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You're not privileged because your parents did the right thing. That should be the default for society. And the ones that do the wrong thing or don't do enough should be the anomaly.My younger children shouldn’t know what a drag queen, porn star, or drug addict are, even if I were one.pushbacknation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.TranscriptWill Loconto:I'm Will Loconto. I'm here with my partner Cindy Bass. Today we're asking what happened to American decencyCindy Bass:A long time ago, things would happen in small increments, but now it's just, it's out of whack. It's what I call bananas. I mean, everyone's indecent.Will Loconto:Well, the problem essentially stems from the idea that decency and morality are some sort of flexible thing. That in an equitable society, everything is okay and everything's justifiable. And we should allow people to be people, allow everybody to do what they do and leave everyone alone. It seems like the concept of common decency has been replaced by false kindness. What is being called? Allyship, selfishness, narcissism, and virtue signaling. It's all become, let me show you how good of a person I am, not by what I do, but it's mostly about what I say and how I present myself.Cindy Bass:And in the meantime, they're prancing around in nasty drag things in front of children, and they think that's decent. I mean, honestly, we've talked about this a number of times, and I just don't know who in this world, there must be a lot of people that think it's decent, but how could you think that was decent?Will Loconto:Well, I'm not sure that people think it's decent. It's a thing where people in their desire to be kind, they don't want to condemn something, and then they can justify glossing over it by saying, I'm sure this doesn't happen that often.Cindy Bass:Yes. But what I'm wondering is why somebody can say this drag stuff is okay, and they don't cut it off when it talks about children. I don't have a problem with people doing drag. That's their own thing. There was a musical Kinky Boots I went to see. I loved it. It was an amazing musical show. Theater, theater production. So I'm not adverse to, and I'm not someone that lives in a bubble that is some religious nut that says these things can't happen. But I am saying you cut it completely off when it comes to children. And so that's indecent to me.Will Loconto:Yeah, I'll go a little bit further and say that drag belongs in a drag show. It doesn't belong in a boardroom or in a business. The lines need to be drawn.Cindy Bass:This is a really important one to me. This particular episode, because I spent so much time with my children, never said the word decent. I just showed the word decent by my actions. I taught them manners. And I just experienced a group of people that completely were oblivious to a man, clearly had ALS and was in a wheelchair, and he couldn't maneuver through this crowd. People are oblivious to him walking right in front of him or not. Like the Red Sea should have parted for him. This man needed access.Will Loconto:People are stumbling over themselves to step in front of the guy in the wheelchair,Cindy Bass:To get past it faster.Will Loconto:Rather than to get out of the way. And that's one of the things that I want to say real quick, is that this idea of what happened to decency decent runs the gamut from manners to respectability, to respect for others to the, there's so many elements to decency. It's been obliterated. And like I said, the selfishness, the narcissism, the virtue signaling has taken over. Decency is actions. Decency is actions. Decency is not virtue signaling, decency is not narcissism. Decency is not selfishness. It's the opposite of those things.Cindy Bass:Decency is a standard too.Will Loconto:And decency is not tolerating things that shouldn't be tolerated.Cindy Bass:It's integrity, you know, can actually lump in hard work, loyal, kind, but the biggest one,Will Loconto:Being respectful of other people's time, being respectful of other people's things. You're being respectful of other people's property.Cindy Bass:Your moral, it's your moral compass,Will Loconto:A moral compass. And if you don't have a moral compass, you're a bad person.Cindy Bass:Period.Will Loconto:Yes.Cindy Bass:There's no discussion.Will Loconto:And it has nothing to do with a morality dictate of some religious weirdo saying, this is how you should be. Being a good person is not some subjective thing. These are things that should be a universal truth, not some sort of thing that says, oh, well, you're being X, Y, and Z, so we say you're good, or we say you're bad. This isn't some morality play where we're, we're trying to be the prudes that are saying, oh, we should hide this from kids and we should, A kid shouldn't know what a drag queen is. A kid shouldn't know what a porn star is.Cindy Bass:Little kids.Will Loconto:Yeah, little kids. A kid shouldn't know what a drug addict is.Cindy Bass:There's no reason for them to know.Will Loconto:Even if I were one of those, my small children should never know that. There's no question about that. This should be a universal truth, right?Cindy Bass:Yes. I really, really, really have taught my kids and take pride in that. And I think you do too, is when we see them showing good manners and it is directly from doing it ourselves. So everywhere we go, I would open the door for the next person or hold the door for people coming.Will Loconto:Well, right. I always doCindy Bass:That. No, I'm saying. But we modeled that from the time they were born till as they're older. So now our kidsWill Loconto:Courtesy is something that should be a default, not a privilege. Courtesy for each other should be built into our children and modeled for them. And anything less is a failure. How we conduct ourselves matters in the world. Holding other people up to expectations of how they conduct themselves matters.Cindy Bass:Well, this is a self-centered selfish world. And these parents are not even thinking about their kids. They're just feeding them and they're living in a life of self consumption.Will Loconto:Self gratification. Yes. Yeah. It's justCindy Bass:All about them.Will Loconto:The narcissism, the selfishness. And then also, let's hold up the idea of self-respect versus victimhood. The society we live in incentivizes, victimhood and rewards victimhood now. And it's more about what can I get? What can I get from society? What can I take? And this isn't a thing about whatCindy Bass:Am I owed?Will Loconto:Yeah. What am I owed? Yes. And there's no dignity in being a victim. There's no integrity in being a victim, especially when you're not a victim.Cindy Bass:We wanted to make sure that we say this is not about religion. This is not about a church or doctrine or anything that we're talking about. We're talking about a moral compass of humanity, community standards, protecting children.Will Loconto:And this isn't something where somebody will come back and say, who are you to say what's normal? Who are you to say what's moral? Who are you to say what's, okay? The bar we should use to measure what's, okay. Does it push society in a positive direction? Does it push our community in a positive direction? Does it lift our children up in a positive direction? And if it doesn't, then it's not. It shouldn't be.Cindy Bass:So if it is making things decline, it is not acceptable.Will Loconto:No. Letting people live on the streets,Cindy Bass:Everybody knows what decline means.Will Loconto:Well, you can stand outside, walk down the street and see the damn decline of the country every day. It's not decent to allow people to live on the streets and do drugs on the streets.Cindy Bass:Yeah, let's talk about Gavin Newsom's California in San Francisco, people are shitting on the street an d then children are having to be, let's just say I was walking my child through San Francisco, all the conversations I'd have to have and all the fear my child would have. And if you see someone shooting up and foaming at the mouth and passed out,Will Loconto:Or taking a dump on the street,Cindy Bass:Yes. But I mean, just all of this stuff you are going to have to tell your child, and you're either one of two things. You're going to be the mom that goes by, oh, "we feel sorry for him and we should take care of him."Will Loconto:Well, or you could be the idiot that makes up the, " well, the rich people in the world are screwing these people so badly,"Cindy Bass:Yes.That they're drug addicts on the street living in a tent. And that's a lie.Or you're the mother I if I wouldn't live near it. No, but that's the saddest part is San Francisco is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I have been there. I've experienced this place, and it is truly beautiful.Will Loconto:Would you take a small child there now?Cindy Bass:No.Will Loconto:Can you imagine having to walk a child through those tents every day to getCindy Bass:To school? But I will tell you that I will always have a positive prayerful thought that something will happen for San Francisco, that it'll turn around,Will Loconto:Returns it back to degree,Cindy Bass:It'll turn around. Because what an amazing place they have. They really do. I mean,Will Loconto:Well, the reality is that progressive policies are destroying our cities.Cindy Bass:But what I was going to sa y is if I'm a mother going past this, this is what happens to me. I yank my kid up if physically possible, and hold them past them. And I say, that guy is doing drugs that's illegal. And we don't do that. And to whatever age they are to what they could understand and what's appropriate, I would tell them that in a negative way. And then I probably would say something like, we're blessed.Will Loconto:Compassionate.Cindy Bass:We're blessed that we have a home, but we work hard for the home. And maybe this person has some sort of mental disorder

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Through discipline, respect, fitness, and focus, martial arts training puts children on a path to lifetime confidence and success. Founded in 2004, Jett Garner Martial Arts teaches Goju Ryu Karate and Krav Maga in Austin, Texas.Website: jettgarnermartialarts.com/Facebook: Jett Garner Martial ArtsInstagram: Jett Garner Martial ArtsThanks for reading pushbacknation! Subscribe for free to receive new posts, and episodes, and to support our work.“Don’t prepare the road for the child. Prepare the child for the road.”TranscriptWill Loconto:I'm Will Loconto. I'm here with my partner Cindy Bass today, and we have a guest, Jett Garner from Jett Garner Martial Arts.Cindy Bass:Hi Jett.Jett Garner:Hello. How are y’all?Cindy Bass:I'm good. I'm just meeting you today for the first time, but Will's known you for quite a long time. Can you tell us a little bit about you and how you got into martial arts?Jett Garner:Yes, ma'am. I'm from Indiana and in central Indiana where I'm from, it was really one of the first places in the Midwest in the early and mid sixties that actually opened up a traditional karate studio. My sensei and his friend from high school. Long story, but they were pioneers in the Midwest and a lot of people that came out of their dojo during the sixties and seventies went on to have film careers and action films, world champion kickboxing stars, Bill Wallace, who's one of the most famous martial artists on the planet. Granted, he's in his seventies now, but he's still kicking and getting it done and teaching seminars and so forth. So I really came out of, by the time I joined in martial arts in 97, my sensei had branched off at least 10 years earlier. He had been running his own studio in a smaller town near where I resided at the time.Cindy Bass:How did it evolve that you got to Texas From Indiana?Jett Garner:Indiana? Right. So going back to Indiana real quick, I was pretty much just on a track of, as I had mentioned earlier, of just kind of being a professional salesman. And I would not take a lot of pride of work or a lot of discipline. It was more of a, I'm doing enough to get by, if that makes sense. And my parents, that martial arts, that Koma Kai, the Koma Kai Studio in Anderson, which Mr. Glenn Keeney and my sensei, Mr. Larry Davenport, opened up in the late sixties, early seventies. They worked on it together. They were like a team, although Mr. Keeney was kind of recognized as the leader of the group, and eventually my sensei decided he wanted to have his own studio. So he went to a smaller town, a little bit north, and that was called the Larry Davenport Karate Studio or Dojo. So I was 25 and looking forward to the weekends, to just partying and then feeling terrible on Sunday and Monday. And then once again, looking forward to Friday with not much going on Monday through Thursday, so to speak. And Mr. Davenport, his studio, all those guys, I had heard about them my entire lives. I knew people who trained there. My, as a matter of fact, my parents, when I was like four, had trained at their studio in the seventies for about a year. And eventually, I don't know what it was, I just walked into what would eventually become my senses Dojo or my sensei and his dojo. And he took me through a demo class, just hit with him 1 on 1, and I was hooked right away. So after about six months nah, probably not even that long, about three months of training, weekend partying stopped. I started coming in on weekends and working with the other black belts in the dojo that had a key to his space. And I became a hundred percent invested. It was definitely, as far as my life goes, like a being saved moment or a Jesus moment type thing, it just clicked with me right away. And that was the first thing in my life that had ever just clicked immediately.Cindy Bass:And what happened to make you want to start your own studio, dojo?Jett Garner:Outstanding. Yes. So I started 97, received my black belt, earned my black belt in 2000, and then I had an opportunity to transfer with a company, not going to mention the company down here, cause they were opening up a new call center. And so I put in for the transfer and I received it. I wasn't expecting to receive it. And then the day before I moved to Austin, there were mass global layoffs and I'd already sold my little house and I'd already rented an apartment up in North Austin. And I was like, well, I don't really have a choice,Will Loconto:still have to go.Jett Garner:Well still have to go. And continue to train on my own. It was a very hard conversation I had with my sensei that his new black belt was actually going to move. But we've stayed very close over the years and he's come to see me on 5, 6, 7 occasions. But anyways, I found work pieced together, work here and there in 2001, 2002, 2003. And by 2004, I just couldn't find a place to train. And I was kind of getting bored with training myself on tennis courts and racquetball courts and apartment complexes and so forth, just doing all my forearms and my combos and stuff on my own. And I just couldn't find something that I was satisfied with. And one of my friends had lived out in the Westlake area, according Vaca area, and I was like, maybe I should just open my own studio. So two months later, I was in front of some of the grade schools out our way on their first day of meet the teacher handing out my flyers. In our first year, we taught in a double wide trailer on Kova. Wow. Yeah, and it was a slow buildup at first, but that was 2004. So August of 2004 we're coming in on 19 years. But by 2010 it became, that's all I did anymore because we opened up a I teach traditional, that's mainly kids and teens. And then in 2010 we became a Krav Maga studio as well for adults. We have teens that take it too, but Krav Maga being the Israeli self defensive fitness system.Cindy Bass:That's so cool.Jett Garner:Yes. Thank you.Will Loconto:That's awesome. That is a business success story too.Jett Garner:Jury's still out.Will Loconto:Well, especially after Covid, like you were saying that you thinkJett Garner:We, we've, we've survived. But I count my lucky stars and blessings every single day. A lot of studios went out of business and they'll never reopen. But knock wood, that will continue to get back to where we were, which I think we are. We're on that track. We're on that path right now. You’reWill Loconto:Finally starting to even out a little bit.Jett Garner:But that's another thing too, always, every day, even before Covid, every day, I'm like, I'm so worried that this thing I've built will somehow go away. I would worry about it unnecessarily. That's just kind of how I'm wired. When when's the bow going to break on?Will Loconto:And that's similar in the imposter syndrome thing where everybody feels like they're faking it in your own heart. You feel like you're faking it. I've never heard a title. It's called imposter syndrome.Jett Garner:Okay. Yes. Well, I've learned something today.Will Loconto:It affects a lot of people.Jett Garner:Okay. But it also drove me.Will Loconto:Yes.Jett Garner:So it keeps meWill Loconto:To not let it failJett Garner:Because I don't want to be that guy that I was before martial arts.Will Loconto:Oh, that makes a lot of sense.Jett Garner:Without the focus, without the drive. I have parents who can't get through to their kids now or once i n a while, can you help us with this? It's almost like a, that makes me feel amazing that the parents have enoughWill Loconto:Trust,Jett Garner:Trust or respect towards what we're doing there. That they're having a difficult time with a child.Will Loconto:But well, as a parent who has a child that has been training with you, I would say you have a gift with them.Jett Garner:I appreciate that, sir.Will Loconto:And I'm sure you've honed it over the years too, but that has to also be a natural part of your personality,Jett Garner:Perhaps. I don't, I don't know. I don't know orWill Loconto:Was it the initial idea of starting your own studio was mainly to have a place to train yourself?Jett Garner:To train myself and maybe just make a little bit of money so I didn't have to have a great day job, if you will. But as far asWill Loconto:It wasn't trying to build the Jett Garner Martial Arts empire kind of thing.Jett Garner:Not at all. Not at all. It was more we need a good studio out our way and I need people to train with. And maybe I'd be all right with this as far as how I interact with the parents and the kids and my on mat presence. I have no idea where that came from. No idea. It was just their class one. I'm sure I've matured a little bit and gotten better at it and more efficient and realized, well, you can't say these things in class, or you can't use that to motivate someone. Sometimes you got to be positive with a person, motivate them. And sometimes you need to be negative. It just really depends on the situation.Will Loconto:Well, and you have all kinds of kids in there, too.Jett Garner:Right, all over the spectrum.Will Loconto:All kinds of abilities, all kinds of disabilities even.Jett Garner:Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. And it's definitely an art form to be able to interact and motivate that many different kids.Cindy Bass:I feel like just talking with you, I think you have an energy to you.Jett Garner:Thank you.Cindy Bass:You have a positive energy and it's an excitement.Will Loconto:It's infectiousCindy Bass:It's infectious. But I think what's happening is the kids bond, they're bonding with you.Jett Garner:Yes, ma'am.Cindy Bass:And sometimes they need to bond with someone else other than their parents.Jett Garner:Outside of their family.Cindy Bass:Yes. And so I think that's what's happening is you're bonding with the kids and just like you said, you're going to, there's pros and cons. There's good and bad. There's ways that you work with some kids and others. You've figured out how to reach kids in different ways, which is a gift.Will Loconto:And ask them to extend t

Are you OK with people pissing and crapping on the streets of your city? Are you OK with fatherless homes becoming the norm? It’s time to stop normalizing the abnormal.Thanks for reading pushbacknation! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.TranscriptWill Loconto:I'm Will Loconto, I'm here with my partner Cindy Bass. Today we're asking some simple questions: first, are you okay with people pissing and crapping on the streets of your city?Cindy Bass:Well, that would be a hell no. Because we have a crisis on our hands. A crisis of normalizing the abnormal,Will:The bare minimum responsibility of city government is to provide safe streets for taxpayers, businesses, and property owners. Allowing and enabling people to live on our streets is inhumane. And we need to hold our city leaders accountable.Cindy:Well, we pay taxes. The money has to go somewhere and they have responsibilities to keep our roads maintained. Part of this is to keep the city safe and clean. Yes. That's just a standard.Will:Well, and it should be the priority. It should be, the priority shouldn't be how to address a homeless issue. The priority should be keeping the streets safe for regular people, families, taxpayers, property owners, and the businesses that are in these neighborhoods.Cindy:It also is the drug use. When we were young, we'd go to clubs and stuff. People are walking around, you're going to different clubs. So that happens in your cities, but this is different. People are just everywhere. You and I went to Vegas. Vegas is like something like outer space when you go on the streets of Vegas and it's really sad. But when you step over someone that is completely, almost unconscious, needs to go to the hospital,Will:Half the time you don't know if they're alive.Cindy:Right. You don't. Actually, one time when I was with my kids, I stepped over a girl and I can still see her, and I literally wanted to cry because how could she get to that point that she was laying under the stop sign of a busy intersection while everybody was stepping over her like,Will:Well, and it's inhumane to leave her thereCindy:It is.Will:From the city standpoint.Cindy:It is. And we are going to talk about, and we always talk about children and how all of this affects children. So when your little ones or your grandkids are with you and you're walking by things like that, like a grown man, taking a crap on the city street and you have a child with you, they see it.Will:Right? And if everything smells like weed and piss the kids notice that.Cindy:They do.Will:And they probably don't even know what to think.Cindy:Yes. But what we're talking about is by them seeing it over and over, and as a parent or a grandparent taking them beside it and walking past it, you are conditioning them and you are normalizing this. You are making it okay.Will:And the fact that they leave people on the streets, fentanyl, totally unconscious, bent over whatever, crapping in the street, taking a piss, the fact that cities are literally lessening the penalty for public urination and public defecation, that to me sounds like we've given up. It's ridiculous. And the answer for some of that is not to be more lenient and it's not working. I mean, you go see tent citiesCindy:It's the demise of the city. And so we're seeing this here in Austin with the homeless, the encampments. They're destroying properties. They are polluting streams and waterways. The waters of the United States are getting pollution from these encampments, trash everywhere, disease, sickness. Honestly, it's just cruel to let it happen.Will:Well, and they don't have to make it illegal to be homeless, but they need to make it illegal to be doing drugs openly on the street. They need to be making it illegal to camp on the street, to put up a tent, butCindy:They're camping on someone's property.Will:Well, a lot of the time it's public city property, but the city shouldn't be allowing that.Cindy:The city should push 'em out to the edge. And then when they get on private property, they should be removed from it and they need to go into some sort of shelters.Will:The answer for this problem is mandatory shelter for homeless people.Cindy:Mm-hmm.Will:Forced. If it needs to be forced.Cindy:Right.Will:Because in the interest of protecting the population that is not on drugs or mentally ill, you need mandatory drug treatment, mandatory treatment for mental illness, and mandatory shelter for homeless people. If there's a disciplinary problem at the shelter, then that needs to be against the law.Cindy:So someone might ask you Will, how are you going to pay for all that?Will:They're already paying for it.Cindy:How?Will:San Francisco has billions of dollars. Billions of dollarsCindy:That they're spending on homeless now?Will:On homeless. On the homeless. Yeah. Actually, I just saw a thing that said they spend over $87,000 a year per homeless person in San Francisco, and their solution is to have open air, safe use drug sites and act like that's saving a drug users life by giving them a safe place to use it. They act like that that's some humane thing. Enabling it is not humane. And the numbers do not play out that when they come to these sites that most or even a minimal number of them go to treatment. It's not even close to that.Cindy:I remember seeing in recent years, bathrooms at different places that I shopped had needle containers for drug addicts.Will:Right. And can you imagine being a business, your family business is somewhere where a homeless guy comes in to wash himself in the bathroom of your little restaurant or something that's notCindy:Well, it's the reason why I can't go to the restroom at a lot of places. Recently, we were at a bridal shop and we were not allowed to use their restroom. They said they didn't have one, which is BS. They have one because they're using one. But they would not allow us to. And I find this is the reason.Will:Well, they had that whole thing with Starbucks about letting homeless people use their restrooms or not. And what the recipe for that ends up being, that the result consequence of that is probably that the restrooms are destroyed.Cindy:But by normalizing this behavior, that consequence to someone like me is I don't get to use a restroom because of street people that come in that damage restrooms and do things they're not supposed to in there. Therefore, I can't take my child or my grandchild or myself into a restroom because they're not going to allow you to use it. Which I don't blame them right now. I really don't. Because it would be scary to let people come off the street and use it because you can't deny someone unless it's a customer.Will:Well, some of them will say customer use only. You have to be a customer to use this restroom.Cindy:Well, I could say I was a customer. Define customer.Will:Well, I think that gives,Cindy:Say I had to buy something,Will:Well, right.Cindy:To be a customer?Will:But I think that that ends up at least just giving the business the right to tell somebody no.Cindy:Another one that really bothers me is the drag show thing. Just thinking about this the other day, again,Will:Normalizing, you mean?Cindy:Normalizing.Will:Normalizing something that is a fringe adult activity,Cindy:Which has been going on forever. And drag shows actually are so funny. They're comedians. They have an extraordinary talent to do makeup and become a character and entertain adults.Will:Well, what's interesting is comparing a drag show now today with, so back when I was touring with the band, and we would play sometimes in gay bars that would have drag shows. So I've been to several back then. Drag shows usually were people dressing up as Marilyn Monroe or Diana Ross and performing lip sync to something like that. There weren't men dressed as women wearing thongs rolling around on a stage showing you their private parts.Cindy:And they're not in the public library.Will:Oh, no, no. This was in specifically inCindy:Oh, I know. But I mean now club. That's what I'm saying.Will:Now they want it to be out in the public forCindy:And then can you imagine having a child that goes to school or goes to a library and sees this person? The child might actually enjoy the reading because of the animation and the makeup and how they act and stuff, because that's entertaining. But it gets taken too far. And then these little kids find out that that's a guy. And then there's this discussion that you have to have with a little bitty kid that has no knowledge of what's going on in the world. So these drag people that are reading the kids or these, for instance, that Sam guy that was on the Grammys, that yes, it's the Grammys. It is a show and it's entertainmentWill:And they're all looking for something that's going to be talked about the next day.Cindy:Yeah. It's all marketing. It's all about money and streams and everything. But at the end of the day, they can push the boundaries. But to do it that way, somebody needs to say, Sam, who hurt you so badly that you would want to intentionally harm a child by viewing this. Why can't you with the most extraordinary voice that you have, because it is amazing. I have to say, I truly enjoy his voice. But what he did the other night just makes children because they're going to see it and it's going to be all over social media. And like you and I were talking earlier, this is conditioning. So just to see it on social media posted once, then the next time you open it, you see it again, or you see another shot or you see another video of it or more talk about it or every single platform is talking about it at once. The more you hear about it, the more you see it, the more you're conditioned to think, okay, it's normal.Will:Well right, and then it also takes advantage of the people that think, “I'm open-minded, so I'm going to take my kid to drag queen reading hour.”Cindy:You hear silence on my end right now.Will:Yeah, one of the driving forces behind

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