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00:00:00.000 You know, I think one of the best stories today, because there's a lot of stuff happening, and we cover it all on the podcast today.

00:00:07.640 We also have a woman who came from China and lived through the Mao Cultural Revolution.

00:00:15.260 She remembers it, almost turned her mom in.

00:00:16.900 It's crazy to comment on what just happened in Colorado with a new guy who's a Marxist who wants a forceful cultural revolution to happen in Colorado.

00:00:28.200 So, yeah, he's in their house, but don't worry about it.

00:00:31.880 She's here.

00:00:33.160 We talked about that.

00:00:34.600 Maui is big special tonight.

00:00:36.380 But I think that kid in Colorado that had the don't tread on me patch, that the school kicked him out, it's phenomenal that that's turned around.

00:00:49.860 And the Democrat that is the governor actually helped turn it around.

00:00:53.940 It feels like there's more and more incidents like this that are going on, but they are getting away with them less.

00:01:00.660 I think they're getting caught more frequently, and that's good.

00:01:05.040 Except at the federal level.

00:01:07.980 Well, we're screwed there, obviously. 0.90

00:01:09.800 Yeah.

00:01:09.940 So, we talk about how do we strengthen ourselves?

00:01:13.660 Should we kind of separate ourselves and, you know, blue people live in blue places and red people live in red places? 1.00

00:01:22.680 Or is that the exact opposite of what we should do?

00:01:26.000 Great podcast for you today, and here it is.

00:01:28.340 I want to tell you a couple of really, really good stories first.

00:01:46.820 Let me tell you about the kid in Colorado.

00:01:52.380 Jaden is a 12-year-old boy.

00:01:54.060 He attends Vanguard School, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

00:01:58.340 He's in this video.

00:02:00.080 You may have seen it.

00:02:00.960 It went viral on social media.

00:02:03.180 It shows he and his mom confronting a school board administrator who says that he has to take the Gadsden flag patch off of his backpack because it's too disruptive.

00:02:18.280 And they're like, it's too disruptive?

00:02:19.520 What are you talking about?

00:02:20.100 It's too disruptive.

00:02:20.720 We don't want the flag displayed in school because of its origins with slavery and the slave trade.

00:02:30.340 Now, I'm just trying to figure that one out historically.

00:02:32.900 I mean, I can't.

00:02:33.880 I don't know.

00:02:34.340 Don't tread on me.

00:02:36.480 How does that relate to the slave trade at all?

00:02:40.920 Okay.

00:02:41.480 It doesn't.

00:02:42.380 It clearly doesn't. 0.89

00:02:43.480 And these are the kind of boobs that we have running our schools. 1.00

00:02:47.100 All right. 0.97

00:02:47.460 They have no idea what they're even talking about.

00:02:51.060 Now, Jaden, who has kicked out of class for having the patch, says, there's no origins of slavery.

00:03:01.920 This 12-year-old, no origins of slavery.

00:03:04.060 And the school's director says, well, this is being very disruptive in the school environment.

00:03:10.700 So they removed him from class.

00:03:13.880 Mom fought back against it, explaining the coiled snake above the phrase, don't tread on me, is not a pro-slavery image. 0.96

00:03:23.560 It has origins in the Revolutionary War.

00:03:25.940 It was a symbol of resistance to British tyranny.

00:03:30.140 I'm free, don't tread on me.

00:03:34.280 So you could say it's actually an anti-slavery.

00:03:37.540 If you want to talk about slavery, it would be anti-slavery.

00:03:41.700 Because it came from the North. 0.63

00:03:45.340 It came from New England.

00:03:47.800 New England had already banned slavery.

00:03:50.780 But it's not about that at all.

00:03:52.920 It's not.

00:03:53.920 It's about the British tyranny.

00:03:56.260 Don't tread on me.

00:03:57.820 So now all these experts are like, no, it's, no, it's, uh, it's slavery, it's slavery, you know, it's connected to patriot groups.

00:04:08.200 Okay, okay, all right.

00:04:11.620 So, wait, the flag chose to be part of a patriot group?

00:04:16.580 The flag's like, the snake's like, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I just love white people. 0.85

00:04:23.320 Is that what happened?

00:04:24.420 Jeez.

00:04:25.860 Jeez.

00:04:27.460 Libertarians have adapted this.

00:04:30.300 Lefty groups, a pro-LGBT group has adopted it as well. 0.85

00:04:36.120 It's really nothing to do with a snake.

00:04:38.440 The snake was sewn on or printed on.

00:04:41.880 I don't know if you, it's kind of like a gun.

00:04:45.020 The gun didn't make the decision.

00:04:47.760 The person did.

00:04:49.180 So, this is, uh, this is a flag that's already gone through the government, EEOC.

00:04:59.160 They were like, you know, somebody was, was suing because the Gadsden flag is, we're a slavery.

00:05:06.960 EEOC said, yeah, no, it's, it's not a racist symbol.

00:05:09.740 Okay, so, the EEOC.

00:05:12.600 I don't think I've ever agreed with anything the EEOC has ever done.

00:05:17.520 So, the ruling has come out, the school cannot discriminate against, uh, Jaden's viewpoint

00:05:22.320 by declaring that this is just, uh, you know, a racist symbol and one that will be disruptive.

00:05:28.600 Even the governor of Colorado, a Democrat, said, the Gadsden flag is a proud symbol of American

00:05:34.600 revolution and an iconic warning to Britain or any government not to violate the liberties

00:05:39.680 of Americans.

00:05:40.840 Yeah, it's almost like it's appropriate today when they're telling you, you can't speak out

00:05:48.340 at the school board meeting.

00:05:50.880 Isn't it?

00:05:51.900 Don't tread on me.

00:05:53.240 Seems like a pretty good motto.

00:05:55.720 Or when they're telling you, stay at home, you're killing every grandmother on the planet, 0.78

00:06:02.940 wear this mask.

00:06:05.160 Could I have the don't tread on me flag on the mask?

00:06:07.800 Could I do that?

00:06:08.560 That would be weird.

00:06:09.520 I wonder if you put a mask and the don't tread on me flag together, if they cancel each other

00:06:15.400 out and disappear.

00:06:18.520 Most people don't know that the snake was really a important signal.

00:06:25.060 Well, a symbol for our founders, the snake and the skull, the skull usually would have

00:06:31.560 a crown above it and it represented no king, but God, the king dies and he becomes a skeleton.

00:06:41.440 So, no king, but God.

00:06:44.900 The snake was selected because it doesn't want to bite you.

00:06:50.080 It's just sitting there in the grass.

00:06:51.880 It's like sunning itself.

00:06:52.860 It's like, the sun is so great.

00:06:57.000 And you come walking along.

00:06:58.680 And what does it do?

00:07:00.500 It doesn't sneak up on you and bite you.

00:07:02.580 It rattles.

00:07:03.500 Stop where you are.

00:07:09.300 I mean, I have a ranch.

00:07:11.960 Rattlesnakes everywhere.

00:07:13.880 I kind of like it because it's extra security.

00:07:17.060 Go ahead.

00:07:17.960 Come across that field.

00:07:19.400 Do it.

00:07:21.100 Rattlesnakes everywhere.

00:07:22.720 Now, if you're smart, you're paying attention.

00:07:26.520 It was like booby traps.

00:07:27.800 But these booby traps, they actually rattle before they bite.

00:07:33.200 Stay away from me.

00:07:35.000 Don't walk on me or I'll bite.

00:07:39.560 That's why our founders loved it.

00:07:41.840 It wasn't an aggressive thing.

00:07:43.360 Well, I mean, if you're a mouse, but if you're a human, it's not an aggressive thing.

00:07:48.180 It's minding its own business.

00:07:50.040 You know, there's a, the very first political cartoon ever done in America was done by Benjamin

00:08:05.220 Franklin and it was a rattlesnake and it looks pretty much like that snake on Don't Tread

00:08:11.880 on Me.

00:08:12.380 It was a rattlesnake and it was cut into 13 pieces and it had on each piece.

00:08:20.700 Each state or each colony and underneath it just said, unite or die.

00:08:27.940 Meaning we could all go our own separate ways. 0.97

00:08:31.340 The king will cut us up.

00:08:33.420 We'll help him.

00:08:36.480 Or, uh, or we could join together and live.

00:08:40.440 I bring this up because by the way, the kid who is fantastic, I love this kid.

00:08:49.340 This kid, by the way, his favorite book is the creature from Jekyll Island by the Tuttle

00:08:56.340 Twins.

00:08:57.500 Love this kid.

00:08:58.940 Okay.

00:08:59.180 He knows what he's talking about.

00:09:01.340 He's back in school with the flag on his backpack today.

00:09:05.260 Congratulations.

00:09:07.720 Now I see a lot of things that are happening at the state level, even in, in states like

00:09:14.160 Colorado.

00:09:14.740 Colorado just put in their, um, uh, in their, in their house, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado,

00:09:25.320 Colorado, people from Colorado decided that they really thought this teacher who is a Marxist

00:09:33.040 and wants a Mao like, um, uh, cultural revolution.

00:09:39.000 He talks about an aggressive cultural revolution.

00:09:43.880 That's code for Mao.

00:09:46.540 They just elected him and put him in the house.

00:09:50.460 Okay.

00:09:51.000 It's their state.

00:09:52.060 You can do it.

00:09:54.780 You also have people like this.

00:09:56.540 Now the question is, and I mean this sincerely.

00:10:00.080 The time is coming when we are in real trouble, real trouble.

00:10:12.340 I don't know if you saw Tucker on X yesterday.

00:10:14.980 He did an interview with, um, Victor Orban from Hungary.

00:10:20.020 Okay.

00:10:20.560 That's a little frightening.

00:10:22.380 Victor Orban's like, yeah, yeah.

00:10:25.100 World war three.

00:10:25.900 Everybody here knows Ukraine is losing.

00:10:28.720 There's no way to win.

00:10:30.080 You got to make peace right now because the only thing you can do is start sending boots

00:10:35.520 on the ground to help them because they're out.

00:10:38.280 You do that.

00:10:39.360 It's world war three.

00:10:41.340 You start sending the jets over and everything else.

00:10:44.260 World war three.

00:10:45.020 He'll use a nuke.

00:10:46.080 He will.

00:10:47.900 You should probably trust the people who have been taken by the former Soviet union and have 1.00

00:10:53.580 lived next to Russia.

00:10:54.820 America, our whole existence.

00:10:57.260 You should probably listen to us.

00:10:58.840 I mean, there's an ocean between you and us.

00:11:01.760 You know, you may not know what's best.

00:11:03.900 I think he's right on that.

00:11:08.960 But as tough times come and you live, if you live in Washington, D.C., there's no way you

00:11:15.980 get a fair trial.

00:11:16.980 No way.

00:11:18.340 I think if you live in New York City, there's no way you get a fair trial.

00:11:22.480 If it's political, if you're like, yeah, my child is my child, not your child.

00:11:29.360 They're not going to get a sex change. 0.95

00:11:31.580 No.

00:11:32.660 You're not going to get a fair trial.

00:11:35.600 California, do you really think?

00:11:37.040 Now, things are changing, for instance, in Washington, D.C.

00:11:44.120 I don't know if you've seen the climate activists that have glued themselves to the roadway again.

00:11:50.540 Honestly, I just think.

00:11:52.720 Did you see the I think it was in New Mexico, but it was on the native side.

00:11:58.780 I think it was on the Navajo Nation.

00:12:01.060 You know, Burning Man was happening.

00:12:02.480 And these dopes just blocked traffic and traffic was blocked forever. 0.64

00:12:08.600 And they were on the Navajo side.

00:12:10.480 So the Navajo Rangers came.

00:12:13.040 They just took their truck and went through the blockade and then turned around and started

00:12:19.240 going.

00:12:19.520 And the kids were like, they can't do that.

00:12:21.400 What are they doing?

00:12:22.480 We're not violent.

00:12:24.160 What are you kidding?

00:12:24.840 And the guy gets out of the truck with his gun.

00:12:26.560 He's like, get out on the ground right now.

00:12:30.080 And he's aggressive.

00:12:31.340 Yeah, he's aggressive.

00:12:33.200 And these hippies are like, you can't do that.

00:12:36.680 Yeah, yeah.

00:12:37.260 You know, you're in a different country.

00:12:39.500 You don't think you are, but you are.

00:12:42.780 You're in the Navajo Nation now. 0.91

00:12:45.140 And they don't play by the same rules.

00:12:49.200 In Washington, D.C., all of these climate activists were out.

00:12:55.080 And people were blocked.

00:12:57.920 Now, this has happened two days in the last two weeks.

00:13:00.260 People are blocked.

00:13:01.660 For like an hour, two hours.

00:13:03.840 They're just blocked.

00:13:05.120 And they're getting out of their cars.

00:13:06.820 And they are starting to accost these people.

00:13:08.760 And they're like, what do you think you're doing?

00:13:11.640 I have a house payment.

00:13:12.960 I have a car payment.

00:13:14.820 I'm raising kids.

00:13:16.160 I'm trying to feed my family.

00:13:17.840 Get the hell out of the street.

00:13:19.300 And it's getting ugly.

00:13:22.620 It's getting really ugly.

00:13:24.620 The people, the good news is, I think the people have had enough of this.

00:13:28.220 They've had enough.

00:13:30.520 For that to happen even in Washington, D.C., that's interesting.

00:13:33.540 So now they, I don't know, they took a chisel and got the guy's hand, you know, off of the concrete.

00:13:41.860 But they were all arrested.

00:13:43.360 They'll be back because they think they're Martin Luther King.

00:13:45.580 So they'll be back.

00:13:49.600 But the question is, which way is your state going?

00:13:56.620 And should we consider, because I know I have, I moved to Texas for a reason.

00:14:08.840 I have a ranch in Idaho for a reason.

00:14:13.000 I bet on two states.

00:14:16.380 There's other states that I'm sure might, you know, actually stand to.

00:14:20.940 And these two states might eventually fall.

00:14:22.780 I don't know.

00:14:24.700 But I bet on two states.

00:14:26.620 I didn't want to be in New York.

00:14:30.560 Those people will eat you. 0.88

00:14:33.160 They will.

00:14:33.920 It's going to get very, when there's no food.

00:14:36.960 And, you know, because of, you know, the Green New Deal, when all of that wind power is producing all the electricity that it's supposed to produce.

00:14:45.480 And nobody has any power.

00:14:47.300 And you're in Washington, D.C.

00:14:48.620 And you're in a skyscraper, 55, 60 stories tall, with people in it and their children.

00:14:54.780 And they're all hungry.

00:14:56.000 I don't know.

00:14:56.960 I don't know.

00:14:57.540 Some new recipes might be tried out.

00:14:59.500 I'm just saying.

00:15:00.200 Or do we stay in those places because we know that our founder said, unite or die?

00:15:14.220 And what we're doing is we're separating ourselves.

00:15:18.820 I don't have an answer for this.

00:15:20.920 I really don't.

00:15:22.320 I'm really struggling with this.

00:15:25.280 Do we unite or do we balkanize?

00:15:32.020 Bad idea.

00:15:35.840 But is it the only idea?

00:15:38.480 I don't know.

00:15:39.140 Because I got to tell you, I'll never go to Washington, D.C.

00:15:44.020 Never again.

00:15:44.800 Never again.

00:15:45.400 Because I know if I'm arrested for some political reason, I'll never get a fair trial.

00:15:50.400 Never.

00:15:51.380 Never.

00:15:52.820 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:54.800 And we really want to thank you for listening.

00:15:56.520 OK, let me play.

00:15:59.720 Can I start with the audio from last night of Governor DeSantis on television talking about

00:16:09.900 what's happening in Florida?

00:16:11.800 Listen to this.

00:16:12.420 Well, this thing's going to hit us on Wednesday morning.

00:16:15.140 It's going to be a major hurricane.

00:16:17.000 People need to heed the instructions from their local officials.

00:16:21.020 You still have time this morning and early afternoon to be able to make the preparations

00:16:25.940 that you need to.

00:16:27.140 You are going to start seeing on the Gulf Coast of Florida some of the effects of this as we

00:16:31.920 get into Tuesday night.

00:16:33.660 The state, we have tens of thousands of utility workers staged, ready to go in for rapid power

00:16:40.980 restoration.

00:16:41.660 We also have urban search and rescue teams staged, ready to go.

00:16:46.140 If there needs to be rescue operations, we will lead the effort on that.

00:16:51.320 And then, of course, we have other types of supplies as people need.

00:16:55.180 So we're ready to go on this.

00:16:57.180 This is a storm that's hitting a part of the state that hasn't had a major hurricane on the

00:17:01.900 current track in a long time.

00:17:04.240 And so that's a lot of woods, a lot of forests.

00:17:07.300 I think you're going to see a lot of debris as a result of this storm.

00:17:10.640 And that means we have our guys ready to clear the roads.

00:17:14.060 It's amazing.

00:17:15.520 This they are taking action prior to you.

00:17:21.660 You remember a year before to the day the year before Katrina, I was on the air.

00:17:28.760 And I told you the most dangerous city in America was New Orleans because the levees have been

00:17:37.180 used as a political fundraiser forever.

00:17:41.540 And then they never fix the levees.

00:17:43.860 And I said, it is the most dangerous.

00:17:46.860 If it is hit straight on, it will cause chaos unlike anything we've ever seen.

00:17:53.660 Twelve months later to the day it was happening.

00:17:58.660 It didn't take a profit to see it.

00:18:01.880 It only takes somebody who's looking at what is not being done by the government.

00:18:07.680 The same thing with Maui.

00:18:10.680 You know, what we've learned from Maui, A, about the government, we'll get into later.

00:18:18.300 But what we've learned is the people can take care of themselves.

00:18:22.640 The people are taking care of themselves.

00:18:26.420 The community is coming together.

00:18:28.460 Everyone I talk to that has been to Maui or is in Maui has said the same thing.

00:18:33.860 This is a tight knit community that is really helping each other.

00:18:39.180 You can't expect a government who is several time zones away to be your first responder. 0.99

00:18:46.400 For one reason, they suck. 1.00

00:18:48.940 They always suck. 1.00

00:18:50.580 You need people closest to the ground. 0.98

00:18:53.860 That's why we don't give to big national charities unless we know they are the first on the ground

00:19:02.500 and they have a long track record of being the first in and the last out.

00:19:08.080 When you give your dollars to Mercury One, you're not really giving them to Mercury One.

00:19:14.120 We are just finding the place where those dollars will get the most bang for the buck.

00:19:20.080 Because we don't take anything off the top.

00:19:22.320 And so the first places we go are local churches.

00:19:27.440 You know, the local churches, the local clubs, the local emergency people that have dealt with these things over and over again.

00:19:36.880 And the churches are usually one of the best places.

00:19:40.540 Well, Greg Laurie, he's the guy who was in the movie Jesus Revolution or that he wasn't actually.

00:19:46.820 And it was about him and that whole revolution.

00:19:50.620 He has a he has a church there on Maui in this community.

00:19:55.960 It's it's it's an amazing story.

00:20:00.000 And they were the the first people out to be able to to help.

00:20:04.380 And we wanted to get the story from him on what's going on.

00:20:07.920 Welcome, Greg.

00:20:11.240 And good to be with you.

00:20:13.500 Thanks so much for inviting me to be on your show.

00:20:15.940 I was actually just in Maui yesterday and we we've had a church there, as you mentioned, for 41 years now.

00:20:24.060 A friend of mine of mine started it.

00:20:26.340 He's a pro surfer.

00:20:27.660 He started this church and he wanted to retire.

00:20:31.560 And asked if we'd bring it into our church family that's called Harvest.

00:20:36.340 And so now it's been a part of our churches for seven years.

00:20:41.700 And, you know, it's usually a very happy thing to go over there.

00:20:45.380 A very close congregation of around a thousand people.

00:20:48.960 And man, when I spoke to him last Sunday, it's like they were all collectively traumatized till, but yet still filled with hope.

00:20:57.720 And that is, I think, one of the most important things right now is to bring, yes, help.

00:21:03.220 And thanks to you and Mercury One and others that have helped us, we've been able to bring tangible help to people, helping them get clothing, food.

00:21:13.480 We've helped a hundred families in tangible ways financially to survive this thing.

00:21:19.820 But I think the thing that we have to offer that's more important than anything is hope.

00:21:24.240 You know, it's been said that men can live 40 days without food, three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but not one second without hope.

00:21:34.420 And there's a lot of people on this island that have lost hope.

00:21:38.520 I was talking with J.P. Decker, who works with you at Mercury One, and he brought to my attention the fact that there have been a number of suicides.

00:21:47.800 Since this has happened among those who have lost their home, their livelihood, and apparently their hope.

00:21:55.760 And so we're really working on that.

00:21:57.700 I, you know, from everything I read, the people who were in the water that watched people burn to death and watched people, you know, eventually give up and drown all around them.

00:22:11.580 You know, the, you know, the one woman who finally after two days of looking for her son, she was turned around, turned around by the police and everybody else.

00:22:23.180 And they said, no, we've already cleared all the houses.

00:22:26.340 She went back to what was left of her house and her son's bedroom was still fairly intact.

00:22:32.340 And he was, uh, he had not been incinerated and he was sitting on what was his bed holding his dog.

00:22:40.500 Once you see these kinds of things, uh, up close and personal and one after another, after another, I mean, what are you guys dealing with over there psychologically?

00:22:55.720 You're dealing with trauma.

00:22:57.360 Yeah. You know, I know people, I think misuse the concept of PTSD, but I think you're really seeing this on a widespread scale because these people have experienced major trauma in stories like that one you just shared.

00:23:13.560 That's so unbelievable.

00:23:15.160 And they were told to not go to their home and, uh, and they were, and they were told to, to not leave and they were turned back again.

00:23:23.680 And many of those people were incinerated because of that.

00:23:27.180 And for the ones that just broke the law effectively and, and disobeyed what they were told, they, they lived.

00:23:33.940 And so this without question has been horribly mismanaged on so many levels.

00:23:40.540 And, but that's, we stepped in immediately because we're there on the ground and in every way possible.

00:23:47.700 I mean, giving people, you know, a man who lost his livelihood, gave him fishing pole so he can go out and dish again.

00:23:56.280 Uh, we have one couple in the church, they own a round people pizza and, uh, they just made all of their pizza free and for anybody that wants it.

00:24:05.200 And so we got in this truck and we're driving around just giving pizzas to police officers, to people anywhere.

00:24:12.060 But I tell you what, Glenn, people love pizza.

00:24:15.080 I saw the power of pizza.

00:24:16.800 I mean, it's a little thing, but, but we give it to him in the name of Jesus Christ.

00:24:22.020 Here's a pizza.

00:24:22.900 Thank you.

00:24:23.520 You know, little things matter, but I think, you know, there's something called the ministry of presence where you're just there and you listen to people and you care about people.

00:24:33.580 And that goes a long way because, you know, when you're dealing with trauma, you've got to talk about it.

00:24:39.620 You've got to process it.

00:24:41.180 And of course we pray with them and we point them toward Christ.

00:24:45.600 And it, cause he is the one who's ultimately going to give us the hope we need.

00:24:50.400 You have preschool.

00:24:52.260 Now you're holding, you're allowing the, uh, church facilities to be used for teachers and parent groups and, you know, educational support.

00:25:00.580 And then the preschool is, uh, is childcare for families.

00:25:04.540 Uh, I mean, this is turning into kind of a full-time, uh, thing.

00:25:09.780 How long can the church do that?

00:25:13.020 We'll do it as long as it needs to be done.

00:25:15.180 And we're working with other organizations at Mercury One, Samaritan's Purse, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

00:25:23.100 We're also, we're also helping people just with the practical things like, uh, filling out their insurance forms and making their claims.

00:25:31.080 Cause a lot of these people don't know how to do it.

00:25:33.460 Uh, they didn't have internet for quite a while.

00:25:36.420 We brought in some of those Starlink systems.

00:25:39.160 And so people could just, there was like, literally, there was no communication on this island.

00:25:44.580 Uh, you, people couldn't text each other.

00:25:46.480 They couldn't call each other.

00:25:48.080 They, they couldn't communicate at all.

00:25:50.180 And this fire, as you know, just incinerated everything in its path.

00:25:53.980 I, when I got there, we, we got down on what is called Front Street.

00:25:58.740 And, uh, that's kind of the main destination of Lahaina.

00:26:02.080 People come from around the world.

00:26:03.420 And then it's a tourist attraction, beautiful street back to my social media.

00:26:08.380 I posted a drone shot that we had done two weeks before this fire.

00:26:13.500 Cause I was there doing a program with CBN, uh, featuring our church and happier days.

00:26:19.240 And I put this drone shot of what Front Street looked like in its heyday and its glory, right next to a shot of the same places that we just took, uh, on that same street.

00:26:31.660 And it looks like a war zone.

00:26:33.640 It's just, it's, it's incomprehensible because I pretty much know every square inch of that street.

00:26:39.040 And, you know, think of all those buildings, your favorite stores and restaurants, but even more, obviously the loss of life.

00:26:46.900 I mean, you're walking through effectively a graveyard and, and it's, it's very sobering.

00:26:53.700 It's very sad.

00:26:55.680 And, but at the same time, I see, you know, the Bible talks about beauty coming out of ashes.

00:27:02.600 And I see that happening there.

00:27:04.660 You know, here's the amazing thing is downtown in Lahaina, there's this tree, it's a banyan tree.

00:27:09.800 And it was actually planted, interestingly, uh, dedicated to the first missionary that came to Lahaina.

00:27:17.940 And this tree somehow survived.

00:27:20.420 And to me, it's a picture of resilience and, and about how if a person is rooted in a relationship with God, they can survive anything.

00:27:30.920 And I think that tree is in many ways, become a symbol for the people on the island.

00:27:35.260 They're going to come back again, that they're going to rebuild again, but the loss of life, those people can never be replaced.

00:27:43.780 Greg Laurie, um, he is the real life guy that you might've seen in the, um, uh, Jesus revolution.

00:27:50.680 That was his story.

00:27:52.560 Uh, and he is a senior pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship.

00:27:56.260 Uh, one of their, uh, one of their branches is right there in Lahaina in, uh, Maui.

00:28:03.300 And he has been on the scene.

00:28:05.540 The church has been working.

00:28:06.600 And thank you, Greg, for being such a good steward of the money that Mercury One has given the church to be able to, to help all these people.

00:28:14.680 Thank you.

00:28:15.680 We, we like to give it to people who understand sacred money.

00:28:20.820 Well, Glenn, thank you so much.

00:28:22.780 And for all the folks that invested, we really appreciate it.

00:28:26.100 And God bless you all.

00:28:27.160 Thank you very much.

00:28:27.900 Uh, so you, so you know, um, the, several of the charities that he mentioned, um, Billy Graham and Samaritan's Purse, um, we helped them, uh, get the first, I think it was a C-130, um, off the ground right away when this was happening.

00:28:46.720 That was also, um, your money and we appreciate it.

00:28:50.980 If you'd like to help and then help those who are now in Florida as well, uh, I, government is not the thing.

00:28:59.380 It is the local people that always fix the problems.

00:29:03.320 Uh, so why send your money to an inefficient where they're using maybe 40 cents on every dollar?

00:29:11.300 Uh, the rest is, is, is in overhead.

00:29:14.880 100% of the money goes directly to whatever it is we're trying to serve, uh, in disaster relief.

00:29:23.440 Give to local charities and local people.

00:29:26.460 And if you don't know who to give there, you can go to Mercury One and we will find those people for you.

00:29:32.580 MercuryOne.org.

00:29:33.700 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:39.820 So let me tell you the story real quick.

00:29:43.380 Teacher, Colorado, he gets up and he says all kinds of things in his, uh, classroom.

00:29:51.060 Went on a Marxist rant.

00:29:52.720 He said, I want to tear some S up for you. 1.00

00:29:55.620 Are you ready?

00:29:56.940 What's happening in our schools?

00:29:59.000 Showing up in our classrooms.

00:30:00.500 You know, we have ideological circles up here.

00:30:04.640 We, we compete on who knows Marx better.

00:30:07.000 Who knows Lenin, uh, Lenin better.

00:30:09.320 I'm a Leninist.

00:30:10.340 I'm a Marxist.

00:30:11.160 Kids don't care. 1.00

00:30:12.420 It's important to know the theory, but you have to have some practices.

00:30:15.480 You have to get out into the streets.

00:30:17.060 You have to get out into the workplace.

00:30:18.860 You have to go with, with your families.

00:30:21.220 We're just sitting, talking in an ideological circle.

00:30:24.180 Our kids still going to schools that are underfunded, where they're investing more in their failure than in their success.

00:30:30.500 Yes, your communist theory won't save you.

00:30:33.860 Only revolution will save you.

00:30:36.620 And it won't be the person who understands Lenin or Marx the best.

00:30:40.180 It will be a revolution that is led by the people.

00:30:44.780 He has said, quote, I'm for a forceful cultural revolution.

00:30:50.960 He goes on.

00:30:53.400 There's much worse things that he said, but here's the good news.

00:30:56.120 In Denver, the, uh, state house of representatives had an open seat and the Democrats have just appointed him to take that seat in the state house.

00:31:08.880 So you have an open Marxist in the state house of Colorado who's calling for a forceful cultural revolution.

00:31:19.260 Well, there is somebody that is running for the country's house, uh, and she knows all about this.

00:31:28.860 She was actually supposed to be a guest on this show.

00:31:30.820 She was here in our green room the day Robin Williams died, and we haven't had a chance to have her back.

00:31:37.300 She's now running for the U S house. 1.00

00:31:39.680 Her name is Lily Tong Williams.

00:31:42.180 She's a survivor of Mao's cultural revolution and recognizes all the signs.

00:31:48.640 And she is now running for Congress in New Hampshire's second congressional district.

00:31:54.280 Again, she's already there now.

00:31:56.300 Welcome.

00:31:57.080 How are you?

00:31:57.660 Well, thank you for having me back, Glenn.

00:32:00.680 It's great to see you both here and the great introduction and, uh, my, my story, um, is like American dream story.

00:32:09.960 Yeah.

00:32:10.560 And like you mentioned it, I don't like what's going on in our country today.

00:32:14.660 I'm very terrified.

00:32:15.940 The terms they're using and the tactics they're using.

00:32:20.360 What does a forceful cultural revolution mean?

00:32:23.020 Means, uh, use whatever violence necessary to destroy the old traditional cultures, systems, institutions, also nuclear families. 0.93

00:32:37.240 I have been calling this American cultural revolution for a few years, me and other Chinese immigrants.

00:32:44.520 I know.

00:32:44.980 And we're very, very loud on Twitter.

00:32:47.260 Yeah.

00:32:47.940 And to educate people.

00:32:49.840 And I have my YouTube channel.

00:32:51.760 I interview immigrants who fled totalitarian regimes like Cuba, you know, uh, uh, Venezuela and the China and the Vietnam.

00:33:01.720 We are talking about the same thing.

00:33:03.340 What's going on in our beloved new country.

00:33:06.100 And, uh, but lots of people, especially they are used in this country.

00:33:10.080 They don't realize it because they don't know they never left it under.

00:33:13.520 You know, it was, uh, Victor Orban was talking to Tucker Carlson yesterday and he said, you know, you guys have an ocean between you and Russia.

00:33:23.720 They occupied Hungary. 0.97

00:33:26.440 Listen to the people of Hungary.

00:33:28.140 We know how they operate.

00:33:30.380 And I hear that all the time from immigrants like you that come here.

00:33:35.600 You thought you got away from it.

00:33:37.380 You were in a free country.

00:33:38.340 And now the same exact language and the same tactics it's happening.

00:33:44.780 Yes.

00:33:45.440 I summarize mouse features of cultural revolution.

00:33:48.900 I was two years old to 12 years old.

00:33:51.660 I was indoctrinated to believe only communism or religions were demonized.

00:33:57.940 And I would go home, tell my Buddhist mom to say, stop praying. 0.94

00:34:05.120 You know, it's like a, you should believe Mao and believe in communism.

00:34:09.080 I was a child.

00:34:10.760 Of course, I did not know.

00:34:12.800 And I feel guilty.

00:34:14.600 And it's like, thank goodness.

00:34:15.960 I did not turn my mom in because during the mouse cultural revolution, if you believe in any other religions, you're Christian, Buddhist, whatever other religion you believe in. 0.83

00:34:26.680 I mean, you are deemed to be one of the five black classes and you are country revolutionary and you should be the enemy of the people. 1.00

00:34:37.980 And don't you feel like this is, in an insidious way, almost the same things that are going on now. 0.77

00:34:47.540 They're teaching our kids that your parents are wrong on things.

00:34:51.860 Don't listen to your parents.

00:34:53.400 And your parents should be shut up and maybe you should be taken from them.

00:34:57.380 I mean, I published in my op-ed when New Hampshire trying to pass parental rights bill, but suddenly we failed to pass in New Hampshire.

00:35:06.740 I published my story growing up under Mao that there is always a secret between schools and the parents because they truly believe parents have no rights.

00:35:21.540 Your children belong to this state.

00:35:24.220 Of course, that's how common they think.

00:35:26.520 Why would I come to America to testify to support parental rights?

00:35:30.300 Is that the inherent human rights, natural rights, and American value that kids belong to us, belong to the parents, not belong to the village, belong to the societies?

00:35:42.600 It's very scary to see what's going on here.

00:35:45.400 So you've been in Congress and I would imagine you know the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution better than a lot of the Americans that you serve with.

00:35:54.200 That's what brought me to this country.

00:35:57.840 When I was in law school in China, third year, I was looking for something because I was totally depressed, lost, because I was told to study law.

00:36:08.820 It's not for justice.

00:36:10.660 It's not for equality. 0.61

00:36:12.820 It's actually Communist Party's tool to govern the people.

00:36:17.420 But you didn't know that at the time when you first got in.

00:36:20.340 You were still part of the brainwashing.

00:36:22.620 Well, why start to ask questions when Mao died, when I was 12 and then 14 years old, and party said Mao is not a god.

00:36:32.560 Mao actually was a human being, and he made a mistake.

00:36:36.540 So I was talking to myself, oh, that means I was lied to.

00:36:42.440 I was chanting Nang Lai Chi Mai Mao for straight six years in government schools.

00:36:48.240 He was like a god to me, because I went home, demonized my own mother, who is a Buddhist.

00:36:54.660 And then I say, long live, Chi Mai Mao, 10,000 years, double 10,000 years. 0.79

00:36:59.680 That's one million years.

00:37:00.820 How did he die?

00:37:02.140 I had a little brain left.

00:37:03.820 I was asking that question inside of my head when he died.

00:37:07.540 And then later, party said, okay, he was a human being.

00:37:10.380 I was totally lost.

00:37:12.640 And I said, I'm going to study law.

00:37:14.880 When I have a chance to go to college, I'm going to transform China to rule of law society, no longer rule of man.

00:37:22.660 But I was wrong.

00:37:23.820 I realized I could not achieve that dream in China, because I realized there's a one-party dictatorship.

00:37:29.720 But I went to this dancing party, and I met foreigners, and I met one American student.

00:37:37.980 And later, he asked me to visit him in a foreign student's dormitory.

00:37:42.320 And he's the one who told me about the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

00:37:48.700 My light bulb turned on.

00:37:50.240 I have individual rights and liberty.

00:37:53.720 After that, he put America in my head.

00:37:56.960 And I was talking to myself, you know, oh, I have individual rights.

00:38:02.660 I shouldn't have to report who I'm going to see when I go to see him.

00:38:06.320 I suppose register at the dormitory door to see who I'm going to meet.

00:38:11.460 What is my major?

00:38:12.700 Where is my dormitory address?

00:38:14.640 There was guard at each foreign student and scholar's buildings.

00:38:20.660 So I did not have a right to talk to anybody, but I had to report it.

00:38:24.540 So I was very rebellious, and I slipped into his building a couple times, talking more about USA.

00:38:32.160 And I thought, oh, this is a great country.

00:38:35.300 All men are created equal.

00:38:38.200 And I said, what do you mean?

00:38:40.900 He said, you were born Chinese, and you have different skin color, but you are created by God.

00:38:46.820 You have an individual right by being you, born by being you.

00:38:52.800 My light bulb came on and never turned off.

00:38:55.260 So I said, oh, this is a cool country.

00:38:57.420 If someday I have to leave China, this is a country I will come. 1.00

00:39:01.620 So I always had America in my mind.

00:39:04.180 So it was the third year.

00:39:05.640 How difficult, because it was so foreign to you.

00:39:08.720 You know, we say we hold these things to be self-evident.

00:39:11.580 How long did it take you to realize that that was self-evident?

00:39:16.400 I mean, when he said those words at first, you couldn't have understood.

00:39:20.060 No, I was puzzled.

00:39:20.800 That's why I asked him, what do you mean?

00:39:22.860 What does self-evident mean?

00:39:24.800 Because in China, I grew up in a communist country.

00:39:28.220 Their rights are collective sins.

00:39:30.860 Workers' rights.

00:39:32.000 So my parents are illiterate workers.

00:39:34.500 They have workers' rights, peasants' rights, and the soldiers' rights, teachers' rights, women's rights.

00:39:39.940 It's all collective sins.

00:39:41.620 I never heard individual has a right.

00:39:44.920 Wow.

00:39:45.640 And that was just, I couldn't quite get it.

00:39:49.280 So that's why I had to go back.

00:39:51.000 And when I went back, I already started rebelling.

00:39:53.600 I'm not going to register.

00:39:55.140 So I did not register at the door, because I knew what we were talking about is supposed to be not PC.

00:40:02.320 I will get into trouble to say, I'm going to spend lots of time with this American student, you know.

00:40:07.820 So I just slicked in and slicked out, but I feel like there's something excitement, you know, in me.

00:40:14.960 So when you came here, you didn't plan on running for Congress until you started seeing things go wrong.

00:40:21.120 We're talking to Lily Tong-Williams.

00:40:23.100 She's a candidate for the U.S. House in New Hampshire.

00:40:27.620 She's already a congressperson. 0.99

00:40:29.900 No, I'm not yet.

00:40:30.860 I'm not elected yet.

00:40:32.040 Oh, you're not?

00:40:32.160 I thought you were already.

00:40:33.200 I thought you were running for a second term.

00:40:34.320 I did not win last year.

00:40:34.740 Oh, you did win last year.

00:40:35.920 Yeah, so I was on your radio show last year.

00:40:39.080 Yeah, yeah.

00:40:39.200 Talk about EST last year, right?

00:40:41.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:40:41.940 So what is the thing that you are going to, what is the thing you're going to change?

00:40:46.480 What is the thing that you're going in to fight?

00:40:48.980 Well, I'm trying to use my stories to remind people why America was my promised land.

00:40:55.740 When I was in China, dream about more freedom and dream about, you know, just live my American dream.

00:41:03.900 And it took me 20 years actually in this country, learning English, learning the culture to get rid of the indoctrination I received.

00:41:12.900 And throughout my 24 years, living in China under one party, CCP dictatorship, we don't want to go down the wrong path because there are lots of people, including some electing to Congress, and push for socialist policies.

00:41:28.960 And now I feel like there's some kind of like, for example, when you talk about work and cultural revolution, I feel like there is some kind of things going on trying to defeat America.

00:41:43.720 And I thought America is a free country based on individual rights and liberty, like our forefathers put into funding documents.

00:41:53.800 But our young people today remind me of my youth.

00:41:57.700 I was a young pioneer, Red Guard.

00:41:59.900 I was totally brainwashed.

00:42:01.720 And my parents had no rights.

00:42:04.160 I just, I couldn't even sleep last couple of years, especially during the riots and the burnings.

00:42:10.520 It's like, what's going on?

00:42:12.080 I feel like something, history is repeating itself.

00:42:16.520 And I feel it's my duty to come out, to tell my stories, for the whole country to hear me.

00:42:23.700 And my unique voice matters.

00:42:26.560 So we have to have a courage now to speak the truth, even though I have been targeted by CCP.

00:42:32.660 I bet you have. 0.98

00:42:33.440 To say, shut up. 1.00

00:42:34.160 In this country, you are traitors. 1.00

00:42:35.980 Like a traitor to who? 0.98

00:42:36.960 I'm an American citizen.

00:42:38.240 I have a free speech.

00:42:40.520 And I have a citizen's duty to tell the truth.

00:42:43.800 So if I say my country is getting destroyed by the Marxists and socialists and young people who don't know what the freedom is about, 0.76

00:42:52.800 it's my duty to come out to warn people.

00:42:55.740 I don't want to relive another, you know, socialist country.

00:43:00.300 I don't want my children to lose their American dream.

00:43:03.420 If you would like to help Lily Tang, you can go to lilytangwilliams.com, L-I-L-Y, lilytangwilliams.com,

00:43:12.980 and help her on her fight for America, a candidate for the U.S. House.

00:43:20.840 Na-na-na-na 0.95

The Glenn Beck Program - August 30, 2023

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