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00:03:40.080 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Glad you're here. I want to talk to you today. Today's

00:03:44.760 theme of today's show is the Bubba effect because it is here and we're seeing it in full force. I

00:03:49.520 will show it to you in Dearborn, Michigan. I will show it to you with Nick Fuentes. I will show it to

00:03:56.580 you with Epstein. And I just showed it to you a different kind of the Bubba effect, institutional Bubba

00:04:05.180 effect with that statement that came out, you know, telling the troops to, you know, disown,

00:04:11.580 you know, the president or don't don't follow orders, question orders. And you should do that.

00:04:17.440 And that is something they're taught in the military, but they're taught within the system.

00:04:22.180 You know, it's not just that they made a message to the military. They sent that message.

00:04:27.080 Imagine if the Duma would have sent that message to Putin and we received it and saw it, we'd be

00:04:36.300 like their government is falling apart. Their military is falling apart. Look at this. What

00:04:41.100 message is that sending to China and Russia and all of our allies? It's bad, very bad. So there is a

00:04:50.020 moment in every republic, every empire, every nation that historians will look back on and go,

00:04:55.280 yep, that was it. That was the biggest warning. That was the last warning. And I think we are

00:05:01.260 living in that moment right now. When Congress told active duty military to ignore the orders of the

00:05:08.440 commander in chief, you got a problem when you can't get a federal judge impeached because he

00:05:18.400 approved something that has never been done in American history, granting one branch of the government

00:05:23.580 the right to secretly surveil the other without notice. You have constitutionally, you must notify

00:05:30.720 you're under surveillance. Okay. If they're doing a mass thing, you have to notify because that's a

00:05:37.460 second branch. Otherwise you break up the branches. Okay. These are not political stories.

00:05:43.140 These are constitutional earthquakes and no one's talking about them.

00:05:47.160 So now the question is what now, what has to happen if the Republic is going to survive the

00:05:53.960 stress of these fractures that everybody seems to be creating and dancing on? Let me outline it

00:06:00.840 plainly here because all of us has a, have a role one Congress, Congress. You have to discipline your

00:06:07.160 own. If lawmakers can publicly encourage military resistance without consequence, then Congress has

00:06:14.520 surrendered its moral authority. You cannot police the executive branch. You can't oversee the

00:06:21.440 intelligence agencies. You can't demand transparency. If you cannot police your own members.

00:06:30.660 Censure is not vengeance. It's maintenance. It's routine. It's necessary constitutional maintenance.

00:06:38.540 And if Congress refuses to do it, then the precedent remains and it gets worse. And history shows us no

00:06:46.360 nation survives a politicized military ever to the military. You have to restate the command of the,

00:06:55.780 the chain of command publicly and immediately. The joint chiefs don't need a press conference. They

00:07:01.000 don't need hearings. They just need to say the United States armed forces obey all lawful orders of the

00:07:07.700 president. That sentence, those exact words. That's the firewall between an American Republic and every

00:07:14.720 failed nation in history. The silence so far is not reassuring. Three, the judiciary, especially the

00:07:25.500 Supreme court closed the door on the, uh, the Bozberg case. He opened a door that is so dangerous. No judge,

00:07:33.940 no matter how noble his intentions has the authority to rewrite the separation of powers.

00:07:40.900 If one branch can secretly spy on another, then you have no checks and balances. You have a surveillance

00:07:48.120 government. The Supreme court must intervene, not Trump, not even Congress, but for the survival of

00:07:57.040 co-equal branches. If they don't, this is the new normal. And you don't come back from that one

00:08:03.620 either. And now the hardest part, the one that everybody talks about, nobody does the role of

00:08:10.900 the cultural leaders and people like me in the media in a functioning Republic. This is supposed to

00:08:19.540 be where the media steps in. This is where the cultural leaders, the voices left, right, center,

00:08:26.200 stop obsessing over clickbait and start explaining to the people what just happened,

00:08:32.600 why it's unprecedented, why it matters, how we as citizens need to respond. But look around. Do you

00:08:39.900 see anyone in the press doing that? Do you see anyone in Hollywood doing that? You see anybody in

00:08:44.620 academia doing that? No, you don't. Because America's cultural class no longer sees its role

00:08:52.220 as the guardian of the Republic. Who's the guardian? They're guardians of ideology.

00:09:02.140 So what do we do? Well, we do what Americans have always done when institutionals fail.

00:09:08.580 We step in ourselves. But if we don't care, that's it. The founders never trusted the press.

00:09:18.440 They trusted the people. So that's where we are now. And we all have to model what a responsible

00:09:26.840 media or a responsible, responsible citizen should be doing. So let me show you right now

00:09:31.440 how a responsible broadcaster responds to a constitutional breach.

00:09:41.300 My fellow Americans, this is not about Donald Trump. This is not about Democrats. This is not

00:09:48.860 about Republicans. It's not how you vote. This is about whether the military stays under civilian

00:09:56.500 authority. Whether our adversaries overseas are given the indication that we are ripe for the taking.

00:10:07.360 This is about judges that want to erase the separation of powers. The separation of power

00:10:15.020 is what has kept this constitutional republic going for all of these years.

00:10:20.480 Most importantly, this is about whether your children will inherit a functioning republic.

00:10:29.700 And if the mainstream media won't tell you, then I will.

00:10:33.520 That right there is the job.

00:10:38.660 To preserve the republic.

00:10:41.000 So our children and grandchildren, and that is what we all should be doing.

00:10:44.980 That's what the press should be doing. That's what cultural figures should be doing.

00:10:47.480 You call out the violations of constitutional order. No matter who benefits, no matter who gets angry,

00:10:53.680 no matter what tribe demands your silence, this is what leadership looks like. This is wrong.

00:11:01.100 This has never been done before. This breaks constitutional boundaries. And it has to be corrected immediately.

00:11:08.460 Americans, you understand the Bubba effect is here, and it's everywhere. You are going to see people that you're like,

00:11:24.940 well, he's really wrong on that, and that's really outrageous, and I don't agree with that,

00:11:28.960 but at least he's right on this one.

00:11:30.620 And it will always be to question the system, to break it down.

00:11:42.360 So what do you do?

00:11:45.180 Well, you don't riot. You don't panic.

00:11:47.900 You don't despair.

00:11:49.160 We are headed into thanksgiving.

00:11:53.120 Give thanks for the crosses that we bear.

00:11:56.100 Give thanks because our liberty, our freedom, should we decide to keep it, will be more valuable to us.

00:12:05.420 But you should call your representatives.

00:12:07.200 I'm so sick of calling my representatives, but you should do it anyway.

00:12:10.740 You need to demand transparency.

00:12:13.120 You need to insist on consequences.

00:12:15.500 Don't normalize what is happening.

00:12:19.660 Well, they're all like that.

00:12:20.900 Stop it.

00:12:22.100 Stop it.

00:12:23.160 If that's what you expect, that is what you will get.

00:12:28.900 But understand this.

00:12:30.080 The cure for constitutional drift is not rage.

00:12:34.100 The answer is not anger.

00:12:36.900 It's not division.

00:12:38.040 It is citizenship.

00:12:45.500 It's also not apathy.

00:12:47.320 If we sleep through this, the system will break.

00:12:51.400 Guaranteed.

00:12:52.940 But if you wake up, stand up, and insist on boundaries, eventually it will happen.

00:12:59.820 I know you're tired.

00:13:00.920 I know you don't want to do it anymore.

00:13:02.680 I know you're just desperate for an answer.

00:13:04.780 Because the time is running short, but now is not the time to act in ways where we dishonor

00:13:13.000 ourselves, in ways where we throw in with a lot.

00:13:16.980 We're like, that's really bad.

00:13:19.060 But at least they're pointing it out.

00:13:24.000 You point it out.

00:13:25.240 Once you start standing up, once we as a people, all you need is 20%.

00:13:36.460 20%, anywhere between 15% and 20% of the American people.

00:13:42.280 If they understand the Constitution, if they understand the Bill of Rights, if they understand

00:13:48.060 that God has put us in this place at this time, and each of us have a reason to live.

00:13:54.040 We're here for a reason.

00:13:57.500 Everything snaps back into place.

00:14:00.440 It always has.

00:14:02.020 From 1800 to 1868 to 1974, institutions bend.

00:14:08.100 People break.

00:14:09.540 But the Constitution can be restored.

00:14:13.160 But if, and only if, you know it, you love it, you never betray it yourself,

00:14:22.980 and you demand it of the people who represent us.

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00:14:56.360 You know, these companies have become so radical because the phone business, the internet business,

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00:16:09.460 Where does the real story lie with the Epstein story?

00:16:14.280 And I think it's the money, okay?

00:16:16.940 That's the real story.

00:16:18.560 I'll tell you about the billions that have gone to terrorists from the U.S.

00:16:22.720 and Minnesota taxpayers here in a second.

00:16:26.560 And when I talk about that, what most people will do is they'll fight over ICE, they'll

00:16:30.920 say it's Islamophobia, they'll fight over CARE, whatever.

00:16:34.560 USAID, when that went down, well, that was just about feeding hungry children.

00:16:38.500 And it's all misdirection to get you away from the money.

00:16:41.480 So let me bring this now to Epstein.

00:16:45.440 When a bank detects suspicious activity, when they see something that looks like money laundering,

00:16:52.340 human trafficking, tax evasion, sending money overseas to terrorists, they don't send a

00:16:58.240 polite note to the supervisor in hopes somebody reads it.

00:17:01.740 They are required by federal law after 9-11 to file what is called a SAR.

00:17:08.940 It's a suspicious activity report, a SAR.

00:17:12.860 They have to report that directly to the U.S. Treasury Department through FinCEN, Financial

00:17:18.840 Center for Crimes, okay?

00:17:22.200 Once a SAR is filed, the bank isn't even allowed to tell you that they filed it.

00:17:27.620 They just hit send, it's locked, the Treasury is notified.

00:17:31.960 Now, this system, like I said, was built after 9-11, built after decades of financial corruption,

00:17:37.800 a system designed that no single banker, no single executive, no single billionaire can

00:17:43.180 make illicit money and then have it just disappear offshore.

00:17:47.480 This is, this is activated.

00:17:51.000 If you draw $10,000 out of your account, you're moving $10,000, you get a SAR report and it

00:17:58.140 goes directly to the Treasury.

00:17:59.600 And when the bank flags something suspicious, it's called, the SAR is called a yellow ticket.

00:18:05.120 And it's not a suggestion.

00:18:06.320 It's not a memo.

00:18:07.460 It is a federal alert.

00:18:10.120 That triggers monitoring by the Treasury, the FBI, Homeland Security, depending on what the

00:18:16.500 flags indicate.

00:18:18.660 Now that you understand that, let me talk to you about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:18:22.620 Between 2002 and 2016, JPMorgan Chase filed seven SARs, seven yellow tickets on Epstein.

00:18:30.860 Seven.

00:18:32.060 Over 14 years.

00:18:34.600 Those reports flagged a grand total of $4.3 million in sketchy activity.

00:18:39.860 Okay.

00:18:41.980 It's all, you know, it's a decade plus $4 million.

00:18:47.140 You can make all kinds of excuses for that, right?

00:18:51.360 But after Epstein died, when the government finally unsealed the sex trafficking details,

00:18:58.220 details that they had held onto for years, JPMorgan Chase suddenly panicked.

00:19:03.620 Because the floodgates suddenly opened.

00:19:07.440 In 2019, two SARs were flagged.

00:19:12.180 Two SARs were sent to the Treasury.

00:19:15.240 They flagged over 5,000 suspicious wire transfers.

00:19:20.360 We're not talking $4 million.

00:19:21.680 This is $1.3 billion.

00:19:27.520 5,000 suspicious activity transfers and transactions of $1.3 billion.

00:19:37.920 Now, let me just say this clearly so nobody really misses the gravity of this.

00:19:42.820 You do not accidentally forget to report 5,000 suspicious wires.

00:19:48.060 You don't, like, where did we put that $1.3 billion?

00:19:52.400 Okay.

00:19:52.720 You don't misplace a billion dollars in wires to foreign banks and shell companies connected

00:19:59.180 to then a convicted sex offender under federal investigation.

00:20:04.080 It doesn't happen.

00:20:05.760 It doesn't happen.

00:20:08.700 It doesn't happen because a junior banker made a mistake.

00:20:12.140 It doesn't happen because the compliance officer was sleepy.

00:20:15.440 It doesn't happen because somebody's inbox was full.

00:20:19.760 To not report that level of suspicious activities directly to the Treasury,

00:20:27.440 first of all, is against all federal law.

00:20:30.840 At a minimum, multiple officers, multiple departments, multiple sign-offs,

00:20:36.680 choosing not to look.

00:20:38.580 $1.3 billion, 5,000 suspicious activities.

00:20:48.080 Why?

00:20:50.680 Why did nobody report that?

00:20:54.260 Well, now, according to internal emails, JPMorgan Chase held off the filing of the SARs.

00:21:01.720 Now, let me ask you this.

00:21:02.840 If you withdrew $10,000 from your bank, are you really clear that your bank would do what the federal government directs?

00:21:14.100 And I have to report this.

00:21:16.260 And it's going to go to the Treasury.

00:21:18.500 Are you clear that they would do that on you?

00:21:21.740 Because the answer is yes, they would.

00:21:25.100 Federal law requires it.

00:21:27.900 But the bank decided, well, we want to continue to work with Epstein.

00:21:32.700 He's valuable.

00:21:33.620 He's connected.

00:21:34.820 He's a referral engine to some of the richest people in the world.

00:21:38.720 He had sensitivities, according to the bank.

00:21:43.360 Wire transfers to Russian banks.

00:21:47.480 Wire transfers to shell corporations.

00:21:51.460 Wire transfers from a guy who is engaged in sex trafficking.

00:21:56.780 Links to top political figures.

00:22:00.420 Relationships with two U.S. presidents.

00:22:03.140 Both of whom Epstein at various times claimed to be very, very close with.

00:22:07.320 Let me explain.

00:22:09.700 This is something most people don't know.

00:22:12.740 Banks file SARs, suspicious activity reports, to the Treasury for far less than this.

00:22:20.800 $10,000.

00:22:22.200 They flag it.

00:22:23.140 A business wires to an unusual location.

00:22:27.440 They flag it.

00:22:28.240 It's sent to the Treasury.

00:22:29.480 A client sends repetitive round number transfers to an unknown entity.

00:22:35.060 They flag it.

00:22:36.180 It goes to the Treasury.

00:22:37.720 A wire connected to anything resembling terror or human trafficking or exploitation.

00:22:44.480 They flag it right now.

00:22:47.420 Banks don't wait for 5,000 suspicious transactions.

00:22:51.920 They don't wait.

00:22:52.500 They file over one.

00:22:56.400 So how did Epstein get through 5,000 suspicious activity reports without triggering any alarms?

00:23:07.760 Well, not because the alarms were broken, because they weren't.

00:23:11.200 It's because somebody turned them off.

00:23:13.860 I'd like to know who turned those off.

00:23:16.640 I'd like to know why they were turned off.

00:23:18.640 I would like to know, if it was just the leadership of the bank, I'd like to know that every single one of those bank officers, all the way to the top, go to prison.

00:23:29.900 Not some slap on the wrist, not some, well, you're well-connected, so we're going to let this other guy pay for it.

00:23:39.500 I want all of them in prison.

00:23:41.700 You broke federal law, something we all, all of us, have to abide by.

00:23:49.660 We have had our Treasury, we've had our government snoop into our lives, watch everything we do, and we're not connected to human trafficking.

00:23:59.600 We're not selling children.

00:24:03.180 We're not convicted felons.

00:24:06.280 We're not transferring $1.3 billion after we've been convicted.

00:24:15.600 SARS are not, these suspicious activity reports, they are not decided by a single teller.

00:24:20.720 They have to pass, they pass through compliance teams, risk divisions, bank lawyers, federal liaison officers.

00:24:28.780 This isn't one bad apple.

00:24:30.900 It's an entire system.

00:24:33.520 And Senator Wyden, no conservative firebrand I might point out, is now openly saying what everybody knows privately, JPMorgan Chase should face criminal investigation.

00:24:42.740 And it should go all the way to the top.

00:24:45.780 And it should not be civil, it should be criminal.

00:24:48.360 Because if you or I did this, if we had sent just a handful of suspicious wires, the bank would freeze your account, notify the Treasury before you could blink.

00:25:01.480 But Jeffrey Epstein, a billion dollars worth of exceptions.

00:25:05.880 Hmm.

00:25:07.460 Hmm. 1.00

00:25:10.460 Wow, that seems much more important than a stupid birthday card. 0.99

00:25:14.660 Let me ask you this, the question the DOJ doesn't want to touch. 1.00

00:25:20.400 How many people does it take inside a bank to make 5,000 suspicious transactions just vanish for 17 years?

00:25:28.160 Is it five people?

00:25:30.000 Is it 10?

00:25:31.460 Is it a department head, a board member?

00:25:34.820 5,000, 1.3 billion dollars.

00:25:38.500 Was Epstein, did it happen because Epstein was useful to the powerful?

00:25:46.940 So nobody wanted to know?

00:25:50.400 Did this happen because others were involved?

00:25:55.120 Does it really matter what their excuse was?

00:25:59.240 Here's a terrifying question.

00:26:00.660 If a bank can look the other way on 1.3 billion dollars for a sex trafficker, what else have the banks learned to ignore?

00:26:10.540 Hmm.

00:26:13.540 I'm beginning to think the banks are a real problem.

00:26:16.920 Hmm.

00:26:18.080 There's a new idea.

00:26:19.160 This story isn't just about Epstein.

00:26:24.060 This is about the machinery that allowed him to operate.

00:26:27.160 All of the middlemen, all of the financial networks, all of the institutions that treated him like an asset instead of a criminal.

00:26:34.720 And I do believe he was an asset.

00:26:38.460 Intelligence asset?

00:26:40.000 I do believe he was probably an asset to our intelligence, although I hear both sides.

00:26:46.980 No, no, that's not true.

00:26:49.400 Oh, yes, it's definitely true.

00:26:50.880 I don't know what the truth is.

00:26:52.420 I don't think it's unreasonable to say he was an asset for a foreign government.

00:26:57.260 Maybe Israel. 0.92

00:26:58.040 Maybe somebody else.

00:26:58.880 I don't know.

00:27:00.200 But also an asset for us.

00:27:02.960 That happens all the time.

00:27:05.160 Apparently, we do all kinds of horrible things.

00:27:08.440 Why not?

00:27:10.980 Senator Wyden says he wants to follow the money.

00:27:13.620 Well, good.

00:27:14.260 For the first time in a long time, maybe the money is finally pointing us somewhere.

00:27:20.240 And it's not just here.

00:27:22.900 And by the way, if anybody still believes this ends with one dead man in jail, I don't think you're paying attention.

00:27:29.980 Because this is where it really leads.

00:27:33.820 And I'm going to show you the same kind of thing that is happening now in Minnesota.

00:27:40.100 The corruption in Minnesota is so far beyond comprehension.

00:27:46.960 You know, I said in 2009, maybe 2010, the biggest heist in all of human history is happening right now.

00:27:55.960 And the time that us boobs figure it out, our bank accounts will be empty. 0.51

00:28:01.920 Nobody even knows the bank is being robbed.

00:28:04.600 Why?

00:28:06.600 Why?

00:28:09.840 Well, I think because the bank and maybe the treasury are in on it.

00:28:13.120 Or at least they're so incredibly incompetent that they just can't see it.

00:28:19.620 Billions of dollars.

00:28:21.620 I believe trillions of dollars have been laundered.

00:28:25.740 All your taxpayer money.

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00:28:37.100 All right.

00:28:37.420 So I want to talk to you about Thanksgiving here for a little bit because it's not about Turkey.

00:28:40.400 It's not about the football or the parade with the giant inflatables.

00:28:44.240 You know, that's not, you know, that's not even the Thanksgiving parade.

00:28:48.180 That's the Macy's Day parade.

00:28:50.140 It's a store reminding you to buy products.

00:28:52.480 But it's part of our tradition now.

00:28:53.960 Um, all of these things, you know, planes, trains, and automobiles is a tradition that we watch.

00:29:00.900 We're going to watch it next week.

00:29:02.220 You know, we watch the dog show after the Macy's Day parade.

00:29:05.920 We have the dog show on as we're preparing, you know, Thanksgiving meal, et cetera, et cetera.

00:29:10.360 Those things we do every year, but those are ornaments on a very, on a much older tree.

00:29:14.700 At its core, Thanksgiving is the American holiday that is supposed to force us quietly, maybe stubbornly, to confront the truth of who we are and where we've been.

00:29:29.220 Thanksgiving started with a small band of people that had every reason under the sun to curse the circumstances that they had found themselves in.

00:29:37.600 And they chose to give thanks instead.

00:29:41.100 Half of them had died on the trip over, the pilgrims.

00:29:44.180 Half of them died on the trip over.

00:29:46.140 Then the first winter comes.

00:29:47.500 They were woefully unprepared.

00:29:49.300 They weren't ready.

00:29:50.200 And what, of the half that was left, half of those guys died in the winter.

00:29:56.060 Spring comes.

00:29:56.920 They go to work.

00:29:57.700 They till.

00:29:58.180 They learn.

00:29:58.940 They plant.

00:29:59.560 They reap.

00:30:00.280 They stored.

00:30:01.820 And then, around this time of the year, after all that work was done, they stopped to recognize what happened to them.

00:30:08.900 And they weren't celebrating abundance.

00:30:11.300 They were celebrating survival.

00:30:14.380 They were celebrating providence.

00:30:17.220 That fragile flicker of hope that God had preserved them for some reason, unbeknownst to them, because certainly what they did, they didn't deserve that.

00:30:25.960 And that's the real meaning of Thanksgiving.

00:30:30.520 It's gratitude in the face of hardship.

00:30:36.080 I think all of us have faced hardships.

00:30:38.740 A lot of hardships recently.

00:30:41.080 A lot of woe.

00:30:42.140 A lot of trouble.

00:30:43.680 That's what this is about.

00:30:45.140 Get your family together.

00:30:46.980 If your family has been through hardship because you're split on whatever it is, stop all of that nonsense.

00:30:52.720 Stop it.

00:30:53.120 Just say, hey, we've had hard times, all of us.

00:30:56.040 We just want to get together and thank God that we're all still together.

00:31:01.880 Gratitude in the face of hardship.

00:31:03.680 Humility before blessings that you didn't earn.

00:31:08.480 A recognition that freedom, true freedom, always costs something.

00:31:12.880 And thanksgiving reminds us that our country did not begin with triumph.

00:31:19.480 It began with humility and thanks.

00:31:23.980 It's the one thing that calls us back to something older than politics, deeper than division.

00:31:30.040 The idea that we are not held together by force, not by the government, not by the screens in our pockets, not by shared acknowledgement of our rights.

00:31:40.320 Our lives and our liberties, they come from God.

00:31:44.840 That's what brings us together.

00:31:46.180 Not kings, not presidents, not parties, but our shared rights and the humility to be able to say, my gosh, what a miracle that is.

00:31:55.280 And maybe the closest we get to that now in today's age is just the family gathered around the table.

00:32:04.660 But even that is only the doorway.

00:32:10.140 If we stop at the family around the table, we miss the whole point.

00:32:13.080 Thanksgiving is the quiet confession that we are dependent on something much greater than ourselves.

00:32:19.840 That America's strength begins not with the clenched fist, but the open hand lifted in gratitude.

00:32:29.560 This year, remember, it's not the meal.

00:32:33.100 It's not the game.

00:32:34.120 It's not the dog show.

00:32:36.000 It's not all the traditions that mean so much to each of us.

00:32:39.080 We're piled on top of all of that.

00:32:41.040 This is ancient.

00:32:42.100 This is a simple act of people pausing just for a moment to say, man, out of this whole year and all of the things that have happened, we have survived.

00:32:50.740 Thank you, God.

00:32:51.720 Thank you for everything.

00:32:53.080 Even the hard things.

00:32:54.920 Maybe especially the hard things.

00:32:57.080 Thank you.

00:32:57.660 Thank you.

00:32:58.540 It has shaped us into the nation worth giving thanks for.

00:33:04.460 That's Thanksgiving.

00:33:06.200 That's America.

00:33:08.440 And for that,

00:33:09.560 I am grateful.

00:33:12.660 I am thankful.

00:33:15.440 I'm also thankful for a good friend of mine who Dave Isay is, um, he's the founder and president of StoryCorps.

00:33:23.980 Um, StoryCorps has preserved voices of the American story for the National Archives.

00:33:30.020 And he has been with StoryCorps.

00:33:32.140 He started it.

00:33:33.080 20th anniversary of StoryCorps.

00:33:34.660 I think it was 2023.

00:33:37.340 Um, and he comes on from time to time and he shares some of the stories.

00:33:41.180 Uh, welcome, Dave.

00:33:42.360 How are you, sir?

00:33:44.480 Glenn, I'm doing great.

00:33:45.740 It's great to hear your voice.

00:33:47.520 Yeah.

00:33:48.120 Likewise.

00:33:48.840 Likewise.

00:33:49.280 Um, Dave, you're going to share a story with us of, of gratitude and Thanksgiving.

00:33:55.840 Do you want to set this up?

00:33:57.940 Sure.

00:33:58.240 And that your, I, that intro was absolutely gorgeous, Glenn.

00:34:02.700 I, I, thank you for that.

00:34:04.500 Um, uh, everything you said, a hundred percent true.

00:34:07.660 Um, and we do have a true, wait, wait, before you, you know what, while we're, while we're

00:34:12.040 here, before, before we get into the story, I am so grateful for you.

00:34:16.840 You have, you are working so hard to get people to sit down with one another and just talk.

00:34:22.580 They disagree, but just talk, try to lessen the visions in our country.

00:34:27.700 And, um, thank you for that, Dave.

00:34:30.660 How's that going?

00:34:31.520 Well, you know, thank, thank you.

00:34:33.580 I mean, you know, I, I listened to you preaching this every day in between the Jasmine Crockett 0.92

00:34:39.880 talking about a Jeffrey Epstein.

00:34:41.540 And that was a great segment yesterday, Glenn.

00:34:44.860 Um, but you have a message that you're pounding your audience day in and day out.

00:34:48.400 We have to love one another.

00:34:49.760 We have to show each other grace.

00:34:51.380 We have to love this country.

00:34:52.620 We have to love each other or we have no future.

00:34:55.520 And, you know, you, the Glenn, the Glenn Beck audience is the main conservative participant

00:35:02.040 audience in this effort where we're putting strangers together across the divides to get

00:35:07.980 to know each other as human beings, not to talk about politics.

00:35:10.580 And I mean, it goes all the way to Michaela on your team, reaching out to my team to do

00:35:14.760 an interview.

00:35:15.300 I mean, it's just like part of the DNA of, of, of the show.

00:35:19.040 And, you know, it is our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we may

00:35:24.120 disagree.

00:35:24.480 I mean, that goes to the heart of what you were just saying about Thanksgiving.

00:35:27.940 And I'm so grateful for that.

00:35:29.440 And we would love, we want every, you know, this is, we're here to talk about Thanksgiving,

00:35:33.960 but every Glenn Beck listener, viewer, everybody in the community, when we see, when, when my

00:35:40.120 team sees a Glenn Beck listener name come in to participate, they go right to the top of

00:35:44.940 the list because they're the smartest, most, and you know, this Glenn, your audience, most

00:35:49.920 thoughtful, heartfelt, nuanced, you know, human beings.

00:35:54.400 Yeah, I know you do.

00:35:56.280 I, and you can hear that in the show every, every single day.

00:35:59.260 So, um, people can go to takeonesmallstep.org and, um, you know, look, it is unbelievably

00:36:06.360 hard.

00:36:07.520 You know, I got a text from a guy who, um, who is like the smartest person on polarization

00:36:14.200 in the, in the country, uh, earlier this year.

00:36:17.960 And he basically is like, the time for the work is going to come.

00:36:20.300 Um, let's keep aiming for the stars, but it's going to be hard and it's going to get harder

00:36:24.580 and harder and harder and harder, but we will, it's going to be, it's going to be trench warfare,

00:36:29.520 but there is another story of America and that other story is going to win.

00:36:33.700 And Glenn to have you as a brother in this thing.

00:36:35.920 And I do only come on occasionally, but you know, I think we both feel pretty close to each

00:36:41.660 other and we come from, you know, we came from different politics, you know, but the minute

00:36:47.780 we met each other, you know, like brothers, we care, we're like brothers and 99% of things we

00:36:53.860 agree on, you know, so this is, we're living in an, we're living in an illusion, you know,

00:37:00.200 90% of the country are sane.

00:37:02.860 They're just like, they, they're looking for a way out part of the exhausted majority.

00:37:08.000 And we have these like loud, nutty voices on the fringes that are driving us absolutely

00:37:14.000 bonkers and it's not going to end well, if we can't figure out a way to get people to

00:37:18.800 remember who we really are as Americans.

00:37:20.380 And it's, you know, it's everything you just said and, you know, and you say it over and

00:37:24.380 over again, blessed are the peacemakers, you know, and that's your audience.

00:37:29.120 Yeah.

00:37:30.000 Well, if you want to get involved, um, please, you don't, you go to take one small step.org

00:37:35.460 and that's just you sitting down with somebody and finding the common humanity.

00:37:40.220 And it is a really, I mean, Michaela is still talking about it.

00:37:43.760 She did it what two years ago and she is still talking about what an amazing experience.

00:37:48.040 Yeah.

00:37:48.840 Uh, it was take one small step.org and they'll fill you in on everything.

00:37:52.700 So Dave, tell me the Thanksgiving message here.

00:37:56.040 Yeah.

00:37:56.520 Okay.

00:37:56.940 So we have a story for you.

00:37:58.200 So this is from, you know, this is from not, not from one small step.

00:38:01.420 This is from regular story core where we've had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands

00:38:05.940 of Americans come together, you know, and really in many ways, just to thank each other

00:38:10.420 in these 40 minute conversations they have about who they are, what they care about, all

00:38:14.740 everyday people, none of the nonsense, none of the BS, you know, fringe, crazy stuff that

00:38:20.440 we were just talking about.

00:38:21.340 So this is John Crouit and Cecile Doyle.

00:38:24.220 Um, in 1958, John Crouit's mom dies two days before Christmas.

00:38:29.680 Um, she's been seriously ill.

00:38:31.320 He's in third grade.

00:38:33.300 Um, and his teacher, Cecile Doyle is incredibly kind to him.

00:38:38.060 And, um, more than 50 years later, he decides he needs to write Mrs. Doyle a letter.

00:38:43.920 So let's listen to John Crouit and Cecile Doyle.

00:38:47.600 We talked about decorating the Christmas tree when I came home from school that day, but

00:38:52.560 I walked into the living room and my aunt was there and she said, well, honey, mommy passed 0.80

00:38:58.180 away this morning.

00:39:00.040 And I remember at my mother's wake, someone in my family came to me and said, Johnny, your

00:39:06.200 teacher's here.

00:39:07.300 When I found out she died, I could certainly relate to that because when I was 11, my own

00:39:13.440 father died and you just don't know how you're going to go on without that person.

00:39:18.720 When I returned to school, you waited until the other children left the room at the end

00:39:22.980 of the day and you told me that you were there if I needed you and you bent over and kissed

00:39:27.980 me on the head.

00:39:29.200 It was really the only time someone said to me, I know what you're feeling and I know what

00:39:34.260 you're missing.

00:39:35.740 And I felt in a very real way that things really would be okay.

00:39:42.280 Well, John, I really loved you as a student and I'm so glad that I could be there with you

00:39:48.440 for that time.

00:39:49.220 And many years later, when I became a teacher, I started to think more and more about you

00:39:54.440 and I started to think to myself, here I am with a memory of a teacher who changed my

00:40:00.880 life and I've never told her that.

00:40:04.620 And that's why I finally wrote this letter.

00:40:08.560 Dear Mrs. Doyle, if you are not the Cecile Doyle who taught English at Emerson School in

00:40:14.560 Kearney, New Jersey, then I'm embarrassed and you can disregard the sentiments that follow.

00:40:20.260 My name is John Cruet and I was in your third grade class during the 1958-1959 school year.

00:40:28.100 Two days before Christmas, my mother passed away and you told me that you were there if

00:40:33.060 I needed you.

00:40:33.780 I hope life has been as kind to you as you were to me.

00:40:38.260 God bless you, always.

00:40:40.340 With great fondness, John.

00:40:42.060 And your letter could not have come at a better time because my husband had Parkinson's and

00:40:48.500 he was going downhill and I had just come home from the hospital and I read this beautiful

00:40:53.520 letter and I just was overwhelmed.

00:40:55.960 Well, the funny thing is when I finally wrote to you again after 54 years, I typed a letter

00:41:00.760 I was afraid my penmanship wasn't going to meet your standards.

00:41:04.760 Well, after all this time, Mrs. Doyle, all I can say to you is thank you.

00:41:08.880 John, what can I say?

00:41:11.400 I'm just glad that we made a difference in each other's life.

00:41:17.540 Dave, all of these things are being collected in there at the National Archives.

00:41:22.420 A hundred years from now, what is the American story?

00:41:25.780 What do you think they'll see when they listen to all these?

00:41:28.320 What will they find?

00:41:29.140 Easiest question I'll get all year.

00:41:31.700 You know, the facilitators, what they're going to find is the basic goodness of the American

00:41:36.900 people, period.

00:41:39.060 Every kind of person, every state, every occupation, every political persuasion, you

00:41:45.240 know, the people who listen to these interviews, who facilitate the interviews, who work for

00:41:49.540 StoryCorps, the facilitators, you know, they all come back.

00:41:52.920 And if you ask them what they've learned, it's a version of the Ant Frank quote that people

00:41:56.000 are basically good.

00:41:57.500 So what they're going to hear is the good, you know, a lot of people often say to me,

00:42:00.940 you know, if, if Martians came down to earth and they could only hear one thing, God, I

00:42:05.500 hope they hear those StoryCorps interviews.

00:42:08.440 Yeah.

00:42:09.440 And it's really who, it's who we are.

00:42:11.560 And, you know, we're living in a complete, you know, reality distortion zone in this kind

00:42:17.400 of hate industrial complex.

00:42:19.040 And it is, it's all a big lie.

00:42:22.300 It's a big lie.

00:42:23.080 Dave, you should have, you should go to Elon Musk and have these StoryCorps all put in

00:42:28.300 to the algorithm of Grok.

00:42:30.420 It, it, it might help the, it might help the algorithm understand who we really are.

00:42:37.140 And I, you know, I want AI to like us.

00:42:40.460 Yes, exactly.

00:42:42.240 I mean, look, I think AI would be much better with StoryCorps inside of it than without StoryCorps

00:42:47.900 inside of it.

00:42:48.560 So we are, we're thinking hard about that.

00:42:50.980 Good.

00:42:51.680 We're on the same wavelength as always.

00:42:53.840 And Glenn, I wish you and your family a fantastic holiday.

00:42:56.860 And I love you a lot for, for, you know, being in the arena with us every day on this thing.

00:43:02.020 I love you, Dave.

00:43:02.840 Thank you so much.

00:43:04.060 If you would like to get involved, go to takeonesmallstep.org, takeonesmallstep.org.

00:43:09.320 It's so well worth it.

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