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Derrick Van Orden: “Because when we have the underlying philosophical…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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VFW Podcast Episode 50: Let Us Reason Together

Published | Video Starts at 47:08

That's from Animal Hospital. I'm not going to. Still not going to steal John Belushi's line. Yeah, man. So that sometimes we do need to wax poetically. Yeah. Because when we have the underlying philosophical understanding of why we feel ways that we do and the actions that we take, we can help modify behavior. And the behaviors that we're trying to modify are our friends killing themselves. And I think that's a pretty good behavior to modify. That's why we really need to have the base. (47:08–47:20)

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Asserts the importance of understanding emotions and actions to modify behavior.

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