The State of The Union

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Some days, I don't have the words to describe how I am feeling. This past week, it has been tough to wrap my head around what happened, let alone to parse together my thoughts into any semblance of a coherent thought.

I believe we are not too far gone to recover, but I also believe both sides have blood on their hands. I did the best I could to explain how I feel. Enjoy, disregard, up to you.

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody? Welcome to Friday. Today, I am going to be doing an episode,
0:06.9	specifically on one topic. I don't even know what to call the episode necessarily. It's not
0:10.7	going to be a full out of Friday. I am going to dedicate the entire episode to my thoughts around
0:16.4	what happened with Charlie Kirk. I'll get into why I've waited until this point to do so here in a minute.
0:23.6	But before I get into this, if you have listened to the show, you know that I pay the bills with ads.
0:29.5	And I'm contractually obligated to do so.
0:31.9	I'm going to do my best to keep the ads in portions of this episode that don't distract from the topic or subject matter itself.
0:39.3	So I'm going to do one before I even get into it. And then I'll try to space the other one
0:44.0	somewhere where it is unobtrusive. It is the world that I operate in. And sometimes I wish
0:51.6	that I could unwind it a little bit, but I can't in this moment.
0:55.8	So bear with me on that. Let's get the first ad read done. And then let's get into this episode.
1:01.8	Today's episode is brought to you by Helix. Not directly tied to today's episode, but like I talked
1:06.8	about in the opening, struggling a bit. but one thing that really helps me think straight
1:11.6	is getting a good night's sleep. My son moved into his first apartment recently,
1:16.9	lucky little bastard. And he needed a mattress. Guess where I went? Helix. Talked about this
1:23.4	before. I had a brand relationship with them many years ago. They sent me some mattresses out to the house and then moved into a townhouse, be closer to my son to go to high school, needed some mattresses, didn't have a brand relationship at the time. What did I do? I went right back to Helix and paid full retail because these mattresses are amazing. I travel quite a bit. It was just on the road with my wife.
1:44.2	We both said the same thing as we were flying home.
1:47.0	I cannot wait to get back to our bed because these beds are the best mattress I've ever slept on.
1:54.1	Here's what I recommend.
1:55.1	Head over to helixleep.com slash cleared hot.
1:57.6	It'll have Take the Sleep Quiz.
2:00.4	Take the sleep quiz, which is what I recommend you do, and it's going to lead you towards the type of mattress you want. Do you sleep on your side, your back, your stomach, firm, soft, everything in between, cool, hot, all of that, even plus size, actually. And all I have ever done is go through that and then select the mattress that they recommend for me. The best mattress I've ever
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