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00:00:30.000 all right so best of today there's there we did three hours three different topics you're going

00:00:37.960 to get the best parts of these uh in the um uh in the best of here this podcast uh i talked about

00:00:45.200 alexander dugan again because there's some new news on what's happening with candace owens uh

00:00:49.600 today also kind of had a you know back and forth with glenn greenwald where i got a lot of heat

00:00:54.920 from people who like me about what I was saying, we needed to talk about that. Also, a deep dive

00:01:01.360 on data centers. We'll give you the best of, but if you really are concerned about data centers,

00:01:05.280 I want you to hear me out because there's a lot to talk about. Just the energy problem

00:01:09.140 with data centers that you need to hear. And a couple that aborted their Down syndrome, maybe.

00:01:17.260 We did an hour on this. Here's the best of.

00:01:24.920 you're listening to the best of the blend back program

00:01:36.660 so continuing our conversation here uh quickly about candace owens um and and what she's doing

00:01:46.580 over in russia and the really the story is not about candace owens um but it is she is proving

00:01:51.740 everything that i'm saying is right um ricky just got a notification uh breaking news that uh

00:02:00.140 russian media is now calling candace owens what exactly i want to get the quote the bridge the

00:02:07.960 bridge bridge to the usa between that's right and don't think of that as the russian people think

00:02:15.740 of that as putin and dugan remember dugan is the guy who just said if it were up to him he would

00:02:23.560 give every enemy of ours nuclear weapons to vaporize the united states he is not our friend

00:02:31.020 he is not our friend so the latest is putin himself has just asked candace owens to speak

00:02:40.680 today um at this convention so she's just gotten bumped up another level and she's thrilled about

00:02:47.440 it okay you think about whatever whatever you want but i just i'm i have to speak to those who say

00:02:55.280 yes but but dugan and putin have it right about our culture our culture is evil blah blah blah

00:03:02.080 i want you to think about the doctor and i just gave you two examples

00:03:06.200 one somebody who diagnosed the the pain and suffering that mental illness was causing in

00:03:12.540 the united states and said look and everybody was like they're right these institutions are

00:03:17.100 horrible and these people are suffering horribly and they're tearing themselves apart blah blah

00:03:21.160 blah and so the doctor who was i i think he did i say he got a nobel prize for um a prize-winning

00:03:28.720 doctor says, I have the solution. Ice pick to the eye. That's called a lobotomy. You can diagnose

00:03:36.700 something and say, this is the problem and be right. But that doesn't mean your solution is

00:03:42.220 right. Then I told you about the temperance movement. Alcoholism, trust me, I'm an alcoholic.

00:03:48.780 I know how destructive it can be. My mother committed suicide. She was an alcoholic.

00:03:52.880 I get it. It destroys everything. It's horrible, destroys families. That's what the temperance

00:03:58.180 movement said they diagnosed the problem correctly people get out of control and it destroys families

00:04:04.880 but then they put in a constitutional amendment and that started all kinds of stuff including

00:04:11.000 what i just told you and look it up yourself most people don't know it the united states government

00:04:15.080 started poisoning alcohol with bootleggers yeah well we'll show them how dangerous it is they

00:04:21.880 poisoned they killed americans knowingly those people should not been anywhere the cure was

00:04:29.260 wrong the diagnosis was right let me give you one more 1958 halfway around the world

00:04:35.880 mao he's in china people are starving and he makes a diagnosis that was correct

00:04:43.380 right down to the single grain he was saying we have a problem with sparrows they're eating the

00:04:49.360 harvest. So a nation of hundreds of millions was mobilized to get rid of all of the sparrows.

00:04:56.640 People banged pots and pans from dawn to dusk. The birds could never land until the sparrows

00:05:01.820 just dropped out of the sky, dead from exhaustion. This is a real story. It worked. The sparrows all

00:05:08.020 died. Then what happened? Then the locusts came. And because the sparrows had been eating the

00:05:13.840 locusts the insects ate everything in the fields bare the famine that followed kills killed tens

00:05:21.380 of million more people more than most wars in human history mal had the diagnosis right

00:05:29.040 the sparrows are the problem but his cure buried a generation

00:05:35.480 okay so what am i i mean i could go on all of these things have one thing in common

00:05:44.720 these people were not cranks they were not obvious monsters a nobel laureate a constitutional

00:05:50.480 amendment uh the a government and the applause of the experts and the cheer of the crowd made

00:05:57.000 the blade come down that's the the real test the real test is okay he's right about the sickness

00:06:06.080 but what happens when he cuts into the body what happens what happens after that first cut

00:06:14.680 can it ever be undone this is the test

00:06:18.480 true and correct diagnosis earns a man your attention but it doesn't earn him the throat

00:06:29.060 a person who can name your disease perfectly has proven that he can see he has proven nothing about

00:06:36.880 what's in his hand or where that hand will land or whether you'll be able to live what with what's

00:06:42.800 behind that hand so when somebody shows you exactly what's wrong with you your body your

00:06:47.920 country your culture your faith and then in the very same breaths reaches for the scalpel and

00:06:52.740 says lie down stay still i trust me i'm going to cut into you don't be hypnotized about how right

00:06:58.480 he was about the wound there's another hoop he has to jump through and that's what's happening

00:07:06.220 with dugan people are saying he's but glenn he's got the diagnosis right yes i agree with you now

00:07:13.820 listen and read what he actually says is the solution that's the difference uh let me see

00:07:24.700 let me go to um let me go to jeff in arizona hello jeff welcome hey glenn um i have a suggestion

00:07:35.500 regarding ron desantis because i believe he's a man who can make the diagnosis to use your analogy

00:07:43.660 and perform the operation successfully as he's done in Florida.

00:07:48.820 I want to suggest that Ron DeSantis become the free agent governor

00:07:53.520 and simply move to another state and save another state the way he has done in Florida.

00:08:00.260 I love you. I love you so much.

00:08:02.640 I have said this, and I've said it jokingly and seriously to Ron DeSantis,

00:08:07.960 and he just shakes his head.

00:08:09.800 and i'm like listen you are you are so good if you want to run for president run for president

00:08:16.080 if you don't win president go run in another state go save other states strengthen other states

00:08:21.920 and you know he said one time we were talking and he said you know i you know i don't know how

00:08:27.860 other states would feel about that you know stop with this carpetbagger stuff we have to start

00:08:34.100 looking at our states as needing a great CEO. We need somebody who can get it done, who can

00:08:42.400 perform and knows how to run the apparatus of the state and get things done. That's Ron DeSantis.

00:08:51.660 And if I'm a state, if I'm California and I'm looking for the next governor, I'm looking for

00:08:57.260 the best CEO, the best technician that can actually get the things done that need to get

00:09:04.140 done. I don't need somebody that I like. I don't need somebody that has lived in my state the whole

00:09:10.200 time. Well, he's not a Texan. He's not a Californian. He just moved here from Florida to

00:09:16.720 Iowa. Do you have anybody as good as him? If you do, go. Go vote for him. But if you don't,

00:09:24.440 why wouldn't you take i i 100 i think he should go on a 50 state tour i think he should do he's

00:09:30.740 going to have to keep him alive for a while uh but i would say that he needs to go and

00:09:35.120 and run for office in another state and when he has termed out there go to another state

00:09:42.420 because you're exactly right jeff exactly right let me go to tammy by the way it's friday your

00:09:48.660 calls are important i want to hear your voice anything i got wrong anything you want to argue

00:09:52.420 with me about anything you think i missed whatever 888-727-BECK today is your day Tammy

00:09:58.440 in Georgia welcome hi Glenn um you were talking about a candidate in New Jersey um and you were

00:10:06.020 talking with somebody you had and i i'm sorry i'm really bad with names but you had okay so am i

00:10:12.300 yeah this guy um was tied to al-qaeda and and terrorist groups and had something to do with

00:10:21.420 9-11. I want to know why these candidates are not being vetted the way I think they should be.

00:10:31.540 And how can we, as a country, let somebody, or even the Congress or Senate, let somebody like that try to go to the Congress or Senate?

00:10:43.080 well because the um this this is a free nation we don't we'd you know the let me give you the

00:10:52.660 extreme case the mullahs in um iran they're the ones who decide who can run and who can't you

00:10:59.020 never want that you want the people to decide you want just people be able to walk off the street

00:11:03.420 and say i want to run and then it requires then a good decent well-informed public using a honest

00:11:12.820 press to do their own homework on those people and vet them and say, yeah, that guy does not fit.

00:11:21.540 We don't want him representing. And that's just not happening right now. This guy should have

00:11:28.300 been vetted by the people of New Jersey. And he is in one of these elitist districts. It's the 12th

00:11:36.040 district of new jersey um he was he provided testimony for the blind chic um there are

00:11:42.240 reports that he was involved in the planning of the first world trade center he then went in um

00:11:48.600 to where was it bosnia ricky i don't have the information about gaza where he volunteered

00:11:53.920 and served in gaza 2024 he actually served in the u.s military for a time

00:11:59.440 right um and so you know you have to make your own decision but he is somebody that

00:12:04.800 should not get a national security clearance at the very least you can't give him information

00:12:10.540 about our country um but you know if the democrats win in the house and he wins in the house he will

00:12:17.480 be sitting in some of our most crucial things and that's just the way this democracy works that's why

00:12:22.000 you know we are doing it torch um we're trying to um teach american history do we have another

00:12:31.360 episode of the american story coming out today should be nine we sure do insiders already have

00:12:38.420 it everyone else is getting it tomorrow okay so episode nine inside the first presidency power

00:12:45.560 fear and the bill of rights this is perfect because next week we kick off our our education

00:12:50.860 program with the bill of rights um uh so we're telling you the story so you know our story any

00:12:58.200 society that doesn't know their story will lose, will fall apart. It will disintegrate.

00:13:06.340 Humans run on story. If you know a story, if there's a good story that you're following,

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00:14:05.860 I mean, I don't care if you're 80. Most likely, if you're like me, I couldn't tell you the first

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00:14:18.140 Amendment? If you don't know those five rights and you can't defend those five rights and you

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00:18:01.220 I'm doing a deep dive on the data centers, and I want you to know,

00:18:05.360 my phrase here is I understand the concerns and I validate them and I believe you're accurate in

00:18:12.740 those concerns. You are accurate in your belief that you're going to get screwed. This thing is

00:18:18.580 going to be built on your backs with your money. That's why it's not effective to say no. It is

00:18:27.360 effective to say, no, unless, and you fill in the unless, unless, unless you're putting more power

00:18:36.400 in to our grid and you're building your own power system for what you take, but for the right to be

00:18:43.960 able to have this big, huge data center in my community, you're going to put 5% more power

00:18:48.440 into us because my electricity is not going up because here's what the, here's what the electrical

00:18:53.300 companies are saying we have to upgrade the grid as it is okay and everybody is tying it to the

00:18:59.440 data center and in a way they're right but in a way they're not right the grid was built decades

00:19:05.840 ago and it was never meant to let it's all aging out okay it was not meant to last longer than it

00:19:12.680 already has and so we have been delaying and delaying and delaying and nobody wants to pay

00:19:17.960 for it. Nobody wants to pay for it. And it is decaying on us. So our power grid is absolutely

00:19:24.220 archaic, but that is the human way and the American way of doing things. We never do it

00:19:30.160 the right time. You know, when we'll think about hardening the grid, you know, when we'll think

00:19:34.360 about putting protection around the generators that we have and the, I can't remember the name

00:19:42.600 the the trans transformers you know when we'll start putting protection around the transformers

00:19:48.260 when al-qaeda takes and comes in and they shoot six of those things around the country and they

00:19:53.320 collapse our grid that's when we'll say we should put protection around those we should have done

00:19:58.060 that a long time ago but we never do those things so we should have upgraded our grid a long time

00:20:03.660 ago but we didn't because you only do it because you're human and you're an american you only do

00:20:09.840 it when it's a crisis, when you absolutely have to. So the powered grid problem with these data

00:20:16.420 centers comes in. America, the builders of America know we have to have these data centers.

00:20:24.760 And so it's a crisis. And so now the power companies are saying, well, we're going to have

00:20:28.320 to upgrade our grid. So they're going to do it. And that's where you're going to get that 14%

00:20:32.020 increase. No, no, no, no, no. Use this to your advantage, cities. Facebook, Tesla, whoever needs

00:20:46.160 these, Google, you need a data center. Microsoft, you need a data center. Here's what you're going

00:20:51.800 to do. You're going to upgrade our grid. You're going to put 5% of the energy you create into our

00:20:57.840 grid. So we're going to not only get a new grid, we're also going to get a reduction in the average

00:21:04.480 citizen's power. And you can build your data center. You don't do that. You don't have a

00:21:09.340 data center. We're not doing it here. And sometimes your bluff will be called. Sometimes it won't be.

00:21:15.780 Sometimes you'll win. But enough of cities do that and stop saying no, but say no, unless you meet

00:21:22.760 these conditions, you're going to start winning. Otherwise, they're going to steamroll you and

00:21:27.760 bulldoze bulldoze you now here's the part that's going to really hack you off as of 2025

00:21:33.800 more than 2 000 gigawatts of proposed energy projects are waiting in interconnection queues

00:21:43.700 across the country 2 000 gigawatts think about this these are projects waiting not producing power

00:21:53.260 waiting. Some of them are waiting just to be connected. Some of these projects are waiting

00:22:00.940 to be built. Some of them maybe shouldn't get built. But the scale of the backlog should tell

00:22:06.780 you something important. The challenge isn't finding energy. It's connecting energy. It's

00:22:12.640 permitting. It's approvals. It's planning regions. It's studies. It's paperwork. Sometimes the

00:22:19.760 hardest part of building a power project is not the engineering. It's just getting past the damn

00:22:25.980 paperwork. And that's where we have ourselves in trouble every time. We have made it so easy to say

00:22:33.220 no. We've made it so difficult to say yes. Now, there are reasons to review things. There are

00:22:41.300 reasons for environmental studies and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay? Reasons communities need

00:22:46.800 to have a voice must have a voice i'm not arguing for bulldozing people i'm arguing for a system

00:22:52.300 that can still build things in america we can't build things anymore because if everything can

00:22:58.020 be stopped forever then eventually nothing gets built and if nothing gets built the country it

00:23:03.860 doesn't stand still it falls behind nothing is static nothing will be this way unless you're

00:23:10.160 preparing for the future. Remember where we started? We started with data centers and

00:23:16.560 artificial intelligence and power demand. All of that sits on top of one basic question.

00:23:22.060 Can America build enough electricity? That's the question. Not can we invent? Can we innovate?

00:23:30.080 We've proven those things. Can we build? Damn, can we build? Can we connect? Can we move power

00:23:37.160 from where it is to where it's needed.

00:23:40.620 Every problem I've just described

00:23:42.820 was created by people.

00:23:48.800 Now, here's the good news.

00:23:51.360 It was created by people.

00:23:52.680 That means it can be fixed by people.

00:23:55.060 People can fix it.

00:23:58.040 What the situation we're in

00:23:59.520 is not some law of nature.

00:24:02.280 Permitting delays are not some natural consequence.

00:24:06.140 Transmission bottlenecks aren't a law of nature.

00:24:09.260 All of these things are choices, and choices can change.

00:24:13.760 We built the greatest industrial system on earth.

00:24:17.740 We electrified a continent.

00:24:20.520 We powered factories that won world wars.

00:24:23.560 We built dams and pipelines and transmission lines and railroads and highways.

00:24:28.660 And we were the country that built the skyscraper.

00:24:32.400 Why was it called the skyscraper?

00:24:33.900 It's called the skyscraper because they were so massive at the time, it appeared as though they were scraping the very essence of the sky.

00:24:42.180 That ability didn't disappear.

00:24:45.200 Do you know how long it took us to build the Empire State Building?

00:24:48.280 11 months.

00:24:50.160 11 months.

00:24:52.860 Why?

00:24:54.740 Because we wanted to do it.

00:24:57.300 Resources don't disappear.

00:24:59.200 They didn't disappear.

00:25:00.100 Engineers didn't disappear.

00:25:01.800 What we've lost is confidence.

00:25:04.440 What we've lost is the habit of saying yes.

00:25:07.420 We instead have trained ourselves to say no.

00:25:10.700 So here's the goal.

00:25:12.580 Build more generation.

00:25:14.900 Upgrade the lines we already have.

00:25:17.540 Build new transmission where it makes sense.

00:25:20.240 Connect the regions that can help each other during emergencies,

00:25:23.860 but allow it to cut off in case it's a trip.

00:25:27.300 Make sure the biggest new power users pay not just for the capacity they require,

00:25:33.220 but because of what they're doing to our culture, to our nation, to our world, to our jobs,

00:25:39.440 they might have to pay a premium for that right.

00:25:43.060 Do that and the entire conversation changes.

00:25:46.140 You're not arguing over scarcity.

00:25:48.800 You're arguing on how can we build abundance for everyone

00:25:52.220 and not build it on the backs of the average person.

00:25:56.400 In a century where power increasingly means economic power,

00:26:01.040 military power, technological power, national power,

00:26:04.660 abundance matters a lot.

00:26:09.800 I live in the middle of the mountains.

00:26:12.840 My ranch is in the middle of absolutely nowhere,

00:26:16.060 and I thank the Lord for that.

00:26:19.640 I live in a town of 450 people, and I just love it.

00:26:23.520 I just love it.

00:26:24.320 The people are rooted in the earth.

00:26:26.760 They're just down to earth.

00:26:28.080 They're just good, solid citizens, and I love it.

00:26:32.040 I don't have power in my mountain ranch.

00:26:35.940 And quite honestly, I don't want to bring the power lines.

00:26:38.920 I can.

00:26:39.760 It cost me a fortune, but I can bring the power.

00:26:42.080 I don't want the power lines.

00:26:43.400 I don't want that because I know what that will do to where I live.

00:26:47.840 I'm like the only one that lives in this canyon.

00:26:50.380 So I don't want to invite a bunch of other people by bringing, you know, electricity into it, because that's the thing that's stopping it.

00:26:59.980 But I've had to generate all my own electricity.

00:27:02.960 You know what my biggest problem has been?

00:27:05.560 Not, and it's coming from me, I have a pretty big imagination, not a big enough imagination.

00:27:12.440 I've built it for, okay, what's it going to take to run the house the way I want to run the house?

00:27:18.820 And I built it.

00:27:19.820 And then I'm like, oh, I got to add a studio.

00:27:22.840 Before, I wasn't even thinking about putting a studio up here.

00:27:25.080 I got to add a studio because I'll be up there for a few weeks.

00:27:27.820 I add a studio.

00:27:29.060 I have to upgrade the power.

00:27:31.360 Then I say, I'm actually going to be here during the summer months

00:27:34.600 where we're using a heavy load for air conditioning and everything

00:27:37.360 because I didn't have air conditioning planned for the house originally.

00:27:39.940 But now if I'm going to live here, I need some air conditioning in the summer months,

00:27:42.400 which is going to put a drain on the system.

00:27:44.160 And I'm going to be broadcasting every day, so I'm going to need more power.

00:27:46.700 every time i make a move i have to upgrade the power if you're smart you you do exactly opposite

00:27:53.580 of what i did you say what are the absolute wildest possibilities that can happen let's build for that

00:28:00.500 that way we don't have to keep in nickel diming i can't tell you how much money i've spent on

00:28:05.740 power generation anybody who says oh you could live off the grid you just get some solar panels

00:28:10.360 you're a moron you have no idea what it takes to have stable electricity and if we screw around

00:28:16.940 with our power grid you're going to find out what it's like not to have stable electricity

00:28:21.720 it's bad it puts you into the stone age immediately believe me i've lived it i know

00:28:30.780 america can still as a country do big hard things if we want to survive we have to think

00:28:39.320 let's dream for way beyond the power grid that we need today for these data centers.

00:28:47.680 Build it. One last point on this.

00:28:53.400 Talk about demand, talk about the grid, talked about bottlenecks. All of that leads to one

00:28:58.500 question. If we know we need more power, we know there are projects ready to build it.

00:29:03.760 Why aren't we building faster? Why does everything in this country take so long?

00:29:08.040 because right now more than 2,000 gigawatts

00:29:11.080 is sitting there waiting.

00:29:14.120 2,000 gigawatts.

00:29:17.420 What are we doing?

00:29:19.480 Why?

00:29:21.720 It's not the lack of ideas, engineers.

00:29:24.700 They're all just waiting for permission.

00:29:29.060 What are they waiting for?

00:29:30.900 Permission?

00:29:32.520 Hear me carefully on this one.

00:29:34.080 not every not every idea should be rubber stamped communities you have to stand up for yourself

00:29:42.320 property rights matter more than anything else environmental reviews decent ones real ones

00:29:48.920 matter good reasons to examine these projects the question is whether we've built a system

00:29:54.520 that can still say yes when the answer should be yes that's why you shouldn't just march and say

00:30:00.560 no. You should say no unless. The answer should always have a way to find a way to yes.

00:30:10.680 Because we have to have these. I'm sorry, but if you want to be France, then don't build these.

00:30:21.000 And the France that is today, or maybe even tomorrow. If you don't have a problem being

00:30:25.960 Mexico, then don't build these. But if you want America to be strong in a leadership role,

00:30:32.940 and you want your children to be able to deal with the future that is coming, whether you like

00:30:39.220 it or not, you must have the data centers and you must have a strong power grid. You just don't have

00:30:46.220 to have it built on your back. You just don't have, you have all the power. They built this

00:30:52.980 thing with your knowledge with your data they're still building it with who you are your data and

00:30:58.580 what you use don't let them get away with it for another second no you're not building it that way

00:31:05.480 unless you just have to fill out the unless because it's different for each of us and each

00:31:13.360 community you're streaming the best of glenn beck to hear more of this interview and others

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00:31:21.320 full disclosure i come at this from a different place two reasons i practice a faith that believes

00:31:31.720 in what is called the premortal existence that we were in heaven with god before we gained a body

00:31:38.780 that there is a purpose for us to gain a body just like there was a purpose for jesus to gain a body

00:31:43.620 and we came down here to be shrouded in flesh so we could learn how to learn how to wield the power

00:31:54.220 of our spirits learn we have such power we are not god but we have the power like god in us

00:32:02.760 and to wield that and to be able to have all of these desires and passions and then to be able to

00:32:09.120 go, no, to have free choice and to know how to make the decisions that actually God would make

00:32:16.880 and to wield real power with compassion and decency and love, that's why we're here,

00:32:23.900 to learn all of that. My faith also believes in the literal war in heaven, that there was a war

00:32:32.920 and it was, Lucifer was like, I'll get all the credit, you give me the credit, I'll make all

00:32:38.160 the decisions, and I'll bring everybody home. And Jesus was like, no, I will go and I'll sacrifice

00:32:44.880 myself for their sins, so I will wash them clean so they can come back into your presence.

00:32:51.680 And God chose the plan of salvation, chose Christ, and said, that is the one. Lucifer gets upset,

00:33:01.440 has a war in heaven. Now think about a war in heaven. How do you, if you are there in front of

00:33:07.900 God, how do you get a third of the angels who have been worshiping and singing praise,

00:33:13.980 how do you get them to say, yeah, I'm on your side, I'm not going with God? How do you do that?

00:33:20.900 The only way I can imagine this happening is if you start saying things like, look at what he's

00:33:25.920 saying. He will sacrifice him for something he didn't do, his chosen one. He will make him

00:33:34.760 suffer on a cross, he will then take all of his children, send them down, knowing some of them

00:33:42.320 aren't going to make it, knowing they're going to have life of misery and pain and everything else.

00:33:47.420 And you say, Lucifer, you're going to take all that away. You'll just make all of the decisions

00:33:52.500 and everybody will come home and it'll be happy and it'll be great. God is horrible.

00:33:58.620 That's how I see it happening because I see it happening today. That's the same argument when

00:34:03.820 somebody says, no, you shouldn't make the choice. We'll make the choice for you. That's why I believe

00:34:10.080 free will is the answer on everything. You have free will. Now, there are certain boundaries that

00:34:19.280 we say, no, you can't do that. Just like God says, there are certain boundaries, thou shall not kill.

00:34:24.340 We have the same certain boundaries. But it's up to the individual to choose. And it has to be that

00:34:31.920 way because that's the way God intended it to be.

00:34:36.120 That being said, the ones who fought the most valiantly, and I don't know what a war in

00:34:40.560 heaven is actually like, could be words, I don't know what it was like, but the ones

00:34:43.840 who fought the most valiantly that didn't need to be tested as hard as maybe I need

00:34:48.720 to be tested, those who fought on the front lines and cast Satan out.

00:35:01.920 those are the ones that don't need to be tested.

00:35:06.860 And they are the ones that are born with, let's say, Down syndrome.

00:35:14.760 Have you ever met a Down syndrome kid?

00:35:18.400 Have you ever met them?

00:35:19.760 Their default is love.

00:35:23.440 Their default is kindness.

00:35:25.280 I worked with Special Olympians for many years when I was young.

00:35:29.560 And I will tell you, and this is the proper use of the word, they are not the ones that are retarded.

00:35:39.900 We are.

00:35:42.380 When I use the word retarded, I'm usually talking about people who I think are smarter than I am.

00:35:49.220 They are just so arrogant or so blind that they've become slow and they're retarded.

00:35:57.500 I never would refer to anyone with cerebral palsy

00:36:01.640 or Down syndrome or anything as retarded

00:36:04.740 because they're not.

00:36:06.000 As another disclosure,

00:36:07.840 as a father of a daughter with cerebral palsy

00:36:10.380 who has taught me more than anyone I know.

00:36:15.500 She is my hero.

00:36:17.700 The way she deals with things,

00:36:19.500 her spiritual connections,

00:36:21.800 the way she's disciplined herself,

00:36:23.880 the things she's overcome,

00:36:24.980 she's my hero.

00:36:26.880 I don't say that enough to her.

00:36:36.480 We were standing in Auschwitz.

00:36:39.460 And there's this room in Auschwitz where they take all of the things from disabled people.

00:36:43.340 And it was all in one pile.

00:36:44.600 It was crutches.

00:36:45.320 It was legs.

00:36:46.400 It was wheelchairs.

00:36:47.260 It was anything.

00:36:49.420 You know, arms, fake arms, whatever.

00:36:51.340 and she stood there with me and she got really quiet i had to back up i had to go actually

00:36:58.940 stand by a window it was so overwhelming for me because watching her look at that and i could see

00:37:04.960 her thinking it through and she turned around and she came up to me and she said dad they would

00:37:15.580 have killed me wouldn't they yes they would have

00:37:26.160 the joy and the glory

00:37:32.260 that my daughter has brought into my world and others worlds everybody who meets our family

00:37:40.180 they always say, she is the greatest.

00:37:43.880 We're secondary.

00:37:50.560 And has it been hard?

00:37:52.440 You know what the hardest thing is of having,

00:37:54.280 and I can imagine with Down syndrome,

00:37:55.580 you know what the hardest thing is?

00:37:58.440 Seeing your child left out of things.

00:38:01.060 Seeing your child not understood.

00:38:03.840 Seeing your child around people who,

00:38:06.640 and sometimes yourself, I'm speaking about me,

00:38:11.460 sometimes not having the patience.

00:38:17.100 That's the pain that comes.

00:38:22.220 Because you see it in them,

00:38:24.600 and you see your own shortcomings.

00:38:30.400 If I could have in a really twisted, warped world,

00:38:35.580 if I was just thinking about me, I would say, no, we don't want any of that.

00:38:46.980 But through all the pain that our children face and all the pain that we face, it is so worth it.

00:38:56.560 But you have to realize that life is not about you.

00:39:00.400 We're animals.

00:39:02.800 We are.

00:39:03.640 We're animals.

00:39:04.120 that we are exactly the same as animals, except for one thing.

00:39:09.420 We were made in God's image, whether that is he's got arms and legs.

00:39:13.740 I think he does, but you know, whatever.

00:39:16.580 You can be a space octopus. I don't really care.

00:39:18.720 We'll find out when we get there.

00:39:22.280 We have his characteristics.

00:39:24.500 We have the ability to have his characteristics.

00:39:27.440 We have the ability to think.

00:39:30.560 No animal can think like we can think.

00:39:34.120 we have the ability to make choices.

00:39:38.720 We are the only animal on planet Earth

00:39:41.800 that doesn't abandon the weak.

00:39:46.760 I'm pretty sure all the other animals do.

00:39:52.200 They'll either eat the weakest

00:39:54.240 or they'll let something else eat the weakest.

00:39:57.480 We don't.

00:39:58.220 you have been given such a tremendous gift and i hate this phrase god will never give you more

00:40:07.180 than you can handle but it's true you just have to be willing mr phelps this is your mission if

00:40:14.500 you're if you choose to accept it you're being asked to do an impossible mission do you choose

00:40:23.160 to accept it, or do you say, no, this life is about me. I want my life. I want my life, and I want it

00:40:29.480 on my terms. I want to be happy. I want to be free to create. I want to be free to be without that

00:40:35.740 burden. I want ease. And you can mask it any way you want. You can even say, well, but they suffer.

00:40:44.220 look up baby now or it's all just look up baby now or the first baby that was the beginning of

00:40:52.280 the holocaust it was how it was hitler saying look at this child can't hear can't see can't speak

00:41:00.540 probably will have no intelligence i think it didn't have arms or something this child and the

00:41:07.540 parents were like we don't know what to do we don't know what to do and hitler's medical doctors

00:41:14.000 said, there's no life for this child.

00:41:16.620 It's not worth living.

00:41:17.700 It's too hard on the state and too hard on the parents.

00:41:20.320 And they killed it.

00:41:21.440 And they killed it on the front page with compassion.

00:41:27.760 That's your choice.

00:41:29.280 That is your choice.

00:41:30.460 Once you start going down that road,

00:41:32.760 that's your choice.

00:41:35.960 And it's who you will become.

00:41:38.500 And you'll become more and more like an animal

00:41:41.020 and less and less like a human being.

00:41:44.000 Now, this couple, it's not like they didn't, they didn't say that's not a baby.

00:41:57.460 It's worse.

00:41:58.680 They didn't say that's not a child.

00:42:00.960 They said that's a life, but it's not a life worth living.

00:42:06.020 That's worse.

00:42:06.880 and why isn't it a life worth living

00:42:15.640 I think for most people

00:42:21.340 because it will interfere with their happiness

00:42:24.300 their plans

00:42:26.500 let me tell you about happiness

00:42:29.360 I had a stinky childhood

00:42:36.340 but everybody did. So I'm not going to bore you with mine. Everybody had a difficult childhood

00:42:39.500 one way or another. And we can all sit here and whine about our childhood, how we were raised,

00:42:43.200 what happened to us, whatever. I don't believe in any of that stuff. You get over it or you don't.

00:42:48.300 And for a long time, I didn't get over it. And I started drinking and drinking and drinking.

00:42:51.620 And I found all of, I made a goal for myself that I was going to be successful in business.

00:42:57.680 And I was going to chart my own course and everything else. And I started when I was 13

00:43:03.340 years old. By the time I was 30, I was an alcoholic. I had accomplished so much. I had

00:43:10.100 been rich. I had been poor. I had been mildly famous. I had been mildly successful. I had all

00:43:20.240 of the bling. I had the cars. I had the houses. I had everything. And I was miserable. Miserable.

00:43:26.960 and i sobered up and i met a good woman i found god i got married i had more children

00:43:36.720 and i still had hard times but i found moments of happiness real happiness and you know where

00:43:48.960 I found them every time? In my family, which is the hardest thing I've ever done.

00:43:59.300 Raising my children was the hardest thing by far. I have to tell you, while I'm doing it,

00:44:07.040 I would have done anything to not do that because it was so far out of my ability. It was so far

00:44:12.800 out of my comfort zone. It was so far out of my abilities, I thought, my capability. I don't know

00:44:19.760 what I'm doing. I'm the worst. I don't want to do this anymore. But let me tell you something.

00:44:26.520 There is nothing that brings me more happiness than my family. There is nothing that I wish I

00:44:34.360 had more of than children. I wish I had more children. I wish I was a better parent, but there

00:44:42.440 is nothing that brings you happiness eternally you will understand this and you will understand

00:44:49.500 it the older you get there's nothing else but family cherish that don't kill it hello america

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