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Glenn Beck is back with a new episode of his radio show, "The Glenn Beck Show," and this time he's joined by special guest Brett Baer, who was pulled over in Washington, D.C. for not being on his phone in his car.
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Now we know, Brett Baer, Saturday, pulled over in Georgetown.
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He was talking on his phone and he wasn't supposed to be on his phone while he was driving, which he pointed out clearly.
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You park it in the same parking spot every day.
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I had so many additional jokes to add on to that.
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That did seem to be the focus of his statement.
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I guess he was on the phone and he wasn't supposed to be.
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Pulling over Brett Baer and giving him a ticket.
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I mean, you know, not that I want to see everybody.
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Everybody, if you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law.
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You get a ticket and it's good to see that everybody is getting that.
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Don't have the number today, but it's probably about another 50,
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which, by the way, has MSNBC, you know, they're renaming it to MSNOW, right?
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So the stats in Washington, D.C., this seems to be working.
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Robbery now is down 46% versus the previous seven days.
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So a week ago, the robberies have gone down 46%.
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How do you have these huge numbers, and then it's all crime is only down 8%?
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Maybe, you know, people like Brett Baer with his phone is up like 45%, and that's offsetting it.
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You know, of course, I don't know, because I'm sure there's a law in Washington, D.C.
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You know, you can't hitch your horse to like a lamp post.
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I was talking to Drew Holden yesterday, a writer, and he lives in D.C.
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And he was talking about the crime problem, and he described a situation near his house
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where a park was closed, one of their local parks that you could go and take a walk and
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Because several hundred teenagers decided to schedule a quote-unquote fight in the park.
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So there was a massive brawl that broke out in this park, which meant they had to close
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However, it totally disrupted the lives of the people who live around this park, right?
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You know, Ricky told us that a friend of hers was robbed.
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I don't know what crime this would be, but I've told you the story last time I was in
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My wife and I are just walking down the street and a guy on a bike, a big black guy who looked
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insane, and I think he was, seriously disturbed.
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He's like, today's the day I'm going to kill me a white guy.
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And he's pointing at me, and I'm like, well, too bad you don't see just behind me about
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But I didn't report that, and I think that kind of stuff happens to people all the time
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Like, you know, New York is a good example of this.
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New York's murder rate, by the way, is one-seventh of Washington, D.C., but we did live and work
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We did live and work in New York for a while, and there's just, it becomes part of your life
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to ignore things that everyone else in the country would never ignore, right?
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The best example of this, Stu, is you and I on the subway.
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We were waiting for the subway, and you and I were just talking about something, and
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We stood there for maybe three or four minutes, and I think you said, I think the big one's
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We had been sitting there talking to each other, but both of us, while talking, were watching
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two rats fight over a hot dog wrapper or something.
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And I looked at Stu, and I said, we have been here too long.
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If you want to give a little bit of a break to the crazy people who are defending Washington,
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D.C. as this bizarre Disneyland, you almost start to delete these terrible experiences from
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Like, I saw one guy actually post, he's like, you know, I'm sick of all these Republicans
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and Trump and MAGA people saying, you know, how terrible this city is and how much crime
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And yeah, I had my car broken into, but this is a great city.
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And it's like, he had really just disjointed himself from those experiences as if they didn't
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Like, nowhere else I've ever lived did I expect that to occur.
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But that's not the same, you know, which rat's going to win thing where you just get used
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If you're mugged, if it were reversed and, you know, and crime was going out of control
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and Donald Trump was not doing anything about it and this guy gets mugged, he'd be like,
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Getting used to it is having to step over the homeless person or the drug addict or, you
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know, walking down the street and seeing, you know, people that are all hunched over
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because they're on, what, fentanyl or whatever it is, that's the kind of stuff you kind of
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get used to and you just don't see it anymore until somebody comes to visit you.
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No, but, you know, like the person, was it a friend of Ricky's or talking about how
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But you kind of just like work it into that city experience at some level, which is terrible.
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Like, you know, I have friends who used to always talk about like the city and they appreciated
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It's a justification for what you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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Yeah, getting mugged is, there's nothing, there's no charm in that.
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You want to have a dive bar that you like attending?
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You know, going to a place where you're getting, you know, things stolen from you or you get
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beaten or you get some weird fluid thrown at you and you don't know what it was.
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Like, that's the type of stuff that happens in these cities all the time.
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And that is the kind of stuff, you know, I was just, I just moved my daughter in.
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I'm not going to say the town, but I just moved my daughter into a town.
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And it's this really nice, quaint, seemingly crime-free, I mean, it has other problems,
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We were going to pick something up at a restaurant and bring them back to the apartment as we were
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And I'm walking down the street and I said, this is what my childhood was like.
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This feels like when I was, you know, late 1970s, you know, as I'm coming of age, this
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In areas where I grew up, it was generally safe, you know, it was clean, people respected
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Uh, and I know that, you know, New York city was a hell hole at the same time that I was
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experiencing that in the West coast, but you don't see that very often anymore.
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And you forget until you go to one of these small towns and you're like, is, uh, are there,
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are they piping in the sounds of birds and stuff?
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No, it's just a small town, you know, that hasn't gone to hell and you forget about it.
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And you think about the people who are leading this country all live and work in a place where
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they are justifying these terrible things occurring.
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They're not living a life that because of so many other Americans are living in where their
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towns are sane and they don't have to deal with murder rates seven times the rate of New
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York city. Um, so I like, you know, and this is the trouble with this, of course, in some
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way is that Washington has, has tools that no one else has, right? Like they can call in
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the federal government to take over their town and bring a bunch of troops in and do all these
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things that really, that's not an option for a lot of, a lot of cities. They're stuck with
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the mom Donnie's and the guy in Minnesota who, who is, you know, who is now taking over their
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city and going to run it in the ground further. It's going to get much worse.
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Yeah. One of the things that I thinking of back to your story from Washington, DC, just
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how prevalent crime was there. That guy that said that to you were there, I was there. I
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was, I was standing near your security and he, you can tell they're so used to just, that's
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just the norm. They can intimidate you through crime. No fear. No fear. No fear. And what
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cracked me up, maybe you didn't notice this because we kept watching him. He gave us that
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crazy eye, went across the street, looked back and we were still glaring at him as if we're
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not going to intimidated by this. And he actually had this look for a couple seconds. Like, did
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I not deliver the line? Did it not work? And I, it just, it stuck out in my mind because
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if you refuse to be intimidated by this, like the administration of Donald Trump is now, refuse
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to be intimidated by this. And that is what they were doing it right now, essentially.
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So in Washington, DC, I don't carry a gun. You know, I'll travel when I'm in a city like
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that. I travel with somebody who has a badge and they can carry a gun. And that was the
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reason why I wasn't really intimidated other than, you know, go ahead. But my wife was
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with the sweet silence, the sweet, bring me, please bring me the sweet relief silence of
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death. Wouldn't it be bad if you get up to heaven and he's like, great, glad you're here.
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But, you know, the average person doesn't have that. Imagine, you know, you're walking your
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kids to school in the morning and they see that. Did you see that guy? Where was he?
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That came up and he was homeless and clearly nuts. I mean, that's part of it. It's not just
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crime. It's we have really sick people on the streets as well. And this guy comes up to a mom
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pushing a baby carriage on this, just on the street, just walking by their own business.
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And he gets in front of her and blocks the blocks are from moving. And he's like, this is
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my baby. Give her to me. Give her to me. And tries to take. And luckily, living in a town
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where others see what's going on and race to the woman's defense. I don't know if that would
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have happened in New York City. I don't know if that would have happened in New York, you
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know, or Washington, D.C. You know, it's you don't dismiss the quality of life. And I'm
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really anxious to see what happens in 30 days, because in 30 days, this is going to Trump loses
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the ability to do this without Congress acting. And I'm anxious to see what happens if he doesn't
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get that ability and it goes back to the way it was. I think the people in Washington, D.C. are
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All right. I want to talk to you about something that's right on our doorstep that
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I don't think a lot of people are watching. I think it was Sunday, Saturday or Sunday,
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I read an article, and I just kind of skimmed it quickly. And I filed it away. And it was,
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the United States is moving like a battle group to Latin America. And I'm like,
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what? We're moving a battle group? What are we? What? We're moving cruise missile ships,
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like 4,000 Marines. I mean, this is what you have when you have an invading force. You know,
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when you're worried about something, you want to keep calm in some area. You know, we send them over,
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I don't know, off the coast of Africa because there's somebody doing something. And we send
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this group over and we're like, hey, knock it off. What are we doing? Okay. Well, it's not
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just to Latin America. It's someplace very specific. Venezuela. What's happening now is not some distant
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strongman. This is, battle lines are being drawn right now between freedom and chaos. Okay.
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This week, Nicolas Maduro, who was indicted by the Trump administration, I think in 2020,
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and then Biden didn't do anything about it. He was indicted by our own justice department for
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narco-terrorism. He just responded to us and mobilized four and a half million civilian militiamen.
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So he's now just kind of drafted four million men and said, you're a citizen, but you're also a
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soldier right now. Um, and he says it's to defend sovereignty against America. Here's what it is.
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Um, he's trying to protect himself. Uh, he's a dictator and he's conscript, conscripting an entire
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nation, um, because he knows the United States is after him. Why? Why? Well, we have, uh, warships,
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three Aegis destroyers and they're anchored right off his coast. And we just doubled the bounty on his
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head from $25 million to $50 million. And you know, you, at first blush, you're like, well, can we,
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what are we doing? What, what's happening? I mean, I've always, we've lived in a time my whole life
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where we're like, you know, the government can do two things at once. It should be able to walk
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and chew gum. Well, we're not just walking and chewing gum. We're walking, chewing gum, putting
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out, you know, the fire of a burning house, juggling flaming bowling pins, stopping a nuclear
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war, dancing the Macarena. Cause everybody in Washington is like 8,000 years old. We're building
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a death bot army at the same time, fighting people that want to behead us. Oh, and the Islamists,
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uh, and redistricting tech Texas. And we're doing it all at the same time. Why? I mean,
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we're living mission impossible, except our Tom Cruise is 78 years old, which I want you to think
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about this. I think Donald Trump is exactly who Tom Cruise will be when he's 78, just not so he's
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still running that weird run that he's doing. Um, anyway, so Donald Trump is, is going after,
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uh, Venezuela for two reasons. One drugs, fentanyl and cocaine, much of it laced, uh, much of it
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deadly. And it is, it is being trafficked here in the United States, uh, by people who are directly
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tied to Maduro's government. And it's the, the so-called cartel of the sons, MS 13 gang members,
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all of this stuff is coming from, um, uh, Venezuela and they are poisoning Americans.
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And this is not just a foreign, you know, a foreign security thing or a foreign policy issue.
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This is, this is Homeland security. This is actually affecting us. The second one. And I think this is
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the bigger reason of the two. I mean, they probably tied, but this is a big one that most Americans don't
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know. Venezuela is not some backwater place. Uh, it's full of oil and it is a staging ground now
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for Russia, China and Iran, Hezbollah. It has some of the worst people. It's a beachhead for those
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people who want to see the United States taken down. Oh, Glenn, literally a beachhead. This is
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insane because I didn't even know a lot of this. We mentioned this maybe a couple of months ago.
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Yeah. We did a, we did a, it was in part of another story and the trend de agua stuff.
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Yeah. That's what it was coming out. And we were like, wait a minute, what is Hezbollah doing in,
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in, uh, Venezuela? Oh my gosh. I, so I actually dug through congressional testimony to get some of
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this information. Now this is information the American public doesn't really know, but the
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government knows. So check this out. This is from congressional testimony in 2011. They tested,
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Congress, Congress testified what Hugo Chavez was doing. Listen to this. The, just the year before
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in 2010, Hugo Chavez hosted something called the secret summit. Like literally, it was called the
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secret summit. Okay. Guess who showed up to secret summit? The supreme leader of Hamas,
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the chief of operations for Hezbollah and the secretary general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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Oh, I thought you were going to say Satan. I might as well have. I mean, this is absolutely
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nuts. And we didn't report on, nobody was talking about that. How can that happen right off our
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shore? Glenn. And nobody's talking about it. Glenn, it gets so much worse than that, if it can.
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So Iranians right now with connections to Hezbollah are on an island off the coast of Venezuela.
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It's called Margarita Island. Everyone should Google this right now and check it out.
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Is Jimmy Buffett involved? Jimmy Buffett would be nowhere near this Margarita Island.
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All right. The whole world is about to crash. Yeah. It's not five o'clock anywhere on this
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Margarita Island. These are some of the things they're doing here. Okay. Again, with the
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involvement of the, of the Venezuelan government, they are quote, running money laundering operations,
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establishing, excuse me, paramilitary training centers. They are recruiting Venezuelan gangs. And
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listen to this, sending those people, this is like Trenda Agua, sending them to Iran for follow-on
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training. Jeez. This is happening right now. Our government knows about this. This is the only
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time I've actually seen them doing something concrete to combat it. There's known about it since 2010.
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2010. No, no, since 2010. You didn't know that. Nobody's saying that when, you know, we, we've,
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we've argued that, you know, Venezuela and communism and, you know, they were eating the zoo animals.
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That's what, that's what happens gang when you go communist, uh, and full on democracy. They wanted
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full on democracy and that's what you get. That's, you know, hello Maduro. So, um, when Maduro, uh, took over,
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he was kind of the mom Donnie, if you will, of, of Venezuela, he's just a simple bus driver. Uh-huh. Uh,
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and look what, look what he's done. That's the part we've heard about. Then when the border crisis
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happened, we started hearing about, oh, well, they're sending gangs in and they're sending, uh,
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they're sending fentanyl and everything else in. We still are not talking about their connections
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to Iran and Hezbollah and how they have been training people and sending them here. This is
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really not good. So Donald Trump clearly knows all of this stuff. Um, and that's why he's offered
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$50 million for anybody that will turn him in or can tip us off to lead to the capture. And now the
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reason why we're doing that is you got to remember, we've done this before. Noriega was a guy that we,
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you know, was a drug Lord and we, and he was running a country and we said, we got to get him.
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And we finally did, uh, get Noriega and he went to prison for what he did. Um,
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but the other times we've done that Saddam Hussein and even worse, Momar Gaddafi, that was a Hillary
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Clinton and, uh, and a Barack Obama nightmare. And they drug his body through the streets because
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we assisted the collapse and it became a vacuum. And now Libya is just a nightmare, just a nightmare.
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So is Iraq. We can't let that happen to Venezuela. So we have to be very careful. He can't just say,
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go get him. We have to be very careful. Unless the people themselves rise up against Maduro,
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unless the people themselves do it, um, is this going to be, this is going to be a really tough
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one, but we have to stop pretending that this is somebody else's problem because it is our problem.
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It really is our problem. Those people are already here. And we are also,
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you know, this one reason why I don't like it when people blame their problems on others,
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I'm an alcoholic. Now everybody says, well, that, you know, that's a familial thing that
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runs in your genes. I don't know. I don't think they've ever found that. There's no evidence of
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that. Uh, but you can make a good case. I mean, we're riddled with alcoholism, uh, in my family.
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Um, so yeah, maybe, maybe, but I'm the one who makes the choice. Okay. Yeah. Maybe I have that
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extra gene that's working against me. Maybe, but I went into the bar. I went into the store and bought
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the booze. So we, we have to start taking responsibility for some of our problems. It's
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easy to say Venezuela is shipping all this fentanyl into the United States. We have to recognize
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that Americans are buying it. Now there's one thing to say about addiction. Once you start buying it,
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then you're addicted to it. And it is a nightmare. I mean, the first time I had fentanyl, I, I wake up,
00:29:45.600
I've woken up on the operating table two times. Uh, they cannot keep me down. My body just processes
00:29:51.160
stuff like so fast. Uh, it's a fast, high functioning liver. Um, and, uh, I was in pain.
00:29:58.460
You might remember this. If you've listened to me for a long time, I was in New York and, uh, they put
00:30:03.420
me under and then they, I got out and they, they were giving me morphine, I think Percocet, uh, and
00:30:12.060
fentanyl patches. And my doctor after said, why would you let somebody do this to you? And I'm like,
00:30:18.860
well, I was a little high and my wife didn't know. I mean, we listened to the doctor. That's that,
00:30:24.240
that's when we really learned. Don't listen to the doctor. They don't always know, but they had
00:30:28.640
good intent. They were just trying to keep me out of pain, but the box fentanyl, I don't know if it
00:30:34.760
still does, but if, if you get a box of fentanyl from the drugstore, it says black box, uh, you know,
00:30:41.100
warning for end of life use only. Why? Because it is so incredibly addicting. You take it for a day
00:30:52.780
or two and you're done. You're addicted to it. Um, so addiction is one thing that we have to deal
00:30:59.640
with, but we also have to say Americans are buying this stuff. We have to change our culture and start
00:31:08.600
prosecuting people who are buying this stuff, um, and treating those who are addicted to it and
00:31:15.400
understanding with compassion, uh, yada, yada, yada. But we have to also, if you're selling drugs,
00:31:21.100
you're involved in selling drugs, you should have a very, very long sentence, very long sentence. You
00:31:28.740
know, let, don't tell Donald Trump this, but you know, China does not have a drug problem
00:31:35.360
because if you sell drugs, you're executed. I don't even think you get a trial. They just kill
00:31:41.260
you. Let's not tell Donald Trump that because he might like that idea, but it'd fix it quickly.
00:31:47.160
It'd fix it quickly. Um, but we, we have to take responsibility ourself. We have to be resilient
00:31:55.460
as people in our communities. We have to have strong families. We have to have a citizenry that knows the
00:32:01.040
difference between liberty and tyranny. We have to understand that freedom does not come when you're
00:32:06.200
on drugs. It doesn't. That is the worst tyranny. You're a pharmaceutical tyranny. You are, you are
00:32:14.060
a slave to whatever it is that you're putting into your body. That's the real battle. But there is
00:32:20.180
another one off our shore that could heat up. What do you think is going to happen, Jason? Because
00:32:26.680
It's significant. I mean, including 4,000 Marines. Uh, I was on a battle group like that where this
00:32:32.560
is the same kind where you, I, we would go and just sit off the coast of like a Middle Eastern
00:32:38.380
When you were in it, weren't you off the coast of like Australia that you were one of the first in
00:32:42.700
Yeah. Yeah. In one of these battle groups doing exercises in Australia, we got the call,
00:32:47.460
went straight to Afghanistan right after that. So this is like the firepower that could do that. So
00:32:51.840
it's very intimidating. I would assume that is the reason for this. I don't think
00:32:56.580
they'll actually be doing actual, you know, you know, conflict type kinetic stuff, but I bet that
00:33:02.020
it's just supposed to be, it's supposed to mean to be intimidating. I'm curious if it's supposed to
00:33:06.600
lend support to maybe some of the, you know, ground people in Venezuela to finally tell them, look,
00:33:11.880
you know, we've got your back. If you want to, you know, do something about this and finally take
00:33:20.040
You know, maybe it would be a peacekeeping force.
00:33:21.760
All right. You sick, twisted freak. Want more of me and stew? Maybe not stew, but to hear the
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Stu, do you know who Jesse Owens is? Sure. And if so, who was he? Olympian. Um,
00:34:57.900
yeah. American hero. American hero. Why? Why was he an American hero? I mean, he won in the,
00:35:03.760
hit me at the Hitler Olympics, if you will. Okay. Can you tell me who Tommy Smith and John Carlos
00:35:09.420
are? Um, Tommy Smith and, uh, what was it? Uh, John, John Carlos. John Carlos. I cannot.
00:35:20.620
Hmm. I think you're exactly like most Americans and I want to show you why, uh, our lack of knowledge
00:35:31.380
because I couldn't remember to, I know of them. You'll know what they did as soon as I start telling
00:35:36.640
the story, but you don't remember their names, Tommy Smith and John Carlos. It proves a point.
00:35:43.580
Everyone knows Jesse Owens, but not these two. We were talking last hour. Summarize real quick,
00:35:49.320
Stu, if you will, the New York times, uh, article and, and how they are presenting this story about
00:35:55.500
Donald Trump with the Smithsonian. Their headline is Trump says Smithsonian focuses too much on how
00:36:01.940
bad slavery was. Um, and the controversy, of course, you know, I mean, that's specifically
00:36:08.520
make you designed to make you think a specific thing, right? Like you're supposed to think he's
00:36:13.020
complaining about how they're saying slavery was bad. Well, what is he saying that they're,
00:36:17.340
that he doesn't want them to talk about it at all. Is he saying that it was good? Are there good
00:36:21.760
aspects of slavery, Don? That's what they want you to do. And of course there's a, there is a
00:36:27.440
selection of our country that will dutifully do exactly that. And it is really weird that a section
00:36:35.520
of our country, much of it has been led by the New York times. The New York times is supposed to be
00:36:41.720
the bastion of thought. It's supposed to be fair. It's supposed to be all the news fit to print what
00:36:47.200
they just printed is not fit because it's not news. That's a lie. It's not news period. Um,
00:36:55.360
what he is saying is there should be balance balance. Why are we pushing this narrative that
00:37:02.200
America is such a bad place and that we enslaved our people. And that's the story of America. That's
00:37:08.980
not the story of America. And it's not, it's a part of it. It's an important part of it, but it's not
00:37:15.500
the story. So that's what he was saying. That's the story they didn't want to print and they can
00:37:22.900
get away with it because they know their readers want that hate on Donald Trump. Okay. And instead
00:37:31.500
of having the backbone, the spine and the integrity to say, I don't care what our viewers or our readers
00:37:37.840
want. I mean, how many times have we done this too? And it's caused us real problems. I mean, we've
00:37:42.120
lost, we've lost millions of dollars, uh, over the years at different times because I have had a point
00:37:49.140
of view and I know it's out of step with you and I've said it and I've said, you know, I know you're
00:37:55.080
going to disagree with this, but this is, this is where I am because I believe that's what you come
00:38:01.120
here for. You don't, I'm not here to feed you what you want to hear. You come here because you want to
00:38:07.520
hear my opinion. And it's just that my opinion, my view of the world and its happenings and what it
00:38:16.580
all means. I don't expect you to agree with everything. And the minute I want you to agree
00:38:23.180
with everything or I want, I'll change my view. So you will agree with everything. I have nothing
00:38:30.500
left. I have nothing left. And that's where the New York times is. Yeah. What is the point? Yeah.
00:38:35.140
So that's, that's where the New York times is. Yeah. And I think, you know, I, I, we obviously
00:38:40.740
care about the country. We care about these issues that we talk about every day and, and, and those
00:38:45.960
are like, I don't know, macro concerns, right? These are the high level stuff. Everybody thinks
00:38:50.800
about, you know, oh gosh, what's going to happen with the economy. What's going to happen with our
00:38:53.380
freedom. What's going to happen with religious freedom, whatever the big issue we're talking about
00:38:56.620
of the day is. But there are also like micro things that you do that are part of your job.
00:39:00.800
And like, one of the things that keeps me up at night is the idea of somebody in this audience
00:39:08.820
walking to walking into work and having a conversation with a coworker and repeating
00:39:15.040
something that they heard on our show only for that coworker to say, what are you talking
00:39:19.980
about? That's not true. And then prove it like that is a nightmare. I've had a thousand
00:39:24.980
times working on this show. Yeah, me too. I do not want to put our awesome audience in that
00:39:30.720
position. I hate that position. I want them to know, I want them to be the one who has
00:39:35.580
actually, you're wrong. And here's why. And then having them prove it because they have
00:39:41.040
the facts and they, and they have it backed up. And like, and that's, and that's honestly
00:39:45.380
why I have said over and over and over again, Hey, don't trust, don't take it from us. Don't
00:39:49.660
trust. I don't want your trust. I don't ask for your trust. Your trust is nice. I appreciate
00:39:55.400
it. I am honored by it, but I'm telling you, I'll get it wrong. And don't trust in
00:40:00.520
men. Men will always let you down. Trust, trust in God, verify everything else. And
00:40:06.980
the only way that this true, the only way you can fight for this truth is if you know
00:40:11.260
it yourself. So you might hear me tell a story and go, wow, is that true? And then hopefully
00:40:17.380
my, my ultimate view of what I do is I'm a gateway drug. I get you interested in a story
00:40:25.320
and you're like, that can't be true. Or wow, that's really true. And you start going down
00:40:30.840
this wormhole of history and you start looking at things and go, wow, you know what? I didn't
00:40:35.320
even know this. Glenn, did you know this? Cause that's when life becomes exciting is when
00:40:40.300
you're on a constant road of discovery and it becomes yours. When people say, Glenn, I wish
00:40:46.540
you were with me cause I was talking to my friends and I couldn't remember. You shouldn't
00:40:49.960
have to remember. And I know there's so much going on that you, you know, you need us to
00:40:55.560
do shorthand for you, but you know, the ultimate goal is to get you. So you know, it's so well
00:41:01.240
that you don't have to remember. You'll know how to get on your phone and go, wait a minute,
00:41:04.780
hang on just a second. You get on your phone and you can find the facts. You can find the
00:41:08.000
story. You can prove it as Stu just said, not with my words, but with the actual facts,
00:41:13.200
with the documents, et cetera, et cetera. Um, and the New York times is not expecting that
00:41:19.040
from their audience anymore. They're in fact, expecting them not to do homework. And it's,
00:41:25.340
it's doubly insidious because they are playing to their audience and they've sold their soul
00:41:31.300
to that audience. But then they also know that the New York times sets the table for everybody.
00:41:37.880
Anybody who is a journalist, they look to the New York times. Is it in the New York times? Okay.
00:41:42.500
Then it must be also the New York times, whatever they print, especially if it's got a catchy
00:41:49.420
headline like that, it will go out and become very, very viral. So they're not only scooping
00:41:55.040
up the intellectuals that they've already scooped up that are that just want to hear that one
00:41:59.860
side and point of view. They're not really intellectuals anymore, but also they're getting
00:42:04.540
the dummies on the street that only read that headline who go, yeah, well, he's a racist.
00:42:09.280
He likes slavery. Okay. So it's just an insidious business that they're in. Now,
00:42:16.780
I just told you a minute ago what Donald Trump was saying, and I happen to agree with him. The
00:42:23.340
Smithsonian is a garbage can right now, an absolute garbage can. Um, it is taken everything and it has
00:42:33.320
its own perspective and that's what it's going to tell the world who America is. I want to go to a
00:42:39.220
museum where I learn something. I learned something about the bad and the good. We got it. Slavery was
00:42:45.980
bad. We got that. Tell me something else that maybe I don't know. Okay. Jesse Owens, Jesse Owens,
00:42:55.020
a hero. Everybody loves Jesse Owens. Why? Well, it wasn't always that way. You know, Jesse Owens, uh,
00:43:02.740
he didn't want to go to the Olympics. He pissed everybody off because some people said he should go
00:43:07.780
to the Olympics to show a black man can beat the, you know, the, the white God of the Germans. And they
00:43:15.940
wanted him to go to do that. Others said he shouldn't be used as a tool of our government,
00:43:21.920
uh, to do that. And so when he decided to go, he really didn't want to go because he, he just,
00:43:29.860
he just didn't want to go. He wasn't, you know, he's like, I'm not a symbol. I'm, I'm, I'm an athlete,
00:43:34.140
but he went. And when he went, he became a hero to those who saw that and said, see Germans,
00:43:42.460
white supremacy. Really? Look at that. Look at Jesse Owens. But when he came back,
00:43:48.780
he wasn't greed. All the Olympic winners were, were brought to the white house. Jesse Owens was
00:43:55.360
not invited to the white house by Roosevelt, Franklin D Roosevelt, the God of progressives.
00:44:05.880
He wouldn't have that black man at the white house. So he was rejected. He goes over,
00:44:13.520
he proves to the world that he is, uh, that whites are not superior. And then he comes back and he's
00:44:20.720
rejected in his own country by his own president. It's an incredible story. He led a very tough life,
00:44:30.600
but as it went on, he became more and more a, a hero. We recognize him now as a hero by the 1960s.
00:44:41.260
The guy was absolutely known as a hero. He was very patriotic. He became, um, uh, an attache or
00:44:49.640
spokesperson or something for the state department. And he would go around the world talking about
00:44:54.760
America and yeah, America has its problems, but look at the progress we're making. Okay. That's
00:45:00.960
what Donald Trump is saying. Yes. Look at the problems we have. We should know that Jesse Owens
00:45:06.560
was not invited to the white house by, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time, but he now works for
00:45:14.640
the state department and he's spreading the message that yes, we did those things, but we're getting
00:45:21.680
better. Now, let me tell you about Tommy Smith and John Carlos. I told you that I was in the portrait
00:45:30.520
gallery, which is a garbage can, not the art, but the building, they have turned it into a garbage can.
00:45:38.140
It's disgusting. Um, and, uh, and then some of the stuff is not about America. Why I told you,
00:45:46.100
why is there that girl's bike, you know, with a Cuban flag and a chase sticker on it? What,
00:45:52.160
what the hell is that? And it's not just that one bike. I, cause I could go into that room and go,
00:45:56.620
okay, well, there's that bike. And so let me figure out the context of it, et cetera, et cetera.
00:46:01.140
But by that time I was so sick of all of the propaganda, I didn't care to learn about it.
00:46:07.640
Um, and I went into one of the last rooms right before the bike and like the vertebrae of a dinosaur,
00:46:14.720
there was these hanging from a ceiling. They had taken the cast of, uh, I think Tommy Smith
00:46:22.120
who held up his fist. It was one of them. Maybe it was both, but they held up their fit,
00:46:27.460
their fist in 1968, say black power. Okay. Um, black power, the that's Panthers that they were
00:46:35.360
terrorists. So they hold up black power. So some artists took the cast of both of their fists
00:46:43.360
and their forearms and, uh, made it into this art sculpture where it's just an arm and that fist
00:46:51.420
over and over and over again. And they laid it out like a giant vertebrae of an animal. And it takes
00:46:57.100
up a good portion of this huge room. It is the main feature of that room, but you don't even know
00:47:06.100
their name. You don't even know their name, Tommy Smith and John Carlos. Why? Well, I think you don't
00:47:14.100
know their name because they weren't effective. Why? Because they were promoting black power,
00:47:22.500
black Panthers terrorism. That's not America. That's not America. Let me tell you another story
00:47:29.840
that you don't know. And if you want to put that vertebrae up, great, put that vertebrae up,
00:47:35.140
but I want this story told in the same room and prominently displayed next to the vertebrae.
00:47:42.320
So Owens was not part, Jesse Owens was not part of the 1968 Olympics. He was traveling around the
00:47:48.460
world, but he was in Mexico city. And I think he was at that moment in the stadium for the black power.
00:47:54.660
Okay. And in Mexico city, here's what I, let me just say what I can verify. I'm not going to tell
00:48:02.180
you what I, the story, I think how it worked. Let me just what I can absolutely verify. After the
00:48:08.220
protest, Owens met privately with Smith and Carlos in Mexico city, multiple accounts say he tried to
00:48:17.320
counsel them. And his message was very different from theirs. Owens urged them to avoid confrontation
00:48:26.700
and to think how their actions would be perceived internationally. He reportedly told them that they
00:48:32.940
could accomplish more by working within the system rather than defying it so dramatically on the world
00:48:38.140
stage. Now that sounds like let's have a cup of tea and just talk. I don't think that's the way it
00:48:43.480
happened. This is my opinion. I don't think this is what, what happened. Um, because there are other
00:48:50.540
accounts that said, uh, while he understood the anger of the black American because he had lived it
00:49:01.360
unlike they lived it, he had lived it decades before. So he understood what they claimed they were going
00:49:13.500
through in comparison to him, really not so much. He was very upset that they embarrassed the United
00:49:22.940
States and undermined the Olympics. Remember he's an athlete. That's why he didn't want to go to the
00:49:28.660
Olympics in Berlin. He's an athlete. He's not a politician. He's not a symbol. And he's like,
00:49:34.900
you're undermining the purpose of the games in the first place. It's the games and it's a unifying
00:49:40.500
thing where we bring all nations together. And that's not what the Olympics are for. They're not
00:49:46.280
for political protests. In 1968, uh, Jesse Owens was seen as a model of racial progress and progress had
00:49:57.060
been made. He was the African American who humiliated Adolf Hitler and the Aryan supremacy narrative in
00:50:05.540
1936. He then made progress from a guy who could not even go to the white house to now being part of the
00:50:14.660
government, preaching patriotism and patience in the civil rights struggle all around the world. Patience,
00:50:22.220
patience. This is what really hacks me off on this story. Patience. Why are progressives historically from the
00:50:32.980
early 20th century? Why are progressives called progressives and not communists? Because you could call them
00:50:39.340
communists or fascists in the early 1900s. That was the model they were going for. Why aren't they called those
00:50:46.040
things? Because back in those days, that wasn't deemed a bad thing. We didn't know yet. They're not,
00:50:52.740
they're called progressives because communism and fascism required a bloody revolution. And so these guys
00:51:01.640
were sane communists, sane fascists, if you will, that said, we don't want to have a bloody revolution.
00:51:08.820
We want to take it step by step, bring people along, have patience, and we will finally get there.
00:51:16.040
So that's the way to win according to the progressive of the era. What does he do? He's saying,
00:51:25.360
you can't do this. You're embarrassing. You're setting us back. You're dividing. Stop it. Patience,
00:51:33.920
which is a good progressive trait. Hmm. Which one won in the end? Which one actually furthered
00:51:46.020
civil rights? The communist Black Panther, Black Power guys that you don't remember? Or Jesse Owens?
00:51:54.660
Because it's the same choice we have to make today. Revolution or work within the system?