The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Dr. Karlyn Borysenko and Brad & Ashley Davis

00:00:00.000 hey welcome to the thursday podcast from standing rock ranch we've got a great show lined up for you

00:00:05.560 i am going to i'm going to face my whiteness yes my white privilege we talk about this new course

00:00:13.160 in seattle that if you work for the city of seattle you must take oh my gosh it's insanity

00:00:20.540 insanity we have that we talk about trump's uh odds of winning is there a 1948 that is in the

00:00:29.680 works harry truman beating dewey everybody thought dewey would win everybody's starting to think

00:00:34.940 that uh biden is going to win is this the same kind of year as 1948 we'll show you the comparisons

00:00:41.900 and we have an expert uh that talks about it as well a new poll or a new uh algorithm that has

00:00:50.220 been accurate uh all the way back i think 110 years only missed two two presidential uh

00:00:59.660 wins and he says that donald trump has a 91 chance of winning we have that as well you don't want to

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00:01:27.280 kanye kanye says he's running he hasn't taken any steps to do it um but uh he said yesterday that

00:01:40.220 he's just looking to maybe peel off a few democrats from joe biden uh but don't don't laugh at kanye

00:01:47.960 being elected i think there's a lot of people right now that'd be like why not why not it's 2020

00:01:55.960 why not it would make perfect sense would it not it would it would by the way we went back and found

00:02:02.640 i did stew does kanye on uh stew does america last night and uh we found a clip from 2016

00:02:08.080 where i said the next president is going to be a kardashian we just have to hope it's courtney

00:02:13.920 now at that point i was not considering uh i was not considering kanye west uh in a 2020 run which is

00:02:21.740 is very odd i mean he he did he actually come out and say he was trying to peel black people off

00:02:26.640 intentionally i in his first interview he did not say that yesterday i read that late last night i

00:02:33.760 don't know where i read it okay but i mean it's possible he came out i think he came out and said

00:02:38.420 you know look um if i could peel a few people off of joe biden i would be good the bottom line is i

00:02:45.040 think it's you he was also critical of trump and he just he just he's no longer a supporter said he's

00:02:50.460 taking the red hat off um which now we don't have to think say he's brilliant anymore right

00:02:56.180 like we're past that can we get past that now can we go back to when we all thought he was insane

00:03:00.620 as of two years ago uh can we get past brilliant people often look insane that's what i'm saying

00:03:07.720 people say for example the best of the glenn beck program

00:03:18.540 i want to share a facebook post that i saw uh from a couple of people um brad and angela davis

00:03:37.440 um they started this this restaurant uh i'm sorry what did i say it's ashley uh and brad davis

00:03:45.980 um they started this this restaurant which had been a dream of theirs uh and it's called the

00:03:52.140 uh friend info board game cafe it's a little sandwich shop in plano and texas and they have

00:04:01.560 you know the usual fare but they also have like 600 board games so people can come and play board

00:04:06.940 games with the family i read this post and i think there's millions that feel this way why do we get

00:04:13.320 up in six in the morning to drive 70 miles back and forth for a 12 or 13 hour work day because we

00:04:19.180 have no other choice frankly if we had an out we probably would have taken it by now but all of our

00:04:24.740 eggs are in this basket in fact the whole chicken is in this basket we the three owners wear every hat

00:04:31.720 we are the general managers the grill cooks the prep cooks the bakers baristas bartenders marketers

00:04:37.420 the janitors just to name a few we get up every day and we take a beating we fight tooth and nail

00:04:43.720 to make it through this with no support from the government thus far and we know there are many

00:04:48.500 other businesses doing the same uh with uh our thoughts have been focused on the business and

00:04:55.160 survival for so long i do anything for a carefree moment every fiber of my being is stretched to the max

00:05:01.400 but with that being said i'm fed up not just with our current situation i am sick of the judgment

00:05:07.040 anger irrational behavior and sheer hatred i am seeing i'm afraid to say anything about anything

00:05:13.560 because inevitably someone will disagree and spew hatred rather than having a discussion

00:05:19.200 if i don't post something i'm labeled if i do post something i'm labeled if i keep my mouth shut during

00:05:24.880 a conversation i'm labeled if i open my mouth during a conversation i'm labeled nobody really cares about

00:05:30.780 what anyone else has to say their minds are all made up and likely based on a meme a headline or a

00:05:37.300 one-sided source rather than array of reputable books or articles we get flack as business for

00:05:43.540 remaining open and trying to bring in customers with various incentives even though we are following

00:05:48.600 all recommended safety protocols nothing we do seems to be enough we're expected to go a step further

00:05:55.040 than what's required we open at 25 you should stay closed we sanitize all of our games

00:06:00.620 you shouldn't let people play games we strongly recommend masks you should uh you should not uh

00:06:07.140 you um uh you should uh make it mandatory not by choice most business owners can't just throw in

00:06:16.280 the towel and go find another job it's not how it works oftentimes when one is focused on uh to

00:06:21.920 forced to close their business they lose everything because we have put everything into it

00:06:28.960 in short please stop stop judging people for what they don't post stop judging people for what they

00:06:35.400 do stop labeling businesses as irresponsible for doing their best during this crap stop labeling people

00:06:41.320 in general stop reacting to wrong with another wrong stop hating your neighbor because they have a

00:06:46.800 different worldview than you and if you aren't sure what your worldview is think about it read about it

00:06:53.300 maybe you'll be able to disagree with someone cordially if you understand the fundamental differences

00:06:58.960 amen this is that that was that was written by ashley she's married to uh brad and they both happen to be

00:07:06.480 on with us now they live in abilene texas ashley and brad welcome to the program how are you

00:07:11.360 thanks glenn uh we're doing good just excited to be on your show

00:07:15.420 yeah so um not a problem um i know you are struggling just like like everybody else but

00:07:25.660 ashley your uh your facebook post is what caught my eye uh your facebook post what happened to get

00:07:34.660 you to snap like that like that and speak truth yes um well really from the time we started working

00:07:42.660 to open this business which was about three years ago to now things have been incredibly challenging

00:07:47.400 um you know it seems like we take one step forward and then three steps back at times

00:07:51.720 but the reason i made this post is because i just got fed up with the unrealistic expectations

00:07:57.340 that i was noticing from the general public um and the realization that some people actually expect

00:08:02.940 businesses to go one step further than what is even required as far as the covid restrictions go

00:08:08.260 which is just ridiculous um i think there's some businesses who can afford to do that for example

00:08:13.820 like keeping their dine-in closed or refusing businesses uh refusing business to certain people

00:08:18.740 um because they either have like a second source of income or they got a ton of money from the government

00:08:24.200 um but businesses like ours just can't afford to do that so whenever you you guys have been

00:08:30.360 sorry go i'm sorry but you've been you've been operating on a 60 to 80 percent loss every day

00:08:37.000 you need what uh at least a thousand dollars in sales every day and so i'd say about 800 to a thousand

00:08:44.940 dollars yeah okay um and you're you said in your facebook post that the government didn't help you

00:08:52.920 at all so you didn't get the ppp loan qualification correct i mean up to this point we have we all we've

00:09:02.920 received from the government as a six thousand dollar advance on the economic uh disaster funds

00:09:08.960 and we haven't seen any anything else from that we were actually denied um they claimed that we didn't

00:09:14.860 suffer enough of a loss so you know we made an appeal we're going through we're going through it right

00:09:19.740 we're going through the process to try to you know get what we can out of that but no we have not seen

00:09:26.160 anything from that or the pppl yet so brad what are you guys doing to stay open uh well we're working

00:09:37.700 our butts off we're uh you know we're we're putting in you know 13 14 hour days at the store

00:09:44.520 uh we've unfortunately had to cut employee shifts way back just to save on payroll um we've been

00:09:51.340 praying a whole lot uh you know we're we're believers we're christians and so we're just

00:09:55.840 having to really lean on the fact that god is good even in difficult times and uh you know we're just

00:10:01.140 trusting in that fact and just working as hard as we can so are you guys making it with the

00:10:08.760 restaurant at all i mean are you close to your 800 minimum or is it just not even close

00:10:16.700 no we're we're at this point um with the further you know we we were starting to open back up here

00:10:23.780 in texas and then the covid numbers go back up and you know they put further restrictions on us

00:10:28.600 and so we're we're operating at about we're our revenue is about 50 percent of what we need it to

00:10:34.120 be i mean we're we're we've pretty much burnt through our reserves personal savings to keep things

00:10:39.920 afloat and we're just at that point where it's like gosh we can't if we can't figure this out we're

00:10:44.860 going to lose it all i have been in that situation and it is the most stressful because there's nothing

00:10:54.140 you can do there's just nothing you can do and when you have to lay people off and you have to make

00:11:00.900 these decisions how are you guys faring as a couple well like brad said we're believers and we've

00:11:10.400 really had to lean on the lord during this time and you know in all honesty it's probably brought us

00:11:16.560 closer together which is which is a good thing i know it doesn't always happen that way um but we

00:11:22.340 really make a good team you know we have two girls uh one of them is two years old one of them is eight

00:11:28.320 months old and so we actually alternate days you know and brad will go one day to the store and i'll

00:11:34.940 have the girls all day and then we'll switch and we kind of go back and forth you know sometimes we

00:11:39.060 bring the girls up to the store with us and so we just kind of do whatever it takes

00:11:43.320 ashley it's interesting looking at your post because you could definitely sense the issues that

00:11:50.200 you're having with the business and the frustrations with the business but the post is really more

00:11:54.100 focused on how people are treating each other why did you focus on that well i think you know

00:12:01.320 there's a lot of things that that happened at the same time in our country and i think um though

00:12:07.220 they're not necessarily related people are entangling them together and um just really

00:12:12.220 acting hatefully towards one another and it and it's coming out uh you know on our social media posts

00:12:19.020 and um the decisions that we make and and so that's why i focused on that um because that's made it

00:12:25.620 that's kind of exacerbated everything brad are you worried that you started a board game cafe because

00:12:31.480 that's going to cause something where you know people want to kill each other over a game of

00:12:35.280 monopoly you may be increasing the stress

00:12:37.280 there's certain games that we probably want to tell customers like look if you're stressed out

00:12:47.460 don't play this game it's just going to make it worse uh so what are you guys doing i know you guys

00:12:53.400 are now renting board games which is a good idea you're also delivering uh food um you're you're

00:13:01.520 also making food for uh nursing homes etc etc is that right yeah we have a sorry go ahead brad you

00:13:10.940 got this one oh that's all right that sounds good um yeah so we're uh we we implemented a game rental

00:13:16.320 system since a lot of people weren't comfortable coming into the store to play games so we said hey

00:13:19.720 let's make our games rentable and people can rent a game bring it home and play it and then we're doing

00:13:24.420 a donate a meal program um which allows people to purchase games um i'm not purchase games purchase meals

00:13:30.640 and then we deliver it to first responders nursing homes uh health care workers just i mean it's a

00:13:36.020 stressful time for them and uh it's a way for us to generate a little bit of revenue and then also

00:13:40.800 you know get some food out there to some people who have a lot of other stuff going on and may not

00:13:45.360 want to have to worry about lunch or dinner okay so how do people get involved in that if people wanted

00:13:51.400 to donate uh a meal to somebody you're not asking for a handout you're you're saying i'm i'm we're gonna

00:13:59.260 charge you for something and we're gonna do something good with it so uh how do people get

00:14:03.860 involved in that right you can go to our website it's friend and foe bgc.com and there's actually

00:14:11.380 a link on there where you can click on donate a meal i click on it pay for the meal that goes into

00:14:16.100 our system and then we compile these certain numbers we contact uh uh fire departments police

00:14:21.880 departments hospitals nursing homes it says hey we've got meals we'd like to donate them to you guys and

00:14:27.280 then we we prep them and deliver them wow i mean only in texas or in a small town in america would you

00:14:37.640 be delivering meals to police officers and the police officers would take them at this point um thank you

00:14:47.000 for that yeah um so it is friend and foe bgc.com thank you guys so much and uh i i just i i wish you

00:15:00.420 the very best thank you man can i can i say one more thing real quick sure yeah if it when things calm

00:15:08.940 down you need to bring you and then you could call like sean hannity ben shapiro and say i want to

00:15:15.800 challenge you guys to a board game let's go to friend info okay all right thank you so much

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00:16:35.040 organizational psychologist she works with individuals and organizations all over the

00:16:39.060 world through her practice which is called zen workplace to help them create amazing work

00:16:45.040 experiences by combining organizational and positive psychology with mindfulness techniques this is

00:16:52.060 actually something that i would actually probably do in my own business but i would hate myself for

00:16:59.620 it just because of the description of it it just seems so i don't know earthy uh you know what i'm

00:17:05.620 saying uh carlin um and i'm sorry yeah so you are here and you're going to explain this whiteness

00:17:15.420 training that is happening only for white people in seattle if you work for the seattle city government

00:17:22.840 and you're white you have to take this training yeah and it looks insane it is insane so what

00:17:30.960 happened is um about a month ago i got an email from an employee from the city of seattle and they

00:17:36.720 are they're going to be leaving their job because they think all this is crazy and essentially it was

00:17:41.220 an email from the city asking all of their white employees to spend a vacation day that had already

00:17:47.720 been previously scheduled in this oh my gosh this training that was specifically for white employees

00:17:53.260 and they have a whole separate training track for people of color so what is if i'm a seattle city

00:18:01.080 employee and i show up what is this training what do they do well essentially they go through all well

00:18:08.120 first you have to of course confess your internalized racial superiority as a white person because that that is

00:18:15.400 just not in dispute at all and if you come to the training and say well hang on i don't actually

00:18:20.540 think i have internalized racial superiority then you're expressing cognitive dissonance which is

00:18:25.380 further proof of your internalized racial superiority so you have to go through the process of confessing

00:18:31.220 your sins first and then you have to do you have to practice self-talk and affirmations that affirm

00:18:39.900 your complicity in racism okay so we're hunting for witches now in seattle well it's not even hunting

00:18:50.000 for which witches because if you're white then we found you that's that's it you are a witch well

00:18:56.620 unless there is actually one out in this if you do not identify as white if you are have like a

00:19:01.700 rachel dolezal moment and identify as black even though you're white then you don't have to do the

00:19:07.340 training you can opt out oh my gosh i would be a black man in a heartbeat i would be i you know i'm

00:19:15.640 feeling my color my inner color coming on to me really strongly right now uh carlin i i'm i'm beginning

00:19:24.960 to believe i am black uh they'll let you get away with that yeah it's actually well they have to i guess

00:19:31.480 well it's actually in the email that the city sent out to their employees that this is for all people who

00:19:36.520 identify as white so that seems like a pretty easy out to me

00:19:40.400 wow okay so we get in can you take us through some of these things

00:19:45.900 well i mean so i'm basically i'm going off of some of the documents that actually your previous

00:19:51.620 guest got from the city christopher and so some of the things that they're they're talking about

00:19:57.160 in these are things like you know white people have to let go of things that that might make

00:20:03.320 them comfortable in the work environment like any expectations of their emotional safety or

00:20:08.620 even their physical safety white people should not expect that their physical safety should be

00:20:12.660 protected in the work environment they also um they also go through all of wait wait wait wait wait

00:20:18.200 wait wait how is this how is this happening from a group of people that needed a cry room

00:20:25.280 in college how is how is this i don't feel safe anywhere being translated into now i have a right

00:20:34.960 to feel safe but you don't it sounds like revenge well i i think that that's exactly what it is but

00:20:43.440 the reality glenn is this material has actually been around for a very long time so one of the documents

00:20:48.700 that the city of seattle is using is this document that is 10 years old that talks about the

00:20:54.420 attributes of a white supremacist culture in organizations and so this training is not new

00:20:59.660 it's just had a really hefty resurgence in the past couple of months

00:21:04.720 so um what what do you what do you mean when i have to confess do they you sit around and they

00:21:16.460 they go from person to person and then you have to say how you were complicit and is there a right

00:21:23.460 answer on that that is acceptable to people well the only acceptable answer in any of these

00:21:29.900 circumstances is to bend the knee and confess your sin of being a white supremacist and so for for

00:21:36.580 other examples of things they're talking about in this training are things like um are white employees

00:21:41.540 speaking up and contributing ideas in the workplace that's that's a white supremacist organization

00:21:47.360 um are they well glenn let me ask you this you have a staff right you work for you so yes you have

00:21:55.020 some sort of hierarchy like an organizational chart

00:21:57.240 i want to say no but yes yeah white supremacist yeah that is a white supremacist organization

00:22:06.500 now do you expect people to meet deadlines

00:22:09.620 i want to say no but yes i'm such a hater white supremacy right there and so how does the city of

00:22:19.440 how does the city of seattle get away with that when they have a hierarchy and and they expect people

00:22:26.440 to meet deadlines yeah well you know it's funny it's like so so i recently read part of the book

00:22:33.040 white fragility and um if anyone has not read that book let me just save you the trouble it's basically

00:22:38.380 robin d'angelo confessing her own racism for the entire book that's what it is and so when you

00:22:44.820 confess your racism it absolves you from the racism so the city of seattle is essentially confessing that

00:22:51.100 yes our organization is engaged in white supremacy and through the act okay okay they are absolved

00:22:58.520 okay carly will you hold on for just a second because i i want to ask you um i think we should go

00:23:07.300 to these corporations and these cities and say specifically specifically what are your crimes

00:23:15.500 i want to know your crimes i want to know specifics on what you as a corporation have done

00:23:24.920 lay it all out there baby i'd like to hear your response to that back program

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