Stop the Anger!

There is a great deal of anger in the air about the results of the United States Presidential Election last week.  The results aside - people are getting angry at their friends over an opinion about politics.  This has to stop.

This show is my brief commentary on the subject.  And I don't pass judgment on anyone.

Listen to the big mistake I almost made before coming to my senses.

Stop The Anger: Transcript

Hey there everyone, it's Dave Lorenzo and this week we're doing something very different. We're doing something very different because we are now in very different times. I'm recording this show two hours before it is scheduled to be released on iTunes. I'm recording it at 10:00 AM on Monday November 14th. Usually we record the show a week in advance. Usually I work on next week's show this week. I did have a show all lined up ready to go today. I recorded it on Wednesday. Nancy Pop, my producer was with me on the show. We had our usual engineer edit it, and it's loaded, and it's ready to go right now. I'm not happy with that show, and I'm not going to let that show air. I'm taking it down.

I'm going to tell you the reason why. Last week ... I record the show every week on a Wednesday, and last week I went to record the show on Wednesday and I couldn't do it. I was just off my game. The reason I was off my game is it was the day after the presidential election. I was up all night. I hadn't slept, we record the show at 9:30 in the morning, and I sat down to record it and I was exhausted. My energy level wasn't there, I couldn't do it. I reached out to Nancy and we rescheduled for the next day. I sat down to record the show on Thursday, and the show was reflective of how I felt at the time. I think it was an angry show, it was a show full of negative emotion. Even the title of the show, while controversial and exciting, was just full of energy that I did not want to extend to you.

Today it's a few days later. It's not a full week, it's four days after that moment. It is now almost a full week since the presidential election in the United States, in which Donald Trump was elected president. I don't want to spread that hate, and I'm not going to. My politics is obvious, those of you who know me know my politics. You know how I feel about things, you know which way I lean. I try to understand everyone's point of view. The simple fact of the matter is we now have a president of the United States who has been duly elected. The election was fair, the election was done by the rules. There's no controversy surrounding the specifics, the mechanics of the electoral process that put Donald Trump in the position of being president-elect of the United States. We have a peaceful transition of power here in the US. That is a demonstration of our democracy.

Now, I did not vote for Donald Trump. Those of you listening, some of you may have voted for him, and that's great. I salute you for getting out and voting, I salute you for the victory of your candidate. The people I've talked to who voted for Donald Trump, it makes sense to me. I understand why those folks voted for him. That's fine. I don't believe that your vote for a candidate is something that makes you, that puts you in a specific class. If you voted for Hillary Clinton, I don't think that makes you someone who is a socialist who wants 80% tax, and wants everything to be free for everyone. That's not my feeling about people who voted for Hillary Clinton.

Just like if you voted for Donald Trump, I don't think you agree necessarily, with everything that has been attributed to Donald Trump. I didn't say everything Donald Trump said, I said everything that's been attributed to Donald Trump. I'm not passing judgment on anyone for anything. What I am going to do moving forward is I'm going to respect the office of the president of the United Sates.