750 the rain is still falling across parts of Kansas City. It'll move out in the next couple hours will be dry the rest of the day, maybe a stray shower in the afternoon. But yesterday we're driving back from soccer practice and as the practice was wrapping up, my phone goes off and I look and it's someone high up in Missouri politics and I can't take it. All right. I am not interrupting dribbling drills to take this call from someone high up in Missouri politics. I'm not doing it. All right. They're going to have to wait. The girls come first, but on the way home, I call this person back and we have a conversation. It's about three, four minutes. We wrap it up about the Royal Stadium and the perspective from the state and then in the back seat Claire's like, who is that? And I said, well, it's a politician for the state of Missouri. And she says, well, what's a politician? I said, well, you know, you have people who are local politicians for our cities. You have people in our counties who are politicians. You have state politicians and you have federal politicians. And what they do is they create the laws that we have to live by what we can and can do. And she said, okay, I said like Donald Trump is a politician. He's the president. That's a politician. He's the guy who obviously is running the country, but that's a politician. Oh, okay. I get it. So she goes, does that guy like Donald Trump? I said, yeah, well, he does. The person I was talking to. And she says, well, yeah, I guess they all have to like him, right? Because he's the president. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not how it works. They do not all need to like him. No, that's that's not the game. She's like, well, why not? I said, well, politicians have different ideas in terms of what they think is best for the people. Some of them like certain things and believe that certain ways are best ways to help the people. And other politicians believe that there are better ways to help the people. And she's like, okay, well, give me an example. So this is a very hard conversation to have. You're trying to explain this for the first time to a seven year old. And it's much more difficult than anything I did yesterday during seven hours of radio between this show and the Vin show, where you're talking obviously to an adult audience about the issues of the day. That five minute conversation was much more difficult than anything I talked about during seven hours of radio yesterday. And I said, well, okay, here's a great example. I said, you know, mom and dad, obviously we have an income. And we've got to pay our government money. Every paycheck that dad gets, a portion of that goes to pay for our cops and our firefighters and schools and our army. And that's how it goes. And she says, well, how much are you paying? I said, well, don't worry about that. But you know, just to use a round number, every dollar that I make, let's say 20 cents of every dollar, more or less, probably more, I've got to pay to the government. So 20 every dollar that dad makes 20 cents of that is going to the government. And you got to give the government money to pay for all these different things that we have our roads that we're driving on our bridges, our army, you know, cops, those things, right? She's like, okay, so why don't some people like that? I said, well, it's just to use that as an example. It's just a difference between how people view the government. Some people think the government should be doing more for people. And some people believe the government should be doing less. And she asked the question, well, why? Who wants to do less? I said, well, it's not about doing less for helping people. It's just about this idea of what is the government's role. So now we're kind of getting deep in the weeds on this. In terms of helping kids and what makes sense and helping people out. I said, well, the government's not the best when it comes to being efficient with money. They're just not very good with it. They waste money. She goes, what do you mean? Like, they throw it out the window? Yep, yep, they might as well just throw it out the window. I said, that's that's kind of like a nice way to put it. Yeah, they just throw it out the window. That's basically what they do. They toss it out the window and whoever picks it up, well, they're the lucky winner that day. Well, that doesn't sound like a very good deal. Like, no, it's not. So she said, how do other people want to help people who need it? I said, well, through charity, through private giving, through churches, because they're much better at it. There's a lot of evidence that shows that private organizations do a much better job at helping people in an efficient way than the government does. And by the way, I made sure to explain to her that people who believe in smaller government and less government are more charitable as well. The numbers back that up. So that's why mom and dad have organizations that we help and, you know, the church and things like that, because we believe in that style of government, we believe in that kind of lifestyle. So therefore, we put our money where our mouth is, and that's an important thing to do. So that five minute conversation last night was eyeopening for me, but you're trying to view all this through the prism of a seven-year-old. And when you actually take a step back and think about life through the prism of a seven-year-old, you get a lot of clarity. It kind of brings you back to that base level where you say to yourself, hmm, now some of this stuff where we sometimes get in the weeds and we overthink it, it really isn't that complicated. And it doesn't need to be that complicated. But we sometimes as adults overcomplicate these things, and they don't need to be overcomplicated. John, they just don't. The course of this conversation I was thinking as a father, you might be overcomplicating this a little bit. I don't know Claire's comprehension. She may be, you know, taking it all in like you say, but usually you're going to get another question of why. Yeah, well, there were a lot of those. But the follow-up questions made me realize she was comprehending it enough to ask that follow-up. That's what it seems like, sure. Because that's where I was struggling. And I was like, boy, I'm kind of getting into this here more than I thought I would. But the follow-up questions were well thought out. So that made me think something was clicking for her. So she's not going to be a journalist. Or she is. And we mean more people actually asking real questions. That's what we need. My goodness. 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