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The Bubba Effect is everywhere, and most people don t notice it. Also, what is the real story behind Epstein and the money transfers that are being overlooked? Is that what the story really is, and we re being misinformed or misdirected?
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Hey, really important show and great show today. You should listen to the whole thing if you have
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time. If not, here's the best of. And we cover the Bubba effect. Because the Bubba effect is
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everywhere. Everywhere right now. And most people don't notice it. Also, what is the real story
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behind, what is the real story behind Epstein and the money transfers that are being overlooked?
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Is that what's actually, what the story really is and we're being misinformed or
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misdirected so we don't talk about the money. Because if you listen to the longer version of
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Glad you're here. I want to talk to you today. Today's
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theme of today's show is the Bubba effect because it is here and we're seeing it in full force. I
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will show it to you in Dearborn, Michigan. I will show it to you with Nick Fuentes. I will show it to
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you with Epstein. And I just showed it to you a different kind of the Bubba effect, institutional Bubba
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effect with that statement that came out, you know, telling the troops to, you know, disown,
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you know, the president or don't don't follow orders, question orders. And you should do that.
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And that is something they're taught in the military, but they're taught within the system.
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You know, it's not just that they made a message to the military. They sent that message.
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Imagine if the Duma would have sent that message to Putin and we received it and saw it, we'd be
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like their government is falling apart. Their military is falling apart. Look at this. What
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message is that sending to China and Russia and all of our allies? It's bad, very bad. So there is a
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moment in every republic, every empire, every nation that historians will look back on and go,
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yep, that was it. That was the biggest warning. That was the last warning. And I think we are
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living in that moment right now. When Congress told active duty military to ignore the orders of the
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commander in chief, you got a problem when you can't get a federal judge impeached because he
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approved something that has never been done in American history, granting one branch of the government
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the right to secretly surveil the other without notice. You have constitutionally, you must notify
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you're under surveillance. Okay. If they're doing a mass thing, you have to notify because that's a
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second branch. Otherwise you break up the branches. Okay. These are not political stories.
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These are constitutional earthquakes and no one's talking about them.
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So now the question is what now, what has to happen if the Republic is going to survive the
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stress of these fractures that everybody seems to be creating and dancing on? Let me outline it
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plainly here because all of us has a, have a role one Congress, Congress. You have to discipline your
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own. If lawmakers can publicly encourage military resistance without consequence, then Congress has
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surrendered its moral authority. You cannot police the executive branch. You can't oversee the
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intelligence agencies. You can't demand transparency. If you cannot police your own members.
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Censure is not vengeance. It's maintenance. It's routine. It's necessary constitutional maintenance.
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And if Congress refuses to do it, then the precedent remains and it gets worse. And history shows us no
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nation survives a politicized military ever to the military. You have to restate the command of the,
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the chain of command publicly and immediately. The joint chiefs don't need a press conference. They
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don't need hearings. They just need to say the United States armed forces obey all lawful orders of the
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president. That sentence, those exact words. That's the firewall between an American Republic and every
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failed nation in history. The silence so far is not reassuring. Three, the judiciary, especially the
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Supreme court closed the door on the, uh, the Bozberg case. He opened a door that is so dangerous. No judge,
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no matter how noble his intentions has the authority to rewrite the separation of powers.
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If one branch can secretly spy on another, then you have no checks and balances. You have a surveillance
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government. The Supreme court must intervene, not Trump, not even Congress, but for the survival of
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co-equal branches. If they don't, this is the new normal. And you don't come back from that one
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either. And now the hardest part, the one that everybody talks about, nobody does the role of
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the cultural leaders and people like me in the media in a functioning Republic. This is supposed to
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be where the media steps in. This is where the cultural leaders, the voices left, right, center,
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stop obsessing over clickbait and start explaining to the people what just happened,
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why it's unprecedented, why it matters, how we as citizens need to respond. But look around. Do you
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see anyone in the press doing that? Do you see anyone in Hollywood doing that? You see anybody in
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academia doing that? No, you don't. Because America's cultural class no longer sees its role
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as the guardian of the Republic. Who's the guardian? They're guardians of ideology.
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So what do we do? Well, we do what Americans have always done when institutionals fail.
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We step in ourselves. But if we don't care, that's it. The founders never trusted the press.
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They trusted the people. So that's where we are now. And we all have to model what a responsible
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media or a responsible, responsible citizen should be doing. So let me show you right now
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how a responsible broadcaster responds to a constitutional breach.
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My fellow Americans, this is not about Donald Trump. This is not about Democrats. This is not
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about Republicans. It's not how you vote. This is about whether the military stays under civilian
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authority. Whether our adversaries overseas are given the indication that we are ripe for the taking.
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This is about judges that want to erase the separation of powers. The separation of power
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is what has kept this constitutional republic going for all of these years.
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Most importantly, this is about whether your children will inherit a functioning republic.
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And if the mainstream media won't tell you, then I will.
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So our children and grandchildren, and that is what we all should be doing.
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That's what the press should be doing. That's what cultural figures should be doing.
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You call out the violations of constitutional order. No matter who benefits, no matter who gets angry,
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no matter what tribe demands your silence, this is what leadership looks like. This is wrong.
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This has never been done before. This breaks constitutional boundaries. And it has to be corrected immediately.
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Americans, you understand the Bubba effect is here, and it's everywhere. You are going to see people that you're like,
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well, he's really wrong on that, and that's really outrageous, and I don't agree with that,
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And it will always be to question the system, to break it down.
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Give thanks because our liberty, our freedom, should we decide to keep it, will be more valuable to us.
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I'm so sick of calling my representatives, but you should do it anyway.
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If that's what you expect, that is what you will get.
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If we sleep through this, the system will break.
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But if you wake up, stand up, and insist on boundaries, eventually it will happen.
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Because the time is running short, but now is not the time to act in ways where we dishonor
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ourselves, in ways where we throw in with a lot.
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Once you start standing up, once we as a people, all you need is 20%.
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If they understand the Constitution, if they understand the Bill of Rights, if they understand
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that God has put us in this place at this time, and each of us have a reason to live.
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Where does the real story lie with the Epstein story?
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I'll tell you about the billions that have gone to terrorists from the U.S.
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And when I talk about that, what most people will do is they'll fight over ICE, they'll
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say it's Islamophobia, they'll fight over CARE, whatever.
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USAID, when that went down, well, that was just about feeding hungry children.
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And it's all misdirection to get you away from the money.
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When a bank detects suspicious activity, when they see something that looks like money laundering,
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human trafficking, tax evasion, sending money overseas to terrorists, they don't send a
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polite note to the supervisor in hopes somebody reads it.
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They are required by federal law after 9-11 to file what is called a SAR.
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They have to report that directly to the U.S. Treasury Department through FinCEN, Financial
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Once a SAR is filed, the bank isn't even allowed to tell you that they filed it.
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They just hit send, it's locked, the Treasury is notified.
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Now, this system, like I said, was built after 9-11, built after decades of financial corruption,
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a system designed that no single banker, no single executive, no single billionaire can
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make illicit money and then have it just disappear offshore.
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If you draw $10,000 out of your account, you're moving $10,000, you get a SAR report and it
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And when the bank flags something suspicious, it's called, the SAR is called a yellow ticket.
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That triggers monitoring by the Treasury, the FBI, Homeland Security, depending on what the
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Now that you understand that, let me talk to you about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Between 2002 and 2016, JPMorgan Chase filed seven SARs, seven yellow tickets on Epstein.
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Those reports flagged a grand total of $4.3 million in sketchy activity.
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It's all, you know, it's a decade plus $4 million.
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You can make all kinds of excuses for that, right?
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But after Epstein died, when the government finally unsealed the sex trafficking details,
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details that they had held onto for years, JPMorgan Chase suddenly panicked.
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They flagged over 5,000 suspicious wire transfers.
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5,000 suspicious activity transfers and transactions of $1.3 billion.
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Now, let me just say this clearly so nobody really misses the gravity of this.
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You do not accidentally forget to report 5,000 suspicious wires.
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You don't, like, where did we put that $1.3 billion?
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You don't misplace a billion dollars in wires to foreign banks and shell companies connected
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to then a convicted sex offender under federal investigation.
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It doesn't happen because a junior banker made a mistake.
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It doesn't happen because the compliance officer was sleepy.
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It doesn't happen because somebody's inbox was full.
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To not report that level of suspicious activities directly to the Treasury,
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At a minimum, multiple officers, multiple departments, multiple sign-offs,
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Well, now, according to internal emails, JPMorgan Chase held off the filing of the SARs.
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If you withdrew $10,000 from your bank, are you really clear that your bank would do what the federal government directs?
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But the bank decided, well, we want to continue to work with Epstein.
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He's a referral engine to some of the richest people in the world.
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Wire transfers from a guy who is engaged in sex trafficking.
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Both of whom Epstein at various times claimed to be very, very close with.
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Banks file SARs, suspicious activity reports, to the Treasury for far less than this.
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A client sends repetitive round number transfers to an unknown entity.
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A wire connected to anything resembling terror or human trafficking or exploitation.
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Banks don't wait for 5,000 suspicious transactions.
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So how did Epstein get through 5,000 suspicious activity reports without triggering any alarms?
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Well, not because the alarms were broken, because they weren't.
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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.
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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.
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You broke federal law, something we all, all of us, have to abide by.
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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.
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We're not transferring $1.3 billion after we've been convicted.
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SARS are not, these suspicious activity reports, they are not decided by a single teller.
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They have to pass, they pass through compliance teams, risk divisions, bank lawyers, federal liaison officers.
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And Senator Wyden, no conservative firebrand I might point out, is now openly saying what everybody knows privately, JPMorgan Chase should face criminal investigation.
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And it should not be civil, it should be criminal.
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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.
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But Jeffrey Epstein, a billion dollars worth of exceptions.
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Wow, that seems much more important than a stupid birthday card.
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Let me ask you this, the question the DOJ doesn't want to touch.
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How many people does it take inside a bank to make 5,000 suspicious transactions just vanish for 17 years?
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Was Epstein, did it happen because Epstein was useful to the powerful?
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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?
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I'm beginning to think the banks are a real problem.
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This is about the machinery that allowed him to operate.
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All of the middlemen, all of the financial networks, all of the institutions that treated him like an asset instead of a criminal.
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I do believe he was probably an asset to our intelligence, although I hear both sides.
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I don't think it's unreasonable to say he was an asset for a foreign government.
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Apparently, we do all kinds of horrible things.
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Senator Wyden says he wants to follow the money.
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For the first time in a long time, maybe the money is finally pointing us somewhere.
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And by the way, if anybody still believes this ends with one dead man in jail, I don't think you're paying attention.
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And I'm going to show you the same kind of thing that is happening now in Minnesota.
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The corruption in Minnesota is so far beyond comprehension.
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You know, I said in 2009, maybe 2010, the biggest heist in all of human history is happening right now.
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And the time that us boobs figure it out, our bank accounts will be empty.
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Well, I think because the bank and maybe the treasury are in on it.
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Or at least they're so incredibly incompetent that they just can't see it.
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I believe trillions of dollars have been laundered.
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So I want to talk to you about Thanksgiving here for a little bit because it's not about Turkey.
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It's not about the football or the parade with the giant inflatables.
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You know, that's not, you know, that's not even the Thanksgiving parade.
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Um, all of these things, you know, planes, trains, and automobiles is a tradition that we watch.
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You know, we watch the dog show after the Macy's Day parade.
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We have the dog show on as we're preparing, you know, Thanksgiving meal, et cetera, et cetera.
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Those things we do every year, but those are ornaments on a very, on a much older tree.
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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.
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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.
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Half of them had died on the trip over, the pilgrims.
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And what, of the half that was left, half of those guys died in the winter.
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And then, around this time of the year, after all that work was done, they stopped to recognize what happened to them.
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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.
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If your family has been through hardship because you're split on whatever it is, stop all of that nonsense.
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Just say, hey, we've had hard times, all of us.
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We just want to get together and thank God that we're all still together.
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Humility before blessings that you didn't earn.
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A recognition that freedom, true freedom, always costs something.
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And thanksgiving reminds us that our country did not begin with triumph.
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It's the one thing that calls us back to something older than politics, deeper than division.
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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.
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Our lives and our liberties, they come from God.
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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.
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And maybe the closest we get to that now in today's age is just the family gathered around the table.
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If we stop at the family around the table, we miss the whole point.
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Thanksgiving is the quiet confession that we are dependent on something much greater than ourselves.
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That America's strength begins not with the clenched fist, but the open hand lifted in gratitude.
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It's not all the traditions that mean so much to each of us.
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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.
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It has shaped us into the nation worth giving thanks for.
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I'm also thankful for a good friend of mine who Dave Isay is, um, he's the founder and president of StoryCorps.
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Um, StoryCorps has preserved voices of the American story for the National Archives.
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Um, and he comes on from time to time and he shares some of the stories.
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Um, Dave, you're going to share a story with us of, of gratitude and Thanksgiving.
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And that your, I, that intro was absolutely gorgeous, Glenn.
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Um, uh, everything you said, a hundred percent true.
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Um, and we do have a true, wait, wait, before you, you know what, while we're, while we're
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here, before, before we get into the story, I am so grateful for you.
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You have, you are working so hard to get people to sit down with one another and just talk.
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They disagree, but just talk, try to lessen the visions in our country.
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I mean, you know, I, I listened to you preaching this every day in between the Jasmine Crockett
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Um, but you have a message that you're pounding your audience day in and day out.
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We have to love each other or we have no future.
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And, you know, you, the Glenn, the Glenn Beck audience is the main conservative participant
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audience in this effort where we're putting strangers together across the divides to get
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to know each other as human beings, not to talk about politics.
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And I mean, it goes all the way to Michaela on your team, reaching out to my team to do
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I mean, it's just like part of the DNA of, of, of the show.
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And, you know, it is our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we may
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I mean, that goes to the heart of what you were just saying about Thanksgiving.
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And we would love, we want every, you know, this is, we're here to talk about Thanksgiving,
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but every Glenn Beck listener, viewer, everybody in the community, when we see, when, when my
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team sees a Glenn Beck listener name come in to participate, they go right to the top of
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the list because they're the smartest, most, and you know, this Glenn, your audience, most
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thoughtful, heartfelt, nuanced, you know, human beings.
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I, and you can hear that in the show every, every single day.
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So, um, people can go to takeonesmallstep.org and, um, you know, look, it is unbelievably
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You know, I got a text from a guy who, um, who is like the smartest person on polarization
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And he basically is like, the time for the work is going to come.
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Um, let's keep aiming for the stars, but it's going to be hard and it's going to get harder
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and harder and harder and harder, but we will, it's going to be, it's going to be trench warfare,
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but there is another story of America and that other story is going to win.
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And Glenn to have you as a brother in this thing.
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And I do only come on occasionally, but you know, I think we both feel pretty close to each
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other and we come from, you know, we came from different politics, you know, but the minute
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we met each other, you know, like brothers, we care, we're like brothers and 99% of things we
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agree on, you know, so this is, we're living in an, we're living in an illusion, you know,
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They're just like, they, they're looking for a way out part of the exhausted majority.
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And we have these like loud, nutty voices on the fringes that are driving us absolutely
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bonkers and it's not going to end well, if we can't figure out a way to get people to
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And it's, you know, it's everything you just said and, you know, and you say it over and
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over again, blessed are the peacemakers, you know, and that's your audience.
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Well, if you want to get involved, um, please, you don't, you go to take one small step.org
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and that's just you sitting down with somebody and finding the common humanity.
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And it is a really, I mean, Michaela is still talking about it.
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She did it what two years ago and she is still talking about what an amazing experience.
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Uh, it was take one small step.org and they'll fill you in on everything.
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So Dave, tell me the Thanksgiving message here.
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So this is from, you know, this is from not, not from one small step.
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This is from regular story core where we've had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands
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of Americans come together, you know, and really in many ways, just to thank each other
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in these 40 minute conversations they have about who they are, what they care about, all
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everyday people, none of the nonsense, none of the BS, you know, fringe, crazy stuff that
00:38:24.220
Um, in 1958, John Crouit's mom dies two days before Christmas.
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Um, and his teacher, Cecile Doyle is incredibly kind to him.
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And, um, more than 50 years later, he decides he needs to write Mrs. Doyle a letter.
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So let's listen to John Crouit and Cecile Doyle.
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We talked about decorating the Christmas tree when I came home from school that day, but
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I walked into the living room and my aunt was there and she said, well, honey, mommy passed
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And I remember at my mother's wake, someone in my family came to me and said, Johnny, your
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When I found out she died, I could certainly relate to that because when I was 11, my own
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father died and you just don't know how you're going to go on without that person.
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When I returned to school, you waited until the other children left the room at the end
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of the day and you told me that you were there if I needed you and you bent over and kissed
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It was really the only time someone said to me, I know what you're feeling and I know what
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And I felt in a very real way that things really would be okay.
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Well, John, I really loved you as a student and I'm so glad that I could be there with you
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And many years later, when I became a teacher, I started to think more and more about you
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and I started to think to myself, here I am with a memory of a teacher who changed my
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Dear Mrs. Doyle, if you are not the Cecile Doyle who taught English at Emerson School in
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Kearney, New Jersey, then I'm embarrassed and you can disregard the sentiments that follow.
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My name is John Cruet and I was in your third grade class during the 1958-1959 school year.
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Two days before Christmas, my mother passed away and you told me that you were there if
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I hope life has been as kind to you as you were to me.
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And your letter could not have come at a better time because my husband had Parkinson's and
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he was going downhill and I had just come home from the hospital and I read this beautiful
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Well, the funny thing is when I finally wrote to you again after 54 years, I typed a letter
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I was afraid my penmanship wasn't going to meet your standards.
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Well, after all this time, Mrs. Doyle, all I can say to you is thank you.
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I'm just glad that we made a difference in each other's life.
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Dave, all of these things are being collected in there at the National Archives.
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A hundred years from now, what is the American story?
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What do you think they'll see when they listen to all these?
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You know, the facilitators, what they're going to find is the basic goodness of the American
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Every kind of person, every state, every occupation, every political persuasion, you
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know, the people who listen to these interviews, who facilitate the interviews, who work for
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StoryCorps, the facilitators, you know, they all come back.
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And if you ask them what they've learned, it's a version of the Ant Frank quote that people
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So what they're going to hear is the good, you know, a lot of people often say to me,
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you know, if, if Martians came down to earth and they could only hear one thing, God, I
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And, you know, we're living in a complete, you know, reality distortion zone in this kind
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Dave, you should have, you should go to Elon Musk and have these StoryCorps all put in
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It, it, it might help the, it might help the algorithm understand who we really are.
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I mean, look, I think AI would be much better with StoryCorps inside of it than without StoryCorps
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And Glenn, I wish you and your family a fantastic holiday.
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And I love you a lot for, for, you know, being in the arena with us every day on this thing.
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