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“Bring our people home”: on focusing overseas instead of here.

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Shot on 26 March 2026.

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Asked to name the biggest problem in the world, a man in Denver names American foreign policy, and argues the money and attention should be pointed inward instead.

“I’d say the biggest problem right now is thinking the bigger problems are outside of our country, and focusing on international interests instead of helping the people here.”

Pressed on what he means: “For far too long we’ve been interested in oil and resources and making money outside of the US, and we’ve got to get back to focusing on our people and our country.”

Asked what he would point somebody at if they wanted to look into it, he does not reach for a source. He reaches for the view out the window. “Look at the climate of your state, of how things are where you’re at. And the fact that we’ve got all these people fighting this unnecessary war. So we’ve got to bring our guys home.”

Then the second question, the one this whole format is built around: if you could ask everybody in the world one thing in the next seven days, what would you want to know?

His answer: “What do you love about life?”

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0:01Yeah, I’d say the biggest problem right now is thinking the bigger problems are outside of our country and focusing on, you know, um, international interests instead of helping the people here. Can you say more about that? And this is for Poetic We Them Media. You don’t have to say that. Yeah, Poetic. It’s called Pics or It Didn’t Happen. It’s just like the the kind of competition project we’re doing. Okay. Um Yeah, I think far too long we’ve been interested in, you know, oil and resources and making money outside of the US and we got to get back to focusing on our people and our our

0:44country. What do you feel like? I guess, what has you say that? Uh, I used you point to? What would you point to as examples? Like, do you want people to like get what you’re saying and be like, “Oh, let me go look more into that.” Um I just say like, look at the climate of of your of your state of of like how things are where you’re at. And uh the fact that we’ve got all these people fighting this unnecessary war. So, we got to bring bring bring our guys home. Bring our guys home. Yeah. That’s good. And then I have one one second question. Mhm. If you could ask

1:30the whole people around the world in the next 7 days any question, what would you want to know? Um What do you love about life? Yeah.

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