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00:00:00.000 Today's show, we cover all the news of the day, but we start with something that one

00:00:08.000 of our listeners wrote in at the end of the first hour and said, my stomach is in my throat.

00:00:14.960 I hadn't thought about any of these things.

00:00:18.560 Trump, facing his own mortality, and what he said in the last few days is different

00:00:24.540 than what he has said before.

00:00:25.980 and I explain it and explain also what he's actually trying to do in Iran.

00:00:33.200 I started on this yesterday, but it's becoming more and more clear.

00:00:37.180 And if you understand these few things about Donald Trump

00:00:41.460 and about what's happening with the negotiations,

00:00:45.540 you'll feel better.

00:00:47.920 You'll feel better and you won't be so stressed.

00:00:51.160 Also, Smithsonian is rewriting our history.

00:00:53.940 And I take you through what that means.

00:00:57.060 And, you know, there's been a few countries that have done it before in the past, and it doesn't work out well.

00:01:02.000 And Chasing Embers is out.

00:01:03.620 It's the audiobook of the dystopian book that was a New York Times bestseller a couple of summers ago.

00:01:10.360 We made it into an audiobook, and it is a really good, really good acted-out audiobook.

00:01:16.400 In fact, we're telling the story today that a lot of the people that were involved, we had to produce it out in Los Angeles.

00:01:23.600 and there were actors that were involved

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00:01:28.500 and nobody wanted to do a Glenn Beck audiobook.

00:01:31.780 And they were kind of like,

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00:02:31.860 you know in history there have been a couple of people that have been you know world leaders um

00:02:42.400 that have made peace with their death um and martin luther king was one of them i may not

00:02:50.380 join you on the mountaintop i may not get there with you um and abraham lincoln abraham lincoln

00:02:58.780 knew he was going to die and made peace with it he had dreams and everything else he just didn't

00:03:04.560 tell his wife about it but he wrote about it and he talked about it um more obliquely donald trump

00:03:11.740 said something yesterday and remember donald trump is a guy if you know anything about him

00:03:16.420 he speaks things into reality he does not say things um without the understanding of manifesting

00:03:28.400 it okay like he never will talk to you about an assassination attempt he will not talk to you

00:03:34.600 about it however lately he's been saying things like he said yesterday i want you to listen to

00:03:39.780 this.

00:04:09.780 of any credible threat by iran against her well i haven't read all the time i'm number one on their

00:04:14.660 list before you but if i go you go right so perhaps perhaps someday you want to change professions

00:04:23.100 now he also said yesterday these things like threats of the president they usually don't

00:04:32.360 work out well. And the way he said it, in a way, seemed like he was making peace with that.

00:04:40.600 And I will tell you, I've lived with credible threats for a long time. And some of them have

00:04:45.780 just been, it's like now, it's just always in the background. But there have been times when I have

00:04:52.260 a serious threat. We know the individual who's made the threats. They're still out there. Or we

00:04:59.640 know a group that's making a credible threat and so it's different and the first time I dealt with

00:05:04.960 it I didn't know how to deal with it you don't know how to live your life when you know somebody

00:05:09.740 when you know somebody you could walk up you know in a crowd of people and somebody could turn to

00:05:14.120 you and go hey Glenn and then shoot you to death it's a weird thing and the way I got through it

00:05:20.660 was I just imagined the worst that could happen and I'm not going to get into it but I just 0.99

00:05:25.320 imagine what what that would be like and and the worst um and so i i visualized it and then i went

00:05:34.700 okay well that's the worst that could happen and then i could move on and it actually helped me

00:05:39.640 and i think that's what donald trump is doing he is finding a way that he can compartmentalize this

00:05:45.060 and go on with his life and be out in public and you know i'm okay with it if that's what's

00:05:50.140 going to happen that's what's going to happen you have to do that but the lowering of the shades

00:05:55.760 thing had me listen had me think about several different things and I want to take you through

00:06:02.400 what was going through my mind so the president flies to Turkey and he uses his brand new airplane

00:06:08.000 the gold trim the red white and blue it's a beautiful plane okay it's a flying palace and

00:06:12.860 it was gifted by Qatar and he's been showing it off kind of like he's just like me if I have a

00:06:18.580 new truck i am just driving around going look at the truck man is this not a great truck that's

00:06:23.140 what he was doing the old one is what he flew home on okay and this is why this reporter asked

00:06:30.160 these questions it's the baby blue jet so one that you know your grandfather recognizes you know and

00:06:36.040 you know jackie o designed okay before the wheels even left the tarmac in turkey the reporters on

00:06:44.380 board. You just heard it. We're told to do something they never get told to do. Would you

00:06:48.420 close your window shades? All right. The man who climbed the stairs had just spent two days telling

00:06:55.120 anyone, anyone, you know, with a microphone, with his words, he's the number one kill list in Iran.

00:07:02.700 And that's not bluster, okay? This spring, a trained operative of Iran's Revolutionary Guard

00:07:08.920 was convicted in a courtroom here in America. You didn't hear much about this, but it was a murder

00:07:13.700 for hire plot to kill him. Also, back in February, on the first morning of this war, America and

00:07:19.940 Israel killed the man at the very top of Iran. The regime's security chief went on television

00:07:25.540 and promised to hold Donald Trump responsible and we will kill him. So there's a reason to think 0.99

00:07:31.340 about the window shades. Now, here's the part that nobody's really talking about. We've argued

00:07:36.140 about this plane, whether it's a gift or who gets it or the color of the plane. The old jet,

00:07:43.460 The ugly one, that's all armored in places you don't see.

00:07:49.920 Missile warning sensors that watch the sky for the heat of incoming warhead,

00:07:55.400 electronic countermeasures to blind whatever's chasing it,

00:07:59.520 communications harden so no one can listen in,

00:08:02.120 shielding built so the president can carry through an EMP and a nuclear blast.

00:08:08.260 Decades of quiet, classified engineering,

00:08:10.460 engineering all of it built for exactly one job bring him home through hostile air no matter what

00:08:17.800 it is the new beautiful one doesn't have any of that stuff the retrofit was rushed normally it

00:08:25.680 takes years and years cost billions of dollars squeezed into months one former cia uh official

00:08:31.860 said it's not ready for prime time overseas okay let me say it another way this one should stay at

00:08:38.860 home. He can fly this plane at home, but we need the big blue one until we get Boeing to finish

00:08:45.220 the very expensive one. So it's not at home. And in fact, if you look at the map,

00:08:54.460 who does Turkey share a border with? Turkey shares a border with Iran. Iran has drones and

00:09:02.580 ballistic missiles, the Shahabs and the Shabibs or the Shaheds or whatever they are. Anyway, 0.99

00:09:10.240 some of them can reach 800 miles. This airport sits inside of that ring. Meanwhile, the gorgeous

00:09:17.900 new plane was sent on ahead, empty of the president to England. England's 2,500 miles away,

00:09:24.700 past the reach of, you know, anything in Iran's inventory. 1.00

00:09:28.860 So the palace was perfectly safe going there. 0.99

00:09:33.260 It wasn't safe bringing him home past Iran's front door. 0.98

00:09:37.420 The armor, it turns out, is a map problem. 0.99

00:09:41.640 And that's why they said put the shades down.

00:09:43.880 He wasn't on the plane.

00:09:45.160 He wasn't on the plane, which would have made me more nervous.

00:09:47.600 Wait a minute, put the shades down.

00:09:48.440 Why am I on this plane?

00:09:49.340 now when this happened yesterday i had just gotten off the air and i saw ricky's face when

00:09:57.840 her eyes just went as round as saucers and she was like what are you saying because i said 0.99

00:10:04.420 if i'm the president i target every member of that council and i kill them one by one 0.99

00:10:10.420 and i let them know i'm coming for you next i might be you next might be somebody else on the 0.99

00:10:15.800 council next, but you're on the list and you make them so paranoid that somebody collapses and does

00:10:21.780 what I told you, I think what the president's plan is at the beginning of this hour. Now, if Iran 0.91

00:10:29.920 killed Trump, if they used a missile and it was executed by the army, it's not an assassination. 0.75

00:10:39.480 What they have been doing, if they bring a guy in out of a uniform and they just have a rocket 0.51

00:10:44.920 and they point it up, they're in Turkey 0.62

00:10:46.380 and they point it up at the sky and they take it out. 0.83

00:10:48.200 Then it's murder, it's terror

00:10:49.760 and it's an assassination, okay? 0.98

00:10:52.040 And everybody would be, wipe them off the face of the earth.

00:10:54.860 Even if they had their military do it,

00:10:57.000 it still would not go well for them, okay?

00:11:00.140 Four months ago at the beginning of this war,

00:11:02.800 American Israel killed the top guy, Supreme Leader. 0.53

00:11:06.680 And we called that a strike, an operation,

00:11:10.460 practically a Tuesday.

00:11:12.320 And the president said it out loud

00:11:14.080 that he got Khomeini before Khomeini could get him.

00:11:18.360 Same verb, pointed both directions.

00:11:23.740 So is there a difference?

00:11:27.060 Because we've made a promise not to kill leaders.

00:11:30.640 Our CIA has done it in the past

00:11:32.180 and it's wrong when we do it, okay?

00:11:35.320 But it's not a question of, can you do it?

00:11:37.560 It's a question on whose hand is on the trigger.

00:11:39.940 And there is a difference, okay?

00:11:42.400 In the difference, we made this decision before we were even a country.

00:11:48.040 Civilization spent centuries building walls between two worlds, war and murder.

00:11:54.580 Thou shalt not murder.

00:11:56.240 Well, that doesn't apply to war, okay?

00:12:00.140 It's actually between two men, the soldier and the assassin.

00:12:05.240 A soldier wears a uniform, fights in the open, under a flag, under a chain of command, in a declared fight.

00:12:13.100 Say what you want about the killing of Khomeini, wise or reckless, whatever, righteous or ruinous, whatever it is, you decide. 0.67

00:12:20.120 But it was done by the uniform forces of nations in daylight in a war. 0.72

00:12:26.180 What Iran has tried to do to Trump was hire a man, cash for killing, arranged in the dark, 0.53

00:12:31.820 to be carried out by a hired hand 0.88

00:12:34.000 who would slip out of the country

00:12:36.120 before the deed was done.

00:12:37.940 Not a soldier, an assassin, not a war, murder.

00:12:43.660 The difference is not about who's stronger.

00:12:46.520 It's about the rule.

00:12:48.260 And I know this sounds crazy in a world

00:12:50.300 where you're talking about war,

00:12:52.120 but there are rules.

00:12:53.960 And the entire point of the laws of war,

00:12:56.540 the thing that separates us from the pit

00:12:59.120 is that even killing has limits.

00:13:02.940 Who, how, when, in the open or in the dark.

00:13:07.820 But that wall is only as strong as our willingness to honor it

00:13:11.860 when it costs us something. 0.66

00:13:14.360 The moment we decide decapitating the other side's leadership

00:13:17.620 is just good, efficient policy,

00:13:20.340 that the result is worth quietly kicking out the bottom brick 0.52

00:13:24.400 by hiring some assassin to go in and do it,

00:13:27.120 then we're in trouble because the other side watches the world watches and they will hand

00:13:31.820 back our own logic so if leadership is a target then our leadership is a target on the tarmac

00:13:38.100 if they would have used a military missile it would not have been an assassination

00:13:43.680 it would have been an it would have been war okay and you can't cheer the decapitation strike

00:13:50.900 and then act stunned when they aim for yours.

00:13:56.600 So we have to be really careful.

00:13:59.160 And that's why I don't want the CIA going in and killing leaders

00:14:02.220 because you're setting that example.

00:14:04.920 The military can do it. 0.84

00:14:07.400 Killing the president of the United States is different

00:14:09.680 from killing the leader of a nation at war.

00:14:13.280 But the difference is thinner than we'd like to believe.

00:14:16.400 And it's held up by nothing sturdier than our own discipline,

00:14:19.460 our own willingness to keep the rule even when breaking it would feel like winning so when i

00:14:24.420 said yesterday because this bothered me yesterday because i kept thinking about ricky looking at me

00:14:28.360 going what are you saying because what i said was i don't want boots on the ground and i believe what

00:14:35.620 the president is doing is looking for an albert spear he's trying to find somebody that wants to

00:14:40.380 live more than you know wants to you know worship all up you know in the 12th the mom and the you

00:14:48.180 know the Mahadi and bring the world into chaos somebody who says I you know what I just want to

00:14:53.560 live and the way to do that is to show them you're going to be dead if you keep down this path you're 0.98

00:14:59.960 going to be dead and you don't want to kill the Iranians and the Persians they're good people 0.99

00:15:03.860 you want to kill the bad guys so target them but target them militarily 1.00

00:15:12.500 now one last thing back to the runway they're telling people you know not to look out the 0.99

00:15:19.920 window most protected human being alive is not on this plane because he needed the armor

00:15:26.740 he the beautiful one didn't have it and that's the one you're on and you might want to close the

00:15:30.960 shades wow it's interesting that it happened to those people through the press okay because it

00:15:39.340 was the press that has spent the last year arguing about the gold and the gift and the billion

00:15:45.200 dollars and you know the it's red white and blue and it should be you know jackie o robin you know

00:15:51.360 robin's egg you know tiffany's blue they really weren't talking about the missile sensors you

00:15:58.860 know i mean not until the shades came down maybe they should re-examine their priorities maybe it's

00:16:07.540 not always about the personality maybe it's just not about oh he really likes gold oh he you know

00:16:13.700 is he just trying to get a free plane maybe you should narrow that because you're on the same

00:16:20.580 plane and when it burst into flames because a missile hit it nobody's going to care what color

00:16:26.700 it was and nobody's going to remember your death so maybe you should focus on the right things

00:16:33.640 All right, back in just a minute.

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00:17:34.560 forget, rate us on iTunes. So page 6395 wrote in. She just joined Torch, became a member of Torch.

00:17:47.800 She said, Glenn, I have been a listener of yours for many years. I joined tonight because of

00:17:52.380 something my 14-year-old just said to me. She said, Mom, America is not a great country.

00:17:59.700 Look at what they're doing to the immigrants. No one's illegal on stolen land. That's in quotes. 0.97

00:18:06.200 We've always been a conservative household. I've discussed many of these things with her,

00:18:11.200 and I'm not even sure where I've gone wrong. I want her to love America and to understand where

00:18:17.080 we came from. I'm hoping to use some of your material to help with this. I don't even know

00:18:21.560 where to start you have any advice where i should start i would be most grateful i would start with

00:18:26.480 the american story that's the first thing i would do is start with the american story that's a

00:18:30.720 podcast it's all commercial free there's going to be 20 episodes here by the end of the month or

00:18:35.800 hour long and they are really well done and they are captivating i would start there um but there's

00:18:42.720 many other things in your your um the great thing is torch is a community we're just talking about

00:18:49.240 that a minute ago during the commercial break the torch is a community and um they'll help you

00:18:55.760 because we're all working towards the same thing and i will tell you that um i made a decision

00:19:02.060 last night i'm taking a i'm taking two weeks of vacation which i never do i don't take two weeks

00:19:08.000 of vacation um but i'm taking two weeks of vacation because my children who are 19 and 20

00:19:13.540 or 19 and 21 now um are are struggling um their college age one's in college one's not

00:19:24.400 and but they're both hearing the same thing it's all coming from social media

00:19:28.100 and they're coming to me with questions i spent a few days with them in washington

00:19:33.060 and i could see the drift and they're both fighting to understand but they don't know it

00:19:40.360 in my household, they don't know it. And they have been with me and they have seen things and

00:19:46.660 they have history. I mean, they've been in my vault. They've seen the documents. We were just

00:19:53.200 at the National Archives, in the vault of the National Archives with my kids, looking at

00:19:58.700 documents and explaining history to them. If my kids struggle with this, God help you, what is

00:20:05.800 it like to be a parent in your house it is overwhelming what's happening to them on social

00:20:12.400 media so I'm taking my kids to class for a couple of weeks and I'll explain that you know later in

00:20:19.540 detail but and I just decided this last night because my wife and I were driving and my wife

00:20:25.320 said I feel like we failed in so many ways and I said honey I say that to you and you always say to

00:20:30.520 me stop it you didn't we did the best we could and i said i want to give you that advice and she

00:20:35.980 says it's not helpful and i said i just want you to know that's kind of what i say to you when you

00:20:40.520 say it to me um but uh it's true do the best you can the lord will make up for the difference but

00:20:48.740 you have to engage in different ways i was in washington dc and i went to the smithsonian and

00:20:55.120 And I have to tell you, I am so glad that next year we are opening the American Journey

00:21:00.780 experience because I went to the Smithsonian.

00:21:03.580 And while they have billions, they have everything on the American story.

00:21:09.600 The way they tell it is A, boring, and B, so skewed now.

00:21:15.620 I don't even recognize my country.

00:21:18.320 And this is better than it was under Biden.

00:21:21.000 They've made a lot of changes.

00:21:22.480 but i went into the smithsonian the american history uh museum it's not even worth going to

00:21:28.320 it really isn't it's not worth going to um because i don't know any kid that's going to connect with

00:21:35.100 it um and uh some of the things that they're showing are just you know horrible you know

00:21:42.660 James Smithson is the guy he was an English scientist um and he was the illegitimate son

00:21:53.220 of a duke in England he was locked out by the accident of his birth and the from the titles

00:21:59.340 and the inheritance in England um and he died in a rented room uh in 1829 he never come to the

00:22:07.160 united states ever he had no american friends no no one in america he could even he knew or could

00:22:14.180 name no businesses here there's no reason and yet that guy is the guy who left us everything

00:22:20.160 there was a strange little clause at the end of his will that if his nephew died without children

00:22:28.100 his entire fortune would cross the ocean to a country he had never been to to the united states

00:22:34.800 of America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment

00:22:43.400 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. What made America different? Well,

00:22:51.880 his nephew died young and childless. So 1838, an American ship comes home to America with 104,

00:23:02.020 nine hundred one i'm sorry one hundred and four thousand nine hundred and sixty gold sovereigns

00:23:09.960 in giant crates a stranger's whole fortune handed to us when we're we're barely 50 years old

00:23:19.580 here's the amazing thing you know we almost threw it out we almost didn't accept it john calhoun

00:23:26.740 rose on the senate floor and said this is beneath the dignity of the united states to accept charity

00:23:31.740 from a foreigner others just wanted to sweep it into a general spending and forget the man's

00:23:38.700 wishes entirely it fell to one man one of my favorite presidents john quincy adams someday

00:23:44.880 i'm going to do a someday i'll do a quick podcast on john quincy adams because he's one of the most

00:23:49.220 he's one of the most important presidents we've ever had one of the most important uh citizens

00:23:57.580 we've ever had this guy was amazing anyway he's a former president he's finishing out his life

00:24:03.680 as a congressman um and he he is fighting and fighting and he fought for years to keep that

00:24:10.640 gift from being squandered to what nobler object could he you know ask his colleagues

00:24:18.960 than to take this donation and devote that donation

00:24:25.860 to the spreading of the American secret.

00:24:31.480 He won, and this is the only reason why the Smithsonian exists.

00:24:34.840 A stranger who never saw America, but saw us from afar,

00:24:38.800 believed in her enough to leave everything,

00:24:41.620 and a statesman who believed that the stranger's faith was warranted,

00:24:47.940 because he could see the goodness of america as well and he defended the pirates if you will in

00:24:55.680 his own government so last week i'm at the smithsonian and i'm seeing some beautiful things

00:25:02.860 some really remarkable things and then i also see some horrible things and i had told the president

00:25:07.580 i was in the hall the uh what is it the portrait hall or portrait museum um and there are parts of

00:25:16.680 that were beautiful and have all the portraits of you know all the presidents and everything else

00:25:20.680 and some really great stuff but then when i was there for his inauguration i went there and it

00:25:26.020 was awful it was awful the things that they were highlighting highlighting made no sense all

00:25:32.220 tearing america down well he took this seriously when he got into office and uh the white house

00:25:38.420 domestic policy council has just put out 162 page report on the crown jewel of that stranger's gift

00:25:45.740 the National Museum of American History.

00:25:48.080 I was just there.

00:25:50.240 Whatever you make of the messenger,

00:25:52.940 I want you to listen to what is drawn

00:25:56.320 from the museum's own materials.

00:25:59.640 There is an exhibit on Benjamin Franklin.

00:26:02.660 Now, Benjamin Franklin was adored the world over.

00:26:07.560 They made plates that hung on the walls of homes

00:26:11.200 in Paris with his face on it.

00:26:14.700 Um, they said he was like the Elon Musk, except more mysterious at the time. He was the lightning

00:26:21.640 genius. Okay. And when there's this article in, uh, I think it's the New York time, or sorry,

00:26:28.160 the London times from in the, you know, 1700s, right, right about the time we're starting to

00:26:34.420 break away. And he's coming to town to talk to the, to the, uh, King. And they said, be careful.

00:26:40.160 Everybody in London should leave because he's been messing around with lightning, and we think that he's bottled it, and he's come up with a lightning gun, and he tends to burn down the entire city of London.

00:26:51.500 The guy was a genius, and nobody understood him.

00:26:54.140 He was a diplomat.

00:26:55.380 He helped bind France to us to help win the revolution.

00:27:00.220 the exhibit on ben franklin gives a fifth of the space

00:27:09.640 on ben franklin to the enslaved now he did own slaves he did but at his time that was normal

00:27:20.580 everywhere in the world but he evolved and became a massive abolitionist in the end

00:27:27.240 um he fought against slavery he's again a very complicated guy at the time for us to look back

00:27:35.340 because we don't understand this was normal at the time okay so as you're going through this

00:27:43.860 if you're going with a guide you're seeing and they focus a fifth of the time on slaves with him

00:27:50.260 okay all the other things he did no a fifth of it goes to slaves then they ask the question

00:27:57.820 and they just pull it you know just pull it out you know let me ask you

00:28:03.980 do you think ben franklin ever used enslaved people in his electric experiments

00:28:10.520 wait what now they concede in the text there's no evidence he did any of that no evidence there's

00:28:21.860 there's no hint of that all of a sudden he's dr frankenstein okay it's not a fact of course not

00:28:29.900 i'm just asking questions i'm just asking questions have you heard that before i'm just

00:28:35.360 asking questions all i'm doing is asking questions uh-huh uh-huh yeah what is the purpose of your

00:28:40.780 question again this is a suggestion with nothing underneath it and your children are walking

00:28:47.720 through and as they're walking to the water fountain they're thinking wow did he do experiments

00:28:54.040 with electricity on slaves there's no truth to any of that okay the museum guidance drawn from

00:29:03.920 document a sister smithsonian uh hung on its wall in 2020 that files hard work nuclear family

00:29:12.080 individualism and rational thinking under the heading of whiteness hard work the family

00:29:20.620 the individual and rational thought those are the that's the engine

00:29:29.520 underneath every person

00:29:32.020 who ever climbed out of nothing.

00:29:34.660 It's been reclassified as a racial trait,

00:29:38.340 something that should be examined and unlearned.

00:29:42.620 The material that the families,

00:29:45.140 I mean, families drive across the country to see this. 0.51

00:29:48.260 It's now full of sexual content, gender content,

00:29:51.800 aimed squarely at your child.

00:29:56.100 As you're packing your minivan to go to Washington,

00:29:58.480 I mean, you don't expect to find that.

00:30:00.280 I mean, I can get that on social media.

00:30:02.020 I need that from my government.

00:30:05.600 I have said before, a nation dies when it forgets who it is.

00:30:11.700 Rome didn't fall in an afternoon because the barbarians at the gate.

00:30:14.460 It rotted from the inside long before that, 0.58

00:30:17.360 when it stopped remembering what had made it Rome.

00:30:22.180 That's the usual lesson.

00:30:25.060 People forget.

00:30:26.480 But this is worse than forgetting.

00:30:30.200 And let me explain how and why in 60 seconds.

00:30:34.560 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:30:49.860 This was it.

00:30:51.580 They were going to kill me too now. 0.94

00:30:53.500 The New York Times bestseller.

00:30:57.780 I had to do something.

00:30:59.860 I had to fight.

00:31:02.060 The doors opened wider.

00:31:05.860 I was so young, too young to die.

00:31:10.440 But that didn't matter.

00:31:13.020 I was standing on a front porch.

00:31:14.960 I waved my weapon in the air and yelled at them.

00:31:17.360 Everyone faces on the ground now.

00:31:19.060 Nothing made sense.

00:31:24.540 I had to get out of there.

00:31:28.860 Who, what is happening?

00:31:33.360 This summer, experience the thriller like never before.

00:31:38.140 Chasing Embers.

00:31:39.740 Audiobook available now.

00:31:43.080 Michaela Hedrick.

00:31:44.520 She is a writer and producer for the nationally syndicated radio host.

00:31:49.060 and blaze and torch founder glenn beck and is the co-author of the new york times best-selling

00:31:53.380 book chasing embers michaela how are you i'm good how are you glenn good am i on a speaker phone am

00:32:01.740 i around you have a party listening to us or no you're in my kitchen okay they're in the kitchen

00:32:08.060 okay um listen michaela um i came to you with this story i don't know a couple three years ago

00:32:13.400 And you have taken it and you just made it into just something really, really good.

00:32:18.240 And I've seen the outlines for the future books, and it's riveting.

00:32:23.300 It's just about to get really good.

00:32:26.620 Tell people who have not heard about it why this is an important book.

00:32:32.060 Not only a good book and a fun book for your family and for your young adults, but it's important.

00:32:38.580 you've been saying something lately that's really stuck with me which is that we don't know our own

00:32:44.700 story anymore as americans as citizens of the west as descendants of the ideological lineage

00:32:54.120 of the god of abraham isaac and jacob we don't know our story and chasing embers is just like

00:32:59.760 this entire summer for Torch is another way to infuse the values of our culture through stories

00:33:09.520 into the minds of the next generation. And we do that in a way that's not just like sit down and

00:33:14.560 read this history story, because most kids don't want to do that. We embed it into this really

00:33:19.340 thrilling dystopian story that my favorite review we ever get, Glenn, is my mom handed me this book

00:33:26.420 And I don't want to read it because I don't really like Glenn Beck, but actually it's really cool.

00:33:31.100 And hopefully at the end, they walk away and they have a love for some of these real stories, like the story of William Tyndale, the man who wanted to get the Bible to the world, the story of Squanto, who helped save the American colonists' lives.

00:33:44.200 These are the foundational stories of who we are.

00:33:47.040 And now we have a new way to teach them to the TikTok generation, like you said, who's not reading.

00:33:52.920 but now we have a new way with this audio book hopefully to get them into the gateway like you

00:33:57.520 said so um the the stories that you know we've we're embedding history into it because they

00:34:04.280 they are searching for history and there's this group of these extremists that the corporation

00:34:09.800 is trying to kill and they live out in the you know the wilds um and they are assembling the

00:34:17.000 pieces of our history back together and nobody really knows the whole story um and so there it's

00:34:23.940 there is this journey of discovery and the the stories that we are telling the history stories

00:34:29.800 it's not long and involved they're just little pieces and it's really it's just a little nugget

00:34:35.760 that we're hoping that your kids will go wow that sounds really good what was that person

00:34:41.540 and then go and start to do a journey on their own

00:34:45.000 on those people.

00:34:47.560 Explain how you went and picked the stories

00:34:50.760 that are the sub stories, the pieces of history

00:34:53.580 and how they were researched

00:34:56.420 to make sure that they were accurate.

00:34:58.800 I had the unique privilege of being friends

00:35:01.400 with David and Tim Barton, thanks to you

00:35:03.420 and everyone at the American Journey Experience

00:35:06.160 so I could walk over and read

00:35:07.740 the Declaration of Independence

00:35:09.280 in an original draft if I wanted to,

00:35:11.120 but I partnered with American journey experience early on and we tested out a series of maybe 15

00:35:17.460 history stories on the age group that the book is written for. And we put them in a room and

00:35:23.160 we told them these stories multiple different ways. And we asked them which stories resonate

00:35:28.420 with you and why, what sticks with you in these stories. And we picked the stories that created

00:35:33.760 the most debate, the most discussion, stories like Raul Wallenberg, who lied to save lives

00:35:40.240 during World War II, there was a hot debate between 12-year-olds and 16-year-olds about

00:35:46.020 whether that was the right thing to do. And so we knew, okay, this is a story that's going to

00:35:49.540 resonate. This is a story that had modern application for these young people. And we

00:35:54.500 picked it and then we would thoroughly research it and we would test it at every level on the

00:35:59.560 audience target, which is starting around age 12, but also we have adults that read the book now

00:36:05.940 and tell us they really love it because it's very much, I mean, our, yeah, our goal was like

00:36:10.480 Harry Potter to where you're an adult and you can read it and you love it, but your kids will love

00:36:15.720 it as well. I mean, that we, it's, it's made for young adults, but we were hoping that the parents,

00:36:22.000 you know, there's, there's something about, you know, kids shows. Disney was great at this.

00:36:26.840 His, his stories were aimed right for that same age group, but you could go as an adult and you'd

00:36:31.820 love it you'd love it i know i heard adults i've had adults come up to me a lot and tell me that

00:36:37.180 as they were reading the story they were on the edge of their seat at one time i was sitting near

00:36:41.400 someone who was reading it and they were reading it it's probably a 45 year old and that's such a

00:36:48.420 high compliment to us that it's it's thrilling all ages we're really grateful so you've got all

00:36:56.820 these kids on tiktok and and social media um how do you convince them you know a 13 year old that

00:37:06.100 the answer to the problems of the digital age you know is in a dusty old book that nobody relates

00:37:14.680 to anymore this is your genius glenn and the answer was to forbid it it was to take these

00:37:21.120 stories that are so accessible to us that are being offered to us in so many different ways

00:37:26.420 You can have a book on your doorstep in four days if you want any book in the whole world.

00:37:31.740 And in Chasing Embers, we took all those books that we want everyone to read, the stories we want everyone to know, and we made them forbidden.

00:37:38.120 We hid them.

00:37:39.120 We made them something you have to go seek out, like a treasure to find, a quest to go on.

00:37:43.580 And at the end were these stories.

00:37:45.800 And so they became something worth fighting for instead of something that we take for granted. 0.55

00:37:50.500 And I think that that kind of adventure infused in the idea of a story is the way that we're going to hook this next generation, that they're seeking out something forbidden, something countercultural, something that's going to start the kind of revolution that we want, essentially a revolution back to the founding principles.

00:38:09.860 But that feels cool.

00:38:11.900 yeah i will tell you you know my kids were they loved um uh oh shoot the mocking jay what was

00:38:20.300 that hunger games love the hunger games um you know they like those kinds of stories and this

00:38:26.940 is very much kind of in that vein um but it is also you know michaela's genius is she is good

00:38:34.360 at taking the things that are happening in the real world and going okay ai how does ai fit

00:38:39.860 70 years from now um what what does that lead us to um um you know we're talking now we have people

00:38:48.520 actually in our own country in the democratic party saying we need re-education camps what

00:38:54.400 does that mean and what does that lead to a re-education camp um right and the way you have

00:39:00.660 way you've done these sleep camps has been is is is remarkable and it's it's terrifying in its

00:39:10.080 cleanliness yes it's a it's a scary world i think one of the secret agendas of this series is to

00:39:19.240 convince us of something that's absolutely true that these stories from the past have something

00:39:23.980 to teach us about life today and about the future so homer and shakespeare has something to say

00:39:28.960 about AI and that the Bible has something to say about these issues we're dealing with with gender

00:39:34.720 they have these issues of we're dealing with tyranny totalitarianism and all of that is able

00:39:41.160 to transmit into our lives today and yeah sleep camp is essentially the ultimate nightmare of

00:39:49.260 totalitarianism and hopefully you read it and you run in the opposite direction in your real life

00:39:54.500 because you don't want your life to look anything like what Sleep Camp looks like

00:39:58.360 and will continue to be revealed as throughout the series.

00:40:01.760 It never says this in the book, but when you're listening to it,

00:40:06.520 I've listened to the audio book now twice, maybe three times,

00:40:10.020 and it's just really good.

00:40:12.280 And when you're getting to these things, it never says it in the book,

00:40:16.880 but you can see the parallels if you're looking for it.

00:40:19.840 You'll see the parallels in today, and you'll see, like Sleep Camp,

00:40:23.320 how it's just made into this really good thing.

00:40:25.560 This is fine.

00:40:27.000 This is really fine.

00:40:27.920 This is a humane thing to do to keep society going.

00:40:30.820 Its ends justify the means.

00:40:32.700 So it's a lot of the stuff that we talk about on the show,

00:40:35.060 but it is geared so you can share this with your kids

00:40:38.980 and you don't have to focus on any of that spooky stuff.

00:40:43.840 They just, we did enough testing.

00:40:45.880 Kids like that stuff.

00:40:48.280 And that's the gateway drug to get them into learning history

00:40:52.580 and seeing how important history really is.

00:40:55.420 Yeah.

00:40:55.700 Michaela, I'm so proud of you.

00:40:57.880 Oh, thanks.

00:40:58.560 I was saying it's a dystopia you can kind of walk into

00:41:00.440 with your eyes wide open.

00:41:01.660 That's what we're trying to warn against through the book.

00:41:05.180 And I can't tell you how much I enjoy working with you, Michaela.

00:41:10.160 I hired you.

00:41:11.280 I think I read a post of yours on some obscure blog, didn't I?

00:41:15.800 There were two people reading my blog, you and my mom.

00:41:19.080 And then you hired me.

00:41:21.000 And she was talking.

00:41:22.280 i hired her because she wrote a blog about telling stories and how important stories were and i didn't

00:41:29.020 have a job for her i she had no experience in anything that what we were doing and i remember

00:41:35.020 going to ricky and i'm like i'm gonna hire this girl and she's like what but she has no and i'm

00:41:39.340 like i know i know i don't know what exactly she's gonna do but she's gonna be really good at it

00:41:45.320 no no i'm not saying that you didn't i'm saying that you were you you're a news producer and she

00:41:52.440 had no news and i'm like i don't know what she's going to do but she has become one of our best

00:41:57.100 writers um she is a constant sounding board for me uh and she is wildly talented and i can't wait

00:42:05.720 until we publish is is book two coming out next summer do you know we'll see glenn that's up to

00:42:12.160 you and me and everybody listening. And we're very excited about where it can go. And I'm really

00:42:21.360 grateful because people are always asking me that question, which I think is, is wonderful.

00:42:26.120 I actually, Glenn, we wanted to tell one story, which was that real quick, this book, when we

00:42:32.260 started to work on it, we're working with a lot of people in the audio book that are maybe not

00:42:38.020 Glenn Beck fans per se, because they might be liberal because they're actors and they're audio

00:42:43.420 technicians. And so some of them were kind of scared to be associated with you. By the time

00:42:47.520 the story was over, they all wanted to be a part of it. And I think that's the power of a story.

00:42:52.940 And so if you have a kid like that torch insider who's struggling, this is a way to get them. And

00:42:59.260 this is the gateway drug to all the rest of the torch content, the Glenn Beck content that is

00:43:04.740 accessible to even your liberal teenager that you're wondering how it happened this book will

00:43:10.040 entertain them and they won't realize that they're going to become a conservative by the end of it

00:43:14.260 i don't want to i don't want to stick anybody out because they were so gracious and they were so

00:43:19.220 honest about it i wish we could tell you the full story here but honestly what she just said is so

00:43:24.200 true these people these people were very very liberal and you know in all category you know

00:43:30.520 it was produced out in, I think it was out in LA and everything else.

00:43:33.760 And so there was like nobody who was like a big fan.

00:43:36.460 And all of them at the end loved it and were proud of their involvement in it.

00:43:43.660 So this is something that can appeal to anybody.

00:43:46.440 All right, Michaela, thank you.

00:43:47.720 It's available wherever you get your audio books.

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