Over 77% of Louisiana residents are born there and never leave. Kennedy and Theo connect this to the state's authentic culture: God-fearing, hardworking, fun-loving people who found a place worth staying in. As Kennedy puts it, Texas is 5.5 times bigger, but Louisiana is 10.5 times more interesting.
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The conversation takes a warm detour into Louisiana pride. Census data cited in the episode shows 77% of Louisiana residents are born there and never leave — the highest rate in the nation — and Kennedy attributes this to authentic culture: God-fearing, hardworking, fun-loving people who found a place worth staying. Kennedy teases Ted Cruz regularly with the line 'Texas is 5.5 times bigger, but Louisiana is 10.5 times more interesting.' The two swap zoo jokes (Louisiana zoos have recipes under the animal names) and debate the new LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin — a brilliant strategist and recruiter, Kennedy concedes, but someone who loves himself a little too much and is now on the clock after a boatload of guaranteed money. Kennedy defends Nick Saban's departure to Alabama, noting he was offered something like $5 million at a time Louisiana couldn't match. Theo reveals he's attended hot yoga with Kiffin, producing a photo. [1] — Theo Von "Louisiana born-never-left: 77%: According to U.S. Census Bureau data, approximately 77% of Louisiana residents were born in the state and s…" 1:13:27
Kennedy says roughly 90% of his personal philosophy comes down to three rules he gave his son: don't hurt people unless you have to defend yourself, don't take other people's things, and leave me alone. The third one, he says, is the most important — government should not run people's lives.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, approximately 77% of Louisiana residents were born in the state and spend their entire lives there, making it the stickiest state in America.
Most people confuse things they value instrumentally (because they get them other things) with things they value intrinsically (for their own sake). Greenberg's friend stayed in a miserable relationship for years because she was living by her parents' values, not her own — the values map made the mismatch instantly visible.
Jungian analyst James Hollis distills a good life to four things: shut up (have gratitude, stop whining), suit up (prepare yourself to fulfill a role), show up (do the actual work in service of others), and daily get out of stimulus-response to ask what your deeper wish actually is. The whole landscape of self-help slots into just these four bins.
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Men need a 'bank account' of masculine status — muscle, money, success — before society grants them permission to express vulnerability. Chris Bumstead can cry at the Olympia and get celebrated. A struggling nobody doing the same thing gets contempt. This creates a tragic paradox where the men who most need emotional support get the least of it.
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Her supervisor told her she was too emotional for the pediatric ICU. So she asked herself: 'What area of medicine can I cry in?' That question led her to psychiatry. Finding the environment that holds your emotional sensitivity isn't retreat — it's strategy.
For someone with RSD, ghosting isn't ambiguity — it's a self-verdict. Their brain doesn't read 'this relationship ended,' it reads 'I am the reason this failed.' No closure means the brain fills the gap with evidence of personal insufficiency, and it keeps filling indefinitely.
More freedom doesn't produce more happiness — it produces more anxiety. Kierkegaard identified this 180 years ago: the more options you have, the more you feel the 'dizziness of freedom,' a paralytic unease at having to choose any single one. The freest generation in history is, by his prediction, exactly the most anxious.
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