8⧸10⧸17 - Reasons to (not) fear ( Steven Crowder & Michael Malice join Glenn)
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1 hour and 52 minutes
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153.91394
Summary
Glenn Beck talks about North Korea and Kim Jong Un's latest missile test, the media's hysterical reaction to it, and why Donald Trump is the worst president you can think of. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and host of the Glenn Beck Radio Network.
Transcript
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All right, here's what you need to know right away.
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First thing, tensions with North Korea are still high.
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Yesterday, North Korea mocked President Trump's warning to them, calling it a load of nonsense.
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And through a state-run news agency, said, dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason.
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Obviously, they said the things that we believe about Kim Jong-un.
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North Korea has outlined a plan to fire off long-range missiles that are going to sail over Japan
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and continue to travel about 2,000 miles, bringing them within about 25 miles of Guam.
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Now, the fact that they announced all of this ahead of time would seem to indicate that they want everybody to understand in advance
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We also need to know that we have weathered much more difficult storms than this.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis keeps coming to mind with a much more potent adversary, the Soviet Union.
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And I have to believe that they will prevail again this time.
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If you are somebody who doesn't have faith in North Korea, or you don't have faith in Donald Trump's judgment,
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I honestly believe you can have faith in some of those people around Donald Trump.
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This is a time for all of us to be calling for calm from our leaders
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and not try to goad any of them into some kind of foolhardy action.
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Media outlets seem to be doing this relentlessly.
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Level heads and diplomacy are the only acceptable actions right now.
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And if your media source is telling you differently,
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Yesterday, I tried to read the news about 10 o'clock last night,
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tried to catch up on what had happened during the day
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while I was busy doing other things and you were too.
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And I saw this headline, I think it was from Business Insider,
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Quote, yes, Trump could unilaterally decide to launch a nuclear weapon, end quote.
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if the president could actually launch a nuke attack on his own?
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What the hell do you think the guy walking around with him
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with a briefcase chained to his arm is all about?
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That's why it's important to make sure we don't have a bad guy in office.
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Alex Jones, I remember Hillary and Barack Obama,
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And I've talked to people around them and they literally smell like sulfur.
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With every word that the media is printing and babbling on TV,
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they expose themselves as nothing more than the Alex Jones of the left.
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We really have to get a handle on the hatred and distrust
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What Americans should ask themselves after reading a story like that is,
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do you really believe that this president, the last president,
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any president, would actually open up that suitcase,
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and then launch a massive nuclear strike that would kill millions of people,
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Because that's what we're talking about in this.
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sites, if you search Google for Priority Health,
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we should look into Priority Health because I bet
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I bet they would love us to spend a day, several
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days, several days, a frickin' month, going over
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Health doesn't see the error of their ways, I'm
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going to dedicate Monday as an open phone day and I
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will take the phone calls of all of the Priority Health
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And we'll take those calls and we'll let America
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know how much their health is a priority for Priority
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Of course, we should give them the opportunity to
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So I think they're going to find the error of their
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I think they're going to be able to say, you know
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what, that was crazy because it's, we misunderstood.
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It's not the same kind of doctor and we don't know
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And so we're going to, we're going to make this a
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In case they would like some extra free publicity,
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I'm going to help them have all of the free publicity
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And, you know, you always say, don't talk to the, don't
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So if they're such a great insurance company, which I'm
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sure they are, they won't have any problem having
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customers call up and give them a free commercial all
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fricking Monday, but I'm sure they're going to wake
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Jim Mattis just weighed in a North Korea quote, cease any
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considerations of actions that would lead to the end of your
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Mattis has consistently said that he believes that we need to
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resolve this issue through diplomacy, but at the same
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time, quote, the regime's actions will continue to be grossly
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overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it
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They are not going to win in a, in a missile race.
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I have a feeling we'd win, but is there a winner in that for any
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media source that is raw, raw, let's just go to war or let's
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teach them a lesson or the president has to do these things or
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We haven't had credibility as a country in a long time.
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And usually it's because we're not doing the right thing.
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One of the things you have to think through is South Korea is a, the
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You have South Korea will be devastated, devastated.
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Uh, if there is a strike and they launch missiles, you know that it will be
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towards Tokyo, Tokyo, Hong Kong, uh, or I mean, uh, Tokyo, uh, will, will
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You also have the financial markets of Hong Kong and, and China.
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And if those go down, what happens to our financial markets?
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Forget about the millions, dad, the world changes overnight.
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Uh, so in a moment, moment of arrogance or maybe clarity, I said, you know, in 10
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minutes we can do 10 grand to help this family out.
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They just, you know, you, you get, you can go through the news and listen to the news every
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day and feel like there is no hope for society.
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And then we talk about these stories and this audience acts the way that they do.
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And you get every time, every time it's rejuvenated every single time.
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This is people giving, this is widow mite stuff.
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Imagine what these parents are feeling right now because they're at home refreshing their
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It's going to mean the difference between getting their son to a doctor in Boston to be able to
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stay on course and stay on track to possibly save his life or just issue a death warrant.
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How they, the gratitude they feel towards you and the gratitude I feel towards you.
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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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I know that you go to bed every night and you are beat.
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And maybe this is different with women, but I'll bet it's this way with guys.
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You get home and the only time your wife really wants to talk is after the kids are down and
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now you're laying in bed and now you've got to go through the laundry list of all the things
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And at least with me, I can't, I, I, my wife and I, we are thermostatically challenged and
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The way for her to relax is talk about all the things that we have to do.
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And then I'm up for two hours just going, oh my gosh, I've got so much to eat.
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Sometimes I get up in the morning and by the time I get to the bathroom light, I am thinking
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to myself, I just have to plow through it and then I can come back and go back to sleep.
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If it is work, if it is money, try to change that because that's not enough to keep us going.
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If it's to change the world, sometimes that doesn't seem like it's just keeping my kids
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But I will tell you, what will get me out of bed tomorrow and what makes me glad that
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I got out of bed today is a phone call that we just had right before we went on the air.
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We found out that this family, that their son has been diagnosed with exactly the same disease
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that Charlie Gard had and we talked to them two days ago and they were so happy and I
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just, I had just said in a meeting, I think, Stu, with you two days ago, I want to be more
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I mean, they have no reason to be happy and they're happy.
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I just, I just want to find peace and happiness.
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And, um, I find out right before we come on the air that their insurance company, so name
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of that insurance company again, priority health, priority health.
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Um, but they decided that they, they know better than the doctors know.
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And they said, no, the doctor you have is fine.
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And the doctor that they have has said, I don't have this.
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And so I found this out right before we went on the air this morning.
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And I said to my producer, I said, just see if you can get mom and dad on the phone and
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let's just put them on the air and see what the listeners will do.
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And, um, in a moment of arrogance, I said, you know, I know this audience, they, they were
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not asking for the full treatment to be, this is struck me so humble.
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They were not asking for the full treatment to be covered.
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What they were asking for was to cover the $2,500 of the appointment to just to see the
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And they were working with somebody else to maybe get the airfare, um, covered and, you
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Uh, and so they were, you know, they're looking for probably five grand.
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And I said, please, in a moment of arrogance, this audience can raise $10,000 in 10 minutes.
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I come back from the commercial break and in four minutes you have raised that money.
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And what's so awesome is it didn't come in, in huge chunks.
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It came in and five and 20 and 50 and $100 chunks.
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One, I'm grateful I got up this morning so I could see your kindness.
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Yesterday on the program we had, uh, Michael Malice, um, he's, he is an amazing guy.
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His parents, uh, defected in the seventies and he got out.
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And so he has been, um, struggling with things.
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He's also Jewish struggling with things like modern day concentration camps and the evils
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of communism and totalitarianism, um, yesterday we talked to him about, um, Korea on a high
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He went over to North Korea and really got to know some of the people and the culture.
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I wanted to invite him back today because I wanted to talk to him about, you know, life
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Cause I don't think people even understand how free we are today, but I also wanted to
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talk to him about something that, you know, if the media really cares about the people of
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North Korea and the people of South Korea, then they would be doing things like what I'm
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Tell us about the concentration camps that are happening currently in North Korea.
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Uh, man, it's, it's a, this is going to be a dark day on the Glenn Beck show because I
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mean, we're starting with that sad opener and I'm about to make it even darker.
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Um, in the North Korean concentration camps, as we discussed yesterday, um, they said that
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The leader of North Korea, the founder Kim Il-sung said class enemies must be exterminated
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So when you get sent to the camps, you still have to work.
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And what is, you have a quota and what's insane, even by concentration camp standards, if you
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kill yourself, your family still has to fill your quota.
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So even death is not an escape in these camps from the reach of the Kim dynasty.
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There are children there, uh, you know, men and women, and you hear these stories of, for
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example, it is illegal to have relations with the camp guards.
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So very often these women are assaulted by the guards who have complete power over them.
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But then the women are the ones who are punished.
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There was this one story where a woman was assaulted.
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They ran her over with a truck, cut off her legs, and she still had to report to work,
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You have stories where even in the camps, they can punish you.
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So you have men sentenced to work in mines and they never see sunlight again.
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So their skin starts to slough off from vitamin D deficiency.
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So this is a level of barbarism that has almost never been seen on earth.
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And so much of the press is focused on how fat Kim Jong-un is and his rhetoric.
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And, and I was so pleased to hear you, uh, talk about this yesterday.
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And this is why I wrote, dear reader, so that people can realize the focus is on 25 million
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And so much of the rhetoric in the press is like, well, it's better that they die than
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And it's like, well, how about we figure out a way where no one dies?
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You know, Michael, I don't know how to solve this.
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And I think some people tune this out, um, you know, the press, because, uh, they don't
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think anybody wants to, um, uh, watch it or pay attention to it, which I think is just
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It's your job to figure out a way to present it in such a way that you, that, that you can
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Well, that's why I wrote my book because it was driving me nuts that you see people
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completely uninformed on television, making these claims, you know, making it like another
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And I said, I'm going to do something about this once and for all.
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And I'm going to write a book so people can understand how it got to this place.
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Glenn, as you know, this is a long methodical process to take a population and reduce them
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Michael, uh, Michael Malice is the name of the author and the book is Dear Reader, the
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Um, uh, how do you, it's in some ways in a, in a, in a, in a different way.
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When we went in and we freed, um, the, the concentration camps, um, of the Germans, uh,
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some, at the very beginning, our help actually killed them by feeding, it killed them.
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I mean, it's just, it's a, it's a, you know, it was a horrible situation.
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Um, and so we had to be really, really careful, uh, on how to bring people back to health.
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How do you, for, for people who have been in a concentration camp for three generations,
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how do you, how do you bring those people back to any kind of understanding of, of what,
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Well, what's even more insane is that when North Koreans send people to the camps, sometimes
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those people are freed and they return to North Korean society.
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They have to basically sign a non-disclosure agreement and they have to try to pick up
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So there have been instances of this where people have been returned, but they're obviously
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Uh, and there's different types of camps, there's political camps and there's work camps
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because one of the things these totalitarian nations have the idea, you remember the slogan
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over, uh, uh, Auschwitz was work makes you free.
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They claim and they believe in North Korea that by working, you will learn to love the
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leader and you will work your way to kind of enlightenment and understanding the Juche idea,
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which is the philosophy that guides North Korea.
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So it's, it's, it's so depraved in so many ways, but thankfully, you know, there, there
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are stories of people who had the, the book that really moved George W. Bush is called
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And this is the book that really blew the lid off of the camp system because the people,
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the family went to live in the, in the camps and they were, uh, freed.
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And then one of the guys became a refugee and he told the stories of what's going on there.
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And more and more people are escaping North Korea and telling the stories of what life
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The people in the camps are told, should the Americans invade, we are going to kill you
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And that's something that no one takes into account when they're advocating starting war
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How many people are estimated to be in these camps?
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And you can see them for yourself on Google earth.
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Uh, I forgot, you know, just Google North Korea concentration camps.
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Maybe not using Google, maybe another search engine these days.
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And there's no doubt that there's no doubt that the North Koreans would slaughter them.
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You have to erase these crimes against humanity.
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Of course, that's the other point you made yesterday.
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And exactly like you said, they want to keep their, wash their hands out of these crimes
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During the nineties, they refused to allow food into the country and up to 10% of the population
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starved one to 2 million people because Kim Jong-un said, Kim Jong-il, the father said, if we
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let the UN give them food, they're going to not need the government.
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And the people who are the most loyal to the regime were the first to starve because they
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were the ones thinking foods right around the corner.
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It's the shady ones and the cynical ones who were like, I'm going to lie, cheat and steal
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Michael Malice is on with us, michaelmalice.com.
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Also, the book is Dear Reader, the Unauthorized Biography of Kim Jong-il.
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We'll talk a little bit more about North Korea and what to do there, but also want to hear
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We're with Michael Malice from michaelmalice.com.
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It's an amazing book about what life is like in North Korea.
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And it's a conversation that I think should be had in all media centers.
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Instead of focusing on, boy, did you see what outrageous thing this guy said?
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How about we actually have a real adult conversation about what we're doing?
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And it's understandable with the context of the times.
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Although, Michael, your book is really entertaining.
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I don't want that to be lost in a really serious topic here.
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Because you made the choice to write it as Kim Jong-il.
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And I want it to be the kind of book you can read in the beach and or bathroom.
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Because unless you make things fun and entertaining and kind of a page-turner,
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it's so dark and so depressing, people shut down.
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So I thought, let's make this something that people can enjoy.
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And one of the reviews I got, it just really hit me, was,
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this is the funniest and most terrifying book I've ever read.
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I'm sure a lot of your audience have seen the movie The Incredibles.
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And they talk in that movie about how supervillains gloat.
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So when you read their literature, they boast about all the things that they do.
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And there is a sick kind of humor to it that with a straight face,
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they're saying things that when you stop and think about it, you're like,
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Well, for example, Kim Jong-il hates the Mona Lisa, I learned from reading their propaganda.
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And I asked my mother, who grew up in the Soviet Union, I'd say,
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why do you think Kim Jong-il hates the Mona Lisa?
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According to North Korea, if art is ambiguous, it's not art.
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Art has to have a propaganda message that's very clear to the masses,
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And imagine living in a country where every piece of art has to have some political message.
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I hate to point that out, but I think we're there.
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Do the people there actually believe the stuff like, you know,
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he came down and was born and was delivered by a flock of birds,
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I remember the first day of my day I was born perfectly.
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And it's not a funny statement where you're grandiose and overstating what Kim Jong-il said.
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He actually told people that, and they were really forced to believe it.
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And I've heard that he doesn't go to the bathroom,
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that people believe that he has no bathroom needs.
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What that bathroom line is, what they meant is he works so hard,
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he doesn't even take breaks to go to the bathroom.
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They look at him kind of the way we look at Uncle Sam, right?
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Now, Uncle Sam, we know what he's like, what he does.
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If I ask you, well, if it's Uncle Sam, who are his nieces and nephews,
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So you don't perceive him as a full human being.
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However, there's another story which was amazing to me at how they view Kim Jong-il.
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There's a building, there's an obelisk in North Korea called the Tower of the Juche Idea.
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We'll get the rest of this story, and maybe they should learn Uncle Sam wears stripes,
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Maybe they should learn that about their uncle as well.
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We'll get the rest of the story and then move to the former Soviet Union.
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He is the author of a book called Dear Reader, the Unauthorized Biography of Kim Jong-il.
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His family immigrated here from the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
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But finishing up a story on how people view, you know, the dear leader in North Korea.
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Yeah, they have this tower of the Tower of the Juche Idea.
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It's the stone tower in the capital city of Pyongyang.
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And when you read their literature and how they discuss how this tower was being built,
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you have all these architects, and they came up with all these plans.
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And Kim Jong-il shows up and says, hey, why don't we make it the tallest tower in the world?
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And their jaws drop, and they realize no one had ever considered this possibility before.
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And it's like, wait a minute, you guys are all brainstorming with the dear leader,
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and no one even threw out, we should make it the biggest one on earth?
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So according to all their literature, it's not that he's a god.
01:36:24.600
He's literally the only competent person in the whole country.
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And that's very pernicious, because think about it, to this day, if that leader goes away,
01:36:37.160
So it's very important if the one guy who knows how to do anything in the country
01:36:41.520
is keeping things together, you really want to make sure he stays in charge.
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And Michael, they thought that the grandfather was actually working with the people,
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that he would be in the actual factories, and he wouldn't stop to eat or go to the bathroom.
01:37:00.600
He would just keep working, and he would turn one factory around,
01:37:03.640
and then the dear leader would get into another car, and he'd race to another factory,
01:37:15.140
And if you look in their newspapers, it's photographs of Kim Jong-il at one factory one day,
01:37:19.440
and the next day he's at a school, so when I'm reading all the propaganda,
01:37:23.120
the stories are mind-numbing, because there's a glass factory.
01:37:33.320
The next day, we've got a problem at the cornflake factory.
01:37:37.820
So, you know, trying to make it into a funny, interesting story was a lot of work on my part,
01:37:42.600
because, and what's really dark about their literature is other human beings and other
01:37:51.060
So it'll say something like, during the 70s, the great leader Kim Il-sung went to a European
01:37:58.020
country to attend the funeral of its president.
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No one else has names in most of these stories other than Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung,
01:38:09.740
and they started even recently taking on a biblical bent by having everything leaders
01:38:14.500
say in boldface, in the same way Jesus' words are in red in the Bible, and their names are
01:38:23.780
Can you tell me the, I mean, there's a lot of bizarre things that go on with North Korea
01:38:28.360
that I don't understand, but let me just say two words to you.
01:38:35.180
I mean, Dennis Rodman, the hatred I have for him and what he is doing, and I don't care
01:38:42.980
how drunk or stupid he is or crazy, he was on some Sunday morning show, and they asked
01:38:48.100
him, how are you palling around with someone who has concentration camps?
01:38:52.040
And he literally said, well, we have prisons, what's the difference?
01:38:56.020
Why don't you go to those prisons and go to those camps and take a poll and see who wants
01:39:03.040
So to hand wave that away, to me, is unconscionable.
01:39:17.440
I mean, the rest of the world isn't interested in him.
01:39:21.960
Because how many celebrities are going to be his friends?
01:39:25.720
He needs, first of all, he gets to pretend to his population that everyone on earth thinks
01:39:31.760
They don't know who Dennis Rodman is, but he can easily tell them this is the greatest
01:39:36.960
And he's an American coming to North Korea to praise the leader.
01:39:42.380
So these are two aspects that are used to glorify the regime.
01:39:47.020
Plus, I'm sure it makes Kim Jong-un look a lot smarter by comparison, right?
01:39:50.920
So you're doing this, I gather, because of your, you're kind of picking up the torch where
01:40:03.520
Your parents and you for a couple of years lived in the former Soviet Union and you saw
01:40:20.680
Because when I would look at the reports, the news, and people treating it like a carnival
01:40:26.240
and, you know, in high school, we ask ourselves, how do we let the Holocaust happen?
01:40:30.580
People don't even talk about the gulags from the Soviet Union, which preceded the German
01:40:34.620
concentration camps and were around for a lot longer.
01:40:37.800
And again, to focus on Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-un's golf score, I said, I'm going to do something
01:40:43.720
about, I'm going to at least try to do something once and for all, because yeah, you can write
01:40:48.800
books that are fun and entertaining, but at a certain point, you're like, I put on this
01:40:52.200
earth, let me see if I can move the needle a little bit.
01:40:54.560
Because we have a pretty good in this country, Glenn.
01:40:56.940
If I move the needle in America, it's not going to make much of a difference.
01:40:59.720
But if I'm moving the needle even a little bit in North Korea, this could actually be saving
01:41:04.440
Tell me about your parents' experience in the Soviet Union.
01:41:12.160
And there's so many things that were put into my head that I didn't realize were put in
01:41:17.500
there and that is different from how Americans were raised.
01:41:20.260
For example, I had a buddy staying in my house.
01:41:22.620
I went to the gym and to get into my apartment building, there's no buzzer.
01:41:27.760
And I come back and he said, oh, there was someone at the door looking for whatever, Jimmy.
01:41:34.380
And I looked at him and I realized if I was staying in someone's house, it wouldn't even
01:41:43.480
If there's a knock on the door, it's not even an option.
01:41:47.620
Because it's just, there's so much lack of trust.
01:41:50.600
And so, and the other thing, the Google Doc very much was a Soviet kind of story because
01:41:56.880
I was always raised to always be aware of who has power over you and realize they might
01:42:02.980
exercise that power for completely absurd reasons.
01:42:06.640
And you have to be conscious of that all the time.
01:42:09.940
The idea that people are going to play fair with you when they're stronger than you is
01:42:20.020
I took my family four years ago, went to Auschwitz, wanted my kids to see, I wanted them to see
01:42:30.500
So they knew why Israel was important in today's world.
01:42:37.020
But I want them to understand what it's like when a people don't have a home to call their
01:42:46.780
And so we went over and I talked to one of the righteous among the nations, a sweet woman.
01:42:53.780
And she was like 16 when she started saving Jews in the ghetto.
01:42:58.560
And I asked her, the last thing I said to her was, Paulina, you know, if dark times come,
01:43:06.680
I am looking to water the tree of righteousness in myself, in my family and others.
01:43:18.000
And as each day goes by and I see things like this Google Doc thing, it just becomes
01:43:28.020
The righteous didn't suddenly become righteous.
01:43:30.620
They just refused to go over the cliff with the rest of humanity.
01:43:34.660
When you see the Google Docs and you see people cheering and saying we can't even have a reasonable
01:43:45.840
conversation, we must deny things that we know are true.
01:43:52.280
And we not only have to not say the things that we know are true, we must join the crowd
01:44:01.340
And if they had their druthers, this guy would not only not be working at Google, he'd never
01:44:10.180
I mean, you judge people by their actions, not by their intent.
01:44:15.560
And at the very least, first of all, no one's even claiming he had bad intentions.
01:44:24.000
And, you know, it's like, I'm going to make people uncomfortable.
01:44:27.320
This is his, let's suppose it's all wrong, but this is his scientific view.
01:44:37.400
And you have people on Twitter, you know, who've never done anything with their lives,
01:44:42.680
feeling free to cast judgment on his understanding of the scientific process and biology and
01:44:51.580
However, I think there's a good side in the sense that thanks to social media and alternative
01:44:57.580
forms of media, this is being exposed as soon as it happens.
01:45:03.060
And back in the day, this kid could have been vanished and nothing.
01:45:14.260
You can't kiss up to him by bringing up Woodrow Wilson.
01:45:18.360
Are you like a big time hater of Woodrow Wilson?
01:45:28.740
Just off the, I just got a, I just got an email from somebody who is going to make
01:45:34.380
a cartoon on Woodrow Wilson, the evil of Woodrow Wilson.
01:45:42.120
And they said, will you please be the narrator?
01:45:46.460
Um, they said, you know, we, you know, the people involved completely disagree, but there
01:45:52.340
is no one that hates Woodrow Wilson more than us other than you.
01:45:57.300
And I said, oh, my gosh, I will help you in every possible way to expose that monster.
01:46:08.820
Because this is where I was on the show, Kennedy and Fox business that I made the point.
01:46:13.980
The university's job is to prepare young minds to be the shock troops for the progressive
01:46:21.220
They are there to program them and have them spread out like a virus and control the media
01:46:27.700
How many, what percent of journalists have gone to universities and they're all being
01:46:33.560
Michael, you just booked yourself a ticket for a third consecutive day.
01:46:38.820
We could be, we could be best friends, Michael.
01:46:45.520
I don't know what, I don't know what else you believe, but you had me at Woodrow Wilson.
01:46:58.480
It's a, it's a, it's a real honor to talk to you, Michael.
01:47:01.640
And thanks for all of the hard work and the hard thinking and heavy lifting on trying to
01:47:06.640
get the words out in a way that people can consume them.
01:47:16.680
The name of the book is Dear Reader, the unauthorized biography of Kim Jong-un.
01:47:25.140
Well, it's just, I mean, I'm, I'm fascinated by dictators and, you know, Kim Jong-un in
01:47:31.520
North Korea in particular, it's one of the places I desperately in my life want to go
01:47:36.220
Now I'm obviously at this point, you go there and you die.
01:47:38.640
So I really can't do it, but I would love to see it.
01:47:45.080
Also, I'm not going to North Korea because I think it's dangerous.
01:47:47.060
I mean, I would love to see Israel too, but I think there's...
01:47:49.180
I'm thinking about going to South Korea, not North Korea.
01:47:56.380
And that hotel that we talked about yesterday, the Hotel of Doom is like legitimately like
01:48:03.740
Because I mean, it is the ultimate failure of communism.
01:48:07.500
They try, when the Seoul South Korea Olympics in 1988 were going on, they decided they wanted
01:48:12.660
to show, because they knew the light, the spotlight would be on South Korea and they wanted to
01:48:17.280
So the communists tried, it was Kim Il-sung, tried to build the largest hotel in the world,
01:48:24.960
It looks like this bizarre pyramid, almost like a rocket ship.
01:48:40.400
They built it to the sky and then ran out of cash.
01:48:46.460
So over this city that was supposed to be the best city in the world and how they were
01:48:50.980
dominating in the world and in the economy and everything else, it's this giant unfinished
01:48:57.820
But they also can't tear it down because it'd be completely unsafe to tear it down and also
01:49:03.460
So over the years, as they've sort of recovered a little bit, they've just plastered glass on
01:49:09.020
So it looks now kind of like a finished building.
01:49:11.780
But there's video of it from the time where people, and they would never allow anyone
01:49:20.060
And it's like, you know, this collapsing disaster of a concrete structure, the ugliest building
01:49:27.240
It was supposed to have 10 rotating restaurants on the top of it.
01:49:33.040
But the ultimate testimony of communism's failure, how this does not work.
01:49:42.340
Who is going to pay for the bazillion dollar rooms and the 10 revolving restaurants when
01:49:54.720
Are we going to start maybe a GoFundMe page and have Stu go to North Korea?
01:50:02.880
Now this, I want to tell you about Bonnie and Michael's story.
01:50:12.880
They had a real estate agent and same old, same old excuse after excuse.
01:50:21.400
The agent, you know, I'm posting a word showing it.
01:50:26.300
None of it was getting information from their agent was like pulling teeth.
01:50:35.560
The guy doesn't have to actually look them in the eye.
01:50:40.120
Then they decided they wanted to make a change and actually sell their house in Ohio.
01:50:49.760
The house received an offer within a couple of days and sold in two weeks.
01:51:00.180
You want to sell it for the most money and on time.
01:51:03.140
And you want to work with somebody who's a decent human being.
01:51:07.640
Put them to the test or read the testimonials of the thousands of families whose lives have been impacted by these great agents.
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It's a very special episode of the Pat and Stu show today.
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Also, I invite you to join me tonight at 5 o'clock.
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We begin screening calls probably about 15 minutes before we go to air.