This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Covel.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Good evening.

For too long, we in Washington have been lying to you. We say we're here to serve you when in fact we're serving ourselves. And why? We are driven by our own desire to get reelected. Our need to stay in power eclipses our duty to govern. That ends tonight. Tonight I give you the truth.

And the truth is this. The American dream has failed you. Work hard, play by the rules. You aren't guaranteed success.

Your children will not have a better life than you did.

Ten million of you can't even get a job even though you desperately want one.

We've been crippled by Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, by welfare, by entitlements.

And that is the root of the problem. Entitlements. Let me be clear. You are entitled to nothing.

You are entitled to nothing. America was built on the spirit of industry. You build your future. It isn't handed to you.

Frank Underwood at his best. You are entitled to nothing. You are entitled to nothing.

I would argue for the limited time that you have on this planet,

if you can believe that deep in your bones,

that you are entitled to nothing,

then and only then do you have a chance for success? A chance for a real success of your making that involves freedom that doesn't involve

sitting in an office cube for the rest of your life saying, yes, sir, to a blank.

My thoughts today revolve around decision-making.

How do we decide?

I want to use some touchstone cultural examples

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