6⧸19⧸17 - The end of the valedictorian
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Summary
What would America be like if all of the 30 congressmen and senators were killed in a van attack in London on Tuesday, what would the country be like a week later? Also, a high school has abandoned their valedictorians because competition is bad, and a mistrial is declared in the Cosby case.
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A lot going on. There's a suspected terror attack in London.
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Somebody took a van and mowed into a lot of Muslims as they came out of mosque.
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We'll tell you about an idea that I had over the weekend that I think we're going to do tomorrow.
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I wrote to a lot of people, many of whom will remain nameless, but all leaders that you could respect.
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And then people like, I don't mind exposing this, Brad Thor, who are in the science fact kind of, or fact and fiction sort of world,
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where they write these fiction books, but they're all really, it's all based in fact.
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And I asked them, what would we be looking at a week later if a lot of people, if not all of the people,
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the 30 congressmen and senators were killed last Tuesday?
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I'll begin to tell you a little bit about that coming up in just a second.
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Also, a high school has abandoned their valedictorians because competition is bad.
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And when you read about it and you see what was presented, I don't know if I could have come to a decision on that.
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And one other trial that really, to me, is a bit confusing.
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And confusing because people are saying, this person had no liability, no responsibility.
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But do we play a role at all in other people's lives?
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A really dangerous, slippery slope kind of question that we begin with right now.
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I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand, cause we are one.
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I will beat my drum, I have made my choice, we will overcome, cause we are one.
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Let's start with the story of a girlfriend who, in a case that took in thousands of text messages,
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Michelle Carter was dating a guy named Conrad, Conrad Roy III.
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He had, he was a friend of hers, and, and I use that in air quotes, and he had said to her for a while, I'm going to kill myself.
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And initially discouraged him for months and told him not to do it and then eventually started encouraging him to do it.
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Um, I'm going to tell you a very personal story that I've never told before on the air that relates to this in some way as a story of devil's advocate.
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But she was just convicted of, what was it, third degree manslaughter?
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Involuntary manslaughter because he got out of the truck, he put himself in the garage, started his truck up, started breathing in the fumes, he stumbles out of the truck, gets out, texts her.
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And then she never called police, never alerted, nothing.
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No, in fact, she actually created a charity softball game, I think, too, in his memory after his death.
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And, you know, tried to, she was communicating with friends saying that he was missing before he had actually committed suicide.
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And she, she actually, he calls her, and he's choking and coughing, and she actually listens to him die over the phone.
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So now this case goes to court, and there's a lot of people that say she has no responsibility.
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And it was, it was his choice to listen to her.
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However, you're playing on the mind of somebody who is obviously ill.
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You are, don't we have a personal responsibility to help one another, to first do no harm?
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It was things like, you know, you're, sure, yeah, your parents will be upset at first, but they'll get over it.
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She texted him, you're finally going to be happy in heaven.
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She did it over and over and over and over again over a period of weeks, if not months, if I'm not mistaken.
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And if you're a, if you're a friend and they, they say boyfriend, really boyfriend, girlfriend, there's, at least that was the rumored relationship between them.
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And we should point out, too, that he had already attempted suicide previously.
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So, it wasn't one of these things where, I didn't believe he'd even tried it.
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She couldn't say that because she was listening to him.
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I didn't, I, that's, I mean, she listened to him die.
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He, that, that point where he, he gets out of the truck and she talks him back into the truck.
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So, so the, the argument, and you might say that's open and shut, right?
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Because, I mean, I think you, my job, my mind jumped to people like Charlie Manson, who never killed anybody.
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This is, if you don't know this, this is terrifying.
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This is a guy in Russia who is online and he, he says, I've got the greatest challenge ever.
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And anybody who takes me up on this challenge, if you follow it all the way through, you will commit suicide.
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And these kids, most of them 15, 17 years old, they get online and they take the challenge.
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And he offers, I don't know how many challenges per day, maybe 30 or 45 days.
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And you have to, every day, it starts with something small.
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Well, about halfway through, he says that you have to kill a cat or a dog or a defenseless animal.
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Studies have shown that the people who kill the animal finish it.
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The ones who don't kill the animal don't kill themselves.
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You get into this game, and then others who are playing the game shame you.
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This all goes really to the Jonathan Haidt book that I've been reading, The Righteous Mind, on how the mind works.
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Once you set it into a path, as long as you have people around you, if you start to go off the path,
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as long as your friends are like, no, no, go, do it, you pretty much will.
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It takes very, very few people will actually break from their friends.
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And so the peer pressure is great to continue to go and to do these things.
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He makes you get up in the middle of the night and do things.
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And then he's constantly disrupting your sleep pattern towards the end.
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And he's still doing it by mail, no longer on the Internet because he's in jail in Russia.
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So when he was under investigation and on trial, he said,
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So I'm just thinning the herd and getting rid of the weak ones.
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If she didn't do wrong, Manson didn't do wrong because he never killed anyone.
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At this point, particularly in our history, I find stories that are not just based on partisan lines a lot more interesting.
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Because you can't tell who really believes the arguments they're making anymore.
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This is from David French, however, who's from the National Review, conservative.
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First, Conrad Roy, the boyfriend, is responsible for his death.
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To argue that Carter committed manslaughter is to diminish Roy's moral agency.
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It's wrong to deny compassion to someone who's troubled that they may commit suicide.
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But we can't move so far in the other direction that we race to find who's really to blame when a person voluntarily takes their own life.
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And while Carter undoubtedly played a persuasive role, I can't imagine where we will draw the line.
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I have a personal story that relates directly to this.
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And I think it is what David French is talking about.
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I'll share that when we come back in just a second.
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So, we're talking about this girl who Friday was convicted of involuntary manslaughter because she encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide.
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And she was actually on the phone encouraging him while he did it.
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He got out of a truck in a garage and he had for months said he was going to do it.
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And he got out and he said he was afraid, called her.
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Get back in the truck and listen to him while he died.
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Now, the conservative point of view from David French is two parts.
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And I want to address the first part before we get to the second.
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The first part is we should have compassion and we can't regulate because it is your free choice to kill yourself.
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But let me share something about my mother's suicide.
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And they had encouraged her to get help, etc., etc.
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And she apparently, in the last year of her life, had threatened this a lot.
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And the family had done everything that they could.
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And she wasn't doing what she was supposed to do.
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And my aunt was very frustrated with my mother.
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And she said, my mother said, you know, Joanne, I'm just going to do it.
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And my aunt looked at my mother and said, you know what, Mary?
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She was tired of hearing what she thought was an empty threat just to, what, gain sympathy or whatever.
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My aunt carried that around for decades after my mother died because my mother committed suicide about, I think it was five days later, four or five days later.
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And my aunt immediately thought, oh my gosh, and I told her to do it.
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You said something very human in a moment of frustration with a sister who had been threatening to do it for a long time and you supported for years.
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And that's a different thing than we're talking about.
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So I understand because partly I am afraid that you have a moment like that and anybody could be blamed for it.
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This is somebody who over months was encouraging.
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Now, the second part of his argument is where it gets dangerous.
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And it gets dangerous because we no longer have a right and wrong.
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We no longer have a moral foundation for our country.
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And for us as humans, we can't agree on what is right and wrong.
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And don't think that there will be people that will use this case to make all kinds of points.
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He says, second, the First Amendment implications are real with this verdict.
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Carter's actions, the girl's actions, were reprehensible.
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But she was sharing with him thoughts and opinions that he may have found persuasive but had the capacity to reject.
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A legal argument that renders otherwise protected speech unlawful because it actually persuades would blast a hole in First Amendment jurisprudence.
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When a young man dies, especially under these circumstances, the desire to hold someone accountable is entirely understandable.
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But the law can't and shouldn't try to right every wrong.
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Now, I mean, because you can think about this in the perspective of what happened last week.
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You know, let's just say the other way it happened.
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A crazy right-wing person who was influenced by all sorts of right-wing propaganda.
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They would be using this case to go after people.
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Let's say, instead of Rachel Maddow, he was listening to me.
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Your speech, if he had called in and you had talked to him and encouraged him to take action,
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and even though it wasn't violent action, they would use that.
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They will take this standard and move it past this.
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Let's use this as true despicable speech on the so-called right, Alex Jones and ping-pong pizza.
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Or the woman who went up and, what did she do, threatened the life of one of the Newtown parents?
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I mean, a woman from Florida who said she was listening to Alex Jones and he had, quote, encouraged her to go up and take care of these lying Newtown parents.
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My husband, Steve Scalise, has had several surgeries and is doing better today.
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And tomorrow, I'm going to show you, I really believe Divine Providence kicked in last week.
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A week ago, Tuesday, was the shooting at the ballpark.
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But it, no, because Bill O'Reilly was on last Tuesday, wasn't he?
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I've asked some fiction writers, some thriller writers, some politicians, some media experts, all of whom will remain nameless.
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Tell me what you think could have happened if we were, this last weekend, burying 30 congressmen and senators.
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What would have, what would be happening in the world right now?
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And I'm only showing you this because I want to show you how close to the edge we really are.
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But I may not make it to that show to be able to tell you that.
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We shot down a Syrian, not airliner, fighter jet.
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Russia has responded this morning with this news.
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They have also stopped the hotline between our military.
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There was a hotline between us because this is a very tight airspace.
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And so we've had a hotline between our flight directors, if you will.
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Russia has just shut that down and said we will take that as a hostile act to anything west of the Euphrates.
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Gang, I believe we are either at war or we are really, really close to war.
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And it is not going to be like it was in Afghanistan or is in Afghanistan.
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One of these wars that you can just, oh, well, we're at war with another country.
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And you don't pay attention to, this changes the entire world.
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The reason why I'm bringing up this woman who encouraged her boyfriend or this girl who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself for months is because you are not in your right mind.
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When you are suicidal, I'm sorry, but all reason has broken down.
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And I know this as a guy who has had two suicides in his family and has been suicidal himself.
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Pat, have I ever been, I've never been suicidal since we've known each other.
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I'm prone, my whole family is prone to clinical depression.
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And in the 80s, before I knew about medication, they were still using things like Elevil, which was a really nasty kind of drug, to help you with depression.
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If I wasn't, I always say that cowardice saved my life, but I thank God that I'm a coward.
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I couldn't think about putting a gun to my head.
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I looked at a pillar of a bridge abutment on 84 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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And every single day, both to and from work, I prayed, Lord, give me the strength to plow my car into that.
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And when you actually go through it, all reason breaks down.
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You really do believe that if you were gone, everyone around you would be happy.
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The second thing that you think is, and this is where it gets, this is where suicide becomes real.
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If you've ever, you know what, I hate to minimize it, but as somebody who's gone through it, I think I'm allowed to do this.
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And it's like the moment right before you vomit.
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And then that moment as you're getting closer to it, you're like, no, no, no, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, I don't want to vomit.
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Because she's, you can't say something like that to somebody who's not in their right mind, because they will do it.
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And so, we're just sick of it and we want it to stop.
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Because that sounds like the mind of a suicidal person.
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We just don't mind if other people get out of our way, no matter what it takes.
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And our heart has failed us because, as David French said, we have to have compassion.
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I got out of church and I went home and I wrote something that I want to share with you.
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That is really known before the Greeks were around in philosophy.
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But it just hit me clearly yesterday that this is where we are.
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In life, but especially in times of strife, you will not rise to the level of your expectations or desire.
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In life, we all think or expect that when things get tough, we're going to stand up.
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But it is true that in life, especially in times of strife, you're not going to rise to the level of your expectations or desire.
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Instead, you will fall to the level of your preparation.
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You're going to become the person that you prepared yourself to be.
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It goes back to my father and the most important thing I think my father, well, one of the most important things my father taught me.
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One of the things he taught me was, Glenn, you don't want to be like me.
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I promise you, if you don't replace everything that I have taught you about being a father, you're going to be exactly like me.
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I was very much like my father, a good dad, just not a dad that was very present in any way.
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Until I started to replace that image of what it means to be a good dad.
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And actually replaced it with things that I could see, things that I could understand, things that I could follow in good times and bad.
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I prepared myself to be a better dad than my father was.
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I had to do the things to not say, oh, well, I'm just going to be better than that.
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No, you're not going to be better than your mom or your dad.
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You're not going to be the person that stands up and saves the world unless you've prepared to be that person.
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You're not going to be the person that can rally everyone around the cause and lead them away from the cliff unless you've prepared to be that person.
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Corrie ten boom, Corrie ten boom, Paulina in, in Poland that saved all of the, those Jews that I quote all the time.
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The righteous didn't suddenly become righteous.
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They just refused to go over the cliff with everyone else.
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If you look at those who saved, those who were really, truly righteous, there was always something.
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He had prepared himself to be a great capitalist and to be a great capitalist and prepare himself to succeed no matter what was going on.
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At first, Oscar Schindler just took advantage of the cheap labor.
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Paulina, Corrie ten boom, their parents prepared them to be those kinds of people because they studied the scriptures,
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because they prayed all the time, because they used real examples, because they actually went out and helped people
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and their, their compassion for others was fostered.
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You just don't have compassion for others in this society.
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We're swimming in a sea that shows no compassion.
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When you go and talk to kids, especially in the, in the cities,
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You will fall to the level of your preparation.
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You will not rise to the level of your expectations.
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There is another armed and dangerous shooter at a mall in Massachusetts today.
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The world is still moving in a very dangerous direction.
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The Russians have just cut off our communication and coordination between our planes and said
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this morning that if we cross into Syria airspace, anything west of the Euphrates,
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At the same time, they shut down our coordination.
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We've always had communication with them saying,
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The world is a much more dangerous place than it was while you were sleeping.
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We'll give you all the details and so much more right now.
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There is some news that happened over the weekend with the president's new attorney,
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We'll give you the details on that coming up in just a second.
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Also, high schools now are starting to abandon their valedictorian because,
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Some really amazing stats that you need to look at on why some very, very smart people say
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the economy is not what everybody says it is, at least for the stock market.
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Five predictions from very smart investors on why they say we should be watching
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and what we should be watching for the stock market to crash.
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And Elon Musk says he wants to link computers to our brains
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He said, everybody else is going for artificial intelligence.
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Why don't we instead link our brains to computers?
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That way, the computer won't see us as a threat.
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You know, part of that does sound really great.
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I mean, boy, wouldn't it be great to be able to process anything that you wanted to process?
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It would be pretty amazing if we could actually use, you know, our entire brain.
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If it worked both ways, if the computer could download into you a foreign language
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or something that you would almost instantly know.
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Almost impossible because everybody would be doing it.
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Just like, what's-his-face from Google says, everybody will be doing it.
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You'll realize that to succeed in business and in life, you'll have to do it because everybody
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But wouldn't it be interesting if you wanted to live the life you're living right now that
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And any just society would not see the Amish as a threat.
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Any just society would say, just leave me alone.
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I don't want anything to do with you guys and your laws and that crazy stuff that you guys
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I don't think this society would allow that to happen.
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What was that really awful movie with, what's-her-face, Johansson, Scarlett Johansson was in it.
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Well, we don't know because it still has- I mean, there's another chapter or 10 to see.
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The thing is we don't know because no one saw it outside of U2.
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It was made for the Asian markets, so enough of that.
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We have just been tolerating this kind of action for years.
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Well, Syrian fighter and an American fighter meet, and we shoot it down.
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So, when that story broke, the immediate thought, at least from me, was, uh-oh, what does that mean?
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Now, there's something to be said for being Americans and saying, hey, we have these lines, but I personally would like to know when we're going to change those lines.
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I'd like, I'd like some discussion to happen that, oh, by the way, we're going to, we're perceiving this as escalating, I'm sorry, they're perceiving this as an escalation of war.
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I would imagine that we all perceive this as, no, we're just holding our own.
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That's not the way the Russians and the Syrians see it, and I'm not really concerned about the Syrians.
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The Iranians have pretty much swept through Iraq.
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We've pretty much lost Iraq, and we've lost Iraq not to ISIS.
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ISIS, we are actually fighting back and making some progress.
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It's the Syrian, oh, sorry, it is the, um, the Iranians who are a horrible terrorist lot that are now all the way across Iraq and now starting to penetrate the Syrian border below us, below the Euphrates River in Iraq and Syria.
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So what the Kurds, and not the good Kurds, but the bad Kurds, the Syrian Kurds are bad Kurds.
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They're both Kurds, but their nations or their peoples have been separate since the early 20th century.
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We separated them, they don't speak the same language.
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They are Marxist, Leninist, radicals, and terrorists.
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Because they're against Turkey and Syria, we love them, and we're arming them, which we shouldn't be doing.
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But they're also against the Iranians, so they're our friends.
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It's the typical mess that we get into almost every time.
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We, I mean, that's what Benghazi was about, guys.
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We were taking guns from Libya, running them through Benghazi, putting them on a ship, sending them to Turkey, bringing them across the border, and arming ISIS.
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And we are now arming these really bad communist, revolutionary killers.
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Is there any explanation as to why we're arming Syrian Kurds?
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It's because they're fighting against the Syrian regime, right?
00:46:39.280
They're fighting against the Syrian regime, and they're also fighting against ISIS.
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And so, instead of actually doing our job the way we could do our job, we're having some, we're arming people by proxy.
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How do you even fight on the right side of this?
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Do you want to fight for the Syrian Kurds, who are Marxist, revolutionary terrorists?
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The only ones I want to fight with are the Christians in Iraq and the Kurds in Iraq.
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They just want to get up north to some safety, to where they can get some arms, and they are fighting.
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Those guys I want to help, but those aren't the guys we're helping.
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I don't know why we're not helping them, but the only good guys in the region, we've decided not to help.
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They're the ones we've continually not helped, ever since the first Gulf War.
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Yeah, they're the ones, we shoot down a Syrian jet today, but we don't give them a no-fly zone.
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It's crazy what we've done to the Kurds, and not the Syrian Kurds.
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You have to understand, the Syrian Kurds are bad.
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If we cross the Euphrates River to the west, if we cross the Euphrates River, Russia has said they will shoot down any of our planes.
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They have also, because this is a tight zone, I mean, it is really easy.
00:48:45.880
You're on one side of the river, boom, you're on the other side of the river that fast.
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So, we've always had a communication center set up between ourselves, because there are too many jets,
00:49:03.260
and there are too many chances for mistakes to be made.
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And if one of the jets crosses a border, crosses some zone, they pick up the phone, or we pick up the phone and say,
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hey, hey, hey, we're about to shoot down, what are your intents?
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Don't shoot it down, or yeah, we're doing nefarious things, or whatever it is.
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Because we know when there's a mistake, and we've turned back jets over and over and over again.
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Because of the firing on the Syrian jet today, Russia has taken that away, and now said,
00:49:49.940
we will shoot down anything that crosses the Euphrates River.
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So, this is the war, I talked about this last week, this is the war that is coming.
00:49:59.800
And the war that is coming is on the southern border of Syria, northern border of Iraq, sorry, northwestern,
00:50:08.680
southwestern border of Iraq, just before the Euphrates.
00:50:14.500
So, if you would look at a map, it's a crescent shape, and that's what Iran is after.
00:50:21.900
They're going for a crescent control of that whole region, from Iran, through Iraq, to Syria, up to Turkey.
00:50:34.100
Well, Turkey wants to control Turkey, Syria, into Iraq.
00:50:39.780
So, they're both coming down exactly the same way.
00:50:43.020
And we're arming people that, the Kurds, in Syria, that also want their own nation in Syria and Turkey.
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So, we're arming the people who are against not only Syria, Iran, ISIS, but also against Turkey.
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We are on the wrong side, because, as Pat said, there is no right side here.
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Now, in the opposite direction, schools now are abandoning the valedictorians.
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When I was in my hometown, was it the week before last?
00:56:54.440
It is the student who has the highest grades in that particular class who gives the graduation address.
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And maybe they'll all give the graduation address together.
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So they all started to bleed into more and more and more valedictorians.
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Now, schools are starting to say none whatsoever.
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According to the National Association of Secondary School Principals, nearly half of all high schools
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in the United States no longer report any class rank.
00:58:11.060
According to the Associated Press, the graduation tradition of naming a senior class valedictorian
00:58:20.700
In areas where the tradition continues, more students are being named at the head of the
00:58:31.900
Well, in the graduating class, in my class, there was 460 or something.
00:58:40.480
The reason is because administrators are recently concerned about, quote, unhealthy competition.
00:58:47.980
And students feeling pressure to perform better than their peers.
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I know, because in real life, that never happens.
00:58:55.340
You don't have to compete with anybody for anything.
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You know one of my favorite lines from Ghostbusters, the original Ghostbusters?
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Yeah, the Bill Murray line where he talks about they make you work out there, right?
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Dan Aykroyd looks at him and says, you don't know what this means.
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You don't know what it's like out in the private sector.
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The Tennessee school, a magnet school in Tennessee, awarded 48 valedictorians this
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High school in Columbia, Maryland, ranked the students but kept the results private to
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Of course, the students couldn't keep quiet where they landed.
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Two seniors from Hammond High School said that's what everybody talked about.
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Some parents don't like the competition, saying students place too much emphasis on rankings
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and it can lead to negative perceptions of themselves.
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You know what leads to negative perceptions about yourself?
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You are a person who has connected with the outdoors.
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Yes, because mommy and daddy never taught you about competition.
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Competition, you know, this is why I really like cross-country training, is competition
01:01:06.000
This whole idea that I don't have any responsibility to be my best self, that I don't have any responsibility
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to compete in life, how do you think we got the light bulb?
01:01:20.980
That was a literal competition between people in France, people in the United States, Edison, Tesla.
01:01:32.040
I mean, people were competing to be the first one to bring a light bulb.
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You know, what do you think Apple is all about?
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Competing against Google and Microsoft and everybody else, plus the competition within the company itself, there's going to be a ton of competition.
01:02:14.280
Steve Jobs, he didn't have more money than everybody else.
01:02:17.040
Yeah, I think you're going to find that's not the case.
01:02:22.340
Even as liberal as Bill Gates is, he's got a 52,000 square foot home.
01:02:27.600
It's a little bit bigger than most of his employees.
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He takes Leonardo da Vinci's codex, and everybody gets it over their fireplace for a month.
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If you work at Microsoft, everyone gets to hang Leonardo da Vinci's codex over their fireplace for a month.
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Every employee is just guaranteed to receive it.
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You could be the employee that's on your way out.
01:03:10.260
You could be the employee that's stealing from the company.
01:03:14.740
Now, again, it's alphabetically assigned, but they...
01:03:18.200
Just because that is showing preference, they shuffle the alphabet.
01:03:23.080
So, and it always lands on Gates, or Jobs, or whatever.
01:03:32.720
Well, it's interesting, because you are the one that was propagating this idea that stealing
01:03:36.760
is something that's possible, indicating you believe in ownership, private ownership of
01:03:54.060
I mean, look at all the benefits that have come out of it.
01:03:56.340
Well, here's what I think the average person doesn't look and see as helpful.
01:04:02.580
The competition, the way we have it, we used to believe in this country that it is your
01:04:12.000
personal responsibility to be your best, to make your own way, to not be a burden on
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others, and that you had a blessing of getting an education.
01:04:29.860
Now, it is, especially you go to places like New York, the parents will shiv you for a spot
01:04:39.120
in a pre-nursery school, because that pre-nursery school will lead you to the right kindergarten, which
01:04:47.000
will lead you to the primary school and the secondary school, and you'll be able to get
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But if you drool too much in the pre-nursery school, they will tell you this is a sign
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that they're not going to make it to Harvard, and they really need to stop drooling so much.
01:05:13.360
I think a lot of these parents, though, can't see beyond just their feelings right now, of
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feeling like, oh, gosh, I'm not number one in the class, so I'm worthless.
01:05:25.360
They're going to have to deal with that in life.
01:05:33.440
What happened when the school said, keep this to yourself?
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You can't play sports unless it's always a tie.
01:05:46.700
And even then, you're going to know, when this guy gets up, he is going to slam this thing
01:05:55.380
And sports, along with, you know, valedictorian races, it's a good, meaningless thing to teach
01:06:04.900
Like, losing a sporting event in the grand scheme of your life is not that big of a deal,
01:06:08.600
but it's a great way to learn the lesson of how to react after you lose.
01:06:12.400
It's a great way to learn a lesson of how to work harder in the future.
01:06:15.820
And it's about the parents spinning that the right way for the child to help them understand
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And it's also important to understand, it's also important to understand this, and I think
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Valedictorians are not, generally speaking, the movers and the shakers of the next generation.
01:06:38.660
They generally, they'll get good jobs, but they're generally not the ones who are the big entrepreneurs,
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they're not the big money makers, et cetera, et cetera.
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Because of this, they are taught exactly what to think.
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They live in this box that is structured by college and high school.
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And really, honestly, what are you learning in high school?
01:07:08.360
You're taught to learn skills that you will never, ever use again.
01:07:19.160
The memorization of dates and names and places.
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So it makes, I mean, it's not without value, right?
01:07:28.380
Like, a lot of these people are making $100,000 a year at good jobs and discipline and hard
01:07:33.280
work well within the system, and there's a lot there.
01:07:36.140
But I was listening to an interview with a guy who started Five Guys in the burger place.
01:07:42.340
Goes in, decides he wants to start a burger place in New Jersey.
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And he starts it, and he lets his kids pick out all the ingredients.
01:07:57.380
Won't tell them which one's more expensive, because he wants them to just pick the best one.
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Because he decided he wanted to go, and he believed in the quality of the product.
01:08:17.000
He decided to work hard and do it in a different way.
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So here's an interesting phrase that I'd like to share that kind of goes into that.
01:08:31.220
Yes, if that box is flawed and doesn't provide you anything but the same rubber stamp.
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But you don't want to think out of the box if you're creating a business.
01:08:55.240
I know what it looks like and say, you know what we're going to do?
01:08:58.140
We're going to put up some fake grapes on the side here because it'll look kind of,
01:09:03.120
we'll attract those people who usually go to an Italian restaurant.
01:09:06.640
And we're going to put some of those really cheesy Chinese lamps hanging from the ceiling too
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Design your own box and stay within your own box.
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Everybody teaches, get out of the box, which says there are no rules.
01:09:38.900
But in today's day, you have to find the rules that are eternal, like theft shouldn't be part of our business model.
01:09:52.680
And every one of the interviews with one of these crazy CEOs does something different.
01:09:57.240
There are 500 stories of people who tried these things and failed.
01:10:04.480
Many of those failures came from the same people who wound up succeeding later.
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Did that hurt their self-esteem for a little while?
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I've learned much more from my failings than I ever have from my successes.
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Because my successes don't make me question anything.
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I don't actually know what caused my success here or there.
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Every time I have a failure, I am going, where did we go wrong?
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Failure teaches you almost everything important if you choose to view it that way.
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Let's talk about the actual, is there something to I'm brokenhearted?
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It's apparently something that you also maybe never heal from.
01:13:27.680
They've actually found physical changes to your heart that take place.
01:13:36.660
And they say that a broken heart is provoked when the heart muscle is suddenly stunned,
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which causes the left ventricle to change shape and is typically prompted by intense emotional stress.
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So that affects the heart's ability to pump blood and there remains no known medical cure.
01:14:00.200
I mean, that's amazing that we have always said for forever.
01:14:03.680
I mean, I bet you, I would love to see when me being heartbroken became part of the lexicon.
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I bet you hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
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And now to find out scientifically that that's actually true.
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Let's do some homework on that in the next seven minutes.
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Also, we have a few really kind of fun updates for you that I think you'll enjoy coming up after the break.
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I think you'll enjoy coming up after the break.
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Elon Musk wants to link computers to our brains.
01:15:27.900
There are five predictions from some really smart investors that you need to be aware of.
01:15:37.100
Because all of them are saying there's a lot of scenarios that make this whole house cards come tumbling down.
01:15:47.440
Things have changed since you maybe even got to work or left for work today.
01:15:55.040
And that is, the U.S. shot down a fighter jet from Syria.
01:16:00.440
And Russia has now said, any American jet that crosses the Euphrates, we're taking down.
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Oh, and by the way, we're getting rid of the hotline between our commanders.
01:16:15.760
But I would say there was a little bit of progress made last night.
01:16:55.500
Megyn Kelly did her controversial interview last night, which, my gosh, did the press help her out?
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That was the least controversial segment I think I've ever seen.
01:17:12.760
She handled that so well, I think, on behalf of the families of Sandy Hook.
01:17:18.980
No, I mean, and still, too, with Alex Jones, are you kidding me?
01:17:24.020
That was a puff piece compared to what she could have done.
01:17:28.160
She didn't bring up the most incendiary weirdness that he brings to the table.
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She didn't get into the weird sort of funny stuff.
01:17:36.120
The Sandy Hook stuff probably is the most incendiary thing.
01:17:40.380
But she didn't get into the golden babies being roasted and eaten by the Bilderbergers or the owl people or whatever that is.
01:17:57.540
I don't even honestly understand, and I didn't understand this last week, the argument as to why she shouldn't do this interview.
01:18:04.640
It's been done, you know, he's been profiled by other sources before that have been high profile.
01:18:14.420
There are so many people that just don't like Megyn Kelly now because they just thought that she was, you know, making this, you know, that it started with the first Trump question at the first debate.
01:18:25.800
But the left didn't like her before that because she was on Fox and they saw her as too conservative, which I don't think, you know, she's not.
01:18:34.940
But, you know, you see that as now she doesn't have the right allies or the left allies.
01:18:42.000
The idea that you would say that she was doing something irresponsible by bringing up a guy.
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Secondarily, the other president, Obama, also called out Jones in the last campaign.
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So we have two presidents on record talking about this guy.
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So maybe you might want to know something about the lack of credibility.
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I will say the way she presented the relationship between the president and Alex Jones with videotape, she didn't allege anything.
01:19:22.220
She asked him and, you know, and then she presented the evidence.
01:19:31.020
Well, I mean, you don't know how much of this is Alex Jones lying because he's constantly.
01:19:35.780
She said because he was he was constantly lying.
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And did anybody else notice he didn't make eye contact with her when she would ask him a question, a tough question?
01:19:44.440
And he would break eye contact and he would look down and he would look around and then he would finish and he would look up at her.
01:19:53.240
Well, I think that's the, you know, whatever he's on or and it's also partially Jeffy syndrome.
01:20:02.160
But I mean, the idea that she was going to be like giving him some sort of credibility by this interview.
01:20:11.900
John Ronson, who we've had on the program before.
01:20:13.900
This is a guy who our first ever exposure to Alex Jones.
01:20:17.640
He came on the show when we were in Tampa, I believe.
01:20:31.120
I used to talk to Ron Johnson quite a bit, but yeah, not a natural real name.
01:20:43.420
He wrote a book about people who get shamed on the Internet, which is why the most ever
01:20:48.920
However, he wrote a book and he went with Alex Jones.
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That's exactly when he did the bullhorn session.
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About roasted golden babies being consumed by these guys.
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Anyway, long story short, this guy has known Alex Jones before anybody, anybody else has
01:21:14.040
And he said that interview was the worst he's ever looked at an interview.
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I mean, this is a guy who's been following him from long before any of us knew who he was.
01:21:24.820
The Megyn Kelly thing was the worst he's ever looked at an interview.
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Well, we should, I mean, listen to this and you'll be the judge.
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But it took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole
01:21:46.200
It took me about a year with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole
01:21:52.060
I did deep research and my gosh, it just pretty much didn't happen.
01:21:58.280
At that point, and I do think there's some cover up and some manipulation, that is pretty
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But then I was also going into Devil's Advocate.
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Okay, so at that time, I really did feel that way.
01:22:16.500
Yeah, but also there's some weird things going on.
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So I've really taken every position on every single possible.
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And then he says, well, at that time, I was only playing Devil's Advocate.
01:22:36.320
Oh, no, he did believe it and he was promoting it.
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He believed it for months and months and months, if not years.
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And by the way, he never in the interview actually says he doesn't believe it.
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If you wrongly went out there and said it was a hoax, that's wrong.
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But what I already answered your question was, listeners and other people are covering
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And they've blocked all that and they won't release any of it.
01:23:12.860
All of the parents decided to come out and lie about their dead children.
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I will sit there on the air and look at every position and play Devil's Advocate.
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Yes, because I remember in, even that day, I'll go back from memory, then saying, but
01:23:38.320
But then what do you do when they've got the kids going in circles in and out of the building
01:23:48.520
In and out, the kids, he keeps referencing kids going around the building in circles.
01:23:53.980
I mean, you know, it appears to just be people walking out of one side of a building and
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Like, they walk out of one exit and walk into another entrance in a line, which is what
01:24:08.720
you would do if someone said, hey, we need you to walk to the front door.
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And it's obviously, you know, manipulated like crazy online.
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What does it mean that they walked around the building?
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And that's why I hate even looking this stuff up, because when you look it up, you're like, oh,
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Second of all, even if it was true, it would mean nothing.
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You know, again, the 9-11 towers came down under this idiot's reasoning to throw us into
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Why the hell didn't George Bush come out the next day and say, you know what?
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Why the hell didn't we go to war with Iraq right away?
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Why did we waste time going to war with Afghanistan?
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If the president of the United States came out and said, Saddam Hussein, he tweeted something
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even before Twitter that said, I'm going to take down the World Trade Center.
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Because Saddam Hussein is an obvious adversary.
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He had tried to assassinate a former president.
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We all would have believed that they were responsible.
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In fact, people believed it even when we didn't say it.
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Stu and I actually did our homework in 1998-99 on Osama bin Laden.
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We knew that he had threatened the financial district.
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And when the World Trade Centers came down two years later, we said to each other, who
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And when they said it's Osama bin Laden, we were like, Osama bin Laden, who's it?
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And of course, a lot of this goes on partisan lines.
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If you remember correctly, which people don't today, about half of Democrats believed George
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Bush either took down the World Trade Center or allowed it to happen to go to war with
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Iraq, based largely on theories propagated by the moron Megyn Kelly is interviewing here.
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The left half of Democrats believed this because they didn't like George Bush at the time.
01:26:39.780
Now, because Barack Obama became president, and then he started saying things about he
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wasn't born here, and that he was doing all these other crazy things to our society, many
01:26:47.560
of which were not true, just like they weren't true against George W. Bush, people on the
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right started embracing him because they were taking down someone the right didn't like.
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And this guy has done enough crap that you should always start at not believing him.
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Always, 100% of the time when he says something, if he says the sky is blue, you should assume
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His record is so lengthy on these things that there is no reason to ever believe anything
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he says unless you see it from a thousand other sources.
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Here's what's interesting is, and I think what we saw happening over the weekend is just
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The GOP has come out last week and said they are going to run against the media in 18.
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That means that they don't believe they're going to have an actual accomplishment to be
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People perceive the media as the big, big, bad boogeyman.
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But because it was Megyn Kelly, who the right wants to hate, and the left already does,
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she got pummeled from both sides, and we're not allowing ourselves to see the truth about
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If you are on the right, you are giving him a pass because Megyn Kelly is persecuting him.
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If you are on the left, you don't know which one is worse.
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We have to decide what truth is, and there is truth.
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And the best way to do it is just to say, okay, in the last 5,000 years, what has worked and
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Well, a society where people say, I personally am not going to lie.
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I personally am not going to mess around with somebody else's wife.
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Now, if you need somebody above you to say, a sky god with his boomstick, to say, don't
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If you need nothing above you, you're just a really good person, and you're not going
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But if you think you need a government to be able to teach you not to lie, not to covet,
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Over 5,000 years, you have lots of evidence of that.
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And we have to pin ourselves and make ourselves morally responsible for that.
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Otherwise, things are going to continue to go the way they're going.
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From the feed, was Charlie Sheen's hernia a hoax, or was he playing devil's advocate,
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At the time it was real, but now, he's just playing devil's advocate.
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I want to take your phone calls towards the second half of the hour, coming up in a few
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I'd love to hear, if you watched the Megyn Kelly thing, I know a lot of people didn't
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watch it, because they're still so mad at Megyn Kelly.
01:32:59.600
I don't understand either, but a lot of people are really mad at Megyn Kelly, think she sold
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By the way, I think Bill O'Reilly is finding out the best thing that ever happened to him
01:33:15.860
He announced over the weekend, he is, surprise, surprise, going to start his own newscast,
01:33:29.660
I talked to Bill, and I was so afraid he was going to go back into it, and I kept saying
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to him, and I think this is why he sounds so happy.
01:33:40.120
I think for a lot of Americans right now, he seems really happy.
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He's like the Eeyore of broadcast professionals.
01:33:53.000
But he sounds so happy, and I said to him, this is early on, he was like, you know, what
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I've got lots of options, but what am I going to do?
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Remain true to the audience, and you will never have to worry about it again.
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No one will ever tell you what to say, what not to say.
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You never called into somebody's office saying, well, this person is a friend of this person,
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The world is changing big, big time, and he's not going to be the last to come out on his own.
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More in a second with Alex Jones, your phone calls, and so much more.
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I want to take a few phone calls, 888-727-BECK, 888-727-BECK.
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Gentlemen, greetings from Southern South Carolina.
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I've been wondering when America was going to have enough.
01:35:40.220
And I think that there's a homeschooling revolution going on, and there are, you know,
01:35:46.220
parents who are all into their kids and not looking to warehouse their kids have had enough,
01:35:51.580
And I will make a prediction that the kids are either going to be pushed out of the country,
01:35:57.800
or they're going to be martyred, or they're going to be running things in 20 years,
01:36:03.740
There's a generation coming up that knows how to think.
01:36:06.720
They've been raised mostly by two-parent households,
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because single moms can't stay home and homeschool their kids most of the time.
01:36:21.060
There's an old joke that, Pat, you remember this?
01:36:24.860
I completely agree with you, and you want to fight so hard for everybody gets a ribbon and a trophy.
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You are exactly right, because your kids have a very bright future.
01:36:39.000
And my kids are going to need your kid to be on the other side of the speaker when they say,
01:36:53.680
I mean, your kids are being dumbed down, and there is a revolution happening, an education revolution that is happening.
01:37:05.540
If I cough, it's because of the heat and dust in El Paso.
01:37:22.120
Glenn, you said a lot of stuff today that I'd like to connect.
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But first off, I'm about to retire in 19 days from the Army.
01:37:29.480
And that, paired with what you said this morning, I think a lot of stuff is important, talking about competition.
01:37:34.480
So, the ghostbusters phrase you used about how the private sector expects results, I'm going to tie that into the military.
01:37:40.340
You're talking about the pilots over the Euphrates, talking about losing the communications area.
01:37:44.800
And after reading Dreamers and Deceivers, I think everything kind of ties together.
01:37:48.760
So, in the Army, I want to talk about the Army.
01:37:52.140
When you go from Staff Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant First Class, that's E6, E7, the big Army has a board.
01:37:57.200
And they say, hey, we're going to look at everybody, possibly 30,000 Staff Sergeants who are eligible, and we're going to pick some.
01:38:04.480
So, when you get picked up for that, you may be in the top 6%.
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And now you might be in the top 4% to get picked up.
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So, I got selected at the Sergeant Majors Academy.
01:38:18.960
And so, as this pyramid goes up, the Army is not dumb, and neither will the Marines or Navy and all that.
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And everybody else that settles to mediocrity, they never get promoted.
01:38:30.860
So, now I'm thinking about these pilots over the Euphrates.
01:38:35.740
We want the people that cared about, you know, leading soldiers and combat missions and all that stuff.
01:38:41.040
We don't want one of the 25 valedictorians from one of those states and schools you're talking about.
01:38:52.620
Nobody on that Dreamers list was one of the 25 valedictors.
01:38:57.620
And the last thing, your last caller there, talking about the homeschooling.
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So, as I retire, we're taking our family to Indianapolis.
01:39:06.200
But I've chosen to teach 6th grade math at a charter school.
01:39:09.540
Never taught before, but I know that's what I want to do.
01:39:14.680
And we've decided, if this charter school is good enough for me to teach, I'm going to take my three-ingers and go there.
01:39:19.600
And I am excited about the charter school and homeschooling experience.
01:39:22.600
But if I had to wrap it all up, Glenn, I appreciate you letting me get the microphone on this, we want the competition.
01:39:29.300
Those 25 valedictorians, those are 25 people that are going to put that on their resume for either a college or for a job.
01:39:36.700
And they have no clue, absolutely no clue how watered down that is.
01:39:41.200
And they're going to get a job somewhere, and they're going to expect them to perform, and they're going to fail, and then they're going to blame other people.
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To our country and to my family and all of our families for the last 20 years.
01:39:58.180
I will tell you that I have more respect for the military, I think, than I ever have.
01:40:05.900
Really knowing so many people now in the military, not that I ever thought that military people were dumb or anything like that,
01:40:15.720
But the quality, maybe it's because the population is getting so stupid, that the quality of military people, the military people that we know, they are all so much smarter than almost everybody I know.
01:41:00.880
And, you know, that's why we have the military that we have.
01:41:14.560
I got out of the military in 2001, not hearing anything about politics.
01:41:18.980
And then September 11th happened, and I started tuning in to you.
01:41:24.900
So I watched the Megyn Kelly interview yesterday.
01:41:35.540
In the Knoxville market, I'd listen to Glenn Beck from 9 to 12.
01:41:54.480
I know he's a little bit more unhinged than you are.
01:41:57.120
But y'all both have so much in common in that, you know, there's been many a times when you're on Fox News that you were just, according to the mainstream media,
01:42:05.560
you were out there talking about, you know, the Middle East and, you know, the Arab Spring and all these things that were going on that were truthful that the mainstream media didn't want to report on.
01:42:15.040
And, you know, Alex is just a little bit further out there.
01:42:19.780
Well, when you get down to human-fish hybrids, you're probably a little more than... a little more out there.
01:42:29.140
Well, I mean, you guys have some of the same interest in terms of, like, stopping, you know, child trafficking.
01:42:45.520
And if you listen to Megyn Kelly, which she was smart in knowing that it was going to be a hit piece, you know, they taped everything she did so that they could have the other side of the story.
01:42:56.920
I mean, everything that she said that she wasn't going to do, she did exactly what she said she didn't do.
01:43:01.980
I heard the tape, and I heard the tape that Alex says what you're now parroting here.
01:43:11.880
She said he would get a fair hearing, and the point he was trying to get across would be left in.
01:43:20.900
She didn't say he would have a free reign of it by any stretch of the imagination.
01:43:37.020
I mean, you think it's okay that he took every side of the Sandy Hook issue?
01:43:41.100
I mean, it was a hoax, and then he was playing devil's advocate, and now it's actually none of it's true.
01:43:48.400
So, I mean, how do you give any credibility to this guy?
01:43:52.520
Well, I disagree with him on Sandy Hook, but I do know that there were a lot of things out there.
01:43:58.940
I mean, if you looked at some of the tapes, there's a lot on that thing that just had me very conflicted.
01:44:04.560
And actually, one of my military friends was a special investigator in that, and so I've heard firsthand from his side of the story.
01:44:19.160
So, there's two things, two pretty damn big things that you disagree with.
01:44:26.500
The government had knowledge of what was coming, and perhaps let it happen.
01:44:35.380
I mean, the government knew that something was afoot, perhaps, yes, that they knew that airplanes were going to crash into the...
01:44:50.660
I just believe that our government doesn't always tell the truth.
01:44:54.020
Well, again, that's a much higher standard from the 9-11 truther.
01:44:59.160
We fall down to lower and lower hurdles to clear, and we all can clear that hurdle.
01:45:04.720
It's not the hurdle of whether the government always tells the truth.
01:45:08.360
Do you also believe that virtually every Islamic terror strike is done by our government because they're false flags?
01:45:20.520
I've interviewed the guy for two hours at one point.
01:45:23.080
He believes there's virtually no Islamic terror.
01:45:26.200
It's all a false flag by the government so that they can perform whatever other power move they're trying to perform.
01:45:35.320
Do you believe that in the Bohemian Grove that the elites, including Bill Clinton, the Bushes, etc., etc., eat golden babies?
01:45:46.200
I don't know about the golden babies, but I know Bohemian Grove, as well as other elite organizations, definitely meet.
01:45:55.740
We asked you about golden babies, and you said meetings exist.
01:46:00.620
People at the Elk Sludge meet, too, but they don't eat golden babies.
01:46:09.300
Because now, currently, Alex Jones is talking about a lot of things where he says he's small government.
01:46:17.520
When he was hanging out with Cynthia McKinney, who was a socialist and ran for president, essentially, as a socialist in one of these splinter parties,
01:46:36.460
I mean, Glenn, think about just 9-11 as a great example of this.
01:46:40.460
We took that so seriously to the fact that you've gone to the part of writing a book called It Is About Islam.
01:46:46.180
We've done thousands of hours of coverage about the real threats.
01:46:49.640
You've gone deeper into the Islamic extremist threat than probably any other host on television.
01:46:53.840
And yet, this guy says it didn't happen with Islamic extremists.
01:47:00.460
But as Pat has pointed out, shooting after shooting after shooting after shooting, he said, was not Islamic extremism.
01:47:09.740
He also said that, I mean, he was the guy who said that I was a CIA plant because no one has ever risen to the heights that I rose out of nowhere.
01:47:29.360
I was the coordinator for the CIA to coordinate the coverage of the cover-up of 9-11.
01:47:39.960
And by the way, Popular Mechanics is essentially a division of the CIA.
01:47:44.120
Because they debunked all his nonsense on 9-11.
01:47:47.280
And this nonsense, he still says that this is an FBI, that the Blaze, that Mercury Studios is an FBI plant or, what does he call it, a front.
01:48:01.260
That there are FBI offices and CIA offices in my studio.
01:48:12.680
I will tell you that there will, I will tell you, and I know this is going to offend James, our last caller, but it is true.
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You will agree with a lot of things that Satan says as well.
01:48:26.700
Because he will take a little bit of truth, and then he will take you into territories that you never thought, well, I don't agree with everything.
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He's not going to be completely false on everything.
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His defense lasted a total of six minutes, which is longer than, anyway, six minutes is,
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it was the whole defense, and then they rested.
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And they're speculating now whether or not he will come back for another trial,
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whether they'll try it again, whether they'll...
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I mean, the prosecution's already said that they're going to retry it.
01:50:44.380
The next judge, the hope that they've got to have is that the next judge will let more
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There were only one or two accusers that were let in to say, yeah, he also did this to me.
01:51:02.660
So if they open, the judge opens the door, and there's the flood of women,
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But this case that's being tried is, what, 10 years old, 15 years old.
01:51:14.220
So it's hard when you get that far away from the actual incident.
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Why didn't they say anything in the first place?
01:51:28.020
You know, maybe some of those were true in old days, but is this one?
01:51:33.240
And with Cosby, they expected him to make a long defense.
01:51:41.140
I think the jury was like, look, the guy sat up for six minutes.
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Whether it will go to a jury trial a second time, we'll see.
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But as the boys pointed out, that's what they're saying.
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We'll see you at 5 o'clock with the Think Tank.
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A lot to discuss, including a step up with a war with Russia.
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We'll see you at 5 o'clock with the Think Tank.