July 11, 2025

Superman Is an Immigrant—and That’s Apparently a Problem Now

Superman Is an Immigrant—and That’s Apparently a Problem Now
Director James Gunn triggered outrage by pointing out Superman is—gasp!—an immigrant. Conservatives melted down, Fox News lost its mind, and the cast of the new Superman movie clapped back. Also: Stephen Miller blames immigration for... traffic jams. Seriously. Because nothing says policy genius like blaming Somalia for your commute.For more political absurdity and culture war chaos, subscribe to Ballot. Go ad-free with Caloroga Plus at caloroga.com/plus
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Callaroga, Shark Media.

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Look up in the sky.

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It's a bird, It's a plane.

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This is ballad and today is seven to eleven. Maybe

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we can get a free slurpee. Let's hit this. I'm

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Patrick Gutfield, and the director of the new Superman movie

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has triggered a conservative meltdown by pointing out that Superman is,

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technically speaking, an immigrant. James Gunn said Superman is the

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story of America, an immigrant that came from other places

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and populated the country, which is literally the plot of Superman.

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Alien baby crashes on Earth, gets adopted by Kansas farmers,

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grows up to save humanity. But apparently stating basic comic

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book facts is now considered controversial. Gun doubled down in

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the Times of London interview, saying the movie is about

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human kindness, and obviously there will be jerks out there

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who are just not kind and will take it as

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offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them.

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You know you've hit a nerve when saying be nice

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to people becomes a political statement. Fox News The Five

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immediately went into full outrage mode, with Kelly and Conway

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complaining we don't go to the movie theater to be

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lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.

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The ideology in question basic human decency, truly radical stuff.

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Jesse Waters joke that Superman's cape had MS thirteen printed

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on it, which is a reference to the International Crime Game.

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So now we've got Fox News hosts suggesting that Superman,

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the guy who literally stands for truth, justice and the

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American Way, is somehow connected to violent criminals. That's quite

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a leap from Alien babylands in Cornfield. Greg Gutfeld accused

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Gun of creating a mode of woke enlightened opinion around

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him and having a woke shield. So apparently caring about

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immigrants is now a super and Gun is using it

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to protect himself from criticism. If only real life problems

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could be solved with woke shields. At the movie's Los

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Angeles premiere, Nathan Fillion, who plays Green Lantern, laughed off

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the controversy, saying somebody needs a hug. It's just a movie, guys,

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It's just a movie, which is probably the most reasonable

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response to people getting angry about a fictional character's immigration status.

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Shawn Gunn went further, saying on the Red Carpet, we

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love our immigrants. Yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes,

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the people that we support in this country are immigrants.

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And if you don't like that, then you're not American.

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That's got to sting for people who've spent decades cheering

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for a character they apparently never realized was an immigrant.

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The whole controversy shows how deeply we've politicized everything when

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comic book movies become culture war battlegrounds. Superman has been

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an immigrant since nineteen thirty eight, but now that someone

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explicitly mentioned it, we're having a national debate about whether

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the last Son of Krypton is too woke for America.

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The IRS just gave churches the green light to endorse

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political candidates from the pulpit, settling a lawsuit by basically saying, hey,

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if you're talking to your congregation, that's just family talk.

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This carves out an exemption to the Johnson Amendment, the

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nineteen fifty four law that banned tax exempt nonprofits from campaigning.

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The IRS now says when churches endorse candidates during religious services,

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they're treating it like a family discussion concerning candidates, which

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is a nice way of saying your Sunday sermon can

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now double as a campaign rally. And here's the kicker.

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In the age of live streams in social media, these

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private endorsements to congregations are going to end up all

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over the internet anyway. As one expert put it, even

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Las Vegas doesn't stay in Las Vegas these days. So

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Stephen Miller has discovered a new reason to be angry

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about immigration traffic jams. Yes, the White House Deputy Chief

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of Staff is now blaming migrants for making his commute longer,

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which is probably the most relatable complaint he's ever made.

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During a Fox News appearance with Jesse Waters, Miller went

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on his typical anti immigrant rant, but this time with

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a vehicular twist. He complained about unlimited numbers of illegals

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coming from countries incapable of managing their own affairs, specifically

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calling out Somalia and Haiti as places with no history

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of successful self government. Now, I'm not sure what Miller's

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daily drive looks like, but blaming traffic on immigrants is

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a bold new take on road range. Most people just

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blame construction zones or that one person who insists on

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going exactly the speed limit in the left lane. But

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Miller he's out here stuck behind a minivan, thinking this

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is definitely Somalia's fault. The idea that immigrants are causing

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traffic problems is fascinating because it suggests Miller has never

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been to Los Angeles, where traffic has been terrible since

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before most of these immigrants were even born, or New York,

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where gridlock is basically a municipal art form, or literally

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any major American city where sitting in traffic is just

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part of the experience. Miller's complaint about countries being incapable

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of managing their own affairs is particularly rich coming from

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someone in an administration that's still figuring out how to

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manage its own affairs. We've got ai impostors calling foreign

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ministers and cabinet secretaries asking Instagram followers to vote on

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official portraits. But sure, let's worry about other countries' organizational skills.

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The whole traffic angle is probably Miller's attempt to make

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immigration feel more personal to suburban voters instead of abstract

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policy debates. Now he can say, see that backup on

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Interstate ninety five, that's because of refugees. It's like blaming

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your neighbor's dog for your Wi Fi being slow? What's

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next for Miller's immigrant blame game. Are they going to

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be responsible for long lines at Starbucks, bad cell phone reception,

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that one grocery store that never has enough checkout lanes open.

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The possibilities are endless when you're committed to finding new

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ways to complain about the same thing. This is classic Miller,

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taking a complex policy issue and reducing it to whatever

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will make people most angry in the moment. Traffic is

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the perfect ticket because everyone hates it, and now Miller

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can point to any backup and say, see, this is

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what open borders gets you. The best part is that

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Miller probably delivered this traffic rant while sitting in his

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government provided vehicle stuck in Washington, d C. Traffic that's

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been legendarily awful since the city was built on a swamp.

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But hey, why blame urban planning when you can blame immigrants?

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And please, don't even get me started on the space

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traffic being caused by Kryptonians. Portions of today's show were

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made with the help of AI and General Zod. Now

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stick around for this interview and I'll catch you on Monday.

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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? She

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could have gone in some man the 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 prequested. 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 this 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, oh,

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that's fabulous, thank you very much. You're very generous. His

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wife and ballistic. She says, this is too much money.

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It's wrong. I don't want anything to do with it,

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and stormed out of the room. So that was a

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real surprise. Anyhow, she got over it, and the next

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thing that happened is I look at my investments. I

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got a lot of money sitting investments, not doing anything.

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It wasn't working for me, wasn't working for my friends.

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So I said, why don't I use this money for

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my own success and happiness, also for my friends, the

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people that helped me 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 one 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 giving 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's important. We love money, it's

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good to have it. But what really worked with these

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people was the planning with a happiness coach. They thought

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about carefully what they wanted to do that's going to

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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 is the money, all of it. It's all yours.

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You don't owe me anything. No strings attached, and they

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went 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 them,

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appreciating what they did for you, writing with 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 it's such a simple but brilliant point. And how

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

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kind of really buy into this intentional happy and prequesting.

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

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this up ten thousand feet.

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

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book is I want this idea to get into the

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world so that certainly the wealthy people, they can do

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the prequesting make themselves and their friends and family happier

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

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want the book to show how these people planned, thought

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

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at and to become happier. And others can learn from

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their experiences, reading their plans and then doing the same thing.

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And in the back of my book there's a workbook

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which goes through that step by step and a plan

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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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What is happiness? How do you achieve happiness? What's it

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all about? What is happiness? A great question you have

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to read my book. But but in short, in short emotion,

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we all know what happiness is. It's feeling good, it's joyful,

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it's exhilaration. It's loving life. Is that? So what it

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is a feeling, but it's also a mindset. You have

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to think that I deserve happiness. I want to be happy.

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I'm taking my happiness seriously. So it's heart and mind,

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not just one or the other. So it's that combination.

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But really, I give but a whole chapter in the

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

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

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A lot of people I can't cannot cannot wait to

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read it. I'm so excited, like just turned on listening

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to you. A lot of people equate happiness to financial

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success and things. And what am I going to learn

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in the book 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 it's it's the mindset.

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It's the pursuit of happiness that counts. Taking your happiness seriously.

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Wanting what you want and what you want is important,

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your dreams, your purpose is in life, what you want

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to achieve in your career, what you want to treat

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with your family, what you want to achieve their purposes,

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all around what you value. Are you pursuing those values,

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are you living those values? This is what it's all about.

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Money helps, but it's all those other spiritual things, if

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you like, psychological things, that are really the root of happiness.

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And as we all know, some people very rich and

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they're very unhappy. And this is a lot of people

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people want to be really happy. I would say money

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could solve problems, but it can't buy your happiness. But

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you certainly can throw into problems. But that's about the

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extent of it. So let's play this out. How does

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the right now the world could use this more than ever.

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So how do let's say, if I just did this

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fantasy and said, Okay, everybody's going to everybody's going to

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do this prequest, everybody's going to do the happiness planning.

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What is the 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 do, get it

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into the world. Talking to you, because you're going to

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

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all your friends about.

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It, right, So I am, yes, I am.

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

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

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

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

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about wealth, it's possessions, it's time, it's love, it's wisdom

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that we can share with others while we're still alive

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here and now. And if that gets into the world

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and there's a lot of people start doing this, then

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this that the happiness level in the world will increase

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little by little, 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 can 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 little happiness. I appreciate take appreciate

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you taking the time