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00:00:00.000 today on the best of the glenn beck program last night the president came out in the rose garden

00:00:04.660 he uh sat down with swing district republicans in the rose garden told him exactly what he intends

00:00:11.420 to do and on monday night february 1983 106 million americans sit down and watch the last

00:00:20.960 episode of MASH. Not 106 million across the season, 106 million people on one night. More

00:00:31.520 than half the country are all doing at the same hour watching the same helicopter lift off the

00:00:38.220 same hill. The same week in Plymouth, Mass, 12 other people are trying to decide what happened

00:00:46.120 to a mother named Lindsay Clancy. 80 witnesses, 300 exhibits, five days of deliberation,

00:00:53.740 roughly 30 hours. Twice they've told the judge, we can't agree.

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00:02:15.600 So, Ryan Reynolds, a Canadian.

00:02:19.360 Sorry, I just had to throw that in.

00:02:21.720 Ryan Reynolds has come out, and I love Ryan Reynolds.

00:02:25.120 He's hysterical, but please don't wreck it by talking politics, Ryan.

00:02:29.300 Here he is about the 1980s.

00:02:31.280 Listen to his take on the 1980s.

00:02:33.640 What's interesting about when you get far enough away from a time period that's quite distinct,

00:02:38.340 I think there's always a lovely feeling associated with it.

00:02:40.880 It's almost like you pave over all the trauma with like puppy dogs and ice cream.

00:02:44.400 And the 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people.

00:02:47.700 It was a mess.

00:02:48.900 And like, you know, people forget that it was like, that was a tremendous strife,

00:02:53.240 sociopolitical tensions everywhere.

00:02:55.400 You know, we're still like pretty fresh off like a Cuban missile crisis,

00:02:58.520 which is only like, what, 15, 20 years before.

00:03:01.120 So, you know, it's a tumultuous period.

00:03:04.720 But you look back at it now and you're like, oh yeah, Top Gun, cocaine.

00:03:07.780 like no it was like a really scary so i think you know i think when you look back at 2026

00:03:13.120 and this era i think you're gonna like pick on the big ticket items that don't really

00:03:17.960 didn't really leave the footprint culturally that you would think it would like i don't know

00:03:22.840 so much of the aughts were like like a mix of all the decades previous whereas the decades previous

00:03:28.500 were their own thing so i don't know i wonder what it's gonna be it's gonna be like oh the

00:03:33.260 covid era or something i have no idea no you're probably right it'll be rose colored glasses

00:03:37.220 of course this we are living in the freaking salad days right now we just don't know it

00:03:41.740 and interesting point of view look um he's probably right because you always look back

00:03:48.640 on things years later and go oh those were the good old days um and he's right about the 80s

00:03:54.820 were tough but let me give you another point of view here before i get to the tough part of the

00:03:59.620 80s well let me give you another point of view say it's saturday 1984 garage door is open the

00:04:05.580 radio is on somebody's mother is standing on a porch two houses down hollering a name you know

00:04:11.080 at the end of the dusk that's how we know where children were that's you know before there was

00:04:16.080 there was no way to locate children except for moms out going glenn okay there was one phone

00:04:22.580 it was in the kitchen it was on the wall it was in a color that they don't make anymore i don't

00:04:26.980 even know what that color is. The cord was long enough to reach into the pantry or into a closet,

00:04:32.320 which was really the only place where every important conversation in America could take

00:04:36.900 place. Nobody knows where you are. Nobody's worried about it. You'll be home when the

00:04:42.480 streetlights are come on. Friday, you stand in front of a wall of video boxes for 40 minutes

00:04:48.060 and the ones, all the ones you want, even the one number five, number six, if you were too late,

00:04:52.640 all checked out. So you take home something worse and you're like, okay, I guess I'm going to like

00:04:56.900 it and saturday you sit with your finger on the record the record button waiting for the dj to

00:05:03.780 quit talking if you were young enough so you could steal a song off the radio that guy always talks

00:05:09.240 too long so you get his voice on the tape forever and 40 years later that's the version you hear in

00:05:14.140 your head and on monday night february 1983 106 million americans sit down and watch the last

00:05:24.740 episode of MASH. Not 106 million across the season, 106 million people on one night. More

00:05:35.300 than half the country are all doing at the same hour, watching the same helicopter lift off the

00:05:41.980 same hill. And the next morning, there was nothing to catch up on because everybody had already seen

00:05:48.300 it. And I got to tell you, I miss that more than I can tell you. But let me tell you something else

00:05:55.740 that was going on on that street. About 25,000 Americans were killed by drunk drivers. And that

00:06:01.540 was a punchline. It was a bit comedians did. A man could be arrested for it four times and still

00:06:08.140 have a license in his wallet. And almost nobody wore a seatbelt. Seatbelts? I still have a hard

00:06:13.600 time wearing a seatbelt because I grew up in the 70s seatbelts fewer than one in six kids rode

00:06:20.300 loose in the bed of a pickup I was one of them some of us didn't make it home we got we when we

00:06:26.740 moved on crack came into cities took a decade of men with it a disease showed up this country

00:06:35.800 couldn't say out loud for years men died in hospital rooms where they were left with a food

00:06:40.580 tray outside their door all alone and under all of it ran the hum that never shut off which was

00:06:47.740 everybody's private understanding that the whole thing could be over in about 19 minutes

00:06:53.640 it was november 1983 something close to a hundred million people watched a made for tv movie about

00:07:02.220 a nuclear attack on kansas and then a lot of us sat up in the dark

00:07:08.200 some can still tell you what chair they were sitting in when they watched it

00:07:15.320 same decade same street same summer the 3rd of may 1980 a 13 year old girl named carrie lightner

00:07:23.340 walking to church to a church carnival with a friend in fair oaks california car came up behind

00:07:31.620 her driver was drunk he didn't stop he was a repeat offender been out on bail for two days

00:07:37.780 from another hit and run. Somebody official had told her mother the man would probably

00:07:44.860 not do any real time. That wasn't cruelty. That's just how it worked back then.

00:07:50.140 Candy Lightner had never registered to vote in her life. She sold real estate. Four days later, 0.89

00:07:56.800 her daughter was killed. One day after the funeral, she started an organization at her

00:08:01.320 kitchen table. Four years later, she stood next to the president of the United States

00:08:05.160 where he signed the bill that raised the drinking age in all 50 states.

00:08:09.380 $25,000 a year is now around $10,000.

00:08:15.400 And we drive twice the miles now.

00:08:17.820 Do the math.

00:08:18.800 And it comes out to a stadium full of people who are having dinner tonight

00:08:22.600 because one mother said, no, you know, that's just how it works.

00:08:26.920 No, that's not how it works anymore.

00:08:28.860 you know in the early 80s there were three men at a british base at the bottom of the world

00:08:36.360 pointing an old instrument to the sky over antarctica writing down how much ozone was up

00:08:42.040 there one spring they they wrote the number um and it came back wrong not a little wrong a third of

00:08:48.960 it was gone they didn't call a press conference they assumed their instrument was broken because

00:08:54.240 i mean that's what a careful man assumes first it's broken so they get a second instrument

00:08:58.200 same number they waited an entire season to see if it would happen again then they waited another

00:09:04.900 one and then they finally published and everybody went back and looked at the satellite data and

00:09:10.180 this they've been seeing it the satellite had been seeing it for years the readings were so

00:09:14.320 far below anything anyone expected that they had they had been uh they'd set it aside because

00:09:21.620 It was probably equipment.

00:09:24.860 The machine had been telling this number, and everybody went, that's got to be a mistake.

00:09:31.880 Two years after that, a paper.

00:09:35.520 Every country on earth signed that paper.

00:09:38.860 Montreal Protocol.

00:09:40.200 Every one.

00:09:42.920 There's not another treaty in the history of the United Nations that every single nation ratified.

00:09:48.660 And the hole is closing, slowly.

00:09:51.620 On schedule, it's closing. It's gone.

00:09:58.600 So it wasn't better.

00:10:02.960 It was actually more dangerous.

00:10:05.240 We're safer today than we were then.

00:10:07.820 We were more poisoned in some ways, although let's check the food now.

00:10:12.700 We're more frightened than the country we are standing in right now

00:10:16.400 because most people are afraid to even look at it.

00:10:18.520 Most news organizations are denying the problems even exist, so not enough people are awake to the problems and how big these problems are.

00:10:29.700 And the 80s feel better because it's finished.

00:10:31.820 We know the ending.

00:10:33.860 We know the ending.

00:10:35.140 It ended safely.

00:10:42.760 But something was there that isn't now, and it isn't the mall.

00:10:46.580 106 million people watched the same show

00:10:50.760 When a story broke, it came out

00:10:52.940 All of us watched it from three different men in suits

00:10:57.660 And whatever you concluded about it

00:10:59.680 You were arguing over the same set of facts

00:11:01.740 Candy Lightner could go on television

00:11:04.300 One time and reach the country

00:11:07.200 She couldn't do that today

00:11:08.800 Today she'd reach her slice 1.00

00:11:13.620 and then other slices get told that she's a hysteric with an agenda. 1.00

00:11:19.040 And a lot would be handed, you know, a reason not to listen to a mom 1.00

00:11:22.740 whose daughter was just killed walking in a church carnival.

00:11:25.860 We're not better people.

00:11:27.400 We had fewer instruments.

00:11:29.180 That's it.

00:11:30.680 Everybody has his own instrument now.

00:11:32.280 Do you know that over 30% of Americans now say they're an influencer or a podcaster?

00:11:40.140 30%?

00:11:42.040 Give it a rest.

00:11:43.620 I think we're a little out of control with our egos.

00:11:46.060 30% are influencers.

00:11:48.240 Wow.

00:11:49.460 We all have our own feet, our own numbers, our own weather.

00:11:55.380 And the trouble with your own instrument is that nobody ever comes along and says,

00:11:58.980 I think that might be broken.

00:12:02.100 Those men at the bottom, those men who stood at the bottom of the world,

00:12:08.440 got it right because they didn't trust themselves.

00:12:11.020 They weren't trying to be influencers.

00:12:13.620 They went and they got a second instrument and they checked the reading against somebody else's before they believe their own eyes.

00:12:19.580 I don't want 1984 back.

00:12:21.760 I've seen the numbers.

00:12:22.720 I'll keep it at 2026.

00:12:24.820 I just want the instrument back.

00:12:27.180 I want the other guy in the room.

00:12:29.760 I want the person who says, hold on, hold on.

00:12:32.020 Mine says something different.

00:12:33.220 Let's look again.

00:12:34.040 And you do it together.

00:12:35.140 That's not nostalgia.

00:12:36.920 That's an appointment.

00:12:38.200 That's Sunday dinner.

00:12:39.320 That's a pew.

00:12:40.020 That's a bleacher.

00:12:40.960 That's a driveway.

00:12:41.780 that's one neighbor you disagree with

00:12:44.240 and you like them anyway

00:12:46.020 we've always had problems

00:12:51.760 we've always had big problems

00:12:53.520 they seem lighter now

00:12:56.160 because we got through them

00:12:57.400 and we saw we solved them

00:12:59.140 and we solved them together

00:13:00.400 can you imagine how scary the 60s were

00:13:03.580 when everybody was being shot

00:13:05.480 when the communists were in the streets

00:13:11.240 just like they are now. Everything's coming undone. We're losing a major war. Our whole

00:13:17.920 identity, everything that World War II was about is being flushed down the toilet. You imagine how

00:13:23.200 frightening that was? But we know the God era came after that. The Jesus revolution. Somehow or 0.70

00:13:32.560 another we solved it and then we got into the 70s when the economy was stopping and New York was

00:13:38.900 failing, and Jimmy Carter was carrying his own luggage, and helicopters were burning in the

00:13:43.860 Middle East, and yet we got through it. And then we got the Reagan era, where everybody believed

00:13:52.000 we were going to blow the entire world up, but we got through it. We're going to get through this,

00:13:59.580 but we're not going to get through this if we don't hold on to each other,

00:14:02.760 and we don't hold on to the things

00:14:04.640 that we all have in common.

00:14:07.480 The good things.

00:14:09.700 The family.

00:14:11.820 The friendships.

00:14:19.760 The streetlights are on.

00:14:23.500 But come home.

00:14:27.100 Come home.

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00:15:31.540 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

00:15:35.720 Let me take you back to June.

00:15:37.900 It's June. It's a gated community outside Williamsburg, Virginia.

00:15:41.640 There's a five-year-old boy named Sam.

00:15:44.340 He asked his mom, can I walk back to the pond and collect more goose feathers?

00:15:48.580 It's half a mile.

00:15:49.960 Sidewalk's the whole way.

00:15:50.860 Ten feet of grass between him and the street, posted at 25.

00:15:55.700 Two crosswalks.

00:15:56.780 He had crossed them six times that morning, and his mom said, yeah, I'm going to go in and make lunch.

00:16:02.440 She was eight months pregnant with her fifth child, and she was studying for the bar exam.

00:16:07.100 This is a mom who cares deeply.

00:16:09.920 Well, a passerby sees the boy, calls security.

00:16:13.560 A guard walks him home, tells him on the way that bad people would want to take him.

00:16:18.400 Now, I want you to know, believe it or not, the stats show your children are more safe today on our streets in America than ever before.

00:16:28.400 I know it doesn't feel that way, but it's true.

00:16:32.140 So then the guard calls the police.

00:16:34.440 Three squad cars come.

00:16:35.700 Three.

00:16:36.880 Two workers from the Child Protective Services.

00:16:40.320 Now, Carrie Ann Parkinson, she's the mom. 0.87

00:16:44.020 She was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

00:16:49.360 CPS substantiated a neglect finding

00:16:52.940 and put her on Virginia's Child Abuse and Neglect Registry.

00:16:58.060 She's going to be there on that for seven years.

00:17:02.100 Last week, a judge convicted her.

00:17:04.600 Six months in jail, suspended.

00:17:09.320 Okay, really?

00:17:12.320 She assumes it means she can no longer volunteer at her children's school.

00:17:16.340 She doesn't know yet whether she'll ever be able to get her law license now.

00:17:20.140 She attends William and Mary.

00:17:22.360 She summers as an intern in the office of a state senator who co-sponsored Virginia's reasonable childhood independence law,

00:17:30.600 the one defining neglect as serious, obvious danger.

00:17:34.300 This is not one of those things.

00:17:35.800 It passed the legislature unanimously in 2023 when her husband told the officials at the door that children need reasonable risk in order to grow up unafraid.

00:17:44.920 He said the answer came back that a five-year-old can never be unsupervised.

00:17:50.860 Ever? Ever?

00:17:53.400 The same week in Plymouth, Mass.,

00:17:56.360 12 other people are trying to decide what happened to a mother named Lindsay Clancy.

00:18:01.840 80 witnesses, 300 exhibits, five days of deliberation, roughly 30 hours.

00:18:09.320 Twice they've told the judge, we can't agree.

00:18:11.720 yesterday he read them the um i think they call it the dynamite act

00:18:18.480 the dynamite charge you got one more chance you got to do it they're going to send you back

00:18:25.660 because nobody's going to decide this nobody's going to have better chances

00:18:29.240 deciding this than you go back and decide it one more time try

00:18:33.060 one country one week in virginia the state knows precisely what a mother owes to her child

00:18:41.360 down to the crosswalk, and in Massachusetts, they can't decide murder in 30 hours.

00:18:50.100 Now, there's another story going around this week meant to settle the second question

00:18:54.040 with real confidence, okay? And it's a story that happened in 1954 in Waterville, Maine.

00:19:01.620 It was a story about a 24-year-old girl named Constant Fisher. She drowned her three children,

00:19:07.260 Richard, Daniel, and Deborah, and then tried to take her own life.

00:19:10.920 Her husband, Carl, comes home, again, 1954, from the railroad shop and found the door locked.

00:19:18.180 She had left a note saying God had told her to save them from evil.

00:19:22.060 Well, she spent five years in a state hospital in Augusta.

00:19:25.440 1959, she's released to Carl.

00:19:27.980 They moved to a house that he built in Fairfield.

00:19:30.620 They had three more children.

00:19:32.340 In the summer of 1966, Carl comes home, finds the children dead, all three of them the same way.

00:19:39.860 The youngest was nine months old.

00:19:42.900 Now, every version of this being shared this week carries the same moral.

00:19:46.700 America felt sorry for a mom, and the children died for it.

00:19:52.040 That's not what happened.

00:19:53.680 That's not what happened.

00:19:54.740 If you want to read that and just get all of your news from somebody else's feed, fine.

00:20:00.180 but you're going to get it wrong because that's not the record.

00:20:02.880 The moral is wrong.

00:20:05.460 Constance Fisher, she was never tried in 1954.

00:20:10.600 No verdict, no jury, no mercy because there was no trial.

00:20:15.280 The examiners found her unfit to stand trial, so she was committed right away.

00:20:19.920 Nobody forgave her.

00:20:20.960 Nobody was asked to.

00:20:23.200 She didn't get out because anyone's heart had softened.

00:20:25.960 Carl had petitioned for her release in 1955 and the hospital's medical board said are you are you

00:20:32.220 crazy too but she walked out four years later why the reason wasn't because of sympathy

00:20:38.980 it was a national campaign to empty the hospitals a policy let her out not a jury not a judge not a

00:20:47.300 feeling not sympathy none of that it was a policy and a policy that had a long tail behind it

00:20:55.280 We have been here before.

00:20:59.120 Take you back one more step.

00:21:01.760 1841, 28th of March, 1841.

00:21:04.360 School teacher went to jail in East Cambridge to teach Sunday school to the women locked up inside.

00:21:15.500 Her name was Dorothea Dix.

00:21:17.900 She was 39.

00:21:19.080 She had been born in Maine. 0.99

00:21:21.220 Now, some of those women had committed no crime. 1.00

00:21:24.320 They were insane, or somebody said they were insane, and the country had nowhere else to put them. 1.00

00:21:30.080 So they were housed with felons.

00:21:33.560 When she gets there, the room has no stove. 1.00

00:21:36.520 Dick's ass about it. 1.00

00:21:37.820 She's told the insane don't feel the cold. 1.00

00:21:41.060 She spent the next 18 months walking into every jail and alms house in Massachusetts with a notebook.

00:21:47.140 She wasn't arguing.

00:21:48.020 She was just counting.

00:21:49.180 In January of 1843, she handed the legislator what she had written down.

00:21:52.900 she told them she had come to call their attention to insane persons confined within the commonwealth

00:21:58.660 in cages closets sellers stalls pins chained naked beaten with rods and then she named all the towns

00:22:07.680 they built and she went to the next state and they built there and she traveled to tens of

00:22:15.400 thousands of places and cities and tens of thousands of miles hospital a hospital after 0.95

00:22:21.540 Her hospital went up because one woman with a notebook made it impossible to keep not knowing.

00:22:28.720 In 1854, she gets to Congress.

00:22:31.360 Both houses pass a bill setting aside more than 12 million acres of federal land,

00:22:37.900 10 million of it for the care of the insane and the poor.

00:22:40.960 Sell the land, run the hospitals on the proceeds.

00:22:43.480 But on the 3rd of May, President Franklin Pierce vetoed it.

00:22:47.320 He said he was compelled to resist the sympathies of his own heart. 0.99

00:22:52.160 His reasoning was constitutional.

00:22:53.520 He said if Washington can provide for the insane poor, it can provide for all of the poor.

00:23:00.540 And that has to be done by the states, not the federal government.

00:23:03.820 Now, serious people still think he was right.

00:23:06.200 I think he was right.

00:23:07.960 As Vito held that line for 80 years until the Depression broke it.

00:23:12.080 The Depression breaks it.

00:23:13.280 now understand understand what all this means on the ground every asylum in america would be a state

00:23:24.280 asylum funded by a state legislature in whatever year that legislature felt generous

00:23:30.600 when they didn't feel generous unfunded systems don't stay merciful they get crowded and then 0.76

00:23:38.100 they get very cruel and by the 50s the hospitals that dicks had built held far more people than

00:23:44.320 they could treat the peak came in 1955 558 922 americans in state mental hospitals on a single

00:23:54.020 count you've seen the movies of what these hospitals were like and constance fishers was

00:23:59.120 in that system at the high water mark four years later they began saying we got to clear people out 0.83

00:24:04.980 today those hospitals hold fewer than 40 000 beds in a country twice the size nobody evaporated

00:24:12.980 roughly two million americans with serious mental illness are booked into jail every single year

00:24:17.500 we're doing exactly the same thing the largest mental health facilities in the united states

00:24:22.840 are jails in our counties 185 years and we're standing in the same room with no stove 1.00

00:24:30.880 so let me put those two moms back on the table 1.00

00:24:35.120 in Williamsburg

00:24:36.360 the state had enormous confidence

00:24:39.640 and unlimited reach

00:24:41.580 in a case where nothing happened at all

00:24:44.440 in Plymouth, in Waterville

00:24:47.660 the state had almost no capacity

00:24:50.440 where everything happened

00:24:52.160 that's the trade we've made without voting for it

00:24:57.520 we can't hold the dangerous

00:25:00.240 So we supervise the safe.

00:25:05.200 And notice what's doing all the work in all of it.

00:25:10.300 Not judgment, a category.

00:25:12.900 A five-year-old can never be unsupervised.

00:25:16.620 That's a category.

00:25:18.080 It doesn't require everybody meet Sam or watch him at the crosswalk or ask a mother one question.

00:25:24.320 It's cheaper than looking.

00:25:25.460 any mother who does this must be sick is another category any mother who does this must be evil

00:25:33.500 is a category two i don't know if she's sick or she's evil i have no idea and i've watched people 0.54

00:25:44.100 on my own side of the aisle spend a week explaining a woman they've never met

00:25:47.720 using a case from maine in 1954 they haven't read to reach a verdict 12 people who sat through

00:25:54.640 four weeks of testimony they can't reach in 30 hours. That's not toughness. That's the same

00:26:01.740 shortcut in a different coat. Now, here's the thing about all these cases that actually bothers

00:26:08.800 me. It's not the sentences. Only one of them gets a jury. Carrie Ann Parkinson got a caseworker's

00:26:16.760 finding, a registry entry, and a bench conviction. Nobody had to be persuaded of anything.

00:26:24.640 Nobody was ever even required to look at her.

00:26:28.780 Lindsay Clancy gets 12 strangers who can't leave that room until they agree.

00:26:33.500 And after 30 hours, they still want to do the cheap thing.

00:26:40.860 You know, a guard who sees a small child alone shrugs and goes, nah, is not a good man.

00:26:48.160 And the neglect laws that exist because real neglect is real and children die of it, that's why they exist.

00:26:57.800 Fine.

00:26:59.320 But prove it about this child.

00:27:01.940 Bring the evidence about this child.

00:27:05.040 That's all a jury is.

00:27:06.280 The last institution in American life that forces somebody to look at one person before deciding anything about them.

00:27:14.880 Who are we? 0.96

00:27:16.340 Are we a country that sent a woman into a jail with a notebook 0.71

00:27:20.400 and then built hospitals because she counted? 0.83

00:27:24.220 Are we them?

00:27:25.920 Who are we?

00:27:26.680 A country that closed the hospitals, kept the registry,

00:27:30.060 got very good at supervising people who never needed supervision?

00:27:35.100 Who are we becoming?

00:27:39.460 It isn't being decided in Plymouth.

00:27:41.380 It's being decided by whether we're still willing to do the expensive thing.

00:27:45.320 And go look at the actual person.

00:27:51.740 Dix's method is still available, still costs the same.

00:27:54.980 She didn't theorize about the insane.

00:27:56.860 She walked in, county by county.

00:27:58.340 She wrote down what she saw.

00:28:03.240 You know a good mother.

00:28:07.160 When somebody in your neighbors, Virginia, I can't believe you would just shrug this off.

00:28:14.900 Nobody paid attention to a good mom.

00:28:19.660 Who is in your life that you need to see? 0.66

00:28:22.540 Who's in your life on your street, your family?

00:28:28.360 It might not be fine.

00:28:31.940 Or might be fine, but it's under attack.

00:28:35.040 Let's go stand with them.

00:28:36.300 Let's go look at those people.

00:28:37.660 Not a text.

00:28:38.560 Let's go look at those people.

00:28:40.440 Let's sit with those people.

00:28:42.020 Let's pray with those people.

00:28:44.900 because our actions are stronger than words,

00:28:48.340 and what we do with our time is what matters.

00:28:56.460 Show me a person's checkbook,

00:28:58.300 and I'll show you a thing or two about their values,

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00:30:00.280 check out the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts last night the president came

00:30:05.440 out in the rose garden he uh sat down with swing district republicans in the rose garden told him

00:30:10.860 exactly what he intends to do 30 days final 30 days before november 3rd 35 races he asked mike

00:30:18.680 johnson for the list everybody tied everybody down anybody up by a hair he said he was going

00:30:24.440 to go to every single one of them he named a couple uh in particular he named ken paxton in

00:30:29.620 texas he spoke highly of ken paxton he's like you don't have to like the guy but look at his policies

00:30:34.780 He was the best attorney general in the country, and I agree with that.

00:30:38.780 He also named Dan Sullivan in Alaska.

00:30:40.940 Talked about the craziness that, I mean, these guys don't care what it takes to win.

00:30:45.540 Do you know that they found another guy with the same exact name to put him on the ballot just to split the vote?

00:30:54.660 Are you kidding me?

00:30:56.820 They'll do anything.

00:30:58.160 They'll do anything.

00:30:59.580 Now, will him going around the country work?

00:31:02.180 I don't know.

00:31:02.620 It certainly won't hurt.

00:31:04.780 But at least, I have to tell you, this guy just won't stop.

00:31:14.320 Republicans have held the House and the Senate, and they didn't deliver what they promised.

00:31:18.480 You noticed this spring in the primaries, you did something about it.

00:31:22.200 You held them accountable.

00:31:23.900 Some of them are not coming back.

00:31:25.840 That is the system working exactly as designed.

00:31:29.960 The primary is the room where we're supposed to settle our differences.

00:31:33.420 once that room is closed the ballots are printed so the only question left is the one that will

00:31:38.880 decide everything will republican voters actually show up for candidates they just

00:31:43.540 fought so hard to nominate and quite honestly when the system spends as much money the most money

00:31:51.800 than ever before to defeat somebody like ken paxton i don't know that says something about him

00:31:59.920 and the machine hating him.

00:32:01.960 I kind of like that.

00:32:04.300 I would wear that as a badge of honor.

00:32:07.160 Yeah, the machine tried to snuff me out

00:32:09.620 because they're afraid of what I'm going to do

00:32:12.320 because I won't play the game.

00:32:14.880 You know, we fight it out in the primary.

00:32:17.060 We stand together.

00:32:17.900 We're supposed to in November.

00:32:19.900 And that's not a slogan.

00:32:21.200 That's the difference between a family and the mob.

00:32:25.300 We are not a mob.

00:32:27.000 and i think there are some not you but i think there are some in this country that need to be

00:32:33.400 reminded what's at stake go back two years ago do you remember what that felt like

00:32:37.960 do you remember what we thought right before the election that if this fails we're toast the

00:32:44.920 country as we know it is over we won and then this is two years ago this is an ancient history

00:32:53.540 Two years ago, we all stood back and went, oh my gosh, look at what this guy is doing.

00:32:57.980 Look at what he's doing.

00:32:59.460 Without the help from Congress, without any cover, without a single thing handed to him,

00:33:05.120 with a press that is still hostile as hell.

00:33:08.700 He accomplished more than any other president in my lifetime and perhaps a great deal longer.

00:33:14.620 And yet, and this is true, you still feel it at the grocery store.

00:33:19.040 You're feeling it at the gas pump.

00:33:20.580 when the mortgage quote comes back, you laugh out loud because, like, that's not right, right?

00:33:26.600 Right? That sting is real. And nobody gets to tell you it isn't. But here's what else is real.

00:33:35.360 Everybody keeps saying that Congress has to codify what this president has done,

00:33:39.420 or it all snaps back to the way that it was. And that's true. And much of that begins snapping back

00:33:47.440 five months from now if we lose the House and the Senate. You've got to remember, most presidents

00:33:54.160 coast through the last two years. Gold watch, library plans, long weekends. It's a lame duck.

00:34:00.880 He's not going to do anything. The question is whether his final two years are spent working, 0.91

00:34:06.060 because he won't. He's not going to gold watch it. He'll work. Or spent under subpoenas and

00:34:12.980 arguments and a press going after him even more do we hand them the gavels and let the rest of

00:34:19.000 his presidency become nothing but hearings and impeachments and investigations to anything he's

00:34:24.060 ever done everything he's ever thought of anything he's ever said or anything he might want to do in

00:34:29.060 the future and then there's the court there's going to be a vacancy one maybe more somewhere

00:34:38.540 between next year and five years from now.

00:34:41.100 And that's just arithmetic.

00:34:42.360 It's not speculation.

00:34:43.360 It's arithmetic.

00:34:44.780 Are you prepared to hand that seat

00:34:46.800 to the Senate 1.00

00:34:48.920 who can't define a woman

00:34:50.980 who won't say plainly 0.99

00:34:52.780 that Marxism is wrong

00:34:54.540 in the wrong direction for this country?

00:34:58.600 You and I are going to be gone someday,

00:35:00.800 but that seat will still be there deciding.

00:35:05.240 Now, Republicans could make this easier

00:35:08.000 on everybody and themselves if they would just remember a few things. And actions always speak

00:35:13.640 louder than words, and you've had two years of non-action. They're not likely to pass anything

00:35:20.580 meaningful between here and November. So at a minimum, they might just relearn how to talk

00:35:26.840 like human beings. Here, Mr. Speaker, give us something to vote for. Oh, time's up for that.

00:35:34.380 everyone with an r next to their names this fall here's what people need to hear first say the word

00:35:42.420 affordability can you say it can you say it say it like a man who's seen a receipt at a grocery

00:35:49.060 store from time to time when a candidate waves that off or argues over who invented the word

00:35:55.740 or explains that groceries cost what they cost he's not sparring with a democrat he's contradicting

00:36:01.940 a mom in the checkout line who has just put the meat back because she can't afford it for her

00:36:08.000 kids. Don't argue with her. Tell her, I know, I see it. Here's what I'm doing. Here's what we're 1.00

00:36:16.800 going to do. And here's when it should pay off. The other thing, stop running against 2021.

00:36:24.160 You could be entirely right about how we got here and still lose because nobody's asked who broke

00:36:30.840 it. We know who broke it. But that's beyond the point. Who's going to fix it? Talk about housing.

00:36:38.760 It's the number one concern of Americans under 35 and men under 50. The very people who came 1.00

00:36:45.140 out two years ago and are now being told, be patient, be patient. Be patient for what? Tell

00:36:50.260 me how you're going to fix it. A 28-year-old who can't ever imagine owning a home is not a polling

00:36:58.460 problem. That's a citizen losing faith in the whole arrangement. I know we have, but somebody

00:37:06.820 better start expressing a better answer. And here they are. Build. Permit. Get the hell out of the

00:37:13.380 way. Get the government out of the way. Let people fix things. Talk about energy like it's the price

00:37:20.640 of everything, because it is. The freight, the fertilizer, the food, the flight home for Christmas.

00:37:26.800 it's everything do you know that the republican uh in michigan running against al saeed

00:37:34.900 mike rogers is his name he's running ads of him in a hard hat in a factory pointing at things

00:37:43.460 you can't see on the screen while shaking his head as if he's listening to the guy from the

00:37:47.600 plant and the other hard hat i gotta tell you what is it 1985 i am so sick and tired of this

00:37:54.080 here's what you need to do show up listen first and then respond like a real human being mean

00:38:01.160 what you say and say what you mean people will forgive almost anything from actually from people

00:38:06.380 who actually show up and say i screwed that up you know i gotta tell you some of us saw this a

00:38:13.860 long way off you were in this fight in 2016 you you were probably standing in a parking lot with

00:38:20.260 homemade sign with your children in 2010. You remember saying out loud, there are radical

00:38:26.400 Islamists who mean every word they say. There's Marxists inside our own institutions who mean

00:38:32.360 every word. And you remember the laughter from everybody. You're paranoid. You're fringe. Sit

00:38:38.060 down. Oh, Red Scare. Well, they're here now and they're not hiding. And they'll tell you their

00:38:43.980 name. They'll tell you what they believe. They'll tell you exactly what they intend to do with this

00:38:49.200 country. They put it on a website. They say it into a microphone and a camera smiling.

00:38:58.460 And you're tired and you're discouraged. I know. You've been let down by people who've

00:39:05.240 had your vote and then squandered it. Understand what that is. They don't have to,

00:39:17.540 they no longer have to change your mind.

00:39:24.320 They only have to stop breaking our heart, honestly.

00:39:27.000 Because they do it.

00:39:27.940 They break your heart over and over and over again.

00:39:32.280 And when they break your heart, then they break your will.

00:39:36.280 They break you down.

00:39:38.980 And somebody who is tired and discouraged,

00:39:41.500 they don't have to be beaten.

00:39:42.940 Their discouragement beats it.

00:39:47.540 I want to tell you about a country that had every reason to quit.

00:39:55.680 Every reason to quit.

00:39:58.980 Okay, so let me tell you what happened in 1939.

00:40:02.580 There were two dictators sitting in a room in Moscow,

00:40:05.120 and they carved up Europe on a piece of paper.

00:40:07.600 And they attached to that treaty a secret map.

00:40:12.900 And on the wrong side of it were three small nations in the Baltic Sea.

00:40:16.100 they were never conquered in war they were just traded in a back room by men who had never been

00:40:20.680 there okay then came 50 years of it their flags illegal their songs illegal their farmers and

00:40:27.600 their teachers and their pastors put on trains in the middle of the night and when they said

00:40:33.200 we know what you did there's a document moscow said there's no document there's no you're

00:40:39.500 imagining this in the summer of 1988 the estonians began gathering in a field outside their capital

00:40:45.800 where their grandparents had held song festivals for a century,

00:40:49.400 and they sang the illegal songs night after night.

00:40:54.140 Something close to a quarter of the entire country

00:40:56.920 was standing in fields and singing.

00:41:01.140 August 23, 1989, 50 years to the day

00:41:04.900 since those two men signed,

00:41:07.540 two million people in three countries

00:41:09.960 walked out of their houses and they held hands.

00:41:12.940 a line of human beings 400 miles long did you know this it's 1989 no weapons nobody on a stage

00:41:24.900 grandmas farmers children just shoulder to shoulder all across the highway everybody

00:41:31.460 holding hands no gap four months later moscow admitted okay that document was real two years

00:41:38.460 after that, all three were free, and they never fired a shot. They didn't out-argue an empire.

00:41:45.280 They out-showed an empire. A chain like that has no strong link. It just has enough hands,

00:41:55.840 or it doesn't. Every single person on that road was the whole thing.

00:42:02.480 that's you that's this find it again whatever it was that got you off the couch the first time

00:42:12.560 this is never going to be clean a republic never is that's the entire reason franklin said

00:42:18.200 i'm giving you a republic if you can keep it because keeping it is hard it's messy it's full

00:42:23.320 of switchbacks and disappointments and people who let you down and this is still the finest

00:42:29.920 thing human beings have ever built, even with all those problems.

00:42:34.160 And it's worth every bit of the trouble.

00:42:39.520 How many of us are determined to keep it?

00:42:42.680 I mean determined to keep it, determined to be free.

00:42:49.560 To lightly paraphrase JFK, so ask not whether they've earned your vote.

00:42:56.380 ask whether your children have earned your courage you are the one that will make the

00:43:05.300 difference here not a consultant not a war room you do one thing find one person who isn't planning 0.67

00:43:13.780 on vote one person who says nah i can't vote for these clowns anymore remind them what it was like

00:43:19.220 two years ago remind them there is one guy who's listening to you doing his best in there every day

00:43:26.420 trying to get it done all alone against all odds who's changed your life and your outlook from two

00:43:33.660 years ago and he's about to be completely alone and you not showing up what are you going to do

00:43:40.760 here he's already alone he's already got everybody now you're going to put sharks in the water all

00:43:46.340 around him? Get them to vote. Get them to commit. Not, I'll think about it. Not a day, a time, a ride.

00:43:58.980 We're going together. Find that person. Find the hand next to you and take it and then go.

00:44:07.180 I'm so sick of these people

00:44:13.480 It's like they don't care as much as you do

00:44:15.940 It's like this is a game to them

00:44:18.360 It's not a game to me and it's not a game to you

00:44:21.780 It's not even our job

00:44:26.760 It's our honor

00:44:29.940 It's our duty

00:44:32.360 It's our hope for our children

00:44:37.080 anybody who is playing the game

00:44:43.180 just tell them

00:44:47.140 pipe down

00:44:48.880 pipe down, this isn't a game

00:44:52.980 this is not a contest, this is not a punishment

00:44:56.640 who are you punishing?

00:44:59.840 who are you punishing, Republicans?

00:45:03.260 well I don't like that they didn't put John Cornyn in

00:45:06.020 And so I'm not going to.

00:45:07.920 Who is punished here?

00:45:12.340 The people.

00:45:15.980 And if the people lose, the country loses.

00:45:20.200 You disenfranchise us more.

00:45:23.220 There's nothing left.

00:45:25.540 Have you seen what's happening to us?

00:45:28.280 Next hour, I'm going to talk to you about what's happening with men and women. 1.00

00:45:31.960 They are being divided by this stupid murder case. 1.00

00:45:36.020 in Boston. And now men are starting to look at women going, I don't know if I can trust you. 1.00

00:45:41.520 Are you going to kill my kids? Everything has been turned against each other. Everybody is

00:45:47.940 suspecting one another. There's not going to be a country left. Recognize that. This is a choice

00:45:56.560 each of us makes in our own lives. You're either going to be part of that game or you're going to

00:46:03.200 be part of solving it. And boy, it is, it is so hard to vote for these people because

00:46:11.540 they have wasted two years. But what is your alternative? I, for one, would like another

00:46:23.900 two years before the Marxists come marching in. Because if you don't think the Red-Green 0.80

00:46:30.680 Alliance is real, I think you might be beyond help. But keep listening for a while. We'll show 0.99

00:46:39.680 you the receipts because they're everywhere. That's what's really going on. That's what that

00:46:46.820 speech was really all about.

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