Hello there.

Happy Monday.

It is September 15th with another episode of the Chuck Toddcast.

I'll be honest.

The last five days have been quite difficult when just thinking about American politics, thinking about the country, thinking about whether we're

going to bring ourselves together. Each day when I was looking for a glimmer of hope,

I rarely found one. I mean, there's even in the one person who seems to be meeting the moment, the governor of Utah,

Spencer Cox, even his comments today were sort of demoralizing.

Understandably so, because I don't disagree with anything he has said at this point.

And in fact, believe he is the leader at the moment.

But when trying to figure out, it's in some ways,

it's easy to understand how we got here. There's so many forces against unity in this country,

right? There's so many forces for division, right? There's, there's, you know, it's almost like

the system is rigged towards division, right?

Our system is not rigged for unity. It is right now rigged towards division in how it works.

And I think that's why it feels as if, boy, there's, I mean, it's clear that we, we don't have the president we need in the moment to meet this moment.

I've been trying to, I've been hopeful, right?

I think we, you give as much grace as you can.

Maybe more people will get to him.

Maybe he will see that this is something that he cannot just use

to exploit politically. But let's be honest, that that hope is fading. And you can call me naive,

but I would have done it and said it the same way before, because only, we only have one president at a time and you know hope springs eternal

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