now calling Bondai a liar on

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social media. Nothing says we trust our own people, like

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immediately turning on them the second they don't deliver the

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scandal you ordered. The White House is now defending Bondai,

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saying she wasn't talking about a client list, but rather

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the entire investigatory file. So basically they're saying she had

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papers on her desk about Epstein, which is probably true.

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Most attorney generals probably have papers on their desks revolutionary stuff. Meanwhile,

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FBI Director Cash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, who

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both gained fame questioning the official Epstein story, are now

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saying investigators got it right all along. That's got to

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be awkward spending years building your brand on conspiracy theories

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then having to run the agency that debunks them. The

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memo criticizes people for perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein, which

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does government speak for please stop making our jobs harder

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with your YouTube research. They pointed out that spreading conspiracy

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theories doesn't help combat child exploitation or bring justice to victims,

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which is a fair point that probably won't stop anyone.

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Elon Musk even got involved last month, posting that the

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files weren't released because Trump was on the list, then

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walking it back. So now we've got billionaires casually accusing

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presidents of crimes on social media, then going never mind

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like it's a deleted tweet about pineapple on pizza. The

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whole thing shows how conspiracy theories work in politics. Now

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you promise the smoking gun, get everyone excited, then when

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reality doesn't match the hype, you just blame someone else

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for lying. It's like ordering a mystery box online and

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getting angry when it doesn't contain Jimmy Hoffa. So Ted

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Cruz was vacationing in Greece when devastating floods hit Texas,

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killing over one hundred people, and his office says he

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came back as fast as humanly possible, which is apparently

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politicians speak for he finished his gyros first. Cruise's office

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released a statement explaining that the senator was already in

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the middle of a pre planned family vacation when the

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flooding occurred on July fourth. Within hours, he was making

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phone calls to Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,

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and President Trump to coordinate federal assistants. So he was

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working the phones from what I can only assume was

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a very scenic Greek beach. A tourist spotted Cruise in

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Athens around six pm Greek time on Sunday, which was

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ten am in Kerrville, Texas, where people were dealing with

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the aftermath of deadly flooding. The tourist, Michael Rocchio, snapped

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a photo and told the Houston Chronicle, I get it,

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he's on vacation, but after what happened, vacation or not,

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you should have been back on a plane on his

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way back to Texas. Cruise's office insists he left Athens

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Sunday morning and was back in Texas that night, then

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on the ground in Kerrville early Monday morning, so technically

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he did return quickly, just not before someone got a

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photo of him, apparently enjoying Greek hospitality while his constituents

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were dealing with a natural disaster. This is the same

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Ted Cruz who famously flew to Cancun during the twenty

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twenty one winter storm that left millions of Texans without

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power or water. He later called that trip obviously a mistake,

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which suggests he learned his lesson about vacation timing, well,

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sort of learned his lesson. The difference this time is

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that Cruise's office is emphasizing all the phone calls he

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made while abroad, which is the political equivalent of saying

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I was working from home when you were actually working

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from a Mediterranean resort. Sure you can coordinate disaster response

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from anywhere with cell service, but optics matter in politics.

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Cruise defended the cancuon trip by saying his daughters wanted

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to go, which was widely mocked. This time, his office

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is gon with the pre planned family vacation angle, which

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sounds more official but still raises the question of whether

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maybe family vacation plans should be flexible when your state

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is underwater. The tourist who photographed crews said he's not

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even a Texan and is openly critical of Cruse's politics,

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but still thought the Senator should have been heading home.

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When your vacation photos are being taken by random critics

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who think you should be doing your job, that's probably

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not a great sign. At least this time, Cruise didn't

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blame his kids for the trip. Progress, I guess, and

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good news for Ted Cruz. So the TSA has quietly

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started letting travelers keep their shoes on at airport security,

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ending one of the most universally despised rules in air travel.

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After nearly twenty years of forcing millions of people to

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shuffle through checkpoints in their socks, someone apparently realized that

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maybe this wasn't the best system. The shoe removal requirement

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started in two thousand and six, almost five years after

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the so called shoe bomber tried to detonate explosives in

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his footwear on a flight from Paris to Miami. So

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for two decades, every air traveler has been paying the

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price for one guy's failed attempt at terrorism, taking off

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their shoes and hoping the airport floor isn't too gross.

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The TSA hasn't officially announced this change, which is typical

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government behavior, quietly implementing a policy shift without fanfare, probably

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hoping no one notices until it's fully rolled out. A

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TSA spokesman gave the classic non answer. TSA and DHS

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are always exploring new and innovative ways to enhance the

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passenger experience, which is bureaucrats speak for we're doing something,

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but we're not ready to admit it yet. The change

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was first reported by a travel newsletter written by a

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former TSA officer who said he'd seen the soft launch

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at airport and received an internal memo about it. He

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pointed out that technology has advanced enough that officers can

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now detect threats while passengers are wearing shoes, which raises

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the obvious question if the technology has been capable of

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this for a while, why did it take twenty years

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to implement. This is potentially devastating news for TSA PreCheck,

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the eighty dollars program that lets you keep your shoes

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on as one of its main selling points. The former

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TSA officer said he believes a huge shift is coming

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to pre check because letting regular travelers keep their shoes

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on will significantly diminish the value of the program, So

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people who paid for the privilege of keeping their shoes

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on might now be wondering what exactly they're paying for.

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It would be like paying extra for Wi Fi on

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a plane and then finding out everyone gets it for free.

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The whole thing highlights how arbitrary some security theater can be.

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For twenty years, we've been told that removing shoes is

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essential for safety, and now suddenly it's not necessary anymore.

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Either the threat was overblown to begin with, or technology

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caught up and nobody bothered to update the policy until now.

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This could be the first domino in a series of

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TSA policy changes that make air travel slightly less miserable.

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Next thing, you know, they might let us keep our

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laptops in our bags or bring full size shampoo bottles,

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although knowing the government, they'll probably find some new inconvenience

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to replace the shoe thing, just to keep us on

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our toes or should I say, keep us on our shoes.

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Portions of today's show were made with the help of AI.

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Now stick around for this interview and I'll see you tomorrow.

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I'm so excited to talk to you, Carl. Talk to

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me a guy who's had this illustrious business career. What

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made you decide to write a book on happenings? You

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could have gone in some many other directions.

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Well, actually I didn't, Donnie. I didn't decide to write

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a book. Something happened. This happiness experiment happened in real life,

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in real terms. I had no idea about writing a book,

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but I saw it working. The experiment was working. My

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friends and family were getting happier, They're increasing their happiness,

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and I saw it, so I thought I need to

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write about this, and so that's when I got into

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writing the book.

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And talk to me about pre talk to me what

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it's about and how it's the foundation of things.

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Well, it came about through three major things that happened

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in life. When I almost died in a plane crash.

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If you read the book, you'll find out whether I

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survived or not. The other thing that happened was I

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got a call from my sister in England. She told

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me her husband was dying. He had six months to live.

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So I flew to England and she was in my

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will and I said, Janet, you're in my will as

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a bequest, but that's something you need right now, so

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I'm going to make it a prequest. I'm going to

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bring that bequest forward and pay it to you now

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while you can enjoy it and your husband can fulfill

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his last wishes. She was overjoyed, burst into tears of course,

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and said all these is great. My brother was there

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at the same time, and I said, Barry, since I've

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done this too for my sister, I'm going to bring

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your bequest forward, make it a prequest. And he said,

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oh that's fabulous, Thank you very much. You're very generous

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his wife and ballistic. She said, this is too much money.

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It's wrong.

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I don't want anything to do with it, and stormed

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out of the room. So that was a real surprise. Anyhow,

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she got over it, and the next thing that happened

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is I look at my investments. I got a lot

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of money sitting investments, not doing anything. Wasn't working for me,

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wasn't working for my friends. So I said, why don't

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I use this money for my own success and happiness

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and also for my friends, the people that helped me

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get to be wealthy and successful.

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That's what I did. So it's not a one time thing.

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This is kind of a lifetime experiment, if you will.

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Yeah, it turned out that way because I didn't want

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to just give people money and say, you know, be happy.

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I said, I want this to enrich your life, be

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something special. So I'd like you to think about it.

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Plan something, write a happiness plan. And they asked, what's

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a happiness plan? I said, when I get that, I'll

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give you all the money, and well, let's see how

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it works out.

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So you talk about coaching and grants to reshape and

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change lives, which is timely given what's going on in

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the world today.

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Yeah, And the thing is that it wasn't just about

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the money, Donnie. The money is important. We love money,

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it's good to have it. But what really worked with

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these people was the planning with a happiness coach. They

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thought about carefully what they wanted to do that's gonna

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enrich their life, make them happier, what things they love,

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things that they were fascinated with, and they wrote all

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that down with a happiness coach. They had a plan.

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And as soon as I got the plan, I said,

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here's the money, all of it. It's all yours. You

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don't owe me anything, no strings attached. And they went

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off and started becoming happier.

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It's incredible. So the inspiration for this was just your

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your your death experience.

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Well that was part of it, but it was a

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number of things that happened. First off, I was very,

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very grateful for the people that helped me to become successful,

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and I wanted it. Being grateful is terrific. Okay, we

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love that you talk about gratitude and gratitude journaling all

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those sort of things, but the real thing is is

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expressing the gratitude, telling somebody how much you care about

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them appreciating what they did for you writing a letter.

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It doesn't have to be about money. It can be possessions.

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It can be money, it can be attention, could be time.

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It can be knowledge, your wisdom that you share with

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younger people. But it's what you're doing while you're still

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alive that counts. When you did, it's over.

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It's such a simple but brilliant point. And how do

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you think, let's say play this out that people kind

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of really buy into this intentional happiness and prequesting. How

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does the world become a better place. Let's take this

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up ten thousand feet.

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Well, it would be great. Well, the reason I wrote

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the book is I want this idea to get into

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the world so that certainly the wealthy people, they can

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do the prequesting make themselves and their friends and family

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happier right now while they're still alive. The other thing,

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I want the book to show how these people planned,

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thought about their happiness, created a happiness plan, and then

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worked at and to become happier. And others can learn

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from their experiences, reading their plans and then doing the

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same thing. And in the back of my book there's

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a workbook which goes through that step by step and

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a plan to increase your happiness.

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How do we get this into the workplace, into schools

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and kind of really to your point, get this in there.

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You know that would be lovely if it went into

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the schools, and I think in high schools this would

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be a really good subject to put on the curriculum.

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How do you what is happiness? How do you achieve happiness?

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What's it all about? What is happiness? It's a great question.

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You'll have to read my book. But but in short,

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in short emotion, we all know what happiness is. It's

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feeling good, it's joyful, it's exhilaration, it's loving life. That's

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what it is, a feeling. But it's also a mindset. You

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have to think that I deserve happiness. I want to

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be happy. I'm taking my happiness seriously. So it's heart

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and mind, not just one or the other. So it's

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that combination. But really, I give but a whole chapter

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in the book on what is happiness? And it's a

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it's a it's a great chapter. You'll love the book.

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Now a lot of people I cannot wait through. I'm

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so excited, like just turned on listening to you a

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lot of people equate happiness to financial success and things,

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and what am I going to learn in the book

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about that?

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Well, happiness, money is important, Okay, let's let's get that

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off the table. Listen, But it's not going to buy

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you happiness. The good use of money is really important

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how you do it, But it's the mindset. It's the

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pursuit of happiness that counts. Taking your happiness seriously, wanting

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what you want, and what you want is important, your dreams,

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your purpose is in life, what you want to achieve

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in your career, what you want to treat with your family,

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what you want to achieve. Your purpose is all around

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what you value. Are you pursuing those values, are you

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living those values? This is what it's all about. Money helps,

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but it's all those other spiritual things, if you like,

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psychological things, that are really the root of happiness. And

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as we all know, some people very rich and they're

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very unhappy. And this is a lot of for people

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want to be really happy.

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I a would say money could solve problems, but it

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can't buy your happiness. But you certainly can throw into problems.

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But that's about the extent of it. So let's play

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this out, how does the right now the world could

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use this more than ever. So how do let's say,

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if I just did this fantasy and said, Okay, everybody's

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going to everybody's going to do this prequest, everybody's going

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to do the happiness planning, how does the world look different.

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Well, as you know, Donnie, when you're happy, your family

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tends to be happy, your friends are happier, and happiness ripples,

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it spreads. And if this idea gets into the world,

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which I'm I'm working very hard to get it into

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the world talking to you because you're going to buy

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lots of these books and you're going to tell all

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your friends about it.

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Right, So I am, yes, I am.

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If this goes, it spreads, it ripples. It doesn't stay

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just with you. It goes down to your family, to

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your friends, and to your community. And if a lot

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of wealthy people did this, and it's not just about wealth,

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it's possessions, it's time, it's love, it's wisdom that we

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can share with others. We're still alive here and now.

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And if that gets into the world and there's a

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lot of people start doing this and this, that the

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happiness level in the world will increase little by little,

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and I'd be very happy about that.

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Mister Barney, it's been inspirational talking to you. I am

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going to get this book immediately. I could recommend it

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just based on what we've talked about to anybody, because

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we all could use a little happiness. I appreciate take,

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appreciate you taking the.

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Time, happy to be here. Thanks Dnnie