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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by his good friend Pat Rigsby to discuss the JFK Assassination and the White House's refusal to release millions of documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Can we please stop talking about the damn cookies?
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Yeah, but luckily nobody knows how to spell Keksi.
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They have a Christmas cookie, Glenn, with an entire peppermint patty in the middle of it.
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We don't want you on the show until at least maybe an hour into it.
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The podcast you're going to love from start to finish because we don't care.
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And there's some really big stuff, too, that, you know, we talk about, like this Kennedy thing.
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What the White House said yesterday is unbelievable about the Kennedy assassination.
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We get to that and so much more in today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So, I don't know, uh, if this is too incriminating for the CIA and the FBI, but, um, remember we told you last week that Thursday all of these JFK documents are supposed to be released.
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Now, they were supposed to be released in the 1990s.
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Then Reagan said, no, we're going to give it another 20 years.
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Now, what would Reagan have anything to do with it in the 1990s?
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This is where I'm, I think I'm falling down here.
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And he comes out and he said, these should be sealed for another 20 years.
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Um, and so then they, I think it was George Bush and he said they should be sealed again until 2019 and, uh, or 2017.
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It was Joe Biden that came out and said they should be released.
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And they said, because of COVID, we need extra time.
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And when they didn't release them, the White House had to say, either you release them or buy more time.
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So there's about 5,000 documents that are left.
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Now, this means that the, the head guy of the CIA from Kennedy on knows what's in these documents.
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They are going to, this is this, listen to this.
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These will remain classified at least until next, at least until next year, according to the White House memo, quote,
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to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.
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Here is the, here is the, I think the, the nicest way to look at this.
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That Lee Harvey Oswald was, and we have pretty good evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was, um, a CIA operative on other things.
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And they were involved in, uh, trying to overthrow Cuba.
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And the most, the nicest way to look at this for the CIA, giving them all the benefit of the doubt is they had no idea that Oswald was going to do this.
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And it was the biggest intelligence, um, failure in the history of our nation.
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But we're so used to intelligence failures now.
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The worst case scenario is that this was a CIA operation.
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This was coordinated through our justice department and our CIA, CIA operating here in the United States.
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But see, that's not even that bad because that's 50 years ago.
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They're doing it now and people don't seem to care.
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Because I personally believe the way they are setting this up, you know, it doesn't make conspiracy theories go away.
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The, when they come out, it's one thing to say, we're going to hold them back.
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It's another to say, I'm going to hold them back.
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To protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.
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That means it is so massive that it would affect everything today.
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Certainly not going to tamp down conspiracy theories.
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I mean, for the first time in my life, I believe, yeah, I think the CIA did, was involved in killing him.
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Not that I would say I die on that until I have the evidence.
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But I was, I was as sure as you could be without saying, I'd stake my life on it.
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I was as sure as I could be that Oswald was alone.
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I know, I don't believe the shooter in the trees and all of that stuff, but I have no idea anymore.
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And I'm not sure that Jack Ruby was just a guy that was so upset he came and shot him.
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But with this statement, if they say this 50 years later, they absolutely killed him.
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I always think, too, one of the reasons why I've been a little suspicious of the standard theory here is that Arlen Specter was involved in investigating it.
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And Arlen Specter sucked so badly that he couldn't have possibly done something right in his life.
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Last night on Tucker Carlson, he obviously has some inside information of some sort.
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And he said that his source said that everything you think, you know, is wrong.
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This makes what the CIA and intelligence and justice did to Donald Trump a much more plausible because they didn't kill him, but they, they killed his presidency.
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They colluded to kill his president, to stop him because he was going to do something that they said cannot be done.
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You cannot, we cannot have him do whatever it is.
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Um, but it makes that baby stuff compared to stopping a president by killing him.
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It's also one of those things that we always believe these things are in the past, right?
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We always look back at history and are like, oh, well, there's this really shady activity going on in the government.
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He had to, he was the one who says, no, don't release him.
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If you're not willing to expose it, then you're not, you're not cleaning it up.
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Like, okay, let's go to the, the worst case scenario here for a second.
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Let's say somehow the CIA is involved in the actual murder.
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We have evidence and that's what's in these files is why they keep not avoiding releasing
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Cause I mean, I think there's an argument to be made with, with, if that's true, that
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If, if our law enforcement murdered a president, what would that do to society?
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What would that do to all sorts of, well, it would expose, it would expose what they're
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You know, why, why out of all the names that have to be wiped off of buildings, how come
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the J F Hoover, the J Edgar Hoover, um, building is still named after J Edgar Hoover point.
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I mean, the, even the left, you know, said, tried to smear him by saying he was a, you know,
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he was transgender, you know, he was dressing up and whatever, uh, you know,
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now that's like a reason to keep the name on the building.
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But that guy, we have presidents who have said they were afraid of what he would expose.
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We have them on the record and yet his name's still on there.
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Why is that a warning to people who are at the highest levels?
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I mean, with this statement, by the way, the conduct of foreign relations, the
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relations that is such gravity that it outweighs the public interest.
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Was Cuba, I mean, are we worried about the Cuban relationship?
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I mean, I know Biden is, but what could that possibly be?
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We had a guy on who was high up in the CIA, was part of the planning of Bay of Pigs.
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And he said, oh, yeah, I mean, CIA was all over the Oswald thing.
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And everybody who was in the CIA at the time knew.
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This is such an amazing thing, too, because tonight at 5 p.m. Eastern, and it will be on
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the Blaze TV and also my YouTube page, youtube.com slash Glenn Beck, you will see an auction of
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I mean, you're going to see, I'm going to take you through a vault of the American Heritage
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They have 200,000 square feet of things that they're auctioning off.
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And I just take you to this one auction where Sputnik is for sale, a piece of the seat that
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JFK was killed in the car with his bloodstains on it, Jack Ruby's wallet, and everything.
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Our Christmas centerpiece is part of the brain.
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I feel like it is a little, some of it can get dark.
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But it's for history museums, I mean, it makes a lot of sense.
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They have the phone that he was making phone calls to Marilyn Monroe on at Bing Crosby's.
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It's a red, white, and blue phone made just for him so it could be secure.
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He was supposed to stay at Frank Sinatra's house.
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And so he's like, I want to go to Palm Springs.
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You can see all this stuff and see it all happen on the show tonight, right?
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And of course, we'd love you to subscribe to Blaze TV to check it out.
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However, you can also check it out for free on YouTube if that's your choice.
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By the way, also airing tonight on Studios America, The Christmas Twist, the greatest
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Christmas movie of all time starring Glenn Beck, Pat Gray, so many others.
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In the next year, I want to do a real Hallmark movie, but I want, we've got to find a way
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to where we have, we let the audience know, we're with you.
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But you can see the first, you know, $45, well, okay, $30 version of that, The Christmas
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
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So a decade ago, a decade ago, I wrote a book about becoming George Washington.
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I had the audacity to begin the book by saying, my name is Glenn Beck, and I am George Washington.
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I said that because I believe everyone has the potential for his kind of greatness.
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Today, I want to talk to you about a different George.
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This George lives in Bedford Falls, and we see him almost every Christmas.
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Hello, my name is Glenn Beck, and I am George Bailey.
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This is what makes this movie so incredibly relatable.
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Because George Bailey could be any of us, and I contend is all of us.
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Like many of us, George Bailey's life, full of events he found challenging, oftentimes demeaning,
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And even though he's willing to sacrifice his own happiness for the good of others, that is in today's life, in today's world, heroic.
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Now, if Netflix made this film today, George would leave Bedford Falls and pursue his dreams.
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And with the help of a gay sidekick angel, obviously of another race, he would find the power within some organization that would help him overcome the evil old white man, Potter,
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and discover his fully realized self, and he would identify as some sort of an animal.
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But the original George Bailey from the Capra film, he's who we really are.
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You could be absolutely right now at the end of your rope, and you are hearing this by what you would think is a coincidence.
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George Bailey is not a hero because he built the skyscrapers and the bridges of his youthful dreams.
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He was a hero because of the daily sacrifices he made for his family, the building and loan customers, not the business, the customers, the town of Bedford Falls.
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He even sacrifices his own moment of sadness and depression to dive into the water and save Clarence, the angel who he believes is drowning.
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Clarence shows George that while the price he paid for living his principles may have been costly, he was the one man who could pay it.
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He was the one man who could stand against the great tide of evil.
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Remember, this isn't just a story of a guy who makes a difference in people's lives.
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George may be a reluctant hero, but it was his moral character that sets him on a path of virtuous sacrifice.
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Thoreau writes that the masses are leading lives of quiet desperation.
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But what you in this audience have proved to me, and I hope you prove it to yourself,
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is that thousands of people just like you, just like George Bailey, are living lives of quiet inspiration.
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It's you, and millions like you, who every day, being George Bailey, live your principles.
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Living a life of honor and integrity and humility, it's not going to make you millions of dollars.
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It's not going to result in your name being splashed across movie posters.
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The respect of those who care, you care about, and they care about you the most.
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Hello, my name is Glenn Beck, and I am George Bailey.
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And just like George Washington, I am the leader of men.
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I am the person others will aspire to be for generations.
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Instead of thinking, oh my gosh, he's so arrogant for saying what I just said.
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Do you even have the guts to say these things out loud?
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Do you believe that you make a difference, a big difference?
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And if you happen to be one of those people that are listening by accident,
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and you're like, you know, the world would be better without me.
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Because you are just as essential as George Bailey.
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Because I have an understanding of what you have accomplished over the years.
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I am the person others will aspire to be for generations.
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And believe me, you say that every day, you will believe that.
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But you also have to see that everybody else has the same potential.
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So, Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls, and Dallas, and Wichita, and Orlando, and Bismarck.
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Merry Christmas to even you, New York and Los Angeles.
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Merry Christmas to those who identify as Republicans, or a Democrat, or an Independent.
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And Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Winter Solstice.
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But mostly Merry Christmas, because this is the holiday that reminds us of how valuable we really are as individuals.
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This holiday reminds us that God himself came down and sacrificed himself and his son to redeem us.
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God himself saw us as worthy of redeeming, not changing, redeeming, each of us uniquely children of God.
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But have you actually understood what you're really saying?
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With all of the royal heritage and holy pedigree made in his image.
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Can we get together and use this holiday to begin the process
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Because if we do, we will change the way we relate to people.
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And we will also understand our own inherent power.
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We are truly citizens of a much higher kingdom.
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We are noblemen and noblewomen, gentlemen and gentleladies,
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who God cares about and is constantly sending an angel to dive in
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And he does that as a way to remind us of who we really are
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if you were somebody that was standing at that bridge in your mind.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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So, Patrick Gray is joining us from Pat Gray Unleashed.
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Would you be above 6-6 if you had picked the Philadelphia Eagles
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So, it's interesting you picked the Philadelphia game.
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I was in a meeting yesterday, speaking of football, just for a second.
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And they're like, we've reinvented the Band-Aid.
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And they're like, we've reinvented the Band-Aid.
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And the Band-Aid, they said, um, you've actually probably seen this.
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Um, the, the, the Band-Aid strip that we use is actually,
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And I said, not the strips on the arms of the NFL players.
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And I, and I said, I'm sorry, what, what, what?
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Those long things, those long things that go on their elbows, you know,
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they had them and they were watching, um, and they're big fans of football and
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they're watching and they saw that the strips they used to have would kind of
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peel off and they'd start to come, you know, come off during the game.
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And I was just saying to Rafe, as we were watching a game, I said, what kind of
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strips are those that stay, that can take that pounding and stay?
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Um, anyway, um, uh, well, anyway, I don't know why I even told you that story.
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It doesn't even have a point, which usually is the key to good stories.
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Another example of why Glenn Beck is in the radio hall of fame.
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I mean, spark would make sense, although in the context of a, I think it was a steak
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I think the point was, would you send somebody to my office, get the hall of fame award, and
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Get theirs as well, and they can set theirs right in front of them.
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Why are you trying to injure the hall of fame's reputation?
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So anyway, so, so, uh, Pat, we have been talking the last few days, what the biggest story of
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And we think that it, you know, most likely is Roe versus Wade.
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But, so are you alleging that that will be deemed by the news services?
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They don't care a flying crap about what they're saying.
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Did you see what's happening with the news people?
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All the news people that are now going in and saying, uh, uh, Elon Musk, he can't do
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May I just say, Bowie, who is one of my favorite producers of all time, she spent her time,
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uh, overnight after she saw that, and she was like, and, uh, she put together a little
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montage here of the same reporters and the same kind of reporters and what they said when
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Because Twitter is a private company, experts say the removal of the president for violating
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their rules is not a violation of the First Amendment.
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Twitter is absolutely allowed to silence the president, as is any other social media platform
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Judge James Donato noted that Twitter is a private company, not bound by the First Amendment.
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The First Amendment only protects us from government censorship, not censorship by private entities.
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And in this case, Twitter is a private entity, so the First Amendment really has no bearing
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They can make something stricter than the First Amendment, and it's a private company.
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So, Noah, Elise notes, this is a private company.
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This is Twitter, a private company, uh, doing this.
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It is absolutely up to them, uh, as to what content they put up on their website and what
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They have the right to control what sort of content, uh, is, is on their platform.
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Um, you know, there are fancy restaurants that make a gentleman wear a, a coat and tie,
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It has terms and conditions of use, and if you violate those terms and conditions, you
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can be suspended temporarily or permanently as they have done now.
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So the, right now the media is, uh, is saying that because they reported his location, his
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physical location and the physical location of his plane while in transit.
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And he was being harassed and being big time children and his children being followed.
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And, uh, I just like to remind them Twitter is a private company and the first amendment
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By the way, I, I tend to agree with that analysis.
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In fact, I do think that both Jack and Elon can ban whoever the hell they want.
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I agree with that unless they are in bed with the federal government.
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If the federal government is doing it and they're getting involved, that's a totally
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Um, and we've obviously now uncovered a good amount of evidence that that was going on.
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Uh, which of course they also denied at the time you could build another montage.
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Well, they don't even, they act as if the Twitter files never even were released.
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I mean, can you think about, think of like all the big corporate scandals over the years
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when the media can sink their teeth into all private communications from a company they
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Remember they got all those communications from Enron.
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And they went through and they analyzed every single one of them.
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They did a report after report, after report, after report.
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They love looking into how executives are talking to each other.
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It's probably the biggest story or the biggest, uh, impact.
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The company that had one of the biggest impacts in the decade.
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The other thing they won't touch is TikTok's, uh, Chinese connections and that it's a Chinese
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I mean, now even Nancy Pelosi has apparently put the TikTok ban into this coming bill.
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It should be banned from government agencies for sure.
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Look, you can argue, I think very clearly that it should be banned.
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Like they talk about this, the security experts talk about TikTok, that it is taking not only
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just the stuff you're doing on TikTok, but all of your keystrokes from your phone.
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It's going basically directly to the Chinese communist party.
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You are in, you are insane to have this thing on your phone.
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Well, I mean, forget about like, yeah, look, are you, first of all, your banking passwords,
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all of anything you're doing, if they're taking keystrokes, they have all of that.
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You know, but the other thing you have to think about, maybe, first of all, maybe, but
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secondly, like the other thing you have to think about is like, what about a giant cloud
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burst style release where all of your private communications just get released all at once for everyone?
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Is that the worst case scenario you can think of?
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Well, you know, they talk about trying to influence the conversation here.
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Google was free to gather intelligence and patterns, not for the government, but for artificial intelligence.
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So they have all of that information on the Chinese, but they don't have anything on the West.
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And Chinese and Western, we all think, we think radically differently.
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So they are gathering all of this information primarily to be able to create AI that can ultimately control the West.
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I will say, and I agree with you, that's a much bigger societal concern.
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But every person, every teenager you talk to, hey, should you have this on your phone?
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They might very well care about all of their communications to their friends, all the things they've texted about their friends being released and accessible to every person on the planet, though.
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And, you know, the Chinese Communist Party has a little bit of a pattern of desiring chaos in this country.
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So would it be a chaotic situation if something like that happened?
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That's one of the things that I said for years.
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The operative word when this all starts to hit will be chaos.
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How many times do you hear people describing everything that's going on as absolute chaos?
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The other thing, though, about this is what you said about nobody seems to care youth.
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I know people who are adults that have it and don't care.
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I know people, I mean, we talked about depression the other day.
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Do you know, Pat, that African Americans, the suicide rate is up 53 percent?
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And these are all measured from about the time of the iPhone.
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We have done mass experiments on this society and on our children.
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We have no idea the ramifications of all of this stuff.
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And we also know that it is changing the way we think.
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It is having our kids not really talk and know how to talk to one another.
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We know our own government is in on this information.
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What would you do if you didn't have those, though?
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I met with the GlennBeck.com team yesterday, and they do the social.
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And I said, I want to change my social feeds next year.
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But I want to put out, because TikTok in China is all about the incredible things that Chinese kids are doing.
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We, our algorithm for our country is for stupid.
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Their algorithm brings to the top the brilliant.
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And so I've been searching for brilliant things.
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Because I was really down the other day, and my wife was really down.
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So I just started looking for just babies laughing.