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00:00:15.040 Today's podcast, oh, well, the long version kind of goes into the five stages of the debt cycle

00:00:21.220 and how we survive as a nation.

00:00:23.360 And that one took a whole hour of the podcast today.

00:00:25.560 And you need to listen to that if you're interested, grab it on the long form podcast.

00:00:29.280 But on the best of, you're going to hear about finding meaning as we head into the holiday season

00:00:34.540 and why that's important to find meaning.

00:00:36.460 Also, I kind of blew a gasket a couple of places.

00:00:39.460 One, just trying to set the record straight on Churchill and Hitler. 0.92

00:00:43.200 It's not this difficult.

00:00:45.920 So I do that.

00:00:47.100 And then, oh, my gosh.

00:00:49.320 Then I got into this Mark Kelly story where, you know, he's ashamed of our secretary of war

00:00:55.040 and what kind of what are our allies thinking?

00:00:56.900 What are our enemies thinking abroad with him?

00:00:59.280 Really?

00:01:00.220 Really?

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00:02:23.080 Hello, America.

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00:03:09.440 You know, as I'm looking at today's show and I'm trying to put everything together

00:03:24.880 in a way that is consumable for you, something that will help you, help you understand,

00:03:32.040 give you information that you can't really find anyplace else, and put you ahead of the game.

00:03:38.380 So, you know, I've always felt my job is to put you in a situation to where you can be the guide.

00:03:46.480 You're not going to be surprised what happens next because you've already heard it,

00:03:50.840 you've thought about it, you've, you know, digested it, and when it happens,

00:03:54.800 you can be the person that goes, no, no, no, don't go that way.

00:03:57.640 Come this way.

00:03:59.800 And as I'm looking at, because I want to talk a little bit about socialism probably in hour number three today

00:04:05.080 and what our kids are thinking about socialism, and in some ways it's inevitable.

00:04:11.180 Of course they're thinking that.

00:04:14.000 But there's also byproducts of that.

00:04:16.140 There's also what led them to socialism is the seeing that nothing has meaning, that we built, you know.

00:04:22.720 There is this new attitude that is emerging across our culture.

00:04:27.060 It's quiet, it's unsettled, and it's unmistakable, and it's the realization that the world that we have built doesn't build us.

00:04:37.560 You know, it's meaningless.

00:04:39.420 And in this last century, we have mistaken abundance for purpose.

00:04:47.960 And we've stacked up skyscrapers and stitched supply chains together across continents,

00:04:53.380 and we've filled warehouses, you know, the size, honestly, have you seen some of the warehouses that Amazon has built?

00:04:59.120 They're the size of small nations, it feels like.

00:05:01.460 And they're filled with everything, every object the human heart could possibly desire.

00:05:06.040 And then we stand by and we ask, why is the human heart starving?

00:05:12.700 Because our heart doesn't need any of that crap that's in that Amazon warehouse.

00:05:20.580 We, in the past 100 years, and we're all coming to the same conclusion, I think, at the same time,

00:05:26.740 but it will lead us into different paths.

00:05:30.320 We have taught our children to chase two gods, wealth and fame, okay?

00:05:36.040 The two most fragile currencies ever created.

00:05:39.200 And we ask our kids, what do you want to be?

00:05:42.640 I've railed on this forever.

00:05:44.760 When you have a young kid, the typical question is, what do you want to be when you grow up?

00:05:50.220 You want to be a doctor, an athlete, influencer, a billionaire?

00:05:54.020 You could be president.

00:05:55.740 That's the wrong question to ask.

00:05:57.500 Who do you want to be when you grow up?

00:06:02.160 Who do you want to be?

00:06:04.520 What virtues do you want to embody?

00:06:06.880 What kind of strength will you carry?

00:06:09.140 What kind of courage do you hope to live out?

00:06:12.380 We don't teach character.

00:06:15.080 We teach branding, which is empty.

00:06:21.640 Empty.

00:06:22.740 Notice, brands don't mean anything anymore.

00:06:25.660 Logos don't mean anything anymore.

00:06:27.500 They're empty.

00:06:28.440 Everybody knows that.

00:06:30.240 We've neglected the soul and instructed them in self-promotion.

00:06:34.800 And then we wonder why an entire generation feels unmoored and suicidal, living in a world

00:06:42.100 wired for dopamine, not dignity, dopamine.

00:06:47.680 But as I said, something remarkable is happening.

00:06:50.880 People are beginning to say, you know, enough.

00:06:54.140 Not with anger, not with pitchforks, hopefully, but with a quiet rediscovery that meaning doesn't

00:07:01.580 come from what you own, but from what you honor.

00:07:03.840 I, this Thanksgiving, I sat with my son and we were up till about two o'clock in the morning.

00:07:12.020 We had watched planes, trains, and automobiles.

00:07:15.300 And then we just sat there and we talked and he started talking about school and he just

00:07:24.580 can't seem to find his way.

00:07:26.200 And I, I, I, there's, there's a million kids like this.

00:07:30.300 He's so smart.

00:07:31.420 He's got everything going for him, but he just can't find his thing.

00:07:37.180 And it's hard because his dad knew his thing when he was eight.

00:07:44.000 And I remember when Rafe was 13 years old, he was with a friend, we were in Los Angeles

00:07:50.060 and he was walking behind me with a friend and I was with somebody else.

00:07:54.180 And, uh, my friend said to him, as I was told later, so what are you planning on?

00:08:00.660 What are you thinking about doing?

00:08:01.980 What, what are your, what are your goals?

00:08:03.240 And, uh, and my son said, are you kidding me?

00:08:07.600 13, are you kidding me?

00:08:08.880 And then he pointed to me and he said, how do you compete with that?

00:08:14.140 My friend told me this and I was heartbroken.

00:08:16.540 I went to him and I'm like, Rafe, Rafe, you're not competing with me.

00:08:19.480 I won the lottery.

00:08:21.100 I won the lottery.

00:08:22.140 The odds of my success are, are impossible.

00:08:26.980 They're impossible.

00:08:27.980 It's not about success, but it's hard to get that lesson to a kid when that's what the

00:08:38.080 world is preaching.

00:08:39.120 Success, success, success.

00:08:42.220 And so we were talking, I said, how are you doing in school?

00:08:44.680 And we were talking and he said, you know, dad, I'm not like you.

00:08:49.080 I didn't know what I wanted to be when I was eight.

00:08:51.280 I don't know what I want to do.

00:08:52.880 I don't know.

00:08:53.840 I just want to do something that is meaningful to me.

00:08:57.980 And he's putting up all kinds of roadblocks in his life, et cetera, et cetera.

00:09:02.060 And, you know, we all do.

00:09:03.280 And, uh, I said, wait a minute, Rafe, don't make the same mistake I made because I did know

00:09:11.060 what I want because I knew what I want.

00:09:12.760 By the time I was 30, I had pursued it relentlessly.

00:09:16.380 And every time I hit a milestone, it wasn't enough.

00:09:20.020 And by the time I was 30, I was an alcoholic.

00:09:22.640 I was out of control and I, I had just destroyed my whole life because I thought I knew exactly

00:09:29.780 what I wanted and it was empty when I got there.

00:09:35.020 And I said, now you're destroying yourself because you can't find what you want to do.

00:09:40.440 Maybe perhaps, and this is just a perhaps, I don't know.

00:09:44.440 Maybe perhaps we both got it wrong, that meaning is not found in what we do.

00:09:52.140 Meaning is not found in our success or our failure.

00:09:56.440 Meaning is found elsewhere.

00:09:58.580 Maybe I was pursuing it in a way that was destructive and now you're pursuing in a different direction

00:10:06.880 that is destructive because it's not based on meaning.

00:10:09.440 There is a hunger for the, the one meaning that we have, we have really tried to find, you

00:10:23.100 know, it, whether it's whispered or unspoken, that hunger for the one meaning that we have

00:10:29.240 tried to find, we've also, we, we've erased it.

00:10:34.480 The truth is we didn't build a world without purpose.

00:10:39.520 We built a world without God.

00:10:43.600 I wanted to, so I wanted to start with, because we're in the Christmas season, how do we find

00:10:50.040 meaning again?

00:10:51.440 Because we're not going to find it with a revolution.

00:10:53.320 We're not going to find it by burning the world down, by remembering what was buried on

00:10:57.060 the, you know, or left on the floor of Macy's and Walmart, somewhere between Black Friday

00:11:02.360 and door busters and, you know, aisle five markdowns.

00:11:06.560 We, we've, we've lost the gift of craftsmanship, the gift of time, the gift of stories, the

00:11:13.000 gift of presence, the gift of gratitude, the gift of wonder, and the gift of God stepping

00:11:20.260 into humanity and saying, you can start all over again.

00:11:24.900 And I, I hope that as we're waking up to this place where there's no meaning in so many

00:11:33.000 people's lives, that that is what we find, because that's what this time of year is supposed

00:11:38.260 to remind us.

00:11:39.320 Instead of saying, what should I buy?

00:11:41.560 Maybe we should ask what lasts, what has real meaning?

00:11:46.320 What will, what will help this person find meaning?

00:11:49.360 What will help me find meaning by giving it to them?

00:11:54.720 Instead of running our fingers over glass, glossy packaging, we pick up something with

00:11:59.580 memory attached to it, an heirloom, a handwritten letter, a book that shaped our life, a framed

00:12:05.440 photo of a moment.

00:12:06.760 We nearly forgot that once we remembered, we're like, oh my gosh, that was so important.

00:12:12.560 Look for gifts that tell your child, I see who you're becoming and I believe in you.

00:12:17.540 A gift that whispers, this is a piece of our story.

00:12:23.220 Carry it forward.

00:12:24.720 A gift that says, I made this and I thought of you while I did it.

00:12:29.920 Maybe the most meaningful thing we can give this year is that conversation like I had with

00:12:38.500 my son by the fire after Thanksgiving.

00:12:41.500 Or an apology that you've been waiting decades to express or forgiveness that you never imagine

00:12:47.160 offering.

00:12:50.780 Maybe it's time to teach the meaning behind all of it, the meaning behind the season itself.

00:12:56.420 You know, and my kids were really small too, and you can make fun of me, mock me, or call

00:13:00.920 me cheap.

00:13:01.520 But my kids on Christmas, I used to just give them boxes all wrapped up with bows filled with

00:13:07.600 paper.

00:13:08.600 Because at two years old, they didn't know what the gift was.

00:13:11.460 They had no idea.

00:13:12.180 They just liked the bows and the wrapping and the unwrapping and the boxes of paper.

00:13:16.280 That was fun for them.

00:13:17.160 That's all they needed.

00:13:19.100 But I think in some ways, that's what we're giving each other.

00:13:22.240 Even though we've put something in that box, that's what we've turned this holiday into.

00:13:25.700 We keep the bows.

00:13:26.880 We keep the paper.

00:13:27.800 We keep the boxes.

00:13:29.000 But we've taken the real meaning, the baby Jesus, out of the picture.

00:13:33.540 So we've removed the reason for the box and the wrapping.

00:13:37.240 And so when we're done, we're left with empty boxes, empty gifts, empty hearts.

00:13:44.160 And we're like, I was kind of empty.

00:13:48.820 Meaning is still here.

00:13:50.260 It's always been here.

00:13:52.020 We move.

00:13:52.680 It doesn't.

00:13:53.320 It's not found in tearing down the world.

00:13:59.420 It's found in rebuilding the smallest, most sacred corner of it.

00:14:04.180 The home, the table, the family circle, the individual, the friend, the family member that is lost.

00:14:14.740 As we talk today about what we have to do to rebuild our world, let's start with rebuilding the meaning.

00:14:21.760 The same way that every civilization has, one virtue at a time, one tradition at a time, one generation at a time.

00:14:32.140 If you're going shopping, don't look for the gifts that flash.

00:14:37.060 Give the gift that will endure.

00:14:38.960 Give the gift that will outlive you.

00:14:41.200 Give the gift that remind your children not what they should be, but who they're meant to become.

00:14:48.900 Give them the gift that began this season in the first place, the reminder that God himself stepped into the world and handed humanity the one gift that we can never outgrow, we can never outuse.

00:15:05.760 It should never lay dusty because I need it every single day, and that is forgiveness.

00:15:10.260 Because forgiveness inside of that gift is hope.

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00:16:38.260 So, I don't know if you saw this, but, you know, Luigi Mangione, he arrives at the courthouse yesterday.

00:16:49.580 Now, he's the guy who, you know, I would say was accused of murdering a CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

00:16:57.780 But the video is clear.

00:16:59.580 He murdered the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

00:17:03.700 A guy who was actually trying to reform things on the inside, okay?

00:17:09.500 Dozens of fans went to the courthouse just so they could catch a glimpse of this, you know, their hero.

00:17:17.320 And it was grotesque.

00:17:19.180 It was really, really grotesque.

00:17:22.180 Meanwhile, at the same time, if you've noticed, we are villainizing the National Guard.

00:17:35.200 The facts speak for themselves.

00:17:36.960 Let's just look for D.C.

00:17:38.920 Since they were deployed in the District of Columbia, August 11th, there had been 24 homicides.

00:17:44.980 Homicides compared to last year, same time period, 61 homicides.

00:17:50.520 That means the National Guard being there have saved 43 lives.

00:17:55.820 And I would bet many of them black lives.

00:17:58.700 So, I would like to ask, first of all, do black lives matter? 1.00

00:18:02.400 Why are these guys all of a sudden being vilified?

00:18:06.640 ICE.

00:18:07.960 Same thing.

00:18:09.720 Every single one of us have felt the strain of what's going on.

00:18:12.940 You can't just let 10, 12 million people into our country and then still expect to have a job for you. 1.00

00:18:21.480 Still expect to have space in schools or resources in schools for your kids.

00:18:26.220 The lack of resources in the hospitals.

00:18:28.600 The lack of food in the food banks.

00:18:31.120 Of course it's happening.

00:18:32.620 You know, you want to know why your housing is so expensive?

00:18:34.820 One reason is you can't move 10 million people in overnight and expect that your rent is not going to become more competitive because there's 10 million other people that want to rent a house.

00:18:49.360 Okay?

00:18:50.520 They need apartments too. 0.97

00:18:52.220 How is it that this is all disconnected from people?

00:18:57.320 ICE is the bad guy?

00:18:59.320 How is ICE the bad guy?

00:19:01.900 Unfortunately, I think because of political reasons.

00:19:04.000 But, and part of this is because of the Bubba effect.

00:19:08.640 Okay?

00:19:09.560 We know the healthcare system is broken.

00:19:11.480 And so, people joined this bandwagon.

00:19:15.340 They're like, yeah, well, I don't know anything about that CEO, but I'm glad somebody stood up and did something about it.

00:19:22.140 Yeah, well, they killed him.

00:19:23.660 They murdered him in cold blood.

00:19:25.720 And he was not a bad guy.

00:19:27.040 He was a good guy.

00:19:30.200 So, part of this is the Bubba effect.

00:19:32.960 The system is broken.

00:19:34.780 But it's more than that as well.

00:19:37.220 Now, these people, ICE, the National Guard, and on the flip side, Mangione, they're symbols.

00:19:47.800 They are symbols of justice or injustice.

00:19:51.560 Okay?

00:19:51.800 That's the Bubba effect.

00:19:53.000 But the problem here is, is we're using collectivism to make those symbols.

00:19:59.160 We're not actually even looking for the actual real merit from the individual.

00:20:07.400 It's just the collective act.

00:20:09.920 Ah, somebody killed them.

00:20:11.660 Good.

00:20:13.380 These people are not, they're not symbols.

00:20:16.160 They're people.

00:20:19.460 Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.

00:20:23.620 Yesterday, I saw something online, and I'm not going to make any of this about personalities,

00:20:31.700 because I am not going to get into a personality fight.

00:20:35.260 I think it is ridiculous.

00:20:37.180 We should be fighting on principles.

00:20:40.020 But I saw an interview yesterday talking about Hitler again, trying to make Hitler into the good guy 0.98

00:20:45.620 and Winston Churchill into the bad guy.

00:20:47.200 I just don't get it.

00:20:48.860 I really don't get it.

00:20:50.040 History, real history, is not a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing.

00:20:56.480 It's ink on paper.

00:20:58.440 Orders in filing cabinets, telegrams, diaries, bodies.

00:21:03.040 It's what actually happened, not what we hope happened.

00:21:07.960 So let me just set the record straight on something, again, that is circulating.

00:21:12.920 And it just, somebody just has to calmly just say what the truth is.

00:21:20.040 The thing is now that Hitler had no intention toward the West.

00:21:25.920 That Britain didn't have to enter the war.

00:21:28.480 That Winston Churchill, not Adolf Hitler, is the villain who dragged the world into conflict.

00:21:34.680 Let me just say this calmly, factually, and finally.

00:21:41.300 Germany's plans for Poland were not reactive.

00:21:45.100 They were premeditated.

00:21:46.360 The argument says that Britain roped the West into war by promising to defend Poland.

00:21:53.240 No.

00:21:54.180 Germany had already prepared to destroy Poland long before Neville Chamberlain ever made a pledge.

00:22:00.800 How do I know this?

00:22:02.320 Because in my history vault, I have one of the clearest pieces of proof.

00:22:07.320 It's called Fall Weiss.

00:22:10.600 It's Hitler's operational blueprint for the invasion of Poland drafted in 1938, a year before Chamberlain said,

00:22:19.880 we're going to guarantee their safety.

00:22:22.420 So Poland was not a spontaneous reaction.

00:22:25.940 Hitler was a liar. 0.67

00:22:27.380 I know that's hard to get your hand around, but your arms around, but Hitler was a liar. 0.53

00:22:31.440 It was not about German minorities.

00:22:33.780 It was not about self-determination.

00:22:36.820 It was about conquest.

00:22:39.900 A step in Hitler's explicitly stated roadmap. 0.95

00:22:44.860 Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, then the East.

00:22:49.160 Britain didn't pull Germany into war.

00:22:50.940 Germany was already marching toward war, global war.

00:22:54.560 The second thing that has to be said clearly, Hitler didn't have designs on Britain in the West.

00:23:03.540 Really?

00:23:04.640 Well, Hitler wanted peace with Britain. 0.93

00:23:06.580 Really?

00:23:07.380 Because we have the paper trail again.

00:23:10.280 No, no, no.

00:23:10.860 He wanted peace.

00:23:11.720 He had no Western ambitions.

00:23:14.460 Well, how do you explain Operation Sea Lion?

00:23:17.020 Hitler's detailed plan to invade and occupy Great Britain. 0.76

00:23:23.600 You don't drop amphibious landing schedules across the English Channel, just in case.

00:23:29.220 And before that, Hitler deployed a different strategy, diplomacy and subterfuge. 0.90

00:23:35.080 In May 1941, the Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, that's a name, flew solo into Scotland, hoping to secure a deal with sympathetic elements in Great Britain.

00:23:51.040 He parachuted down.

00:23:53.080 He claimed he was carrying an offer.

00:23:55.520 Let Hitler dominate Europe and Germany would leave Britain alone. 0.90

00:23:59.740 Well, that sounds really peaceful, unless you forget what Hitler meant by dominance. 0.78

00:24:06.420 He meant dismantling sovereign nations, annihilating Jews, the Slavs, the gypsies, any political opponent, millions of human beings. 0.99

00:24:17.360 Just eliminate them.

00:24:20.960 In what world, in what world could a democratic nation be friends with that?

00:24:26.680 Britain had internal Nazi sympathizers, and Hitler counted on them. 0.86

00:24:33.000 Hess wasn't flying blind.

00:24:34.780 Hitler believed Britain was divided, and he was right. 1.00

00:24:37.340 You know why he was right?

00:24:38.620 Again, in my vault, I have it from Hitler's own schedule that was on his assistant's desk the whole time. 0.88

00:24:47.560 Now you have the name and the time that he arrived.

00:24:50.600 Former King Edward.

00:24:52.440 He abdicated in 1936.

00:24:54.300 He had clear, documented sympathies for the Nazi regime.

00:24:59.020 He met Hitler in 1937.

00:25:01.080 I know I have the documents.

00:25:03.580 He was courted as a possible puppet monarch.

00:25:06.880 He said, reinstall me and you can do what you want.

00:25:11.080 I'll help you.

00:25:12.600 The Nazi files recovered after the war show explicit German plans to reinstall him after an occupation.

00:25:18.760 Hitler was not avoiding conflict with Britain. 0.82

00:25:21.460 He was planning its subversion.

00:25:23.080 Well, yeah, but Hitler's ideology, you know, made friendship with the West possible. 0.91

00:25:30.800 What?

00:25:31.320 Even if you pretend not to see the invasion plans and the Hess mission and the internal sympathizers, even if you erased every map, memo, and military order.

00:25:41.560 Hitler's ideology made an alliance with the Western democracies absolutely impossible. 0.87

00:25:50.280 And I'm going to get to Stalin here in a second, but hear me, hear me on this.

00:25:53.860 Hitler believed the state. 0.65

00:25:55.100 Hitler believed the state was supreme, that the German people existed for the Reich.

00:26:00.940 In America, the Constitution is supreme, and it exists to limit the states.

00:26:08.800 Rights come from the Führer and the government in Germany.

00:26:12.560 In America, rights come from God, and the government is the servant, not the master.

00:26:18.440 The individual in Germany, expendable. 0.98

00:26:20.960 The West is built on the sanctity of the individual.

00:26:25.560 Racial hierarchy is destiny. 1.00

00:26:27.980 In Germany, the West, at its best, rejects racial supremacy.

00:26:32.920 The declaration starts with all men are created equal, not some races are destined to rule.

00:26:40.760 There will nowhere in our documents to say the state must expand endlessly.

00:26:45.500 That's not compatible with anything, anything.

00:26:50.500 You cannot align with a regime whose foundational premise is that human dignity is a myth.

00:26:56.200 Well, the West chose Stalin because we thought he was better.

00:27:04.320 No, no, we chose survival.

00:27:08.120 People are arguing now that the Allies should have sided with Hitler instead of Stalin.

00:27:12.820 No rational reading of history supports any of that.

00:27:17.540 Hitler and Stalin were both monstrous, monstrous.

00:27:22.380 And the Ribbentrop pack proved that they were natural partners in evil, carving up Poland like a holiday roast, okay? 0.99

00:27:31.320 But here's the brutal truth.

00:27:33.540 Once Hitler launched Operation Barbassoa, is that what it's called, Stu?

00:27:39.040 You know.

00:27:40.860 Barbassoa, right?

00:27:42.300 When he turned east.

00:27:43.480 Barbarossa.

00:27:44.720 Barbarossa.

00:27:45.280 When they turned to Russia, the question for us was no longer, hey, which dictator is better?

00:27:54.540 The question was, which outcome prevents Hitler from ruling all of Europe? 0.95

00:27:59.280 Because if Hitler defeated the Soviet Union, the resources of the east, all the oil, all the grain, all the industry, all the manpower, would have made the Third Reich unstoppable. 0.93

00:28:08.280 So the choice was between two horrors.

00:28:11.980 Which one?

00:28:13.340 Or do you want to stay out and let them have all of that power?

00:28:17.960 Well, yeah, nowhere was he an aggressor.

00:28:19.960 He's...

00:28:20.280 Only one, Hitler, had a trajectory of global domination at that time.

00:28:29.460 Also, racial extermination and total state worship that could not coexist with Western civilization. 0.58

00:28:36.020 We knew at the time Stalin was just as bad. 0.57

00:28:39.840 We knew we were going to be in war with Stalin at some point.

00:28:44.800 And you know who really knew that?

00:28:46.840 Winston Churchill.

00:28:48.880 He was the one saying we can't have this guy as an ally.

00:28:54.520 Britain did not drag the world into war.

00:28:57.960 Hitler did. 0.95

00:29:00.540 And so let's go back to the central point.

00:29:03.440 Churchill did not force a war.

00:29:06.020 Chamberlain didn't conjure up a conflict out of thin air.

00:29:09.320 The West didn't provoke Hitler.

00:29:12.120 Hitler provoked history. 0.86

00:29:14.420 He's the one who built the camps.

00:29:16.540 And if you want to say you don't believe in the camps, God help us all.

00:29:20.140 He's the one who wrote Mein Kampf.

00:29:22.160 He's the one who armed in secret.

00:29:24.460 He invaded without cause.

00:29:26.520 He sought domination, not coexistence.

00:29:29.480 To suggest otherwise, I mean, what is your intent to rehabilitate him?

00:29:37.200 Hitler? 0.62

00:29:37.780 I mean, you're repeating the arguments Hitler made to excuse his aggression. 0.82

00:29:46.700 This is not about defending Churchill, who I think is a hero.

00:29:49.840 But it's about defending the record, the truth.

00:29:55.980 So in our moment of confusion and upheaval and ideological extremism, we don't lose our footing on the bedrock of fact.

00:30:04.220 This is the dangerous door we must not reopen.

00:30:09.180 When we begin to question whether the West should have resisted Hitler, where are we going?

00:30:17.280 When we entertain the idea that freedom and tyranny could have coexisted, you're not just rearranging interpretations.

00:30:25.860 You're reopening a door millions died to close.

00:30:31.280 History is not there to flatter us.

00:30:33.560 Did the United States do bad things in World War II?

00:30:36.140 Yeah.

00:30:37.000 Did England?

00:30:37.920 Yep.

00:30:39.340 Were we perfect?

00:30:40.500 Nope.

00:30:41.540 Did we do the best we could?

00:30:43.820 Yes.

00:30:44.420 You know, sometimes, sometimes your only choice is between bad and worse.

00:30:52.660 You cannot allow somebody like Hitler just to continue to grow and grow and grow and gobble the resources and then take over the Soviet Union. 0.91

00:31:02.660 And then what?

00:31:03.960 Have all of those resources to take the rest of the world?

00:31:08.000 My God.

00:31:09.560 So.

00:31:10.080 Sorry, I want to just keep this about facts.

00:31:15.300 History's there to warn us.

00:31:17.340 And the warning is really, really simple.

00:31:21.160 Be very careful when someone tells you the villain wasn't really the villain.

00:31:27.840 Woe unto him who makes evil good and good evil.

00:31:34.820 We know who the villains were.

00:31:36.780 The documentation is very clear.

00:31:40.380 Trust me, I have a vault full of it.

00:31:45.200 You want to see it?

00:31:47.060 Come.

00:31:48.120 Otherwise, you're just full of it.

00:31:52.460 When you have somebody telling you the villain is not the villain, that story never ends well.

00:32:00.000 Fix reason firmly in her seat. 0.99

00:32:05.320 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:08.600 There's a couple of stories here that I think require a little bit of time here going over.

00:32:15.460 First of all, the New York Times, the New York Times has refuted the WAPO reporting on the Hegseth story.

00:32:21.960 Now, if you remember, the Hegseth story from the Washington Post is was playing backup to people like Mark Kelly, who, you know, were part of that, you know, video where the guy, you know, war crimes and you're going to be tried for war crimes.

00:32:40.420 And if you see a war crime in a legal order, you should disobey it.

00:32:44.480 OK, well, yeah, they're taught that and everybody should know that.

00:32:48.860 And, you know, again, the Pentagon teaches that to the soldiers.

00:32:53.440 This has never been done by members of Congress.

00:32:56.000 And they were going for something.

00:32:58.360 I don't know what they were going for.

00:32:59.640 But WAPO, of course, you know, sends the message to the rest of the world that, well, it was our secretary, Hegseth, who ordered the killing of some people that survived this launch on a boat. 0.58

00:33:17.120 They survived.

00:33:18.360 And then Pete called them up and said, kill them.

00:33:21.800 And that's what Mark Kelly was saying this last weekend.

00:33:26.020 OK, Washington Post.

00:33:27.360 Now, the New York Times, not exactly a Trumpy kind of paper, comes out and says, no, we actually have five sources on this.

00:33:38.940 That's not true.

00:33:40.400 That's not what happened.

00:33:42.620 White House responded yesterday and they said, yeah, it was the commander that made that call.

00:33:47.620 It was all within the law, yada, yada.

00:33:49.840 So it wasn't Hegseth.

00:33:51.200 Then you have Mark Kelly coming on and saying some more things.

00:33:59.260 This one is about the Franklin meme.

00:34:03.120 You know, Franklin, the turtle, the kid's book about the turtle.

00:34:06.920 Apparently, Hegseth retweeted or tweeted a picture of, you know, like Franklin magazine and he's, you know, up on an American chopper and he's firing down on, you know, drug runners in a boat.

00:34:20.060 And this causes Mark Kelly to say this possible mission.

00:34:25.020 And instead, he runs around on a stage like he's a 12 year old playing army.

00:34:31.740 And it is ridiculous.

00:34:34.920 It is embarrassing.

00:34:37.340 And I can't imagine what our allies think of looking at that guy in this job, one of the most important jobs in our country.

00:34:49.180 In my view, after the president of the United States, it is the next most important job.

00:34:55.100 He is in the National Command Authority for nuclear weapons.

00:34:58.940 And last night, he's putting out on the Internet turtles with rocket propelled grenades killing.

00:35:08.660 I mean, have you seen this?

00:35:10.900 Ah, it's outrageous.

00:35:12.960 Let me ask you, where were you on the leadership of the Pentagon when they pulled out of Afghanistan?

00:35:23.240 Were you saying, what are our allies thinking about that?

00:35:27.300 How about when What's-His-Face decided to go get, what was it, surgery, was out on surgery, didn't alert anyone that he was, what was his name, Lloyd Austin, right?

00:35:40.620 And he's out on surgery and he doesn't tell anybody.

00:35:43.420 Then he goes on vacation, something happens and they call him, they're like, where are you?

00:35:46.880 And he's like, I'll come back when I come back.

00:35:48.760 Wait, hold it.

00:35:49.700 You want to talk about being in line with the nuclear weapons? 0.70

00:35:51.800 What the hell?

00:35:52.460 Where was that one?

00:35:53.400 More importantly, Mr. Kelly, let me ask you, what do you think our allies thought about the health of our nation when several Democratic senators got together

00:36:09.760 and for the first time in American history pulled to Venezuela and questioned the military and said, we will hold you responsible for any crimes against humanity.

00:36:25.500 By the way, we're not telling you what those are.

00:36:27.560 We'll judge when we get back into power.

00:36:29.760 And don't listen to the commander-in-chief.

00:36:32.200 Let me ask you, if people in the Duma would have made that exact same video and said, question the authority of Putin.

00:36:48.740 And if he's telling you to go into Ukraine, that's going to be a war crime. 0.51

00:36:53.960 And we're going to prosecute you and don't listen to them and don't listen to his secretary of war either.

00:37:04.380 What do you think?

00:37:05.680 How would we analyze that?

00:37:08.820 Would we think that Putin was strong?

00:37:14.160 Would we think that their society is strong?

00:37:17.140 Would we think that they're a nation that can defend itself, will defend itself, is willing to go to war?

00:37:27.200 Would we look at that and go, that's a strong nation, don't screw with them.

00:37:32.360 Or if we had designs on that nation, would we say, you know what?

00:37:37.660 Up the pressure.

00:37:38.780 Up the pressure.

00:37:40.140 Because this thing's about to fly apart.

00:37:43.040 So, Mr. Kelly, let me ask you that.

00:37:44.900 Did you think about what our allies might have been saying when you made the video and released it to the world?

00:37:57.560 Bueller?

00:38:00.000 Anybody?

00:38:01.920 Anybody?

00:38:04.880 That's the outrage here.

00:38:06.640 The outrage is not that they said it.

00:38:09.360 You can go to the Pentagon and say that.

00:38:10.880 You can go bring the Joint Chiefs of Staff in and you call them on the carpet and say, look, I've got to tell you something.

00:38:17.020 We're going to be investigating this if we get control.

00:38:19.560 But you bring them into a private room and you say that with all your like-minded senators in a private room.

00:38:26.740 You don't make a video and release it to the world.

00:38:31.220 I'll never forget.

00:38:37.980 George Bush called me into the Oval Office.

00:38:41.860 And he was a little upset.

00:38:45.240 And I had said, you know, you want to impeach the guy, you impeach him on this.

00:38:51.580 Look what he's doing in the Middle East. 0.94

00:38:53.520 Look what he's doing.

00:38:55.060 And I don't remember what it was.

00:38:56.380 But I said, that is the stuff that at least, if it's true, is impeachable.

00:39:03.100 That day I get a call.

00:39:05.220 And, Mr. Beck, the president would like to see you in the Oval tomorrow.

00:39:09.060 I go in and I knew this was going to be the longest hour of my life.

00:39:13.360 And I sit down in the, honest to God, it was in the Zelensky chair.

00:39:21.200 Okay.

00:39:22.140 And I got from George Bush what Zelensky got from Trump.

00:39:27.060 And he starts out with, a lot of people think they know what it's like to be the president.

00:39:30.560 You don't have no effing idea what it's like.

00:39:32.540 And I was like, oh, my gosh, this is going to be very, very long and agonizing.

00:39:37.340 And we get about a half hour into all of this stuff.

00:39:42.280 And he's telling me what's actually going on on the ground.

00:39:45.560 And he knows it all.

00:39:47.300 And he's not hesitating.

00:39:49.540 He's not like, let me search for a word here.

00:39:52.900 None of that.

00:39:54.540 And I screw my courage to the sticking place and say, excuse me, Mr. President,

00:40:01.780 this is the president that America needs to see.

00:40:05.080 This is the guy.

00:40:07.120 Why don't you say these things to the American public?

00:40:11.360 And he goes off on another tirade.

00:40:13.080 And he tells me about how he has made deals with the Pentagon.

00:40:16.460 He's made deals with the military.

00:40:18.160 He's made deals.

00:40:19.280 He also has all of the eyes.

00:40:21.800 Listen to this.

00:40:22.400 All of the eyes of all of the leaders of the world, including all of their intelligence officials.

00:40:28.140 And they watch everything that every major official says in the United States, especially the president.

00:40:35.880 And whatever the president says, they analyze.

00:40:38.820 He said, I look, I shift my eyes at the wrong time.

00:40:43.740 They think, well, that means he's not saying this.

00:40:46.160 What he's actually saying is this.

00:40:47.660 He's like, I'm juggling so many things in my head that I can't say or can't do because of X, Y, or Z.

00:40:58.000 And he said, that's the job of the president.

00:41:00.960 Now, whether you agree with that or not doesn't matter.

00:41:04.020 The reason why I tell you that story is, Mark Kelly, did you even consider what Five Eyes might be saying about that video?

00:41:18.100 What China, how they might be analyzing that video?

00:41:21.320 How Russia is analyzing that video?

00:41:24.200 How that affects our national stability in this country?

00:41:29.280 Screw you're trying to, in my opinion, start a color revolution.

00:41:33.460 Screw that.

00:41:35.120 Let's just talk about how does this make us stronger with national defense?

00:41:40.840 You call people into a private room and say that, like has always been done in the United States of America.

00:41:49.140 What you did has never been done in the United States.

00:41:53.680 Not at the time of the Civil War, even.

00:41:56.500 Never has this been done.

00:41:59.000 Why?

00:41:59.300 Because people respected the republic.

00:42:02.360 They respected the military.

00:42:05.220 They respected the fact that their voice would be heard by foreigners and foreign nations, many of them adversaries.

00:42:15.620 And so they showed just a modicum of restraint that you, sir, couldn't find.

00:42:28.120 So please don't preach to me about how embarrassing it is that he's putting a cartoon out.

00:42:33.540 But, yeah, I'd rather have my secretary of war not put cartoons out.

00:42:39.320 But, unfortunately, that's the way of the world now, isn't it?

00:42:42.520 I mean, you know, you can only get attention by people with people with doing stupid memes.

00:42:46.980 You didn't need a meme.

00:42:52.980 You didn't need a video.

00:42:55.700 You needed all of you to get together and say, we'd like the Joint Chiefs to meet us at the Capitol.

00:43:03.620 Because they also answer to us.

00:43:05.700 And we have a few things to say to them.

00:43:08.160 And then you say it to them privately.

00:43:09.980 And you make it very, very clear.

00:43:13.400 That's what you should have done.

00:43:16.700 I mean, unless you're trying to collapse the United States, make our enemies stronger, and foment a color revolution, which I'm sure you're... 0.70

00:43:25.560 What? Color revolution? I don't even know what that is.

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