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Rashida Tlaib had some great things to say about the holocaust and she's calling for a sex strike to protest it. Also, abortion is illegal in Georgia and Hillary Clinton wants to ban all abortions once a fetus is detected with a heartbeat.
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Well, hello, podcasters. We've got a great show for you today. Are we going to war with Iran?
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Also, Rashida Tlaib had some great things to say about the Holocaust.
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She just warms her heart whenever she thinks about it. Incredible.
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Also, sex strike? Yes, that meddler's not going to have sex.
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And she's serious about it, so sorry to break that to you.
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The Democratic candidates had a very interesting weekend. We get into that.
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Some disturbing numbers about how we view each other.
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20% of both Republicans and Democrats say the other side don't have the qualities that qualify them as human.
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And some great news about the progress that the world has made because of the free market from 2000 until today.
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And no one is talking about it except today's podcast.
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All right, let me tell you about Home Title Lock.
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Home Title Lock is really something that we never even thought of,
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that somebody could steal your home by stealing your title.
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They say in New York it was, what was it they said in New York?
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And there's only one company that can stand against this and is,
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This is like three bucks a month or something like that to make sure that you're covered.
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This is something you're never going to be able to find out on your own.
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So now Georgia signed in, of course, the heartbeat bill,
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which outlaws abortion in Georgia once in the ultrasound detects an unborn child's heartbeat.
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I know, a clump of cells or a clump of skin or a tumor doesn't have a heartbeat.
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She said, until women have legal control over their own bodies,
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So join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.
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I mean, I don't want to insult these women, but no one cares about your bodies.
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We allow you to have plastic surgery to make you look like a cat.
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That is something that is allowed in our society.
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You can put horns, artificial horns, on the top of your head so you can be a devil or a unicorn or whatever you like.
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You can take your body and so mutilate it that you are no longer the gender that you were born as.
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And this is what we say the same thing about sex changes.
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You just can't do it to someone who is not of age to make the decision.
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I mean, like, really, at that point, we think there's a problem with it.
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You shouldn't be able to force your will on another person who can't make the decision for themselves.
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And someone who is maybe seven months, you know, into the process of pregnancy and is not yet born but still very much alive and could be born,
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that person should be able to make their choice about whether they want to live or not.
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Let me say something really controversial here, I think.
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If you are in so much pain, you're just like, I'm just, I can't do this anymore.
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But it is your right to kill yourself, I believe.
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With that being said, it's not your right to kill something that you are growing inside of you.
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You just can't make decisions for other people.
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It's like, well, they won't even know if they're pregnant or not.
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I always thought that it would be a rational debate in this country if the crazy left-wing position was the morning after pill.
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With this debate, Republicans were saying, you know what, no abortion.
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And Democrats were saying, you know what, there should be a morning after pill and you should be able to have that.
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So if you have a night where you did something that you regret and you're worried about it,
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you should be able, before you even know that you're pregnant, to take this pill and then end it and we'll never even know.
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Again, that doesn't make me excited about the thing.
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But the idea that the debate instead is happening at, I don't know, let's see, five minutes before birth or five minutes after?
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And that is, seemingly the debate, it's terrifying.
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I mean, at least if you had an idea that it was like, okay.
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That was saying, look, this is a tragic, tragic choice that some people have to make.
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But safe, rare, and legal is not like, hey, this is the way I do birth control.
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I mean, the Republican position right now is essentially, let's go back to mildly close to Roe versus Wade.
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There was like, oh, you're going to try to overturn Roe versus Wade.
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Roe versus Wade is a conservative dream right now compared to what we have.
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Roe versus Wade basically said first trimester.
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I mean, you could get it in second trimester, but it could be regulated in the second trimester,
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and it could be completely outlawed in the third trimester.
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We've moved so far from that to where we are now.
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You talk about a hardcore right wing shift in reverse while going 70 miles an hour in one direction.
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That would be going back to Roe versus Wade right now.
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Did you see all of the things that came out this weekend about the Democrats and what they're now saying on the road?
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If I had the power, I'd absolutely get rid of all the guns.
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We're both strong believers of the Second Amendment, and we care about gun.
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There's been a gun in a restaurant I went to on the wall.
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Let me tell you, I'm practically the NRA myself.
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I remember my father watching, I think it was Gunsmoke on television.
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I mean, so I have that part of my heritage as well.
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We're just looking for common sense measures, and let me tell you about it.
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Let me trot out about five victims' families right now to make you cry,
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and hopefully it will make you so emotional you'll change your mind and then forget that
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That's basically where they are, and now, all of a sudden, they're admitting it.
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And now they've gone all the way to the level of restricting sex from Alyssa Milano.
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I mean, there was at least a time in which people were interested in such things.
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The Bette Midler thing, I don't even think there was a year, a year of all years,
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There was never a moment by any person in human history where they were like, ah,
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So she says, our reproductive rights are being erased until women have legal control
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Join me by not having sex until we get our bodily autonomy back.
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So your solution here is abstinence because you can't kill your baby.
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By not having sex, they're actually executing the thing that they say they don't have,
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So they're actually doing the thing they say they don't have to prove they don't have it.
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It's very feminist to bribe men with sex for things that you want.
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We'll give you the sex when you do what we want.
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So anyway, so if you were thinking about Bette Medler and you were like, this is my week.
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Well, I will say the upside of, I mean, we don't know.
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It may never save one baby's life, but at least it's doing this.
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It's giving the world a break from Bette Midler's sex for at least some period of time.
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Whoever the man in her life is like, oh, thank you.
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He's secretly like giving money to pro-life, like pro-life causes all around America.
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I hear her footsteps coming towards the bedroom and I'm like, no, not tonight.
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Well, just because you didn't mind it doesn't mean I can't.
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I'm going to have to edit a little bit, I think.
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I have to look at it because you don't want to give any spoilers.
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Luckily, I don't know what any of them are, but that is a thing.
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No, so I'm going to make sure somebody looks over your script that watches it to make sure
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Well, that will give people enough time to catch up, and we can do the final episode discussion
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Can I tell you one little parenting thing that happened to me this weekend?
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I can't remember where I got this idea, but somebody...
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Where I decided to start an email address for them.
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Each one of them gets an email address, and then I send them emails.
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And so little things I notice or little cool moments that we had.
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A little piece of advice that maybe I think of.
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And so they were these Yahoo email addresses I started up seven years ago.
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I like it, because I think at some point they're going to be able to open it up and
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Well, it was cool until last night when I got an email back from Yahoo that said,
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Because I sent a video, a little video of us together to one of the email addresses, and
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I looked all over to try to find them giving me an alert of this.
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I'll go into the email address every couple months just to make sure that it's active and
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make sure that I send emails so that it's active and still getting them.
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It's just all my emails of all these moments, and so I went in, and both email addresses
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I'm hoping there's some way that can be recovered.
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A, you should have gone with a glennbeck.com address.
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I would have done it to you had you not paid me.
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I guess I should have gone with, I don't know, Gmail or something.
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Maybe it's just a quirk, and I'm going to be able to figure it out.
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I will tell you, this is my greatest fear on pictures.
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First of all, none of the pictures we have, you know, occasionally we will get, you know,
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the thing where, I think Twitter does this, where you can tweet pictures and then they
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make a book out of it, and you can also send stuff.
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But we dump all of our pictures onto our computer.
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We have the opposite problem that we had when I was growing up.
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You know, I was a third child, so I was like, no pictures of it.
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Every, practically every food at every, you know, restaurant.
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Here's the actual food and the picture of the food.
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But at any time, if, you know, the cloud goes down, or if you don't even have it on the cloud,
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if you have it on your computer, we have one computer, one hard drive, that the computer went down.
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So we assume that the pictures are still on there.
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We're lugging around this old computer because we hope that pictures are still on it.
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And it's my worst nightmare is something happens and it's all gone.
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And I've had that problem, too, with the cloud, with the cloud service.
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I had signed up and paid all this money over these years to do all the cloud service from all these old computers.
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And then one day I go on there and it won't give me any access to it.
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What they did is they decided to charge my credit card for the year.
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When I had done like 10 years, I've been on this thing.
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And because my credit card number changed, they sent me like two alerts that said,
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They went into my spam and then they just deleted it all.
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Like, this is like, I have no way of, it's terrifying.
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You wrecked my vacation because now all I have to, now all I'm going to be thinking about is I've got a download.
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Now I've got to print it out and put it into a vault in the ground.
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We have our head researcher and military expert, I guess.
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What do we call you an expert now at this point?
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You were in military intelligence, but your knowledge of the world in the last three years,
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You were the guy who helped figure out what was going on with Benghazi.
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And two days, two days after Benghazi happened, we had that thing nailed.
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And one thing about that, just to revisit it, the accolades that have rolled in over that.
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The media praise for getting that whole situation right at the beginning.
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You guys have really just swam in that, marinated in it for a few years now.
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We're really kind of coasting after that, you know, just living off of that crown.
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Anyway, the United States has received intelligence indicating that Iran was preparing to attack
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Last week, we told you that they were going to dispatch a battle group to the Persian Gulf.
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They moved a Patriot missile battery and a squadron of B-52 bombers.
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And then, late last week, Iran threatened to begin enriching uranium.
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Over the weekend, yesterday, two Saudi oil tankers were attacked in, quote, an act of sabotage near the Persian Gulf.
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This could be either because we don't know or they are restraining due to U.S. pressure.
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But if the Saudis finger Iran, tensions are going to start to spiral out of control.
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I think what's interesting is I think H.R. McMaster said it best, especially in that area.
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But pretty much this is true all over the world.
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But he said there's two ways to fight the United States right now.
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One is asymmetrically, you know, via cyber attack, via terrorism, stuff like that.
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Force on force, military on military, they cannot match us.
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They said this weekend the, I don't know, the Grand Pooh Bar or whatever, came out and said there's no match with us in the United States.
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I thought, I read that and I was like, wait, no, did we say that?
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Well, the threats that they were making towards, I'm just guessing here, but the intelligence we got were probably these asymmetric attacks.
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The report came out that I think you were talking about maybe last week about Hezbollah presence in Venezuela for crying out loud.
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Hezbollah is one of Maduro's main guys, is a Hezbollah guy, and he has been allowing extremists to come in from the Middle East and train and be there in Venezuela.
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We also know that there was another terrorist training camp like the one in New Mexico that was found in, where was it, Alabama this weekend?
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We know this, and it only makes sense when you have a million plus people coming into the border right now, coming in over our border.
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We know that Hezbollah or Hamas has got to be in the numbers of those who have crossed our border.
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So we don't know what they're planning, but I will guarantee you that there are people here that are under Iranian orders.
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Radical Islamists, kind of sounds like you're saying radical Islamists and socialists would work together and that would cascade and that, you know.
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It would finally come here to the United States.
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Just the accolades just keep coming in for that one, too.
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It was the third parade was a little much for you guys.
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I mean, I thought the ticker tape parade was nice.
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The Iranian thing, I think, is going to continue.
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I think there's going to be a lot of dog barking that's going to continue.
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I do not see a full-on, like, military, you know, engagement happen.
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We have, because Donald Trump has taken the lead on this, he has crippled their economy.
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He has taken their, what is it, the yak or whatever they're using over there.
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It is, it has, he has collapsed their monetary system, collapsed it.
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It went down by, what, 74% as soon as we applied the sanctions, and it's not getting better.
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Those went back in November, and that's only going to get worse.
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They, the Trump administration put waivers on, I think, eight countries that were still receiving Iranian oil.
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He just announced last week, coincidentally, when all these tensions started to ramp up, he said those are going away.
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Now, for the past two years, the European Union has been telling Iran, no, don't do anything.
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Trump is going to be out, you know, there's going to be a new president.
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And not only the European Union, but John Kerry, for crying out loud, has been over there telling the Iranians the same thing.
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So he's been colluding with the Iranians to say, look, don't worry about it.
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We're going to get a new administration in there.
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But this is exactly what they would have, this is where they would have been if we wouldn't have had the disastrous Iran deal.
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Severe recession, a collapsing economy, their currency in free fall.
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We don't have to legitimize their nuclear program and set them up in another few years to be able to make nuclear weapons anyway, which is exactly what it did.
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They were already at the negotiating table on their knees.
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And I said this in 2005 about Iran and South Korea.
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And I said, South Korea is going to happen first.
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But we've got to get to South Korea and be tough right now because once they have nuclear weapons, there's only so much you can do.
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What are we going to do about South Korea or North Korea?
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We have nothing we can do because all options at this point are horrific.
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You cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon because once they do, you have no more good options left.
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You're always left with do nothing or possibly engage in a nuclear war.
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You've got to be tough on sanctions and do everything you can to collapse them.
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Those people are different than the people were in Iraq.
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And you have a chance because the people want revolution, but they want a stabilized, more westernized state.
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It was, you know, had bad leadership, but it was a successful state.
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Most people point to ISIS as having the first caliphate type country or, you know, terrorist, you know, Islamist state.
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Iran was taken over by Islamists and terrorists run that country.
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And if you want to find out, like if you want to take them at their word, they say they want to destroy the nation of Israel.
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You can't think in conventional terms with a country like that.
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And they are, they're behind the attacks on Israel.
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Do you believe the, do you believe the intelligence we got on an attack on us, our assets or one of our allies, do you think it was on us or do you think it was Iran?
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It does, it's, that coincided right with the flare ups in Gaza.
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Yeah, exactly the same time that all that started.
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And again, it started with an Iranian funded group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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They are the ones that kicked it off by firing at Israeli soldiers.
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And the two oil tankers that were blown up or had sabotage happened to them.
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They were both on the way to the United States.
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So they are trying to cripple our economy as well.
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And that fits right with the intelligence as well.
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That's an American asset on its way over here to the United States.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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If you don't know, this is the exact theme song from the episode.
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This is a, this is like some 13-year-old, you know, with their phone playing the theme song.
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So it's a game, episode, one more episode after this, right?
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I've only seen three episodes of the show, so I don't know a lot about the show.
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But this is what I learned from this most recent episode.
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However, it's possible the theme song was just so long that it, that I just joined it right after last week's episode's theme song ended.
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Uh, so Uncle Fester is a new character that, that joined this week.
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Uh, he's, no, it's not Uncle, it's not Uncle Fester, but.
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We learned that the angry elf is still alive, which is good because I missed last week's episode.
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Um, Uncle Fester and Jon Snow, who's a name I actually know now.
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No, that was last, that was last time's spoilers.
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Uh, they're saying the queen doesn't want to eat and shouldn't be left alone, which could
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Um, and Jon Snow apparently does not want to be king, which is something I learned here.
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Queen Blondie, though, a nice open air balcony with a sweet view.
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She's, she's living in a place, I, looks like a loft of some sort.
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It's beautiful, overlooks the entire mountain situation.
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But this is, you're leading to me one of these big spoilers.
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Uncle Fester, he burns his letter and he hides his ring and then he's brought to the beach
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This is a big moment, I think, in the entire series where we, it is revealed that Queen
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Blondie's name is Daenerys or something similar because they said it and they, they called
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And again, not a, not something new if you're watching it.
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There was, there was something last night that I did see about the dragon and the dragon's
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I did not catch anything about a dragon's name.
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Because you, you, you, you've already said the name of the dragon was, do you remember?
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The name of the, no, I don't remember the name.
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Was it Jon Snow at some point previously in the series?
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Queen Blondie and Jon Snow then make out, which you'd say, well, if, you know, why are you
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This is a, there's always these characters changing these, these stereotypes.
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You're kind of missing the big parts of last night's episode, but go ahead.
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It's a little disturbing because I thought I did well on this one.
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So if a city rings its bells, that means Queen Blondie is going to, or Daenerys is going to
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And then one of them says next, Queen Blondie says to the angry elf, next time you fail me
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I don't know what the relationship is, but they have some tension there, right?
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Uh, there I've noticed just generally in this region of wherever this is taking place, there's
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They don't ever seem to enjoy each other's company.
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Well, you're kind of joining the series at the worst part.
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Although I will tell you, reflecting on it, I don't recall a lot of smiling ever.
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So another big revelation that I think I got right.
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Um, angry elf tries to tell an Obi-Wan Kenobi character, uh, some sort of secret.
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I don't even know what you're talking about at this point.
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Well, he said, he said he was going to tell this Obi-Wan Kenobi guy a secret, but just
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pragmatically, logistically, it's difficult because he's just so much shorter.
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How do you tell, if you're three feet tall, how do you tell a six foot tall person a secret?
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But he just tries to basically just say it in a crowd, which is not a good, not a good
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Um, uh, the frumpy girl, she's back in this one.
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Is what I've, uh, and then someone known as the stupidest Lannister is in prison.
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Uh, that's what they called himself, the stupidest Lannister.
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So then Angry Elf, uh, gives an emotional speech to stupid Lannister about, um, basically
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who was the only person, or he was the only person around who was nice to him as a kid
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There's some like, I don't know, middle school drama going on between the two.
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Uh, then stupid Lannister also has a gold hand, which seems like it would be limiting
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Uh, and then there's a castle they show that may be attacked or something.
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Um, and the doors to break into the castle have an odd gap in between the doors.
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Which is really, this is something I noticed too last night.
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I'm like, they close the door and there's like a three inch or four inch gap.
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It's like, it reminded me of like the, like, uh, you're in a, a public bathroom and like
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And you're like, why would they design it that way?
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Cause anyone can look in or in this case break in.
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Um, so there's two big armies kind of staring each other down.
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Um, and at this point I did note that I don't know why it's important or who they
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So there, but there's two armies facing each other.
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Um, then, um, and I will say this, you know, there's a lot, I'm not giving anything away
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There's a lot of the stuff going on in the series where a lot of people prepare a lot
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of big weapons and they're fighting and everything and they're getting all excited.
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And then a dragon just flies in and the dragon wins.
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Instead of building all of the like axes and stuff that they have, they should probably
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Like really does zip recruiter have a dragon recruiter?
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This is the only one left and they've killed two of the three.
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Because they, I was thinking about maybe fire extinguishers or another good option.
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You know, another good, some sort of asbestos suits that, that would be good.
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Uh, now considering all the stabbing and beheading that goes on, um, just to die by
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I would say, I, you know, that you just get a kind of like, you just get dissolved seemingly
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Um, the stupid Lannister then got in a fight with the lead singer of Coldplay who apparently
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That's, uh, I, he didn't have a piano that said fair trade now or anything, but it looked
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I think the stupid Lannister revealed his name.
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That's not Jim, but it's, I can't even do it for you.
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It's difficult to trust you on something like this.
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Because you, you, you may be misleading me now.
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Um, how about the next guy, the big tall guy, uh, he's with frumpy girl and then he
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goes and he's going to have a fight or something.
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Well, he goes and he fights a giant helmetless Darth Vader in a big battle.
00:35:51.040
Um, I've also noticed that there's just the environmentally.
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Um, I think if all of this, there's a follow-up series, it may just focus on the
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mesothelioma lawyers that can kind of come in and take advantage because there's got,
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I do feel like they've, those ads have run enough that they may have started back in
00:36:18.580
But I would say the two big takeaways are, uh, Queen Blondie's name is Daenerys.
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Uh, there's a guy named Sandal and a guy named Jim Lannister.
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So you got those three big giveaways on Game of Thrones last night.
00:36:35.680
Uh, Dave, uh, I say founder and president of StoryCorps, uh, is, uh, is with us and he
00:36:53.400
has started a StoryCorps, in case you don't know, you probably don't know if you don't
00:36:57.980
listen to NPR, um, but StoryCorps is, um, a, uh, a service that was started by Dave and
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Uh, and what they do is they just get people's stories, uh, and you go into a booth and you
00:37:21.460
And when does this actually, when do we start to hear the results on this, Dave?
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We can, we, we have results coming in all the time, you know, as, as, as you said, the,
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that StoryCorps, the standard StoryCorps is two people and we're, we're a nonprofit, um,
00:37:42.360
It's two people coming to talk to each other who know and love each other.
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And with one small step, we're putting people across the political divides in a booth to,
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you know, remind us that, um, people we disagree with are actually human beings and we don't,
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And when you're seeing, when you're seeing these people go in, there's a difference.
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People are, people say horrible things, uh, to each other online and, uh, you know, on
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And the second thing that changes is this is being preserved by the library of Congress.
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So these voices will last in our national archives forever.
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And people don't want to be, you know, able to have their grandkids, look them up and find
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It's, it's kind of the opposite of the impermanence of social media.
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People are aware that their future generations are going to hear it.
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Um, and you know, and I mean, you know, this is, you know, this very well when you're face
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to face with someone, you know, you can build up all kinds of things in your head and social
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media is just a, it's a, it's a dumpster fire, you know, for what it does to our brains.
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But when you look at someone in the face and realize, you know, that you have families,
00:38:58.960
You know, I saw, there was a survey that I saw since I was on last time, um, 42% of
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people in each party view the opposition as downright evil.
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20% of Republicans and Democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries
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And these numbers, wait, wait, what was that last one?
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20% of Republicans and Democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries
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20% think that the country would be better off if large numbers of the opposition died.
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And that's what one of my gosh, well, this is, you know, this is a very, very serious
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This is, you know, this goes back to, this goes back to what I've been saying for, for
00:39:45.420
And that is a, we have to ask both sides because both sides are, are looking to win.
00:39:54.280
So what happens, and we're starting to not understand each other, what happens if your
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side, I don't care what side it is, your side wins everything and you get everything
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You know, 50% of the country is not going to be for that and not want to do that.
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And if we're starting to look at each other as not human, we're in trouble.
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I mean, it's, it's, there's an extreme danger in dehumanizing other human beings.
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It is, you know, it's, it's an extermination level.
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And what's coming, we have the power to destroy the entire world now.
00:40:53.100
We do, but we also have the power to become the, you know, to, to, to beat this.
00:40:57.180
And, you know, our, you know, look, there's nothing that our enemies would love better than
00:41:01.180
to see us at each other's throats, you know, and America collapse and we have to fight
00:41:08.020
We keep arguing in Congress and we're missing the point when it comes to Russia, Russia.
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I was on the air three years prior saying, here's their plan.
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They were looking to cause dissent between each other and to cause conflict.
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They, the only winner in this whole last two years, uh, when, uh, when Russia is involved
00:41:36.100
They've gotten everything they've wanted and more.
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No, I mean, it's, it's, um, it's perfectly executed and we've, we've, um, acted exactly
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as, as, you know, our, our enemies, Russia and otherwise would hope we would.
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Um, so, you know, it's our choice and, you know, I hope that, I hope that people will
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consider being, becoming part of, of one small step.
00:41:58.220
I do know we're going to be in Dallas pretty soon.
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Um, and if they're coming down for the museum, do you know?
00:42:07.380
Um, and, um, we're going to be recording one small step interviews and if there are any,
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I know you have a lot of listeners everywhere, but, uh, Dallas is a, is, is a strong spot
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Um, uh, one small step at story core.org and one small step at story core.org.
00:42:31.980
If you're in Dallas, let us know if you want to participate.
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We'll match you with someone who has a different political ideology than you.
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And you'll just, but they want to politics, but they want to talk decently to you.
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And you're just going to talk about your lives.
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It's just remembering the humanity and people we disagree with.
00:42:53.780
So what is the, um, uh, what is the story you're going to bring to us today?
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So, um, today is just a standard story core story.
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Um, and it's great to be able to come on and play a story every month.
00:43:08.060
It's the other half million people who participated, who just know and love each other.
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And this is a dad and a son from Jackson, Mississippi, not too long ago.
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Um, uh, they're the family's name is Sykes and they came to story core just to talk.
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Do you remember what was going through your head when you first saw me?
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The first thing I thought was that he was being too rough with you and he actually held you like a little Sprite bottle.
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Don't tell your brothers because it's three of y'all.
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But it was like looking at a blank canvas and just imagining what you want their painting to look like at the end.
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But also knowing you can't control the paint strokes.
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You know, the fear was just, I got to bring up a black boy in Mississippi, which is a tough place to bring up kids, period.
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But there are statistics that say black boys born after the year 2002 have a one in three chance of going to prison.
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And all three of my sons were born after the year 2002.
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So, Dad, why do you take me to protest so much?
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One is that I want you to see what it looks like when people come together.
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But also that you understand that it's not just about people that are familiar to you, but it's about everybody.
00:44:41.780
Did you know the work that Martin Luther King was doing was for everybody and it wasn't just for black people?
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If you decide that you want to be a cab driver, then you got to be the most impactful cab driver that you can possibly be.
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The thing I love about you, you never gives up on me.
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That's one of the things I will always remember by my dad.
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You said it like I'm on the way out of here or like I'm already gone.
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It's an old proverb that talks about when children are born, children come out with their fists closed because that's where they keep all their gifts.
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And as you grow, your hands learn to unfold because you're learning to release your gifts to the world.
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And so for the rest of your life, I want to see you live with your hands unfolded.
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And again, if you would like to be involved, just go to One Small Step.