9⧸18⧸17 - 'New Perspective' @ The Blaze.com
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1 hour and 53 minutes
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Summary
Glenn Beck's take on the Black Lives Matter protests in St. Louis and the assault on a reporter covering them, and why it's time for the U.N. to do what they should have been doing all along.
Transcript
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth.
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193 member states of the United Nations and the chaos and the confusion that they bring
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to the city of New York is an unintentional metaphor for what's going on inside of the
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You know, the United Nations was this grand experiment.
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We're going to heal the world, bring everybody together.
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Does anybody have any confidence that the UN is going to do that?
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I mean, wishes were dreams and, you know, pigs were horses.
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But anything more than a grand wish or hope, billions of dollars pour into this
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international organization, and yet they rank near dead last in every category they're
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People sit literally just waiting to be raped or die.
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Mercury One was thrilled to be able to close two of these despair camps down in the Middle
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Among aid agencies, the U.S. is ranked near the worst in the world.
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UN peacekeepers caused a cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010.
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Their employees have been excused of sexual harassment and exploitation in over 10 separate countries.
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On top of that, UN personnel cannot be sued in national courts, arrested or prosecuted for
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So President Trump is going to meet with them this week.
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Today, he's actually meeting with representatives of 120 other member states that say, we've
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But two nations are curiously missing, Russia and China.
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Why wouldn't two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council be interested in
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The United States cuts an $8 billion check to the United Nations every single year.
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We supply nearly 25% of the entire global budget.
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Of course, China and Russia want the status quo.
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The UN provides them a check on U.S. power through their Security Council veto.
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And they make us pay disproportionately all for them doing it to us.
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May I suggest that all thinking human being, anybody who is actually, for instance, if I may
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point out, Bono came to the idea that some of these systems that he has been propping up
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Maybe it's time for bankrolling a corrupt, failing, and all-powerful institutional organization
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This is the sound of the very peaceful protest that happened in St. Louis this weekend.
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I mean, I had a hard time finding this story anywhere.
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And any time I did see this story, it was pointed out over and over and over again.
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Peaceful protest, peaceful protest, peaceful protests.
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And it wasn't as violent as it could have been.
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But I don't know if you saw the reporter that was pretty assaulted, I would think.
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If we can play cut three, here is the Black Lives Matter protesters assaulting a reporter
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What is great is one of the protesters actually took him by the shoulder and escorted him out.
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Here is another guy who looked like a bad guy wearing a mask.
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And yet he fended the rest of them off and tried to push the reporter out of the way.
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I'm shaken and a bit scared as the mob kind of surrounded me and my photographer.
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And I understand people's frustrations with the judge's decision.
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But they seem to be taking it out on the news media.
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And I don't know why they were taking it out on me in particular.
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My boss said if there were any conversation, any threatened violence, we're leaving.
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In fact, campaigned for Barack Obama and then realized, wait a minute, all this stuff is a lie.
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What they're saying they're doing for my community is not happening.
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He's a young kid who, a millennial, who is trying to figure life out and realizing these are all lies.
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Here's what he said about the protests in St. Louis over the weekend.
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So what you're seeing is that a lot of these leftist agitators like Antifa are being bust in by the liberals to create this chaos.
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Remember, a lot of these businesses that were torts during the Ferguson decision are still rebuilding back from 2014.
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And so what you don't realize, a lot of people don't realize, is that this is really not the city doing this.
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These are people that are paid to create chaos.
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I mean, they'll accuse the right of all kinds of stuff.
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And believe me, I can accuse the right of a lot of stuff myself.
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But if we really want to get down to it, if we really want the truth, here's the truth.
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The alt-right is being funded, I believe, because I take people at their word.
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And I've seen evidence of it outside of the United States.
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And I've seen the influence, at least intellectually.
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But it's being funded, I believe, by the Russians.
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They're getting a lot of money from overseas because they're funding the Nazi movement's Jobbix in Hungary.
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They're supporting the Nazi Golden Dawn Party in Greece.
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And they have direct ties here to the alt-right in America.
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A lot of this money is coming from the left and George Soros.
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Because I was asked by a guy who I really believe in, I think is a really good guy.
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And we've become friends over the last few months.
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And the Nantucket Project is his kind of big thing that he does every year.
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And for the life of me, I couldn't figure this crowd out.
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And I listened to a group of people talk about some really fascinating and worthwhile things.
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And yet there was about 20% of the audience that had paid a lot of money to be there.
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Who I'm not sure they really wanted anything other than confirmation of their bias.
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And I don't want to stick them out as being unique.
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Because they were having a big deal about God and church.
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And so I'm walking into church on Saturday with my kids.
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And somebody wearing a badge who had paid to go to the conference.
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My kids just looked at him and then looked at me like, what the?
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And at first I was told that it was like, only like 10 people were coming.
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With Paul Kagame, who was the former president of, or maybe current president of Rwanda.
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And then I find out Saturday afternoon that Vicente Fox is coming.
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And I'm just not going to, I'm just, I'm just going to eat my food and I'm just going to go away.
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But I get there and there's like a whole bunch of people.
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Jennifer Garner is there who was really impressive and gracious, really amazing.
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I'll have to, if we have time today, I'll tell you about that.
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Because it's nice to meet somebody who you think is probably going to be a jerk.
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So I sit down and I don't want to say who I was sitting with.
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Because it was a closed, it was a closed dinner.
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But I was sitting next to somebody that was very, very influential and famous.
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But we had a great conversation about things that were meaningful.
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His wife, on the other hand, decided to the minute we sat down.
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To blame me for all of the problems the United States is going through.
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Blaming me for Donald Trump and everything else.
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And I sat there and I tried to have a conversation with her on,
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well, do you know why Donald Trump was elected?
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No, after she stopped talking, she stopped listening.
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It was as if she thought her mouth was the listening device.
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Somehow or another, if the mouth stops working, the ears stop working.
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The only reason why I bring this up is because we have to realize that our mouth is not connected to our ears.
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In fact, our mouth should probably work less and our ears should work more.
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Beyond that, we have to start talking about the things that are uncomfortable.
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We have to start dealing with things that are uncomfortable to us and start listening and discussing and stop shouting and blaming.
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But if there's a bad cop, I want the bad cops arrested.
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If there's a bad judge, I want the bad judge arrested.
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How do we have this conversation in a country to where we don't believe that any of the leaders are going to get off?
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For the first time, I didn't understand, you know, 20 years ago, and I probably didn't understand five years ago.
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How people could cheer when OJ Simpson got off.
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It was the first time in my lifetime that I thought, oh, my gosh, a justice isn't served always.
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And I think the same people who are saying, how can people be cheering that Donald Trump won?
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I think it's the same phenomenon that happened with OJ Simpson years ago.
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They're so tired of of justice not being served.
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That when somebody works the system and punches the system in the face and beats the system.
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I will tell you, though, I think it's going to end the same way that it did with OJ Simpson.
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I think there comes a time that we all say, yeah, because look at the the ratings on OJ Simpson.
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Now in the African-American community, they're all kind of saying, yeah, you know.
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Coming up on the show today, we're going to do everything we can to make Glenn tell us who he was sitting next to at the dinner the other night.
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You know, it's amazing is I can't find a single story on the blaze dot com and the things that matter, the stories that matter about the Emmys.
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Yeah, I don't even see the biggest story of the day on the stories that matter.
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But like they don't even not even covering the naked egg taco.
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They stuff the the the cheese and the potatoes and the bacon inside the egg and it's folded
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I mean, this is something I think we need to try.
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Because you could make a taco shell out of almost anything.
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But I don't know if I want my egg to be so rubbery that it's because that it is that
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it is like a taco shell that does not sound appetizing.
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Actually, you mentioned you saw Jennifer Garner in real life, and I'd rather hear about that.
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There's a lot to be said about the Jennifer Garner thing.
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And I want you to know that people who listen, some will say,
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Speak the truth and speak it with wisdom and facts and without hyperbole and without name
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Because I think a lot of people translate what you're saying a lot of times as cower in the
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corner and just, you know, go along to get get along.
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I'm going to speak out and I'm going to come out for my country.
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However, what about really divisive issues, though?
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Because sometimes may I may I know you really are focused on Jennifer Garner, but can we
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I mean, because a lot of people think about her and then listened about what Ben Shapiro
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He is he is taking on a a person on the left about abortion and listen to the way he handles
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So my question was about abortion, and I just wanted to know why exactly do you think a
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OK, so a first trimester fetus has moral value because whether you consider it a potential
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human life or a full on human life, it has more value than just a cluster of cells.
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If left to its natural processes, it will grow into a baby.
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So the real question is, where do you draw the line?
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So you can draw the line at the heartbeat because it's very hard to draw the line at
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There are people who are adults who are alive because of a pacemaker.
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They need some sort of outside force generating their heartbeat.
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The problem is anytime you draw any line other than the inception of the child, you end up
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drawing a false line that can also be applied to people who are adults.
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So either human life has intrinsic value or it doesn't.
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I think we both agree that adults' human life has intrinsic value.
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I believe that sentience is what gives something moral value, not necessarily being a human
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OK, if you are in a coma from which you may awake, can I stab you?
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I'm glad you answered that because I have no interest in actually ordering you.
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But that's still potential sentience and it's still a potential...
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The issue I have with that, though, is that if I'm in a coma and I'm not doing anything
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to anyone, I'm not causing any issues amongst the world, whereas an unwanted child may or
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OK, but there are lots of people who aren't wanted, right?
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I mean, there are lots of people's parents who aren't wanted, right?
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Before you were making the argument based on the intrinsic value of a life based on sentience,
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and now you're talking about the level of burden that somebody presents as a separate
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I don't believe that you being a burden on somebody is justification for them killing you
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I'll leave it at that, but I appreciate you and thank you.
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You should probably leave the state after that.
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That's amazing, because, you know, how you can...
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First of all, you can go to their last argument there.
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I mean, you know, look, a lot of people, when you have someone who is hooked up to machines
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in a coma, it's an incredible burden on a family.
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But because you care about human life, you still try to fight through it.
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I mean, there's a million things you could argue on that.
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You could fault the guy for making the point the way he did.
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I mean, being able to have that dialogue, and that's, quite honestly, why people want
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And when you don't have the intellectual firepower of Ben Shapiro, then you get down to, well,
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And that's just, there's just no, there's nothing to be gained there.
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There is a moment where you go into, like, the gym at your local Y, and, you know, you're
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It's like, I got one other guy I'm just going to bring in.
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It's like, he is probably our William F. Buckley.
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He and Jonah Goldberg are probably the William F. Buckley of our generation.
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It's one of those things, when you have one of those guys on your side, you're never losing
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So, I met, or I shouldn't say I met, I met some people around him, and I listened to
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Quite a public incident at a casino in Atlantic City in an elevator.
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He was more popular at this convention than I was.
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I was interested, and I'm not sure, I'm not sure how I feel about him yet.
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But he is on this, he's on this, I don't know if you'd call it a tour.
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He's just, he wants to have his voice heard and set the record straight.
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I know, initially, because he had a domestic violence incident, if you don't remember that
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And he's, you know, he was released and has tried to come back.
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It's shown interest in that, but, you know, no one's given him a chance.
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Uh, so he's, I mean, you know, he spoke and he said, um, you know, there's no excuse.
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And he said, the woman who was my girlfriend is now my wife.
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And he said, you know, we have, I think he has three or four children now.
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Uh, and he said, we are doing things together, um, to speak out against, um, abuse.
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He said, but there's a, there's a problem in our communities.
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And what's interesting is one of the women that was flying in for this conference happened
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to, by chance, be seated right next to Ray and his wife on the airplane.
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Uh, and she started a domestic abuse, uh, program around the time that Ray was, she said, I've
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And she said, I've never spoken to him until we sat next to each other.
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And she said, I applaud him for what he's doing.
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And she was speaking about what they're doing, but she said something really interesting.
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She said, um, well, first Ray said, fear rules the world.
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And he said, I define fear as flee everything and run, flee everything and run fear, an acronym
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He said, I have decided to face everything and rise.
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Now imagine your dad is known as a, a guy who knocked your mother out while you were dating.
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Imagine what you as a child are going to go through having that as your dad and nobody ever
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And she said that she started around the same time, this domestic abuse, because she was
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personally involved with somebody who was killed.
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And, um, she said, everybody said, oh, there was no signs.
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And she said, yeah, there really, there really were.
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She said, but the problem is nobody's teaching about domestic abuse because no one wants to
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And I think this is really important, not even on domestic abuse, but on our country,
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you know, those friends that just don't want to hear the truth or they don't want to hear
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They don't want to hear, Hey, this is not going to end well.
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She said they did some studies and they found that the minute you say domestic abuse, nobody
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And because nobody wants to hear about it because it's too horrible and be nobody thinks
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And she said, until it becomes them, they don't see any of the lead up.
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So there's no real teaching because all we really do is teach about domestic abuse.
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Hey, don't knock your wife out in the elevator.
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She said, but what they found is that if they change the language just a little bit and make
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it personal and make it about something that everybody has seen and make it about the warning
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signs, instead of abuse, unhealthy relationships, signs of an unhealthy relationship.
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And one of the things that we spoke about this weekend was technology is we're not having,
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Now, if you're a millennial, you have almost zero experience talking about hard things face
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So we, how are we going to be able to talk about things?
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How are we going to be able to communicate to each other?
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How are we going to be able to get through things if we can't say the hard things to
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So she's been going around the country and this organization is called One Love and her
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And she said, we first, we made a, she said a 17 minute film and then we would go into
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She said, and then we started working with, I think it was the people at Apple.
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And she said, the people of Apple said, why don't we take this 17 seconds or 17 minutes
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Here's how they took the Ray Rice issue and then packaged those issues into something that
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was 30 seconds long to show you, hey, there's, there's, there might be some signs that you
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She said, people think that it goes from like 90%.
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I'm not a part of an abusive relationship to about 50% saying, holy cow, that, that stuff.
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Well, I'm not now that stuff has happened to me.
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That's a, it's a kind of a creepy ad, actually.
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It's weird to, it's, it's weird because it starts out with, um.
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Taking 17 minutes of what seems nice into, uh, and, and turning it into abuse in 30 seconds
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I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether we should have Ray Rice on or not.
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I would be, I would be very interested to talk to him.
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I've heard he really has made the effort to try to turn this thing around.
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Whether you're going to forgive him or not, you know, I don't, I mean, I'm sure he wants
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forgiveness, but he doesn't expect anyone to forget about what happened.
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Uh, but I have heard a lot of people who really stand by his sincere effort to turn it around.
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And it took me basically a long time to get over the hate that I had for this man.
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And, um, I became a single parent, uh, from my first wife, the mother of my children, and I had to be mother and father to them.
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And, uh, I think y'all have Ray Rice on just for the simple fact of his ability.
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Hopefully he forgave himself and he's, his children are going to be involved.
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And he needs to explain at that moment what happened and why it happened.
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Yeah, I, I, I will tell you, Barry, I heard him, uh, speak this weekend.
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And, um, it, to me, it did sound like he had, um, he had dealt with it with his wife.
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And he did lead with the hardest one of all is to, um, forgive yourself for it.
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I'm not sure if that work has been done yet, but we'll look into it.
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See if we can get Ray Rice on interesting conversation.
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The debris was evidence of what had occurred hours earlier.
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Even though the press is calling it peaceful, it was chaos.
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Shop and restaurant owners inside Universal, uh, or University City outside of St.
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Louis woke up to sweep the glass from their broken windows of their businesses again.
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They were innocent victims of the violence that erupted after Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder on Friday.
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Stockley, a white former police officer, shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man, during a 2011, uh, car chase.
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It's a colossal failure of our nation that one more of our citizens, you know, doesn't understand that this is not the thing to do here.
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I don't want to get into the, the officer or the case.
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Cause quite honestly, I haven't been following it and I wasn't on the jury.
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Louis, it needs to be fixed, but rioting and looting and destruction and chaos.
00:39:53.720
That's the way they do things in totalitarian countries and socialist countries and underdeveloped countries.
00:40:01.760
It is that, it is that very chaos that a lot of immigrants came here to get away from.
00:40:09.660
If you want to protest something, you have every right and I'll stand for your right to do it.
00:40:14.560
You want to, you want to, you want to stand up and protest something that you, you know, you had nothing to do with and you don't understand all of the details as has been the case in other instances.
00:40:30.460
You have a right to do that too, but you have a responsibility to do it in a peaceful manner.
00:40:36.660
Remember Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King.
00:40:43.160
Their, their protest strategy was never violent.
00:40:46.480
They knew that riots in the end would not work.
00:40:49.020
And by the way, Martin Luther King never wore a mask.
00:40:52.820
The bad guys, the enemies of his people, of all people, the clan, they were the ones that wore the masks.
00:41:06.720
And certainly something worth protesting for, something worth living for is something worth going to jail for.
00:41:21.200
But the moment you smash a window of a small business and you mess up that owner's effort and right to make a living, you forfeit your ability to be heard.
00:41:50.520
Daniel Ryder, a Hobby Lobby customer, found a decoration in one of their stores offensive.
00:41:59.600
I am, it is one of the only stores that I frequent a lot.
00:42:02.900
I am probably in a Hobby Lobby myself, probably at least once a month.
00:42:07.920
I paint, so I buy painting supplies and everything else.
00:42:13.220
And my kids and I, we go through and we, you know, we look at the models and everything else.
00:42:17.740
And just once in a while, just for fun, we just kind of walk the whole thing.
00:42:20.960
And there's a lot of stuff in their home accessory department that I find offensive.
00:42:32.780
Not in an offensive, like, any other way than, wow, is that bad taste?
00:42:42.440
She shared an image on something she found so offensive.
00:42:46.480
She posted a picture of a shelf with glass bottles containing what appeared to be replicas of raw cotton plants.
00:43:03.560
She captioned the photo, this decor is so wrong on so many levels.
00:43:19.560
Have you ever seen people who just take sticks and put them in a vase?
00:43:23.840
There's not, I mean, that's the same thing, isn't it?
00:43:28.300
There are sticks in every corner of my home right now, tied with, of course, twine.
00:43:34.900
Because the only use in modern society for twine is to hold sticks up in the corner of your house.
00:43:53.260
A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves.
00:44:03.680
Let's just, let's go through a couple of things.
00:44:09.800
Because do you know at one point that was picked by slaves?
00:44:14.580
And may I ask, you're certainly not using that cotton shirt to be decorative, are you?
00:44:19.860
I mean, it's just, it's just a container, right?
00:44:28.080
Clothing is nothing really, but at this point, decoration.
00:44:31.980
Because we could, I mean, we could all control the temperature in each building.
00:44:35.940
I'm not encouraging anyone here, by the way, to come in without clothing on, but in theory, you could.
00:44:48.440
And by the way, Danielle, please tell me that you don't wear denim either.
00:45:05.880
Indigo was pretty much, I don't know if you mine it or how you get it, by slaves.
00:45:20.960
Because most sugar back in the day came from plantations here in the United States.
00:45:27.960
So, please tell me, Danielle, that you're holding these, you're holding your restaurant accountable every time you go in.
00:45:36.220
And there's a sugar packet right there in the center of your table.
00:45:39.660
You're saying, aren't you, I can't believe how insensitive you are.
00:45:48.520
Of course, you would have a hard time telling your person, your waiter or waitress, wait person, if you will, that you have a problem with that.
00:45:59.240
Because you, of course, don't frequent restaurants.
00:46:01.920
Because waiters used to be African-American slaves.
00:46:34.800
This story is the number two story on The Blaze.
00:46:40.480
Now, The Blaze has launched, kind of softly today, a redesign of the front page and the way that we are writing stories.
00:46:50.600
And I have told the writers, and we've gone over this now for quite a while.
00:46:55.560
And we worked all last week together, every day last week, trying to develop a new writing style.
00:47:05.380
You can have perspective, but add your perspective to the end of a story.
00:47:10.180
Don't tell me about a historic speech, because that is opinion.
00:47:20.640
And if you want to add perspective, then let's make that at the end of perspective.
00:47:31.840
You have about 10 seconds that you're reading a story.
00:47:35.680
And let's make sure that we're only covering the things that really matter.
00:47:42.740
And I talked to Leon, who's the editor of The Blaze.
00:47:51.100
And he made a case that this story is a story that matters.
00:48:07.660
Our new directive as a company is to never waste your time as a reader.
00:48:12.780
The reason why we included this story is because we felt it was indicative of how blessed we are as a nation and people.
00:48:18.980
Maslow's hierarchy of needs would put this pretty high up.
00:48:23.560
As you can guess, the vase being offensive is really something that only people who are in the most stable of economic conditions could or would include in their worries of the day.
00:48:40.260
You don't need another story to outrage you or to show you how crazy things have gotten.
00:48:45.960
You can find those stories on any radio program, any television show, and any news site.
00:48:59.700
But we do feel that Americans do need stories that show how blessed we really are.
00:49:05.900
Our problems that we are dealing with are the dreams for much of the world.
00:49:14.940
It is our lack of gratitude and perspective for people to take their time to worry about a bunch of cotton in a vase in a store, which 85 percent of Americans will never step into.
00:49:28.120
Not because they're against it or for it or anything else is because they're just never going to walk into it should show us that most are not spending their time searching for ways to simply feed their families or find a roof over their head.
00:49:50.460
But what some Americans call problems are certainly blessings to much of the world.
00:50:04.360
Don't get distracted by stories like this or discouraged by those who have enough wealth, health and time that they can spend their time in worry about meaningless things like a cotton plant in a vase.
00:50:19.280
instead why don't we work together take our time helping those who are truly struggling
00:50:26.580
instead of posting about a product in a store that honestly will never affect you
00:50:35.700
find that story and the perspective from sarah taylor at theblaze.com right now the headline
00:50:52.460
is hobby lobby's offensive decoration has gone bonkers viral 33 000 facebook reactions and
00:50:57.180
counting and then you find out kind of like that's because it's true it's the type of thing
00:51:01.520
that gets people through the day these days without any meat without any real value my hate keeps me warm
00:51:09.520
so as i was reading that yesterday and leon and i were talking about this article that sarah wrote
00:51:20.240
i'm on my way back from nantucket and uh i just posted something leaving nantucket
00:51:28.960
uh broken yet optimistic or something like that just searching for something that matters
00:51:37.200
and duane posted and by the time i landed i read his post he said glenn i need to thank you for
00:51:46.300
something your program over the last couple of weeks has pushed me out of my comfort zone like
00:51:51.300
you can't imagine i'm literally writing to you from a bus on the way to houston to help those who have
00:51:57.880
been devastated by hurricane harvey i'm a father of four in my mid-40s from ohio like most i got
00:52:05.180
to work every day i have homework and sports in the evening with my kids and if i'm lucky i might have
00:52:10.500
an hour or two of time to myself my wife of 17 years much the same without the luxury of most any
00:52:17.260
downtime to herself as she has to work nights we have a nice house and a couple of cars to show for
00:52:23.060
all of our work thankfully our kids are healthy and we have family vacation and we'll enjoy a night
00:52:27.500
out on the town occasionally but with all that we're blessed with now listen to this i felt as if
00:52:34.040
we had no meaning i've felt this way for several years what good is all of this work what is it really
00:52:44.900
dwayne i have to tell you that was me yesterday i was yesterday morning i woke up um and i was a
00:52:57.400
completely broken man i was i was done i was done what is the meaning of any of this
00:53:04.820
he writes both my wife and i were raised catholic went to catholic schools a few years ago we just
00:53:11.660
stopped going to church no real reason our attendance just became less and less frequent
00:53:15.560
and eventually stopped a few months ago my wife was invited to a new church and asked me to go as
00:53:19.820
well we've been attending this non-denominational church ever since and the message i'm receiving
00:53:23.980
is much more impactful than what i had experienced in churches before the message that i was hearing
00:53:29.660
from church was one of action one of involvement i was being challenged to be more than just a person
00:53:34.720
who shows up on sunday and then goes back to my routine to do something that matters
00:53:39.720
then texas was hit by the hurricane i have two hours every day of commute time and i can say
00:53:46.180
that the vast majority of that time is spent listening to your program and i listened to
00:53:49.500
your description of the devastation and to those on the ground helping to bring some sense of hope
00:53:53.620
back to the victims that weekend a call came out from our pastor to help with donations and volunteers
00:53:59.260
well i hesitantly signed up with a trip about two weeks away there was plenty of time to find
00:54:05.020
excuses on why i couldn't go my kids soccer i'd miss work almost every time i wanted to back out
00:54:12.300
there was something that pushed me to go and one of the biggest was your show over the past week
00:54:16.140
hammering home find your meaning so here i sit glenn on a 57 passenger bus somewhere in kentucky
00:54:24.020
we have 23 people of all ages one flew in from massachusetts to join us several in the bus couldn't
00:54:30.760
afford the cost of the trip about 300 each so we set up a gofundme account and we raised over 1500
00:54:35.860
to ensure that they could go and use their time to help below me the bottom of the bus is filled
00:54:42.140
with donations thousands of dollars of diapers and wipes and food and cleaning supplies and in the row
00:54:47.020
seat next to me sits a binder with over 300 letters of encouragement to the people of houston from
00:54:51.920
a junior high school i am thankful that there are some that actually are well on the path to
00:54:58.220
knowing what matters they were the ones that organized this trip and donated items and money
00:55:02.960
and even ask their students to write letters and i'm hopeful that in my small effort to help those
00:55:07.640
in texas i will come to recognize what matters most so i may teach my children and encourage them to do
00:55:15.200
the same thanks for the part you you played in driving me to look for what matters hopefully we'll be
00:55:26.920
able to find duane and get him on the phone in the next couple of days as he finds meaning in houston
00:55:33.140
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stew i could you just do me a favor could you could you just google something for me sure a wall
00:56:59.740
okay could you just google that for me a wall i just like yeah what a definition of
00:57:05.600
a wall or wall uh a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of
00:57:12.580
land no get to the one where it says uh a concept of amnesty that i'm gonna be scrolling for a while
00:57:19.940
yeah i think to get you don't think that's no scroll amnesty wall and google that amnesty wall
00:57:28.880
maybe there's something because there's a new thing happening here where and we're gonna play the audio
00:57:33.900
for you in a second where everybody is saying no he didn't mean a wall wall
00:57:38.240
well well what the hell did what wait what well you thought he meant a wall wall like a physical
00:57:45.100
structure like the one that i thought we all agreed on was the definition of the four-letter word
00:57:54.300
wall see he didn't mean a wall it would you're thinking of a wall like a wall you would use to
00:58:00.560
separate yes to yeah that's okay that's a common mistake no that's so what did he mean when because
00:58:06.300
i heard somebody say no he was talking about a concept when he was talking about hanging solar
00:58:12.960
panels on the concept kind of concept holds solar panels up a wall concept okay a solar wall concept
00:58:20.960
hangs solar panels so this wall it's a wall concept is that like an occasional table okay yes i think it's
00:58:28.900
like an occasional table i mean it's an occasional table i don't know what it is the rest of the time
00:58:32.980
but occasionally i think it's a table i don't know what that means so maybe this is a concept wall
00:58:39.040
like an occasional table but i will tell you if that indeed is true occasional tables are always still
00:58:48.780
tables glenn beck glenn beck is it a real wall you're talking about or a fence i think that what
00:59:04.000
the definition of a wall is is something that we all need to have a serious conversation in some cases
00:59:07.900
it will be a ballard fence which is what in fact was appropriated last year and we've already begun
00:59:12.720
construction in that tweet the president tweeted yesterday the wall which is already under construction
00:59:17.560
in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences this is mark short over the weekend from
00:59:23.500
the white house cry from there will be a wall and mexico will pay for it well wolf there's already in
00:59:29.100
fact in many cases along the rio grande river levies that are built that in fact are higher in some
00:59:33.560
cases than what the wall would be so yes there is it it is a myriad of different structures along the
00:59:39.040
wall that we expect to make secure to make sure that america is safe he promised the wall and mexico
00:59:45.300
will pay for it will he deliver on that promise the president's going to deliver on his promises
00:59:49.620
how are you going to convince the mexicans to pay for it they say there's no way they're going to pay
00:59:54.180
for it the president of mexico he says that isn't happening we all saw the transcript of that
00:59:58.800
conversation he had with the president i've doubted the president before i'm proven wrong i suspect that
01:00:03.260
he's going to make sure that that wall is built and that mexico will pay for it we have to have a
01:00:07.780
conversation about what the word wall means what do you what do you mean because we were told there's
01:00:14.720
going to be a wall a physical wall and now we have to have a serious conversation about the definition
01:00:20.220
of a wall no actually we don't uh here's from fox and friends here's steve doocy has the wall almost
01:00:26.700
become symbolic i mean i know the president ran on it it was a mantra but at the same time border
01:00:31.780
crossings have gone down dramatically and you were talking about how the border the wall exists in
01:00:37.380
certain forms and there's money to go to it has to come from congress but do you think we're going
01:00:42.480
to get to the point where maybe they won't build a wall maybe they won't build a wall so so the the
01:00:48.220
definition of wall is mantra it's mantra yes it's so it's not a wall wall like when i when i think of
01:00:57.100
a wall no this is more of this is more of cotton in a vase this is more decorative oh it's decorative
01:01:03.020
it's decorative okay the wall is more decorative and gets us to start a conversation which is another
01:01:09.120
theory that was passed around this weekend so is trump going back on his promise on the wall or was
01:01:14.620
the wall his blunt way of raising the issue saying build a wall is just to catch your way of saying fix
01:01:20.240
our borders face it saying i love you is way better than saying i have a biological attraction to you
01:01:26.860
that may wear off at some point i mean wait so it's just it wasn't a wall it was a catchier way
01:01:34.200
of saying control the border that is what it is yeah that's clearly what it is it's just it's clearly
01:01:40.760
what it was right so when they were saying wall what they were saying was basically amnesty
01:01:47.300
yes okay so it's a will an amnesty see here's the here's the deal look i understand people people
01:01:56.080
are gonna people want to um live here they want to live where fox is telling them to go live
01:02:04.600
because you don't want to feel like you were duped and i understand that and it is human nature
01:02:12.960
and you want to give somebody you've trusted you've put a lot of stock into and so you don't
01:02:20.120
want to feel like oh wait a minute he was lying so what you will do is you will lower the standards
01:02:25.640
it is the overton window you will lower the standards and you'll say yes well but him just
01:02:30.840
saying that has turned around people coming across the border well why is it why is it we wouldn't
01:02:39.300
have a conversation in america on on amnesty and why wouldn't we have a conversation on any kind of
01:02:47.740
border security that seemed reasonable to people we wouldn't have that conversation because we said
01:02:54.560
the next president that comes in all he's going to do is reverse it you have to have a physical wall
01:03:02.380
because the next president and so we'll be going back and forth every four years we'll just be going
01:03:06.940
back and forth and we can't do that that was your reason and now people just don't want to feel
01:03:16.000
humiliated and they don't feel like they were duped and so they are they're giving themselves an out
01:03:22.540
please don't go over the cliff with the rest of society please don't do that there there has to be
01:03:30.640
something that is true and solid like a wall in your life that you say okay i'm not going to cross
01:03:39.960
this wall so you're saying i should i can cross those lines when i need to is what you're saying
01:03:44.460
in my life there are certain lines that i can just kind of move over when needed exactly right
01:03:50.740
except completely reverse it then you have it then everything will be fine
01:04:00.080
all right there's a story about a dallas school district that is now weighing renaming schools
01:04:11.940
after franklin jefferson and madison there are schools that they are now exploring taking the name
01:04:21.500
of franklin jefferson and madison off uh oh okay oh okay well thomas jefferson i can understand because
01:04:35.320
that's an easy one for the intellectually lazy it's an easy one if you if you don't really know
01:04:41.820
history you have only listened to history in sound bites and you've got it from a social justice warrior
01:04:47.760
i understand thomas jefferson benjamin franklin benjamin franklin was an abolitionist one of the
01:04:57.520
strongest abolitionist who died as a joke because they were trying to smear him in the south
01:05:04.660
because he had become such a strong abolitionist they tried to smear him and say he went crazy
01:05:11.720
and you want to take his name off i'm having a hard time getting my arms around that one
01:05:17.280
he's like the example of what you want to hold up as a guy guy he is the guy you know what it's easy
01:05:25.160
to be anti-slavery now everybody's anti-slavery now back then everybody supported it it was the
01:05:33.080
thing to do it was the way of the world it was the way of the world before there was an america
01:05:38.320
it was the way of the world when america started to take that stance at that time takes immense
01:05:44.020
bravery and the man who you know one of the founders who did that and he was not alone in
01:05:50.140
that but one of the founders who did that was ben franklin and he's still getting beat up like all
01:05:55.940
the other founders let me just give you this uh slavery is such an atrocious atrocious debasement
01:06:00.840
of human nature that it is an open source of serious evils the unhappy man who has been treated
01:06:08.640
as a brute animal too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species the galling
01:06:15.020
chains that bind his body to also fetter his intellectual facilities and impair the social
01:06:20.740
affections of his heart to instruct to advise to qualify those who have been restored to freedom for
01:06:25.840
the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty to procure for their children and education calculated for
01:06:30.580
the future situation in life these are the great outlines of the annex plan which we have adopted
01:06:35.760
i have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than i had ever before
01:06:43.500
entertained their apprehension seems as quick their memory is strong and uh their docility uh is in
01:06:51.480
every respect equal equal to that of white children so in other words he's saying you know what everything
01:06:57.600
we've ever learned in science in let me just repeat that science was telling us that blacks are animals they're
01:07:06.960
not people and he's saying you know what my scientific observations are quite different than that but
01:07:15.800
let's go ahead and uh and uh and and and stop looking at benjamin franklin and call him an evil slave owner
01:07:23.840
which he was never and he was the chief abolitionist in the country yeah contrast that against a progressive
01:07:31.120
hero che Guevara who uh believed that much much later in history that blacks were uh indolent that they were uh
01:07:41.100
lazy that they were drunks that they they were not serious people he mocked he mocked them as basically
01:07:47.680
worthless because they were not yeah but he lived in a different time yeah a lot later than ben franklin right
01:07:54.240
he sure did right but that's what they'll say yeah well he lived in a different time yeah so did so did
01:08:00.800
thomas jefferson so did ben franklin so did madison so did washington
01:08:05.640
by the way schools they're now talking about no franklin uh no jefferson no madison here in texas
01:08:15.260
but there are cesar chavez schools by the way uh cesar chavez used violence to intimidate both
01:08:23.460
growers and farm workers to force them to sign ufw uh contracts this according to fbi uh those um
01:08:31.200
those um intimidation sessions included beatings overturned cars throwing molotov cocktails torching
01:08:37.980
fields 1997 uh 40 female ufw members filed a lawsuit against the union for urging them to use sex as a
01:08:45.840
recruitment tool uh it was cesar chavez hated illegal aliens illegals were considered a threat to the jobs
01:08:53.740
of the farm workers they patrolled the border and beat any illegal alien that they uh that they caught
01:08:59.920
and the pretty good quote here is um why are you doing this are you doing this for the cause or are
01:09:05.200
you just angry i suppose if i wanted to be fair i could say i'm trying to settle a personal score
01:09:09.800
i could dramatize it by saying that i want to bring social justice to farm workers but the truth is i
01:09:15.120
went through a lot of hell and a lot of people did and if we can even the score a little bit for the
01:09:19.220
workers then we're doing something besides i don't know any other work i like to do better than this i
01:09:23.840
really don't that's on him beating people crossing the borders but you got a school named after him
01:09:29.480
tons of them one in phoenix one in detroit one in denver another one in detroit stockton eugene
01:09:35.220
oregon madison wisconsin how about malcolm x there's new thinking coming in there's a strategy
01:09:41.540
coming in it'll be molotov cocktails this month hand grenades next month and something else the
01:09:46.440
month after that be it ballots or be it bullets we want freedom now but we're not going to get that
01:09:51.340
saying we shall overcome we're going to fight until we overcome there's schools with the name
01:09:56.740
malcolm x one in chicago one in berkeley and one in washington dc they'll say well he had a
01:10:02.640
transition at the end of his life yes he did um but are you going to give that benefit of the doubt to
01:10:08.500
any of the founders woodrow wilson schools there's a woodrow wilson so they're thinking about taking
01:10:14.980
the name of jefferson franklin and madison off of schools in dallas but there is a school
01:10:21.820
the woodrow wilson high school in dallas texas on immigrants he described them as men of the lowest
01:10:29.600
class from italy and of the meaner sort from hungary and poland men out of the ranks where there was
01:10:36.000
neither skill nor energy or any initiative of quick intelligence and they came in by the numbers sorted
01:10:41.680
in hapless elements of their population the men whose standards of life and work are such as american
01:10:47.820
workmen workmen had never reamed uh here to there here to here hither hitherto he was appalled by the
01:10:56.520
french army allowing blacks to serve uh next to whites he's the guy who put the jim crow laws into
01:11:03.920
place in washington dc let me say that again it was the progressive woodrow wilson that put the jim
01:11:09.800
crow laws into place at the federal government level in washington dc he also allowed the secretary
01:11:18.980
of treasury and the postmaster general to segregate he re-segregated the military that's your beloved
01:11:26.500
woodrow wilson their schools named after him you know what you want to have this fight
01:11:33.560
you want to have this fight we can have that fight let's just base it on facts because i got
01:11:41.640
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a facebook comment just came in and uh they said we should burn all of the uh progressive money
01:13:35.960
that has you know people like andrew jackson on there and washington and of course lincoln isn't
01:13:41.220
like and neither is benjamin franklin here's what i'm going to do i am offering um today uh that you
01:13:48.000
can send every one of those racist engraved and numbered prints that you have um and send them in
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you can donate them all to mercuryone.org all you do is if you are somebody you say i cannot take this
01:14:05.680
racist slave owner in my pocket anymore i will not have benjamin franklin i will have nothing to do with
01:14:12.460
him and until the government takes that racist off of my money and andrew jackson too and hamilton he's
01:14:20.840
got a broadway play that everybody likes so we'll leave him alone but lincoln he's out grant yeah he
01:14:27.460
fought the civil war but he was with lincoln he's out and of course washington he's out and i want you
01:14:34.140
to send all of that and we will dispose of it uh at mercuryone.org we've done a lot of
01:14:42.240
complaining about government spending over the years is it possible they have already put this
01:14:46.340
into effect and are just burning all the money to protest it is very you seem to be setting our
01:14:51.420
money on fire very possible it is very possible because i mean it could just be a strong stance
01:14:57.420
from our government right we're going to end oppression uh at uh mercuryone.org and so that's
01:15:04.040
what i would like you to do if you have one of those benjamin oh man i hate that guy talking about
01:15:08.600
him now yeah see what they're talking about here in dallas right right i want to get rid of the
01:15:12.340
school i want him out get rid of those yeah i want you to go through if you're a progressive
01:15:17.200
you get those benjamin franklin's out of there you realize you have a a government issued so the
01:15:25.700
government was endorsing him a government issued individual serial number printed engraving
01:15:33.480
of benjamin franklin that you are somehow or another he is oppressing you and i want that
01:15:40.660
oppression to go away from you slavery will only truly be defeated when you send us all your money
01:15:45.960
when no no no you send us those you send us those evil engravings of those evil founders send them to
01:15:56.840
love courage truth ever heard the saying you know the blind following the blind it's never a good idea
01:16:20.320
because usually uh end up in a ditch or off a cliff or something like that and the bespeckled
01:16:25.280
bernie sanders um apparently has not heard that uh because he is leading us into a massive pit or off
01:16:34.800
a cliff and he knows it the independent senator from vermont who calls himself a democratic socialist
01:16:41.280
which is weird because that is a term look it up which was coined by lenin himself because uh russians
01:16:48.340
were afraid of communists and so he said no no no we're not communists no we're uh democratic
01:16:53.060
socialists he has now proposed medicare medicare for all a single-payer health care system it's a plan
01:17:00.960
that would repeal obamacare and replace it oh my gosh the democrats are going to repeal and replace
01:17:08.160
with a huge expansion of medicare large enough to open the government-run program to all americans
01:17:17.140
now this proposal is no longer just a dream of the far left it enjoys the support of 16
01:17:23.160
democratic senators including elizabeth warren cory booker uh kristin gildebrand and kamala harris
01:17:31.840
which why does that list sound from oh i remember because these are the people that are saying that they
01:17:36.640
might run for president in 2020 sounds good but there's even more there's a problem with bernie's
01:17:45.140
proposal it is lacking in detail specifically the little detail of how do we pay for this
01:17:52.680
but bernie already knows this you want to guarantee that all people have access to health care as you
01:18:00.580
do in canada but i think what we understand is that unless we change the funding system and the
01:18:06.040
control mechanisms in this country to do that for example if we expanded medicaid to everybody
01:18:10.920
give everybody a medicaid card we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money
01:18:16.400
that you know we would bankrupt the nation okay so wait that's what he's proposing that what by the
01:18:22.560
way was bernie in 1987 the reason why he's avoiding the details now is because he's very well aware of the
01:18:31.160
costs in his own words they're astronomical and they will i want to get this exactly right
01:18:37.580
they will bankrupt the nation end quote when the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch
01:18:47.900
democrats follow bernie sanders at your own peril
01:18:53.740
it's monday september 18th this is the glenn beck program
01:19:05.180
i had a rough weekend i wanted to have a good weekend i had a rough weekend um and maybe you
01:19:13.480
say you know what you know what the problem is is expectations expectations always get you into
01:19:17.640
trouble when you when you have expectation when you go in without any expectations you're always
01:19:23.720
bound to have a good time but when you go into with expectations that um i don't know
01:19:32.700
you're gonna find utopia somehow or another you're always disappointed
01:19:37.680
yes that is a hundred percent true yes it's really very true with you you have uh i mean this is a
01:19:46.480
tendency of yours how do you mean i don't know what you well you you're you're if you've noticed that
01:19:52.220
you're constantly always like depressed about various i don't know if depression is is quite the
01:19:59.600
right word for it anymore you're probably not it's yeah constant yeah disappointment yeah never ending
01:20:05.580
just feeling of doom right and death probably probably closer to that i i i had a i had a tough
01:20:13.560
time because it was i i went up to what's called the nantucket project and i was invited by a new
01:20:20.320
friend uh tom scott who runs it and you know he wanted to talk about redemption and alcoholism and
01:20:27.180
understanding understanding understanding and so that was the point of the conference let's let's
01:20:33.000
understand the concept of understanding let's try to understand each other and i don't think that went
01:20:41.200
real well uh not with not at least not with everyone um and at the same time it was truly remarkable
01:20:49.020
because i had an opportunity to uh meet with paul kagami who is the president of rwanda who
01:21:01.440
it's complex because in america he would not be a guy i would vote for in rwanda he's a dream come true
01:21:13.800
in rwanda you're like uh who are you gonna it's really one question yeah on the you're gonna slaughter
01:21:18.900
half of us yeah is it gonna be a genocide situation right you're just gonna are you gonna rape the
01:21:24.140
country and kill half of us yeah no no okay great your taxes are gonna be a little high okay i can deal
01:21:29.640
with that i'm with you i'm with you so um paul is a guy who now now now think of think of a country
01:21:39.900
the size of about connecticut about the population of of massachusetts and think of about million million
01:21:53.240
and a half people killed in the streets butchered with machetes and raped in front of their families
01:22:03.800
in eight months can you imagine what can you imagine what the world would be like if on our
01:22:11.760
continent there was one state that just did that how the other states would not come to the defense
01:22:20.820
let alone hopefully the whole world but it was just left to happen and it was because of the
01:22:28.100
who tos and the tootsies which i love them both they're great um i prefer tootsies because it
01:22:35.440
sounds like i'm gonna get a chocolate treat that i always loved as a kid in a role but i'm not sure
01:22:40.940
if they're related don't think they are didn't want to ask the president that um probably good instinct
01:22:48.140
yeah i thought so uh but it was uh it was interesting to me to hear a guy say you know we knew the answer
01:22:59.820
was going to come from within it had to it couldn't come from outside couldn't come from the united
01:23:03.960
nations couldn't come from america could not come from anyone else it had to come from us and there is
01:23:10.540
no way we were going to heal with someone just jamming down a policy so we had to do something
01:23:19.000
radical we had to do radical forgiveness now what do you think radical forgiveness really is
01:23:26.760
radical forgiveness is somebody calling in and saying hey uh i killed you know stew that guy on the
01:23:36.860
radio yeah i raped his wife and his daughter in the street and then slaughtered them in front of him
01:23:44.720
i really like to apologize so the government calls you and says hey stew i know you have no family
01:23:53.480
members left anymore but the guy called in and he really liked to uh apologize to you now first you
01:24:02.740
have to say yes second you then have to listen to him describe what he did that's part of the repentance
01:24:10.360
process he has to tell you exactly what he did now that would set me off i i know i i saw it you don't
01:24:19.100
have to tell i saw it he has to tell you what he did and then he has to tell you he's sorry and ask for
01:24:27.420
forgiveness then you have to say i forgive you and then it's all over he doesn't go to jail you all
01:24:37.760
walk out arm in arm he doesn't even get punished for the crime how many what's the percentage do you
01:24:42.560
suppose it went away if you don't by the way uh believe i believe you're executed if they don't
01:24:51.800
forgive you what's the percentage that walked out that said i will not forgive you you're saying no
01:25:00.060
that said i forgive you come on let's go out together let's leave together oh god i have i i mean i would
01:25:06.600
it's very low 80 80 80 80 80 said i will forgive you i will forgive you that's incredible what's the
01:25:16.260
reasoning for that is there something in the culture going back the paul kagami said that um
01:25:22.760
it is because he convinced and he doesn't take the credit for it but i don't think i don't know of
01:25:29.080
anybody else that could have done this he said um we had to have a frank conversation in the country
01:25:36.560
that said we need each other we have to have each other half the population is gone
01:25:42.240
we kill all the we kill all the people who did this then we have not we have nothing left
01:25:49.480
and so we need each other we have to forgive each other and if we can come back together in forgiveness
01:25:55.860
we'll be stronger than ever before and that is exactly what's happening their gdp rate of growth
01:26:04.140
is eight percent every year since 2001 wow that's incredible i mean obviously what's ours you know
01:26:11.580
three if we're lucky try this on for size they're now delivering medicine and supplies around the
01:26:18.720
country with drones we're not even doing that really they are it for for africa they are way ahead
01:26:28.300
they are the most stable in africa they have tapped into something uh that hopefully we'll never
01:26:38.700
need god forbid we would ever need something that dramatic oh we had a civil war i mean it's you know
01:26:45.900
that's pretty dramatic and we you know half the country was at war with the other half of the country
01:26:50.860
i don't think we ever healed from it yeah it doesn't certainly doesn't seem like that today
01:26:55.720
no i think i think as americans tend to do i think we said no i'm good i'm good no i'm good
01:27:05.280
you know lincoln died and nobody wanted to continue the war and everybody was like no no you know i'm
01:27:12.240
good i'm good we're no we're fine we're fine we'll get along and i don't think we ever had that process
01:27:17.760
of i'm sorry i'm i forgive and then and then you know 20 30 years later we had jim crow and you know
01:27:25.760
the the dixiecrats and the clan and all of that stuff and i think after martin luther king was killed
01:27:32.620
we all went you know what i'm good i'm good no no we're we're all good we're good okay yeah we're
01:27:38.200
all together and we've never had those conversations and i'm not sure and i'm not talking about a
01:27:46.280
conversation on like okay so now all right so now you get i mean the kind of conversation most there
01:27:52.360
was no reparation there they're not saying okay you need to give me your hut or your your cow or
01:27:59.220
whatever those people might have in the in the outskirts of rwanda they're not saying give me
01:28:04.500
stuff they're saying i forgive you and i met some of the people that have have gone through this and
01:28:10.840
and true in truly remarkable fashion they are friends literal friends now with people who killed
01:28:19.540
every member of their family one woman who everyone in her family was killed by this guy
01:28:26.020
she now says he didn't want to approach her because he was he was afraid that she would always
01:28:33.660
hate him and so he he really felt really bad about it obviously and realized he was duped
01:28:42.900
he was just a part of this anger see if any of this sounds familiar to the extreme
01:28:47.640
this anger between these two groups and they were just had convinced each group that the other group
01:28:54.480
was a monster and so the only way we could do it is we killed everybody in this and they did and as
01:29:00.140
soon as it was over they said the killers realized oh crap what have we done he couldn't live with
01:29:06.760
himself he was one of the first to call and say i i want to apologize and i'll take i'll i'll take the
01:29:12.700
punishment if i have to he he apologized to her she forgave him now they're good friends she's married
01:29:20.140
that has a son or a daughter when he when when she has to go out and work if she has to go do something
01:29:26.800
she'll leave her children with him the guy who killed her whole family
01:29:34.480
wow that's uh that's a i mean it feels like a terrible decision
01:29:39.680
you know what and but it works somehow it is he paul gagami said forgiveness is a choice
01:29:49.000
and once you make that choice forgiveness becomes a miracle
01:29:54.740
you know a crisis doesn't bring out a new version of you um and you know this how many times have
01:30:17.460
you done something really stupid and you're like i'm sorry i was really stressed out
01:30:21.100
well when your family's at stake when when there's a crisis that's the version of you that comes out
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paul gagami said forgiveness is a process and a choice it's a difficult thing but if you sacrifice
01:32:02.840
yourself to someone who has hurt you it's a miracle
01:32:11.260
stew would you look something up because there's no way this is true
01:32:15.120
i just i heard this and i wrote it down i'm like no way
01:32:18.080
the ninth safest country in the world is rwanda this according to him
01:32:25.080
uh there are stories that uh do indicate that uh rate let's see uh ninth safest country in the world
01:32:36.120
take a guess which according to the surveys and i don't know how they rank them but i think
01:32:43.280
the cost of common crime and violence as well as terrorism and the extent to which
01:32:47.260
police services can be relied upon to provide protection from crime
01:33:05.560
number one is finland in case you're interested
01:33:17.180
no he he was just he he didn't mean to steal the napkin he was he had an allergy attack
01:33:25.700
when you look at this list though it's largely the type of list you'd see at the top of
01:33:30.180
places with economic freedom with good growing economies largely
01:33:34.320
uh rwanda would be one that would stand out and you would not expect it to be there
01:33:39.800
finland uae iceland oman hong kong singapore norway switzerland rwanda
01:33:47.360
again you got uh that's another great wealth right luxembourg one of the highest per capita wealth
01:33:53.520
countries on earth um if not the so so you have great wealth and stability and then rwanda
01:34:03.480
there was like there was like there's no way there is absolutely no way that you would say to me
01:34:08.860
hey you know what you should go to rwanda no seriously it's safe you'd be like shut up
01:34:14.620
right now i don't know as a this would be a little american here for a moment not sure that i would uh
01:34:21.040
trade the life that i have now for one in rwanda
01:34:25.540
uh i don't know enough about rwanda i know i don't like leaving the comforts that we have here in the first world
01:34:33.900
yes i'm pretty sure that and safety i do feel while they're all are really rough areas generally
01:34:42.020
it's just you have to know where you are and by the way we're
01:34:46.180
what the most diverse culture in the history of the world and we're rather large
01:34:55.160
i'm not i who would i be to make a fat joke i think that would be
01:35:00.360
right yeah no that's true that's an incredible thing i mean you know i understand i mean imagine
01:35:05.840
getting over something like that where someone is murdering your entire family a genocide
01:35:10.020
however it is one thing to get an apology for genocide when someone tweets something nasty at
01:35:17.120
you you cannot forgive them right that is over the line right if someone's on your facebook wall
01:35:21.940
and they're saying something offensive you hold them to that till they die and i said the day they die
01:35:27.280
yes i every moment for the rest of your life should be spent in anger and outrage at that person
01:35:32.360
that is how society's supposed to work i'm with you 100 okay good they don't understand it or they
01:35:38.500
don't understand if they have political differences here right and they're more important yeah the
01:35:43.360
hooties and the two shoes or whatever they are who twos and the tootsies whatever i mean
01:35:48.700
that's nothing we have the republicans and the democrats right and they're much further apart
01:35:54.360
on topic on main issues that the who twos and the tootsies were in the rwandan genocide for
01:35:59.620
instance the republicans want to repeal and replace obamacare and now under bernie sander
01:36:06.060
he would like to repeal and replace obamacare but in a different way completely one is complete
01:36:14.540
socialized medicine and the other is the socialized medicine social yeah but kind of different in a
01:36:20.100
different way it's a different way because it's a republican proposal right exactly
01:36:35.440
welcome to the program the one the only mr one twice some say number 11 on uh on uh
01:36:46.360
itunes i like one twice better one twice yeah mr pat gray welcome to the program pat thank you
01:36:52.620
uh we had a quite uh an interesting uh email from some people in um they they run a youth group
01:37:01.020
called rcc youth in richmond virginia uh they took five rcc youth 16 and 17 year olds all from
01:37:09.780
section 8 public housing to the confederate monuments in richmond uh for one purpose so they
01:37:15.860
can formulate their own opinions before me the media frenzy is going to ravage through richmond
01:37:21.000
uh it was a powerful experience upon returning back to the rcc headquarters they all talked about it
01:37:27.660
and then um one of the kids 17 year old daquan morton typed this out he said today me and my peers
01:37:35.340
decided to visit the monuments to see what all the fuss was about and we came up with this
01:37:39.940
is it more convenient to take down some statues than to improve the real problem of society thank
01:37:46.360
gosh thank you yes yes i bring sanity uh to this particular broadcast a lot of people think that
01:37:55.440
the problem with society is racism but racism is only the feeling of one race being better than another
01:38:00.440
from living in low income areas we have our own ideas about society everybody pointing blame at
01:38:06.380
monument avenue and statues that reside there but those statues never did anything to me or any
01:38:11.780
people that i care about the only thing that ever harmed people in these low-income areas is the
01:38:18.060
violence that resides there in the low-income areas in low-income areas five kids each from
01:38:24.300
uh different areas collectively know 22 people who've been killed over the past year oh my gosh
01:38:31.980
in the past the past year not in their lifetime over the past year i know we all know navy seals
01:38:41.000
who have said to us in a moment of despair i can't go to another funeral of a friend right yeah i don't
01:38:48.160
know i don't know if they've lost 22 friends in a year right and and these kids i mean this really
01:38:56.460
kind of puts everything into perspective i think um they he says he goes on from the day we're born
01:39:03.920
we're taught nobody cares and nobody can help what if i told you there are kids starving in your bone
01:39:09.060
backyard living in rundown buildings what if i told you that there are kids that would rather rob steal
01:39:15.360
and kill rather than go into a house with nothing to eat every day kids like these say to themselves
01:39:21.480
do whatever to get them bands which is money i guess and if they don't give it to me i'm a take
01:39:27.700
it meaning everybody's young dumb and broke instead of using money to knock down statues that most people
01:39:35.740
in low-income areas never even saw how about using that money to improve schools fix up the community
01:39:43.060
and see that we every day uh not protest in our neighborhoods where we see violence and hate
01:39:49.440
the most i mean just uh unbelievable wisdom from a 17 year old kid who's seen nothing but violence
01:39:56.300
in his life and it's nice to go uh to this source and talk to the people who should be the most offended
01:40:03.140
and they're not they're not offended by these statues they don't care about the statues they care about
01:40:07.720
their lives be nice if we could if we could go you know kind of reorganize the focus and put it where
01:40:14.860
it belongs but we're not going to you're never going to solve the racism problem without these
01:40:20.000
getting rid of these racist statues these statues who judge us by the color of our skin instead of
01:40:25.100
the content of our no they're they're made of these statues look down on us because they're built so high
01:40:30.540
for a reason yeah they don't have eyes stew they don't they do have eyes i've seen them
01:40:35.440
and those are eyes of hate they don't have working eyes no they there's this it's an empty it's an
01:40:41.120
empty piece of metal i don't know if you've noticed that an empty piece of metal or plaster or bronze
01:40:46.840
whatever and uh plaster the people that they represent are dead long what color would let's
01:40:52.260
say a plaster statue be pat well it could be painted so it could be if it's not painted what would it be
01:40:58.480
could be painted i don't know i see those i've seen them painted brown a lot a lot all the time
01:41:08.180
so i'm not even gonna hazard a guess as to what color it is you know that all the all the marble
01:41:13.260
statues from rome were painted did you know that no yeah all the paint has gone off of them they were
01:41:18.660
originally all painted really really yeah they have a few and they were marble and then they were
01:41:23.420
painted them yeah that's really garish colors there's there's one
01:41:28.340
or two in the in the vatican museum and uh did they not understand how gauche that is
01:41:34.880
it really looks like it's bad it looks really bad it's like whoa that's uh ugly gauche i mean more
01:41:43.900
gauche than a big marble statue i mean that's saying something yes it is and really tacky i mean the
01:41:50.080
colors are not so very good of colors i feel like a really weird thing for us to even have today just
01:41:56.700
statues in general it's a really weird thing that we pulled over from the from the old days
01:42:01.060
i mean especially when you know it's a strange i don't know you're would you want a statue made of
01:42:07.520
you i mean don't usually get them when you're alive no i know not usually like lincoln was like i don't
01:42:13.200
know i think i think the chair needs to be bigger that was his commentary yeah when he commissioned the
01:42:21.240
monument yeah he's like it's not big enough but i'm saying though like it's it's meant to remember
01:42:26.460
people usually and and to honor them in some way not always but it usually is and it's not something
01:42:33.040
that i i would want made of me it's weird it's like you know it's fashioning an image of someone else
01:42:39.560
you know it's i mean there are commandments that deal with things such as these well that's you know
01:42:44.420
it's weird because i have jewish friends who talk about that and say this is one of the reasons why
01:42:47.760
you don't have this graven images yeah because you it's not just a god thing but it's also because
01:42:52.760
what part of a person are you glorifying yeah i mean you can't glorify i mean and every person you
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glorify has many many faults and you can pick all of them apart of course yeah because they're people
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yeah they were actually just human beings yeah and and maybe when we make them into statues and
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monuments it just it glorifies them too much i don't know maybe i don't know i don't it's a weird
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thing that we would continue doing i kind of understand that at times and when you say human
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history we continue doing do you know of a statue company that's roaring to life right now i mean
01:43:23.060
you're telling me that they're not making silicon valley this statue thing is taken off
01:43:27.300
i mean of course there are statue companies yeah but i mean it's it's not like we're doing a lot of
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them what are we doing it's probably more statue repair i mean i will refer you to a somewhat
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recent documentary uh entitled rocky uh and in rocky three uh as he was retiring they gave him
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a nice big statue which still exists today statues go up but it's there in real life right i mean it
01:43:51.520
was on the steps it was on the steps where at the top where he would run up the stairs but the art
01:43:57.400
people thought it was too good this is not odd rocky is not odd and so they actually moved him to
01:44:04.800
where was it the spec spectrum yeah which is no longer there but they had it's in that area still
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where the sports complex which is kind of where you would think it belongs sylvester stallone
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actually has a statue in philadelphia it's a real one it's awesome it's it's i thought it was
01:44:17.700
appropriate i mean i thought it was appropriate at the top of the please yeah you'll put you know
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you'll put like a a you know an a 30-foot vagina out in front of a building you can't have
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you can't have rocky on the stairs come on man it's a fair point i got news for you that's art
01:44:38.600
that's not that rocky that's a piece of crap but that vagina that is art i'll say too uh for all
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you artsy people out there the only reason anyone goes to your stupid museum is to run up those stairs
01:44:49.960
i got news for you philadelphia it's the only reason anyone's ever at the top of those stairs to
01:44:54.960
go into that building is because that's for sure so you should have let me rephrase that let me
01:44:59.120
rephrase that as somebody who has been to philadelphia and lived in philadelphia for quite
01:45:02.620
some time uh that the it's also the reason why people go maybe halfway up the stairs okay
01:45:10.880
you know couldn't make it all the way you don't make it all the way up you're just like this is
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good enough he was a professional boxer of course he could make it all the way to the top
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did you get to the perspective did you get to the perspective yet yeah read read the perspective
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on why why we included that because that's not a story that's going to affect you hobby lobby selling
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a stupid uh uh vase with cotton in it somebody found that offensive and now it's everybody's raging
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that's not a story that's not a story here's here's the perspective on that story this just shows
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you how sweet our life is in america that we have the time to argue about stuff like that if somebody
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is look nobody's starving nobody who is at the end of their rope is going into hobby lobby and going
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oh and another thing i'm really offended by that no no we're a really blessed country uh so anyway just
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um it is kind of a mantra of of mine that uh i know that at the blaze we're we're gonna get this right
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for complete details glenn back glenn back i actually invented this in my head you ever have that happen
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to you where some like you invent something in your head and you realize that someone else really a lot
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smarter than you did it already i used to do that as a kid all the time but it's actually my invention
01:50:15.140
yeah i i invented the street street sweeper vacuum that was my invention you did that yeah wow but but
01:50:21.700
in reality someone else somebody else did it long before me but that was my invention they made the
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money that's i learned young just give up everything's been thought of it kind of that's
01:50:31.040
kind of where i am it's sad uh really you come up with something you're like that is genius oh it's
01:50:38.120
already out on the market oh yeah like okay uh maslow's hierarchy of needs yeah which is in the
01:50:44.220
blaze article you were just referring to about hobby lobby and there's this uh kind of a pyramid of
01:50:49.920
of what a person actually cares about and a long time ago i had a friend who was going through
01:50:54.820
um some financial trouble and uh it was you know going through a lot a tough time in his life this
01:51:00.920
is like when we were just out of high school and he was talking about wanting to improve his career
01:51:06.540
and he's talking about wanting to uh you know you know get a girlfriend and all the things that you
01:51:11.420
want to do when you're in that time in your 20s early 20s uh and i was like you have to get past like
01:51:18.780
thinking about survival first yeah you can't worry about what car you have and who you're dating you
01:51:25.620
need to be able to feed yourself first and once you get past that and this happens i think in
01:51:29.840
societies as well people are like oh the global warming they have to make sure they're doing how
01:51:34.440
about i don't know energy so i can heat my my house so i can live so you know it's really interesting
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to me in in this conference that i i was attending this uh weekend talking to these girls from
01:51:46.040
rwanda who had all come to the united states to go to college most of them are going back home and it
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was amazing i have my degree in uh sustainable farming i have my degree in a power infrastructure
01:52:02.440
all things that you're like okay yeah you yep yep you're gonna have it you need that you're gonna
01:52:07.000
have a great job then one said i i i'm getting my degree in feminist studies and i thought
01:52:14.940
that's gonna be a hard one to work i mean you're gonna have a hard time finding a job in rwanda
01:52:19.680
with that i think and she said uh well i'm i'm staying here um and it was really interesting
01:52:28.220
the way she phrased this i'm staying here because i think the world really needs me i think my experience
01:52:37.560
um it really will help the world and i don't know where they need me the most but the world
01:52:45.500
needs me and i'm like honey the world doesn't no it doesn't i mean would you like to go to her
01:52:51.820
no offense no one the world doesn't need anybody no it doesn't need anybody it really doesn't need me
01:52:56.300
doesn't need you doesn't need anybody can you go can you flip that how can i go and help
01:53:02.960
i really there's so much i the world uh has that that i can go and and i just want to help i want
01:53:11.420
to relieve the suffering or the pain or whatever it was really fascinating to me how the ones that
01:53:17.420
were going back they were all like i need a degree in how do we eat and the one who said i'm gonna stay
01:53:25.560
in the west was like how can i piss people off glenn beck