Episode 041: Loneliness TED - Part Mono

In Part 1 of his “Loneliness TED Talk” mini-series, Jeremiah Gunn delivers a raw, stream-of-consciousness monologue on loneliness, masculinity, culture, purpose, and modern America. Blending personal reflection, political commentary, philosophy, history, and social criticism, Jeremiah explores what he believes is fueling today’s “loneliness epidemic” — especially among young men.

From the Founding Fathers and John Adams to C.S. Lewis, Charlie Kirk, and modern media culture, Jeremiah argues that loneliness isn’t simply about being alone — it’s about feeling unseen, misunderstood, and disconnected from meaning, purpose, and truth. He discusses the collapse of community, the loss of moral direction, the confusion surrounding identity and masculinity, and the pressure many people feel in today’s cultural climate.

This episode also touches on fatherlessness, social isolation, media influence, faith, psychology, and the search for belonging in an increasingly divided society. Jeremiah challenges listeners to think critically about who they trust, what they stand for, and how to find strength, purpose, and brotherhood in difficult times.

Part reflection, part rant, part cultural commentary — this is the opening chapter of a larger conversation on loneliness, identity, and resilience.

Topics include:

•  The modern loneliness epidemic 
•  Masculinity and purpose 
•  Charlie Kirk and cultural influence 
•  John Adams and the Founding Fathers 
•  Media, politics, and trust 
•  C.S. Lewis and “Men Without Chests” 
•  Identity, belonging, and community 
•  Fatherlessness and young men 
•  Faith, culture, and moral direction

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Okay, well this good morning. This is the morning, afternoon, good night. Whatever it is, wherever you are. It doesn't I have no way of knowing because you could be listening at a different time, you could be in a different place. No, I'm not knocking it or anything, I'm saying there's anything wrong with it. It's just you know, it's all this now. So me soundboard is is a little daft. I'm having technical difficulties. I don't know what it is. That man is as dead as Julius Caesar. But anyway, welcome to the Jeremy Gun Show. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening. It's gonna be a stream of consciousness today. We're going to I'm having difficulties with the soundboard, and uh I'm not I'm struggling without a little bit of technical support, but I like to use music to do an intro, and just can't. Anyway, here's the title. Here's the topic of this episode, this broadcast. Loneliness, Ted. That's the bottom line. Christmas. What was it for you? For me it was a living hell. You know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked in the head with an iron boot? Of course you don't, nobody does, it never happens. Forget that. Forget it, Ted. It's a stupid question. So anyway, talk about loneliness today. This is Jeremiah Gunn Show. Jeremiah Gunn Show, the gun show. Trigger warning, you're at a gun show. I want to announce again the fight, the fight of the century, the fight of the millennium. I want to fight against Take Your Pick, Gavin Newsom, Colbert, Don Lemonades. Uh, I think I'll let Bill Maher off the hook because he seems to be waking up from his uh stupor, but uh we'll talk about him a little bit later. Tampon Timmy, uh Adam Adamed Shift, uh, who should be in prison, not in the Senate. And uh you know, just these people are on a they're not ashamed. They're not ashamed. And so why why have a fight? Have a UFC type fight. If somebody could help set it up, it'll be for charity, but for a real charity, not a Rob Reiner kind of a waste of your taxpayers' money to make himself feel better. It'll be a real, real charity. So let's do it pay-per-view or something like Doctor May Not Stop Match, Cage Match, No Holds Barred, UFC, whatever. I'm gonna need some training because I'm not a fighter. Uh I I love everybody, but as Solomon the Wise said, there you need a a bridle for a horse, a leash, and uh sometimes a muzzle for a dog, and just a rod for the back of fools because they just need to be beaten. These guys don't debate. They don't know how. They well, they don't want to. And they just want to say things. Kimmy Kimmel, uh that other all all those women. Uh and even that man Rachel Madkow. Let's do it. Let's let's have a fight because you guys can't you can't use reason. You know, they you can't have a battle of wits with an unarmed man. So let's let's get that set up. Let's knock that smirk off your horrible face. Even if you're a a movie star like Gas and Nuisance, American Psycho. Let's see if we can knock some sense into you.

unknown 3:37

Okay?

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Um can't debate. You won't. So let's let's do it. Anyway, this Jeremy Gunn Show, welcome. This is uh the topic of today is loneliness, Ted. Um this show's dedicated to Charlie Kirk because some devil made us all lonely for him. Had no right to do that. The thief comes only to rob, kill, and destroy. And uh, you know, we we can say, you know, his turning point uh is is stronger than ever, but but it it doesn't really matter until that whoever that was, and it was a lot of 'em, a lot of 'em, from Kimmy Kimmel and the me mainstream media, they're they all have a blood on their hands. Because they made people hate them. All you professors at the UC systems have taken our money and destroying our children. Cowards. Anyway, this dedicated to Charlie Kirk. And uh it's for him that we do this because somebody somebody has to. Somebody has to tell you. So you know, lo I want to have like a one of the things we're gonna do is is have sort of a a question here. Um who do you trust? Who do you trust? Hey, if you're gonna listen to somebody, uh pick a name, Ben Shapiro, Tim Dillon, Dave Smith, does it doesn't matter, Greg Gutfeld. It doesn't matter who they are. Um if you're really old at Hugh Hewitt, you know, Dennis Prager, the great uh Larry Elder, you're gonna listen to them. Victor Davis Hansen. You know, some of them you you kind of how do you know you can trust them? If you're thinking about Victor Davis Hansen or maybe Ben Shapiro, I I don't know. You know, certainly uh David Berlinsky, uh Peter Robinson, uh Thomas Sowell for sure, but but some of these other ones that are very popular right now, everybody's got a podcast. And they'll mock the idea that everybody has one and 15 minutes of fame and all that stuff, but they don't think that way for themselves. Um You pass a billboard that says uh something like arguably the greatest, the most intelligent person on TV, and it shows a big picture of Rachel Madcow, or maybe it was uh Mark Cuban, I don't know. But really? You you do you just say that's what it is? She's comes in one day a week and gets 20 million bucks, had a little pay cut from 25 million to twenty million. Or the view, or do you ever ask yourself why you think that I like this person, I like that person. Do you ever ask yourself why you think they know what they're talking about? They sure act like they do. They sure act like they do. David Berlinski wrote a book about it. He was a polymath, he's a polymath genius, if you know anything about him. But uh, what's that guy, Eric Weinstein or something? Brett Weinstein, I don't know. He's just talking like he knows everything about everything. Uh Constantine Kiss and Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin. They just tell you, here's the thing, but how do you know? How can you trust that they know what they're talking about? So let's talk about let's talk I I'm gonna tell you that I I can tell you, I can ask you a rhetorical question like that and I can give you the answer. This is not bragging, but I I can't I can't deny it. You know, when Charlie Kirk went up against somebody, he was right, and you could trust him because he cared about his country, cared about his faith, he cared about you. You can't say that about these other people. So, you know, when you think about loneliness, I read this book about John Adams when he was on the verge staring into the staring over the edge of a cliff that he had to jump off of. Um he just had to. Like William Wilberforce. He said that uh my my conscience is held captive by the word of God, you know. He he had to do what he had to do, could have could have had a nice life, could have kicked back and enjoyed wealth and and and privilege and everything else, but he threw it all. Like all the founding fathers, he threw it through the dice, cast his fate to the wind, but so but but he, you know, and I'm sure there were dark moments, like, what am I doing? And he John Adams wrote in his in his uh one night. He's sitting in Philadelphia, his wife's in in Boston, Braintree, uh, Quincy, change its name a few times. You should go there, take a look, take a pilgrimage and see what these guys what they did for us. Appreciate it. So he's writing in his diary, you know, is anybody there? Does anybody care? Does anybody see what I see? Somebody defined loneliness in that book that I was reading it about. I think it was a book on a social social topics, but they they define loneliness as is it's not the absence of people. It's the feeling that nobody out there understands what you're going through. And this is the this is the a good definition. I think psychologists would you know, to the extent that they're worth their salt, they would tell you that that's a pretty good one. And um Yeah, i i it it's it's not the absence of people, it's a feeling that people just don't understand. They don't see what you see. He he kind of said, Does anybody see what I see? Well, the founding fathers, I mean, maybe half of them did that were at the convention on independency that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and maybe half of them saw it. But uh that that's a really lonely feeling in thirteen colonies to stick your neck out like that and risk death. And but but but look what he he saw. He kept his eyes on the prize, he saw it. So so so if loneliness is is not the absence of people being around. I bet you New York City is one of the loneliest places on earth, it's one of the most populous and densely populated. Maybe true of Tokyo, too, Moscow and everywhere else. But how did we get here? They say there's a loneliness uh epidemic right now. We just get out of one pandemic and here's another one. Well, why should there be? In a country that was founded to be a family, to be one people, e pleurbus unum. That's part of the kind of what Dennis Prager called the the Trinity of America. It's in God We Trust, e pleurbus unum and liberty. So if we're supposed to be one, they used to say this is a melting pot. And when I was in high school, they changed it in the history or social studies books, whatever they call it. They change it to uh it's a salad bowl. Everybody comes here and maintains their own identity. And uh that's never more true than than now. You got Minnesota changing their flag that was unified or unifier and a history of that state. They change it to Somalia. They just can't they just can't help whoring themselves to throw out everything in the name of what Gad Saad just called suicidal empathy. It's really sympathy. Sympathy means that you can empathy means you can identify with them. So sympathy is just having pity on them. The big difference between pity and concern. You know, the left has pity for everybody except themselves, and they want to be seen as virtue-signaling rescuers of everybody. But but they don't have any answers. They don't have any answers. You know, there's talk about talk about the lost boys, you know, the lost generation. The lost boys, I think that was children and mostly boys in in Africa who are being taken, were being taken and put into the military or put to death by the Muslims, the beautiful Islamic religion of peace that's just destroying the world as it has since it started. And I guess kind of nobody cares. We do care, we don't care. We do care. We just want to send them money and and gay pride brochures on how to run their country, but we don't want to really help them. You know, I read this book once called uh it was interesting. It's something I've believed. That's the way my mind works. I I think about something and I think that that's probably really a true thing in the way it ought to be, and then I read a book about it that kind of crystallizes it. But this was a book written by a guy who was a I think he was a Navy SEAL or Green Beret, and then he got a he went to Oxford and then he went to Harvard, got a PhD, and he just he got his PhD in um oh not uh philanthropy, but um when uh when you when you do when you do good works for for people when you when you try to help them. Um man, that's crazy the way a word just goes out if you don't write it down. There's this great Arab proverb, speaking of writing it down, it says it says the um it says the the strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink, I used to tell people at work. You gotta write stuff down. But it's uh it's when you're doing good works for people. For some reason the word utilitarian is writing its my over it. But throw me a bone here, somebody who knows what I'm what word I'm searching for. But basically it's just it's just helping people. Humanitarianism. And if it comes to me later, I'll throw it in. But anyway, this is um what what what he found out is what we found out in Somalia back in the days of Blackhawk Down, is that you can't you can't just send people food. You can't just send people food. You have to have you have to have a um a force, you know, uh to make sure it gets there. We sent food and the warlords would just take it and black market it and let their people starve. So we had to go in with military, make sure it was getting to the people we were trying to get it to, because the UN didn't want no help. I think the, you know, I think the Marines in in um in intervened in Liberia and Grenada and places like that. But anyway, so these are these lost boys, you know. Um we got lost boys here. Yeah, a lot of them. I I saw them in, you know, in my career I began to be a manager, a foreman, manager, et cetera, and I'd see these folks coming to me either by hiring or by temporary services, and maybe they were going to college. But you know, there was a real um I think that that that was the real wave, first, second, third, or fourth wave of feminism was seeing these boys being cast, just cast to the wind. And so that that's kind of who I'm talking to. I'm talking to men, because uh I I can't tell women what to do. I can I can only hope that they'll realize what they've what they've done and the damage that they've done. And I'm talking about women of both sexes. So, you know, they they've they've created the eunues of America, the benighted states of America. Beneded is an incredible word. It means overtaken by moral and intellectual darkness. So what why do we have a loneliness epidemic? Suicide is huge. It's huge. I was just reading about a pastor, very famous. He actually interviewed um Obama and uh McCain. You know, he was sort of like a Joe Rogan. He had written a bestseller, and he was Rick Warren. He was up from the coast, Orange Coast, Orange County Coast or something of California. And he'd written a book, so he got to interview these guys, and and that that's another story for another another topic. But basically his, I guess his son killed himself. And so they have a ministry to people whose children have killed themselves. We know somebody. And so, you know, I I think that loneliness is part of that. But um when you're lonely and you join a gang and you do all these things, because you know, I think I think again, psychologists who are, what do you say, worth their salt. Um and they're and they're not many of them. Uh frankly, I could do a better job than most psychotherapists. And everybody's got a therapist today. They're all running to therapists. Not because I'm educated, but because I'm I'm wise. I I latch on to wisdom. And and those of you that do that could do the same.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Things are simpler than than they're made out to be.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

So Yeah, th th there's an epidemic of loneliness in a country that that promised in its founding document life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, an Apler of Asunum, out of many one. So you don't have to be. So I I guess I was talking about psychology, you know, Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I gave a talk one time about um fellowship, having fellows, being fellows, fellows in the ship. You know, an older guy came up to me and said, that's all it means. That's not something esoteric, but not feeling like you belong. Not feeling like you belong. Don't they isn't the left always blaming the death of people that are gender dysphoria, gender confused? They snap on a letter to the 13 letters they have there. I saw one the other day on Gutfeld. There's a woman in Canada, G-M-M-A-G-G-B-B-T-T. I thought it was a Roman numeral of a date until it went on for 20 more letters, like Dave Chappelle calls them, the alphabet people. So they so they they have there's two cues. And I'm going, well, what one's probably queer. What's the other one? Questioning. Man, they've got to just they don't care if you're lonely and lost. They only care if they can think they're helping you, even when they're hurting you. So don't they blame all these uh suicides? You know, if if I don't if I don't mutilate this person or give them drugs, it's always the go-to. If I don't give 'em drugs or mutilate 'em. What was it called? Soma in Brand New Wor Brave New World? There's a drug. Ulysses called it uh the lotus eaters, these people they met on an island that ate some lotus petal that made 'em just not care or not think. Just remain ignorant. Ignorance is bliss. So, you know, they don't they don't really care about the loneliness of those young people that are lost and need an answer. They don't need surgery. So I saw I saw a meme that said puberty is a blocker. Puberty is a blocker. You know, you give somebody a drugs to mask the the whole idea that of who they really are. But then they blame, they blame, well, if they commit suicide, it's your fault. Well, no. You know, one of the things we'd like to do here is free you from this. First, this discourse regime. Second, this ignorance, this veil of planned ignorance that is being forced on you. These people don't have answers. That's why they started off talking about, you know, Bill Maher. He'll just tell you everything, and then he'll meet with Charlie Kirk when he's uh 60 years old, and Charlie's 32, and he says, you know, hey, you were right. You were right about a lot of this stuff. This is a guy who spent his life trying to tear down and smirk. And at best, um damn with faint praise the people on the right. This is not a battle of left and right. It's a battle of right and wrong. There's no th th that's why they they they like to talk about it being left and right because left and right means that uh you know, you you can move to the middle. And that's where we ought to be. We ought to be in the middle. But right and wrong doesn't happen in the middle. How can you be in the middle of right and wrong? You can't. I was at this pic um barbecue or something for the founder, founder's birthday of this high-tech company startup I was with. And this engineer, you know, probably educated in the UC system or something, you know, Berkeley or whatever one of those places. But he uh or or any other any of these seminaries, cemeteries for young people. And he's talking about at least he got a STEM degree, but he's talking about how the the local school board in the town near him, not even his town, his community, but Oh, they've got religious right. I think three of the five people I've talked about before, because I went to the big meeting. It was like a sculpture, but he's talking, he's talking to me. He doesn't know me, he doesn't know what I think. But he feels free to say, oh, this right, this uh religious right. Oh, the religious right. They're they're ruining everything. Yeah, they are ruining. Yeah, they're shining a light on the cockroaches, and the cockroaches don't like it. Just like when the brilliant, God bless him, uh Elon Musk came in and shined a light with his Wonder Kints, all these brilliant young people and having a chance to serve their country legitimately, shined a light on the just, oh, take any of them. The Department of Education, what's created by Nixon, and all of a sudden Trump can't ax it when it deserves nothing more. And who goes crazy? You know? Maxine Waters. You know, the people, not in her district, but in the district that she's overlording. She lives in a nice area. She's overlord for these people, but I think they have a literacy rate and a math Excuse me. They have a math capability rate at graduation. Larry Elder talks about that. That's just horrendous. Does she care? It's like Washington, D.C. schools or New York schools, when you got people like Obama in charge of, you know, does he care about those schools? So I guess if loneliness is, you know, nobody cares about you. It's you gotta realize that nobody's allowed to. C.S. Lewis talked about the emasculation of men, of boys. You know, the war on boys, I think there's a book called The War on Boys. And some moms, God bless them, they're starting to realize it. They have they have sons. What are they supposed to do? Take them down to the kindergarten and have them uh, you know, order that they may be made into uh women? If look, if if genitals don't confer, uh don't affirm a gender, then how does removing them? This stuff isn't complicated. It's like that VP and Boy's Vice Principal and Napoleon Dynamite. This is not that complex. It's really not. It's it's the abandonment of simplicity that makes people go kind of go crazy. It's the it's not having a rudder, not having an anchor, not having a what else do you need to sail? A compass? They take all that away. That's what C.S. Lewis wrote a thing called Men Without Chests, uh, Men or Rabbits. He says we uh we attack honor and we mock honor, and then we're surprised when there's a traitor in our midst. He said we uh we make geldings, that means we castrate the horses, and then we bid them to multiply. The left always attacks the middle class. Always i e even the moderate center is soft and squishy. You know? Churches. The what used to be called the religious right. They're uh they're apologetic they're not into apologetics, which is a defense of your belief. You can get a degree in that or a certification like I did. But they're not they're not into they're apologizing, they're into apologizing. Like Obama when he went to the Middle East and apologized for us. Because he because we elected a guy who didn't have a strong father, like Bill Clinton and others. And uh lo and behold, he's over there apologizing. Somebody asked him one time, you know, this should have disqualified him from being elected. They said, hey, is um is do you believe America's exceptional? Well, I believe that America's exceptional in the same way that the Greeks and the British believe they're exceptional. Well, they don't. You know, so you th this guy this is a guy who made it to where he was for reasons that we know, but but spent most of his time, brief, brief time in the legislature in Illinois, by voting present. Could you think of more of a coward than that? Because when you vote present, it counts as a no, but uh but it doesn't count as a no. So you don't go down on record saying no, but you still say it. I mean, I c why do they even have it? Cowards. So you know, this this combination of of church and state, because you know, Obama said he was a Christian and he went to this Christian church where this pastor said, God damn America, for twenty years or something he went there, gave twenty-five thousand bucks over the course of twenty years. And uh yeah, that this combination of church and state, if you don't believe the government has taken over its role. They're telling they're telling Catholic organizations what they can do or not do. That was a problem under him, it's a problem again. Anyway, that w what what happens is they take away the they take away the purpose, they take away the mission, they take away the meaning of young men's lives. And uh he can create, you know, he created Obama youth, but what what were they doing? What were they doing? What is George Soros doing to these people? To these young people? They making them think they're paying them to act like they're anarchists uh Antifa and so on.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

You know, they they've they've emasculated everybody. You know, there there was a a a great principal of a homeschool group that he used to go, he'd say, he'd say, you know, you you your kids, we're not raising children, we're raising adults. And these these maniacs will say, well, if somebody kills somebody, they're 18 years old. Denzel Washington was talking about this. They'll they kill somebody at 18 and they'll go, oh, well, they're just uh they're just a uh they're a child, this child, you know. What? You know, when I coached basketball, I started to well he he pointed, let me get back to that. He he pointed, he pointed out that there's no culture has ever had this idea of an adolescent. This adolescent idea. No culture's ever had that where you're either a a child or an adult. You might be a young man and a young woman, but you're not a you're not some other thing that they just invented that they didn't say how long it lasted. I guess it lasts till you're 26, because you can be on your parents' health care with Obama's care. Orwellian nightmare. They keep they keep taking from you to do more to you. And uh, you know, it's to to force to compel someone, this is what Thomas Jefferson said when we started off on the right foot, no pun intended. He said uh, you know, to compel a man to furnish funds for something that he abhors is an abomination. And so they, you know, they come in and and and they and they you know the first step is just to to emasculate. This is how this is how you honor women by destroying their children, their sons. This is how you make it an even playing field. Well, anyway, this guy, this guy used to say that you know, we're raising adults, we're not raising children, not adolescents. When I coached high school basketball, I would call the other schools and I'd say, uh, I'm the men's coach. The women's coach will be contacting you about their games, and they'd say, Well, what are you a college? Because uh I said, no, we're a high school, but I call them young men and young women. I mean, they are. Some of them had children. They couldn't be ch can you have it? What what did they call it in the media? Children having children? I mean, is there some point where you stop calling them a child? And I I used to tell them, you're a young man, you're a young woman. You're you're getting I mean, at the same time, these Orwellian lunatics on the left are trying to lower the age of consent for everything. They're trying to hide what they are doing to your kids from you, the parent. And these kind of things wake up, wake up, you know, some parents, some some people like like Bill Maher, kind of can't you know, get shaken out of his stupor and say, Wow, that's crazy. You know, tell me, you want to temp on Timmy, Newskum, you want to take my children away from me and do what you want to do to them. So anyway, this guy, this headmaster, he used to say, You're you your your kids aren't passengers on a cruise ship. They're sailors or marines on a battleship. You know? Everybody's gotta be so careful to uh and and in being careful, you have to you have to ruin a whole generation. People say that COVID did that, you know, oh, they were they were out of school for two years. I don't know about that. I don't know how those two years are gonna, but but they were lonely because uh they even if their mom and dad stayed home because the county said they had to, like it did for my company. Unbelievable. They gave me a laminated letter that I could show a cop if he pulled me over, say I'm a necessary worker, whatever the term they had for that. I'm necessary worker, and everybody wanted to be one. I have no idea. The rest of everybody wanted to stay home. So whatever. They just have no idea what they're doing. So, but you you know, you gotta you gotta be careful. You gotta watch yourself, you gotta watch yourself. So you have men in a country that was founded by men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, who died over and over again, either to defeat the British so we could have a country, to defeat the uh the Democrats so we could get the end of slavery. Didn't quite work out. Um but we're supposed to be careful. We live with an N H O A. I'm swimming by the pool and there's this guy over there. And he's listening to some sort of Catholic rosary service or something, devotions, and he's and so we we just started talking. I asked him if he believed in God and stuff, you know, and so we kind of talked about that. And and then he we started talking about Trump, and he said, he kind of said, you know, he looked over, looked left, looked right like a bird. And he said, we gotta be careful because these people around here, you know, we live too near the left coast and and and they're you gotta be careful, you can't say you're in favor of Trump too loud. Like what?

SPEAKER_00 35:05

I'm I I mean I know that's true, but what does it mean? What does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 35:14

You know? We we let we're we're supposed to be you know, our leaders are supposed to be, you know, Bill Maher, Kimmy Kimmel, Mr. Rogers, Jane uh Jen Pisaki. She's got a podcast now. One of those Harrodins or whatever that's called, those harpies from PMS DNC or whatever. She has a show. She has a podcast, and it's called The Best People. And you know, again, remember the reverse barometer. She has the worst people on. They're tyrants.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

Your women and your children are become your tyrants. You know? McCain.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Here here's a guy. Here's a guy that runs for president, and the only reason he had any kind of a shot was because he had Sarah Palin. So the conservatives could say, well, she's a governor, not a senator like him. And she's not a weathervane. I called him Weathervane McCain. And Trump said he wasn't really a hero. Well, you know, I talked to guys from the Naval Academy that are about that age, and they and they they said they didn't have a high opinion of him. And uh you know, he he was You know when he came when he came home from from Vietnam, the that this wicked generation was calling them baby killers. And then they went on a couple of years later to launch the biggest baby killing effort ever that dwarfed Herod, the slaughter of the innocents. You know, he basically sided with Jane Fonda, who should have been tried or deported, he should have been imprisoned for for uh for treason. Treason, no no doubt. Her and her husband. So Yeah. Everybody's gotta be you gotta be kinda you gotta be soft. What what what you know you know, this is why we're lonely. This is why we have loneliness, because we don't we don't have we don't have a compass. We don't have a moral compass. Not even SCOTUS has one. There's supposed to be one. Congress, the president, you know? Because they have abandoned this country. And and e even the churches. Even the churches, you know, I I go I'm not trying to knock them. I'm not trying to knock the churches, you know. Go go there and support your if it's worthy to be supported. I I remember Billy Graham used to go around and and I think probably Charlie Kirk did this too. He didn't talk he didn't talk so much about religion. That was his purpose. I mean, he definitely was the star he sailed by, but he did he talked about the war that we're in right now. The culture war is a holy war. You young men are soldiers, and you're being you're being castrated by the left that likes to do that. Literally. Now it's literally. It used to be figuratively, as C.S. Lewis said, making making you into gildings and then telling you to multiply. I I I saw this thing on I saw this thing on uh Bill Maher. I just happened to pull up this clip and he's talking, he's got his panel, and it's got Douglas Murray, who's really brilliant, and some guy who is not one of these guys who sells out to the left. Like, what are you doing? I think he was maybe he was uh in the military. He's got big biceps and a bald head, and he's and he's ranting about the manosphere and all these stupid bros who are not against Trump. And and and he's talking about Iran. He's talking about the the only problem with the draft is that you know Pete Heggseth doesn't have enough women in it, and and on and on and on. And then there's this doctor whose his name is Ezekiel Emmanuel or something, so he's obviously Jewish. And then Bill Maher. And and Bill Maher has taken questions for the panel. He's reading off of cards. One of them's on AI. He kind of gets that right. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. It better be better be watched out for, or else. And uh, you know, they do a pretty good job of that. Then they start talking about how Kanye West can't go to uh the UK. And do you think that's right or wrong? Well, Douglas Murray's from the UK, and he said, I think I think it's wrong. I think politicians like to virtue signal so they don't have to do their real job, which is taxes, schools, you know, defense. They're really the only things, not schools, local government, but stop ruining them. That's all. Anyway. And then so the next question is about uh and and and and the Jewish guy says, yeah, you know, this anti-Semitism, it's it's gotten out of hand. Trevor Burrus, Jr. It sure has. Sure has. Totally out of hand. And they're blaming young men, you know, the manosphere. They're all, well, yeah, because of Nick Fuentes and and uh God, I don't even want to remember their names. But uh Tucker Carlson, you know, these guys who were celebrating Hitler and damning Churchill, who would have ever thought? Who would have ever thought? But, you know, that's not I mean if you go, if you go, if you go if you go over to Iran and you fight for the IRGC instead of the people that are being murdered by them every day, by the occupiers, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Council or whatever it's called, they're not Iranian, they're not Persian, they're they're Islamic. And they've been tormenting the whole East, Middle East for 50 years. But uh, thanks Jimmy Carter, Soviet Union, France. And so if you just, you know, if you don't under if you fight for the wrong side, it's like Dietrich Bonhoeffer said if you get on the wrong train, you can't run down the aisle in the opposite direction. It's not going to do any good. So, you know, those aren't men that are fighting for Iran. Suleimani that Trump blew up. Trump's the man, not Suleimani. Suleimani was the father of roadside bombs. It was maiming our people. See, you can't just believe this anti-Semitic garbage and stuff and and just say, oh, well, that's what I heard the other day from the guy I like to listen to. People are not they're not they're not leading, they're not heroes, they're not men. So you know, step one, so what what do you do about this loneliness? Is, you know, I had a lot of trouble in school, and my dad wrote me a note, you know, especially junior high. I had a lot of problems with it. And, you know, and my dad wrote me a note one day that said, you're not crazy, everyone else is. So that's the first step. You have to realize you don't buy the lie, you don't buy the lie that people like Bill Maher know what they're talking about. Because when they started talking about having children, and he goes, Well, I don't have any. Yeah, in other words, the falling birth rate, it's a problem in Japan, it's a problem in Europe, it's a problem except for the Muslims they brought in, which will take them over if you do the math. So Bill Maher, no nobody had an answer. The the Jewish doctor said, Well, uh, I don't know. I don't know. So is he a Jew? Does he does Judaism inform him the way it does Dennis Prager and or uh Ben Shapiro or even Dave Rubin, I guess? I don't know. Certainly not John Stuart Leibowitz, Jonathan Leibowitz, right? So you get the men and the not men. You got the people. So nobody on there had an answer. And uh the bald bro. Bonehead said he blames Trump and DJ and J.D. Vance. And they all kind of said, how can you blame J.D. Vance for people not getting married and having kids? Then they started talking about, well, housing is too high. Well, yeah, you know what? Yeah. This is going to hurt a little bit, but I used to counsel young men, don't settle. You know, when they when they trained us on how to hire people, one of the things they said is, don't settle. When in doubt, cast them out. So so women, you know, my sister said to me a long time ago, there's no men anymore. There's no men anymore. There's no John Waynes or whoever she said. Steve McQueen, John Lane, whatever. Man's man in those days, whatever. And I said, Well, uh, you know, uh, I spend a lot of time in locker rooms and things and and and females, right? Stop calling me. It's a charity calling. I give a lot to charity. I keep calling. Anyway. I said, there are a lot of women. You know, a lot of women that they don't know if they are. Well, now they don't even know if they are a woman. So don't blame men that there's not enough women. That yeah, that a lot of them gave themselves away for free. And then they, you know, expect that some man's going to treat them like they like they're virtuous. I mean it's not a lot of women like you see in those movies where you saw men. So and and I'd tell young men, I'd say, look, if you don't be too eager to rush into this stuff. Because after after, you know, the courts took away your kids and your house, half your house, when it wasn't even your fault or your choice. This bastardized, adulterized mess of the legal system where they treat the woman like she's some sort of flower, we'll we'll get into more than that, but then but then just just dissect the man. Well, anyway, I used to tell them if you just want a roommate uh that won't get cranky every month, then uh get a roommate. But don't don't get into some sort of a deal where you just don't have any, you know, if you need them more than they need you, it's not gonna go well. It's just not. So anyway, know who you are, know whose you are. Know your enemy. Know your enemy. Because in the end, know your enema. Because in the end, you'll get it. Don't let them have what's not theirs. Understand that this is a war. Fight. Fight, fight, fight. Understand the trade-offs that Bill Maher types can't be trusted, that TDS democracy and Sam Harris and the climate crisis and the so-called soft bigotry. Don't be a child. Grow up. And sorry, it's a lot, it's a lot less painful than the alternative. And vote against people. Vote against people for a while. Don't don't vote. Don't just vote, you know. Don't say I'm not gonna vote, I'm gonna vote for independent, throwing it away, I'm gonna vote libertarian, throwing it away, I'm gonna stay home, that'll prove a point. No, you uh unfortunately, for a while, we're going to have to vote against, we're gonna have to vote against the party that's the enemy of our country. We only have two, we have a two-party system. Especially since the the Democrat Party moved all the other parties in communist, socialist, anarchist, terrorist, Islamist. So, you know, the you're gonna have to vote against them for a while. We only have two parties. One of them is numb and stupid sometimes, like the John Thunes and the McCain's and the Romney's, and and and the other one is deadly, dangerous. They are destroying the country that your fathers' forefathers tried to give you. Uh fell asleep at the switch. So that that that's all you have to do. Those things. And uh don't don't get committed to something. Stay in school, but don't don't let them win. Don't don't break the law and get caught up in their system. That's what they want. And get your head together and understand that you're valuable. You're precious, whether you're secular or religious. And take a careful look at who you're following and where you're following them to. Make sure they know. Make sure they can prove it to you. Don't just buy it. Don't just buy the lie. Look at the end game and see what it's doing for you. Then you won't be lonely. Get on a team. Get together with other men that understand these things that are existential. And don't be don't be confused. Don't try to sail without a rudder, without a moral compass, without a sail. They can tie to take the wind out of your sails, but if you know how to sail, I took I took classes in sailing as ways to get around it. So, you know, if you if you think that this is not war, it's not a war on you, and in the Arwellian fashion, they call it a war on on women or children, when that's exactly what they're doing. The the women of the world will benefit by you being what they can't be, and you'll benefit by them being what they can be. You can't do what they can do, they can't do what you can do. So don't let them drive the bus, especially if they hate men, if they hate themselves, if they're running to a therapist all the time. And I'm talking about men and women, or I'm sorry, women of both genders. If they're if they're confused, well, they probably won't make a very good guide, will they? They're not they're not your boss. They're not your overlord. They're not your captain of your team or your unit squad battalion. You're you're in a war. And you have to wake up, calm down, reconnoiter, figure out where you're at. I can help. I can't tell you what to do exactly step by step in the career world. I'd say get a degree in STEM or get a get a trade. So you don't have to fall into their system. But unless you defeat the enemy, you'll always be facing DEI and school problems and prison problems and crime problems and and and all the problems, the social pathologies that stem from fatherlessness. So it doesn't matter whether they emasculate the father or outright kill him, you're gonna have the same result. So you get you've got to fight back. And don't fight against each other. Don't don't join some guy with a beanie or a or a bald head or whatever on podcasting and telling you nihilism like it really doesn't matter. You know, you can't fight City Hall, you can't, you can't, you can't. Or, you know, my God, hating Trump after what we saw for four years with the left. This country will be lost or saved by you. Same thing with your church, your school, your community, your your world. So that's not it's it might be a lot of pressure, it might feel like a lot of pressure, it's no more pressure than the alternative, which is just to uh be a lotus eater, take your pills, take your chemical castration, and and just slide down, slouch towards Gomorrah into the grave. So, you know, have hope. You're valuable. You're very you're irreplaceable. So what the good book says, it applies to whether you're believer or not. It says, act like men. Act like men, be strong and courageous. Thank God for people like Charlie Kirk who came along and showed you a way.

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And you can judge a lot more about a man by his enemies than by his friends.

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So choose you this day. You know, when Moses was having a lot of trouble with his followers, some of which were Jews and some were not, he uh he told him one day, God said, tell him, you know, draw a line and say, Choose you this day who you will serve. The holy the the the cultural war, the culture war is a holy war. You've got to pick a side. There's only two sides. If you're a believer, you're either a saint or an aint. If you're a non-believer, you're either a patriot or a traitor. It's not any more complicated than that. Don't let people tell you that it's complex. That's the first step in spinning their web that they got a degree in or whatever. No, these professors need to be fired, or at least deprogrammed. It's just just to stop believing all these one-word answers, misogyny, blah blah blah blah, blah, blah. Intersectionality, BLM, CRT, OBS. That's the only one you gotta remember. Or OCS, because most of it doesn't come from bulls, it comes from cows now. It's been that way for a long time. So if you want to be free, or you want to be a slave, that's that's about it. I'm not trying to be down, but someone has to warn you. Somebody's gotta blow blow the bugle and say this, you know, it if you you're being attacked, fight, fight, fight, fight. Anyway, thank you for listening. This is Jeremiah Gunn Show. Ran over a little bit. I apologize, but don't forget, this dedicated Charlie Kirk, this Jeremiah Gunn Show, speed it up. If you want to listen faster, speed it up. I'm going as fast as I can, and I'll get better, but just hit the speed button and play a little faster, whatever clip you want. Thank you for listening. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We got a country to save, we got a world to save, if we can save this one. And it's not over yet. It's not over. Don't listen to polls.

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Go out and fight, like all these great patriots we see now are doing. Thank you. Thanks for listening.