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On today's show, we cover all the news of the day, but we start with something a listener wrote in at the end of the first hour and said, "My stomach is in my throat. I hadn't thought about any of these things." Trump, facing his own mortality, and what he said in the last few days is different than what he has said before, and I explain it, and explain also what he is actually trying to do in Iran. I started on this yesterday, but it's becoming more and more clear. And if you understand these few things about Donald Trump, and about what's happening with the negotiations, you'll feel better and you won't be so stressed. Also, Smithsonian is rewriting our history. And I take you through what that means.
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Today's show, we cover all the news of the day, but we start with something that one
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of our listeners wrote in at the end of the first hour and said, my stomach is in my throat.
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Trump, facing his own mortality, and what he said in the last few days is different
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and I explain it and explain also what he's actually trying to do in Iran.
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I started on this yesterday, but it's becoming more and more clear.
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And if you understand these few things about Donald Trump
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and about what's happening with the negotiations,
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You'll feel better and you won't be so stressed.
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And, you know, there's been a few countries that have done it before in the past, and it doesn't work out well.
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It's the audiobook of the dystopian book that was a New York Times bestseller a couple of summers ago.
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We made it into an audiobook, and it is a really good, really good acted-out audiobook.
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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.
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and nobody wanted to do a Glenn Beck audiobook.
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and the board ops and the techs in Los Angeles.
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that there is exciting things happening in books
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you're listening to the best of the blend back program
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you know in history there have been a couple of people that have been you know world leaders um
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that have made peace with their death um and martin luther king was one of them i may not
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join you on the mountaintop i may not get there with you um and abraham lincoln abraham lincoln
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knew he was going to die and made peace with it he had dreams and everything else he just didn't
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tell his wife about it but he wrote about it and he talked about it um more obliquely donald trump
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said something yesterday and remember donald trump is a guy if you know anything about him
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he speaks things into reality he does not say things um without the understanding of manifesting
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it okay like he never will talk to you about an assassination attempt he will not talk to you
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about it however lately he's been saying things like he said yesterday i want you to listen to
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of any credible threat by iran against her well i haven't read all the time i'm number one on their
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list before you but if i go you go right so perhaps perhaps someday you want to change professions
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now he also said yesterday these things like threats of the president they usually don't
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work out well. And the way he said it, in a way, seemed like he was making peace with that.
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And I will tell you, I've lived with credible threats for a long time. And some of them have
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just been, it's like now, it's just always in the background. But there have been times when I have
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a serious threat. We know the individual who's made the threats. They're still out there. Or we
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know a group that's making a credible threat and so it's different and the first time I dealt with
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it I didn't know how to deal with it you don't know how to live your life when you know somebody
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when you know somebody you could walk up you know in a crowd of people and somebody could turn to
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you and go hey Glenn and then shoot you to death it's a weird thing and the way I got through it
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was I just imagined the worst that could happen and I'm not going to get into it but I just
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imagine what what that would be like and and the worst um and so i i visualized it and then i went
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okay well that's the worst that could happen and then i could move on and it actually helped me
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and i think that's what donald trump is doing he is finding a way that he can compartmentalize this
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and go on with his life and be out in public and you know i'm okay with it if that's what's
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going to happen that's what's going to happen you have to do that but the lowering of the shades
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thing had me listen had me think about several different things and I want to take you through
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what was going through my mind so the president flies to Turkey and he uses his brand new airplane
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the gold trim the red white and blue it's a beautiful plane okay it's a flying palace and
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it was gifted by Qatar and he's been showing it off kind of like he's just like me if I have a
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new truck i am just driving around going look at the truck man is this not a great truck that's
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what he was doing the old one is what he flew home on okay and this is why this reporter asked
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these questions it's the baby blue jet so one that you know your grandfather recognizes you know and
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you know jackie o designed okay before the wheels even left the tarmac in turkey the reporters on
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board. You just heard it. We're told to do something they never get told to do. Would you
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close your window shades? All right. The man who climbed the stairs had just spent two days telling
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anyone, anyone, you know, with a microphone, with his words, he's the number one kill list in Iran.
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And that's not bluster, okay? This spring, a trained operative of Iran's Revolutionary Guard
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was convicted in a courtroom here in America. You didn't hear much about this, but it was a murder
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for hire plot to kill him. Also, back in February, on the first morning of this war, America and
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Israel killed the man at the very top of Iran. The regime's security chief went on television
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and promised to hold Donald Trump responsible and we will kill him. So there's a reason to think
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about the window shades. Now, here's the part that nobody's really talking about. We've argued
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about this plane, whether it's a gift or who gets it or the color of the plane. The old jet,
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The ugly one, that's all armored in places you don't see.
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Missile warning sensors that watch the sky for the heat of incoming warhead,
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electronic countermeasures to blind whatever's chasing it,
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shielding built so the president can carry through an EMP and a nuclear blast.
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engineering all of it built for exactly one job bring him home through hostile air no matter what
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it is the new beautiful one doesn't have any of that stuff the retrofit was rushed normally it
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takes years and years cost billions of dollars squeezed into months one former cia uh official
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said it's not ready for prime time overseas okay let me say it another way this one should stay at
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home. He can fly this plane at home, but we need the big blue one until we get Boeing to finish
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the very expensive one. So it's not at home. And in fact, if you look at the map,
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who does Turkey share a border with? Turkey shares a border with Iran. Iran has drones and
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ballistic missiles, the Shahabs and the Shabibs or the Shaheds or whatever they are. Anyway,
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some of them can reach 800 miles. This airport sits inside of that ring. Meanwhile, the gorgeous
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new plane was sent on ahead, empty of the president to England. England's 2,500 miles away,
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past the reach of, you know, anything in Iran's inventory.
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So the palace was perfectly safe going there.
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It wasn't safe bringing him home past Iran's front door.
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The armor, it turns out, is a map problem.
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He wasn't on the plane, which would have made me more nervous.
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now when this happened yesterday i had just gotten off the air and i saw ricky's face when
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her eyes just went as round as saucers and she was like what are you saying because i said
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if i'm the president i target every member of that council and i kill them one by one
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and i let them know i'm coming for you next i might be you next might be somebody else on the
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council next, but you're on the list and you make them so paranoid that somebody collapses and does
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what I told you, I think what the president's plan is at the beginning of this hour. Now, if Iran
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killed Trump, if they used a missile and it was executed by the army, it's not an assassination.
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What they have been doing, if they bring a guy in out of a uniform and they just have a rocket
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and they point it up at the sky and they take it out.
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And everybody would be, wipe them off the face of the earth.
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American Israel killed the top guy, Supreme Leader.
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that he got Khomeini before Khomeini could get him.
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Because we've made a promise not to kill leaders.
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It's a question on whose hand is on the trigger.
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In the difference, we made this decision before we were even a country.
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Civilization spent centuries building walls between two worlds, war and murder.
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It's actually between two men, the soldier and the assassin.
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A soldier wears a uniform, fights in the open, under a flag, under a chain of command, in a declared fight.
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Say what you want about the killing of Khomeini, wise or reckless, whatever, righteous or ruinous, whatever it is, you decide.
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But it was done by the uniform forces of nations in daylight in a war.
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What Iran has tried to do to Trump was hire a man, cash for killing, arranged in the dark,
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But that wall is only as strong as our willingness to honor it
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The moment we decide decapitating the other side's leadership
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that the result is worth quietly kicking out the bottom brick
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then we're in trouble because the other side watches the world watches and they will hand
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back our own logic so if leadership is a target then our leadership is a target on the tarmac
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if they would have used a military missile it would not have been an assassination
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it would have been an it would have been war okay and you can't cheer the decapitation strike
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And that's why I don't want the CIA going in and killing leaders
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Killing the president of the United States is different
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But the difference is thinner than we'd like to believe.
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And it's held up by nothing sturdier than our own discipline,
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our own willingness to keep the rule even when breaking it would feel like winning so when i
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said yesterday because this bothered me yesterday because i kept thinking about ricky looking at me
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going what are you saying because what i said was i don't want boots on the ground and i believe what
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the president is doing is looking for an albert spear he's trying to find somebody that wants to
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live more than you know wants to you know worship all up you know in the 12th the mom and the you
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know the Mahadi and bring the world into chaos somebody who says I you know what I just want to
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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
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going to be dead and you don't want to kill the Iranians and the Persians they're good people
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you want to kill the bad guys so target them but target them militarily
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now one last thing back to the runway they're telling people you know not to look out the
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window most protected human being alive is not on this plane because he needed the armor
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he the beautiful one didn't have it and that's the one you're on and you might want to close the
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shades wow it's interesting that it happened to those people through the press okay because it
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was the press that has spent the last year arguing about the gold and the gift and the billion
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dollars and you know the it's red white and blue and it should be you know jackie o robin you know
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robin's egg you know tiffany's blue they really weren't talking about the missile sensors you
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know i mean not until the shades came down maybe they should re-examine their priorities maybe it's
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not always about the personality maybe it's just not about oh he really likes gold oh he you know
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is he just trying to get a free plane maybe you should narrow that because you're on the same
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plane and when it burst into flames because a missile hit it nobody's going to care what color
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it was and nobody's going to remember your death so maybe you should focus on the right things
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forget, rate us on iTunes. So page 6395 wrote in. She just joined Torch, became a member of Torch.
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She said, Glenn, I have been a listener of yours for many years. I joined tonight because of
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something my 14-year-old just said to me. She said, Mom, America is not a great country.
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Look at what they're doing to the immigrants. No one's illegal on stolen land. That's in quotes.
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We've always been a conservative household. I've discussed many of these things with her,
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and I'm not even sure where I've gone wrong. I want her to love America and to understand where
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we came from. I'm hoping to use some of your material to help with this. I don't even know
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where to start you have any advice where i should start i would be most grateful i would start with
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the american story that's the first thing i would do is start with the american story that's a
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podcast it's all commercial free there's going to be 20 episodes here by the end of the month or
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hour long and they are really well done and they are captivating i would start there um but there's
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many other things in your your um the great thing is torch is a community we're just talking about
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that a minute ago during the commercial break the torch is a community and um they'll help you
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because we're all working towards the same thing and i will tell you that um i made a decision
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last night i'm taking a i'm taking two weeks of vacation which i never do i don't take two weeks
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of vacation um but i'm taking two weeks of vacation because my children who are 19 and 20
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or 19 and 21 now um are are struggling um their college age one's in college one's not
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and but they're both hearing the same thing it's all coming from social media
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and they're coming to me with questions i spent a few days with them in washington
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and i could see the drift and they're both fighting to understand but they don't know it
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in my household, they don't know it. And they have been with me and they have seen things and
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they have history. I mean, they've been in my vault. They've seen the documents. We were just
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at the National Archives, in the vault of the National Archives with my kids, looking at
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documents and explaining history to them. If my kids struggle with this, God help you, what is
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it like to be a parent in your house it is overwhelming what's happening to them on social
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media so I'm taking my kids to class for a couple of weeks and I'll explain that you know later in
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detail but and I just decided this last night because my wife and I were driving and my wife
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said I feel like we failed in so many ways and I said honey I say that to you and you always say to
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me stop it you didn't we did the best we could and i said i want to give you that advice and she
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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
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say it to me um but uh it's true do the best you can the lord will make up for the difference but
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you have to engage in different ways i was in washington dc and i went to the smithsonian and
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And I have to tell you, I am so glad that next year we are opening the American Journey
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And while they have billions, they have everything on the American story.
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The way they tell it is A, boring, and B, so skewed now.
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but i went into the smithsonian the american history uh museum it's not even worth going to
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it really isn't it's not worth going to um because i don't know any kid that's going to connect with
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it um and uh some of the things that they're showing are just you know horrible you know
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James Smithson is the guy he was an English scientist um and he was the illegitimate son
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of a duke in England he was locked out by the accident of his birth and the from the titles
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and the inheritance in England um and he died in a rented room uh in 1829 he never come to the
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united states ever he had no american friends no no one in america he could even he knew or could
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name no businesses here there's no reason and yet that guy is the guy who left us everything
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there was a strange little clause at the end of his will that if his nephew died without children
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his entire fortune would cross the ocean to a country he had never been to to the united states
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of America to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment
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for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. What made America different? Well,
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his nephew died young and childless. So 1838, an American ship comes home to America with 104,
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nine hundred one i'm sorry one hundred and four thousand nine hundred and sixty gold sovereigns
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in giant crates a stranger's whole fortune handed to us when we're we're barely 50 years old
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here's the amazing thing you know we almost threw it out we almost didn't accept it john calhoun
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rose on the senate floor and said this is beneath the dignity of the united states to accept charity
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from a foreigner others just wanted to sweep it into a general spending and forget the man's
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wishes entirely it fell to one man one of my favorite presidents john quincy adams someday
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i'm going to do a someday i'll do a quick podcast on john quincy adams because he's one of the most
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he's one of the most important presidents we've ever had one of the most important uh citizens
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we've ever had this guy was amazing anyway he's a former president he's finishing out his life
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as a congressman um and he he is fighting and fighting and he fought for years to keep that
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gift from being squandered to what nobler object could he you know ask his colleagues
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than to take this donation and devote that donation
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He won, and this is the only reason why the Smithsonian exists.
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A stranger who never saw America, but saw us from afar,
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and a statesman who believed that the stranger's faith was warranted,
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because he could see the goodness of america as well and he defended the pirates if you will in
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his own government so last week i'm at the smithsonian and i'm seeing some beautiful things
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some really remarkable things and then i also see some horrible things and i had told the president
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i was in the hall the uh what is it the portrait hall or portrait museum um and there are parts of
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that were beautiful and have all the portraits of you know all the presidents and everything else
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and some really great stuff but then when i was there for his inauguration i went there and it
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was awful it was awful the things that they were highlighting highlighting made no sense all
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tearing america down well he took this seriously when he got into office and uh the white house
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domestic policy council has just put out 162 page report on the crown jewel of that stranger's gift
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Now, Benjamin Franklin was adored the world over.
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They made plates that hung on the walls of homes
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Um, they said he was like the Elon Musk, except more mysterious at the time. He was the lightning
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genius. Okay. And when there's this article in, uh, I think it's the New York time, or sorry,
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the London times from in the, you know, 1700s, right, right about the time we're starting to
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break away. And he's coming to town to talk to the, to the, uh, King. And they said, be careful.
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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.
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The guy was a genius, and nobody understood him.
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He helped bind France to us to help win the revolution.
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the exhibit on ben franklin gives a fifth of the space
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on ben franklin to the enslaved now he did own slaves he did but at his time that was normal
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everywhere in the world but he evolved and became a massive abolitionist in the end
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um he fought against slavery he's again a very complicated guy at the time for us to look back
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because we don't understand this was normal at the time okay so as you're going through this
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if you're going with a guide you're seeing and they focus a fifth of the time on slaves with him
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okay all the other things he did no a fifth of it goes to slaves then they ask the question
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and they just pull it you know just pull it out you know let me ask you
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do you think ben franklin ever used enslaved people in his electric experiments
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wait what now they concede in the text there's no evidence he did any of that no evidence there's
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there's no hint of that all of a sudden he's dr frankenstein okay it's not a fact of course not
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i'm just asking questions i'm just asking questions have you heard that before i'm just
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asking questions all i'm doing is asking questions uh-huh uh-huh yeah what is the purpose of your
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question again this is a suggestion with nothing underneath it and your children are walking
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through and as they're walking to the water fountain they're thinking wow did he do experiments
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with electricity on slaves there's no truth to any of that okay the museum guidance drawn from
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document a sister smithsonian uh hung on its wall in 2020 that files hard work nuclear family
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individualism and rational thinking under the heading of whiteness hard work the family
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the individual and rational thought those are the that's the engine
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something that should be examined and unlearned.
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I mean, families drive across the country to see this.
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It's now full of sexual content, gender content,
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As you're packing your minivan to go to Washington,
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I have said before, a nation dies when it forgets who it is.
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Rome didn't fall in an afternoon because the barbarians at the gate.
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It rotted from the inside long before that,
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when it stopped remembering what had made it Rome.
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I waved my weapon in the air and yelled at them.
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This summer, experience the thriller like never before.
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She is a writer and producer for the nationally syndicated radio host.
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and blaze and torch founder glenn beck and is the co-author of the new york times best-selling
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book chasing embers michaela how are you i'm good how are you glenn good am i on a speaker phone am
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i around you have a party listening to us or no you're in my kitchen okay they're in the kitchen
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okay um listen michaela um i came to you with this story i don't know a couple three years ago
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And you have taken it and you just made it into just something really, really good.
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And I've seen the outlines for the future books, and it's riveting.
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Tell people who have not heard about it why this is an important book.
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Not only a good book and a fun book for your family and for your young adults, but it's important.
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you've been saying something lately that's really stuck with me which is that we don't know our own
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story anymore as americans as citizens of the west as descendants of the ideological lineage
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of the god of abraham isaac and jacob we don't know our story and chasing embers is just like
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this entire summer for Torch is another way to infuse the values of our culture through stories
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into the minds of the next generation. And we do that in a way that's not just like sit down and
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read this history story, because most kids don't want to do that. We embed it into this really
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thrilling dystopian story that my favorite review we ever get, Glenn, is my mom handed me this book
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And I don't want to read it because I don't really like Glenn Beck, but actually it's really cool.
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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.
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These are the foundational stories of who we are.
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And now we have a new way to teach them to the TikTok generation, like you said, who's not reading.
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but now we have a new way with this audio book hopefully to get them into the gateway like you
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said so um the the stories that you know we've we're embedding history into it because they
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they are searching for history and there's this group of these extremists that the corporation
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is trying to kill and they live out in the you know the wilds um and they are assembling the
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pieces of our history back together and nobody really knows the whole story um and so there it's
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there is this journey of discovery and the the stories that we are telling the history stories
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it's not long and involved they're just little pieces and it's really it's just a little nugget
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that we're hoping that your kids will go wow that sounds really good what was that person
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and then go and start to do a journey on their own
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that are the sub stories, the pieces of history
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and everyone at the American Journey Experience
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but I partnered with American journey experience early on and we tested out a series of maybe 15
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history stories on the age group that the book is written for. And we put them in a room and
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we told them these stories multiple different ways. And we asked them which stories resonate
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with you and why, what sticks with you in these stories. And we picked the stories that created
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the most debate, the most discussion, stories like Raul Wallenberg, who lied to save lives
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during World War II, there was a hot debate between 12-year-olds and 16-year-olds about
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whether that was the right thing to do. And so we knew, okay, this is a story that's going to
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resonate. This is a story that had modern application for these young people. And we
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picked it and then we would thoroughly research it and we would test it at every level on the
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audience target, which is starting around age 12, but also we have adults that read the book now
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and tell us they really love it because it's very much, I mean, our, yeah, our goal was like
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Harry Potter to where you're an adult and you can read it and you love it, but your kids will love
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it as well. I mean, that we, it's, it's made for young adults, but we were hoping that the parents,
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you know, there's, there's something about, you know, kids shows. Disney was great at this.
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His, his stories were aimed right for that same age group, but you could go as an adult and you'd
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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
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as they were reading the story they were on the edge of their seat at one time i was sitting near
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someone who was reading it and they were reading it it's probably a 45 year old and that's such a
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high compliment to us that it's it's thrilling all ages we're really grateful so you've got all
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these kids on tiktok and and social media um how do you convince them you know a 13 year old that
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the answer to the problems of the digital age you know is in a dusty old book that nobody relates
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to anymore this is your genius glenn and the answer was to forbid it it was to take these
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stories that are so accessible to us that are being offered to us in so many different ways
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You can have a book on your doorstep in four days if you want any book in the whole world.
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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.
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We made them something you have to go seek out, like a treasure to find, a quest to go on.
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And so they became something worth fighting for instead of something that we take for granted.
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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.
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yeah i will tell you you know my kids were they loved um uh oh shoot the mocking jay what was
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that hunger games love the hunger games um you know they like those kinds of stories and this
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is very much kind of in that vein um but it is also you know michaela's genius is she is good
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at taking the things that are happening in the real world and going okay ai how does ai fit
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70 years from now um what what does that lead us to um um you know we're talking now we have people
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actually in our own country in the democratic party saying we need re-education camps what
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does that mean and what does that lead to a re-education camp um right and the way you have
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way you've done these sleep camps has been is is is remarkable and it's it's terrifying in its
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cleanliness yes it's a it's a scary world i think one of the secret agendas of this series is to
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convince us of something that's absolutely true that these stories from the past have something
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to teach us about life today and about the future so homer and shakespeare has something to say
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about AI and that the Bible has something to say about these issues we're dealing with with gender
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they have these issues of we're dealing with tyranny totalitarianism and all of that is able
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to transmit into our lives today and yeah sleep camp is essentially the ultimate nightmare of
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totalitarianism and hopefully you read it and you run in the opposite direction in your real life
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because you don't want your life to look anything like what Sleep Camp looks like
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and will continue to be revealed as throughout the series.
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It never says this in the book, but when you're listening to it,
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I've listened to the audio book now twice, maybe three times,
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And when you're getting to these things, it never says it in the book,
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but you can see the parallels if you're looking for it.
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You'll see the parallels in today, and you'll see, like Sleep Camp,
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how it's just made into this really good thing.
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This is a humane thing to do to keep society going.
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So it's a lot of the stuff that we talk about on the show,
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but it is geared so you can share this with your kids
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and you don't have to focus on any of that spooky stuff.
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And that's the gateway drug to get them into learning history
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I was saying it's a dystopia you can kind of walk into
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That's what we're trying to warn against through the book.
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And I can't tell you how much I enjoy working with you, Michaela.
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I think I read a post of yours on some obscure blog, didn't I?
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There were two people reading my blog, you and my mom.
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i hired her because she wrote a blog about telling stories and how important stories were and i didn't
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have a job for her i she had no experience in anything that what we were doing and i remember
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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
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like i know i know i don't know what exactly she's gonna do but she's gonna be really good at it
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no no i'm not saying that you didn't i'm saying that you were you you're a news producer and she
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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
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writers um she is a constant sounding board for me uh and she is wildly talented and i can't wait
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until we publish is is book two coming out next summer do you know we'll see glenn that's up to
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you and me and everybody listening. And we're very excited about where it can go. And I'm really
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grateful because people are always asking me that question, which I think is, is wonderful.
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I actually, Glenn, we wanted to tell one story, which was that real quick, this book, when we
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started to work on it, we're working with a lot of people in the audio book that are maybe not
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Glenn Beck fans per se, because they might be liberal because they're actors and they're audio
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technicians. And so some of them were kind of scared to be associated with you. By the time
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the story was over, they all wanted to be a part of it. And I think that's the power of a story.
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And so if you have a kid like that torch insider who's struggling, this is a way to get them. And
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this is the gateway drug to all the rest of the torch content, the Glenn Beck content that is
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accessible to even your liberal teenager that you're wondering how it happened this book will
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entertain them and they won't realize that they're going to become a conservative by the end of it
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i don't want to i don't want to stick anybody out because they were so gracious and they were so
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honest about it i wish we could tell you the full story here but honestly what she just said is so
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true these people these people were very very liberal and you know in all category you know
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it was produced out in, I think it was out in LA and everything else.
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And so there was like nobody who was like a big fan.
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And all of them at the end loved it and were proud of their involvement in it.
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So this is something that can appeal to anybody.
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