Sound Judgments with Will Loconto

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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. Transcript Will Loconto: I'm Will Loconto. I'm here with my partner Cindy Bass. Today we're asking what happened to American decency Cindy 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 It seems like the concept of common decency has been replaced by false kindness.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...

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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 Arts Instagram: Jett Garner Martial Arts Thanks 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.” Transcript Will 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...

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. Transcript Will 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 there Cindy: 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 cities Cindy: 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, but Cindy: They're camping on someone's property. Will: Well, a lot of the time it's public...

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