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It's time to remember who we are as a way to be able to find the future, and how dumb we were when we were 18 years old. Glenn Beck shares a personal story about when he first realized he was the dumbest person on the planet.
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It kind of starts with something personal that I've been talking to my son about.
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It's time that we really remember who we are as a way to be able to find the future.
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And don't forget, tomorrow on the TV show, Wednesday night, 9 p.m., only on Blaze TV,
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Tomorrow night on our Wednesday night special, an hour one-on-one with Kyle Rittenhouse.
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That is tomorrow night, only on my Wednesday night special on Blaze TV.
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Yeah, I was walking out of the studio last night after doing StuDoes America.
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And just turned around, and then there's just Kyle Rittenhouse standing there.
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I mean, look, he's been in the middle of a firestorm.
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And, I don't know, there was a moment there that gave us a little bit of hope in humanity
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You were just talking about how you don't even know who you are at that time.
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I mean, you know, I thought we all thought, you know, when we were kids, at least I did,
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Uh, and, you know, and you hit 30 and you're like, whoa, wait a minute.
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I thought I had all the answers by the time I was 30.
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It's weird to be a 17, 18 year old kid and go through this his whole life.
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That's when I started to, to change things was exactly at 18.
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Why did you, why did you think you were the dumbest person on the planet?
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I know Pat well enough to know this is not leading anywhere.
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And I know Pat well enough to know he's not joking about it.
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I've done multiple shows with you all this time and I've never, I didn't know you were
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the dumbest person in the world at 18 or you'd done anything wrong in your entire life,
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Well, some of us has been his friends since the 1980s.
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So you want to come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding and hear about Pat and
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But I will come to you and ask you for a favor and give me some dirt on somebody else
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So, Pat, we're trying to look for some good news today.
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See, President Biden's throwing a democracy summit with 110 countries on the planet.
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You know, 110 really great democracies like Pakistan.
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I mean, is there a clearer indication of democratic people than the government of Pakistan?
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Just to get together and talk about the important things facing democracies right now other than
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We won't talk about that because those aren't a problem.
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You know, you look at Australia and you see how happy those people are not being able to
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Where people are like standing up and going, uh, no, you're not doing this to me for COVID.
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I look at it a little bit differently because like when the Lakers win the championship,
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Or they're just trying to make a point about race.
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Now, China, I guess, also says that they too are a democracy.
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And they wanted to be included, but we're not including them.
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But yeah, they don't have a, they don't have a democratic election.
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I don't, I don't know if this, uh, I don't know how this is coming to you as good news.
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If you bring up the meeting that he has with Putin today, I'm going to hit you in the
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Uh, Chris Cuomo, also known as Fredo, fired not just from CNN, but also SiriusXM.
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Fredo wants to make sure that you are aware, however, of course, that he resigned from SiriusXM.
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And that was just because he just wanted to spend more time with this.
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With, with, with this, with somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody else, somebody.
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It's a framed picture of the TV with the chyron that says, Chris Cuomo has been fired by CNN.
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And I thought that's really a good question for Stu.
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It's like, it's like me when progressivism is finally beaten and the Marxists go away.
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And, you know, you have that issue where everything, when you start talking about people and they
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And I've got that void in my life now, the hours I spend listening to Chris on Sirius
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XM and the hour that I used to spend watching his television program.
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I guess I just poked myself with a pickle fork during those three hours.
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Well, it would have been less damaging than watching the show, but.
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I brought it up at the top of the hour because I think this is the most important story of the
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day that if cats were people, they'd be psychopaths.
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No, that's the definition that if cats were CEOs, can you imagine how bad things could
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No, they'd while you were doing your, you know, while you were making the company money,
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they'd, they'd make a figure eight between your legs and they'd love to rub their head
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But you know, um, that's the reason why you don't like cats.
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If you're friends with Jeffrey Dahmer, what does that say about you?
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And you, people are like, he was friends with Jeffrey Dahmer.
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If you like cats, really, what does this say about you?
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People should know this is a long-term stand of Glenn Beck where he believes science is proving
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And I guess you can't really disagree with it now because then you're speaking out against
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So, you know, my dog, you know, the problem is cats don't, I don't know if they don't
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But I'm not sure he remembers me all the time or for very long, you know, your dog forgets
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And he'd be licking my face for a while and be like, come on, come on, wake up, wake up.
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And then after a while, he'd eat me because he'd be hungry.
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And he'd be like, oh, I remember all the good times we had, but I'm hungry and he'd eat
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So I'm, I, I'm thinking that maybe he forgets who I am at some point that would make him
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Where a cat would be looking at you from the kitchen and you sneeze and the cat is
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I certainly don't care, but you look like food to me.
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So the Chinese have discovered something on the moon.
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Well, they say it's a cube and it's a mystery hut.
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And they're going to be they're going to be they're going to spend the next two or three
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lunar days investigating this mysterious feature on the moon, which is actually two to three
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Um, but it's they are expecting that it's just a big rock, that it is just a big rock, but
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If they don't even have to go in, if they walk up to it and it's a big, you know, block
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and it says James Hoffa on the front, you'd be like, it's a crypt.
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Wait, so that would be a cool surprise, wouldn't it?
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The theory is that they transported the body of Jimmy Hoffa up to the moon and then put
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him in a crypt rather than just like releasing him in orbit toward like the atmosphere.
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They went through all the trouble to actually build him a burial.
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But you'd burn up in the atmosphere and you'd have no trace.
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What you don't know is this was this a concrete structure.
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And you know how, you know, you put your hands, handprints in it after you've made like a
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Cat prints all over the bottom of this moon hut.
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You know, what's white and red and wrap white and black and wrapped in red ready for Christmas.
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And red, the wrapping of it says a great reset right on the front.
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Yes, it's about Joe Biden and 21st century fascism.
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You can get it now wherever you get your books.
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Go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and grab the book right now.
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It comes out in January, but be the first to have it.
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It might be empty, but there's a note coming soon.
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So basically a scam if you forget to order something.
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For example, it's always good when people can learn things.
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I have a feeling you're being sarcastic, but I'm willing to go down this road.
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This is the Washington, D.C. media helping out their viewers for the holidays.
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A frozen, just like frozen hot chocolate available now at Macy's.
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Three men shot and wound, or I should say three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another
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person at gunpoint in the middle of the night in order to prevent a carjacking.
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Play the Christmas bed we just came back and then.
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Three men shot and wound, or I should say three men shot and wounded a man and carjacked another
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person at gunpoint in the middle of the night in order to prevent a carjacking.
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Police say lock the doors when driving and when pumping gas.
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In fact, stay in your car if you can at the gas station.
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And always look around before getting out of your vehicle, and if you are the victim
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Equip your vehicle with an anti-theft or GPS tracking device and allow yourself room and
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Avoid getting boxed in, if you will, and keep your cell phone in your pocket.
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And isn't it good if you're not stabbed or shot to death?
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Little baby Jesus didn't come up in the manger, so you could be shot and shivved.
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Clip one, where, you know, if you happen to be-
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Be ready with the Christmas music just in case we need it.
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If you happen to be someone who sells drugs, you might have a difficult, a difficult life
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on the streets selling drugs to people and it may be dangerous.
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A former convict says he felt safer during his life of crime after his Oakland cannabis
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I was safer selling weed on the streets of Oakland than I am selling it legally.
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That's crazy to even say, but that's just the reality I'm living in right now.
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This is, again, remember, the holidays, you're not supposed to think of yourself.
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This may be a problem for him, but it's better for the weed dealers on the streets.
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You like stories in the holiday season of real achievement.
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She smashed two U.S. swimming records in Akron, Ohio.
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Oh, you mean the dude that's now swimming for the women's team?
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He keeps saying he by mistake, but it's a she, Leah Thomas.
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She competed in a women's swimming event and broke all the records.
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And wow, what an accomplishment for the holidays for Leah Thomas.
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She looks beautiful and could compete with Caitlyn Jenner for the woman most beautiful woman.
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I mean, if we're going to go there, let's make use of this.
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Let's send all of our he's to the Olympics and see what the Chinese have to say about it.
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We're not going to have a cocktail party and no American weenies for the Chinese to munch on.
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I'm saying, I'm giving you a hypothetical situation here.
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But the hypothetical situation, you are an athlete.
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You are now told you're not allowed to go to the event.
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You know, if I knew we were sending a bunch of Americans over there that would stand up
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and then, you know, make a fist for the Uyghurs, then I would be fine with it.
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I mean, they might not come back if they do that, but maybe they will do that.
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We're very tough and have a big backbone right now against China.
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I mean, you know, it was one thing with Jesse Owens.
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I mean, he was going to Berlin and there was half the country said, don't go, don't go,
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Because he was going to stand up against the German and we knew there's a good chance he's
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This isn't a slap in us just going along as we always go along.
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I mean, I think, first of all, if you can beat their asses, I mean, that's sending them
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I don't know enough about these games to know if we will or not, frankly.
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But beyond that, like, just as a, you know, it's your whole life's work is leading to this
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And then your country tells you, an individual, no, you're not allowed to travel.
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I mean, that is not exactly the most American concept of freedom that I've ever heard.
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I'm going to wrap them all in swaddling clothes.
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I'm going to take all of the athletes and I'm going to wrap them in swaddling clothes.
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You don't care about this because you're not an athlete.
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No, I don't know anything about athletic competition.
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Would we have been proud if we would have been like, hey, they've built a new stadium
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You know, there are thousands and thousands of American businessmen in China right now
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And I think we should reevaluate this and we can maybe start with the Olympics.
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I mean, we should start with the things we don't have to do.
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You don't obviously have to do the Olympics, but we can show some symbolic victories against
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And again, I think not sending your diplomats says something.
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Honestly, if we didn't even have any more diplomats, we'd probably be better off.
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But, you know, this is something that means something to China.
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Here's what would have happened years ago if we would have done one in Russia, which we
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We we we was at 84 was was here and the Soviets boycotted and we boycotted in 80.
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I'm forgetting the years, but we boycotted them at one point.
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So imagine back then, ABC, NBC, whoever would have had the Olympics, let's say it was, you
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know, Dr. Pink Eye is covering the Olympics again.
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Because that's all anybody remembers from that year of Olympics.
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Anyway, if he would have been broadcasting, if he would have gone over to the Soviet Union,
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they would have been broadcasting, they would have had all kinds of stories about how awful
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and oppressive that was and how much of the stuff we have to say is because we have monitors
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with us and they'll threaten to pull us off at any time.
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It would have all we all would have known that and they would have made a big deal before
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OK, now NBC Universal, you think they're going to be ABC Disney?
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You think they're going to say anything about how bad China is?
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And we're going to all the sponsorships are going to go through.
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But the country making that choice for these athletes and these athletes only.
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I mean, again, I would say I'm torn on it, but I mean, it's a tough one because
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I mean, these people have nothing to do with this.
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They've worked their asses off with the promise that if you're good enough, you're going to
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And then a couple of weeks before, we're like, ah, yeah, I know all of your life's works
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But no, I mean, it's it's a tough place to put an individual American citizen who might
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They don't need to go on vacation there when we don't stop that.
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And this is the one time we're going to change.
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You're representing the United States of America.
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Our relationship with China is different than our relationship with the Soviet Union.
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If you do that in advance, I can understand that stance.
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If it was in North Korea right now, we wouldn't be sending anybody.
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Now, I don't know why they wouldn't even they can't even build a hotel, let alone a stadium.
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Use this person that we've kept in a concentration camp as a javelin now.
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So I do understand what you're saying, but you have to have some sympathy for these
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I do have sympathy, but I have more sympathy for the people that are looking for someone to
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give them some light at the end of the tunnel, that somebody recognizes them, that somebody
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We continue to face so many unknowns, so many market changes, so much inflation.
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It all started with a misunderstanding, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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A black theater student at Coastal Carolina University told a visiting drama teacher she
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So the teacher drew up a list of names on a whiteboard, then forgot to erase it when they
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When several other students walked in, they saw this list, and they were left with a suspicion
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that those on it had been singled out with racist intent.
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A committee of professors investigated and promptly sent out a department-wide email clarifying
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Seeking to calm the students, the professors wrote that the explanation in no way undermines
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the feelings that any of you feel about the incident, and that the faculty was deeply
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The visiting teacher also wrote an apology, no matter the good intention, I still want
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Well, things might have ended there, but at a time when college campuses had become center
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stage for the polarizing issues of race, identity, and what constitutes harm, the theater
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We've had him on before when this story first broke, what, two months ago?
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This is an amazing story, especially written by the LA Times.
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It shows that the person who really came out with you, or came out after you, one of the
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students, was really, truly, seemingly, to me at least, out of control.
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Um, what has happened since they took you off and said, we're not sure, we're going to
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Well, uh, you know, again, I was, I was removed from teaching and, uh, you know, assigned to
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other duties, which I, you know, received sometime around November the 2nd.
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Um, but, um, I'm, I'm simply happy to be reinstated at this point.
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And, uh, apparently we'll be teaching again next semester.
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Um, I'm not sure what that world will be like, but I'm certainly, um, you know, I have a long
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history, uh, at, of great work at Coastal Carolina University, and I'm, I'm intending
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to continue that work, uh, at this point in my life.
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So what is the, because I know that the administrators, some of them came out that you thought were
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friends, came out against you, um, in, including the department chair who said the words in your
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I think of people burning crosses and wearing white robes, and that's about as far away from
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Now he says he didn't, he says he don't, he doesn't remember saying these things.
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Eric doesn't remember saying that you were a white supremacist, but do you?
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It was, yeah, it was said at a meeting and I did not disclose the name of the person who
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I didn't feel like I, I should disclose that name.
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Um, but it was said at a meeting and, um, I think that the writer, because they couldn't,
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um, you know, pin down exactly who said it, just, you know, made the chair responsible
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Um, so, um, but when, when they said that you could, you could go back, that your behavior
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was under review to determine whether your emails endangered the welfare of students or
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violated the code of ethical conduct requiring employees to create a respectful environment,
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nurture a climate of fairness and civility towards others, even in the face of disagreement.
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Um, they said that your actions didn't warrant disciplinary and disciplinary action at this
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Uh, you know, I, we'll see, you know, um, but my attorney who is a, uh, I don't know what's
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Um, my attorney, who is a big fan of yours, Ruth Smith in Asheville, North Carolina, asked
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And, uh, um, you know, she's keeping a watch on the whole situation.
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And so we are, you know, we're, we're taking it day by day and we will just approach, um,
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And, um, I'm, I'm considering, uh, you know, body cam and things like this just to, uh, just
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Uh, I mean, I tell my daughter, she wants to go into acting and I'm, I'm praying on
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my knees every day that something happens that doesn't let that happen.
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But, uh, she, uh, you know, she comes home, she's in high school and girls are not just
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They are vicious to one another and she comes home and she'll be crying about something.
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And, you know, we, we commiserate on, on what, what happened, but also say to her, you have
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to get used to this because if you really do want to be in acting, people are going to
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And you have to develop thick skin because not only are they going to say the worst things
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about you, you're going to try out for things and you're going to start in for 20 seconds
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and they're going to say, next, you can't be crushed.
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You know, um, you know, it's funny that you would say that because just this morning, I
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got a wonderful email from a major, uh, talent agent in Los Angeles who starts out by saying,
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bravo, you, I'm a talent manager and that the students are going to be faced with rejection
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They will learn far from you more from you that way than they even realized.
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Um, so I mean, it, it really is, it really is that way.
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Um, I, in, in my opinion, it's a very, very difficult world and you really do have to have
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a very, very thick skin to even have a chance of surviving.
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And it seems as though, I mean, you know, I read one of the things you said to one of these
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girls is there, um, Hey, Shakespeare in the park.
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And it's unclear whether it was her voice, her talent or her color.
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But I will tell you that my daughter was told by an agent, people like you are going to have
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I mean, it is, it reverse discrimination is happening right now.
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Discrimination or whatever happens because fat people, skinny people, white people, black
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Well, you know, I, again, I've worked in professional theater for 30 years and colorblind
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casting was something that was happening 20 years ago.
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You know what, if you, if you were working in Shakespeare, it didn't matter what, what
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color you were or, or what your ethnic heritage or anything was, it had to do with, with your
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Um, and, uh, so I think we've been past this for years and for some reason now it, it's
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I mean, uh, again, this, this idea of, of racism and casting, um, this is a, I think
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It's, it's such a great time for people of color to be working in the theater.
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Um, so, and it's a, it's a great time for all people in, in any kind of entertainment
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If you don't get access at theater, you get access someplace else.
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I mean, you can do anything now with the internet, uh, and, and find your own way.
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And it's a remarkably free world that seemingly just wants to keep putting itself back into
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a bottle of, of, uh, of oppression, uh, everywhere.
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And we still can't wrap our minds around what level of, you know, pandemic of,
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break down this, this might've represented, you know, people just, uh, cause you know,
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a lot of these people are facing, um, a world where who knows what the direction of a theater
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will be and in film and what, well, I mean, what will be the access to work be and casting
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That's the same thing that I go through that same thing that you're going through.
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And not just because of this incident, but because things are changing.
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I don't know if the campus is going to be like the campuses now in 10 years, change is
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And if we expect our universities to be a bubble and protect them, I mean, the one thing it
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should be taught right now is the only thing consistent will be constant change.
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And it's, it's hard, but if your school isn't preparing you for that, they're not preparing
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And this is, you know, this situation is not unique to coastal Carolina.
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Uh, my attorney said, we're seeing as many as six of these a day.
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Sometimes, you know, these types of things, um, Steve, I, uh, I, I, I'm, I'm sorry to hear
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that you feel like you, you might have to wear a, uh, a body cam.
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I, I would encourage you to have videotape on everything anyway.
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Um, but, uh, it's sad that you have to be there and I'm, I'm glad you went back and
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I, and I hope that everybody gets along and you can go back to some sort of normalcy.
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Well, the great thing is at universities, people graduate.
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Uh, he's a theater professor at coastal Carolina university reinstated now over, uh, racism
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charges, uh, in a ridiculous, ridiculous story.