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The FBI has been exposed for trying to start something that looks like the Stasi or the KGB, and I again believe to intentionally piss you off because a color revolution needs riots in the streets. We also talk about what s coming with the SCOTUS decisions, and the one that came down that was semi-important, but everything really is all next week. Also, we spoke to Charlie Kirk about what do we do to fix America, and he has some solid ideas that are different than I ve heard from any place else. And we talked to Nerd Roddick, who is all over this new Star Wars series.
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Hey, today's podcast you're going to absolutely love. We start with something that is really,
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truly stunning. The federal government just been exposed for trying to start something
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that really looks like the Stasi or the KGB. The things that they're doing now,
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and I again believe to intentionally piss you off because a color revolution needs riots in the
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streets. We also talk about what's coming with the SCOTUS decisions. There's one that came down
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that was semi-important, but everything really is all next week. Also, we spoke to Charlie Kirk.
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Great conversation with him about what do we do to fix America, and he has really solid ideas that
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are different than I've heard from any place else. It's part of his new book, Right Wing Revolution,
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that's available everywhere. Then we talked to Nerd Roddick. It's Gary Buechler. He is all over
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this new Star Wars series. You know, of course, it's, you know, the obvious Star Wars story,
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the lesbian space witches, right? Anyway, he's being blamed, and he's even getting strikes against him
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on YouTube because they're saying that he is, I guess, homophobic or anti-witch or... I don't know
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Stu, for the life of me, I looked at this
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story and I just didn't recall it at all. And I think this is, this tells you something that we
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have so many things going on in our country right now that a story this big could elude us or just
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talk about it once and then move on. Listen to this. To be clear, this didn't elude us, right?
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It was actually in the show prep in the newsletter. If you're a subscriber to the newsletter, which is
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all the show prep that we do every day, you got this on September 21st, 2023. It was the lead story
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that day in our prep and we talked about it. But, you know, you're right. These things just come and
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go because every day is a new catastrophe. Yeah. Listen to this one. The Biden administration
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since disbanded Homeland Intelligence Expert Group, which reminds me, make sure you listen
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to the new podcast, the Beck story. The third one comes out tomorrow. Is it the third one or fourth
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one? And it's all about experts and how these experts, it's all part of the progressive plan
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for the last hundred years. The world will start making sense to you like nobody's business.
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Anyway, so that's the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group. They planned an influence operation
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to persuade mothers and teachers to inform on dissident parents and students suspected of domestic
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extremism. Now, as we told you after the passing of the Patriot Act, be careful because terrorism can
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be one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. One man's terrorist is another man's
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freedom fighter. And we're seeing that. We're seeing that all the time. If you are standing up
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and you're standing up peacefully, you can go to jail. You can go to prison. You can stand up peacefully
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and, in fact, kneel down and pray in front of an abortion clinic and you can go to jail now for 10 years.
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But you can burn down an abortion clinic and they don't even look for you.
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The panel created in September of last year was to provide advice and perspectives on intelligence
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and national security efforts. I'm quoting. They included the Obama-era CIA director, John Brennan.
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Gee, how many times have we seen his name come up? And it's all related to bad, oppressive stuff.
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Also, the ex-director of the National Intelligence Agency, James Clapper. Now, these were the guys that
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during the 2020 election were showing their credentials. Hey, I just want you to know,
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I'm a bigwig in the intelligence department and let me tell you, this Hunter Biden laptop,
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that's dangerous Russian disinformation. Okay. Conservative nonprofit, thank God for American
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first legal, alleged in November, in a lawsuit in 2023, November, that the group was stacked with
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Democratic partisans. Now, listen to this. This is how this thing was stopped. It was stacked with
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Democratic partisans and violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act because of its lack of balance.
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The Biden administration's inappropriate influence over it and its lack of public notice and participation.
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DHS agreed to disband the group and to provide American first legal with the internal records as part of an out of
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court settlement in May. I just want you to know, they don't stop these things. They rename them,
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they break them up, and they do them in other ways. You can't say you are a lover of our democracy,
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and you're trying to save democracy, and put a secret council together that is encouraging people
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to look at political dissent and report on those people so the government can do something.
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In the notes from a September 2023 meeting, the Brennan Clapper group discussed ways for the
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Department of Homeland Security to increase efforts to collect intelligence on Americans across the
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country and to get into local communities in a non-threatening way. Members noted, quoting,
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Americans have an ambivalent feeling of telling on each other, citing the failure of see something,
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say something. No, we don't, we're not ambivalent about that. We don't want to do that.
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If I see somebody that is breaking the law, and I think they're doing something that looks like it
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might be terroristic in nature, yeah, I will call the police. But I'm not snooping and spying on my
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neighbors. The problem one attendee summarized was, quote, how do we get people, or how do people safely
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report a concern about their neighbors? One solution proposed at the meeting was to reclassify,
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listen to this, one proposal was to reclassify political dissent as a public health crisis,
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and to encourage Americans to report family members or neighbors to the federal government
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if they displayed any concerning behavior. Yeah, well, here's some concerning behavior.
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Trump derangement syndrome. Here's some concerning behavior. Putting together the Stasi.
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Here's some concerning behavior. Allowing illegals and gangs to come into our country,
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rape and kill our children, and still do nothing about it. Who do I call for that?
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Quote, to get a mother or a teacher to come forward, it needs to be a public health catcher's mitt.
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So they're saying, Trump derangement syndrome, they're saying, if you disagree, it's because
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you have mental health problems. Now, Stu, what was one of the ways that the Stasi and the Nazis
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could get people at the beginning, before they just said, we don't care, to get people off the streets
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who disagreed with them? Where did they put some of those people before the concentration camps?
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They put them in the crazy house because they were just crazy, because to go against what
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is good for the common good is clearly some sort of mental health disorder.
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If DHS could not convince mothers and teachers to become informants, one member of the group
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suggested the feds, listen to this, should turn to corporate America as a resource of intelligence
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on their employees. May I ask, what more information does our government need on us as
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individuals? They already know. We know that they are listening to us. Now, I don't mean that
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they're actually somebody's on the other line listening in. They don't need that. They now have
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AI and keywords. So if you are on the telephone and you're talking to somebody and you mention the
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word assassination, that keyword highlights it and that record is pulled out and that's when it's
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We already know they track, if you're a person of interest, and be careful on what that means,
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if you're a person of interest, what can they do? Well, they'll go in to your social network
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and they will see, and we know they're doing this without being people of interest, just topics that
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they find disturbing. So if you're online, they will look, where did that idea come from? They'll do
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a tree and they'll do a tree to all of your friends and relatives to see who is spreading this.
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They're doing that. What else? What other information do they need from corporate America?
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My gosh, have you ever worked for a really vindictive person? Have you ever worked at a
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place where your bosses were just scumbags? Can you imagine if they had the power to report you to
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They said that the corporate America should be considered as a resource of intelligence on their
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employees because there is an industry ecosystem. Companies are internally collecting open sources.
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Can we engage and use those products? Plans have strong echoes of East Germany's secret police
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agency, the Stasi, which relied on a network of unofficial informants to report friends, family,
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and neighbors as potential dissidents to the socialist regime between 1950 and 1990.
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So do you know what happened? Do you know why when people come here, the thing that people used to
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always say about America is they're so trusting. Americans are just so open and they'll invite you into
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their house and, you know, they'll just, they'll just talk to you. And it's, there's nowhere on earth like
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that. Do you know why? Because we've never had a Stasi. We've never had to worry about our neighbors on the
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payroll of the federal government turning us in. I'm sorry, we did during Woodrow Wilson. We did all of this for
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three years under Woodrow Wilson. And it is why there wasn't a single progressive elected for 10
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years, because it took our breath away. Thanks to American First Legal, we're able to get the
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Biden's team personal documents outlining the strategy to monitor and intimidate any dissenting views.
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It's shocking to see such intolerance and paranoia in written form. The revelations are the first
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installment of what the AFL is calling the deep state diaries. They promise that many more documents
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obtained are going to be released soon. Now, you want to talk about releasing documents. Here's the
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other thing that our federal government is doing. This is why Stu and I lost track of this story until
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AFL came out and sued and won. Because there's so many of these things. Let me tell you something
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else. If you believe in democracy, one man, one vote, which we have that portion when we go to vote for
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a representative. That's why we're a representative republic, a democratically elected representative
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government, a republic. Anyway, if you believe one man, one vote, then you should be the strongest person
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on voter fraud. You should be the number one person saying, wait a minute, wait a minute. I believe the
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people and the people alone should decide. Then you should be the strongest and standing up and saying,
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and no one should be able to influence that. Notice they try to take the money out of it,
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okay? But they leave all of those loopholes open for people like George Soros.
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And as long as their party is doing it, it's fine. I don't want my party doing it. I don't want any
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party doing it. I want one man, one vote. There's no reason our elections are not secured by blockchain
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right now. There's no reason for this. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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you know it works. Now, back to the podcast. Charlie Kirk, who was a kid when I was on at Fox and
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kind of grew up watching me and watching the show and now has become one of the most powerful people
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on the right in the United States of America. He has done more than I think almost anybody that I
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know, especially at his age. I don't mean to make him sound like a kid. He's make me feel old. He's
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how old are you now? 55, Charlie? I'm getting old for this stuff, Glenn. I'm 30. I'm getting way too old.
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But you've been so kind and gracious. And you remain a teacher of mine, Glenn. And you really
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were one of the first voices that made sense to me. And you would question the status quo. And
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you were the voice of the Tea Party movement where I got my start. And I'd listen to you on
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television, on Fox and local radio in Chicago. So God bless you. It's still surreal to be able to go
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on your show. It's a full circle. So God bless you. Thank you. Well, I'm thrilled with your success,
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Charlie, and the things that you're doing. You have a new book out, which I think is so perfect.
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Somebody asked me yesterday, if you could do it all over again, is there something that you wish
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you would have focused on instead of what you did? And I said, only one thing, and that is
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practical solutions, God solutions, changing your life, cleaning up your life, doing these things.
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But I just, I focused on the things that politically we should do, where that's not the answer. And this
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is what your book really goes right into. Yeah, that's exactly right. And so when we decided to
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write this book, we obviously diagnosed what the problem is, but that's only about 10% of the book,
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because that's really been done comprehensively. As you know, Glenn, what is the woke? Where does it
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come from? Marxism, nihilism, postmodernism, deconstructionism. So there's a little bit of that.
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But 90% of the book is about action, action, action. And that's my life. That's what I've been
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done for 12 years. We run Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action. We're making a big difference
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with younger people. I get that all the time. And I know you know this, Glenn. People at Tea Party
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meetings or at local Republican meetings, where they come up to you asking for a selfie. Glenn,
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I'm so worried about the future of America. What can I do? And I get that question all the time.
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And I was just kind of tired of telling the cliche, well, you know, run for office, pal. And I said,
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what we really need is a comprehensive, whole-of-life strategy that involves every
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part of our being of how we're going to restore a virtuous republic. So the hypothesis we have in
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this book is that the Constitution is collapsing. The republic, small-r Republican form of government
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is disintegrating. And it goes back to the quote from James Madison, where he says that the Constitution
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was written wholly for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the people
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of any other. And it might have been John Adams. I get them interchange. However, the point is that
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the quote was right there near the American founding, which is that if you are no longer
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a moral or religious people, then you can really not sustain a small-r Republican form of government.
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And that's because you can't manage yourself. And so there's not enough laws that we could pass
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to manage individuals. You have to have personal responsibility to be able to have freedom.
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You know, I would say it even goes back to Adam Smith with, you know, where he comes up with the
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invisible hand of the market. If you are somebody who, a society that just is embracing violent
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pornography, that's exactly what the system will give you. And we have to be under self-control enough
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to say, yes, I know that is an option, but it is, it's, it's devastating to not only me, my soul,
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my relationship, my future relationships, my children and my country. So no.
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Yes. And how often do we say we want self-government to be restored, but are we a people that is
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currently capable of self-government? Are we a people where we know our neighbors and we've done
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the work to build strong communities? And we talk about in the book, things that you can actually
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actively do that you might not always think about. One is a very radical idea, Glenn, which is
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try to restore the Sabbath back as a core piece of your life. We argue in the book that when America
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logged off and there was no very lower television, lower radio consumption habits, and hopefully,
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you know, today would be less social media and honestly less business transactions. America was
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a more decent country because you're left with less distractions. You spend more time with your
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family. You spend more time with your children. You spend more time with your neighbors. Now that might
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not seem like a political issue, oh, you know, for six days you shall work, on the seventh day you
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shall rest. It does say it repeatedly in the scriptures, but it's actually one of the most
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political things when you think about it. Because if you are not willing to sanctify time and give one
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day to the divine, well then you're nothing more than a very rich servant or slave of the state or
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your corporate masters. And I'm not saying that the government has to mandate anything, but through this
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national revival that we're calling for in this book, why don't we try to get back to this idea
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of a national day of rest? And by the way, the founding fathers did it. We did it for over 150
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years in this country. And that's just one idea of many different things. Secondly, we talked about,
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Glenn, the need to learn. You might say, what? They say an informed population is a threat to the
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great reset. There is, we have never had access to more information and yet less people accessing that
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information in the history of the species. Right now I'm calling you on a smart, isn't it? On my
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smartphone, we have every lecture, podcast imaginable, free of charge. You can listen to the Glenn Beck
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show. You can listen to my podcast. You can listen to Jordan Peterson. You can listen to Christopher
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Rufo, James Lindsay. You can listen to all the legends, free of charge. And yet people are making
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the decisions to not do that. And so people say, what can I do? What can I do? You have to spend time
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learning about old things. We have an entire chapter in this book talking about if it has
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lasted more than a couple hundred years, it probably has lasted for a couple hundred years
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for a good reason. And so to spend time nurturing your mind and your soul and your being, slowing down
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your life and understanding that the path forward very well, you might understand the path forward by
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knowing what came before you. And a lot of this is not revolutionary stuff, as the title would suggest,
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but actually kind of is revolutionary in the time that we're in. And think about it. We are told that
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if anything is old, it is misogynistic, colonialistic, outdated, backwards and racist. We are told that if
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you are not constantly looking at your phone all the time, then you are not being as productive as you
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need to. We have an entire chapter of this book about what I consider to be the actual existential
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crisis of the West. And it's not climate change. It's not environmentalism. It's not systemic
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racism. It's the collapsing fertility rates in the West. And we go after, why is that happening?
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Where did this come from? And how can we reverse it? Where we are now below replacement levels,
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because we believe having children is a gift from the Lord.
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Well, I think there's a couple of reasons. The first and foremost is that on university and college
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campuses, it is presented that having children is a burden. That's number one. Number two,
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we have told a generation of young women to instead prioritize family formation to go try and become
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a CEO of a shoe company. And we go through the numbers in this book. There are millions, almost
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10 to 12 million, early 30, late 30 young women who are unmarried in this country. And that is a bad
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statistic across the board. And again, I'm all for people, you know, I'm all for liberty. So if you
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want to be an entrepreneur, you want to pursue your dreams, so be it. But it comes with a price. It
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comes with a consequence. And then we also talk about in the book, the assault on men is that some
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of the solutions are a masculine spirit in the West, men being men again, and being unafraid to ask a girl
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out on a date of being protectors of women. Do you know that less than half of Gen Z men, when they
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take a young girl on the date, pay for the date? I think that alone is a number worth thinking about.
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Let's think about the greatest generation. What percentage of the greatest generation would pay
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for the meal when they took a woman out to date in the 1940s?
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It had to be probably had to be 95 to 100. I totally agree. And you might again,
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some people might think that's a silly observation. I think that's very telling
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that we went from a country where men would take the where they would be assertive, that they would
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take the initiative. Of course, they understood that their role was to protect women and to have
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children and to provide for the family to of this false promise of cultural egalitarianism,
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which is a lie from secularism. So so then finally, on the fertility crisis part,
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is I think this is really important that there's an economic component to it. And you know,
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I'm not a Marxist. I'm not one to blame materialism for all of our problems. However,
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the number one reason that married couples give for why they don't have more children
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is that it's too expensive. And we talk about in the book that cheap money Federal Reserve policies
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of creating money out of thin air, which is the ultimate big government project,
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the ultimate big government project is giving a monopoly of money to the Federal Reserve
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has resulted in families that want to have more children, giving up and surrendering and saying,
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we don't want to have kids. In the book, we talk about it's a fire alarm during COVID. You would
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think when a bunch of people are not going to work, they're locked up in their homes,
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but the birth rate would skyrocket nine months later. It's kind of like that. Oh, you'll you
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have a blackout in New York City. All of a sudden, you're going to see a baby woman nine months,
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right? In fact, we have seen the opposite, Glenn. And this is what was so eye opening to me. And
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Dennis Prager deserves credit for leading me towards this truth is that having children is
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not automatic. The the act of having children is having autumn is somewhat automatic. But children
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is a value, you must value reproduction and mating said differently that if you have the technology to
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interfere with being able to have children such as birth control, people will use that and they'll say,
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we don't want to have children anymore. And so we go into great detail. We think that is the great
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existential crisis facing the West and the species, our inability to reproduce and our
00:27:30.780
ability to honestly replicate ourselves, which we think is a much bigger issue than climate change,
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systemic racism, more trans nonsense as they're pushing right now. So I have to tell you, Charlie,
00:27:41.680
the two things that you just said that if I were on the left, I like I would say he's talking about
00:27:47.560
the replacement theory. He's he's he's shoveling that garbage, that conspiracy theory, replacement
00:27:53.680
theory. And I would also say that you now just are advocating for the end of all birth control.
00:28:00.360
Well, not not not advocating for the end of all birth control, any means, but I was just when it
00:28:05.500
comes when when it comes again, I'm a liberty guy. So you make the decisions and use your agency as
00:28:10.540
you see fit. But let's tackle that one first. I'm not even criticizing birth control. I'm making an
00:28:14.600
observation that when people have birth control, that they will not necessarily then choose to
00:28:19.600
still have children. And because it was an automatic assumption built in for thousands of years that
00:28:24.660
having children is is not a value. You just do it. It is part of life. And because we as as
00:28:32.340
modernity progressed and we had antibiotics and we had modern medicine and surgery, we had fever
00:28:38.520
reducers, we saw population rates increase. And that was a good thing. So we just figured we just
00:28:43.620
figured as such, OK, population is just going to keep on growing and we're going to overpopulate
00:28:47.560
the earth. And, you know, the great reset guys, they've been saying, oh, we have many people that
00:28:51.900
the numbers actually show the opposite. So it's not necessarily even a criticism of birth control
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per se. It's just that when people have it available, they might say, yeah, I don't want
00:29:00.080
to have kids. I might want to have the pleasure in the act of having children as long as I don't
00:29:04.380
have to have children myself. The second part, as far as the replacement, that's not a racial
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thing. In fact, if you look at the birth rates of black America, they're some of the
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lowest. I want all different races and backgrounds to increase how much children they're having.
00:29:17.940
And it's fascinating, Glenn. If you look at the bell curve of who's actually having more
00:29:22.380
than two kids in this country, it is the super poor and the super rich. The middle class are
00:29:27.960
the ones that are opting out of having lots of children. And so what that tells me is that
00:29:32.400
having a lot of children is a luxury benefit for people that have a bunch of money. And it
00:29:37.120
also is the most cherished possession of people that do not have material possession.
00:29:43.340
Isn't that incredible? So the people that have nothing or very little, and they might be on
00:29:47.620
welfare or poverty, having children, that is their treasure. That is their prize. And the
00:29:52.240
people that have a ton of money, millions of dollars a year, having children because they
00:29:56.340
have all the stuff, it really means nothing. As you all know, Glenn, having more toys doesn't
00:30:00.300
do anything. That having children actually is the ultimate beauty. And I see this all
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the time amongst people that have a lot of money and have a lot of success. They have
00:30:09.500
tons of planes and tons of homes. And they say, let's go have a couple more kids because
00:30:13.300
that actually gives you satisfaction and meaning and purpose. The people who are opting out of
00:30:18.060
having children are the ones earning $70,000 or $80,000 a year. It's fascinating data that
00:30:22.180
You are listening to the best of Glenn Beck. To listen to the rest of this interview, check
00:30:27.580
out the full show podcast, the one and only, uh, Gary Buechler is on nerd roddick is what
00:30:37.680
he is known as. Uh, and he has been hysterical, uh, on the new, uh, star Wars series from Disney
00:30:47.200
plus called the acolyte. I haven't seen it, but I have heard about it and I have heard my
00:30:54.360
friends talking about Gary and, and his conversations on it. Disney is actually blaming him for the,
00:31:04.460
you know, the loss of credibility on that new space thriller of the space lesbian, which is,
00:31:10.740
um, and, uh, YouTube has actually, uh, dinged him, uh, and is giving him strikes because he's
00:31:22.160
a hate monger because he doesn't like the lesbian, which is in space. Gary, you're here to answer
00:31:29.840
I'm here. I'm here to answer for my sins against Disney. Thank you for having me on Glenn.
00:31:35.960
Yeah. Uh, and that is happening to, uh, it's, it's not, it's random, but it's happening to a lot
00:31:42.720
of YouTubers and commentators. And I'm not sure if you're aware, uh, the star, a manless Stenberg,
00:31:48.140
uh, yesterday, uh, released a diss track against star Wars fans, and she is copyright claiming and
00:31:55.940
dinging everybody on YouTube at the next as well for her blatant attack on the star Wars fandom,
00:32:01.580
which is always, you know, just a great strategy that's, Oh, by the way, never worked.
00:32:07.440
Yeah, I know. It's really great. Look, I'm a star of this new show from, you know, just this
00:32:13.880
legacy that had been loved for 50 years. Uh, and I'm a big star Wars fan, but all the star
00:32:20.940
Wars fans, they really suck a lot. They really, they're crazy. They, they don't know, uh, you
00:32:27.960
know, talent when they see it, they don't know a good storyline. Yeah. That's the way to attract
00:32:32.420
those, those, those loyal viewers every single time. Um, I saw the, uh, rotten tomatoes, the,
00:32:39.680
the, uh, the, uh, the experts tell us that it's absolutely fantastic. 84%. Uh, the average
00:32:49.180
audience score is 14. That's a bit high. Yeah. So tell, tell us the story first. What is the
00:33:04.060
story? Oh, the story of the acolyte is, as you said, there is a coven of lesbian space
00:33:11.020
witches, uh, who magically conceived identical twins without a father through a power of not
00:33:18.740
the force, the thread of, by the way, somebody called Darth Povich because the twins don't
00:33:23.900
look anything like mom. They don't have horns. Uh, and they were split up, uh, at, uh, at the
00:33:32.280
age of like, uh, it was like eight or nine and they haven't seen each other for 16 years
00:33:37.620
yet. They have identical haircuts. Uh, really? What are the odds of the haircut thing? Really?
00:33:46.100
That's crazy. Well, uh, you know, a good hairstylist keeps her secrets. So obviously she isn't telling
00:33:53.580
either one that they're going to the same one, but, uh, before, before we get into more of
00:33:59.940
the lesbian space, which thing, which I think America and the world's been crying out for,
00:34:04.000
for a very long time. Um, tell me who, uh, tell me who is in charge of this, uh, disaster in space.
00:34:11.500
Who did they get to, to, uh, run this former personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein? Leslie
00:34:18.060
Hedlund, uh, is the head writer on this show. Yeah. I know it's shocking that somehow somebody
00:34:25.180
connected to Harvey Weinstein can get work. Yeah. I would think they would be in the federal
00:34:32.080
witness protection program myself. Um, but they might even turn them down. Um, the, so she,
00:34:38.420
she found work after being the personal assistant. So the one that was lining up all of the,
00:34:45.580
you know, hotel room meetings and everything else. She's now the head writer of the lesbian space
00:34:53.320
switch show. She is, I think the term is Judas goat. Uh, I think that's, uh, she got a job by
00:35:01.080
begging for it on the red carpet. Uh, when she was famously asked, what's your favorite star Wars?
00:35:06.060
And she's said all the star Wars, obviously not knowing a single thing about it. Uh, later she's
00:35:12.020
come out and claimed that she does. And she's written this entire story that not only passed the
00:35:18.440
Bechdel test, uh, it passes any DEI requirement with flying colors for lack of a better description,
00:35:25.540
but, um, go ahead. So ultimately it's, it's the story Glenn, uh, what, what Disney loves to do
00:35:35.320
is conflate whatever happens on Twitter, uh, and any kind of complaints with like real criticisms
00:35:43.000
of this show. And ultimately, despite all the obvious, uh, quote unquote diversity, which is just
00:35:50.120
meant to exclude, uh, well, white men, let's be real. Uh, and it's just a bad story that destroys
00:35:57.780
the lore. And that's what star Wars fans are mad about. Uh, it goes back to the past and it undercuts
00:36:03.100
Anakin, uh, his entire redemptive arc, uh, the specialness of Anakin and the prophecy. Uh, and the,
00:36:11.200
every time they release another minute of Disney star Wars, I can't even call it star Wars. It's
00:36:16.420
Disney star Wars on D plus it destroys more lore. And that's what the fans are upset about. The
00:36:23.180
thing is, this has been going on for years going, this is what you can, you can take it all the way
00:36:27.300
back to the most awakens. And, uh, it, it seems to, uh, come to a head on this show for some reason,
00:36:35.040
when I think it probably could have come to a head a five other times, six other times.
00:36:41.200
Um, but why this one? I mean, are they just, I mean, have they just been like, well, you know
00:36:48.500
what? We've tried subtly to kill this thing. Let's just finally kill it. Right. Uh, they,
00:36:54.580
they found a way to kill something again. Uh, it's, it's pretty amazing. Uh, I would argue that
00:37:00.980
the Obi-Wan Kenobi show was much worse as far as destroying lore. Uh, Obi-Wan was supposed to,
00:37:06.440
his sole purpose was to watch Luke and they had a show where he takes off on Luke twice,
00:37:11.200
follows around a little baby princess Leia who never mentions meeting him as a kid and,
00:37:16.820
uh, fights Darth Vader twice. So it really shouldn't surprise anybody, but I guess this
00:37:22.620
show is this one. Oh, go on. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We have a delay and I'm, I'm, I forget.
00:37:30.820
I'm so excited to talk to you about this. The, um, the, the, the, the, I never thought I would
00:37:36.100
be in a position of defending metachlorians, but this one kind of throws all of that out, right?
00:37:45.040
It kind of does. I personally am not a fan of metachlorians and, and never will be, but
00:37:52.140
absolutely hate it. But like, I guess Disney star, Disney star Wars has proven things can
00:37:57.900
always get worse. And, uh, uh, the biggest victory, uh, comes with the prequels. Like the
00:38:04.180
prequels are now looked at much more fondly than they were before. Thanks to every bit of
00:38:09.340
Disney star Wars Lucasfilm is created. Uh, but with this show in particular, it's just
00:38:16.020
hit the zeitgeist because I would equate it to the Marvels from last year. It was just
00:38:20.320
so predictably bad. And then it was, and then it still beat our XR very lowered expectations
00:38:27.040
of how bad it would be. And it's, it's a show. If you see it, it's contradictory. It like
00:38:33.500
you have characters contradicting each other. Uh, none of it actually makes any sense in
00:38:39.260
for storytelling wise, you, you spend two, your first two episodes, establishing a character.
00:38:44.400
Then you go into a flashback for an entire episode that really doesn't tell you anything
00:38:48.780
new. And then the last episode was 27 minutes long without, you know, previously on in credits
00:38:54.840
and nothing happens. Absolutely nothing happens. Oh, and by the way, Glenn, it cost $180 million
00:39:00.460
to produce. Oh my gosh. What, what is, what has happened to, to Disney? I mean,
00:39:08.680
besides all of the, uh, you know, DEI crap, um, they just, the greatest storytelling company
00:39:24.820
No, they, they are creative bankruptcy personified now. And they were on the top when Bob Iger
00:39:32.500
decided to buy a bunch of franchises and everybody was calling him this massive genius when he just
00:39:38.160
went on a shopping spree and never bothered looking into what it takes to cultivate these franchises
00:39:44.720
and keep them around what it took to keep them around for decades. You know, it's not being
00:39:48.880
talked about as much, but they have a doctor who show that they are now in charge of running along
00:39:54.920
with Acolyte and they're both, it's a race to the bottom with both of these. Oh, I love doctor who
00:40:02.020
and there's, so do I, there's, when did Disney buy into doctor who? How did the B, I hate the BBC,
00:40:10.020
but how did the BBC even let that happen? Well, they're about to cancel it because, uh, the first
00:40:16.940
female doctor, uh, played by Jodie Whittaker, by the way, uh, wasn't a hit like they suspected and
00:40:22.580
Oh no. What a surprise. Yeah. What a shock. So they decided to bring back Russell T Davies who had
00:40:28.780
brought the show back in 2005 and it was extremely good and popular and it's just proof you can't go
00:40:34.640
home again. And how much has changed in entertainment Glenn, uh, post 2016, you have the guy who originally
00:40:42.500
brought it back, made it a worldwide sensation, making some of the worst doctor who now. And of course
00:40:48.460
it's filled with things like pronouns. And, uh, we had, uh, not, it's not even the first like male,
00:40:55.760
uh, kiss, uh, you know, gay kiss in doctor who, but they, they, they gave this one to the doctor
00:41:01.980
and made it more prominent with the first black gay doctor. And that's, that's what they're in this
00:41:06.280
trap now, instead of giving the fans what they want and just making good entertainment, they have to
00:41:12.560
abide by, you know, in the B the BBC started this much earlier on back in 2012. Yeah. The
00:41:18.180
diversity and inclusion initiative, which is all the DEI stuff. And it prevents them from telling a
00:41:23.960
good story. They have so many rules on themselves. So, uh, with the corporatism to go back to Disney
00:41:30.180
with the corporatism, they really can't take chances anymore. Uh, and this, this even goes beyond woke
00:41:37.040
entertainment. They just need to have this built in audience to spend money on anything. And in my
00:41:42.840
opinion, overspend and what makes things insane is they paid so much money for this built in audience
00:41:51.400
that they immediately decide to piss off. Not only with their storytelling, they come out and gaslight
00:41:56.580
the fandom with a term that's a real term called fan baiting, which is to start controversies online.
00:42:03.520
So people are talking about their show. And again, I haven't seen an example of this ever working,
00:42:09.280
but they've been doing it now for seven or eight years.