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He served at the Pentagon as an army jag. He graduated from Notre Dame

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and has two law degrees from Boston University and Georgetown University. He's been practicing

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law for over thirty years. He's your family's personal attorney. It's time for

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the David Carrier Show. Hello, and welcome to the David Carrier Show.

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I'm David Carrier, your family's personal attorney. This is the World War three

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kickoff edition of the David Carrier Show. You say, well, it's not

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a little extreme. I'm not sure that it is. I mean, you,

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you know, you history buffs there. Remember how World War One got

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started in Sarajevo with the you know, one guy and a pistol, And

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then you know, World War Two didn't get started with you know who wants

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to die for Danzig? Right? Well, here we are again, and

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we've got actual shooting wars going on and most continents right actuals declared shooting.

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You know, I don't know what you call Ukraine, if that's any special military operation, but there you are. And now we've managed to screw things

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up bad enough. And and you know, if you think where we were

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four years ago in the Middle East, the person the country that's lobbying three

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hundred drones and ballistic missiles and whatnot. Not the only democracy, the only

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true democracy in the Middle East. That country was kind of boxed up until

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you know, it had been for quite a while. And then a certain

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president gave them billions of dollars in relief, and then we had another president

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who clamped them down, and then we got the current president who again sent

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power. It's a cash billions upon billions of dollars, and you know all

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the rest of this. And you know, sometimes it's not a bad idea.

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I mean, I mean, it's crazy idea, it's wild. I

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know, it's kind of wild. But maybe if you I don't know,

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maybe if you listen to what people say they're going to do right, right,

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Like, if you've got somebody who says, I'm going to do this horrible, terrible thing right and you know it's a bad thing. Let's say

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it's a bad thing that they say they're going to do. Well, does

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it make how much sense does it make to pretend that they didn't say that?

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How much sense does it make to wish and hope and dream that they

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didn't really mean it? Maybe you know, and then and then if they

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take pictures of themselves doing terrible, horrible things and to the general applause of

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their population, maybe just maybe, I know, it is this crazy,

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it's just a crazy, crazy thought, but maybe you should take them seriously.

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Maybe you should think that the things that they're actually doing, they know

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what they want to do. Maybe you should give them that respect that they

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at least know what they want to do and they're doing it on purpose.

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Maybe I know it's a crazy idea, but you know, maybe we should

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do that. Maybe we should look to the natural consequences of our actions and

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not be surprised when the natural consequences occur. What do you think all the

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planning is about? What do you think? And you say, oh, that's craziness. What are you talking about that? For? This is a

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suppose we talk about a state planning, elder law, real estate and business

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law. Yeah, Well, here's the thing. People are people, organizations

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or organizations. The world is the world. Okay, what we're talking about

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here? Been talking about for what is it? I don't know, not

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twenty years, I don't think, but we're getting close anyway. The point

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is for twenty almost almost not quite twenty years. You know, we've been

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talking about how do you approach the future. What is your relationship to the

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future. You can live in denial, sure, lots of people do.

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Lots of people want to pretend that everything's going to be just fine. Right,

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They ignore the warning signs, they ignore everything else. And then some

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people say, hh, nothing else in my life has worked out when I

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do that? Right when the it's just in the news. You know,

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this guy the railroad lines come to you know, the gate comes down,

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the lights blank, you know, and the guy drives is struck into the

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train, right, I mean, how how does that happen? It happens?

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I mean you say, well, you know, we you know,

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you can feel good about it. It's like, hey, we down ninety

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nine percent of the missiles and stuff like that. That that these bad guys

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say at the other guys. Right, well, what if that was you

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know the city you live in, right, is your city ringed with missile

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defenses? Is this country ringed with missile defenses? No, this country doesn't

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even have a border wall. This the country that this country flies people in,

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you know who want to come here, who you know, didn't follow

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the rules whatever, or whatever they feel bad in their own country, like,

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oh, bad things are happening to me here. All right, I

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got a free ticket to go over there. You don't believe it. You don't believe that Google it. Okay, Google hasn't suppressed all of it yet.

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I'm sure they're busy too in that. But anyway you can find out

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about the fact that you don't act, we have to make the walk. They'll send you an airline ticket. All right, God is my witness.

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I mean, well, excuse me, Google has my witness. I mean

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I didn't research the original documents of myself, but there it is. You

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know, you can tell yourself, oh, that doesn't happen. Doesn't happen

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as a matter of fact, And here we are. Okay. What can

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you do about effectless government? Well, you can vote them out is one

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thing you can do. And you decide if you want to do that. That's one hundred percent, one hundred percent up to you. I have nothing,

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no comment on that whatsoever. You want to do it. You think

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things are going great. You're all happy with the happy talk coming off the

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major you know media. You think that's all good. God bless you wonderful.

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Okay, super you know, and look under your pillar when the tooth

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fairy shows up. So that's all good, you decide, you just that

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that's not my that's not my beat. You know what I'm concerned about,

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are is you? The fact that you have worked, the fact that you

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have saved, the fact that you have in the area of your greatest expertise,

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greatest expertise, which is your own life. Okay, how do I

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work at the job? How do I, you know, make my own

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investments? How do I get along with my family? How do I do

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all the different things that I need to do to be a good spouse,

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a good parent, a good contributor to the community, all the rest of

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that stuff. Okay, Well, the big lessons which are ignore the danger

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signs, pretend everything's going to be okay, These don't work any better when

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you apply them in your own life. Sure, maybe the consequences are less,

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right, personal bankruptcy, you know, not getting the care that you

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need, on and on. Maybe those are life. Yes, yeah,

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it's not as bad as cities being blown apart or anything like that. So

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okay, fine, but the same lessons apply. Okay, realism, not

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wishful thinking, right, solid planning, based on past results. You know

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they always say on the uh you know, whenever you listen to one of

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those you know, financial wizard things. You know, what do they say

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a future performance is not guaranteed or what past performance is no guarantee of future

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results? Right, that's what they say, past performance no guarantee of future

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results, which is accurate. It's not a guarantee. But you know what,

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the very best way, the very best way of figuring out what's going

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to happen tomorrow. You know what it is what happened yesterday, right,

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right? I mean, if you got a if you got a biting dog,

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you can say, well, maybe the dog won't bite. Yeah,

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maybe it won't, you know, just because you snatch the piece of meat

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out of its mouth, it might not bite you. It did the last

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five times, but maybe not this time. Okay, And play the lottery

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too, Maybe this time you win, maybe that time. It will work

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that way. But you and I both know that that is not how the

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world works generally speaking. And I'm not saying the world is not unfair.

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There's unfairness in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Okay, I wouldn't deny that, But generally speaking, you get what you

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pay for, right, you get The consequences you experience are the result of

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the things that you have done. When you look around the world right now

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on the brink of God knows what God knows, I don't know. Right

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here we are, right, How can you say that we didn't influence this?

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How can you say that the actions that we took arming giving money to

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and all the rest of it, the people who said, this is what

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we're going to give us the money because it's our money, and here's what we're gonna do with it. How can we be surprised the fact that they're

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doing it. I mean, look, if you wind up in long term

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care, most people do. Hello, most people do. According to the

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government, seventy plus percent wind up three years of skilled care, not out

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necessarily in a nursing room, could be at home care. Whatever. You've

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heard me say that before, Right, That's not my number, that's government's

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number. Right. Well, you can pretend it's not gonna happen. But

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there you go. You've been listening to the David Carrier Show. On David

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Just call seven seven twenty four twenty four. This is the David Carrier

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Show. Welcome back to the David Carrier Show. I'm David Carrier, your

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family's personal attorney. Now's the time give us a call. Six one six

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seven seven four twenty four six one six seven seven four twenty I did that.

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I hate the mute button. Seven seven four twenty four to twenty four.

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We'll get your question, comment or concern on the air. Now I've

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only got this. This is the last segment. I got to catch a plane, spent the spent the weekend with my uh my brothers and my sons

11:46

and my nephews and all the rest of the folks down in sunny Florida.

11:50

That was you know, you need to do that every once in a while,

11:54

don't you think, you know, just the kind of and reconnect see

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where everybody's uh, everyone's head's that, you know. It's so it's been

12:03

a really wonderful, uh wonderful weekend, wonderful chance to experience you know,

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just get the get the family back together again, just for a little uh,

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you know, for a little bit. But if if you're wondering,

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why does it sound so bad because I'm doing this on my cell phone instead

12:22

of from the studio. But uh, six one, six seven, twenty

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four, twenty four. Now we're we're talking to Steve earlier, and you

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know he's talking about the the workshops that we do. Yeah, you know,

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the workshops. Call them the three Secrets workshops. Why do we call

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them three secrets because none of the stuff, frankly, you know it's not

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secret, but it might as well be, right, See, none of

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the none of the stuff that we do is oh so very mysterious. Right.

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But because everyone keeps getting told, oh, you just need a will,

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Oh you just need a Ladybird deed. Oh you just need beneficiary designations.

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Oh you just need this, you just need that, right, the

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betrayal that is inherent in that approach is played out every day in families that

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go broken long term care by assets that don't get where they're supposed to go.

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All you know, that's what happens in the real world. This just

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this approach is disaster and the frustration, a frustration, well you've you've experienced

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this yourself. Have you ever been in a situation where you knew what was

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going on right, and some loud mouth is saying something else right, and

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people are listening to the loudmouth because what that person is saying is something that

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makes them feel comfortable, that makes them feel better. And you're like,

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yeah, yeah, but but it does doesn't really work like that. It

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really works like this, And the way it really works is as it always

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as always happens right. The way things really work are It's more complex than

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you wish it was. Everybody wants a simple solution, Believe me, I

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do too, Okay, but part of growing up is realizing that the simple

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solution is rarely, rarely the correct solution. The simple solution is rarely the

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solution that's going to get you what you really want. And so when people

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say, oh, just a lady birdy, this just to that what it

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is is a way to cut off the conversation. What it is is a

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way to short circuit your thought process, right, because if you think,

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well, I can get it done, oh and I just need to do

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that just this one thing, what else in the world is like that?

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Have you ever made a cake. I don't like a bake in the oven

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cake. Have you ever done that? Right? Well, I just need the mix. I just need the eggs. I just need the milk.

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I just need the oil if you do that, which I do, or

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the apple sauce if you want a substute apple sauce or oil, which is

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probably healthier. But I don't do it anyway. You know, I just

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need this. I just know you need all of those things, and then

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you need to do it in sequence. And who likes to hear that?

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Nobody like I don't like hearing it. I don't like knowing that there are

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things that need to be done in this order. I get it, understand,

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but that doesn't mean it doesn't have to be done that way. Look

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around the world right now, and what you're seeing is the consequence of the

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just the just do this mentality. Oh, we just need to appease this

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country over there, We just need to send them some more money. We

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just need to do this. We just need to, you know, take

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care of this situation. And what always happens when you do that, when

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you when you take that approach to solving a problem, right, you recognize

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the problem. So you know you've got to do something when you take the

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just approach to it, just this, just that you see if this isn't

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true in your own life, you know this is true. You've you've lived

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this. You think you solved one thing, two more pop up, right,

16:27

and now you're going to slap band aids on those, and then four

16:30

more come out of the woodwork right when you there are ways to solve problems

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that take time, take thought, right, you got to if you don't

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do it that way, you know what happens. Right, You've experienced this,

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and what we try to do in the Three Secrets is address three,

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you know, implicitly three of the most common what would you say, misconceptions,

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three of the most common ways that people take that just approach. I

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just need to do this. And it's like, look, here's what happens

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when you do this. Here's what happens when you do that. Here's the

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way the world actually works. It's not mysterious, okay, it's not unfair,

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it's not they're out to get you, Okay, it's just the way

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the world works. Now. When people pray, When people pray, you

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know, on people's desire. Other folks desire for things to be simple,

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right, because we admit it. We all want things so I do too.

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We all want things to be simple. We always want the simple solution.

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Okay, but the world is not always so sometimes it is. Sometimes

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there are simple things. You just do this, you just do that,

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and now you're done. But that's unusual, that is rare. We're living

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in a situation right now where the grown ups have left the room and put

17:59

it in charge of peace people who were doing public relations management. Right,

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I got to satisfy this pressure group. Ignore the fact that you know what,

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here's a question for you all, this passing the buck stuff. We're

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at a trillion dollars, trillion, tr trillion dollars in interest in interest,

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We're paying a trillion dollars this year on the national debt. How how can

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that work? How can that? You know, how can that work without

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hyper inflation? Well? I guess what. We also have hyper inflation,

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so I guess that's how it works. Okay, I mean, no simple,

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Well, the simple solution was just create more money. Do you remember

18:44

that? There are people saying, oh, all we have to do is we can we can create more money out of our problems. Okay, there

18:49

is no easy solution. There is no simple solution that works. What there

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is are thoughtful planning, right, learning what's actually going on, keeping your

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eyes open, all right, keeping your ears open, and then doing what

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may not be as comfortable, as easy, as nice as you would like

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it to be. But but as in everything else in your life, these

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are the things that actually work. Okay. You know, if you look

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back and you say, well, it's easy, you know what was it?

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Wishes and dreams were candies and creams would all be a lot fatter than

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we are, right, So you know, wishes and dreams aren't gonna help

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you. What does help, though, is solid planning, eyes open,

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take the reality, face the reality, and then move in relation to that.

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And that's what the Three Secrets are all about. That's a start down

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that path. You've been listening to the David Carrier show. Carrier Families Personal

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