To answer you as well as I can:

John: “your contempt for class, affinity for equality, and requisite artistic freedom?”

Robert: I will always have contempt for class, as I am a White man and feel the only class is made by an individual’s deeds. I have no affinity for equality. I believe outcome is predicated on effort and ability and no gov’t should stop that. Communism is equality. And there can be no art if one is bowing down to another viewpoint. Would you admire that, knowing that they are not saying what they truly believe?

John: “I take everybody as a person, even Beethoven, my bestfriends, the people walking down the street. I don’t care where you come from.”

Robert: How would you NOT take anyone as an individual? Granted, apart from race, as my beliefs are that the difference between a Black and a White is the difference between a lion and a gazelle. They are not comparable.

John: “I’m commanded by God to be a servant,…”

Robert: I am uneasy with this issue as a person and an artist. This bothers me in that I have this artist’s rage inside of me. I always have to separate the command by the Lord to be a servant (and I do try hard to serve another) but never allow someone to dissuade me from clear thinking such as ‘to go along, just to get along.’

John: “a person came from nowhere, just nowhere, and pick themselves off the ground and became a success, that was the true American spirit.”

Robert: I certainly don’t grovel at the feet of someone that inherits money (Paris Hilton for example) when there are individuals that start from zero and are successful. I admire that.

I hope this clarifies some things (but probably not:-)

@29:24 “..Beethoven hated the class system and didn’t respect that, nor do I.”

@41:24 “I take everybody as a person, even Beethoven, my bestfriends, the people walking down the street. I don’t care where you come from.”

@48:21 “I’m commanded by God to be a servant, and I try to be to my fellow man, but I have this artist inside me that I can’t have anybody controlling anything that I do musically, I resent that…”

@16:03 Who’s the person, who is the person, in fact, I grew up in America thinking if a person came from nowhere, just nowhere, and pick themselves off the ground and became a success, that was the true American spirit. And, we’re losing that, now everybody is a victim, right?”

Your post is absolutely on point and is why we decided to add a show like this to the network. We will give our people culture. It’s who we are.

Next Saturday’s show will be an important overview of who owns and controls the music industry. This is a MUST see for everyone.

The last Hour by the Window wasn’t in the feed either.

I’m just going to download these manually but just wanted to give you a heads up.