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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the Monday podcast. A lot going on, especially we start with Sri Lanka, where

00:00:06.000 Easter worshipers were killed. Did you know that, Stu? I did not. Did you worship Easter?

00:00:12.440 I did. I worshiped the eggs and the bunny. And the bunny. That's what the media was calling

00:00:17.060 Christians yesterday. We have a lot to say about that. Also, it's Monday, so time for

00:00:23.660 Stu's Game of Thrones recap. Don't worry, not a single spoiler alert, because he's only

00:00:31.140 seen two episodes and he's not looking anything up. So it's Stu's recap for those who have

00:00:39.420 absolutely no idea who any of the characters are. Also, Ukraine just hired a, well, they 0.69

00:00:48.780 voted in at 71 or 73 percent, a comedian to be their new leader and president. It's amazing

00:00:57.000 because no one knows any of his policies. He's not given them and his interviews he doesn't

00:01:04.900 give unless he matches two different reporters and they have to jump a hurdle to be able to

00:01:13.760 interview him. We'll tell you about that hurdle and it is phenomenal. And I think it's kind

00:01:18.140 of scary because it's where we are ourselves. Also, Evan Todd, a Columbine survivor, talks

00:01:24.000 about what it was like on that day. 20th anniversary was on Saturday. Talked about what happened.

00:01:28.760 He was the first kid shot. He was one that had a gun to the temple of his head and he talked

00:01:34.860 them out of it. And what is his view on guns in school today? That's all on today's podcast.

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00:02:59.020 The helicopters overhead. Just on the other side of the fence of the National Zoo of Sri Lanka.

00:03:11.240 Hotel full of tourists from all over the world, just wanting to celebrate Easter. Just before 9am

00:03:19.600 yesterday, an explosion shook the air. The church was packed with brightly dressed people on Easter

00:03:29.740 Sunday. It wasn't just one church. It was church after church after church. Yesterday, a day of peace.

00:03:44.100 A day where if just the Christians would listen to the message of Christ, to love our enemies, 0.98

00:03:58.560 to forgive, to not have hatred, the world would truly change. A day of peace, a day of hope,

00:04:11.240 a day of the resurrection of the man, despite our darkest moments. The day marking his resurrection.

00:04:27.960 It became a day of blood and ash and screaming and loss. Nine bombings yesterday. 207 people dead.

00:04:39.360 450 wounded. 450 wounded. And they were all chosen specifically for their religious belief. 0.91

00:04:49.280 Literally targeted at their church.

00:04:56.240 Some people did something. All right. We've heard that phrase recently. We know it was a day where some

00:05:05.320 people did something. Sri Lanka has been plagued by violence throughout its history, but it's been nearly

00:05:13.460 a decade since the end of its civil war. And yesterday had nothing to do with Sri Lankan politics and

00:05:20.640 everything to do with religious persecution. Christians specifically targeted.

00:05:28.280 There's no doubt, Christians, worshippers of Christ, believers in Christianity. Christians, not Easter

00:05:35.940 worshippers. Easter worshippers seem to be the descriptor of the day yesterday. How's that for a

00:05:45.020 coordinated response? They weren't Easter worshippers. We don't worship Easter. We worship a risen Lord.

00:05:56.300 Christ. The Christ. Christ. That's what makes us Christians, not Easter worshippers.

00:06:08.960 Christians face a new persecution, a growing persecution. In fact, it's the worst persecution

00:06:16.020 since the days right after Christ.

00:06:19.600 Christ. On Easter, Jesus performed a miracle by rising from the dead.

00:06:30.760 But perhaps we're so close to being lost into nothingness that perhaps it will be another miracle

00:06:40.200 if Christians even begin to stand up, let alone rise. 0.80

00:06:47.160 It's time for Christians to recognize what's happening to their faith.

00:06:55.040 Is faith in America dead?

00:06:59.120 Can it rise again?

00:07:03.120 Does even anyone really even know

00:07:06.140 what it means to be a Christian?

00:07:09.780 Is empathy dead in America?

00:07:18.720 Will Christians begin to stand up in defense of their own faith?

00:07:28.180 I'm not sure.

00:07:31.400 But we have to.

00:07:33.620 And we have to do it pretty darn soon.

00:07:36.560 You know, I am amazed at how we are viewing this Sri Lankan event yesterday.

00:07:49.420 This bombing, this intentional Islamicist targeting of churches.

00:07:57.560 I guarantee you that there will be more ink spent on Glenn Beck being a conspiracy theorist

00:08:05.800 by saying, you know, I don't think this is, but if it's found out that it's Islamists 0.82

00:08:13.940 that have set Notre Dame on fire, you probably won't know about it because nobody will want

00:08:21.700 to engage in that and what would happen if Islamists actually burn down Notre Dame.

00:08:27.540 They spent all last week saying what a conspiracy theory that was.

00:08:31.840 No, that wasn't a conspiracy theory.

00:08:34.520 ISIS has said Notre Dame is its number one target.

00:08:40.820 ISIS has targeted that building twice.

00:08:43.740 Now, they didn't do this.

00:08:45.760 They didn't burn it down, but they even came out last week and still said they will not

00:08:51.020 rebuild it.

00:08:51.880 They're going to take that building out.

00:08:54.060 So it's not a conspiracy theory.

00:08:56.520 It is a collection of facts.

00:09:00.020 And then you look at what's happening and you say, is this it or is this not it?

00:09:05.320 As it turns out, as I said that day, this is not an Islamic terror operation.

00:09:12.820 Now, we spent all that time last week on Notre Dame.

00:09:20.240 And the only reason why they spent that time is because that building is iconic.

00:09:25.380 It's the building.

00:09:26.160 It's not what the building represents.

00:09:27.860 It's the building.

00:09:30.300 It's basically a tourist attraction to them.

00:09:32.720 Correct.

00:09:33.640 Correct.

00:09:34.200 And a piece of history.

00:09:35.780 It is.

00:09:36.940 There is something more to that building.

00:09:39.300 It is, you know, as Dennis Prager said in an article this week, it was an omen for Christianity

00:09:47.720 in the West. 0.99

00:09:48.800 Are you dead?

00:09:50.720 Are you? 1.00

00:09:51.560 I mean, it's burning itself down to the ground. 1.00

00:09:53.920 Are you dead, Christians? 1.00

00:09:57.620 Well, in Sri Lanka, it's not burning itself down to the ground. 0.99

00:10:03.420 People actually have to risk their lives for what they believe in.

00:10:07.320 And they did this weekend.

00:10:09.640 And what was the what was CNN's big angle?

00:10:14.000 CNN's big angle was, did you notice that Donald Trump said that there were what was it?

00:10:20.600 One hundred and thirty eight million dead.

00:10:23.320 It was clearly a typo that was corrected immediately.

00:10:28.140 What are you doing?

00:10:32.360 Everything must be about Donald Trump.

00:10:34.220 Every story.

00:10:35.820 I mean, how about this?

00:10:37.060 You know, we spent weeks and weeks and weeks talking about the terrible shooting in New Zealand

00:10:45.760 and the targeting of Muslims and targeting of Muslims.

00:10:50.560 Because, I mean, look at the hatred that's going on towards Muslims.

00:10:54.320 And, of course, that's that was true in that case.

00:10:57.020 And it deserved a lot of attention.

00:10:58.240 It was a terrible incident.

00:11:00.520 But this one is.

00:11:02.160 And very isolated in comparison to what's happening to Christians around the world.

00:11:09.000 I mean, it really is widespread around the world with Christians now.

00:11:12.120 And that's not something that gets covered.

00:11:14.040 This is an incident that is, you know, orders of magnitude larger.

00:11:18.880 Yeah.

00:11:19.080 I mean, it's a much bigger, you know, death toll here.

00:11:22.240 We're talking about 500 people injured, almost 300 dead in these nine bombings so far.

00:11:30.120 And that will, of course, increase, I'm sure, as we go forward.

00:11:34.160 And let me ask you this, Stu. 0.93

00:11:35.800 How ridiculous would it be for Christians today to say, we've got to take away people's bomb-making ability? 0.94

00:11:46.200 Stunningly, that's already been done. 0.98

00:11:48.220 Yeah, I mean, but it's ridiculous to think that.

00:11:53.320 Okay, so Sri Lanka.

00:11:55.540 Hard to get a gun in Sri Lanka, I imagine.

00:11:57.940 Oh, yeah.

00:11:58.820 You should see the process of it.

00:12:00.200 And again, you know, they took away all the guns in, or they're taking away all the guns in New Zealand now.

00:12:05.420 They've already passed all these laws to do so.

00:12:07.280 So, you know, the New Zealand situation is nowhere close to Sri Lanka.

00:12:13.540 Sri Lanka, they got all the stuff that you could possibly want to ban guns, plus much, much, much more than has ever been presented here.

00:12:21.540 And what happens?

00:12:22.840 Well, now, six times as many people are dead, right?

00:12:27.000 And they were able to do this.

00:12:30.100 This is not even a largely funded, it's a relatively unknown Islamic extremist group that is allegedly responsible for this.

00:12:38.220 And yet they were able to kill 300 people in a country where not only can you not make bombs legally, but you can't possess firearms.

00:12:48.000 I mean, I was looking at the report of this.

00:12:50.160 It's actually incredible what you have to do.

00:12:53.220 So not only there's no Second Amendment right to firearms, which, of course, is only in really two or three countries in the world actually have something similar to the Second Amendment, and they're all worse than ours as far as rights.

00:13:07.640 But they don't do that, and they don't give you a license to buy firearms unless you can prove it's absolutely necessary to possess one.

00:13:16.380 So what's that process like?

00:13:18.580 Again, like, there's not a ton of information.

00:13:20.240 It's known to be very restrictive, but this is at least from, there's a Quora article about this of someone who lived there and worked in the department.

00:13:28.080 You know, I don't know.

00:13:29.760 I wouldn't base my legal rights on this particular article, but it is a fascinating one.

00:13:34.920 So you go and you have to send an application to request a license to possess a firearm.

00:13:39.540 Then you submit that, and then you have to give them all sorts of information.

00:13:42.540 Once you submit it, they will attach their recommendation or disapproval letter, and that will be sent along to the Ministry of Defense.

00:13:50.460 Again, this is just to get a gun.

00:13:52.500 The Ministry of Defense will consider your application and will almost certainly reject it unless you make absolutely strong arguments on why you should be able to bear a firearm.

00:14:01.560 If the Ministry of Defense decides to issue a license to bear firearms, they, they will decide which kind of firearm suits your case.

00:14:12.400 Now, I mean, what's the situation?

00:14:14.320 You have a legitimate security threat.

00:14:16.320 Maybe you're some big celebrity.

00:14:17.700 You're protecting a compound or something.

00:14:19.560 They will sell to you, they will sell to you, a model of firearm that they decide to sell you.

00:14:25.420 You cannot buy firearms anywhere in Sri Lanka.

00:14:31.020 How's that for restrictive?

00:14:32.420 Once you get your arms on a firearm, you are not allowed to shoot it unless absolutely necessary.

00:14:36.980 You have to report every single bullet shot by you.

00:14:41.580 Oh my gosh.

00:14:42.500 They also permit you to possess only a given number of bullets.

00:14:47.520 How do you go to, how do you get proficient in it?

00:14:50.020 You can only re-obtain bullets, re-obtain is the word they use, from a licensed ammunition seller who is bound by law only to issue ammunition, ammunition in an amount similar to the amount of cartridges or shells returned to them.

00:15:03.840 Oh my gosh.

00:15:04.180 So you need to bring all your empty casings and shells and bring them in and then say, here, I've got 45 and then you can buy 45.

00:15:13.300 That is, that's the process there.

00:15:14.960 So they got a fever dream of like Bernie Sanders times Kamala Harris times Cory Booker as far as gun laws go.

00:15:25.080 And then add in a dash of the Green Party and the Socialist Workers Party, like the most restrictive you could ever imagine.

00:15:31.940 And what happens?

00:15:32.780 Six times as many people are dead in these attacks than the ones they were all saying were gun's fault last time.

00:15:37.940 And again, because it's Christians instead of Muslims that are the victim here, and they were victims in both cases.

00:15:43.620 But the attention will not be paid upon the victims here because it just doesn't.

00:15:49.560 Well, they were Easter worshipers.

00:15:50.580 Yeah.

00:15:51.200 I kept seeing that too.

00:15:52.420 They were Easter worshipers.

00:15:53.120 Easter worshipers.

00:15:53.840 Now look, here's the, here's the, they're worshiping Easter?

00:15:56.900 They're worshiping the bunny?

00:15:57.740 What are they doing exactly?

00:15:59.000 Sure, sure.

00:16:00.100 Isn't that amazing?

00:16:01.320 Easter worshipers.

00:16:03.820 Not Christians. 1.00

00:16:04.880 And the reason why we, we showed you this last week, um, in Europe itself, there were, and I'm, I'm going to just ballpark these numbers, but it's pretty close.

00:16:16.600 There were 1,800, uh, hate crimes that were filed in the EU last year.

00:16:23.780 1,800 hate crimes.

00:16:25.260 Out of the 1,800, about a hundred of them were against Islamists, okay, or Muslims.

00:16:34.000 Um, two or 300 were against Jews.

00:16:38.120 The rest were Christians. 0.85

00:16:41.240 The rest were Christians. 0.85

00:16:43.200 It was like 1,364.

00:16:47.500 Acts of hate against Christians.

00:16:50.160 Christians are under attack all over the world, and no one is talking about it, including our own churches. 0.98

00:17:02.780 With what's happening in China alone is horrific.

00:17:08.820 And I'm sorry to say, but it looks like the Pope is not helping the Christian churches, the Catholic churches in China.

00:17:18.020 He is, he is on the wrong side of what's happening with the Catholic churches and the Catholic parishioners in China.

00:17:27.020 But Christians are, are being targeted in China.

00:17:31.800 They're being targeted in Burma.

00:17:34.000 They're being targeted in Africa, in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia, all over the world.

00:17:42.300 And no one is standing up for them.

00:17:44.700 No one's standing up for our own faith.

00:17:50.100 We are all sitting here.

00:17:51.640 We, if you went to church yesterday,

00:17:54.900 did you at all, at all, have a feeling or a fleeting thought?

00:18:05.700 This is, this is, this is, this is dying.

00:18:12.060 This is all going away.

00:18:14.160 Where, where is the church, the dynamic church that we had when I was growing up?

00:18:21.740 Now, if you're lucky, you live in a place like we do, where the churches are dynamic.

00:18:26.860 But this is an oasis here.

00:18:31.660 I mean, it is not like this in the rest of the country.

00:18:34.820 If you are, if you are up north, tell me your church is as healthy as it was even five years ago.

00:18:42.440 Tell me our faith.

00:18:47.580 You know, I was sitting in, I was sitting in church waiting for the service yesterday.

00:18:51.600 And I was, I was reading my scriptures.

00:18:56.080 And I was, I was overwhelmed by Luke 6.

00:19:01.420 Tell me we're living this, but love your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again.

00:19:13.240 So in other words, are we just doing this, loving our enemies and doing good to our enemies,

00:19:21.840 lending them stuff, lending a helping hand and hoping for nothing in return?

00:19:27.220 Are we even doing that part again?

00:19:31.420 For he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.

00:19:41.220 So in other words, we're supposed to do it because he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.

00:19:51.180 Be therefore merciful.

00:19:54.400 Judge not.

00:19:56.160 Condemn not.

00:19:58.600 Forgive.

00:19:58.880 Are we even doing this?

00:20:03.240 How many of us were missing someone at the table for Easter because of politics?

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00:20:29.840 This is such a bad version of this.

00:20:38.580 It's dramatic.

00:20:41.880 It's like on a recorder.

00:20:45.300 You can feel the power of the series, I think, through this.

00:20:48.480 Can you?

00:20:49.440 Now, you are not necessarily a fan, but you're not an anti-fan either.

00:20:54.380 You're not against it.

00:20:55.660 No.

00:20:55.980 I mean, I've heard really good things about it.

00:20:57.640 And sometimes when you hear the hot series and you don't watch it, you know, you wind up catching up later and really get into it.

00:21:04.860 I mean, that's happened to me.

00:21:05.560 That happened to me with Breaking Bad.

00:21:06.740 Like, I didn't watch Breaking Bad at the beginning.

00:21:08.080 You wind up really loving that show.

00:21:10.040 So maybe that's going to be the same thing here.

00:21:12.660 Though in Breaking Bad, I didn't try to jump in in the last season.

00:21:15.340 Right.

00:21:15.680 And understand it with no context.

00:21:17.320 Right.

00:21:17.820 And you are specifically asking for no help.

00:21:21.220 I want no help here.

00:21:22.180 I'm not doing any internet research.

00:21:24.020 I'm not going back and re-watching things intentionally.

00:21:27.020 Because I don't.

00:21:28.280 I want it to be a pure experience.

00:21:29.700 Can you stop this music?

00:21:30.600 No, it's great.

00:21:31.060 This is killing me.

00:21:32.440 All right.

00:21:33.140 So.

00:21:34.120 Thank you.

00:21:34.860 So.

00:21:35.240 What is this?

00:21:35.840 The club mix?

00:21:38.140 All right.

00:21:38.460 So, Stu is here with your Game of Thrones update.

00:21:43.120 The second episode in the season.

00:21:45.100 Final season of Game of Thrones.

00:21:46.600 I think there's some pretty big things that happened this week.

00:21:49.140 Really?

00:21:49.460 Yeah.

00:21:49.700 First of all, biggest one, I think.

00:21:51.440 There are seven kingdoms.

00:21:54.520 Yes.

00:21:55.020 There are seven kingdoms.

00:21:56.360 That's huge.

00:21:57.100 I had no idea what the number.

00:21:58.740 No, I did not.

00:21:59.580 All right.

00:22:00.060 Somebody was pushed out of a tower.

00:22:02.580 Okay.

00:22:03.000 That happened in a flashback scene.

00:22:05.680 Okay.

00:22:06.180 Yes.

00:22:06.580 So, I don't know what the context of that was or who the two people were, but someone

00:22:10.500 was pushed out of a tower.

00:22:11.580 It fell dramatically.

00:22:12.940 Right.

00:22:13.260 Did not look good.

00:22:13.900 All right.

00:22:14.600 Then the open happens.

00:22:15.960 The open animation is very, very long.

00:22:19.100 It's incredible how long it is.

00:22:21.460 You know, it is amazing how animation, you know, like Seinfeld, a 30-minute show.

00:22:27.240 It ran like a minute.

00:22:28.520 You're like, you got 22, now you've got 21, shut up with the, and we sat through it.

00:22:34.880 Oh, the Cosby Show one was like, it was like each character for like 40 seconds dancing

00:22:39.320 in a different sweater.

00:22:40.260 I know.

00:22:40.640 It was crazy.

00:22:41.740 It's crazy when you go back and watch them, and now you see something like Game of Thrones,

00:22:45.980 which is a little lengthy.

00:22:47.480 Yeah.

00:22:47.780 And it's just a bunch of models, like really cheesy looking models of, I guess.

00:22:52.000 Well, that's new this season.

00:22:53.380 That's new.

00:22:54.020 Okay.

00:22:54.500 I think.

00:22:54.900 I don't know.

00:22:55.320 I only saw the last part because I always hit skip intro.

00:22:58.840 Right.

00:22:59.640 Because it kind of has you like swooping through these landscapes of really cheesy models,

00:23:03.360 and it reminded me of the old Tales of the Crypt open, except there's no puppet skeleton

00:23:07.940 that pops up at the end.

00:23:09.040 Right.

00:23:09.060 Okay.

00:23:09.520 Although I don't, spoiler alert, it could happen.

00:23:11.520 Okay.

00:23:11.740 I don't know.

00:23:12.180 All right.

00:23:12.440 Okay.

00:23:12.660 So the other thing I wanted to address, this one's annoying me for real, is that the Game

00:23:19.020 of Thrones font, that everyone keeps saying, oh, the Game of Thrones font, it's just a

00:23:23.280 normal font with three lines vertically through the O's.

00:23:26.580 Okay.

00:23:26.720 That's the only difference.

00:23:28.720 All right.

00:23:29.300 I don't think this is the kind of update people are looking for.

00:23:32.780 Okay.

00:23:33.060 So, all right.

00:23:33.740 Again, I will say, if you know these characters, there may be spoiler alerts in here because

00:23:37.940 I'm describing things that I don't know which ones are important and which ones to

00:23:40.560 skip.

00:23:40.860 So, if you haven't watched the episode and you're a big fan, you can read the update

00:23:45.120 online afterwards.

00:23:46.140 I heard your recap last week.

00:23:48.760 I didn't even understand it.

00:23:49.920 Okay.

00:23:50.140 So, okay.

00:23:51.240 All right.

00:23:51.520 The Blondie Queen, she wants the guy in Beard's sister to send troops, which she is not doing. 0.99

00:23:59.100 So, that's a problem.

00:24:00.260 And the bearded guy apparently is Angry Elf's brother.

00:24:05.280 And the sister-

00:24:06.160 That's a big revelation for you last night.

00:24:08.320 That the bearded guy might be the brother of the elf.

00:24:12.880 Yeah.

00:24:13.540 Okay.

00:24:13.840 That's a big development.

00:24:14.880 And also, the sister of the woman who's not sending troops, who I don't know who that

00:24:18.660 is yet, but someone out there.

00:24:21.280 Okay.

00:24:21.940 Okay.

00:24:22.480 All right.

00:24:22.940 Okay.

00:24:23.040 Now, they used to all be at war, right?

00:24:26.240 And now they're not, but they still don't really like each other all that much.

00:24:30.280 Then there's the matronly woman who kind of stands up and she vouches for beard guy. 1.00

00:24:34.440 And she says she was sexually assaulted and that the beard guy defended her, which makes 0.72

00:24:39.320 all of his previous murder attempts okay.

00:24:41.360 Is that the redhead? 1.00

00:24:43.320 Redheaded matronly woman? 1.00

00:24:44.800 No.

00:24:45.340 I think she was blondish and she kind of stood up to defend. 0.99

00:24:49.140 I must have missed that part.

00:24:50.460 Are you not that wrong?

00:24:51.960 But anyway, go ahead.

00:24:52.540 So then there's this Backstreet Boy in the wheelchair character, which I found very interesting.

00:24:58.760 He looks like a boy band member.

00:25:00.140 He's in a wheelchair all the time.

00:25:01.460 Got it.

00:25:01.660 And he seems to just kind of stare pensively at people a lot.

00:25:05.500 Right.

00:25:05.640 That seems to be his role.

00:25:06.740 Uh-huh.

00:25:07.400 And then there's the frumpy girl. 0.99

00:25:09.620 Now, the frumpy girl, she was in the last episode and she likes swords a lot. 0.86

00:25:13.620 And she hung out with the goatee guy.

00:25:17.280 And I got to say, the goatee guy I know is one of the main characters, but I lost him.

00:25:21.360 I can't tell which one it was.

00:25:23.220 So my last description of goatee guy, I don't remember now who that was.

00:25:27.360 Like, I couldn't recreate who the same...

00:25:29.540 I couldn't bridge the gap.

00:25:30.980 You can't tell the difference because they're all...

00:25:33.080 They all look the same.

00:25:34.700 They're identical people.

00:25:36.760 Well, they're all...

00:25:37.180 Everyone in the entire series is identical.

00:25:40.120 That's the problem.

00:25:40.840 Well, there's not a lot of razors or water.

00:25:44.240 No.

00:25:44.280 Yeah.

00:25:44.780 There's not a lot of showering going on.

00:25:47.160 It's so dark and cold and dirty.

00:25:49.420 And everybody's wearing black. 0.99

00:25:50.360 Black. 0.93

00:25:51.000 It's like being in Manhattan. 0.97

00:25:53.320 Everybody's just wearing black.

00:25:54.640 That's true.

00:25:55.020 They all kind of look the same. 0.99

00:25:56.640 And they're miserable. 0.99

00:25:57.760 Yes. 0.99

00:25:58.260 Yes.

00:25:58.560 Okay.

00:25:58.840 So then the frumpy girl, she can throw knives very accurately. 1.00

00:26:02.940 Yes.

00:26:03.060 And she wants some sort of weapon made for her. 1.00

00:26:05.120 Mm-hmm.

00:26:05.420 Okay.

00:26:05.940 Then they go to this bright red tree.

00:26:09.100 Yeah.

00:26:09.300 And at the bright red tree is the Backstreet Boy in the wheelchair.

00:26:14.780 Right.

00:26:15.060 And he's out there.

00:26:16.260 And it just seems completely implausible that he could wheel himself in this wheelchair through all of this snow and terrain to get to this location.

00:26:23.020 Right.

00:26:23.040 It's not like there's a sidewalk with curbs anywhere near.

00:26:25.480 Exactly.

00:26:26.120 It would be very difficult.

00:26:27.380 Right.

00:26:27.400 And I hope that that's...

00:26:28.480 No handicapable, you know, access to any part in... 0.99

00:26:32.440 Thank you.

00:26:33.000 Yes.

00:26:33.280 I really am hoping that in future episodes they have like a flashback to how he got there.

00:26:38.200 Right.

00:26:38.440 How did he traverse the rocks and the snow?

00:26:41.000 It would be hysterical.

00:26:42.820 I just want to see that.

00:26:44.220 Him stuck with his wheels in the mud and the snow.

00:26:48.200 Can somebody help me out here?

00:26:50.660 It would be incredibly challenging.

00:26:52.940 Yes.

00:26:53.140 Yes.

00:26:53.600 Okay.

00:26:54.860 So...

00:26:55.340 A lot of upper body strength is what you're saying.

00:26:57.240 Yeah, I think so.

00:26:57.880 Okay.

00:26:58.080 That's something to see.

00:26:58.960 This is where we're getting a review.

00:27:00.940 You're not going to get any place else.

00:27:02.700 Nobody is talking about the...

00:27:05.500 What do you call him?

00:27:06.300 The wheelchair...

00:27:07.100 Backstreet Boy in the wheelchair.

00:27:08.260 Backstreet Boy in his upper body strength.

00:27:10.460 Right.

00:27:10.820 No one's covered that.

00:27:12.020 Okay.

00:27:12.540 So they're at this tree and the bearded guy who I learn apparently was the person who

00:27:19.800 actually pushed the Backstreet Boy who was not in a wheelchair out of the window.

00:27:24.680 Yes.

00:27:25.260 And I think that may have caused the wheelchair situation.

00:27:27.780 Okay.

00:27:28.280 Again, not a spoiler unless you're on season one.

00:27:31.700 It's been that long?

00:27:32.780 It's been that long.

00:27:34.680 All right. 0.99

00:27:35.240 So Angry Elf and his brother, the beard guy, they seem to think that their sister was trash 0.99

00:27:44.240 and they... 0.98

00:27:44.620 But they sort of love her anyway.

00:27:46.140 Okay.

00:27:47.060 They had a conversation about that.

00:27:49.440 Then there's this guy who looks like...

00:27:51.280 Kind of like Ricky Gervais and Lenny from Laverne and Shirley.

00:27:54.740 He visits the Queen Blondie lady.

00:27:58.120 Do you know who I'm talking about?

00:27:59.700 I think so.

00:28:00.620 Remember Lenny and then you know Ricky Gervais.

00:28:03.940 If they...

00:28:04.620 Look, we have all sorts of alternative lifestyles that are...

00:28:07.200 Is he thinner than Ricky Gervais?

00:28:10.740 Maybe?

00:28:11.520 I don't know.

00:28:12.340 Okay.

00:28:12.520 I don't know.

00:28:12.920 I think I know who you're talking about, but I'm not.

00:28:14.680 I can't place that person.

00:28:15.040 But they visit Queen Blondie and they used to not like each other, but now they do, which

00:28:18.940 is the relationship dynamic of every person on the show.

00:28:21.680 I was just going to say, you're not helping me out with that.

00:28:23.940 Every conversation is the same conversation, which is, hey, I know you used to try to kill

00:28:29.220 me all the time, but we're friends now.

00:28:31.480 That interaction happens all the time.

00:28:35.820 All right.

00:28:36.460 It was a much more complex life back then.

00:28:39.500 It was.

00:28:39.900 We had social media that we now have to navigate, but they were just trying to kill each other 1.00

00:28:45.940 and you never knew, like, are you my friend now or is this a plot to kill me?

00:28:52.440 Oh, my gosh.

00:28:53.300 Can you imagine the tweets going back and forth between Queen Blondie and Beard Guy

00:28:56.580 if that was around back then?

00:28:58.880 That would have been incredible.

00:29:00.960 Okay.

00:29:01.500 So I will say this.

00:29:03.640 I noticed this was kind of a big revelation for me during this particular episode that

00:29:07.640 the blonde queen, her eyebrows are remarkably dark for her hair color. 1.00

00:29:12.640 Again, I don't think this is.

00:29:14.160 That was noticeable.

00:29:15.000 Right.

00:29:15.500 Right?

00:29:16.140 Right.

00:29:16.460 Is that a thing?

00:29:17.160 Do people talk about that a lot?

00:29:18.320 No.

00:29:18.520 No, they don't.

00:29:20.560 She was out in the sun a lot.

00:29:22.020 She's more of a – she's one that is up in Winterfell saying, now, I mean, I can't

00:29:29.780 take this.

00:29:30.320 It's always gray.

00:29:31.320 It's always dark.

00:29:32.300 It's always cold.

00:29:33.460 This is not me.

00:29:34.660 Right.

00:29:35.360 She's more of a sun worshiper. 1.00

00:29:36.880 Okay.

00:29:37.240 Yeah.

00:29:37.440 Okay.

00:29:37.700 All right.

00:29:37.920 I can see that.

00:29:38.460 Yeah.

00:29:38.720 Now, here's another one.

00:29:40.060 And this is – if you've only joined now, this may be a spoiler alert, but the blonde 1.00

00:29:47.080 queen lady, she's in love with John, which I think might be John Snow. 0.69

00:29:53.800 Not a spoiler.

00:29:55.160 That's not a spoiler.

00:29:57.120 Okay.

00:29:57.380 No.

00:29:57.600 Is it John Snow?

00:29:58.580 It is John Snow.

00:30:00.160 That's the goatee guy?

00:30:02.380 I mean –

00:30:02.840 No, no, no.

00:30:03.760 Maybe?

00:30:04.660 It was definitely a guy with a beard, but again, that does not narrow it down at all.

00:30:07.880 This was the guy that you were trying to place last week.

00:30:11.380 Right.

00:30:11.840 Yes.

00:30:12.040 And you said, I don't know who he is.

00:30:14.080 They were doing the dragon thing?

00:30:15.140 They were flying on dragons and stuff?

00:30:16.820 Yes.

00:30:17.180 Yes.

00:30:17.960 That's him.

00:30:18.620 Okay.

00:30:18.940 And you got it?

00:30:19.900 That's John Snow.

00:30:20.700 That's John Snow.

00:30:21.460 That's a big character, I feel like, in this thing.

00:30:23.580 It is.

00:30:23.820 I want people to know that they should watch for him to do stuff because I think he's

00:30:26.860 going to be one of these active characters in this show.

00:30:29.720 Yes.

00:30:30.140 He's one of the central characters.

00:30:32.400 Yes.

00:30:33.980 There's some conflict between Blondie and a redhead about a throne in the north. 0.67

00:30:38.520 Okay.

00:30:39.120 Watch for that in developing –

00:30:41.200 The redhead is hugging someone, and I don't know who it is because everyone looks the 0.99

00:30:48.600 same, but she was hugging someone.

00:30:50.740 Okay.

00:30:51.420 A little kid wants to join the war and eat soup.

00:30:54.300 The soup did not look good.

00:30:55.840 Right.

00:30:56.740 Not a big plot point.

00:30:58.080 Then there's a big moment where the someone is here alarm sounds.

00:31:02.060 Yes.

00:31:02.380 They have a simply safe system.

00:31:04.380 Yes.

00:31:04.560 Like when someone approaches.

00:31:05.600 Yes.

00:31:06.700 And then the red hair burly guy comes in.

00:31:10.920 And he was a big character throughout this episode.

00:31:13.200 He has a – there's a beard guy there, another beard guy, and an eye patch guy there.

00:31:16.920 And they were all together.

00:31:20.020 Whoever is coming – now, this is something that people might not understand if they're

00:31:24.300 only coming into season eight, episode two and didn't see season eight, episode one.

00:31:27.880 But something or someone is coming.

00:31:31.140 Winter is coming.

00:31:32.800 It's just the – it's just winter?

00:31:34.620 Well, that's – that was the first line of the series was winter is coming.

00:31:39.660 And now winter is finally here.

00:31:43.500 It's been – I mean, the entire – I will –

00:31:45.680 This has been –

00:31:46.520 I can't tell if you're making an analogy because, like, it has been cold the entire time.

00:31:50.400 Yes.

00:31:50.760 No, it's an analogy.

00:31:51.840 And the name of the place is also Winterfell, which I learned last episode.

00:31:55.320 Right.

00:31:55.500 Good.

00:31:56.080 Good.

00:31:56.600 Good.

00:31:57.020 But somebody – I feel like an army or a monster or an attacker of some sort is coming.

00:32:02.940 Yes.

00:32:03.400 Okay.

00:32:05.740 And so –

00:32:06.780 Look at you.

00:32:07.060 You're trying so hard.

00:32:08.000 I am.

00:32:09.400 And they're coming before the sun comes up.

00:32:11.160 So it's, like, tomorrow.

00:32:12.020 Like, within the next few hours.

00:32:13.460 Okay.

00:32:14.100 So the army is unbeatable except for one weak point.

00:32:16.900 May I ask you a question?

00:32:18.460 How do you know that they're coming if I just told you winter is coming, which is an analogy, when they said they're coming before sunup?

00:32:29.500 It could be another analogy.

00:32:30.980 It could be another analogy.

00:32:32.460 Right.

00:32:32.660 How do you know what the analogy is and what the actual time is?

00:32:36.820 Well, again, all this is contextual.

00:32:38.520 So I feel like they were drinking.

00:32:41.080 They were saying we're not going to live to the next day.

00:32:43.120 They were not a confident force, I will say.

00:32:45.200 This was –

00:32:46.220 I would say that was accurate, yeah.

00:32:47.700 This was, like, a 1-8 matchup in the NBA playoffs.

00:32:51.120 Right, okay.

00:32:51.860 They just did not seem confident.

00:32:54.300 They did, however, have the possibility of knocking out this army because of one weak point.

00:33:00.760 Like the Death Star.

00:33:02.000 They have a Death Star possibility, it seemed like.

00:33:04.420 Yes.

00:33:04.600 If they could just bomb or put, like –

00:33:07.060 Yeah.

00:33:07.460 Lob that like he used to when you were gopher hunting back on the other plane.

00:33:12.420 Tatooine, right.

00:33:13.080 It was like that.

00:33:13.800 Yeah, they could do that, they can wipe all of them out at the same time, which is, again,

00:33:17.140 like every army in every series seems to do this.

00:33:20.060 It's like, don't put one weak point.

00:33:22.380 Right.

00:33:22.500 That's all you have to do is not do the one weak point thing and you win all the time.

00:33:25.900 Well, but you don't necessarily know that one weak point until it's too late.

00:33:30.600 That's true.

00:33:30.820 But somehow your enemy does.

00:33:32.400 But you never see it.

00:33:34.680 Let's see.

00:33:37.360 Someone killed a White Walker.

00:33:38.780 I don't know what a White Walker is, but they were very proud of that. 1.00

00:33:41.360 All right.

00:33:41.920 The brother of the angry elf was sleeping with his sister.

00:33:46.560 So the brother of the angry elf was sleeping with his sister, which I think means it's also

00:33:51.460 angry elf's sister.

00:33:53.180 Yeah.

00:33:53.580 Good for you.

00:33:54.400 Yes.

00:33:54.720 This is, I mean, this is not something you should be watching.

00:33:57.720 I'm disappointed in you.

00:33:59.520 Right.

00:34:01.180 You're right on that.

00:34:02.820 There was some, there was a bunch of sexual stuff that went on.

00:34:06.960 The frumpy girl got naked and she looked a lot less frumpy. 1.00

00:34:09.840 Okay.

00:34:10.240 When she got out of her clothing.

00:34:11.340 I noticed that.

00:34:13.360 Then there was the scary opposing army.

00:34:17.980 Okay.

00:34:18.240 That they finally, I guess this is the group that's coming.

00:34:20.320 Yes.

00:34:20.540 And, and they are there and they're in the visual connection to the actual castle.

00:34:26.560 Winterfell.

00:34:26.980 Which is a big deal.

00:34:27.840 Yeah.

00:34:28.340 And I think, tell me if I'm wrong and spoiler alert, there's a big revelation.

00:34:34.940 Beard guy, I think is someone named Sir Jamie of Lannister.

00:34:41.320 Sir Jamie Lannister is a beard guy.

00:34:44.560 Not a revelation.

00:34:46.380 So not a spoiler again, but it was a big.

00:34:49.960 It was a big reveal to me.

00:34:51.380 It was a big reveal to you.

00:34:52.440 They said his name and everything.

00:34:53.960 Yes.

00:34:54.160 And there it is.

00:34:56.360 The update.

00:34:57.760 I mean, I hate to.

00:34:58.460 The show is a little better than that, but a thorough, thorough look at last night's episode

00:35:05.580 with Stu.

00:35:06.480 Courtesy HBO.

00:35:07.500 Thank you very much.

00:35:08.240 Thank you very much.

00:35:12.360 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:35:19.960 You want to talk about how America has, you know, we don't, we don't, we don't share things

00:35:31.560 anymore.

00:35:32.540 Part of that is because of the breakdown of media and in a good way.

00:35:36.460 I mean, we're in the golden era of television right now.

00:35:39.360 Have you, have you heard or seen a show called, uh, eat killing Eve?

00:35:47.680 I have not.

00:35:48.700 It is really, really good.

00:35:51.960 Really good.

00:35:53.560 Yeah.

00:35:54.140 I've never even heard.

00:35:54.660 Again, like, that's, what's amazing about this is there's these every once in a while

00:35:57.840 I stumble upon a series that almost was specifically designed for me.

00:36:02.440 Yeah.

00:36:02.880 You know, and it's like, how did I not know about this?

00:36:06.020 It did five seasons and it ended in 2012 and you're like, wait, how?

00:36:10.200 No idea.

00:36:11.180 I love Lucy.

00:36:11.920 When I love Lucy was out, uh, it had a 92 share, which meant that about 70% of the American

00:36:21.900 population was watching.

00:36:24.020 I love Lucy.

00:36:25.240 And you had to watch it live.

00:36:26.680 So imagine, I remember, I remember this, you know, in the days of MASH and even Seinfeld

00:36:33.760 and Friends where you would talk the next day and, uh, up until really TiVo, you would

00:36:41.820 say, no, no, no, don't, don't tell me.

00:36:43.400 Don't tell me.

00:36:43.960 Don't tell me.

00:36:44.540 Oh yeah.

00:36:45.180 Cause I remember going on the air the next day and you'd have that news board, like you'd

00:36:49.260 try to talk about it without talking about the shows.

00:36:52.100 And this is again, like, you know, 19, late nineties, early two thousands.

00:36:54.880 Yeah.

00:36:55.020 But in the early nineties, you just talked about it.

00:36:57.660 You just talked about it in the, in the eighties, you just talked about it.

00:37:01.260 Right.

00:37:01.480 Cause it was the only way you were ever going to see it unless you saw the rerun six months

00:37:04.260 later.

00:37:04.780 Yeah.

00:37:04.900 You're just, everybody, everybody watched it live.

00:37:08.600 So now nobody, I mean here, Game of Thrones, uh, had a, uh, 17.4.

00:37:16.460 Is that a share or is that the rating?

00:37:19.620 17.4 million Americans watched it.

00:37:22.120 That's what it is.

00:37:22.640 It's an actual number 17.4 million Americans watched it, which is what 5% 5% of the population

00:37:29.420 5% of the population roughly 70% of the population was watching.

00:37:34.880 I love Lucy 70 and the Game of Thrones is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

00:37:40.220 I mean, how many people have never seen a single episode?

00:37:43.940 Couldn't tell you anything about it.

00:37:45.340 Me.

00:37:45.480 I mean, until two, until the last couple of weeks.

00:37:47.980 Yeah.

00:37:48.340 It's crazy how fragmented, how fragmented we really are.

00:37:52.260 Um, and how we are united on the thing that we're most divided about politics.

00:38:01.460 We, we are more united on politics, but we disagree with each other than I think anything

00:38:10.340 else now.

00:38:11.300 Isn't that sad?

00:38:13.140 I want to, I want to give you a scenario.

00:38:15.100 Imagine for a second, the United States economy had collapsed and a coup has occurred and then

00:38:22.440 China invades California and they annex the entire Western seaboard. 0.98

00:38:29.220 Now imagine, you know, in the absence of a George Washington resurrection, we elect

00:38:35.160 Conan O'Brien.

00:38:38.440 So we've got Conan O'Brien as president of the United States and we've, we've knowingly

00:38:45.720 elected him to get us out of this mess.

00:38:48.120 And during the chaos, uh, O'Brien, you know, breaks out, you know, triumph, the insult comic

00:38:53.480 dog and, and goes viral on insulting the post coup government.

00:39:00.440 And then he's like, you know what? 0.99

00:39:01.920 I'm going to run for president, uh, myself cause any clown can do it. 1.00

00:39:06.060 And then we elect him president of the United States. 0.94

00:39:09.340 That is exactly what happened in Ukraine this weekend.

00:39:14.980 In Ukraine, uh, Voldemort, I can't, it can't be Voldemort.

00:39:21.100 If it is, they should worry cause he might turn himself into a giant snake.

00:39:25.140 Uh, Zelensky, he declared victory last night.

00:39:28.740 He stood on a stage in his campaign headquarters just after the polls closed the, the theme song

00:39:35.200 that was playing, you know, behind him was not like, you know, he didn't have to sue anybody

00:39:39.660 for, you know, born in the, born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen says Trump can't use it.

00:39:44.100 You don't have to worry about any of that because it was his theme song for his comic late night

00:39:49.420 show for his comedy show.

00:39:51.720 It would be like Johnny Carson, but as your victory song, okay.

00:40:00.160 His opponent, the previous Ukrainian president had already conceded defeat before the results

00:40:06.140 even started coming in.

00:40:08.260 It was a blowout.

00:40:09.560 I mean, blowout.

00:40:10.820 He trounced everybody.

00:40:14.200 73% of the vote.

00:40:16.600 That's the amount of people that were watching.

00:40:19.500 I love Lucy.

00:40:21.300 And we just said how crazy that is.

00:40:24.900 73% of the vote went to a late night comedian.

00:40:30.340 He is now the president of Ukraine.

00:40:33.260 And he played the president on TV, right?

00:40:36.400 Yes.

00:40:37.040 And that people just were like, ah, I mean, he seems to be funny in that scenario.

00:40:41.620 Maybe he'll be funny in real life as the president too.

00:40:43.860 So the Russians are literally at the gates. 0.97

00:40:47.420 They are at the throats of Ukraine. 0.99

00:40:49.620 They've already annexed Crimea.

00:40:52.680 The Russian-backed separatists have seized nearly all of eastern Ukraine.

00:40:57.380 The media rarely even talks about it, but there's been an ongoing war in Ukraine ever since 2014.

00:41:04.820 13,000 Ukrainians have died.

00:41:07.800 The economy has collapsed.

00:41:09.480 It is in absolute shambles.

00:41:12.960 And they have a comedian.

00:41:15.840 Now, common sense would seem to dictate, you know, maybe somebody who knows what they're doing would be really good.

00:41:22.700 But Ukraine has chosen a late night comedian.

00:41:29.420 How did this happen?

00:41:30.680 Well, I will, I will tell you, this isn't some crazy eastern, you know, phenomena here.

00:41:42.880 We elected a game show television host.

00:41:47.120 I mean, Donald Trump was more than that.

00:41:49.940 But they say that's one of the reasons why he won is because everyone knew him and they saw him as successful in their living rooms.

00:42:02.420 Now Ukraine has taken this and they've put a comedian in.

00:42:08.520 Do you remember when the world had a problem with Ronald Reagan being an actor?

00:42:12.820 Now, why is this happening?

00:42:20.180 Because everyone, everyone, not just in America, but in the entire western world, they are sick of the lies.

00:42:30.200 They're tired of the broken promises, the general feeling of being ignored, talked down to, pandered to.

00:42:42.860 People in this country, Donald Trump was elected because people were tired of being ignored and lied over and over again, lied to about immigration, the economy, jobs.

00:42:55.180 I mean, when you, I contend again that the wall is not about Mexico.

00:43:05.040 Build the wall is about Washington, D.C.

00:43:09.720 People are so sick of Washington, D.C. and their broken promises that they don't trust anybody to go in and actually fix the broken border system. 0.96

00:43:20.840 And so they're like, you know what, build a damn wall because the next guy, once you build it, it'll be up. 0.94

00:43:26.040 And that's exactly why they won't build a wall because you can't reverse the wall. 0.98

00:43:32.820 And that's what Americans want.

00:43:35.740 Stop it.

00:43:36.780 Stop playing games with my life and my livelihood.

00:43:41.140 Stop it.

00:43:42.160 You guys don't really even care.

00:43:44.760 Look what's happening in France.

00:43:46.240 The French elected an empty suit and now their streets look like a war zone every Saturday and Sunday.

00:43:54.560 Why?

00:43:55.700 Because people are sick of it.

00:43:58.560 Look at Brexit.

00:43:59.860 Look at Germany. 0.71

00:44:01.740 The old way is busted.

00:44:04.380 Change on a scale we have never seen before is coming.

00:44:09.000 Winter is coming.

00:44:10.720 Every time you hear somebody say, oh, that guy could never become president.

00:44:18.320 Really?

00:44:20.700 A late night comedian just became president of Ukraine.

00:44:26.580 Every time you mock somebody like Alexandria Occasional Cortex, remember the comedian from the Ukraine.

00:44:36.360 It's a new era.

00:44:38.040 The old ways of doing things are gone.

00:44:43.580 It's what truly scares people like Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer.

00:44:53.640 They know this doesn't work.

00:44:56.200 And quite honestly, it should terrify all of us just a little bit.

00:45:09.740 What's crazier?

00:45:11.600 You remember when Iceland collapsed?

00:45:15.020 Do you remember how they put together their new constitution?

00:45:17.880 They had people, tweet us your ideas.

00:45:23.700 Tweet us your ideas?

00:45:27.940 That's the way you're writing a new constitution?

00:45:31.420 Tweet us your ideas?

00:45:33.500 We had 54 men come together.

00:45:40.600 Some of the greatest brains of the millennia.

00:45:45.480 They worked on that constitution for a very long time.

00:45:50.660 They didn't have people just tweet their ideas.

00:45:55.460 Is it mostly WhatsApp or how did that work?

00:45:57.860 I don't know.

00:45:59.460 Here is something crazier than tweet us your ideas.

00:46:07.320 Here's a guy who's good at mocking the system.

00:46:12.060 And the Russians are at our gates. 0.99

00:46:14.320 And we know 70 years ago, they slaughtered most of our parents and grandparents.

00:46:21.300 They just slaughtered the whole country.

00:46:24.280 They're at the gates again.

00:46:27.780 Hey, we think the guy who can help us is a guy who's at least honest.

00:46:32.820 I mean, he's a comedian, but at least he's honest.

00:46:40.920 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:46:44.320 20 years ago, this Saturday, a guy named Evan Todd was a student at Columbine High School.

00:47:02.640 He was the first shot in the library.

00:47:05.920 He had been and encouraged shotgun wounds in the face, in the neck, and in the back.

00:47:18.600 He was able to remain clear enough to convince them not to finish him off.

00:47:26.180 He's on the phone with us today.

00:47:28.240 Evan, welcome.

00:47:30.520 Good morning, Glenn.

00:47:31.400 Good to talk to you.

00:47:32.260 Great to talk to you.

00:47:33.380 First of all, how was this weekend for you?

00:47:38.960 This weekend was a really good answer, but, you know, it was really encouraging because

00:47:43.900 I saw a lot of old classmates who went to the school and gathered.

00:47:49.080 And it was encouraging to see how far people have come in the path and road to recovery.

00:47:54.980 Yeah.

00:47:56.360 So tell me about that day first, about those guys coming in.

00:48:02.800 I prefer not to use their names and give them any more glory, but those guys coming in and

00:48:07.360 shooting you. 0.98

00:48:10.980 And you're the first. 0.98

00:48:11.920 What happened?

00:48:12.720 Yeah, the shooting started outside and it was, you know, confusing at first, but as the shots

00:48:19.480 got closer, we knew what was going on.

00:48:22.440 And most everyone had made their way under the desk or hiding behind bookshelves.

00:48:27.120 And I had, I was behind a pillar trying to decide whether I was going to hide or run.

00:48:32.180 And I kept looking around the pillar and that's when one of the, uh, the murderers saw me and

00:48:39.100 he lowered his shotgun and fired.

00:48:42.220 And that's when I was hit on the lower left side of my back.

00:48:45.280 And then, uh, he fired a couple more shots, went over my head and that's when I got the

00:48:50.580 shrapnel blown back into my face.

00:48:53.540 And, um, and you talked to them, you spoke to them.

00:48:58.300 Yeah.

00:48:58.740 After they'd come into the library and basically everything that had happened in the library

00:49:03.200 happened, they came back around to where I was at. 0.94

00:49:06.400 And one of them kneeled down and put a gun to my head and he asked, why shouldn't we kill 0.99

00:49:11.100 you? 0.99

00:49:11.280 Um, and I told him, look, I've been good to you and everyone in this school and you

00:49:15.740 know it.

00:49:16.800 And something happened in that moment, his facial expression changed.

00:49:20.880 He lowered his gun. 0.99

00:49:21.760 He started to stand up and he turned to the other one and said, you can kill him if you 1.00

00:49:25.940 want. 0.98

00:49:26.940 They debated back and forth and talked for a minute and then decided to let me go.

00:49:32.140 And they left the library at that time.

00:49:35.660 I mean, there's so much to take apart, uh, and unpack there.

00:49:38.880 Um, but it was your character that saved your life.

00:49:44.180 You had been kind to them.

00:49:47.280 You know, I, I, I, I know I knew them by, I recognized their face.

00:49:53.000 Um, I was a football player and they worked on the rebel news network, which is our, you

00:49:57.820 know, little news team inside the school.

00:49:59.380 And so I had a feeling that they knew who I was just from the reports and, but something,

00:50:04.640 something about that moment hit, struck the court and, uh, and they ended up letting me

00:50:10.060 go.

00:50:10.460 So, um, I believe that they, they did know who I was and I had never done anything to

00:50:15.980 them.

00:50:16.500 Uh, and that was, that was true as well.

00:50:18.680 So how badly injured were you?

00:50:20.620 Um, you know, I was definitely one of the lucky ones.

00:50:25.140 Um, I went to the, uh, local ER close to the school.

00:50:29.200 Um, I was out by the end of the day and I was backpacking three months later and playing

00:50:35.040 football the following fall.

00:50:36.840 Um, so I was, I was definitely very fortunate and blessed.

00:50:40.780 But you didn't stay in the library.

00:50:43.460 You, you had your chance to live and either stay there and remain safe.

00:50:50.680 Uh, but you didn't, you actually went and saved the lives of others.

00:50:56.400 Yeah.

00:50:56.940 When they left the library, um, there was an exit to the outside where, um, a bunch of

00:51:02.520 students ran out and, uh, and when we got outside, there were even more students that

00:51:08.020 were hiding behind police cars and, and, uh, little outbuildings, sheds and people who

00:51:13.680 were bleeding out.

00:51:14.360 And I had been trained in first aid through the boy scouts and, you know, some of the

00:51:18.060 simple things of getting people into the sun and keeping them warm, pulling wounds, the

00:51:22.620 most basic first aid definitely helped, uh, keep, keep students alive.

00:51:28.740 And, you know, everyone that made it to a doctor ER survived that day.

00:51:34.980 And that's just a testament to our medical system.

00:51:37.860 You know, if we got them to help, they lived.

00:51:41.560 How did you know to put them in the sun and do those things?

00:51:46.560 It was, it was definitely from the first aid training, you know, keep, keep someone warm,

00:51:51.300 keep them conscious.

00:51:52.100 We were talking to them.

00:51:53.220 Where did you get the training?

00:51:54.200 We were telling them through the boy scouts.

00:51:57.040 Um, um, yeah, the first aid merit badge was where, where I first got it.

00:52:03.280 Um, you were, you were actually awarded the national, um, uh, honor medal.

00:52:10.540 Were you not?

00:52:11.120 Honor medal.

00:52:11.600 Yeah, I was.

00:52:12.960 Yeah.

00:52:13.780 Yeah.

00:52:14.060 And that, and I was not the only one.

00:52:15.880 There were, um, there were four other scouts at Columbine that day that received awards,

00:52:21.480 um, that for helping other students in first aid.

00:52:25.480 Uh, and one of the students who actually kept Dave Sanders, um, alive and, um, well for

00:52:32.520 several hours after he incurred his, his injuries, um, in the, in the science room, and he received

00:52:39.140 an award as well.

00:52:40.540 So Evan, I, uh, obviously a lot older than you are, and I remember that day and I remember

00:52:45.820 thinking, what the hell is happening to our country?

00:52:49.920 I had never seen anything like this.

00:52:52.480 Those look like the good old days.

00:52:56.000 Um, now with everything that we, we see, uh, in the news, I just read with a Huffington

00:53:02.260 post, uh, Satan is having a, uh, uh, a moment.

00:53:06.600 And it was a story about how Satanists aren't so bad.

00:53:10.120 And I, I'm, I'm like, I, everything is flipped upside down as you, as you look at the world

00:53:18.180 today, what's happening to us.

00:53:21.160 And is there anything that you pull from Columbine that gives you extra insight?

00:53:30.100 Yeah.

00:53:30.700 You know, I think, I think some of the, the stuff that led up to Columbine was just the, you

00:53:38.400 know, the permissive sense that we had that, you know, things are okay.

00:53:42.680 They're going through a phase, you know, who cares if they're, you know, these two, they

00:53:46.600 worshiped Hitler and death and destruction. 0.87

00:53:48.580 And, and that was okay.

00:53:50.900 Did you know that before, did you know that before they came in with guns?

00:53:56.560 No, I mean, they were, you know, they were, you know, they, they're, they're the way that

00:54:01.760 they dressed in some of the patches and things that you knew that they had different views

00:54:06.420 on the different things, but, um, you know, I didn't know anything really about them before

00:54:12.000 everything happened.

00:54:13.500 Everything I've learned about them has been from their writings and, um, videos and things

00:54:18.840 that they made before.

00:54:20.180 Yeah.

00:54:21.860 I'm going to Evan Todd.

00:54:23.000 He's in, uh, after Columbine is the show done by PureFlix TV.

00:54:27.560 You can, you can see it at after Columbine.tv for free.

00:54:30.700 Um, you're a survivor, Evan.

00:54:32.540 And I have to say, when I was seeing that the 20th anniversary was coming up of Columbine

00:54:36.340 and I saw that it fell on a Saturday, I just said, thank God.

00:54:40.560 Like I, God only knows what would have happened if that was during a school day somewhere in

00:54:45.120 this country.

00:54:45.560 And I'm wondering, are you surprised by the sort of dark interest that still seems to, to

00:54:54.500 find so many people, so many lost souls that are looking for some meaning in, in, in

00:54:59.620 replicating this event?

00:55:03.020 Yeah.

00:55:03.460 You know, there's, there's a lot to that.

00:55:05.040 I mean, I think there are a lot of people who are searching for meaning and they're finding

00:55:08.700 it obviously in the wrong places, uh, and it's misplaced.

00:55:12.160 And I think that is a failure that we have in society is not filling that, that void.

00:55:17.480 Um, but I think it's also the fact that people are looking for infamy and, and they're looking

00:55:21.880 for a way to, and I think it's because we haven't found ways to actually stop these from

00:55:27.720 happening, uh, it gives people encouragement that they may be the next, you know, big name.

00:55:33.280 And, and I think if we can solve that problem, these will start to, to diminish and go away

00:55:39.460 as well.

00:55:40.360 Because there is no difference between fame and infamy anymore.

00:55:43.560 Fame is just fame.

00:55:44.820 Yeah.

00:55:45.360 Doesn't matter if you, what you did to become famous.

00:55:49.720 That's true.

00:55:50.620 And it's sad.

00:55:51.660 Uh, Evan, you, you mentioned making sure these things don't happen again.

00:55:55.300 Certainly there's a big portion of this country that would bring up the idea that we have

00:55:58.560 not done enough to stop, uh, guns and, and the way that, you know, people can get their

00:56:04.940 hands on them.

00:56:06.100 What are your feelings about those arguments?

00:56:07.780 I mean, is that something you think about?

00:56:10.580 Yeah, it definitely is.

00:56:12.060 You know, and just to, you know, I mean, back when Columbine happened, I had the same access

00:56:16.160 to guns and back more than the two that tried to murder me and my classmates.

00:56:20.640 Uh, so access is, it's in the heart, um, you know, and then on the side of protecting our

00:56:27.060 schools, it's something that has come a long way.

00:56:29.720 There are some fabulous school districts out there who are physically protecting and defending

00:56:35.000 their schools with firearms.

00:56:36.600 And that's something I stand behind.

00:56:38.480 It's, you know, when this happens, we need somebody on campus that can physically stop it

00:56:44.180 from, from going on and saving lives.

00:56:46.560 Uh, and so I work with teachers even here in Colorado to, um, get them trained and so

00:56:52.520 that they can carry concealed on, on school campus.

00:56:56.560 Uh, there's a three part series again, made by pure flicks, uh, and you can find it at

00:57:02.920 after Columbine dot TV part one of the series focuses on faith.

00:57:07.560 Part two focuses on forgiveness and part three focuses on hope.

00:57:11.720 If we, as a nation just did those three things, focus on faith, forgiveness, and hope, we'd

00:57:19.120 be a different country.

00:57:20.580 Um, and we'd be much, much happier.

00:57:23.900 Evan, thank you so much.

00:57:25.220 God bless.

00:57:26.720 Thank you.

00:57:27.460 God bless you.

00:57:28.060 You bet.

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