Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris and I'm here with John Stone Street answering questions we receive here at the Colson Center.

These questions are based on breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've aired on short courses we've held and on articles and columns that we've posted.

I hope everyone had a great Labor

Day weekend. John, you seem like a likely candidate for that time-honored Labor Day activity,

the final cookout of the summer, right? Oh, yeah, I did cookout. I thought you were saying

somehow underhandedly that I'm like a communist since it's our communist holiday. No, not at all.

There's an interesting movement, by the way.

We kind of joke about Labor Day being, you know, kind of labor unions and all that sort of stuff.

That has nothing to do with what it originated as, does it?

I don't know.

I actually don't know the history of it.

So you might know more than I do. But what's interesting, and this isn't part of our question, this isn't part of our topic, but I just saw that a group of conservatives

have issued a statement saying, hey, we need to get behind labor unions as a way to secure

economic freedom, which is a very non-Republican thing to do is to support labor union.

So I just saw enough of that to peak everyone's interest,

including my own. I don't even know. I mean, Marco Rubio signed it. Yuval Levin, who's a thinker

that I really respect, signed it. So we'll have to pick that up at some point in the future. The bigger

story on Labor Day, for me, is that on Labor Day, it was 90 degrees here in Colorado Springs,

even at my house, which is a little bit north

of Colorado Springs, a little bit higher, and woke up this morning to snow. So, hey, it's a September

snow, a 60 degree drop. I mean, everyone's seen these headlines after literally, literally we hit record

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