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00:00:00.000 hey back from vacation with a lot to talk to you about uh the police patch in dearborn michigan

00:00:05.440 proves they are trying to unmake america and uh it might be damn near treason uh for doing it also

00:00:14.340 we have some new poll numbers out with justin haskins that you have to hear what is the actual

00:00:20.440 state of socialism in america with those under 39 18 to 39 years old also just back from vacation

00:00:28.820 and uh i took a temperature uh of our culture where are we as a nation i searched on vacation

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00:02:43.240 standing with us now let's get to work what tim kane was talking about last week with our declaration

00:03:01.660 of independence is so crucial it's why i started the program with it um if we don't have this we

00:03:08.020 don't have anything and you have to understand that our founders came from a place to where

00:03:12.080 they hated government um but they knew they needed some government uh and they were trying to put

00:03:18.180 together a system that made men free this is a lens that we can't even relate to anymore because now

00:03:25.740 governments and politicians all over the world their idea of creating laws is how do they gain more power

00:03:33.220 how can they keep you in a box more it was the opposite of what our founders believed

00:03:38.880 um and our founders believed look if everybody just understands that everybody has a right to

00:03:45.480 say and do anything you know do the things they do and they understand civics that with those rights

00:03:50.500 come responsibilities then we're going to be fine but if they don't understand that if they're not a

00:03:57.460 moral society that understands moral sentiments if they don't if they if they're just out for greed

00:04:03.880 they're just out for themselves and the whole system breaks down and uh and that's what we that's

00:04:09.460 what we have if i have time i want to tell you some of the things that i i noticed on vacation um you

00:04:15.380 know i went by it was in new york and i went by the what was it the center for ethical uh society or

00:04:23.680 something like that and it's it was in a building that had to have been built around the turn of the

00:04:28.680 century so it had to have been a progressive thing and it had a school next to it and everything else

00:04:33.880 and i thought i wonder what the ethics are now coming out of the ethical society i wonder what

00:04:39.380 those ethics are because ethics ethics are just changing everything is just changing under our feet

00:04:46.280 because we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country

00:04:55.660 um and let me take you to dearborn michigan so last week we find out that um an institution the

00:05:05.560 police department an institution sworn to uphold the constitution has introduced a uniform patch

00:05:12.360 with arabic script for the very first time and it just says in arabic police department dearborn

00:05:19.500 police department that's all it says and it's just to better connect with the population

00:05:24.660 of uh muslim population there in dearborn michigan and it sounds harmless i mean you could make that 0.98

00:05:30.580 into no big deal it's just you know it's dearborn police what is your problem well it's not just a

00:05:36.880 small gesture of outreach it is a signal and signals matter for more than two centuries america has been

00:05:46.580 an experiment and we used to describe it as a melting pot you could come here from any

00:05:54.460 land speak any language any language any faith and we could come here and if you believed in the laws

00:06:02.380 and the constitution of america if you believed in that and you upheld those things we could melt

00:06:09.220 together and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine

00:06:14.380 we didn't have race cultures we elevate what unites us instead of elevating what divides us and we

00:06:24.380 don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of uh tribal or religious identities we don't

00:06:31.400 create parallel systems of justice or identity now i want you to think about history no immigrant group

00:06:39.020 none ever no religion ever had law enforcement tailor itself to them never catholics came to this 1.00

00:06:49.820 country by the millions what did they face they were mocked they were ridiculed they were accused of

00:06:56.400 being agents of the pope churches were burned uh signs that read no irish allowed yet the catholic

00:07:03.760 church didn't demand you know a crucifix on the police badge they didn't demand government offices

00:07:11.880 display papal seals that would have been completely rejected by everybody what they did is they fought

00:07:18.820 they endured and over generations they proved that they could be both catholic fully catholic and fully

00:07:25.760 american and the same is true with the mormons what the mormons have faced they they have faced the

00:07:33.700 harshest prosecution or persecution of all in missouri governor lilburn boggs signed an actual

00:07:42.360 extermination order ordering mormons to be driven from the state or killed it was legal for you to 1.00

00:07:50.500 kill a mormon because they were mormon that's the only government order like it in our history 1.00

00:07:57.440 they were beaten they were tarred and feathered their homes were torched uh their leadership was 1.00

00:08:03.700 murdered they fled west outside of america proper to carve out a home in the wilderness and just be left

00:08:10.940 alone in the mountains and what happened after they got there the u.s army marched into utah convinced the

00:08:18.860 mormons were plotting a rebellion against the united states but they weren't in fact they revered the

00:08:24.900 constitution and the declaration of independence more than their persecutors even did for years

00:08:31.420 the mormon church used to teach the founding documents alongside the scripture it's what

00:08:38.120 tethered that religion to i believe to sanity and not being pulled in every different direction

00:08:46.340 they've stopped teaching the founding documents and i think it's a problem myself but who am i to say

00:08:53.060 but mormons are the most patriotic of any religion in america check it why they didn't bend 0.51

00:09:05.680 america to their faith they bound their faith to america now compare that and the catholics and

00:09:14.440 everything else every other religious group that has ever come in

00:09:18.420 now compare that to what's happening in dearborn michigan week after week and we have them on tape

00:09:27.360 week after week from the pulpits of the local mosque the imams openly declare their goal not to join the

00:09:35.220 american project but to replace it not to preserve the constitution but to subvert it they preach the 0.99

00:09:43.080 supremacy of sharia law over american law and now the police department a symbol of our secular

00:09:50.500 constitution order decides they want to appeal to that group to wear that identity on its uniform that's

00:10:01.480 not inclusion that's not assimilation that's not the melting pot it's the opposite it's balkanization

00:10:10.560 at its kindest it is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology

00:10:19.780 that seeks to replace our american civilization let me be really super clear on this this cannot stand

00:10:32.900 our history shows us the way every faith every culture every group that has come to america has been tested

00:10:44.860 and put through the ringer quite honestly

00:10:50.080 i don't like it but it is worked out for the best of all of us

00:10:59.080 because we have been forced to prove will we embrace the constitution or will we try to replace it

00:11:08.240 are we coming over here and we're just going to live like irishmen and live by the irish laws

00:11:15.120 or are we going to bend to the constitution of our new country catholics embraced it jews embraced it

00:11:23.760 mormons embraced it baptists have embraced it millions of immigrants from every corner on the globe

00:11:31.280 have embraced it and that's why we are who we are

00:11:35.920 if dearborn or any other american city decides that they're going to start carving out exceptions to make

00:11:44.960 government institutions bear the mark of the religion that seeks to dominate rather than integrate 0.99

00:11:52.540 we are not just forgetting our history we are part of the unmaking of america

00:11:59.920 because in the end the melting pot isn't about a cheese fondue it's not about food it's not about

00:12:08.240 festivals it's about allegiance

00:12:11.400 allegiance to one nation under god not sharia not under rome not under salt lake

00:12:22.520 city under the constitution that's what the flag represents and if we lose this we lose america

00:12:33.780 dearborn must not allow they're saying this is the the mayor came out on friday and said well this is

00:12:41.520 only voluntary i mean you could you could have the patch or not we're not going to make it we're not

00:12:46.460 going to make it required you should not make it available you should not make it available i'm a

00:12:53.740 collector of history i have yet to see from uh you know the pennsylvania dutch region uh the police

00:13:03.480 badges that were in german i grew up in the seattle in the pacific northwest where there's a lot of asians

00:13:10.620 i have yet to see the police badge that is in chinese

00:13:14.940 it doesn't happen we don't do it

00:13:20.220 some may say

00:13:27.800 that this is the unmaking of america that's where i'd like to fall

00:13:35.800 but it's dangerously close

00:13:39.700 to treason

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00:14:56.200 the best of the glenn beck program justin haskins he is the president of our republic stock stopping

00:15:03.860 socialism.com he's the editor-in-chief and also a co-author of several books uh with me welcome to

00:15:09.860 the program justin how are you i'm doing well glenn how are you uh well i was better until you

00:15:16.300 contacted me on vacation and sent me this disturbing poll uh i'm i'm in bed at night and i'm reading this

00:15:24.420 and i'm like oh dear why do i my wife's like i told you not to check your email and i'm like i didn't 1.00

00:15:29.500 know jason uh justin was gonna write to me uh justin uh tell me first of all before we get into it

00:15:37.720 how secure is the sample size on this poll uh it's a very good sample size 1200 people nationally

00:15:47.840 only 18 to 39 year olds and we did we did that deliberately so that we could get a sample size

00:15:54.060 large enough so we could pull out valid responses just from younger people so the whole purpose of

00:16:00.380 this poll is to find out what younger people 18 to 39 think voters only and people who say that

00:16:06.940 they're likely to vote so we're not talking about just people out in the public we're not talking about

00:16:11.720 registered voters we're talking about people who are registered to vote and say they're likely to vote

00:16:16.380 so let's go over some of the things that you have already released to the press and that is in the

00:16:23.000 survey 18 39 year old likely voters uh the trump approval rating is a lot higher than you thought it

00:16:30.400 would be right yeah yeah 48 percent at a positive approval rating of donald trump which for young

00:16:38.460 people is very high so that's that's the good news that's the only good news we're going to talk

00:16:43.820 we might have to come back to that first question several times uh do you believe the united states

00:16:51.980 is a fundamentally good evil or morally mixed country yep this one is not too bad uh it's not great but 1.00

00:17:02.140 fundamentally good was 28 which is which is low but mixed was 50 and fundamentally evil was 17 and i think 0.96

00:17:11.240 mixed mixed at 50 is not an unreasonable crazy response i i can see why all sorts of people

00:17:17.860 might choose that so i don't think there's anything terrible here it depends on what you mean by mixed

00:17:23.880 fundamentally good at 28 it's a little low fundamentally evil at 17 it's a little disturbing but it's not

00:17:30.260 it's not insane the insane stuff comes a little bit later do you agree or disagree with this statement

00:17:36.400 major industries talk about the uh crazy stuff coming later here it is major industries like

00:17:43.680 health care energy and big tech should be nationalized and give more control and equity to the people

00:17:52.880 yeah this was this was the really i mean this one floored me if you look at strongly agree

00:18:01.460 somewhat agree for that statement you just read it's over 75 percent of young people including

00:18:08.820 including the vast majority of republicans young republicans and people who identify as conservatives

00:18:16.160 it was pretty similar in fact how young republicans responded compared to liberals and uh independents

00:18:23.240 and democrats they all pretty much agreed that yes the government the federal government should

00:18:29.140 be nationalizing whole industries to make things uh more equitable for people as the guy who is the um

00:18:37.540 uh chief editor-in-chief of stopping socialism what's the problem with nationalizing energy and health care

00:18:44.420 well what happens typically well uh usually there's blood in the streets when you do enough when you do

00:18:52.580 too much of that um you know socialism communism have been spectacularly horrible uh throughout the course

00:19:00.380 of human history across every society culture religion uh doesn't matter when or what kind of

00:19:06.360 technological advancements you have when you call the more you collectivize a society the more

00:19:11.640 authoritarian that society gets the less you have individual freedom and the worse the economy usually is for

00:19:17.960 regular people so it's been a catastrophe across the board everyone listening to this audience probably

00:19:24.080 knows that um and so the idea that you would have three quarters of young voters so remember these people are

00:19:31.700 going to be the primary voters in 10 to 20 years saying yeah you know what we should be nationalizing

00:19:38.820 whole industries whole industries um is so disturbing and i don't think that conservatives

00:19:46.680 uh are understand how deeply rooted some of these ideas are with younger people uh and i will tell you i think

00:19:54.520 some conservatives are walking a very dangerous line and uh you know coming up with a little mix of

00:20:01.460 of everything um and um and i think we have to be very careful on uh on what is being said and who our

00:20:10.220 friends and allies are uh by the way that number again is 39 percent strongly agree

00:20:15.720 37 percent somewhat agree somewhat disagree 12 percent strongly disagree five percent

00:20:25.400 that is disastrous now try this one on these are the ones that have been we got new ones these are

00:20:32.880 just a few of the ones that were released or late last week the next presidential election is in

00:20:37.840 2028 would you like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election

00:20:45.580 yep 53 percent said yes 53 percent of of all voters said yes and the most shocking thing

00:20:57.300 was that 35 percent of those who we polled who said they voted for donald trump in 2024

00:21:03.720 said that they want to see a socialist win in 2028

00:21:08.220 and so about a third of republicans 35 percent of uh trump voters 43 percent of people who

00:21:16.480 call themselves conservatives so even on the right among younger people there is a large group

00:21:23.160 that want a socialist president in 2028 and the reason the reason is is it tied into the next few

00:21:33.040 questions okay so here's question of five among the following options which best describes your

00:21:37.680 biggest reason you would like to see a democratic socialist candidate 31 percent said housing costs

00:21:43.340 are too high 12 percent taxes are too low for corporations 11 percent taxes are too low for

00:21:49.120 wealthy individuals 8 percent want single-payer health care systems 17 say the economy unfairly benefits

00:21:56.180 older wealthier americans 15 says the economy unfairly benefits large corporations 5 percent some other

00:22:05.120 reason and 2 percent unsure now let's get into the new polls that uh we're breaking uh today question

00:22:13.640 six how would you describe your current financial situation yeah uh only 24 said that they're doing well

00:22:23.660 uh 34 38 said getting by struggling 29 percent 7 said in crisis so if you add up just getting by

00:22:32.580 struggling and in crisis that's 74 said that they're you know just barely getting by at best

00:22:40.100 and i think that explains a lot of the other negative responses we've seen so far in this poll and

00:22:47.320 the ones that are going to come pretty soon here uh seven which best describes your personal

00:22:53.360 life situation you are thriving you're doing well with a few ups and downs you feel stuck and

00:23:00.540 uncertain you feel lonely disconnected or emotionally drained you're in a crisis and feel most negative

00:23:05.840 about your personal life yeah about a third said uh that they feel stuck or uncertain lonely or that

00:23:15.400 they're in a crisis that's a third of young people say say that i mean that's that's not great only 19

00:23:22.640 said thriving 46 said they have ups and downs which i think is you know not too too shocking but the

00:23:30.580 idea that there's a third of american voters out there who feel like they can't buy a home and they

00:23:37.080 feel like they are lonely and that they're in crisis and that life is just not going well at all for them

00:23:43.820 again i think that's that's driving a lot of the support for socialism where you have 53 percent of

00:23:50.600 these people saying yeah i want a socialist president in 2028 so socialism is not the answer it is the

00:23:57.800 symptom it's the symptom of what people are feeling right now and they they don't know any other they

00:24:06.660 nobody's presenting them with anything other than you know republican democrat bullcrap um and socialists

00:24:14.520 are coming at it from a completely new angle or so the you the youth think it's the oldest and most

00:24:20.660 failed system of all time um but they're seeing this as a solution that is different than what the

00:24:27.680 party uh you know the republican democrats are offering even though the democrats are offering the

00:24:33.820 socialism thing uh number eight do you think the american economy is unfair to young people 62 percent

00:24:42.100 say yes yeah and 27 said no and i think that this really gets at the heart of what the issue is here

00:24:54.540 when you look at the reasons when you when you look at the detailed data of the poll what you to try to

00:25:01.220 find out if there's an association uh between some kind of demographic or response question about

00:25:07.860 people's lives and their support for socialism to see if there's a correlation there between something

00:25:12.700 that's happening and what whether someone's a socialist or not the one of the top correlations

00:25:18.940 connections is if people think the economy is unfair and if they're having trouble buying a home or they

00:25:25.540 don't think they can buy a home or that's one of their reasons for supporting socialism so in other words

00:25:30.420 there's this fairness issue and if it's not even about inequality it's not about it's not about

00:25:37.440 well they have too much well if they feel like the system is to use a trump term rigged

00:25:41.720 and throughout the data that's what we see over and over and over again as lots of young people say

00:25:47.460 the economy is rigged for older people for wealthier people for corporations it's rigged and if they say

00:25:53.780 yeah i think it's rigged you know then they're more likely to say yeah i want a socialist and i also

00:26:00.200 think this is why the same group has a relatively high approval rating of donald trump it's it's because

00:26:06.980 the reason that a lot of young people like trump in the poll is that he's not part of the establishment

00:26:14.740 and i think i don't think that they i think a lot of young people who voted for trump and who like

00:26:19.920 trump they didn't do it because they like free market pro-liberty policies and that's not a good

00:26:25.240 thing but i but i don't think that's why they did it i think a lot of them voted for trump and support

00:26:30.280 him because he's not the establishment and that's what they don't like they want to blow the establishment

00:26:36.480 up i so my justin my sample size is my two young adults my two children and they're like talking to

00:26:46.400 me and saying dad i will never be able to own a home looking at the prices looking at interest rates

00:26:51.560 they're like i can't even afford to pay rent at an apartment and they they don't know what to do

00:26:58.580 and so they're looking at on like tiktok and they're like who's this mom don me guy this sounds

00:27:02.940 interesting they bring this to me they grew up listening to me indoctrinating them their entire

00:27:07.200 lives they're looking at other voices like on tiktok are we just not being loud enough no we're not

00:27:13.320 we're not um connecting with them they're we're not uh i i i feel like they don't feel they're being

00:27:21.200 heard um and we are speaking to them in red white and blue and that means nothing the statue of liberty

00:27:29.580 means nothing to them uh ellis island means nothing to them the flag means nothing to them it's all

00:27:35.940 partisan politics it's all they're all symbols of really the two parties you know uh and in america

00:27:43.400 they don't relate to at all i think that's that's our biggest problem and not being able to break

00:27:48.040 through to your point question nine how confident are you that you will own a home at some point in

00:27:54.580 the next 10 years 29 say they already own a home which i found interesting that's a i think a pretty

00:28:05.600 high number for somebody who was you know uh 18 to 34 years old 39 39 um yeah there's a lot of 18 to 30

00:28:19.600 that i i didn't own a home and when i was you know 30 just had gotten a home when i was 30 um but go

00:28:28.220 ahead with the rest of that poll yeah so so then uh 21 said discouraged but you know somewhat hopeful

00:28:35.860 12 said not confident 10 said you were convinced you were never own a home 3 not sure so if you add

00:28:43.220 up the negative responses it's around 43 that gave that response but i think that again 29 you already

00:28:52.920 own a home and 25 you're confident you will own a home is still good it just these these other numbers

00:29:02.180 have you know discouraged but hopeful you'll own a home who's discouraging that and how is that being

00:29:09.380 discouraged um you know only 12 let's see 12 22 25 percent are not sure they're ever going to own a

00:29:18.640 home that's too high of a number but um i i don't think that's completely dismal you're streaming the

00:29:25.960 best of glenn beck to hear more of this interview and others download the full show podcasts wherever

00:29:31.000 you get podcasts so uh i went on vacation uh last week and i had some work that i had to do and i kind

00:29:39.780 of tied vacation into some of the work my wife always loves that um but it first it took us to 0.88

00:29:46.600 las vegas and then we went to new york city where i had to give a speech and it was my wife's birthday

00:29:53.180 and silently you know as a all smiles and happy birthday and everything else i'm cataloging what

00:30:03.180 i'm seeing and i'm not sure i've digested all of it yet um but i i watched our culture and what i took

00:30:11.040 away from this is our our culture is beyond sick it's almost zombie a zombie culture it's it's moving

00:30:21.100 without thinking or without heart it's just moving from day to day paycheck to paycheck or worse

00:30:27.740 circus to circus and let me start at the circus vegas look vegas is i don't like gambling so um

00:30:39.260 and i love drinking too much so it's really not a city that it's you know all cut out for me

00:30:44.160 um and it's always been about cheap thrills it's always been gaudy and bright and flashy and everything

00:30:50.660 else um cheap thrills is not right the right word because nothing in vegas is cheap you know long

00:30:57.700 gone are the five dollar dinners and the hey free show for the gamblers and that's all gone uh this is

00:31:03.700 a city where everything now is about the money and just looking at the scale of the hotels as i was

00:31:10.160 walking down the street and i'm looking at the scale of things i'm thinking if you don't understand

00:31:15.800 that the house always wins just by looking at the scale of this city you're the one that's just

00:31:23.520 going to be broke on the floor of the casino because they'll rob you of everything um the house always

00:31:30.460 wins and it has become more and more about the money and to me at least i think more and more about

00:31:38.540 the flash of everything um the food seemed to be the only thing that was really real in vegas

00:31:46.580 uh the food was amazing you know thanks for the four pounds that i i i had i gained i took with me

00:31:55.360 that didn't stay in in las vegas but after we would eat we would wash it down with a show

00:32:01.040 and that that was not a good palate cleanser if you will uh i've watched the shows and they were

00:32:08.880 soulless absolutely soulless i mean there's only so many tricks that a chinese contortionist can do 1.00

00:32:16.140 or you know so many yo-yo like discs that they can throw in the air and catch before you're like

00:32:22.720 i've seen this done this um we went to a show called mj the michael jackson story my wife's a big 0.76

00:32:30.400 michael jackson fan so we went to see mj woof was that bad um it was like they took a bad idea and

00:32:40.660 then just said let's just turn the volume up to 10 and put bright lights on and we can put everybody

00:32:46.080 in spangles and you're like wow that was really really bad the people on stage they might as well

00:32:53.160 have been droids honestly and because what i what i took from that again was this city is only about

00:33:00.380 the money the the the house doesn't want to spend any money on any star because they'll have to pay

00:33:07.760 stars more so they just you can you dance good you dance and don't stand out i mean nothing was

00:33:15.360 nothing was authentic nothing was real nothing was one-on-one you know there was no connection

00:33:22.720 on anything and i i wondered is this change from when frank and sammy and dean is that the way it

00:33:32.260 was then because i've seen the old footage you know you watch youtube and you see the old footage and

00:33:37.240 you're like i mean they were having fun they they they related to people you know my parents only took

00:33:45.360 one vacation by themselves left us behind and it was to reno so not vegas but still and i wondered

00:33:54.820 how did my parents because they saw glenn campbell how did my parents afford this

00:34:00.660 well they could afford it because it wasn't like it is now everything everything it seems is like

00:34:08.620 disney world everything is how much money can i squeeze out of this person you know the house

00:34:14.980 isn't just trying to take money at the tables they they are making sure that every square inch

00:34:21.780 is trying to squeeze money out of you all the time

00:34:24.700 then i had to go to new york city had to give a speech at the for the radio industry

00:34:31.140 and um you know going from vegas to new york doesn't improve your mood much

00:34:39.480 but uh it was my wife's birthday that week and so i wanted to make it special for her and do things

00:34:48.020 that she wanted to do and invited my kids to join us and we were uptown and downtown we were on fifth

00:34:55.180 avenue and times square and chelsea in the village and all of that stuff and i was just looking for

00:35:03.020 what is real is there anything real

00:35:06.720 not really more cultural rot

00:35:13.280 however this rot kind of makes sense in a way because new york city is the home of the progressive

00:35:21.360 movement you know its fingerprints are on all of the buildings and the architecture of the 1900s and

00:35:26.880 you know the small theaters that are on the side streets that nobody even really notices anymore

00:35:32.000 the little plaque that you know said we hosted margaret sanger here and you know all of that nonsense

00:35:38.600 starts here and blah blah blah blah blah blah up on i don't know central park west there is this

00:35:46.640 this collection of buildings marked the society uh or the uh center for ethical society and it was

00:35:55.720 clearly a progressive building and you know from the 1900s and i thought what what are the ethics in

00:36:00.840 this place it looked like a temple you know and then the crime and the the sheer number of people out on

00:36:08.100 the streets and and just the garbage in the streets and it's just gone downhill and no one sees each other

00:36:14.720 nobody looks nobody makes eye contact because that you know invites trouble or perhaps even worse a

00:36:20.920 conversation with somebody

00:36:22.480 and i saw the same kind of consumerism in new york that i saw in vegas i saw it uptown and you go

00:36:32.360 downtown and you see the same kind of consumerism as you see uptown except it's packaged differently

00:36:38.300 it's the separation between the new uh youth and the old you know people because the old people they 0.77

00:36:48.580 all go to fifth avenue and the young people they all go to the village because that's where it's real 0.98

00:36:53.100 you know what a bunch of garbage it is just packaged differently for those under 35 who don't like

00:36:59.720 consumerism but they still want their prada bag you know you go uptown and you'll find that 0.99

00:37:05.980 ten thousand dollar purse in a huge glitzy building where you're just above the door door is a you know

00:37:11.960 a golden logo and a hundred thousand dollar storefront windows and fancy shopping bags announcing to

00:37:18.940 everybody you shopped here but you go downtown and they don't have those big fancy shopping bags they

00:37:26.660 just have plain shopping bags made of recycled paper from stores in old restored buildings that

00:37:32.960 scream uniqueness and non-conformity and the logo is very small it's not over the door it's down on

00:37:40.160 the corner of one of the simple windows that just look into the store with no fancy mannequins because

00:37:45.200 the shoppers there sure they want the same ten thousand dollar purse but they want to feel better than 0.99

00:37:51.520 those people uptown it's all garbage it's it's all the same garbage it's just packaged differently 0.99

00:38:00.700 and everybody thinks they're so unique and they're being sold the same garbage 1.00

00:38:05.180 i saw people it was so distorted the reality in their vain attempted beauty my gosh i saw these women who 0.98

00:38:15.600 were just

00:38:16.120 so lost and they were surrounded by men who were acting and dressing like women that i mean i began to see

00:38:28.040 the images from you know the capital city in the hunger games

00:38:32.760 that is us now look go watch that movie that's us

00:38:37.240 so did i find anything real yeah strangely i did

00:38:45.840 and it's so strange because what i found real was actually fake

00:38:51.600 what i found real i found on the stage

00:38:55.100 i mean i know that's laughable but it's true we saw a show called the outsiders you might have seen

00:39:02.180 the movie a long time ago they made it into a stage show it's an amazing movie and the emotions were real

00:39:08.460 even though i knew they were all fake they were at least real it reflected real life the struggles that

00:39:15.680 everybody has you know those mistakes that we all make and the truth we finally find just when we think

00:39:22.120 it's just about too late we find it you know i thought about my life and what i went through as an outsider

00:39:28.160 as a you know 20 something i thought about my kids who are outsiders and they're 20 somethings i realized

00:39:34.160 the show is so successful because that tragic adolescence in 20 something years they're not unique

00:39:41.820 that's who we are that is our common story

00:39:45.620 the outsiders is just today's west side story

00:39:49.920 and west side story was you know the same story of romeo and juliet it's the same story over and over

00:39:57.840 and over and over again but it's authentic and it is true the struggle is true the things we're all

00:40:04.880 trying to avoid is the only true thing

00:40:08.160 the next night we saw operation mincemeat and i really had to convince my wife on this i said i

00:40:14.640 know it's your birthday week but operation mincemeat it's one of my favorite stories it is a story about

00:40:19.360 world war ii and how ian fleming and the british convinced hitler how to move his troops from sicily

00:40:26.740 to where greece or someplace because we needed to invade through sicily and it's a great story but this

00:40:34.060 was a comedy musical and i'm like i don't know well the producers made you know the hitler look

00:40:40.980 pretty ridiculous i wonder how it's going to happen this time it was a play of probably 20 characters

00:40:46.420 and they were all played by six people

00:40:49.080 and i could tell you that the laughs were genuine i could tell you that if the the show was was great

00:40:56.680 but what stood out to me was what was real what was real was the relentless work

00:41:05.320 the script was shockingly detailed and extraordinarily accurate true to the story i was

00:41:12.380 blown away by that but the raw risk of the talent that stood out on stage real artists top of their

00:41:22.200 field working harder than most people work trying to bring these people from the past to life

00:41:28.460 and they did it and they did it in a shockingly great way i mean it was it again was the struggle

00:41:38.280 of an artist just trying to be the best they can that's what i found inspiring that's what i found

00:41:47.940 and you know what i found that in a cab driver who was amazing he was just trying to be the best he could be

00:41:58.200 it wasn't about the ticket price it wasn't about the house winning it wasn't about trying to fool

00:42:06.860 you into something it was about the human magic that can only happen when humans get together and pour 0.68

00:42:15.680 everything into their passion

00:42:18.000 we walked by a bar i had never seen before i generally don't go into bars uh for good reason

00:42:30.960 but we walked by a bar i hadn't seen it before it was the ralph lauren polo bar and if you know me

00:42:38.880 i'm a big fan of ralph lauren for what he has done i think he is the i think he's the only

00:42:45.840 the only company the only person that is not afraid of saying america is great

00:42:53.280 i mean it's he does the best advertising for america of anyone else ralph lauren when you see his product

00:43:01.760 he is america he was the u.s open over the weekend he's the olympics he is america all the time

00:43:11.680 so i walk into this bar and i just want to take a look because i'm a fan of of what he has done

00:43:19.200 and i looked at this and i said to my wife look at the lamps he designed the lighting the chairs the

00:43:27.680 fabrics everything in this building is his he designed this it's amazing to me you know people

00:43:37.920 now they just expect they're going to design clothing and open a store and they're going to

00:43:41.520 celebrate how great and unique they really are ralph lauren started out by selling ties that he

00:43:46.720 designed and made out of the trunk of his car because no one would buy them no store would have

00:43:53.360 him in so he just decided i'll just go out on fifth avenue and i'll just start selling ties and he sold

00:43:58.080 them out of the trunk of his car and now he's america

00:44:09.120 real life i saw it at the greek diner we had breakfast at not great food but still owned by the

00:44:14.400 same greek family staffed with his sons and daughters i wondered how many generations of the

00:44:19.040 family has worked there the father perhaps the grandfather now still had his accent

00:44:27.840 i spent the week looking over america's medical charts if you will and i found mixed messages

00:44:35.760 i found things that were real in places i didn't expect i found the truth

00:44:41.280 and i found them in people just being themselves

00:44:44.080 that's where the magic happens and that's when america is at her best 0.89

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