Episode 63 - The Only Thing We Can Learn From Tucker

Words can steady a life or set it on fire. We take a hard look at how speech that feels harmless—true, even positive—can still wound, and why “just asking questions” often acts as a Trojan horse for suspicion and harm. Drawing on a timeless ethic of guarding the tongue, we make a practical case for restraint: avoid names, avoid talking about people, and choose conversations that lift. Along the way, we unpack how language tactics spread doubt, why a non-answer can’t undo a planted narrative, and how to ask better questions that clarify instead of inflame.

We also extend the lens from words to deeds. Harm isn’t limited to obvious blows; it hides in small decisions that profit from another person’s stumble. We explore a set of plain tests—who pays the hidden cost, what long-term story does this choice write, and will I be proud to sign my name to it in a year. With that, we revisit a vivid lesson from Moses: if reverence is owed even to water and sand that once sheltered us, how much more care is owed to people with memory and feeling. Gratitude reframes ethics, turning self-control into protection for others and a shield for our own character.

By the end, we offer clear, usable rules for ethical speech and action: share only what serves the person present, correct in private and praise in public, pass on rumours even when they sound true, and slow down before forwarding the spicy take. If you value trust, dignity, and a life aligned with purpose, this conversation will give you tools you can use the moment you hit stop. If something here moved you, subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with the line that stayed with you most.

Transcript

Setting The Theme: Guard Your Words

What Evil Speech Really Means

The Trap Of “Innocent” Questions

Harm By Deed And Moral Choices

Moses, Gratitude, And Sensitivity

Living Aligned With Divine Care

Closing And Listener Invitation

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Welcome to the Trust Factor Podcast, the only podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Good morning, my dear friends. It's the day after, the morning after. Everybody's still a little bit hung over, and it's perfectly understandable. I'm in that camp as well. It was a fun night, and that was the intent behind it. I hope you enjoyed your poem. The book said yesterday that God wants us to avoid hurting others, both in speech and in deed. In speech it's such a powerful tool, guys. There's no coincidence that one of the biggest sins that you could do in Judaism is called Lashon Hara, evil tongue is how it's translated perfectly. But really, evil speech is so complicated, it's so complex that even just mentioning another person's name can oftentimes get you in trouble. Even when you're saying good things, a lot of people don't understand La Shon Hara, evil tongue, and they think that it's just gossip, just talking badly about other people. It's not true. If your friend won the lottery and you are having a conversation with another individual who also knows his friend, and you say, Did you hear so and so won the lottery? It's true. You're happy for them. It's wonderful. You really have good feelings in your heart. It's warm and fuzzy because your friend who was very deserving in your eyes won the lottery. It's still evil tongue. It's still La Shonhara. How? It's true number one. And number two, it's positive. So how could it be bad? And the answer is that yeah, it might be positive by you, but you don't know how the person receiving it is taking it. You have no idea how they feel about that other individual. You have no idea if they have a jealous bone in their body and if they might think that they're entitled to it, and if they don't think the other individual who actually won it is entitled to it. But if you now brought it up and put it in his mind, you're guilty. You have to be very careful with your words. Very, very careful. If you want a steadfast rule in conversation, it's don't mention names. Never talk about people. That's it. If you can have conversations about anything else, then you're fine. Talk about the weather, talk about sports, talk about Torah, that would be ideal. Don't talk about another person, never mention a name. And even if you're not mentioning names, stay away from talking about other people. It's dangerous, very dangerous territory. Just look online if you want more proof. You know they say the pen is mightier than the sword, and the tongue is mightier than the pen. What's the idea? A lot of people think that the worst thing you can do is take a sword and kill somebody, and that's not always the case. Sometimes you can do more damage that's ongoing and torturous to an individual and destroy their entire existence, which is much worse than taking them out. Because now they have to live a lifetime with the pain that you caused with your tongue. Look at our friend, the number one anti Semite, the flip-flopper, Tucker Carlson. His approach and the Candace Owens of the world and a lot of these losers, the way that they approach life is very simple. They ask questions. They use their mouths and their tongues and their words to ask questions as though it's just an innocent question. It's not. It's far from innocent. Just in the actual question itself, the fact that they got the words out of their mouth put something into the air that is not true and that could be evil and wicked, and that's what they do. They know this. They've perfected the art. Why do you think our friend Piers Morgan comes from a tabloid background? Because the tabloids do just that. They're very careful with their words, very careful, not in what they say, but how they say it. I'll give you an example. If I said to you now, you know, I have it on good information that it's really probable, highly probable, that Tucker Carlson is transgender, that he's really a woman and he became a man. And now I don't understand why he would do that. You know, as somebody who's a Christian and who claims to love God and claims to live a godly life and has preached the word in the past and done all these wonderful things, how does somebody like that come up bold faced as a somebody who's transitioned from a woman to a man? I mean, I certainly wouldn't do that. If it's true, I mean, I don't know. But if it's true, why would he do something like that? Because I certainly would never do something like that as somebody who wants to follow the word of God. You see what I've done over here? In a matter of seconds, even though I have no idea, it could be completely false, 100% false. And in this case, I think it is. But the reality is just the fact that I put that stupidity out into the air, into the ether, it hits people's ears. And there is value to it. Why? Because it was asked. Oftentimes you'll see somebody who's educated and experienced, and the way that they will respond to a question like that is I'm not going to justify that question with a response. And while he might think that he's doing good by not responding, and it's partially good, it's too late. The fact that this skilled craftsman put that into the ether, that put that out there in the form of a question, he's already done the damage. And then he doubles down and triples down on it and runs with it. Always careful to use words like if or maybe or probably, I don't know, scattered throughout. But ultimately, it's all designed to cause massive harm. That's what the book means. Be careful with your words. You can cause tremendous, tremendous harm. Now, what about deed? You can also hurt people with your actions. Also devastating potentially. You have to be careful with your actions. And it's not just going over to somebody, like we said yesterday, and hitting them with a baseball bat over the head. It could mean your business transaction. It could mean there's an opportunity in front of you to be able to succeed at the cost of somebody else. Will you take it or not? It could mean going out of your way to put a stumbling block in front of somebody. You know that they have an opportunity to excel and to succeed, and you put a stumbling block in front of them in order to see them fail. Another act that is against your creator's will. How do we learn about this in the Torah? What are the examples that are given to us? You guys all know them. A lot of them come from Moses. Moses, when the ten plagues came, they came through Moses and Aaron. And it was very important that Aaron his brother was there with them for multiple reasons. But one of those reasons you'll remember, God instructed Moses to do a certain action, to take his staff and either hit the water or hit the sand. And those brought upon a plague, whether it was lice, whether it was a splitting of the sea or turning the water to blood, he had to use his staff to hit the sand or the water, but he wasn't allowed to. God said to Moses, Moses, you can't do this one. You gotta sit this one out. Give your staff to your brother, let him hit the water or hit the sand. Why? Why couldn't Moses do it? And the answer is the following. Moses was saved by the water. How? When he was a baby. His mother put him in a basket and sent him down the Nile when there was a decree to kill all the Jewish male babies, to throw them in the river. So his mother took him, put him in a basket, sent him down the river into the hands of Pharaoh's daughter, where he ended up growing up as a prince. What saved him? You might think it was his mother, and she had a part in it. But so did the water. The water cradled him. It floated him down to safety. And as a result of that he wasn't allowed to hit the water. And the same applies with the sand. When he saw his Jewish brother being beaten by an Egyptian taskmaster, he was a prince at the time, and he killed that taskmaster. And the sand buried that individual, hiding, covering his crime, and ultimately saved him. Eventually he had to flee. But the point is that he wasn't allowed to hit the sand, and he wasn't allowed to hit the water. Two inanimate objects. There are no feelings over there, no heart feelings. There's no concern that you're going to offend. It's sand and water. And yet we have to be so sensitive in our actions that God even shows us that even by inanimate objects that we owe a debt of gratitude to, we have to be sensitive with our actions. It would not be right for Moses to hit these things. You understand? So how much more so? An individual who has feelings, an individual who can think, an individual who can be hurt and have hard feelings, and you may never know it, and they may carry it with them for the rest of their lives because of the damage that you've done. And you may not have thought twice about it. You would have just gone with it because you didn't think it was material. But yet you left a mark, a very, very bad mark. That mark, my friends, will follow you forever. Why? Why even tread into that territory? Be very, very careful. We need to, because I'll tell you what, and I'll tie this up very nicely. The reason that we're not supposed to do these things, that we're supposed to be careful with our words and our actions and not hurt people, is because God cares for each and every single one of us as he does for you. The same way he loves you infinitely, the same way he will do for you infinitely, the same way he wants you to be happy and successful and not sad and not depressed, the same way all these things are true for you, he wants them for the rest of his children. And if you're the one inflicting this damage, this harm, then there's a problem. There's a real problem because now there is an accounting that needs to be had. If we walk around like that every day, my friends, constantly aware that our words carry a lot of weight, they're even they're so much stronger than the sword, and our actions are also equally powerful, then we will be positioned for success. We will make sure that our interactions are kosher, they're above board, they're friendly. They're certainly not ones that are going to bring our friends down. That's not the people that we want to be. That's it for today, my friends. Wishing you a wonderful day. We'll continue tomorrow. 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