Over Fifty Starting Over

324: This Doesn’t Feel Like Freedom Anymore


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Segment 1: From Innocence to Control Systems

  • From the 1980s to now: Revisiting Pretty in Pink and Stranger Things as symbols of cultural innocence vs. today’s anxiety-driven society.
  • Re-labeling reality: How symbols, language, and events are being redefined to police speech and enforce ideology.
  • Everyday test: Try wearing an American flag T-shirt to the gym and note the reaction.
  • Control tech: Discussion of reported microwave and sonic crowd-control weapons and what their existence says about modern crowd management.
  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: Public criticism following comments on gender definitions and the broader cultural implications.
    Freedom vs. dependence:
  • Communism: the government feeds you. Freedom: you catch and cook your own food.
  • The “Soros Effect”: How funding activist networks can destabilize societies by amplifying disruption rather than reform.
  • Dan Bongino returns to X and podcasting: More noise, more insults — less substance. (Yes, Dan… cucumber.)
  • Clintons subpoenaed — no personal court appearance: Legal maneuvering vs. public accountability.

- NotebookLM links and practical AI use for normal people (not Silicon Valley hype).

  • America’s 2 Workforces: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P8aGTr_fMS_cMzpLVPDzMro45GKjdPBW/view?usp=drive_link
  • Audio Overview:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BoEacipAt88sbEfKFffv201UjRcFmnND/view?usp=drive_link
  • America’s Aging Workforce Infographic:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JsCXgkoZVd-vKSzA6-1NBvxkqOGEJ2uc/view?usp=drive_link
  • The Graying of America’s Workforce:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H24Kd7D2zFv3vgQLJ3OC1z8WsI3MEtx0/view?usp=drive_link

Would you dare wear pro-American garb in your neighborhood?

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