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00:00:30.000 Everything that we are saying goodbye to from this administration on Monday and the turning of the page.

00:00:38.480 What we should be thinking about this weekend and on Monday.

00:00:42.860 Also, an incredible movie that was turned down both by HBO and Netflix.

00:00:48.320 It's called Hot Shots, and it's all about the California wildfires made before this one.

00:00:54.100 And you'll understand, once you hear from Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann, exactly why they turned that down and why you should watch it now.

00:01:03.300 And one of my favorite people in the world, Brad Meltzer, the JFK conspiracy.

00:01:08.860 He's just discovered there was a hit on JFK just before he became president.

00:01:15.020 And you've never heard of it.

00:01:17.800 Why?

00:01:18.380 Brad Meltzer joins me on today's podcast.

00:01:21.020 Burn a launcher.

00:01:21.800 I am a gun owner.

00:01:23.600 I believe in the Second Amendment.

00:01:25.380 I believe in being prepared for every situation.

00:01:27.700 But I also know that, according to law enforcement, 99% of all situations where force may be required doesn't require lethal force.

00:01:35.740 Do you know why Burn a launcher was first designed?

00:01:38.500 The guy who designed the Burn a launcher was in a road rage incident.

00:01:44.040 Some guy just was just raging against him.

00:01:47.980 And he pulls over to the side thinking that the guy would just pass him.

00:01:53.000 He didn't.

00:01:53.560 He gets out of his car.

00:01:54.600 The guy who designed Burn a launcher first went for his gun and said, no, I don't want to get into a gunfight.

00:01:59.940 Well, he was beaten to an inch of his life on the side of the road by this guy.

00:02:04.320 He never again.

00:02:05.760 Burn a B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Glenn.

00:02:09.360 Burn a dot com slash Glenn.

00:02:11.580 Go there now.

00:02:22.800 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:27.900 Three days, Glenn.

00:02:30.140 Three days.

00:02:30.680 Three days.

00:02:32.220 The fundamental transformation of America.

00:02:35.140 Yeah.

00:02:35.340 No more of this guy.

00:02:36.780 No more of her.

00:02:37.720 No more of them.

00:02:39.220 You know, but I think it's a lot bigger than that.

00:02:41.380 I was thinking about this today when I was driving in that this administration exiting is not just another exit, you know, exit of a president.

00:02:52.000 It's not the same.

00:02:53.020 It wasn't like this in 2016, although we hoped it would be, but it is this time because the people and the feeling in the country, even among Democrats, is different now.

00:03:07.100 We're about to turn the page and enter a new app, a new era or a new chapter.

00:03:13.140 We're really standing on the end of the day.

00:03:16.560 Monday is a moment far larger than politics, but it's only the beginning.

00:03:21.820 It's not just the end of a presidency, not the changing of the guard.

00:03:26.760 It is truly the end of an era, an era marked by madness, by confusion, by division, distortion, a deafening cacophony of chaos.

00:03:38.720 All of that has drowned out reason and common sense, and it, you know, it didn't it didn't start yesterday as much as the left tried to make this all about words by twisting meaning, redefining words or using words in ways, quite honestly, to use their words and miss this or malinformation.

00:04:03.160 This era is not going to be remembered by the words, but by the actions of those who spoke the millions of those meaningless words.

00:04:14.540 We can see right now the destruction of our economy, our security.

00:04:20.700 We can see that in really, really clear terms in the homes and the hearths of California, that it is the actions of people that matter more than simple words by their by their fruits.

00:04:39.040 You shall know them.

00:04:41.080 The fruit of this tree is rotted and people now are beginning to see that.

00:04:47.720 Now, like I said, this didn't begin four years ago.

00:04:52.000 It turned it up to volume number 10.

00:04:57.100 But this has been brewing for decades.

00:04:59.980 It has been in our institutions far longer than any of us realize.

00:05:07.040 Metastasizing in our culture, our institutions and our hearts and hardening our hearts.

00:05:14.640 It is an era that we leave on Monday that put truth itself on trial.

00:05:23.180 Can you even define what truth is anymore?

00:05:27.680 We went into this place that was so absurd, we couldn't define something as fundamental and self-evident as,

00:05:38.320 can you tell me what a woman is? 1.00

00:05:40.680 Historians are going to look back on this last era that we're now leaving as pure madness.

00:05:48.440 But it's also a time when it took everything in people to question the powerful mob,

00:05:59.460 to speak the truth that you believe it was a risk that, at first, far too many people wouldn't do

00:06:08.520 because they were afraid of being shouted down, canceled, or much, much worse.

00:06:13.820 Common decency, the once unspoken bond that united us, was thrown out the window.

00:06:22.560 It became not only unfashionable, but absolutely unrecognizable.

00:06:28.040 And everybody was at each other's throats.

00:06:30.080 Common sense, our old friend, just dismissed.

00:06:33.520 Exiled, seemingly, to the fringes of our society as if it were dangerous now,

00:06:38.980 or just wildly outdated, and we know that.

00:06:41.880 We didn't know that yesterday, but we know that today.

00:06:45.360 And I mean literally yesterday.

00:06:47.480 How many words changed?

00:06:48.720 How many things, concepts, huge truths that we knew?

00:06:52.400 We would wake up one day and it was completely being dismissed.

00:06:57.940 And you'd be like, where did this come from?

00:07:00.120 We're leaving a time of breathtaking hypocrisy,

00:07:08.260 where those who deny corruption themselves take bribes from hostile nations,

00:07:13.880 where the righteous call for unity while sowing division.

00:07:18.660 This era, racism has been repackaged and sold back to us under the guise of anti-racism.

00:07:25.800 Hatred, we're told, is perfectly fine as long as it's aimed at the right people.

00:07:33.360 And those right people may be the wrong people tomorrow.

00:07:39.460 Faith in God has been replaced by faith in climate models, sexuality, identity.

00:07:46.440 In this last era that we're now getting ready to leave,

00:07:50.960 all of those religions had their own dogmas.

00:07:54.400 Their high priest, their rituals, and above all, their lack of forgiveness.

00:08:01.180 Meaning that they were anti-Christ teachings.

00:08:06.680 But somehow or another, many of our churches embrace them as the message of Christ.

00:08:12.300 There cannot be Christ in any message that doesn't include forgiveness.

00:08:18.740 But this isn't where the story ends.

00:08:20.640 Because we thought before this election, this might be where our story ends.

00:08:28.200 But here is the really unbelievable news.

00:08:33.260 God stepped in.

00:08:34.940 And if you don't recognize that, there is no hope for us.

00:08:38.220 God stepped in and did something none of us could do.

00:08:42.040 First of all, he saved the president's life twice.

00:08:46.220 And if you think that was a secret service, you're nuts.

00:08:50.300 God saved him twice.

00:08:53.240 God changed him.

00:08:56.740 And suddenly our society is waking up.

00:09:02.320 This guy, who's not our savior, won.

00:09:09.100 And people started flocking to him and willing to take bold stands and say,

00:09:16.020 you know what, all this crap, it's wrong.

00:09:18.920 So this is not the end of an era alone.

00:09:24.380 It's the beginning of the end of that era.

00:09:28.160 The end of unreasonable hatred of others.

00:09:31.360 Not because they look different.

00:09:33.960 But simply because they voted differently.

00:09:37.120 They didn't think differently.

00:09:38.840 You know, it was nothing about actual diversity.

00:09:43.280 It was all about voting.

00:09:44.920 It's the end of unquestioning obedience to the so-called media and experts

00:09:54.060 who demand that we follow them without question into the slaughterhouse,

00:09:59.740 hoping, I guess, hoping against hope, many of us,

00:10:02.540 that if we would just comply, our turn on the chopping block would never come.

00:10:08.660 It's the end of the era of my body, my choice.

00:10:11.820 In everything else other than killing your baby.

00:10:18.240 You can kill your baby, my body, my choice. 0.99

00:10:21.440 Well, it's not your body that's being killed.

00:10:23.580 It's the baby's body.

00:10:24.780 Made no sense.

00:10:26.700 But boy, oh boy.

00:10:28.940 Not with masks.

00:10:30.660 Not with vaccines.

00:10:32.680 Not with the basic right to just use your legs and leave your home.

00:10:37.280 It's an end of an era where we have to ask ourselves,

00:10:45.340 whose side is this government on?

00:10:48.200 Who is actually running this thing?

00:10:51.080 What is the actual plan that our leaders have?

00:10:55.900 How is this helping the average American?

00:10:59.880 Who is actually the president?

00:11:02.160 That ends on Monday.

00:11:06.720 It's the beginning of the end.

00:11:09.080 There's a lot of work to do.

00:11:11.720 But it's the beginning of the end of diversity twisted into a weapon

00:11:15.120 where diversity of thought, values, and spirit were just disregarded,

00:11:20.380 replaced by a narrow, suffocating dogma

00:11:23.400 that demanded conformity in all ways.

00:11:27.000 Even if you were conforming yesterday,

00:11:30.240 and then somehow or another through the ether,

00:11:32.960 the mob decided what was true yesterday is no longer true today,

00:11:37.560 the mob would get you

00:11:39.760 on anything you disagreed with.

00:11:45.100 It's the end of the era where dissent was met not with debate,

00:11:50.240 but with just now meaningless labels,

00:11:54.180 racist, fascist, bigot. 0.84

00:11:57.000 I think it's really important that all of us recognize

00:12:01.820 this is not about Democrats.

00:12:04.820 There are a lot of Democrats that actually woke up.

00:12:10.560 It's not about Democrats.

00:12:12.020 It's not about Republicans.

00:12:13.320 I think both of them stink, quite honestly.

00:12:15.460 I do.

00:12:15.880 And that's the message of this new administration.

00:12:18.740 And you see it with the diversity of people

00:12:21.940 that are actually in this administration.

00:12:24.100 We don't agree in lockstep on everything.

00:12:27.860 Far from it.

00:12:29.920 The establishment and the Democrats and the Republicans do.

00:12:34.480 But this isn't about Democrat, Republicans, liberals,

00:12:37.620 conservative, independent.

00:12:39.280 This is truly about something much, much deeper

00:12:42.840 that begins Monday.

00:12:44.920 It's older and far more grander than a political party.

00:12:53.560 It is truly about the rebirth or the rediscovering

00:12:59.380 of what it truly means to be free.

00:13:02.220 Monday marks the rebirth of something absolutely extraordinary.

00:13:10.780 Things we used to find self-evident.

00:13:12.680 The freedoms guaranteed just in our First Amendment.

00:13:16.220 The freedom to question our government.

00:13:18.860 They work for us.

00:13:20.260 We don't work for them.

00:13:22.000 The freedom to speak our mind.

00:13:24.100 Even the most unpleasant and disruptive things,

00:13:29.600 you are allowed to say.

00:13:31.820 The freedom to worship.

00:13:35.080 To live out your beliefs.

00:13:37.520 To be who you are without demanding that others speak,

00:13:42.420 affirm, or even accept your truth.

00:13:45.500 You know, the one thing that we have forgotten in this last era

00:13:50.600 that I hope we are remembering

00:13:52.260 is that this nation wasn't built by people 0.72

00:13:54.920 who all walked in lockstep.

00:13:56.780 They didn't agree on everything.

00:13:57.900 In fact, far from it.

00:13:59.680 It was built by people who often vehemently

00:14:02.880 disagreed on the right path forward.

00:14:05.280 But they shared the common commitment

00:14:07.800 to respecting each other's rights

00:14:10.140 and fulfilling their own responsibilities.

00:14:13.860 It was built on the idea

00:14:17.140 that disagreement,

00:14:18.720 when handled with humility and respect,

00:14:21.280 makes us stronger, not weaker.

00:14:23.960 Diversity of thought is important.

00:14:29.380 Diversity of skin color doesn't matter. 1.00

00:14:33.640 And so, as we say farewell

00:14:35.940 to an era of absolute chaos,

00:14:39.980 it's really important that we don't say goodbye

00:14:43.640 in anger or bitterness,

00:14:45.620 and that is hard.

00:14:48.500 We can't alienate our neighbors

00:14:50.780 or assume the worst of those

00:14:52.260 who see the world differently

00:14:53.780 if we agree on the rebirth

00:14:57.140 of the Bill of Rights

00:14:59.300 and each responsibility

00:15:02.540 that is tied to those rights.

00:15:06.800 Monday, I hope we recognize

00:15:08.400 that this is an end of an era this weekend,

00:15:11.260 and Monday is an invitation to rebuild,

00:15:16.680 to restore, to renew.

00:15:19.920 An era, a golden era.

00:15:24.020 An era that is dawning

00:15:26.180 just in front of all of us,

00:15:27.880 and it belongs to all of us,

00:15:29.340 not just those who won an election

00:15:31.320 or share my view or your view.

00:15:33.780 It's an era that can only succeed

00:15:36.760 if we remember the lessons of the past

00:15:38.900 and commit to something better

00:15:40.440 to restore hope,

00:15:42.040 not just in our institutions,

00:15:43.980 but in each other.

00:15:45.720 Renew our faith,

00:15:46.720 not just in God,

00:15:48.020 though that's vital,

00:15:49.500 but also in the idea

00:15:50.400 that people,

00:15:51.320 flawed though they are,

00:15:53.600 can be capable of incredible good.

00:15:56.800 Seek restoration,

00:15:58.040 not just of our economy

00:15:59.220 and our government,

00:16:01.040 but of our hearts,

00:16:02.200 of our communities,

00:16:03.360 of our families,

00:16:05.200 our shared understanding

00:16:06.540 of what it means to be human

00:16:08.360 and to be free.

00:16:14.520 This weekend,

00:16:15.260 I want you to bid farewell

00:16:16.940 to all of the chaos.

00:16:19.640 It's the beginning of the end.

00:16:21.720 There will be more chaos as we go.

00:16:25.120 But as we lay it down,

00:16:26.820 leave it behind,

00:16:27.780 walk forward,

00:16:29.220 leave your fear behind,

00:16:31.620 walk in courage,

00:16:32.840 not in hatred,

00:16:33.780 but in love,

00:16:34.860 because the truth is

00:16:36.540 this country has faced

00:16:37.700 darker days than these.

00:16:39.240 I didn't think we'd make it here,

00:16:40.920 gang.

00:16:42.040 But every time,

00:16:43.660 this country seems to

00:16:44.820 find the light

00:16:46.440 just at the end.

00:16:48.960 And we found it.

00:16:50.940 But it's just flickering,

00:16:53.520 still so fragile

00:16:55.020 in mighty gusts of wind.

00:16:59.220 But what will happen

00:17:02.000 is not because of a president

00:17:03.460 or Congress or a court.

00:17:04.780 It will all happen

00:17:06.180 because of you.

00:17:08.700 So don't wait for anybody else.

00:17:10.900 Lead the way.

00:17:12.980 Be the one who chooses

00:17:14.040 faith over fear,

00:17:15.340 courage over conformity,

00:17:17.380 love over hatred.

00:17:18.580 Let's be the ones

00:17:20.340 who our words

00:17:21.220 are meaningless,

00:17:22.560 but our action

00:17:23.780 speaks volumes.

00:17:25.540 The one that shows

00:17:26.500 the world

00:17:26.860 that freedom actually works,

00:17:28.280 not because it's easy,

00:17:29.920 but because

00:17:31.060 it is

00:17:32.440 right.

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00:17:36.280 When you put your hand

00:17:37.520 over your heart,

00:17:38.200 what do you feel?

00:17:39.900 What's that

00:17:40.340 beat,

00:17:41.060 beat,

00:17:41.260 beat beneath your hand?

00:17:43.160 That's how you know

00:17:43.960 you're alive.

00:17:45.720 Expecting moms

00:17:46.680 when they go in

00:17:49.180 for an ultrasound

00:17:50.660 or they go in

00:17:51.220 for an abortion,

00:17:53.060 they've been taught

00:17:55.720 to ignore

00:17:56.420 the beating heart.

00:17:58.240 But when they see

00:17:59.460 an ultrasound

00:18:00.260 of their unborn child,

00:18:02.040 not just a glob

00:18:03.040 of cells,

00:18:03.800 but a beating heart

00:18:04.740 and a brain

00:18:05.200 and arms and legs,

00:18:06.480 that changes them.

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00:18:52.720 Now,

00:18:53.280 back to the podcast.

00:18:54.660 You're listening to the best

00:18:56.360 of the Glenn Beck program.

00:19:02.440 Brad Meltzer is with me.

00:19:04.280 He and his co-author,

00:19:06.480 Josh Mensch,

00:19:07.580 have just released

00:19:08.860 a new book called

00:19:09.540 The JFK Conspiracy,

00:19:11.620 The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy,

00:19:13.760 and Why It Failed.

00:19:15.320 Brad,

00:19:15.720 as always,

00:19:16.120 it's good to see you.

00:19:16.920 Always good to see you,

00:19:17.700 my friend.

00:19:18.560 So,

00:19:19.100 let's start with,

00:19:21.720 I mean,

00:19:21.980 kind of where we are

00:19:22.880 right now.

00:19:24.020 I talked to

00:19:25.700 Kash Patel

00:19:27.980 eight months ago,

00:19:29.760 and when he was at DNI,

00:19:32.280 when he was at DNI,

00:19:33.420 he said he saw

00:19:34.480 some of the things.

00:19:35.100 He didn't tell me

00:19:35.580 what it was.

00:19:36.060 He said,

00:19:37.500 but he saw the Kennedy stuff

00:19:39.880 and elsewhere,

00:19:41.320 and he said,

00:19:42.500 you know,

00:19:43.380 if people see it,

00:19:44.360 they would understand

00:19:45.340 why it has been

00:19:47.140 kept quiet.

00:19:48.580 He said,

00:19:48.940 I don't agree with it,

00:19:49.720 but you would understand.

00:19:52.240 Do you think

00:19:53.140 we're going to find,

00:19:54.180 get the full disclosure

00:19:56.360 this time?

00:19:58.120 We were promised it

00:19:59.000 when Trump first

00:19:59.920 took office.

00:20:00.560 Over and over.

00:20:01.020 Over and over.

00:20:01.760 I sit on the board

00:20:03.120 of the National Archives

00:20:04.060 Foundation,

00:20:04.740 as you know,

00:20:05.960 and believe me,

00:20:07.640 we all want it.

00:20:08.960 Everyone there wants it.

00:20:10.180 And I will say this,

00:20:11.780 I don't think,

00:20:12.740 I actually don't think

00:20:13.620 there's some smoking gun,

00:20:14.920 and here's why.

00:20:16.420 Because Jack Ruby

00:20:18.140 killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

00:20:20.080 Right.

00:20:20.220 And the moment he did that,

00:20:21.860 he took away

00:20:22.420 the one eyewitness

00:20:23.400 who actually was there

00:20:24.940 and knew what happened.

00:20:25.720 So you can find

00:20:26.580 all these other things,

00:20:27.420 but it will never

00:20:28.000 answer the question,

00:20:29.740 what is Lee Harvey Oswald

00:20:31.540 doing in Russia

00:20:32.620 at the height

00:20:33.340 of the Cold War?

00:20:35.200 Who do we ask that to?

00:20:36.840 He's the guy

00:20:37.480 going there

00:20:38.080 and doing it.

00:20:39.240 And the fact that no,

00:20:40.980 here's the other thing

00:20:41.700 that I always rely on,

00:20:43.380 deathbed confessions.

00:20:45.060 I'm obsessed

00:20:45.860 with deathbed confessions.

00:20:47.360 If you look at Watergate

00:20:49.060 and who Deep Throat was,

00:20:51.820 Bob Wood was going

00:20:52.780 to take it to the grave,

00:20:54.100 the head of the Washington Post

00:20:54.940 was going to take it

00:20:55.420 to the grave

00:20:55.940 and how do we find out

00:20:57.660 who Deep Throat was?

00:20:58.740 Because Deep Throat

00:20:59.560 got old and said,

00:21:00.920 it's me,

00:21:01.840 it's me,

00:21:02.320 Mark Felt.

00:21:02.860 I can't,

00:21:03.200 I'm about to die

00:21:04.160 and I want the truth

00:21:05.520 to be known.

00:21:06.980 And in all these years,

00:21:08.580 since that day here

00:21:09.720 in, you know,

00:21:10.240 Dallas in 1963,

00:21:12.260 nobody said a word

00:21:13.440 and I don't believe

00:21:14.660 that for one second.

00:21:15.740 There's someone

00:21:16.360 who on their deathbed

00:21:17.460 and look at the math

00:21:18.460 of where they are,

00:21:19.200 there's very few people

00:21:20.060 that were alive,

00:21:20.880 you know,

00:21:21.380 were getting there.

00:21:22.280 So I'm hoping,

00:21:23.300 but that's what I trust

00:21:24.340 more than some paper,

00:21:25.440 you know,

00:21:25.860 bureaucratic paperwork.

00:21:27.660 So let's talk about

00:21:28.980 this new conspiracy

00:21:30.720 to kill President Kennedy.

00:21:33.800 I had never heard

00:21:35.280 of it before

00:21:35.840 and you explain

00:21:36.480 in the book why,

00:21:37.740 but first set it up.

00:21:39.120 This is before

00:21:39.940 he takes office,

00:21:40.800 right?

00:21:41.160 Yeah,

00:21:41.280 this is three years

00:21:42.220 before Lee Harvey Oswald

00:21:43.700 obviously takes

00:21:45.320 his famous shot

00:21:46.080 and it is

00:21:47.800 in Palm Beach,

00:21:48.740 Florida.

00:21:49.580 It's a beautiful

00:21:50.520 Sunday morning

00:21:51.440 right after JFK

00:21:52.460 has been elected

00:21:52.840 almost right where

00:21:53.500 we are right now

00:21:54.320 in the presidency.

00:21:55.040 He's been elected,

00:21:56.020 he's waiting for inauguration

00:21:57.020 and he's going to church.

00:21:59.380 Sunday morning,

00:22:00.640 JFK goes to church 0.83

00:22:01.580 and he has no idea

00:22:02.640 that there is

00:22:04.100 a disgruntled postal worker

00:22:05.640 named Richard Pavlik

00:22:06.900 who wants to kill him

00:22:08.360 and he's packed his car

00:22:09.720 with seven sticks

00:22:10.860 of dynamite.

00:22:12.240 He's followed JFK, 0.90

00:22:13.740 he tracked him

00:22:14.380 to Massachusetts,

00:22:15.840 he tracked him

00:22:16.360 to Palm Beach,

00:22:16.940 Florida,

00:22:17.280 followed him to Florida

00:22:18.240 because he believes

00:22:19.200 that JFK's security

00:22:20.600 is weakest there

00:22:21.380 which he's right about

00:22:22.440 and as JFK

00:22:23.880 leaves his house

00:22:24.620 that morning

00:22:25.140 for church

00:22:25.720 all this assassin

00:22:27.080 has to do

00:22:27.760 is hit the little

00:22:28.700 trigger device

00:22:29.400 that he's built

00:22:30.020 and boom

00:22:31.100 will go the dynamite.

00:22:32.940 Would he be in the car?

00:22:34.080 He's in the car.

00:22:34.980 He writes the letter

00:22:35.940 and says

00:22:36.340 I'm not coming back

00:22:38.180 from this

00:22:38.600 and what saves

00:22:40.680 JFK's life that day,

00:22:41.880 I don't want to ruin

00:22:42.360 the ending

00:22:42.680 although I think

00:22:43.160 I just ruined

00:22:43.700 chapter one

00:22:44.300 of the JFK conspiracy

00:22:45.320 that's chapter one

00:22:46.060 but what saves

00:22:46.860 his life that day

00:22:47.540 has to do with Jackie,

00:22:48.460 I won't ruin it

00:22:49.140 but it's one of the craziest

00:22:50.940 JFK stories

00:22:51.720 you've never heard

00:22:52.520 in your life.

00:22:53.420 So why haven't we heard this?

00:22:55.080 That's the right question.

00:22:56.380 So here's why

00:22:57.040 you don't know this story

00:22:58.200 is it was a huge story

00:23:00.300 in Miami

00:23:00.720 in Florida

00:23:01.200 where it happened.

00:23:02.160 Miami Herald

00:23:02.520 had a big front page article.

00:23:04.620 It's about to go nationwide.

00:23:06.180 It used to back then

00:23:06.820 take an extra day

00:23:07.680 to go from local

00:23:08.420 to nationwide

00:23:09.000 and on the day

00:23:10.700 it's going nationwide

00:23:11.640 two airliners

00:23:12.940 collide

00:23:13.680 over New York City.

00:23:15.260 Oh my gosh.

00:23:16.080 Everyone on board

00:23:16.800 dies except for one child

00:23:18.560 the sole survivor.

00:23:20.240 Oh my God.

00:23:20.820 And America

00:23:21.580 becomes obsessed

00:23:22.580 with this kid, right?

00:23:24.020 Is he going to live?

00:23:24.620 Is he going to die?

00:23:25.520 It knocks this JFK story

00:23:27.220 off the front page

00:23:28.220 buries it into the middle

00:23:29.220 of the newspaper.

00:23:30.020 It becomes a footnote

00:23:31.080 to history

00:23:31.700 until my friend

00:23:32.980 Josh mentioned

00:23:33.500 I find it

00:23:34.520 and we're like

00:23:34.980 America needs to know

00:23:36.640 this story.

00:23:37.840 That's where the JFK 0.63

00:23:38.720 conspiracy is born.

00:23:39.560 How did you

00:23:40.100 how did you find this story?

00:23:41.940 Because I'm crazy

00:23:42.860 like you, right?

00:23:43.720 I mean because we love

00:23:44.540 listen your algorithm

00:23:45.820 I know is like my algorithm

00:23:47.120 it feeds us what we like

00:23:48.420 and it knows

00:23:49.100 so I usually find them

00:23:51.060 in footnotes

00:23:51.740 the best stories

00:23:52.820 in history

00:23:53.180 in the footnotes

00:23:53.740 you and I have talked

00:23:54.380 at length about this

00:23:55.120 and this one I found

00:23:56.740 a little mention of it

00:23:57.800 a tiny little blurb on it

00:23:59.520 and I was like

00:24:00.060 and my reaction

00:24:01.620 is always the same

00:24:02.140 is this real

00:24:02.840 and let's find out

00:24:04.500 and

00:24:05.540 those are the best journeys

00:24:06.620 the best

00:24:07.020 they're adventures

00:24:07.760 that's how I see them

00:24:08.620 and we were very lucky

00:24:10.200 that there were

00:24:11.540 some reporters

00:24:12.700 who did a FOIA request

00:24:14.020 for the documents

00:24:15.620 on Richard Pavlik

00:24:16.660 and what they found

00:24:17.620 and what we got

00:24:18.560 was hundreds of pages

00:24:19.700 of the FBI's

00:24:21.100 and the Secret Service's

00:24:22.100 real time files

00:24:23.340 from 1960

00:24:24.720 and we're going

00:24:25.960 Wait, who has

00:24:26.600 where are those?

00:24:27.680 How long did it take

00:24:28.540 to find those?

00:24:29.360 Yeah, I mean

00:24:29.620 you know what

00:24:30.080 the truth is

00:24:30.900 it's the one

00:24:31.560 I mean for all the government

00:24:32.580 the FOIA

00:24:33.360 is an unbelievable thing

00:24:34.760 and if no one

00:24:35.820 if I wouldn't know

00:24:36.800 to look for them

00:24:37.620 but once they're out

00:24:39.040 now there's a record

00:24:39.840 so once you get

00:24:40.580 Richard Pavlik

00:24:41.400 once I find that story

00:24:42.300 and I get his name

00:24:43.060 now I can find

00:24:44.180 his arrest record

00:24:44.960 now I can find

00:24:46.000 who the officer is

00:24:46.720 now I can find

00:24:47.340 oh was the service

00:24:48.200 or the FBI arrested him

00:24:49.740 now I can

00:24:50.100 and you suddenly

00:24:51.540 play that game

00:24:52.240 through time

00:24:52.920 and you start

00:24:54.280 pulling these layers

00:24:55.160 and it just reveals

00:24:56.300 so much

00:24:57.180 of course about JFK

00:24:58.380 and what's going on

00:24:59.100 in 1960

00:24:59.760 So why did he want

00:25:01.960 to kill him?

00:25:03.400 Disgruntled postal worker

00:25:04.560 I mean that's

00:25:05.100 Putting the word postal

00:25:05.940 in postal worker

00:25:07.080 right

00:25:07.600 you kind of have an answer

00:25:08.540 we have an answer

00:25:09.080 but here's the real answer

00:25:10.020 the real answer is

00:25:10.720 because he's Catholic

00:25:11.420 of all things

00:25:12.920 and it sounds

00:25:14.260 almost silly now

00:25:15.360 he's Catholic

00:25:15.820 so was JFK

00:25:17.240 no no

00:25:18.020 because I'm sorry

00:25:18.920 I mean because JFK's Catholic 0.95

00:25:20.320 he wants to kill JFK's Catholic

00:25:21.600 no you got that part

00:25:22.500 why would he

00:25:22.720 no no no

00:25:23.500 Pavlik wants to kill JFK

00:25:24.820 because JFK's Catholic 0.78

00:25:25.800 and it sounds almost trite now

00:25:27.980 and I know it's titillating

00:25:29.320 for me to come on

00:25:30.320 and say hey

00:25:30.760 we found the secret plot

00:25:31.740 to kill JFK

00:25:32.700 that you've never heard

00:25:34.420 but the reason

00:25:35.820 you and I love history

00:25:37.000 so much

00:25:37.620 is that it's not just

00:25:38.940 cool old stories

00:25:40.080 but it's that

00:25:41.020 it tells us something

00:25:41.820 about where we are

00:25:42.520 right now

00:25:43.100 and if you look

00:25:44.260 at the 1960 election

00:25:45.720 it's JFK

00:25:47.420 versus Richard Nixon

00:25:48.280 the country is bitterly

00:25:50.060 divided

00:25:50.460 the closest election

00:25:51.560 of the 20th century

00:25:52.720 whatever side you're on

00:25:54.460 you think the other side

00:25:55.500 are complete

00:25:56.080 and utter morons 0.73

00:25:57.240 does that sound

00:25:58.460 familiar to you?

00:25:59.540 right

00:26:00.020 it's right we are now

00:26:01.260 and it sounds almost silly now

00:26:03.480 but there were

00:26:03.920 Protestant leaders back then

00:26:05.380 who did not want a Catholic 0.98

00:26:07.540 becoming president

00:26:08.880 because they were worried

00:26:09.720 including great statesmen

00:26:11.540 like Billy Graham

00:26:12.420 Billy Graham

00:26:13.400 the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale

00:26:15.240 who wrote

00:26:15.640 The Power of Positive Thinking

00:26:16.840 one of the great books

00:26:17.880 Norman Vincent Peale

00:26:18.620 he's the one

00:26:19.560 who Billy Graham

00:26:20.040 puts out in front of the public

00:26:21.380 wow

00:26:21.940 and you see video of him

00:26:23.260 saying we can't have

00:26:24.540 anyone who's Catholic

00:26:25.920 because what he wants

00:26:27.540 he's worried

00:26:27.900 he's going to be loyal

00:26:28.360 to the Pope

00:26:28.860 you're on the money

00:26:29.640 and they're worried

00:26:31.120 that when JFK

00:26:32.620 takes office

00:26:33.300 he'll be loyal

00:26:34.280 to the Pope

00:26:34.800 and not these United States

00:26:35.920 and he can't be trusted

00:26:36.840 and again

00:26:37.900 it sounds almost silly now

00:26:39.040 but back then

00:26:39.620 that's what they thought

00:26:40.360 and here was the other

00:26:41.200 big part

00:26:41.720 the KKK

00:26:43.120 very separately

00:26:44.560 the Ku Klux Klan

00:26:45.420 of course in the Civil War

00:26:46.640 is harassing

00:26:47.800 the black community

00:26:48.520 in the 1920s

00:26:50.220 there's a resurgence

00:26:51.140 of the KKK

00:26:51.920 and they realize

00:26:53.420 that they can expand

00:26:54.300 their dues

00:26:54.900 and their membership

00:26:55.700 by expanding

00:26:56.420 that circle of hate

00:26:57.280 and what they expanded

00:26:58.920 to is they start

00:27:00.240 hating not just blacks 0.96

00:27:01.160 but they start

00:27:01.980 hating Jews

00:27:02.620 they start hating immigrants

00:27:03.900 and they see JFK

00:27:05.280 as an Irish Catholic immigrant

00:27:06.440 that his family

00:27:07.820 came across on a boat

00:27:08.900 and we can't have

00:27:09.580 an immigrant

00:27:09.960 reach that White House

00:27:11.200 and when you put

00:27:12.300 that venom

00:27:12.860 like what

00:27:13.920 what the

00:27:14.620 you know

00:27:15.060 saying you can't have

00:27:15.920 a Catholic

00:27:16.260 in the White House

00:27:16.800 out there

00:27:17.300 people are listening

00:27:18.780 and Richard Pavlik

00:27:20.500 is listening

00:27:21.040 and he's like

00:27:21.840 you know what

00:27:22.300 I'm going to do

00:27:23.880 something good

00:27:24.300 for America

00:27:24.840 I'm going to make

00:27:25.520 sure the Catholic

00:27:26.200 never gets to the White House

00:27:27.460 if I'm not mistaken

00:27:28.360 it was

00:27:29.300 the Catholics

00:27:30.820 were instrumental

00:27:31.800 in raising money

00:27:33.080 for the Washington

00:27:33.820 Monument

00:27:35.040 I think that's right

00:27:36.380 I think that is right

00:27:37.320 I remember reading

00:27:37.860 about that

00:27:38.220 I did

00:27:38.460 I used to do

00:27:39.140 for one of our

00:27:40.280 History Channel shows

00:27:41.060 we did something on that

00:27:41.720 and I think

00:27:42.240 I think that's why

00:27:43.740 it took so long

00:27:44.620 to finish

00:27:44.980 not only that

00:27:45.580 but also the Civil War

00:27:46.640 because people were like

00:27:48.060 that's a Catholic project

00:27:49.200 of course

00:27:49.880 I mean a great giant monument

00:27:51.740 the Catholic

00:27:52.480 I mean who knows

00:27:53.260 but you know

00:27:54.140 we look at that

00:27:55.480 as like

00:27:55.900 right now

00:27:56.400 we all roll our eyes

00:27:57.120 and say

00:27:57.320 why would they care

00:27:58.260 about that

00:27:58.860 but it just shows you

00:28:00.540 what venom and hatred

00:28:01.860 can do to our country

00:28:02.860 and to me

00:28:04.240 you know

00:28:04.600 I'm very much obsessed

00:28:06.640 with looking at this

00:28:07.900 from that perspective

00:28:09.380 and in fact

00:28:10.140 one of the things

00:28:10.620 I became obsessed with

00:28:11.660 was Camelot itself

00:28:13.280 and one of the things

00:28:15.000 I learned

00:28:15.740 I love Jackie Kennedy

00:28:17.600 love her

00:28:18.180 and Jackie Kennedy

00:28:20.000 we've reduced

00:28:20.680 to a caricature

00:28:21.560 we've said

00:28:22.260 oh she's beautiful

00:28:23.060 and she's got grace

00:28:24.240 and she can decorate 0.99

00:28:25.180 we don't do her

00:28:26.680 a service there

00:28:27.520 and one of

00:28:28.560 she was wicked smart

00:28:30.080 wicked is the right word

00:28:31.660 wicked smart

00:28:32.540 like Massachusetts herself

00:28:34.000 and she

00:28:34.780 basically

00:28:35.900 we don't pull our punches

00:28:37.020 we document JFK's affairs

00:28:38.820 yeah

00:28:39.460 we show you

00:28:40.020 that after they get engaged

00:28:41.380 one of JFK's best friends

00:28:43.100 comes to Jackie

00:28:43.920 and says

00:28:44.380 you know

00:28:44.780 Jack really loves women

00:28:47.120 and basically says

00:28:48.500 to her face

00:28:49.160 he's gonna keep

00:28:49.860 sleeping around on you

00:28:50.840 and when she's

00:28:52.120 giving birth

00:28:53.280 she hemorrhages

00:28:54.580 and they have to

00:28:55.620 race her to the hospital 1.00

00:28:56.420 JFK is nowhere

00:28:57.280 to be found

00:28:57.880 for like

00:28:58.760 a week or so

00:29:00.140 a long time

00:29:00.440 he's on a boat

00:29:01.620 he's on a plane

00:29:02.320 to Florida

00:29:02.980 you know what

00:29:03.500 happened to me

00:29:04.320 wait wait

00:29:04.680 he was on a boat

00:29:06.820 with a bunch of women 0.99

00:29:07.620 oh that's when

00:29:07.900 she has a stillborn

00:29:08.640 that's when

00:29:09.020 he's on a boat

00:29:09.900 full of women

00:29:10.600 for that one

00:29:11.180 that's a stillborn

00:29:11.960 there's two

00:29:12.920 that's the second

00:29:14.080 the first one

00:29:15.100 he's on a boat

00:29:15.760 with a bunch of women 0.99

00:29:16.700 she's having a stillborn

00:29:17.640 and they have to tell him

00:29:18.840 you should probably

00:29:19.860 go back

00:29:20.280 you have to go home

00:29:20.820 and he's like

00:29:21.140 you think

00:29:21.660 and they're like

00:29:22.360 yeah man

00:29:23.460 you gotta go back

00:29:24.840 your political career

00:29:25.800 is finished

00:29:26.420 she was done

00:29:27.240 with the marriage

00:29:27.740 on that one

00:29:28.320 right

00:29:28.480 I mean

00:29:28.680 I think she

00:29:29.580 how could you not be

00:29:30.540 right

00:29:30.800 how could you

00:29:31.240 and when she

00:29:32.760 finally gives birth

00:29:33.940 to John John

00:29:34.680 she hemorrhages

00:29:36.220 because she's obviously

00:29:36.980 had this previous pregnancy

00:29:38.220 it was a disaster

00:29:39.060 JFK's on a plane

00:29:40.320 in the Florida

00:29:40.780 do you know

00:29:41.200 what would happen

00:29:41.740 to me

00:29:42.120 if I was on a plane

00:29:43.460 to Florida

00:29:43.980 while my wife 0.56

00:29:44.560 was giving birth

00:29:45.220 you and I

00:29:45.660 would not be talking

00:29:46.420 right now

00:29:46.760 because I would be

00:29:47.320 murdered

00:29:47.760 I know

00:29:48.160 me too

00:29:48.640 me too

00:29:49.440 I had to start

00:29:51.380 my CNN show

00:29:52.420 three days

00:29:53.500 two days

00:29:54.200 after my daughter

00:29:55.700 was born

00:29:56.260 and I almost

00:29:57.820 lost my life

00:29:58.700 because I wasn't

00:29:59.720 you know

00:30:00.000 fully there

00:30:01.060 two days later

00:30:02.420 of course

00:30:03.220 and what I kept

00:30:04.600 saying when I'm

00:30:05.280 reading all this

00:30:06.040 is why did they

00:30:07.280 call this place

00:30:07.820 Camelot

00:30:08.420 how is it so great

00:30:10.120 that it's Camelot

00:30:11.120 and I was like

00:30:12.400 where does it start

00:30:13.120 is it year one Camelot

00:30:14.100 year two Camelot

00:30:14.880 where does it go

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00:30:31.980 oh yeah

00:30:33.540 oh my gosh

00:30:34.180 I hadn't thought

00:30:34.720 of it that way

00:30:35.260 yeah yeah yeah

00:30:35.620 this is it

00:30:36.140 that is incredible

00:30:36.980 this is it

00:30:37.500 we're through it

00:30:38.280 we made it

00:30:38.940 don't you dare

00:30:41.000 don't you dare

00:30:42.040 say something like

00:30:42.940 that

00:30:43.260 we've got a couple

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00:31:12.540 so I want to get

00:31:13.420 into what we were

00:31:14.240 talking about

00:31:14.740 I was just

00:31:15.220 I was just getting

00:31:16.260 into something

00:31:17.040 called the telepathy

00:31:17.880 tapes that I

00:31:18.420 started listening

00:31:18.960 to yesterday

00:31:19.560 and I'm already

00:31:20.200 eight episodes

00:31:20.820 down

00:31:21.160 wow

00:31:21.660 I mean

00:31:22.480 it's rabbit hole

00:31:23.500 but they're very

00:31:25.080 careful on laying

00:31:26.000 everything out

00:31:26.840 so you just don't

00:31:27.480 roll your eyes

00:31:28.160 and it goes to

00:31:29.340 something bigger

00:31:30.320 that Stu and I

00:31:32.080 were just talking

00:31:32.700 about on the air

00:31:33.660 that today

00:31:34.620 and Monday

00:31:35.460 I'm just not

00:31:36.140 going to have

00:31:36.420 the time

00:31:36.760 to do justice

00:31:37.420 to

00:31:37.640 so would

00:31:38.600 you write

00:31:39.060 down

00:31:39.560 telepathy

00:31:40.280 tapes

00:31:40.700 and

00:31:41.840 likable

00:31:44.440 hippies

00:31:45.080 and end

00:31:47.200 of an era

00:31:47.740 she's currently 0.69

00:31:48.460 writing down

00:31:48.880 the words

00:31:49.140 likable

00:31:49.620 hippies

00:31:49.980 I know

00:31:50.260 I hate

00:31:51.580 hippies

00:31:51.960 I hate

00:31:52.380 hippies

00:31:52.700 but there

00:31:53.060 are a few

00:31:53.820 non-Marxist

00:31:55.000 authentic

00:31:56.180 hippies

00:31:57.700 that I think

00:31:58.980 I might like

00:31:59.560 in theory

00:32:00.160 it's in theory

00:32:00.720 hippies is not

00:32:01.240 I mean

00:32:01.620 it's

00:32:01.940 they wouldn't

00:32:02.660 like the word

00:32:03.160 no they wouldn't

00:32:03.840 like the word

00:32:04.220 but I know

00:32:04.940 what you're

00:32:05.160 saying

00:32:05.380 that's what

00:32:05.700 they are

00:32:05.920 all right

00:32:07.340 in the meantime

00:32:08.560 there is a

00:32:10.260 documentary

00:32:11.660 that is showing

00:32:13.220 the real history

00:32:14.160 of the California

00:32:14.920 wildfires

00:32:15.600 and no major

00:32:17.780 distributors

00:32:18.560 would take it

00:32:20.040 Netflix

00:32:20.440 HBO said

00:32:21.200 no no no

00:32:22.100 no we can't

00:32:23.040 do that

00:32:23.540 the documentary

00:32:24.540 is called

00:32:25.000 Hot Shot

00:32:25.800 the director

00:32:27.000 and cinematographer

00:32:27.880 is Gabriel

00:32:29.040 Kirkpatrick

00:32:30.380 Mann

00:32:30.920 and he's on

00:32:31.660 with us now

00:32:32.240 Gabriel how are

00:32:33.200 you sir

00:32:33.540 I'm fabulous

00:32:35.340 Glenn thank you

00:32:35.880 so much for

00:32:36.320 having me on

00:32:36.740 I love

00:32:38.400 I love the

00:32:39.180 fact that

00:32:40.140 HBO

00:32:41.480 Netflix

00:32:42.020 everybody said

00:32:42.920 no you're

00:32:43.780 not talking

00:32:44.460 enough about

00:32:45.020 climate change

00:32:45.800 right

00:32:46.400 oh yeah

00:32:48.060 and look

00:32:48.680 it's been a

00:32:49.100 surreal experience

00:32:49.920 you know this

00:32:50.680 well enough

00:32:51.060 Hollywood has

00:32:51.580 been entirely

00:32:52.400 captured

00:32:53.060 by wokeness

00:32:54.280 and I think

00:32:55.100 this is why

00:32:55.580 they keep

00:32:55.940 reciting the

00:32:56.600 same garbage

00:32:57.340 that nobody

00:32:58.120 likes

00:32:58.560 so I

00:32:59.660 made this

00:33:00.240 film in a

00:33:00.580 very unconventional

00:33:01.640 way I just

00:33:02.140 spent six years

00:33:02.840 walking into

00:33:03.720 these wildfires

00:33:04.460 with a couple

00:33:04.860 of cameras

00:33:05.340 and I

00:33:05.980 embedded directly

00:33:06.720 with the

00:33:06.980 hotshot crews

00:33:07.640 to get their

00:33:08.300 point of view

00:33:09.000 and look

00:33:10.120 the visuals

00:33:10.900 are insane

00:33:11.680 and I think

00:33:12.020 that's what

00:33:12.320 got us in the

00:33:12.780 door with

00:33:13.240 Netflix and HBO

00:33:14.120 but in the film

00:33:15.100 we gloss over

00:33:15.900 the climate change

00:33:16.640 thing and say

00:33:17.060 look we've had

00:33:17.980 horrible fires

00:33:18.660 for centuries

00:33:19.540 yes

00:33:20.020 and the worst

00:33:20.780 ones were

00:33:21.360 actually way

00:33:21.820 back in 1871

00:33:23.000 during you know

00:33:23.820 the optimal

00:33:24.400 climate so

00:33:25.140 obviously your SUV

00:33:26.160 doesn't matter

00:33:26.760 and because we

00:33:28.420 didn't sufficiently

00:33:29.280 mess our drawers

00:33:30.380 about climate

00:33:31.100 change

00:33:31.520 they balked at

00:33:32.520 it and they

00:33:32.820 wanted us to

00:33:33.380 recut the whole

00:33:34.160 film to be more

00:33:35.100 about climate

00:33:35.580 change

00:33:35.960 but I'm not

00:33:37.120 going to lie

00:33:37.760 so I refused

00:33:39.180 to cut it

00:33:39.660 they told me

00:33:40.140 to kick rocks

00:33:40.800 so I just

00:33:41.260 made a template

00:33:41.800 website

00:33:42.260 released it

00:33:42.820 myself

00:33:43.240 and it's been

00:33:44.080 entirely a

00:33:44.620 grassroots effort

00:33:45.420 and look

00:33:46.320 it's insanely

00:33:47.100 difficult when

00:33:47.820 you're competing

00:33:48.360 against these

00:33:48.980 massive studios

00:33:49.740 but the film

00:33:51.840 it's actually

00:33:52.640 become the

00:33:53.080 number one rated

00:33:53.740 firefighter film

00:33:54.700 of all time

00:33:55.940 over backdraft

00:33:57.300 backdraft

00:33:58.740 that's an

00:34:00.060 amazing movie

00:34:01.060 but it just

00:34:02.600 shows you how

00:34:03.220 self-destructive

00:34:04.040 this woke

00:34:04.700 epidemic is

00:34:05.740 for Hollywood

00:34:06.500 they're shooting

00:34:07.040 themselves in the

00:34:07.680 foot like how

00:34:08.260 do you turn

00:34:08.700 down a

00:34:09.100 profitable film

00:34:10.000 just because

00:34:10.840 you're mad

00:34:11.460 that it didn't

00:34:12.060 sufficiently validate

00:34:13.120 your dogmatic

00:34:13.980 ideology it's

00:34:14.960 crazy

00:34:15.420 so you know

00:34:16.260 it's uh

00:34:16.920 yesterday

00:34:17.560 did you hear

00:34:18.200 this too

00:34:18.680 Donald Trump

00:34:19.320 said

00:34:19.960 John Voight

00:34:21.200 Sylvester Stallone

00:34:23.460 and Mel Gibson

00:34:24.440 are now special

00:34:26.180 envoys for the

00:34:27.480 president

00:34:27.840 to try to

00:34:29.380 fix Hollywood

00:34:30.220 and I'm like

00:34:30.820 I don't know

00:34:31.420 how you could

00:34:31.980 fix Hollywood

00:34:32.720 I think it's

00:34:33.740 being fixed

00:34:34.300 on its own

00:34:34.900 because they're

00:34:35.240 just

00:34:35.440 they're just

00:34:36.560 they're going

00:34:37.540 to end in a

00:34:38.120 giant ball of

00:34:38.820 fire like

00:34:39.300 California is

00:34:40.620 you can't

00:34:41.860 you can't

00:34:42.940 keep up this

00:34:43.660 kind of

00:34:44.240 policy that

00:34:45.860 is

00:34:46.300 completely

00:34:48.120 unhooked

00:34:48.960 from common

00:34:49.740 sense and

00:34:50.260 reality and

00:34:50.940 expect to

00:34:51.420 succeed in

00:34:52.000 anything

00:34:52.480 in any way

00:34:53.440 100%

00:34:56.040 right and

00:34:56.500 frankly I

00:34:57.120 think there

00:34:57.480 is a

00:34:57.780 massively

00:34:58.300 underserved

00:34:59.200 market of

00:34:59.780 people

00:35:00.180 they don't

00:35:01.200 even need

00:35:01.620 they don't

00:35:02.000 need right

00:35:02.440 wing movies

00:35:03.140 to balance

00:35:04.000 out the

00:35:04.380 commie movies

00:35:04.920 they just

00:35:05.220 want good

00:35:05.960 movies back

00:35:06.960 just don't

00:35:07.740 lecture me

00:35:08.260 just give

00:35:09.040 me 90s

00:35:09.800 Hollywood when

00:35:10.400 we had

00:35:10.680 Jurassic Park

00:35:11.520 and Saving

00:35:11.960 Private Ryan

00:35:12.680 and all

00:35:13.340 these good

00:35:13.740 flicks with

00:35:14.300 no agenda

00:35:14.940 like that's

00:35:15.760 what we

00:35:16.060 were aiming

00:35:16.440 to do

00:35:16.780 just to

00:35:17.120 try to

00:35:17.420 inform

00:35:17.780 honestly

00:35:18.300 and trust

00:35:19.140 that our

00:35:19.380 audience is

00:35:19.920 smart enough

00:35:20.480 to come up

00:35:21.040 with their

00:35:21.320 own conclusions

00:35:22.260 and let

00:35:22.760 them enjoy

00:35:23.660 the picture

00:35:24.080 on their

00:35:24.420 own

00:35:24.620 I think

00:35:25.140 the rational

00:35:25.740 wing of

00:35:26.160 America is

00:35:26.720 responding very

00:35:27.540 positively to

00:35:28.340 that and I

00:35:28.780 think if more

00:35:29.240 filmmakers go

00:35:30.140 that route

00:35:30.840 they can have

00:35:31.660 success outside

00:35:32.520 of the system

00:35:33.160 so one of the

00:35:34.420 things that's in

00:35:35.060 hotshot the movie

00:35:36.600 that you've

00:35:36.980 released online

00:35:37.700 is the difference

00:35:39.720 between California

00:35:40.780 and Florida

00:35:42.060 and Florida

00:35:43.440 has very few

00:35:44.240 forest fires

00:35:44.980 it's hot there

00:35:46.060 too

00:35:46.520 what's the

00:35:48.160 difference

00:35:48.560 well not

00:35:50.300 only is it

00:35:50.720 hot there

00:35:51.140 but all

00:35:51.520 that rain

00:35:52.020 just creates

00:35:52.440 more fuels

00:35:53.060 Florida

00:35:53.420 is very

00:35:53.940 flammable

00:35:54.480 but back

00:35:55.000 in the

00:35:56.100 late 1990s

00:35:57.080 they had

00:35:57.360 a huge

00:35:57.920 wildfire

00:35:58.380 outbreak

00:35:58.840 destroyed a

00:35:59.600 bunch of

00:35:59.820 homes

00:36:00.060 destroyed the

00:36:00.580 timber

00:36:00.800 industry

00:36:01.080 and it

00:36:01.300 cost them

00:36:01.680 a fortune

00:36:02.100 so they

00:36:02.440 made a

00:36:02.720 very rational

00:36:03.360 conclusion

00:36:03.900 how much

00:36:05.160 did 500,000

00:36:06.120 acres of

00:36:06.500 wildfire cost

00:36:07.320 us

00:36:07.560 and how

00:36:08.080 much would

00:36:08.400 it cost

00:36:08.780 us to

00:36:09.220 proactively

00:36:09.780 burn that

00:36:10.500 with prescribed

00:36:11.140 fire

00:36:11.480 and what

00:36:11.700 they found

00:36:12.120 out is that

00:36:12.780 that one

00:36:13.760 wildfire

00:36:14.500 outbreak

00:36:15.100 they could

00:36:15.820 afford it

00:36:16.380 to do

00:36:16.680 60 years

00:36:17.800 of prescribed

00:36:18.600 fire

00:36:19.040 and so they

00:36:19.840 just decided

00:36:20.380 okay we're

00:36:21.160 going to do

00:36:21.480 that

00:36:21.700 and every

00:36:22.140 year

00:36:22.440 they proactively

00:36:23.200 burn 2 million

00:36:24.320 acres

00:36:24.760 every single

00:36:25.440 year

00:36:25.720 in one year

00:36:26.840 Florida proactively

00:36:27.740 burns more than

00:36:28.560 California has

00:36:29.420 burned in the

00:36:30.060 last 50

00:36:31.380 years

00:36:32.320 they need to

00:36:33.440 burn between

00:36:33.920 4 to 11

00:36:34.760 million acres

00:36:35.320 every year

00:36:35.820 just to keep

00:36:36.400 up with that

00:36:36.860 growth that

00:36:37.380 keeps coming

00:36:37.860 out of the

00:36:38.260 ground

00:36:38.500 they're only

00:36:39.580 doing like

00:36:40.000 36,000 a

00:36:41.060 year

00:36:41.280 and four

00:36:42.280 years ago

00:36:42.820 five years

00:36:43.220 ago now

00:36:43.580 Gavin Newsom

00:36:44.600 stepped over

00:36:45.520 burnt corpses

00:36:46.240 on sacred

00:36:46.940 tribal land

00:36:47.740 to promise

00:36:48.380 that he was

00:36:48.940 going to burn

00:36:49.440 a million acres

00:36:50.240 a year

00:36:50.620 he still hasn't

00:36:51.260 come remotely

00:36:52.000 close to doing

00:36:52.800 it

00:36:53.020 everyone focuses

00:36:53.980 on how the

00:36:54.880 government let

00:36:55.380 people down

00:36:55.840 during the

00:36:56.380 firefight I can

00:36:57.040 tell you

00:36:57.460 once fires on

00:36:58.400 the ground

00:36:58.700 with conditions

00:36:59.180 like that

00:36:59.720 there's nothing

00:37:00.320 you can do

00:37:00.960 the real

00:37:01.500 betrayal came

00:37:02.260 you know

00:37:02.980 in the last

00:37:03.500 years and

00:37:04.260 months when

00:37:04.640 they refused

00:37:05.260 to get rid

00:37:05.780 of these

00:37:06.100 fuels

00:37:06.440 you know

00:37:07.480 it's just

00:37:07.920 common sense

00:37:08.680 and it also

00:37:09.460 fires renew

00:37:10.840 the soil

00:37:11.620 it makes

00:37:12.940 the the

00:37:13.820 the new

00:37:14.920 growth

00:37:15.440 stronger

00:37:16.200 it is so

00:37:17.000 natural to

00:37:17.800 do it

00:37:18.140 and I

00:37:18.900 don't

00:37:19.260 understand

00:37:19.800 why

00:37:20.360 the you

00:37:21.900 know

00:37:21.980 powers to

00:37:22.820 be

00:37:23.200 and the

00:37:24.300 so-called

00:37:24.940 you know

00:37:25.560 land

00:37:26.460 scientists

00:37:27.160 and everything

00:37:27.560 else

00:37:27.740 how they

00:37:28.420 don't

00:37:28.900 understand

00:37:29.700 that

00:37:30.120 I'm an

00:37:30.780 alcoholic

00:37:31.320 DJ

00:37:32.000 and I

00:37:32.680 I've

00:37:33.460 known that

00:37:33.900 my whole

00:37:34.300 life

00:37:34.840 well look

00:37:36.640 in order to

00:37:37.600 fix a

00:37:37.940 problem

00:37:38.320 you have to

00:37:39.120 first accept

00:37:39.780 that you

00:37:40.040 have agency

00:37:40.880 over the

00:37:41.700 problem

00:37:42.080 and they

00:37:42.300 refuse to

00:37:42.940 do that

00:37:43.280 except in

00:37:43.820 this like

00:37:44.220 convoluted

00:37:45.600 rube goldberg

00:37:46.580 climate change

00:37:47.480 kind of

00:37:47.800 where they

00:37:48.180 think if you

00:37:48.680 just add

00:37:49.080 more solar

00:37:49.580 panels or

00:37:50.200 buy more

00:37:50.560 teslas that

00:37:51.220 the weather

00:37:51.600 will change

00:37:52.240 and then the

00:37:52.960 fires will 0.96

00:37:53.420 stop but

00:37:54.020 look no

00:37:54.860 amount of

00:37:55.200 teslas is

00:37:55.780 going to

00:37:55.960 make the

00:37:56.220 weather less

00:37:56.640 angry you

00:37:57.480 just need to

00:37:57.860 accept it

00:37:58.420 and clear

00:37:58.900 your brush

00:37:59.460 what's double

00:38:00.220 frustrating is

00:38:01.080 these things

00:38:01.960 aren't mutually

00:38:02.720 exclusive you

00:38:03.520 don't even

00:38:03.800 have to

00:38:04.300 abandon the

00:38:05.280 climate change

00:38:05.900 fantasy you

00:38:06.440 just have to

00:38:06.840 accept that

00:38:07.400 none of the

00:38:08.200 climate policies

00:38:08.940 will do a

00:38:09.440 darn thing for

00:38:10.120 wildfires not

00:38:10.860 one like

00:38:11.540 ever but

00:38:12.600 you can

00:38:13.180 prevent

00:38:13.600 tomorrow's

00:38:14.160 wildfire right

00:38:15.080 now and

00:38:15.500 like you

00:38:15.800 said not

00:38:16.600 only do

00:38:17.280 the fires

00:38:17.780 replenish the

00:38:18.740 soil look

00:38:19.720 the ecosystem

00:38:20.540 out west is

00:38:21.200 dependent on

00:38:22.040 fire a lot

00:38:22.660 of trees

00:38:23.060 cannot even

00:38:23.780 reproduce

00:38:24.560 unless the

00:38:25.420 pine cone

00:38:25.860 burns to

00:38:26.940 release and

00:38:27.500 germinate the

00:38:28.020 seed so to

00:38:28.980 try to defy

00:38:29.640 this natural

00:38:30.100 process is

00:38:30.980 insanity let 0.62

00:38:32.940 me ask you

00:38:33.440 the California

00:38:35.160 where are you

00:38:35.820 from Gabriel

00:38:36.900 I was born

00:38:38.440 and raised in

00:38:38.920 Los Angeles

00:38:39.480 polisades

00:38:40.500 actually

00:38:40.880 specifically

00:38:41.480 wow so I

00:38:43.580 get this

00:38:43.960 question all

00:38:44.560 the time do

00:38:45.180 you think

00:38:45.460 California is

00:38:46.060 going to wake

00:38:46.420 up and learn

00:38:46.920 their lesson do

00:38:47.500 you think they

00:38:47.860 learned their

00:38:48.260 lesson I don't

00:38:49.860 know

00:38:50.160 no never

00:38:52.320 Dan Bongino

00:38:52.960 always asks

00:38:53.540 this like is

00:38:54.240 it bad enough

00:38:54.740 yet it's not

00:38:55.200 bad enough yet

00:38:55.820 and you know I

00:38:56.980 love Adam

00:38:57.620 Carolla's rant

00:38:58.240 the other day

00:38:58.680 but nothing's

00:38:59.220 going to change

00:38:59.760 like if I

00:39:00.780 thought they

00:39:01.160 were capable

00:39:01.520 of changing I

00:39:02.160 wouldn't have

00:39:02.400 left the state

00:39:02.900 for Tennessee

00:39:03.580 but nothing

00:39:04.380 changed after

00:39:05.040 85 people were

00:39:05.860 killed in

00:39:06.220 paradise Sean

00:39:07.360 Penn lost his

00:39:08.180 Malibu mansion to

00:39:08.940 a fire in

00:39:09.360 1993 then

00:39:10.640 rebuilt it nearly

00:39:11.680 lost it again in

00:39:12.440 another fire in

00:39:13.220 2018 and all he

00:39:14.680 does is blame you

00:39:15.960 for the car that

00:39:16.900 you drive so look I

00:39:18.780 don't think it's

00:39:19.540 going to change

00:39:20.080 because like I

00:39:20.780 said you have to

00:39:21.540 accept that you

00:39:22.080 have agency over

00:39:23.060 the problem if you

00:39:24.340 keep putting it on

00:39:25.420 climate it's the

00:39:26.660 most disempowering

00:39:27.780 narrative you could

00:39:28.600 possibly have because

00:39:30.060 it creates this

00:39:30.680 learned helplessness

00:39:32.040 nothing is going to

00:39:33.380 change so look man

00:39:35.020 I don't know how

00:39:36.380 you can expect anyone

00:39:37.220 to make a real

00:39:37.720 change if they

00:39:38.260 refuse to accept

00:39:39.040 the real world

00:39:39.720 let me let me

00:39:41.280 play some of the

00:39:42.360 the clips from the

00:39:44.500 movie clip 3 from

00:39:46.900 hotshot cut number

00:39:48.640 6 even though the

00:39:50.180 fire season is only

00:39:51.160 June to November

00:39:51.980 she has to train all

00:39:53.560 year to stay in

00:39:54.420 shape there are no

00:39:56.020 bonus points for

00:39:56.860 abs it's a different

00:39:58.260 kind of fitness

00:39:59.260 Justine doesn't have 0.98

00:40:01.060 any illusions about

00:40:01.960 the female's 0.99

00:40:02.580 physicality she has

00:40:04.980 to put in extra work

00:40:05.920 to keep up with the

00:40:06.700 fellas this is real

00:40:08.540 life not a gender

00:40:09.740 studies class if you

00:40:11.460 can't get up the

00:40:12.100 hill you die if you 0.98

00:40:14.160 can't drive the buggy

00:40:14.980 through the fire when

00:40:15.760 goes sideways your

00:40:17.500 whole crew dies you

00:40:19.520 gotta be durable and

00:40:21.100 as a squad boss she's

00:40:22.820 overhead and she has

00:40:24.260 to earn their trust

00:40:25.160 and respect the only

00:40:27.060 way to do that is to

00:40:28.880 outwork them and what's

00:40:31.000 more humbling than

00:40:31.680 having a girl pass you

00:40:32.620 on the hill I have to

00:40:34.460 tell you they had to

00:40:36.140 have gone crazy on

00:40:37.580 things like that but

00:40:39.060 that's the truth

00:40:40.180 they lost their mind

00:40:42.760 over that one that

00:40:44.180 that actually may have

00:40:45.220 doomed us more than

00:40:46.400 the climate

00:40:46.900 look I'm just dude

00:40:50.040 it's just reality like

00:40:51.260 those of us who live in

00:40:52.220 reality except the

00:40:53.560 simple truth that look

00:40:54.840 if you're 120 pounds

00:40:56.060 your pack weighs 70

00:40:57.100 pounds you got to work

00:40:57.920 three times as hard as

00:40:59.540 someone like me I

00:41:00.100 weigh 230 pounds right

00:41:01.700 it's just reality and

00:41:03.780 the thing is I would

00:41:05.080 think that framing it

00:41:06.060 that way saying that a

00:41:07.280 gal has to work three

00:41:08.320 times harder that's that

00:41:09.840 honors their service

00:41:11.180 but they look at it as

00:41:12.820 like oh no no everyone

00:41:13.720 can do the same thing

00:41:14.460 so if you're saying

00:41:14.940 you have to work three

00:41:15.620 times as hard that

00:41:16.640 means you're demeaning

00:41:17.380 women it's like no it's 1.00

00:41:18.340 the opposite that's how

00:41:19.740 upside down woke

00:41:20.760 Hollywood is it's like

00:41:21.720 we really need to

00:41:22.660 everyone in my

00:41:23.680 industry needs to

00:41:24.280 disabuse ourselves of

00:41:25.440 all this like delicate

00:41:26.740 political stuff because

00:41:28.140 normal people watch that

00:41:30.120 clip in particular and

00:41:31.280 just go yeah yeah that

00:41:32.520 sounds right and that

00:41:33.440 is the reality where can

00:41:35.600 you find it now can I

00:41:37.640 just go ahead yeah it

00:41:39.980 we made a website called

00:41:41.320 hotshotmovie.com you can

00:41:43.040 support us directly there

00:41:44.020 but you know if you don't

00:41:45.000 if it's more convenient you

00:41:45.980 don't mind giving Jeff

00:41:46.800 Bezos a pound of flesh it's

00:41:48.080 also on Amazon Google play

00:41:52.100 and voodoo well he's losing 0.62

00:41:54.880 so much money with the

00:41:55.820 Washington Post that

00:41:56.760 maybe I don't know maybe

00:41:57.880 you should throw him a

00:41:58.640 bone I don't know I

00:42:00.660 think I would go to

00:42:01.360 hotshotmovie.com thank

00:42:03.420 you so much Gabriel I

00:42:04.460 appreciate it God bless

00:42:05.520 thank you so much you

00:42:07.680 bet

The Glenn Beck Program - January 17, 2025

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