Navigating Crisis: Race, Economics, and Unity in Turbulent Times + Tribute To Charlie Kirk

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to the Tom Bill U show live. We're here. It's been a minute to everybody in the feed pointing that out. It really does feel like it's been a long time. So I am very excited to be back with my man, Drew. What is up, Drew? Hey, welcome back, man. It's good to be back. Nice to see. It's good to see you. There's a lot of reactions about what we should do, how we should change the criminal justice system.
0:24.4	And then again, Trump even had a video talking about condemning violent crime.
0:29.5	What do you think the actual second order consequence of this will be? Because you let Nick Fuentes tell it, move away from the blacks.
0:37.1	You let Scott Adams tell it.
0:38.8	Race is really becoming a problem.
0:40.9	Like this is wild.
0:43.0	Now, again, some of this is it starts online, but what online does is it gives people the narrative.
0:49.7	And part of what I'm trying to do, because I will routinely get criticism from people that
0:54.3	encountered me in phase one when all I talked about was empowerment, who are like,
0:58.3	yo, you fell off.
0:59.2	Like, I really miss when all you did was put out empowerment.
1:01.9	My response to that is the message has to meet the moment.
1:05.8	Otherwise, you're just making noise.
1:08.1	And we are in a moment now where we have a cultural problem and we are now
1:13.9	dealing with the consequences of all the things that come downstream of culture from bad
1:17.6	policy. I have a firm belief that when you have the wrong policies, your culture will ultimately
1:24.4	fall. And that falling has, call it roughly 100 years of horrifying consequences.
1:30.8	So I'm trying to stop us from going down that path. And so when I look at what's happening with
1:36.4	race, race is ratcheting up. I'm trying to give people a narrative and it is a narrative,
1:41.5	trying to make it as true as possible, but every time you choose a word,
1:44.7	you're picking a narrative. But I'm trying to get people a narrative that will lead them to first
1:48.6	principles, that will allow them to build up from that, that will hopefully stop them from sliding
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