In Search of Optimism About 2026
DSR's Words Matter
Riley Fessler
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:30.3 | 9, 12, 10, 208 in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations |
| 0:56.9 | across America and around the world. |
| 1:00.7 | Hello and welcome to DSR's Words Matter this Christmas week. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm David Rothkoff, your host, and we're joined by the Christmas elf himself, Norm Ornstein, who's in some sunny climb enjoying the season while tan it. |
| 1:18.6 | Right, Norm? |
| 1:20.3 | If only. |
| 1:21.7 | But it is a sunny climb, I have to say. |
| 1:24.9 | I will also say that I am in Florida, but I would not come to Florida if it weren't out of necessity. |
| 1:31.8 | Because Florida, I am in a place called Longboat Key, which is right by Sarasoga. |
| 1:38.5 | It's a beautiful, beautiful spot, ravaged by the hurricanes last year. |
| 1:43.9 | But it's also become the home of the proud boys and |
| 1:46.7 | the oath keepers. Michael Flynn lives down here. They actually tried. This is, Longboat Key is this |
| 1:55.0 | very narrow spit with the bay on one side and the Gulf on the other. And it's on one road, Gulf of Mexico Drive. |
| 2:06.1 | They tried, DeSantis tried, to change every Gulf of Mexico drive to Gulf of America drive. |
| 2:15.4 | And this MAGA area, when they heard that they would have to replace all the |
| 2:20.6 | signs and raise taxes to do so, said, no thank you. So at least I wouldn't call it a bright |
| 2:29.2 | spot because it was all about money. But this remains the Gulf of Mexico Drive. |
| 2:36.5 | Well, that was just what he was getting started with the naming thing. |
| 2:41.4 | Now he's real John. |
| 2:44.1 | Right. |
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