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00:00:30.000 Hey, everything you need to know on today's Best of Podcast, we take a look at what might happen if next week's election is razor thin

00:00:36.700 and how it might play out through the next couple of months all the way to January 20th.

00:00:41.380 Also, Danny Gokey is with us, Emmy Award, I'm sorry, not Emmy, but Grammy Award winning artist.

00:00:47.240 He's got an amazing song to share.

00:00:49.800 And Christy Kendall joins us to talk about a divided nation and how do we, quote, undivide us.

00:01:00.000 All this and more in 60.

00:01:02.320 First, three of the most satisfying words in the English language are,

00:01:06.700 I was prepared.

00:01:08.760 There has never been a situation, I think, where somebody is like,

00:01:12.780 man, I was prepared and I wish I wasn't.

00:01:18.700 What? 0.93

00:01:19.340 That makes as much sense as every Republican is a Nazi.

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00:02:32.220 All right, I want to prepare you for what could happen, an emphasis on could happen next week.

00:02:48.140 And everything I'm about to share with you, these are not my words.

00:02:52.760 These are the words from the actual war games from the left.

00:02:57.560 And I'll explain, you'll understand, you know, over the next couple of minutes.

00:03:03.220 So this is not a conspiracy theory.

00:03:05.860 This is not my opinion.

00:03:07.760 These are the facts of what is being planned.

00:03:11.340 I just think we all need to be prepared for any potential outcome that is being planned right now,

00:03:19.700 just in case, you know, what happens if Kamala wins a close contested election next week? 1.00

00:03:25.440 What happens if the vote count is in question?

00:03:28.300 What happens if Trump supporters engage in protesters?

00:03:31.400 What happens on certification day, January 6th?

00:03:35.040 Well, I want to start with something that was in the Washington Post in 2017.

00:03:41.000 Three retired generals declared that the country must prepare now for a real insurrection in 2024.

00:03:49.900 That's 2017, they said that.

00:03:52.660 This is why, when Biden got in, he purged the military of any Trump supporters,

00:03:59.100 anybody who was online supporting Trump, and anyone who didn't take the vaccine

00:04:03.380 because they were assumed to be Trump supporters.

00:04:06.560 In that article, they seemed to be worried about dissension from within the United States military.

00:04:13.300 In other words, some on the left, in 2017, were expecting and predicting an actual coup this time around if Trump lost. 0.91

00:04:25.100 Now, is this bullcrap?

00:04:28.360 Trump supporters in the military are not willing to defy the U.S. government.

00:04:32.920 This feeds into the entire January 6th hysteria the Democrats have been pushing for four years.

00:04:40.160 But here we have these three retired generals talking about it.

00:04:44.160 So, is that true?

00:04:46.860 Well, I don't know a single officer that is going to, you know, in the ranks, not up at the highest levels,

00:04:55.000 that is going to violate the Constitution.

00:04:57.720 They know they swear an allegiance to the Constitution, not to the President,

00:05:01.600 if he is asking for illegal things to be done, unconstitutional things.

00:05:07.160 Now, we have to consider, how far are they willing to go if Trump protests,

00:05:13.780 no matter how peaceful they may be, gather in places like Washington, D.C.

00:05:17.560 We have never expected a weaponized government and never expected how weaponized the federal government,

00:05:24.520 you know, could become after January 6th.

00:05:27.940 Consider that we still don't know how many federal officers, FBI officers,

00:05:33.140 were even on the ground and if they were involved.

00:05:37.160 We still don't know who planted the pipe bombs.

00:05:40.420 We still don't know why Kamala Harris' Secret Service detail deleted text messages 0.99

00:05:45.320 from that day on why they moved her away from the Capitol. 0.77

00:05:51.200 What is our government willing to do?

00:05:54.420 What have they done?

00:05:56.080 And what are they willing to do this time?

00:05:58.500 Well, it turns out we kind of know because there's been another war game.

00:06:03.080 This was the White House, the Pentagon, and Congress have been briefed now on the findings of this war game.

00:06:10.700 It's a progressive veterans group.

00:06:13.160 They conducted a January 6th war game.

00:06:15.840 They even turned it into a documentary.

00:06:17.660 So you can see all of this.

00:06:19.940 It assumed the worst, including a pro-Trump rally on January 6th,

00:06:24.780 which spins completely out of control, including members of the military switching sides,

00:06:30.140 echoing the Washington Post article in 2021.

00:06:33.220 The game attendees included some of the biggest anti-Trump fanatics in the country,

00:06:40.940 including the Trump impeachment witness, Alexander Vindman,

00:06:44.940 the disgraced FBI agent, Peter Strzok,

00:06:49.240 General Wesley Clark, and even, and I kid you not, Bill Kristol.

00:06:53.580 Okay, so everyone involved in this is virulently anti-Trump.

00:06:58.640 Now, this is obvious fan fiction here.

00:07:02.960 It's what they dream could happen.

00:07:06.240 But listen to the capabilities they talk about.

00:07:09.020 Listen to this.

00:07:10.020 For me, the question is, what's next?

00:07:12.420 So we have all this capability from a federal perspective.

00:07:15.580 What can you do?

00:07:16.760 What should you do if our guard forces and our law enforcement capabilities

00:07:21.720 are not sufficient strength to be able to handle things?

00:07:25.800 You can authorize lethal force to protect law enforcement officers.

00:07:29.560 Pause for a second.

00:07:30.460 Is that correct?

00:07:31.240 You could have federal?

00:07:31.840 We've done it on the southwest border.

00:07:33.420 We could have federal troops that, with a presidential directive,

00:07:37.160 can protect law enforcement with lethal force.

00:07:40.400 Got it.

00:07:41.160 So these are anti-Trump advisors, war gaming, saying the president can do lethal force.

00:07:50.340 Okay.

00:07:51.120 So they're talking about the U.S. military authorized to kill American citizens,

00:07:56.400 just to clarify.

00:07:57.680 But let's go on.

00:07:59.320 I would just urge you, and I know you've been resistant to doing surveillance on certain people,

00:08:04.180 but you have to assume about the worst case scenario.

00:08:07.960 What is your red line?

00:08:09.100 I think that's right.

00:08:09.740 And to be clear, my only hesitancy was a FISA on Strickland.

00:08:15.940 Everybody else, I'd be fine.

00:08:17.920 Okay.

00:08:18.640 This is former Governor Steve Bullock playing the president, discussing with Heidi Heitkamp,

00:08:24.480 potentially spying on his running mate.

00:08:27.480 He's hesitant to do, due to how bad that might look,

00:08:31.200 but surveillance on every other American citizen he's good with.

00:08:35.640 Here's more of that discussion.

00:08:37.200 This time, General Clark, playing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:08:41.980 General, is there a way we could get legal authority to monitor General Sims and Strickland

00:08:49.160 and what they're saying to each other?

00:08:50.840 I think that's a bad idea.

00:08:53.440 The short answer is yes.

00:08:55.180 I just beat him by six-tenths of one percent, and we're in a deeply divided country right now.

00:09:04.740 No one has to know whether we're monitoring this phone or not.

00:09:08.560 No one has to know that.

00:09:10.340 No one has to know that.

00:09:12.660 Notice they're making this all about politics.

00:09:14.820 They're not making it about principles.

00:09:16.520 But if no one knows, it makes it okay, I guess, doesn't it?

00:09:21.140 Okay, so the scenario they're talking about is one that is clearly out of the ordinary and insane.

00:09:27.040 But how long would it take for the Biden-Harris regime to jump to these conclusions

00:09:31.480 if a few thousand protesters showed up to D.C. on January 6th?

00:09:35.520 And we know that this war game was briefed to the Biden-Harris White House, the Pentagon, and Congress,

00:09:43.920 spying on Americans, authorizing lethal force on American citizens.

00:09:49.480 Now, this is all interesting context given the recent update over at the Department of Defense.

00:09:54.300 About a month ago, the Pentagon revised the DOD Directive 5240.01.

00:10:01.320 This is a directive that dates back to the Cold War,

00:10:06.600 and it stipulates the guidelines for if or when U.S. military intelligence can assist domestic law enforcement.

00:10:16.820 Now, before last month, there was a revision made in 2016.

00:10:21.420 It stipulates on page 5 the military intelligence involvement is pursuant to presidential or congressional action.

00:10:29.480 In other words, a time of war.

00:10:31.320 It also warns that, quote,

00:10:34.380 they may not investigate U.S. persons or collect or maintain information about them

00:10:40.040 solely for the purpose of monitoring activities protected by their First Amendment

00:10:45.040 or their lawful exercise of other rights secured by the Constitution.

00:10:49.700 Okay, so that's comforting.

00:10:50.820 Also, the fact the words lethal or deadly force do not show up a single time in this revision in 2016 in the directive.

00:11:01.660 Not once.

00:11:03.340 However, about a month ago, it was revamped.

00:11:08.200 And everybody says, don't worry about it.

00:11:10.440 It's not a problem.

00:11:11.420 Well, in light of what the left is wargaming right now, maybe we should be a little concerned about it.

00:11:19.580 The words First Amendment in the directive were taken out.

00:11:23.280 Also, it now includes levels of authority, and the language this time adds in lethality, lethal force, death, or serious bodily injury.

00:11:38.140 Now, why?

00:11:38.660 Why is there suddenly a need to refine the rules on U.S. military intelligence spying on Americans a few weeks before a pivotal election?

00:11:49.640 Why did they feel it was necessary to add in the potential use of those assets using lethal force just a few weeks before that election?

00:11:59.020 We asked the Pentagon to clarify.

00:12:02.320 We got an email back that's very similar to the fact sheet they gave recently to Congress.

00:12:07.460 We obtained that fact sheet, so this apparent nothing burger rated an official explainer to Congress and the explainers to lowly outlets such as us.

00:12:19.100 The response they gave us is this.

00:12:21.680 The reissued directive does not reflect any change to the DOD's views towards its role in supporting civil authorities.

00:12:29.940 That's not the question.

00:12:31.420 To include law enforcement.

00:12:33.060 Rather, it provides clarification and delineates the approval authorities for activities conducted by the defense intelligence components.

00:12:42.000 While the paragraph that's been most frequently referenced on social media is new to this directive, it does not reflect any change to the DOD's policy regarding the use of lethal force by DOD personnel.

00:12:57.720 That is addressed in DOD D-5210.56, arming and use of force.

00:13:06.020 Revisions of DOD issuances are routine and ensure the departmental policies continue to be consistent with the law and executive branch policy, and they clearly articulate departmental policy.

00:13:19.040 The release in no way is timed in relation to the election or any other event.

00:13:24.320 Now, there's more.

00:13:25.200 We have the full statement up at glennbeck.com, but here's what they're saying.

00:13:29.780 Nothing to see here.

00:13:31.700 Nothing.

00:13:32.380 Nothing.

00:13:33.260 The timing on the election?

00:13:34.700 Coincidence.

00:13:35.220 Any ties to this wargaming?

00:13:38.240 Nonsense.

00:13:39.820 And the DOD directive that they listed shows that this is just business as usual.

00:13:45.640 DOD 5210.56.

00:13:48.480 What exactly is that one?

00:13:50.880 Well, we looked at it.

00:13:53.060 We have it up.

00:13:54.040 To me, it looks like guidelines for the military that does security around their own bases and things like that.

00:14:01.520 Now, is it just me?

00:14:03.540 Or why is this being used as the example of business as usual?

00:14:09.220 How is military around bases?

00:14:12.260 Now, this could very well be nothing.

00:14:15.760 But it also could be something.

00:14:18.860 We don't know. 0.79

00:14:19.860 The government language as usual is full of confusing bullcrap.

00:14:23.840 So, we have a fact check from the University of Washington.

00:14:30.220 They state that the spread of this story is due to a data void.

00:14:34.100 In other words, the government's not being clear.

00:14:37.000 We don't know.

00:14:37.640 We don't have the information.

00:14:38.940 We have no idea.

00:14:40.060 At any rate, I find it suspicious, given the left's recent January 6th war game and what they discussed there, that we can use military force and lethal force on the American public.

00:14:54.620 Now, again, I don't think the military, I don't think the actual soldiers would turn their guns on average American citizens.

00:15:08.780 I just don't think that is part of it.

00:15:11.180 I don't.

00:15:12.400 No matter who's president, I just don't think they would do that.

00:15:16.300 Maybe they would.

00:15:20.340 I would remind everybody in the military, your oath is to the Constitution of the United States.

00:15:27.700 No matter if it is Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, your oath is to the Constitution of the United States.

00:15:37.360 And in times like these, we made sure to make sure everybody in the world knows me, I was just following orders is not an excuse.

00:15:50.420 Not in America.

00:15:52.120 May have been in Germany until the Nuremberg trials.

00:15:55.820 But just following directions, just following orders, will not excuse you if you are executing unlawful, unconstitutional orders.

00:16:09.340 Everybody was briefed on this, including the Pentagon.

00:16:12.900 What's being planned?

00:16:15.340 Get out and vote.

00:16:18.260 Be safe.

00:16:19.720 Do everything in the name of peace and pray like you've never prayed before.

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00:17:41.160 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:49.840 Danny Gokey is a friend and a friend of the program and a big friend of Mercury One.

00:17:55.560 He has helped us raise money and he's been at some of our galas and he was just there.

00:18:02.220 I think it was last Saturday.

00:18:03.300 If you don't know the name, he was a top three finalist on season eight of American Idol.

00:18:09.340 He became huge quickly.

00:18:13.040 He dropped his first album, My Best Days, debuted at number four on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.

00:18:19.620 He's had a series of number ones since then.

00:18:22.960 He was at our gala on Saturday and he performed a song.

00:18:30.480 I was here early enough to hear him do a sound check and it was amazing.

00:18:35.420 I mean, everybody who was setting up just stopped and listened and you could tell it came from someplace deep.

00:18:43.420 And I want to play it here in a second, but before I want to get Danny on the line with me.

00:18:47.920 Hi, Danny.

00:18:49.100 Hey, good morning, Glenn.

00:18:50.160 How are you?

00:18:50.640 I'm great.

00:18:51.200 Where did this song come from?

00:18:54.900 Well, it started in 2023.

00:18:57.720 I should say 2022.

00:18:59.340 I was invited to sing at my friend's celebration party and her father, who's a business owner, very successful, of a restaurant chain, Jeff Ruby.

00:19:07.940 His name is Jeff Ruby himself.

00:19:09.040 And he invited me to sing God Bless the USA.

00:19:11.360 And I'm singing there.

00:19:12.080 They're naming a street after him.

00:19:13.580 And I sing this song, God Bless the USA.

00:19:15.380 I sing acapella.

00:19:16.720 And it just stuck with me.

00:19:17.880 And I just started thinking, I need to release songs and redo some of these songs that celebrate America because we're not hearing songs about our country anymore.

00:19:26.980 When the music stops, the patriotism stops.

00:19:29.260 Just like if I stop singing to God, my passion for God fades away.

00:19:33.900 If I'm not sending my wife music that is, you know, romantic music, the romance is fading.

00:19:40.100 And so I just started mulling around.

00:19:41.180 I'm going to write.

00:19:41.740 I just said, I'm going to redo some patriotic songs.

00:19:43.700 We need to get that patriotism back up.

00:19:45.460 And then I had an idea to write a song.

00:19:49.620 And this song came to me.

00:19:52.980 It's called My America.

00:19:54.240 You understand, my wife's family was kicked out of communism.

00:19:57.760 My wife's family, everything was taken away by a communist dictator that sold the whole country on these lies of how great they were and how they were going to help people.

00:20:08.260 So I basically just gaslit the people and my wife's family was kicked out of communist Cuba.

00:20:14.600 My wife's mother-in-law was, excuse me, my wife's mother was very wealthy and her grandfather was a very outspoken lawyer and had houses on the beach, houses inland.

00:20:23.320 Long story short, my wife's mom lives with us and she was raised with maids and servants and now she lives with us at our house and she works at Walmart.

00:20:31.100 Everything taken away at the young age of 18 years old.

00:20:34.200 And so anyway, so I wanted to write a song, so I started writing this song called My America and how I just still believe in our country and how I still believe in the American dream.

00:20:45.280 And I mean, I sat at the piano, I just started writing and this song was birthed out of it.

00:20:49.940 It wasn't my intention to write a new patriotic song.

00:20:52.280 My intention was to cover the old ones and reignite patriotism.

00:20:55.280 But it just so turns out that our generation needs this type of, I believe, I'm not trying to, you know, top my own horn, but to my own horn.

00:21:03.500 But I'm just saying, our generation needs believers again.

00:21:06.280 We lost believers in the American dream.

00:21:08.340 As a matter of fact, we have people who actually are turning their hearts against their own country.

00:21:13.080 And it's when the music stops and the patriotism stops, this is what happens.

00:21:17.820 I have to tell you, I mean, the first thing I said to you after I heard it, I came up to the stage in the soundcheck and I said, do you remember what I said to you?

00:21:26.400 Writing a patriotic song.

00:21:29.180 Oh yeah, I do now.

00:21:30.160 Yeah.

00:21:30.560 It's not easy.

00:21:31.200 It can get cheesy real quick.

00:21:32.420 It's cheesy real quick.

00:21:34.660 And this is anything but.

00:21:36.160 I mean, it is so good.

00:21:38.380 And I hope you recognized how long the audience stood in a standing ovation for you after this song.

00:21:45.840 It is, it's just tremendous.

00:21:47.580 I want to play it.

00:21:49.020 Go ahead.

00:21:50.340 No, I just, I want to say thank you and I appreciate it.

00:21:52.340 Where I'm noticing everywhere I go, I'm on tour right now.

00:21:54.420 And I do this song at the end of my set because we're in election season, right?

00:21:58.240 And I just, we just need people to kind of snap out of the, the rhetoric that has caused them to turn their hearts against the country and go back and remember the good things.

00:22:06.020 Right.

00:22:06.540 And that's what the song is about.

00:22:07.820 Remembering the good things.

00:22:08.720 If I only remember my wife's mistakes and trust me, she makes a lot of mistakes. 0.99

00:22:13.860 Sounding like, starting with maybe marrying you, it sounds like, possibly.

00:22:19.080 You could, you could edit that out.

00:22:20.460 I hope you don't hear it.

00:22:21.080 Anyways, if I just remember her mistakes, I mean, you literally just, it's the end of the marriage.

00:22:26.040 Yes.

00:22:26.340 You have to go back and remember the good.

00:22:27.860 And that's what I hope this song does.

00:22:29.920 Okay.

00:22:30.660 Here it is.

00:22:31.760 This is the latest from Danny Gokey.

00:22:34.300 It is called, gosh, what's it called?

00:22:38.000 Hang on, just a second.

00:22:38.680 My America.

00:22:40.180 My America, I Still Believe.

00:22:51.080 I hear them say, our country's far too gone.

00:23:04.920 Even claim, our father's got it wrong.

00:23:10.180 But I won't give up on us, and I'll take a stand.

00:23:16.820 Cause we can overcome, this is not the end.

00:23:26.680 I still believe in us, oh America.

00:23:33.260 You're still the land I love, though a little bruised up.

00:23:39.600 Stars and stripes still cry liberty Over evil, over tyranny

00:23:46.500 Blood poured out for our freedom They sacrificed it all for this nation

00:23:53.040 I still believe in us, my America Our history is full of bravery

00:24:13.020 Heroes fought for our equality

00:24:19.500 Now is the time to make peace And forgive our faults

00:24:26.740 Because united we stand Or divided we will fall

00:24:33.600 I still believe in us, my America

00:24:40.520 You're still the land I love Though a little bruised up

00:24:47.840 Stars and stripes still cry liberty Over evil, over tyranny

00:24:54.580 Blood poured out for our freedom Sacrificed it all for this nation

00:25:01.140 I still believe in us, my America

00:25:10.080 America, America God shed His grace on thee And proud by good with brotherhood

00:25:27.080 From sea to shining sea

00:25:35.820 Always believe in us, my America This is the land I love

00:25:47.820 But we gotta heal up

00:25:49.820 Lady liberty will always be A sign of hope to the refugee

00:25:54.560 The immigrant can't find escape From oppression to a better place

00:26:02.560 I still believe in us For one better place I still believe in us

00:26:08.360 my America I still believe in us I still believe in us

00:26:17.300 yeah i still believe in us My America

00:26:24.620 Oh, America.

00:26:33.420 Fantastic.

00:26:35.360 Fantastic.

00:26:37.040 Thank you.

00:26:37.760 That's My America, I Still Believe, and it's by Danny Gokey.

00:26:42.880 Go to Spotify and iTunes and download it and spread the word.

00:26:50.340 I think you should sing this at the inauguration.

00:26:52.460 I mean, if one side wins, you should say that.

00:26:56.860 I don't think, unfortunately, I don't think I'd be allowed to sing this song on the other side.

00:27:02.260 And I think that's a key indicator.

00:27:04.300 Do you hear songs being celebrated of America on the other side of the lane?

00:27:09.080 I guess I haven't been at a rally, but I see a lot of footage from it, and I never see that.

00:27:13.840 But I was able to sing this song just this past week in Atlanta in front of Trump.

00:27:18.740 Oh, what did he say?

00:27:19.860 What did he say?

00:27:20.340 Well, so I've got to try to explain it.

00:27:23.620 So it was for a faith rally, the faith director.

00:27:27.840 And anyways, they brought me up.

00:27:30.280 They were trying, you know, the campaign, Trump's got a busy schedule.

00:27:33.100 So the campaign was questioning, why are we having Trump on stage when Danny's singing the song?

00:27:38.100 This makes no sense.

00:27:38.780 This guy was busy.

00:27:40.060 They really pushed through, and I got up there.

00:27:43.040 I have a video on my social media of me doing it.

00:27:45.920 And you can tell Trump at first didn't know what was going on, because they just don't bring people on stage to sing for him.

00:27:49.800 You know what I mean?

00:27:50.320 Oh, yeah.

00:27:50.760 No, I know.

00:27:51.160 So I went and did that, and you could tell when I got to the America part, his face lit up, and then he called me over by him to shake his hand.

00:28:00.500 I'm really hoping.

00:28:01.760 I still don't know if he really knows the song yet, but it was cool that I finally, because I wrote this song last year in 2023, and I finally got to sing it.

00:28:09.980 But I'm hoping to sing it in front of the inauguration, because Trump needs to become like a father to the nation, like Lincoln and like Washington.

00:28:17.260 You know, we're in such division, and hopefully, you know, when he wins, I hope, begins to follow the nation and bring people together again.

00:28:25.300 And this is a song for people who lost faith in America.

00:28:28.480 It's a song.

00:28:29.320 You know, Lee Greenwood, he's got God Bless USA, Proud to be an American.

00:28:32.300 Not many people are proud to be an American because of the rhetoric.

00:28:34.420 Right.

00:28:35.060 So we need, this is this generation, I believe, like proud to be an American because we've got to get people to believe again, to be proud again, to be.

00:28:43.360 So I'm hoping that it's a song of unity that can be sung at the inauguration.

00:28:46.760 I think so, too.

00:28:47.940 Well, I will, I'll send it to him, make sure that he remembers or is reminded, because I agree.

00:28:56.340 It's time to come together as people, and I hope that what we're seeing in America,

00:29:01.620 I know it's the beginning of something.

00:29:05.240 I know that there are more and more people waking up and saying, I don't want to do this anymore.

00:29:10.820 You know, I don't hate my country.

00:29:13.200 You know, we've made mistakes, but I don't want to hate my neighbor.

00:29:16.560 I don't, I don't want this anymore.

00:29:19.140 And that, that change is coming.

00:29:21.920 Hopefully, it will be reflected on Tuesday, but that change is coming.

00:29:26.280 And, and I really believe, especially looking at the way Donald Trump has been handling everything recently,

00:29:33.340 I think he, he actually, you would think would be the last person that could unite us.

00:29:40.180 And I think he may be one of the only people who actually can get it done.

00:29:44.660 Look at what he's doing with RFK and, and Tulsi and everybody else.

00:29:49.720 Elon Musk, man, they don't agree with everything he says.

00:29:53.660 It's great.

00:29:54.360 Yeah.

00:29:55.260 And you're exactly right, Glenn.

00:29:56.440 He is, I think he, God called him to be a businessman to a president.

00:30:00.740 And I really sense that God has called him now to be a, go from president this term to a father.

00:30:05.820 And just like every household of the father, my kids are divided and the father has to come in and bring them together.

00:30:11.020 I really sense that that's going to be his call on this next president.

00:30:14.300 See, there's kids, our kids, the kids of America are fighting.

00:30:17.900 We need you to bring us together.

00:30:19.320 And how do we come together?

00:30:21.000 By believing unity comes through faith.

00:30:24.040 Love believes all things.

00:30:25.520 Love hopes, all things, you know, love endures all things.

00:30:29.120 So believing what you believe about something directly impacts, impacts how you treat that thing.

00:30:35.240 And so I think, I'm hoping he brings us together and I believe he will.

00:30:39.460 Danny, thank you so much.

00:30:40.700 Thanks for your friendship and thank you for all of your good work.

00:30:43.500 You are amazing.

00:30:44.700 You really are.

00:30:45.560 Thank you, Danny.

00:30:46.100 Man, I appreciate you, Glenn.

00:30:47.140 I appreciate your support.

00:30:48.160 And hopefully Donald Trump hears the song again.

00:30:50.560 Yeah.

00:30:50.740 Thank you for sending it in.

00:30:51.540 Thanks a lot.

00:30:52.580 Danny Gokey, you can follow him on his website, Danny Gokey.

00:30:57.460 That's G-O-K-E-Y, gokey.com.

00:31:01.900 Or you can follow him, you know, on X, Danny Gokey.

00:31:06.260 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:31:12.820 You know, what we were just talking about with that New York Times story.

00:31:16.100 Sarah just reminded me because she's reading the book Propaganda Wars or listening to it on audio.

00:31:23.620 It's really good on audio.

00:31:24.780 You can get it wherever you get your audio books.

00:31:27.160 But she just reminded me that the book outlines exactly how to figure out if that story is legitimate or not.

00:31:36.600 And it starts with what is the original source?

00:31:40.120 Once you know the original source's media matters, you know it's bullcrap.

00:31:43.600 So there's no reason to even deal with it in your life.

00:31:46.500 You don't need to put that stuff in your head.

00:31:47.820 There's so much information out there that's real and important.

00:31:50.780 Why would you put a conspiracy theory left or right into your head?

00:31:54.040 And it's getting harder and harder to find the truth.

00:31:58.300 You know, it used to be that, you know, it was pretty close.

00:32:03.140 You know, okay, they just look at it a different way.

00:32:05.960 Now what's happening in the media, it doesn't reflect reality at all.

00:32:10.440 And how do we come together when people aren't even operating on the same fact?

00:32:16.740 They just don't know what's going on in their country.

00:32:20.820 And I think that's by design many times.

00:32:25.020 Christy Kendall, she is a director and producer of a doc that you should see, Undivided, Undivide Us.

00:32:33.660 It's Undivide Us.

00:32:35.480 You can find it at UndivideUsMovie.com.

00:32:38.980 And she's got a tough job ahead of her.

00:32:42.520 How do we bring us back together?

00:32:45.620 Christy, welcome.

00:32:47.320 Thanks.

00:32:47.840 It's so nice to be here, Glenn.

00:32:49.420 Thank you.

00:32:49.920 So, Christy, how do we, because I can talk to anybody who disagrees with me anytime.

00:32:57.140 Until you start dealing in verifiable lies, like what's happening today.

00:33:03.520 Donald Trump was not talking about an execution squad for Liz Janney.

00:33:07.820 He was calling her a warmonger.

00:33:09.260 He said, give her a rifle and put her out there and have rifles pointed at her direction and see how she feels. 1.00

00:33:15.140 But they're saying that this is a, you know, he's issuing an execution warrant for anybody who disagrees with him.

00:33:23.280 How do you unite when you can't recognize the truth?

00:33:27.100 Yeah, I mean, it's a great question, right?

00:33:31.500 Because so, like, let's put yourself in a situation, right?

00:33:34.140 Let's say you're in a room with someone who has a really different take on that, right?

00:33:39.700 Maybe they've listened to one of these other news sources.

00:33:43.280 I think that getting, putting yourself in their position and thinking about what are they, what are they worried about?

00:33:51.880 What do they, as a human being, you know, we are all God's children, right?

00:33:56.560 Like, we are all human beings under this, in this big world.

00:34:01.000 And most people, regardless of what label they put on themselves, most people are really good people in this country.

00:34:07.920 Like, I know you believe that.

00:34:10.260 I do.

00:34:10.500 And so it's like, so how does, how does somebody watch that and come out with a really different take?

00:34:16.000 And I think the point of the film isn't to say one side is right and the other side is wrong.

00:34:21.180 It's to say, how do we as Americans step into our civic spaces with civility and respect and love for one another?

00:34:29.120 Because that's the thing I'm most concerned we've lost.

00:34:31.960 And I think we've actually scared people into not stepping into those civic spaces.

00:34:37.920 And that, to me, is the most terrifying thing.

00:34:40.260 Because that is actually, like, disagreement is what this country was founded on, right?

00:34:45.100 Like, think about how much, like, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, like, hated each other's guts, you know?

00:34:51.180 They really did.

00:34:52.060 But they, like, they created this amazing country and where disagreement should be part of the fabric of our country, not something we are just, like, terrified of.

00:35:03.040 Okay.

00:35:03.400 So I want to play just a quick clip from the movie Undivide Us.

00:35:09.220 Listen.

00:35:09.420 I feel like there is a gay agenda, and I feel like they're pushing it on children, which are the most unsuspecting, vulnerable group of people that we have. 1.00

00:35:22.060 I spend a lot of time battling people on the Internet about this issue, and this is coming from a gay man. 0.99

00:35:28.900 I just don't see the need for any of that to be taught.

00:35:31.340 Teachers are kind of overstepping their lines.

00:35:33.700 The students are not the teacher's children.

00:35:36.240 They are there to educate them and teach them a curriculum.

00:35:39.780 Carol, what did Drake get right about teachers and what you do?

00:35:45.040 Well, I think I heard you say they have good intentions.

00:35:49.380 So you got that right.

00:35:50.680 I almost totally disagree with you about teachers having their own agenda.

00:35:57.120 The day is so full with academics, especially in public school.

00:36:02.400 So you're saying that doesn't happen in schools?

00:36:04.600 I don't believe it does.

00:36:05.640 I really don't.

00:36:06.800 You've never seen it happen.

00:36:08.100 I've never seen it happen.

00:36:09.240 Correct.

00:36:09.620 I've never read that it's happened.

00:36:12.120 Okay.

00:36:12.740 My blood pressure just went through the roof.

00:36:17.220 Okay.

00:36:18.160 All right.

00:36:19.880 Let's address that.

00:36:21.020 Okay.

00:36:21.600 All right.

00:36:22.760 So we know that those things are happening.

00:36:25.440 Not in every school, but we know those things are happening.

00:36:28.680 We know the agenda of the teachers' union, et cetera, et cetera.

00:36:32.080 How do you find common ground with that?

00:36:36.460 Yeah.

00:36:36.680 It's actually, this is a great example.

00:36:39.120 Because if you watch the film, what you'll see is that actually we ended up having Dre and Carol back for like a conversation just with the two of them to talk this through.

00:36:49.100 And they actually came to a lot of agreement around like the parents should be informed.

00:36:56.400 Like the experience that Dre was talking about, which is something he wasn't in the classroom all the time.

00:37:04.120 He was hearing from his niece who was relating things to him and then also hearing a lot of other things going on in terms of the transgender conversation.

00:37:18.700 And he obviously has a lot of stake in this issue. 0.79

00:37:21.120 He's a gay black man in Atlanta. 0.67

00:37:23.420 And he was like, why is this going on in schools? 0.92

00:37:26.820 Right.

00:37:27.100 And his perception was it's going on in every classroom.

00:37:30.240 Right.

00:37:30.420 Carol is a third grade teacher.

00:37:34.140 She actually, she not only doesn't do any social media at all, like that is just totally not part of her.

00:37:43.320 And it's not part of her classroom.

00:37:44.920 Right.

00:37:45.360 So she isn't seeing this in her classroom or her school, which you can totally imagine happening.

00:37:50.560 Right.

00:37:50.880 And so she's saying, I don't, I don't see that happening at all in school.

00:37:55.480 And he's saying, well, I think it's in every school and everywhere.

00:37:58.980 And so maybe there's some sort of common ground that they can, that they can come to in terms of, well, maybe what should happen should, should.

00:38:07.180 And, and that like sensible discussion doesn't really happen right now, I think.

00:38:13.000 So I agree with having those discussions as long as everyone is open to the actual facts, because it's not happening in every school.

00:38:20.560 Um, but it is, it is an agenda that is being, is being pushed at high levels.

00:38:27.540 Um, would you agree with that?

00:38:30.540 I mean, honestly, I don't know enough about it.

00:38:33.440 Okay.

00:38:33.680 What, what, what, what I really come down to is like, I believe that I believe that I want to know what's going on with my kid in my kid's school.

00:38:43.960 And I'm interested in having these discussions on a local level.

00:38:48.080 Like, I think that this whole national discussion gets a little crazy real fast in terms of people saying really extreme things on both.

00:38:58.140 But how, how do you not have a national conversation when they've nationalized our education system through the Department of Education?

00:39:06.880 Is that, because this way it was, it was designed to go that way originally.

00:39:10.840 And they changed that in the seventies.

00:39:13.820 There is, there is a certain amount that happens on the national level, but I actually think that's actually a little bit of a misnomer too.

00:39:21.880 I mean, I haven't looked at the research for a while.

00:39:23.800 You know, I did a, I did a special when I was back at 2020 on the need for school choice and education.

00:39:28.780 Like it was pretty much one of the first hours that was ever done on school choice.

00:39:32.740 Everybody, by the way, everybody should know you used to produce for John Stossel.

00:39:37.600 So it's not like you're some left-wing activist.

00:39:41.580 No, although sometimes my family treats me like I am.

00:39:45.780 I'm just like, I'm like, let's, let's, let's just think about these things.

00:39:49.280 No, I, I, I did, I did use to produce for John Stossel.

00:39:53.960 I love John.

00:39:55.160 He's amazing.

00:39:56.340 But when we did this school, when, when I was really up to date on the education numbers, it was the federal funding for education is pretty small.

00:40:06.060 And the federal control of education, what goes in and the, the power that they execute with those purse strings is relatively small.

00:40:14.540 It's a state by state issue in terms of like, I think it was like 40 some percent usually comes from the state and 40 some percent comes from the local, local groups.

00:40:23.820 And then like around 5% for the federal funding.

00:40:26.300 But in terms of like who actually controls what goes on in the classroom.

00:40:30.980 I think you're most people, their local school boards are the best place to go and have those conversations and then actually affect real change and localism, less national control.

00:40:43.140 The whole point of the documentary is like, let's take these conversations off of this place where it's like, we have presidential candidates talking about which bathroom you use.

00:40:51.920 Like that is not what I want my president thinking about.

00:40:54.780 I want my president thinking about like the big issues, but I want the local governments and I want us to all of Americans be like, if we want to make a change in our communities, it's our moral responsibility to get involved on the local level.

00:41:10.500 Where we can look at each other's human beings and have these conversations and actually make the difference.

00:41:16.400 Preach that 10th Amendment, sister. 0.60

00:41:18.400 Preach on.

00:41:19.380 Oh my gosh, this documentary is an homage.

00:41:26.060 In the documentary, you expose the outside in approach that the media and the government use to keep us divided.

00:41:36.840 It explains the difference between their goals and the goals of everyday Americans.

00:41:40.500 Can you touch on that just a bit?

00:41:43.340 Yeah, totally.

00:41:43.780 I mean, think about it.

00:41:44.580 Who gets the most power?

00:41:46.200 Who is incentivized by the rage machine, right?

00:41:49.780 The politicians, right?

00:41:51.220 Then they get a winner's take all situation.

00:41:54.020 They actually, if they think, if they can make you think that who uses what bathroom is a national issue,

00:42:01.400 like then they actually get the power to make those decisions.

00:42:04.980 And you just feel like you have to shut up and take it.

00:42:07.800 And I just think that I want more Americans to feel empowered by their communities, by the people around them.

00:42:17.500 So, like, I just, the incentives are real messed up right now.

00:42:22.580 And the only people who can change it is us.

00:42:25.660 Yeah.

00:42:26.320 It is one thing that I think the left did very, very well is just go into the local communities because that's where everything happens.

00:42:35.600 And a lot of the conservatives and, you know, small government people just kind of were like, I'm just working.

00:42:43.320 You can't do that.

00:42:44.600 You can't do that.

00:42:46.060 Well, and there is a lot.

00:42:47.500 It's funny.

00:42:48.120 In one of our focus groups, we actually had a really hard time finding conservatives who would even come and participate in the focus group

00:42:56.060 because they automatically thought, you know, this is going to be a setup against me.

00:43:02.240 And conservatives are more likely to just, like, duck and cover, right?

00:43:06.680 I'm going to take care of my own.

00:43:07.920 I'm not going to talk to anybody.

00:43:09.000 I don't want to offend people.

00:43:11.440 And I think that we should enter these spaces with love and respect and curiosity and humility,

00:43:18.600 but we need to enter the spaces.

00:43:21.500 Christy, thanks for your hard work on this.

00:43:23.940 And I know it's almost thankless at this point to say, hey, let's not continue to divide ourselves.

00:43:30.860 But thank you for doing it.

00:43:31.880 It's undivideusmovie.com.

00:43:35.040 Christy Kendall, thank you.

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