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On today's show, we talk about the horse dewormer thing with Sanjay Gupta and how the news network Cnn lied about me taking the drug ivermectin, and why it's a problem.
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hey it's the friday podcast i'm really excited because stew's on it glenn by the way we should
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point out for breakfast at horse feed it was oatmeal they feed it to horses it was oatmeal
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for breakfast weirdo we get into the horse dewormer thing with sanjay gupta this guy well
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goes on joe rogan because he wants to sell i don't know if it's a book or socks or i have no idea
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he goes on because nobody's watching cnn and he actually is like yeah we shouldn't have said that
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we shouldn't i don't know why they said that did they really say that oh wait until you hear the
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montage of it yeah they really said it bill o'reilly is amazing today and talks to you about
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the real theft of the election i think he's right on this uh and i know i know it's a first it's a
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first and he probably eats oatmeal too horse food for breakfast all on today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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hey some good news if anybody has been waiting mcdonald's are they're finally releasing the
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mcplant burger which it's coming here too by the way to our right in our neighborhood in texas is
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one of the test markets really yeah i mean this if this isn't a i think you need to taste it i'm
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looking at the picture you know how pictures always they always look better than what you
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right okay i want to show you the picture of the mcplant wow that doesn't look like anything i would
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put in my mouth ever it's also a terrible name isn't it mcplant yeah like yeah i mean like
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say what you want about it but like the impossible burger it's kind of a good name it's great yeah it's
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a good name the mcplant yeah like no you want to the whole point of these things is you're supposed
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to forget you're eating plants exactly right oh this looks good so anyway we got that november by
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the way and it is coming right to our neighborhood so we can taste test it on the air now can i ask you
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no well you can't do a i can't oh no i can't no can't no i can't oh you could we could get you
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no no strict strict diet diet the doctor has been saying too much plant in your uh really yeah and
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he was specific i said is that like lettuce he said plant plant we should also point out that
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your doctor is also uh the one saying don't have normal ivermectin have the horse dewormer
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and some of the way rat poison should work well for you too no he's not one of those okay um but uh
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let me let me go there for a second did you hear um on joe rogan sanjay gupta comes
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on and we have that cut please here's sanjay gupta on joe rogan it was a tweet and it was snarky i
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admit it they said you are not a horse you are not a cow stop taking this stuff or something like
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why would you say that when you're talking about a drug that's been given out to billions and billions
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of people a drug that was responsible for one of the inventors of it making the nobel prize
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nobel prize in 2015 yeah yeah a drug that has been shown to stop viral replication in vitro
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you know that right why would they lie and say that's horse dewormer i can afford people medicine
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this is ridiculous it's just a lie i don't think anyone is but don't you think that a lie like that
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is dangerous on a news network when you know that they know they're lying you think i want that's a
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problem that your news network lies well i don't i don't dude what did they say they lied and said i was
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taking horse dewormer first of all it was prescribed to me by a doctor yeah yeah along with
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they shouldn't have said it was a bunch of other medications if you got a human pill because there
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were people that were taking it the veterinary medication and i you're not obviously you got it
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from a doctor so that it shouldn't be called that ivermectin can be a very effective medication
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for parasitic disease does it bother you that the news network you work for
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out and out lied well outright lied about me taking horse dewormer they they shouldn't have
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said that why did they do that i don't know you didn't ask i didn't think you're the medical guy
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over there i didn't ask i should have asked before they did it with such glee no yes i watched
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you know what he said did you hear what he just said i shouldn't have asked before i should have
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asked before i came to do this podcast right that's what he said yeah not i should have asked i should
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have asked before i came to do this podcast here he is with don lemon after that interview he he did
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say something about ivermectin that i think wasn't actually correct about cnn and lying okay ivermectin
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is a drug that is commonly used as a horse dewormer so it is not a lie to say that the drug is used as a
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horse oh my gosh listen to this i i think that's important and it is not approved for covid correct
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that's right that's correct it it is not approved for covid and you're right i mean the fda even put
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out a statement saying you know basically reminding people it was a strange sort of message from the fda
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but that said you're not a horse you're not a cow stop taking this stuff is essentially what they said
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referring to ivermectin now i think what what joe's point that has been approved for humans and but
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not necessarily for covid right yeah that's correct it's been it's been used for a parasitic disease
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for something it's called river blindness and it's been very effective for that but you know just
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because it works for one thing doesn't mean it works for something oh my gosh and you know there's
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still there are studies that show this helps around ivermectin yeah i mean for the most part if you
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look there's disagreement on whether it actually is effective but i mean the guy still oh my gosh
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okay so here's the good news cnn is so worthless right now nobody is watching this that sanjay gupta
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to schlep his books and stuff has to go onto a podcast i told you this maybe four years ago do you
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remember the day that uh joe rogan had elon musk on and the stock went down right because he was
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smoking pot on the air right okay yeah and i remember that day because i i in a commercial break i turn on
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cnn and i hear them talking about it and they're like who's joe rogan who's joe rogan and i thought to
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myself the number one podcast a guy who is sweeping the nation they don't even know it they have
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no clue as to how buried they are and i said on that day it's over podcasts are now leading the way
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here they are they have to go on to joe rogan to schlep a book and take that kind of accurate abuse
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um and then then he goes back with his tail between his legs and he's like well no i mean it
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is a dewormer it is a dewormer yes for horses not for people nobel prize nobel prize and look what
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they're doing yeah these people are amazing and what what lemon is trying to do here is change move you
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move the goal posts right you know right it's yes it could be used and is used for livestock that's
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that's well known however it is also something we require every single person who comes here as a
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refugee to take we require it for them to come in the country because of what it does to parasitic
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disease now there is a disagreement about whether it is effective against covet a lot of doctors don't
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think it is some do the but the but that's not what wrote that's not what the standard was no to
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say he was taking horse dewormer in some really uh outrageous way is to to try to move the goal
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post to something else it's like it's like honestly honestly it's it's like saying why are you eating
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uh food that bunnies eat no it's a mcplant it's bunny food now you can make that point that bunnies
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do eat i think i don't know i have no idea if there's actually any plant in the mcplant but you
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could say it's bunny's food and get away with it and it'd be accurate but that's not what the mcplant
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is right i mean it would be in my life would be in my life i would like be looking for a bunny what
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are there bunnies around here yeah throw it out in the throw it out in the backyard see if we can
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attract some bunnies but that's what they're doing with ivermectin yes it does do that as well but it's
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a people medicine again this is don lemon this is a quote from don lemon talking about joe rogan
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quote he is taking several medications including a drug meant for deworming livestock not true gosh
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listen that is absolutely a lie it is not meant for dis for deworming livestock can be used can be
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used in that way but that's not what it's meant for unbelievable unbelievable uh some of the chyrons
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here uh joe rogan says he has covid taking livestock drug despite warnings unbelievable uh joe rogan announces
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he has covid is taking horse dewormer ivermectin now look it is a it can be used for that so maybe
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technically it's not a libelous situation though the quote he is taking several medications including
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a drug meant for deworming livestock that's ivermectin should be suing for that one yeah
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because that's not only what it's meant for right i mean it's just it's so hypocritical they got caught
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in this this is so great and this is so great do you know you know you have really good interactions
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with people you have a hundred good interactions with people and they lie to you one time do you
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trust them again it's hard right right you shouldn't right that's that you you you you trust is earned
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correct and you betray it what you could have 100 things that you have done and it's been accurate
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you lie to somebody one time and they may not turn away from you they may not dismiss but they will
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question now if you have told 100 things that are true and 100 things that are lies you have no chance
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i mean they do report the truth occasionally they must stumble onto it okay hey it's president joe biden
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accurate and he's here to save the country lie you know what i mean so they have no credibility that's
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why no one is watching them anymore this is great news this is the end of gosh do you remember when
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we left what did i say almost every day the year before we left fox and cnn stew remember every day i would
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say uh uh uh every day i would say we got to get out of here these these companies are what gonna burn
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themselves to the ground yeah yeah every time every time and uh look at here it is they're gone they're
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gone they have no credibility and even some of the networks like fox fox doesn't have the credibility
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it used to tucker carlson does tucker carlson does but when i was there the network had the credibility
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and the individuals also had their own credibility but fox with the audience had an umbrella that it
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could pretty much do no wrong that that umbrella doesn't exist anymore now it is the personalities
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that are there and look i don't know cnn is it going to burn itself to the ground if it if it if
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something burns itself to the ground but no one is around to see the flames does it actually i don't
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know i don't know i don't know i absolutely love this uh so the netflix ceo ted sarandos uh has
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doubled down on the defense of dave chappelle now i'm sure this has nothing to do with 140 million
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dollars that they paid dave chappelle to make these specials okay i'm sure it has nothing to do with that
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i'm sure it has nothing to do with how wildly popular those specials are but they came out
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because there's a lot of people uh the transgender employees at facebook uh and the activists have
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come out and they are they're walking off the job they're saying i'm not gonna i'm not giving my money
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to to netflix anymore and uh wow ted sarandos has taken a hard stand out of the goodness of his heart
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and he believes in you know freedom of speech and all of that and uh he said the activist claims that
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chappelle's humor was the equivalent of real world harm is false i recognize that distinguishing between
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commentary and harm is hard especially with stand-up comedy which exists to push the boundaries some
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people find the art of stand-up to be mean-spirited but our members enjoy it and it's an important part
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of our content offering is it is it really or do you just know you're on the losing side of this
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and your programming is really starting to suck and you just spent 140 million dollars on it
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that's what it is because i can guarantee they're not going to put steven crowder on
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they would never say that about any comedian that you know was an up-and-coming guy and it's also
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i'm not even true by their own actions i mean i would agree with what he said right wouldn't you
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yeah yeah that's like 100 the standard should be yes for comedians can basically go wherever they
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want to go and they should have real i mean look commentary everyone should have everyone should
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have it but really there's a wider yes if anything for comedy correct it's supposed to be challenging
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in that way yeah but like they did a show a few years ago called uh with bob and david which is a
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sketch comedy show it was i love that basically an extra few episodes of the you know the one of the
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greatest uh sketch comedy shows of all time called mr show with bob and david which was an hbo show
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really good bob odenkirk and david cross correct and they did a an episode of that show where they
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have like it's kind of like a mock of like you know the the libertarian uh thing where you're like
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everyone's you're going through like a police checkpoint yeah and you're filming yourself and
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like talking to the camera you don't have to give them your license it was like one of those type of
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things and at the end of the sketch david cross who's incredibly liberal by the way like one of the
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liberal people in the world like like going on stage in his in his in texas uh on his uh on his
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own personal comedy tour blasting seriously like no funny stuff like if you voted for trump or if
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you're you know if you're a texan get out of here i mean he's way over the edge yeah he did an entire
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uh tour i believe just basically bashing trump was the entire thing right at the end of this sketch
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he is trying to prove something about race right right where he shows that the cops always come after
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people black people and he does it in blackface they deleted the sketch from the show the entire
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sketch it's actually making a liberal point and they deleted the sketch from netflix so did you see
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the jave chappelle special yes i did okay i mean it's filthy awful some of it is filthy amazingly good
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but yes yes some of it is amazingly filthy awful like i can't believe anyone's ever thought that let
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alone said those words that's right um but it is incredibly heartwarming at the end oh yeah yeah the
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the story he tells about transgender his transgender friend is like it will bring you to tears it's so
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beautiful it is amazing and and yet nope nope not good enough this is the best of the glenbeck program
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you know those irish he's probably stumbling in drunk mr bill o'reilly hello bill well that's nice
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beck thank you very much um i'm gonna have to um woke you yeah oh i'm sorry oh boy billoreilly.com
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attacking the irish oh there it is yeah it is totally unacceptable i'm offended yes but i'm the
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elite so i can get away with it mr o'reilly well we're gonna have to have a petition and we'll
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perhaps come to your house and burn it down okay all right all right is that what the petition does
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um all right bill what was the big story of the week mark zuckerberg which is not being reported
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mark zuckerberg this is huge mark zuckerberg spent 420 million dollars trying to influence the 2020
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election and he was successful and you cannot find this story being reported this is so important and
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so scandalous i can't believe it so tell me the story because i read the story and i i never got to
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it on on air tell me you're i understand i understand that you're very busy and but if you
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watch me on the no spin news every night that is your key i hire people to do that okay so let's walk
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through it there are laws in every single state against electioneering at polling places that means
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when you go to vote to a polling place there can't be somebody there screaming at you to vote for a
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certain person correct or giving you advice or giving you a hot dog or anything right right okay
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that is against the law but if you have a mail-in ballot there are no restrictions for someone coming
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to your house and actually filling out the ballot for you it's crazy putting it in the envelope taking
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it with them right it's called bundling all right and bringing it to the polling place in your county
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so this number one that's where you start that's why the left wants the mail-in ballots universal
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because there's no limitations on possible corruption do we all understand yep it's to understand is he
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still awake no he's so he he fell asleep the minute i said bill o'reilly okay enter mark zuckerberg's
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the major domo at facebook zuckerberg and his wife donate a colossal 420 million dollars to
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two non-profits they are the center for technology and civic life ctcl and the center for election
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innovation innovation and research c-e-i-r so they get this money and it's all legal now these non-profits
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say they're non-partisan which is a lie they are far left people and what they do is hire vote
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navigators who are paid very well in the last election trump versus viden you'll all remember
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that all right these vote navigators operated in arizona georgia michigan north carolina
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pennsylvania texas and virginia wow those were the states targeted by these two non-profits using
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420 million dollars to pay the vote navigators what do the navigators do quote they assist voters
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potentially going to their front doors to answer questions and assist in ballot curing and witness
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absentee ballot signatures oh my gosh okay first of all what's ballot curing what wait wait what's the
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definition of ballot curing all right i'll get to that all right but the quote i just read you comes
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from the two non-partisans they admit it they send people out to houses to show you who to vote for
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ballot curing is if you make a mistake on a mail-in ballot they correct the mistake oh my gosh
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so your ballot is not thrown out go ahead still there you go and that's not necessarily always
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a bad thing right like it's the idea if you make a mistake the government can come and say hey
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like you made this mistake you returned it in two weeks early you have plenty of time to fix it do
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you want to fix it if it's a non-partisan thing yeah it's not bad ballot curing isn't necessarily
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always horrible but if you're doing it this way we're sending partisan people out to do it i mean
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of all the vote navigators of all of them only one county only one out of all of those states
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went for trump every other county where the vote navigators navigated shockingly went for biden
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in a huge way which threw the vote count to biden in very closely contested states like arizona like
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georgia like wisconsin i'm sorry i don't think i mentioned wisconsin in that crew they were in there
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as well okay those were all the states where there were questions where the vote navigators run by these
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two organizations showed up okay so o'reilly takes this story and runs with it last night
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and after that i got on a plane and i went to mar-a-lago and i interviewed trump
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and if you want to see a little bit of it i posted already on billoreilly.com
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okay that'll run on monday night on the no spin news and all of our other affiliates
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okay i asked trump about this okay i say are you aware of this and he was okay and he said well
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zuckerberg broke the law and i said no he didn't he can do this but every state has to understand what
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he did and pass laws against it just like the electioneering laws at the polling places now that's
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a fascinating discussion but here's the kicker trump had giuliani and sydney uh powell and all
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these other people the pillow guy everybody run around screaming about the dominion voting machines
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the dead people voting the illegal aliens voting screaming screaming screaming screaming all right
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and still to this day millions of americans believe that was the fraud it was not there was
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some of that but not to the extent of this this was the voter fraud
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navigators going to the homes of mostly poor mostly
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out of it people and telling them to vote for biden and actually filling out the ballots for them
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and then taking the ballots and zuckerberg financed it do we all get this are we all getting it
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because you're not going to hear it on the corrupt corporate media this was the fraud
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now after i explained it to donald trump and that's a very good exchange that you're going to want to
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watch is that the clip is that the clip uh no i'm saving that clip well i got buku clips yeah okay um
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you know about afghanistan about biden okay about millie you name it but anyway this story is so important
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and so powerful but i will tell you most americans are never even gonna hear it which is why we are now
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living in red china because the information flow is cut off even the morons on fox news aren't gonna
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cover this because they're not smart enough to get it i'm surprised i i miss this um bill i saw this
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story and i was so tired of hearing about zuckerberg and all of this stuff that i just passed it thank you
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for bringing this to my attention and to america's attention beck i have to say this i'm giving you a pass
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on it because you're a genius for putting me on your program every week that's the counterbalance
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right okay and all i get is shut up yeah i mean and i think that was well deserved
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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sarah tesky she uh is retired u.s marine corps she is an advisor for the human first coalition
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it's a group of people that are really doing some good work in afghanistan uh and helping people they
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have already taken out i think about 800 wallet sarah tell you uh hi sarah how are you really good
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good morning glad um i i first of all thank you for everything you guys are doing in afghanistan
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you're really making a difference well and so are you and your team thank you for all you've done
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you're welcome so you have uh about 800 american citizens that you have taken out right uh we have
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actually taken out to date over 1200 americans excellent 6700 other individuals 6700 fantastic
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fantastic okay so tell me about um the the joe biden afghan interpreter
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what happened how did he get out well first of all we didn't want to steal him from you
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no no we didn't we were worried about him because we had put him we had put him up and then he just
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ghosted us and the emails are all like where did he go is he okay that's that's how it's marines work
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yeah i received a concern concerning email that his handler was frustrated and just really struggling
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with bringing him to safety and for us it's all about human life i honestly in my in full transparency
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when i reviewed the case him being you know president biden's interpreter i never first saw this
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garnishing so much media attention yeah in the larger portfolio it was such a footnote to such a greater
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story i agree and for us it's about saving human life so when i got the case and saw that he had such
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a large family and children and the threat he was under we pushed it up through our movement team and
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were able to move him immediately and get him out of country and bring him to safety and then the media
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and everything started to uh learn about this information we've we've predominantly stayed out of the
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the media to focus just on the rescue sure and i felt it was important though to engage with people
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like yourself and others to tell our story because we have to be the voice of so many who are still in
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country who still need to be saved and i it is shameful the way the media has just moved on they've just
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moved on and there are so many people i mean i don't know about your safe houses but ours are still full up
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we're still in there actively trying to get people out and planes are flying out every day with with
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people on from the nazarene fund i'm sure you're doing the same thing we are we have over 3 000
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people still in safe houses geez and it's getting worse and where there was a bombing in kabul just a
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little while ago um i mean it's getting worse and worse there it is there there are definitely
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it's a very complex operational environment and the intricacy and danger of the rescue missions
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on through transitioning them into lily pads and third world nations is especially challenging with
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the legalities and the hurdles um just miraculously that we have to that we have to seemingly navigate
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people not only get out and bring them to safety but then build a life and future for them so
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something that's really important to us and i know you and your organization share this same
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viewpoint is we don't want to pull them out and dump them so yeah for me that doesn't help that
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only causes more problems elsewhere absolutely so i say this all the time in the work i've done for 15
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years in anti-human trafficking the rescue is sexy everybody wants to be part of saving lives nobody wants to roll
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up their sleeves and restore innocence restore lives help them start a new life outside of their former
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nation country and these people have left with nothing glenn and it is our responsibility if we move them
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and take them that we give them an opportunity not only to succeed for themselves but that we're also not
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putting a burden on other socioeconomic cultures yes where we leave them i mean we i mean even here in america
00:31:13.620
they shouldn't be you know they shouldn't just be dumped onto our streets that's that's unfair it's
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it's inhuman in it's not humane to do this so so sarah i have a really bad feeling i talked about this the
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other day um you know you talked about the lily pad countries i mean i personally talked to leaders of
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state that's and they were like you got to get these people out of here we're taking so many we're taking
00:31:42.340
more than we promised i'm like i know i know we have countries that will take them so they won't be
00:31:47.300
there long we'll start moving them well the state department has sabotaged almost all of our
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relationships with other countries and we're trying now to get them out anywhere um and having a hard
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time and i thought gee i wonder if in the end uh after the state department has made it so impossible to
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get them any place else i wonder if at the end they all are just moved here to the united states
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wouldn't that be remarkable wouldn't it be remarkable so remarkable yeah and uh seems kind
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of like what what might happen doesn't it is it just me i hope so here's to hoping i'm not going to
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lose faith i i tell my team all the time you never can lose hope you never can lose faith because we are
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their light and we are their only light of hope and we must continue to shine for them it's critical
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because we are all they have well these dark hours i will tell you the ones that we have moved and i
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know you're the same i mean we vet we vet vet vet vet vet vet um and it's not like you know the united
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states government that put five guys on that we're going to take over the c-17 did you read about that
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i mean how did these guys even get on board the plane you know i mean it's crazy and i i wonder
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about all these people i know our people i don't know everybody else's people and that's a lot of
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people that would be coming to the united states a lot yes yes it would yes it would within our
00:33:20.420
organization the the majority of us are either um prior serving government or military members
00:33:29.060
so with that came a lot of incredible and strong relationships yes and we have been able to leverage
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those to actually vet every single person we take out through the state department and through dod right
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so we are doing that not only on the back end with the united states of america but we are also doing
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that in the accepting nations through their foreign ministers of travel and um their foreign ministers
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of um affairs yes for us it is critical as individuals who have served to make sure we're
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doing this right and above bar and not just taking anybody and everyone who wants a flight out and to me
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that's the the other piece to this we have so many organizations that are well-intentioned
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but but but are lacking the experience in this operational environment and don't understand the
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complexity of mass meal operations and to me i would like to see a greater unification of efforts
00:34:28.580
and and and understanding people's strengths and weaknesses so we can lessen lessen the load for
00:34:35.700
some and also increases increase the resources for others who are are doing it right you know i i hope and
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and please feel free i know we're on the air but i don't have any fear of you know if you have
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something that that we should be aware of please tell us i i know that we've tried to do that you know
00:34:53.460
one of the things that we have we had access to airplanes and access to cash we didn't necessarily
00:34:59.220
especially at the beginning have access to people on the ground and i really at the time i was like this
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is this is great because other people have people on the ground and they don't have access to the
00:35:10.820
airplane or the money let's work together and i i think that's really really good um is there is
00:35:18.500
there anything that we're doing that you see and you'd be like i wish you guys would do this more or
00:35:24.100
wish you guys would stop doing this absolutely not glenn your organization and human first have
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actually been working together unbeknownst to probably a lot of people for a long time and it's been
00:35:35.700
our absolute honor and privilege to do so uh you have so many remarkable heroes and individuals who
00:35:42.500
have been doing extraordinary work and we have over 100 ground team security forces so we were really
00:35:50.740
able to support you in that regard and you were really able to support us with the the lift with the
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planes so it has been a beautiful synergy and and i think in in all the negative i think we have to
00:36:03.300
sometimes look at the silver lining and i think we have to see through this how this entire effort
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the bigger picture underscores the beauty of humanity and the power and efficiency of public
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and private partnerships and i understand there's been a lot of popularity and in hitting on that this
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is about the veterans who served in afghanistan but i have seen church groups ngos elected officials
00:36:26.980
veterans currently serving members along with corporations and foreign entities yeah come
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together from 8 000 miles away virtually yeah all in the name of saving human lives i mean and that
00:36:42.100
beautiful beautiful tapestry is is is just something incredible that has been woven in
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in literally two months time which is beautiful when you have a talk radio host rodeo clown and the
00:36:57.540
prime minister of pakistan finding a bridge to help that's remarkable i mean that's just
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it's remarkable yeah and we talk about we i mean there's a lot of bad at least that i have to say
00:37:13.860
about the state department but i have to tell you i've also seen state department people that are
00:37:18.100
working currently in the state department bust their ass to do the right thing agreed agreed agreed
00:37:25.700
it's it's remarkable i have literally had people in state department call me and say can we just pray
00:37:30.660
over you and your team can we just um pray for all the incredible work you're doing and we hope it gets
00:37:37.780
better so again i tell i i always say this everyone teases me because i must save it 300 times a day
00:37:44.100
unlimited grace folks unlimited grace we are we are working through an unprecedented situation
00:37:50.980
in unprecedented times and unless you have walked with these afghan allies and refugees have walked
00:37:58.260
unlimited grace because no one unless they've lived through it can understand the uncertainty and
00:38:04.500
fear that they themselves are enduring at this very moment i i just did an interview with um
00:38:09.620
um a family that was brought here to the united states that we we got out and uh and we worked with
00:38:16.340
so many partners on it i know i hate when i say we got them out i don't mean it that way we all work
00:38:21.140
together on it um but uh uh they were here to tell their story and i have to tell you it is
00:38:29.220
i don't think americans can even imagine what it's like to be a woman that was walking down the street
00:38:36.660
when the taliban rolled into town i mean it's just no no it's remarkable it is and i think what
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i think the human side of this is remarkable so our we have handlers and individuals as i'm sure you do
00:38:51.620
that talk to these families to to the fathers to the mothers to the children every day yeah and that
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beauty that that deep-seated relationship that trust that has been built over phones is one of
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the most extraordinary experiences and journeys i've ever been on in 25 years of of being serving
00:39:12.500
this nation and um recently i was in dc i had the honor of of addressing several members of congress
00:39:19.380
and while i was there i had the unique pleasure of meeting the nephew of a family we had just rescued
00:39:25.460
and to see him play with my kids and hug me and cry together and the power we had been walking this
00:39:31.780
together since before the withdrawal and we were able to bring their their family to safety a couple
00:39:37.540
weeks ago and just the relief of knowing his family was finally safe and the ability of us to work
00:39:45.140
together to make that happen is something that is even difficult to describe the power of that the
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power of saving human lives is is beautiful and i think on the other end of that though is also the
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pressure because every single time we move we talk about the rescue all the time but to get there
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you know navigating you know our our allies the language barriers the fear moving them to checkpoints
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and every single moment of these sometimes 24 hour long journeys wondering did i make the right
00:40:18.020
decision to move this one oh my gosh sarah i can't tell you i don't know how you do it i had to stop
00:40:23.940
i had to stop because i was getting involved in seeing the movements and stuff and you know you
00:40:28.820
wouldn't get the call or what something would happen you'd be like oh my god did i make the wrong
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decision here did i just get somebody killed it is terrifying terrifying it is definitely and it's
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some days emotionally depleting yeah it is uh sarah i can't thank you enough uh and i hope we get a
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chance to meet sometime and and uh and just hear about all the success stories that you and human
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first coalition have done you're you're remarkable people thank you so much well it's an honor thank
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you for all you and your team have done and i think it's just important to remember that we're not just
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saving human lives we are truly changing the trajectory of history for generations to come and
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that's what keeps me going amen thank you sarah i appreciate it uh by the way if you want to make a
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donation um this is a really good group of people um it's human first coalition dot org
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human first coalition dot org they're one of the partners uh that we work with at the nazarene fund
00:41:28.980
really really good people you can follow them on twitter at human first afg as in afghanistan