 Next question is from Grace your presence what makes you most proud to be an American? You know I'll start this because now being proud of being something that you had no choice to be that's kind of an interesting question I was born here I didn't choose to be born here but here's why I am proud of America itself for why I look at it and I think it's an it's an amazing example for the world now when I think of America I don't necessarily think of the country of America but rather the ideas that it was founded on the reason why I think of that is because the ideas that this country were founded on they were not exercised perfectly and they still aren't but the ideas that they were found that this country was founded on is constantly driving America to change and improve itself I don't know of any other country that criticizes itself and is willing to change painfully yeah decade after decade like this country I mean when you if you go back to the founding of this country the ideas that it was founded with were truly crazy and radical in comparison to the rest of the world at that time you had a country that literally developed a government this is this was weird for the time nobody really did this before but they designed a government to protect the people from government to protect the people from tyranny that's what the whole if you read the Constitution and you look at the framework before you know besides all the stuff we've added to it over the last you know a few hundred years if you look at the framework every single thing in the Bill of Rights is designed to protect people from tyranny one of the things that that where they were trying to protect people from was tyranny of the majority one of the biggest peep things that people have are confused over is the you know we call America democracy which is partially true we are a democracy but we're not a pure democracy we're a constitutional republic and we elect our officials democratically meaning we vote for our officials but we have certain things that are protected that know that a majority vote can't take away from you for example freedom of speech your freedom of speech even if 60% of the population votes that you shouldn't be able to say something they can't take away your ability to say what you want to say there's a whole nother process they'd have to go through to amend the Constitution now these ideas were not exercised perfectly you know we had this concept of liberty that every person was born with rights inalienable rights and according to the founders is because they were bestowed upon us by our creator by God so God creates everybody everybody has these rights that nobody can take away because God gave them to you but of course when the country was founded we had slaves women were not treated the same they couldn't vote so it wasn't exercised perfectly but it was those ideas that drove that that drove government to to fight for the freedom of slavery or to free the slaves excuse me that drove the civil rights movement it drove to give women the ability to vote and it continues to drive these ideas continue to push us to constant refining process yes to change and to grow and it's these ideas that I think we should always defend that's what makes me very proud and I tell you something right now the most the people that you'll tend to find who tend to be the most who understand these things the most are the children of immigrants because there's a contrast you know I am the the product of poor immigrants I know the opportunity that was provided here because of a lot of the freedoms that are here I saw my my dad came here with zero education he was very poor and he created a middle-class life I had a friend whose parents escaped the Soviet Union they're the most staunch Americans you'll ever meet in your entire life because his parents escaped real tyranny at the time we're definitely not perfect we're far from perfect I don't think perfection can ever be accomplished but those ideas the ideas that this country was formed on or what continue to drive us and again I don't know any country that's willing to beat the shit out of itself over and over again to continue to progress and grow and as painful as it is it's freaking awesome and I you know I hear stuff all the time I disagree with people say things and yell things and do things that I totally disagree with but I will always fight to defend the right to say and do those things because I believe in those concepts yeah and always listen I mean we're the ultimate melting pot I think that's that's the biggest thing that I I really appreciate the idea of America being the place where it's so culturally diverse it's so diverse like individuals are so different across the board you're just not going to find that in any other place in the world where you know you can interact with so many different ideas and you know different types of backgrounds and I think that we don't celebrate that as much as now we try to segment that off and divide and and really try to then regroup and and and try to go back to old ideas of where you know in other countries everybody has the same background same experience same skin color same everything and and to me this is where all the innovation happens is when you collectively bring everybody together and work together and unify and move forward and I really just that that idea I just don't ever want to die I want us all to to get back to that mentality I've always I've always thought the whole you know pride or proud thing is is an interesting conversation because I like Sal you mentioned I don't feel proud to be America I feel blessed that's what I feel I feel I feel blessed that you know I'm not one generation I'm three generations removed from this country that when my family came from Mexico I've been to Mexico enough times to be glad as shit that you know my great-grandparents made their way this way and had kids in America and then to your point Justin that I look around and say we have to be the most diverse country and you know innovation so much to start here sure there's tons of imperfections and areas that we can better but to your point Sal that's one of the beautiful things about America as we are always evolving and changing and I feel like we evolve and change more rapidly than almost any other country around and I think just the fact that we are so diverse and so many people migrate and come here speaks for itself I mean that itself is I mean you don't see that in any other country where people are flocking to get in so bad is because it is so great and it is so diverse but and I also recognize what comes with that like what comes with that are challenges you know you have people with different cultures all melting in one area we're gonna have a little bit of there'll be friction there's gonna be friction and and and again to Sal's point that's what's beautiful about America is that even with all the friction and we're always trying to become better and I think that you know I would like to see more empathy for each other I think that's what we lack that sometimes as and maybe that's the prior the pride sense maybe sometimes we become so proud or so so caught up in being prideful over all the stuff and we should have a little more humility humility excuse me can't speak and feel blessed that we all are in this situation and have a little bit of patience and empathy for our neighbor and and know that we all are working to have a better place and whether you have a belief that it should be this way or I have that way that the end of the day that's what's great about here is we can both agree to disagree yeah you know well free countries are only ever gonna be as good as its people that means that you know because we have a certain level of freedom we have to be good moral people in order you know look at markets for example let's just talk about free markets for a second free markets do one thing really freaking well they give the consumer what they want better than any other system in the world but what if all the consumer wants is drugs alcohol and pornography that's what you're gonna get a lot of right so it's it's a reflection of us and so we have to rise to be good people so that this this system provides us what we want but again it's an idea and it's an idea that you know as imperfect as we've been that idea as what's driven us to progress you know it wasn't that long ago listen 2008 okay 2008 wasn't that long ago Barack Obama was campaigning to become president of the United States he campaigned and he openly was opposed to gay marriage this is Barack Obama Democrat president everybody loves and he said I do not I think marriage should be between a man and a woman and that changed very rapidly now if you said that nobody would elect you almost know her that's very very rapid rapid change again it's not perfect but but those ideas of liberty of freedom of protecting people's individual rights which by the way rights do not mean you have a right to other people or to other people stuff it means you have a right to the stuff that you you can speak you can protect yourself you can worship whatever we can live the way you want so long as you don't infringe on the other rights of other people but that idea is what pushes us to grow it's also a painful one I'll tell you what you go to a Marxist country you go to a country that that doesn't have these protections and try to be a capitalist there yeah try to speak out against what that government says you should do they'll throw you to jail they'll kill you you know what the one of the here's one of the beauties of everybody knows how anti Marxism I am or anti communism I am right well guess what you can be in America if you want to a Marxist you could literally have a you could have a whole protest and a parade praising Karl Marx and the you know the past Soviet Union or whatever and you're actually free to do that here as much as I hate that and I disagree with you tell me where you could do that in countries that don't value liberty and freedom they don't so as again as I know we're going through a difficult time in this country but it's okay to take a step back and look we've had all these protests and that's beautiful people are going out and they're pro and they're exercising their right and they're free to do so I mean good to recognize to be it's a positive thing that we have this division of progressives and conservatives oh yeah I think of it just like the way we operate our checks and balances right there is there's always one of us who's trying to push us in a new direction or push us faster to do something and there's always one of us that's going maybe we should ease in and slow I don't think we should do that yet and together we make great progress right and sometimes it's a little push-and-pull type of feeling but you want that you don't want one or the other if you if everybody was conservative we wouldn't move anywhere very fast at all if everybody was so progressive we probably have a lot of hard lessons so the fact that we have this nice division of progressive and conservative people in this country and we're kind of like it doesn't need to be so angry though it doesn't need to be like that it's like and that's why this is why mine pump work behind scenes this is the way we are with the business there's always a progressive person there's always a conservative person that in the conversation and sometimes it flip-flops sometimes one of us is more progressive about something one of us is more conservative about something and I feel like that's how our country is I think where it gets bad is when people start to identify with one or the other and they feel like they have to impose those ideas by all means necessary and yeah and the big problem becomes when you think the other person's the other person has a different opinion in you because they're evil right then there's nobody there's no discussions no there's no compromise because ideology there's no listening it's you're evil that's it and now what do you do to evil people you punch them you kill them you silence them you jail them that is a dangerous slope you don't want to go down rather the better approach in my opinion is to consider and this is the truth I'm not saying this is everybody but consider that most people are kind of like you we're all very more similar than we are different okay and they're probably they probably have their opinions because they think it's better for people not because they're evil right but rather because they think it's better for people now their opinions different than yours but they also want something to happen that's good so now let's have a conversation of course if you think they're evil I'm not I'm not gonna have a conversation with Hitler I don't want to hear your ideas you're an evil person but jeez man if you think everybody on the other side is Hitler you're gonna have some problems