The Glenn Beck Program - May 13, 2019


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Jason Buttrill & Dave Isay ｜ 5⧸13⧸19


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46 minutes

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Word count

8,379

Sentence count

853

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Misogyny

20

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Hate speech

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:00.500 Well, hello, podcasters. We've got a great show for you today. Are we going to war with Iran? 0.93
00:00:06.140 Also, Rashida Tlaib had some great things to say about the Holocaust.
00:00:12.560 She just warms her heart whenever she thinks about it. Incredible.
00:00:17.840 Also, sex strike? Yes, that meddler's not going to have sex. 1.00
00:00:22.580 And she's serious about it, so sorry to break that to you.
00:00:25.980 The Democratic candidates had a very interesting weekend. We get into that.
00:00:31.400 Some disturbing numbers about how we view each other.
00:00:35.340 20% of both Republicans and Democrats say the other side don't have the qualities that qualify them as human.
00:00:44.900 Some disturbing stuff on that.
00:00:47.160 And some great news about the progress that the world has made because of the free market from 2000 until today.
00:00:56.940 Turn of this last century.
00:00:59.980 You're not going to believe it.
00:01:02.120 And no one is talking about it except today's podcast.
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00:02:13.320 Wow.
00:02:13.820 So now Georgia signed in, of course, the heartbeat bill,
00:02:18.660 which outlaws abortion in Georgia once in the ultrasound detects an unborn child's heartbeat.
00:02:27.660 Now.
00:02:28.380 How hateful is that?
00:02:29.340 I know, a clump of cells or a clump of skin or a tumor doesn't have a heartbeat.
00:02:35.080 But a child does.
00:02:38.480 And so Milano has come out and said,
00:02:41.820 our reproductive rights are being erased.
00:02:46.280 No.
00:02:47.460 You can reproduce.
00:02:48.580 You can not reproduce.
00:02:51.600 You can reproduce or not reproduce.
00:02:53.500 You can do that.
00:02:54.580 You just can't kill children along the way.
00:02:57.880 How hard is that?
00:02:59.700 She said, until women have legal control over their own bodies, 1.00
00:03:03.520 we just cannot risk pregnancy.
00:03:06.700 So join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.
00:03:11.800 I'm calling for a sex strike.
00:03:13.900 Pass it on.
00:03:15.000 I know.
00:03:15.820 I mean, I don't want to insult these women, but no one cares about your bodies. 1.00
00:03:20.000 You can do whatever you want with your bodies.
00:03:21.640 You can do whatever.
00:03:22.800 We allow you to do all sorts of weird stuff.
00:03:25.420 We allow you to have plastic surgery to make you look like a cat.
00:03:30.840 That is something that is allowed in our society.
00:03:32.820 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.
00:03:39.580 You can pierce every inch of your body.
00:03:42.400 It doesn't matter.
00:03:44.100 You can have a sex change.
00:03:46.720 You can take your body and so mutilate it that you are no longer the gender that you were born as. 1.00
00:03:56.440 We're pretty cool with all of it.
00:03:58.600 You just can't.
00:04:00.120 You just can't do it to someone.
00:04:01.020 And this is what we say the same thing about sex changes.
00:04:03.060 You just can't do it to someone who is not of age to make the decision. 0.99
00:04:07.600 That's it.
00:04:08.060 I mean, like, really, at that point, we think there's a problem with it.
00:04:11.700 You should have another person.
00:04:13.600 You shouldn't be able to force your will on another person who can't make the decision for themselves.
00:04:17.760 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,
00:04:30.200 that person should be able to make their choice about whether they want to live or not.
00:04:33.380 Let me say something really controversial here, I think.
00:04:36.720 Maybe not.
00:04:37.960 I am for end-of-life decisions.
00:04:42.260 I am not for doctor-assisted.
00:04:44.100 But I am for end-of-life decisions.
00:04:47.220 If you are in so much pain, you're just like, I'm just, I can't do this anymore.
00:04:51.520 I believe it is your right to do it.
00:04:55.020 I don't think it's right.
00:04:56.380 I don't recommend it.
00:04:59.500 But it is your right to kill yourself, I believe.
00:05:04.040 With that being said, it's not your right to kill something that you are growing inside of you.
00:05:14.800 It's 100% about the other person.
00:05:16.540 Yes.
00:05:16.820 You just can't make decisions for other people.
00:05:19.900 And they keep complaining.
00:05:21.100 It's like, well, they won't even know if they're pregnant or not.
00:05:24.300 Well, I mean, that's probably a great time.
00:05:25.880 I always thought that it would be a rational debate in this country if the crazy left-wing position was the morning after pill.
00:05:34.040 With this debate, Republicans were saying, you know what, no abortion.
00:05:38.180 And Democrats were saying, you know what, there should be a morning after pill and you should be able to have that.
00:05:41.200 So if you have a night where you did something that you regret and you're worried about it,
00:05:44.900 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. 0.99
00:05:50.080 Correct.
00:05:51.020 Again, that doesn't make me excited about the thing.
00:05:53.900 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?
00:06:00.160 When should we allow this to go to?
00:06:01.640 And that is, seemingly the debate, it's terrifying.
00:06:05.240 I mean, at least if you had an idea that it was like, okay.
00:06:08.720 If it was safe, rare, and legal even.
00:06:12.700 Yeah.
00:06:13.060 You know what I mean?
00:06:14.460 It's safe, rare, and legal.
00:06:16.400 That was saying, look, this is a tragic, tragic choice that some people have to make.
00:06:22.300 But safe, rare, and legal is not like, hey, this is the way I do birth control.
00:06:27.640 Yeah, I got an off another one.
00:06:29.080 I celebrate and shout my abortion.
00:06:32.420 Oh, you know, my favorite abortion.
00:06:34.380 That's psychotic behavior.
00:06:36.560 Yeah.
00:06:37.120 I mean, the Republican position right now is essentially, let's go back to mildly close to Roe versus Wade.
00:06:45.200 There was like, oh, you're going to try to overturn Roe versus Wade.
00:06:47.240 Roe versus Wade is a conservative dream right now compared to what we have.
00:06:52.560 Roe versus Wade basically said first trimester.
00:06:55.520 I mean, you could get it in second trimester, but it could be regulated in the second trimester,
00:06:59.160 and it could be completely outlawed in the third trimester.
00:07:01.340 That's Roe versus Wade.
00:07:02.440 We've moved so far from that to where we are now.
00:07:07.780 You talk about a hardcore right wing shift in reverse while going 70 miles an hour in one direction.
00:07:14.260 That would be going back to Roe versus Wade right now.
00:07:16.920 We're not even close to it.
00:07:19.220 And I mean, so it is amazing.
00:07:21.620 Did you see all of the things that came out this weekend about the Democrats and what they're now saying on the road?
00:07:28.040 They're now saying, what was it, Beto?
00:07:31.120 You know what?
00:07:31.960 If I had the power, I'd absolutely get rid of all the guns.
00:07:35.440 I mean, what?
00:07:36.620 What happened to?
00:07:38.300 We're both strong believers of the Second Amendment, and we care about gun.
00:07:42.420 I'm a gun owner.
00:07:43.280 I've seen a gun before.
00:07:44.540 There's been a gun in a restaurant I went to on the wall.
00:07:46.960 I mean, that's me.
00:07:47.860 I'm basically Mr. Gun.
00:07:49.400 Let me tell you, I'm practically the NRA myself.
00:07:53.180 I love guns.
00:07:54.360 I remember my father watching, I think it was Gunsmoke on television.
00:07:58.980 I mean, so I have that part of my heritage as well.
00:08:02.400 I understand it.
00:08:03.400 We're just looking for common sense measures, and let me tell you about it.
00:08:07.100 Let me trot out about five victims' families right now to make you cry,
00:08:10.820 and hopefully it will make you so emotional you'll change your mind and then forget that
00:08:14.780 I haven't said any of this.
00:08:16.100 That's basically where they are, and now, all of a sudden, they're admitting it.
00:08:19.460 Oh, now they are admitting it.
00:08:21.580 And now they've gone all the way to the level of restricting sex from Alyssa Milano. 0.97
00:08:27.960 What's the problem with that?
00:08:29.480 No, no, no.
00:08:30.260 And?
00:08:31.340 And Bette Midler.
00:08:32.040 Bette Midler.
00:08:32.620 Now, you might say sex with Alyssa Milano. 0.98
00:08:35.400 I mean, there was at least a time in which people were interested in such things.
00:08:39.200 The Bette Midler thing, I don't even think there was a year, a year of all years,
00:08:43.960 that people were like, please, please no.
00:08:46.600 Don't restrict the Bette Midler sex.
00:08:48.900 That's a top of my priority list.
00:08:51.260 There was never a moment by any person in human history where they were like, ah,
00:08:55.780 but what about my Bette Midler sex?
00:08:57.720 So she says, our reproductive rights are being erased until women have legal control 1.00
00:09:03.160 over our own bodies.
00:09:04.220 We can't risk pregnancy.
00:09:05.840 Join me by not having sex until we get our bodily autonomy back.
00:09:09.560 Oh, man.
00:09:10.000 Wait a minute.
00:09:10.420 Hang on just a second.
00:09:11.380 So your solution here is abstinence because you can't kill your baby.
00:09:20.680 That's a crazy idea.
00:09:23.680 That's a crazy idea.
00:09:25.520 Aren't they just executing bodily control? 0.99
00:09:28.980 By not having sex, they're actually executing the thing that they say they don't have, 0.70
00:09:33.860 which is autonomy over their bodies.
00:09:35.180 Yes.
00:09:35.480 They're saying we're not going to have sex.
00:09:37.100 Yes.
00:09:37.360 So they're actually doing the thing they say they don't have to prove they don't have it.
00:09:41.320 Yeah.
00:09:41.760 And it's very feminist. 1.00
00:09:43.620 It's very feminist to bribe men with sex for things that you want. 1.00
00:09:51.400 For things that you want.
00:09:52.120 It's so feminist. 1.00
00:09:52.800 It's so feminist. 1.00
00:09:53.420 That's a great point.
00:09:54.160 It is really.
00:09:55.040 I mean, she is.
00:09:55.580 We'll give you the sex when you do what we want. 0.94
00:09:58.580 There's a word for that.
00:09:59.960 Yeah.
00:10:00.300 There's a word for that.
00:10:01.220 It's crazy.
00:10:02.080 Yeah.
00:10:02.480 It's crazy.
00:10:03.560 So anyway, so if you were thinking about Bette Medler and you were like, this is my week.
00:10:09.080 I got a shot at Bette Medler. 1.00
00:10:10.460 I thought this was going to be the week.
00:10:11.900 I thought this was the chance that I had her.
00:10:13.640 And then here it is.
00:10:15.060 No.
00:10:15.720 Sorry.
00:10:16.260 I hate to start your Monday with that.
00:10:18.460 Well, I will say the upside of, I mean, we don't know.
00:10:21.780 We could go to the Supreme Court.
00:10:23.120 We don't know what this law in Georgia.
00:10:24.980 It may never save one baby's life, but at least it's doing this.
00:10:28.100 It's giving the world a break from Bette Midler's sex for at least some period of time.
00:10:32.280 All right.
00:10:37.060 Our sponsor is half hour.
00:10:40.200 Whoever the man in her life is like, oh, thank you.
00:10:43.320 Thank you.
00:10:44.040 He's secretly like giving money to pro-life, like pro-life causes all around America.
00:10:48.480 I hear her footsteps coming towards the bedroom and I'm like, no, not tonight.
00:10:52.020 Please not tonight.
00:10:52.900 I'm sleeping.
00:10:53.720 I'm sleeping.
00:10:54.240 I'm sleeping.
00:10:55.220 All right.
00:10:55.980 Anyway.
00:10:56.280 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
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00:11:17.660 So how was your Mother's Day weekend?
00:11:20.680 It was nice.
00:11:21.460 Was it?
00:11:21.780 Yeah.
00:11:22.360 Yeah.
00:11:22.960 It was very nice.
00:11:24.680 Yeah, that's good.
00:11:25.220 Yours as well, I assume?
00:11:26.760 I'm not a mother, so thank you for asking.
00:11:28.960 That's a weird question to ask another man.
00:11:31.100 It's the same question, however, you asked me.
00:11:33.580 Well, just because you didn't mind it doesn't mean I can't.
00:11:36.600 I caught some Game of Thrones.
00:11:38.140 You did?
00:11:38.580 Yeah.
00:11:38.960 Last night's Game of Thrones.
00:11:40.260 Yeah.
00:11:40.660 It's going to be a hard one.
00:11:41.560 I'm going to have to edit a little bit, I think.
00:11:45.000 I have to look at it because you don't want to give any spoilers.
00:11:48.020 And last night was an incredible episode.
00:11:52.140 There was probably a lot of spoilers in there.
00:11:53.920 Luckily, I don't know what any of them are, but that is a thing.
00:11:58.760 I could potentially give something away.
00:11:59.680 No, so I'm going to make sure somebody looks over your script that watches it to make sure
00:12:03.580 there's no spoilers in it.
00:12:04.960 This is it.
00:12:05.740 There's one more episode, and I'm gone.
00:12:08.700 I'm up in the mountains without television.
00:12:11.920 For the final episode?
00:12:13.220 Yeah.
00:12:13.640 That's because you're gone next week.
00:12:14.900 Yes, I'm gone next week.
00:12:16.140 Yeah, that's true.
00:12:17.220 That's a big issue.
00:12:18.340 Maybe we can...
00:12:18.880 Well, that will give people enough time to catch up, and we can do the final episode discussion
00:12:22.800 when you come back, maybe.
00:12:25.400 That's at least one option.
00:12:26.900 Can I tell you one little parenting thing that happened to me this weekend?
00:12:29.220 Yeah.
00:12:29.380 So when my kids were born, I decided to...
00:12:35.080 I can't remember where I got this idea, but somebody...
00:12:37.400 Where I decided to start an email address for them.
00:12:40.340 Each one of them gets an email address, and then I send them emails.
00:12:43.100 I've been sending them emails since birth.
00:12:45.800 Oh, wow.
00:12:46.260 How cool is that?
00:12:47.060 Just little things and notes.
00:12:47.800 And they don't know it.
00:12:48.520 They don't know it.
00:12:49.320 And so little things I notice or little cool moments that we had.
00:12:54.220 I'll throw a picture in there.
00:12:55.740 A little piece of advice that maybe I think of.
00:12:57.560 I'll toss it in there.
00:12:59.460 And so they were these Yahoo email addresses I started up seven years ago.
00:13:03.920 And so I've been emailing.
00:13:05.020 It's not constant.
00:13:05.820 It's not like 10 a day.
00:13:06.440 That's really cool.
00:13:07.660 I like it, because I think at some point they're going to be able to open it up and
00:13:10.400 see all these things.
00:13:11.320 Oh, no.
00:13:11.640 That's really cool.
00:13:12.520 That's cool.
00:13:13.620 Well, it was cool until last night when I got an email back from Yahoo that said,
00:13:19.260 Hey, you're...
00:13:21.260 Because I sent a video, a little video of us together to one of the email addresses, and
00:13:25.260 they had it back and it bounced back.
00:13:26.800 I was like, why did that bounce?
00:13:28.220 So I signed into it.
00:13:29.400 No emails in there.
00:13:30.800 It's just all been erased.
00:13:31.960 Oh, you're kidding me.
00:13:32.840 All been erased.
00:13:34.160 And I'm...
00:13:34.600 Why?
00:13:34.880 Because it wasn't accessed enough?
00:13:36.340 I don't know.
00:13:37.320 They didn't...
00:13:37.680 They didn't give...
00:13:38.020 I looked all over to try to find them giving me an alert of this.
00:13:40.840 And I usually...
00:13:41.360 I'll go into the email address every couple months just to make sure that it's active and
00:13:46.120 make sure that I send emails so that it's active and still getting them.
00:13:49.300 I mean, there's no spam or anything in there.
00:13:50.560 It's just all my emails of all these moments, and so I went in, and both email addresses
00:13:56.180 are completely empty now.
00:13:58.220 And I am like losing my mind in panic.
00:14:02.060 I'm hoping there's some way that can be recovered.
00:14:04.420 A, you should have gone with a glennbeck.com address.
00:14:07.900 Well, it's...
00:14:08.240 I mean, we wouldn't have...
00:14:09.100 That's true.
00:14:09.560 We wouldn't have done that to you.
00:14:11.040 At least I would have...
00:14:11.900 I would have done it to you had you not paid me.
00:14:14.760 Right.
00:14:14.980 You'd be holding my kid's children hostage.
00:14:17.700 Yes, I would be.
00:14:17.920 I would be.
00:14:18.640 Which is why...
00:14:19.280 Hey, I've got to get rid of this space.
00:14:21.680 I could keep them, I guess.
00:14:25.080 What's it worth to you?
00:14:26.460 I mean, I guess I should...
00:14:27.380 Sex with Bette Midler?
00:14:28.540 Right.
00:14:30.580 I guess I should have gone with, I don't know, Gmail or something.
00:14:32.920 I don't know.
00:14:33.320 Maybe it's just a quirk, and I'm going to be able to figure it out.
00:14:36.120 Oh, my gosh.
00:14:36.300 You'll have to call.
00:14:37.140 Let's follow this.
00:14:38.200 I am in panic over this.
00:14:39.580 I will tell you, this is my greatest fear on pictures.
00:14:42.920 First of all, none of the pictures we have, you know, occasionally we will get, you know,
00:14:49.620 the thing where, I think Twitter does this, where you can tweet pictures and then they
00:14:55.600 make a book out of it, and you can also send stuff.
00:14:58.500 But we dump all of our pictures onto our computer.
00:15:04.180 Yeah.
00:15:04.580 And we have tens of thousands of them.
00:15:08.940 We have the opposite problem that we had when I was growing up.
00:15:12.220 You know, I was a third child, so I was like, no pictures of it.
00:15:15.580 You know, I was like, yeah.
00:15:17.520 Here you are.
00:15:18.680 You were born.
00:15:19.800 Here's your first birthday.
00:15:21.180 Here you are in graduation.
00:15:22.560 Right.
00:15:23.520 It's like, wait, what happened to my life?
00:15:26.300 But now it's everything.
00:15:29.220 Every, practically every food at every, you know, restaurant.
00:15:33.300 You know, here's a picture of the menu.
00:15:35.000 Here's the picture of the picture of the food.
00:15:37.020 Here's the actual food and the picture of the food.
00:15:40.120 I mean, it's crazy.
00:15:41.420 It's crazy how much stuff we have.
00:15:43.960 But at any time, if, you know, the cloud goes down, or if you don't even have it on the cloud,
00:15:52.900 if you have it on your computer, we have one computer, one hard drive, that the computer went down.
00:15:59.300 So we assume that the pictures are still on there.
00:16:02.320 We're lugging around this old computer because we hope that pictures are still on it.
00:16:08.560 And it's my worst nightmare is something happens and it's all gone.
00:16:13.480 And I've had that problem, too, with the cloud, with the cloud service.
00:16:16.040 I had signed up and paid all this money over these years to do all the cloud service from all these old computers.
00:16:20.600 And then one day I go on there and it won't give me any access to it.
00:16:23.820 Did you get it back?
00:16:24.440 And no, no, no, no, no.
00:16:26.700 What they did is they decided to charge my credit card for the year.
00:16:30.180 When I had done like 10 years, I've been on this thing.
00:16:32.280 And they decided to do it for a year.
00:16:34.780 And because my credit card number changed, they sent me like two alerts that said,
00:16:38.820 hey, your thing isn't processing.
00:16:41.080 They went into my spam and then they just deleted it all.
00:16:44.260 I'm like, what the hell?
00:16:45.940 Like, this is like, I have no way of, it's terrifying.
00:16:49.260 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.
00:16:53.080 Is that a digital backup?
00:16:53.760 Yeah, I've got a digital backup, everything.
00:16:55.740 And then I've got to, hey, there's an EMP.
00:16:58.300 Now I've got to print it out and put it into a vault in the ground.
00:17:01.760 I'm making Faraday cages all the time.
00:17:03.500 Thank you.
00:17:04.220 Thank you for that.
00:17:05.280 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:17:13.300 Hey, it's Glenn.
00:17:22.600 And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.
00:17:26.800 His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.
00:17:30.760 We have our head researcher and military expert, I guess.
00:17:40.040 What do we call you an expert now at this point?
00:17:41.900 You have grown so much.
00:17:43.800 You were in military intelligence, but your knowledge of the world in the last three years,
00:17:49.760 Jason, is remarkable how much you know.
00:17:53.860 It's a polite way to say I'm a big nerd.
00:17:55.680 Yeah, you are.
00:17:56.660 Or you were really stupid before.
00:17:58.480 One of the two.
00:17:59.400 No, you were really sharp before.
00:18:01.640 You were the guy who helped figure out what was going on with Benghazi.
00:18:06.280 Right.
00:18:06.500 And two days, two days after Benghazi happened, we had that thing nailed.
00:18:12.320 And Jason played a big role in that.
00:18:14.520 And one thing about that, just to revisit it, the accolades that have rolled in over that.
00:18:19.140 I mean, just what?
00:18:20.320 Wow.
00:18:20.620 It's just been overwhelming.
00:18:21.760 It really has.
00:18:22.320 The media praise for getting that whole situation right at the beginning.
00:18:26.760 You guys have really just swam in that, marinated in it for a few years now.
00:18:30.140 We're really kind of coasting after that, you know, just living off of that crown.
00:18:34.380 Nobody even recognized it, but nailed it.
00:18:39.640 Exactly what happened.
00:18:41.900 Anyway, the United States has received intelligence indicating that Iran was preparing to attack
00:18:49.880 U.S. interests or allies in the Middle East.
00:18:53.380 Last week, we told you that they were going to dispatch a battle group to the Persian Gulf.
00:18:59.620 They moved a Patriot missile battery and a squadron of B-52 bombers.
00:19:05.840 And then, late last week, Iran threatened to begin enriching uranium.
00:19:11.600 Over the weekend, yesterday, two Saudi oil tankers were attacked in, quote, an act of sabotage near the Persian Gulf.
00:19:21.540 Saudis have not said who's responsible.
00:19:23.760 This could be either because we don't know or they are restraining due to U.S. pressure.
00:19:31.820 But if the Saudis finger Iran, tensions are going to start to spiral out of control.
00:19:40.840 What are we headed for, Jason?
00:19:43.640 I think what's interesting is I think H.R. McMaster said it best, especially in that area.
00:19:49.360 But pretty much this is true all over the world.
00:19:51.320 But he said there's two ways to fight the United States right now.
00:19:54.400 One is asymmetrically, you know, via cyber attack, via terrorism, stuff like that.
00:20:00.280 Yeah.
00:20:00.580 And the second way is stupidly or stupid.
00:20:05.220 Force on force, military on military, they cannot match us.
00:20:09.020 No one can.
00:20:09.480 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.
00:20:21.440 We will win.
00:20:22.740 Yeah.
00:20:23.020 I thought, I read that and I was like, wait, no, did we say that?
00:20:27.380 No, my gosh, they said that.
00:20:29.520 I couldn't believe that's what they said.
00:20:31.800 Insane.
00:20:32.180 Well, the threats that they were making towards, I'm just guessing here, but the intelligence we got were probably these asymmetric attacks.
00:20:40.260 Terrorism.
00:20:40.880 Hezbollah.
00:20:41.520 Yeah.
00:20:41.920 They can launch these all over the world.
00:20:43.820 The report came out that I think you were talking about maybe last week about Hezbollah presence in Venezuela for crying out loud.
00:20:50.960 They are everywhere.
00:20:52.560 So Hezbollah, this is really important.
00:20:54.800 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.
00:21:11.660 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?
00:21:21.720 And they're here.
00:21:25.640 They're here.
00:21:27.040 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.
00:21:37.760 We know that Hezbollah or Hamas has got to be in the numbers of those who have crossed our border.
00:21:47.180 So we don't know what they're planning, but I will guarantee you that there are people here that are under Iranian orders. 1.00
00:21:59.240 Radical Islamists, kind of sounds like you're saying radical Islamists and socialists would work together and that would cascade and that, you know.
00:22:06.400 It would finally come here to the United States.
00:22:07.860 It would help destabilize.
00:22:09.020 Yeah, I know.
00:22:09.940 There's another one we've lived off of.
00:22:12.080 Just the accolades just keep coming in for that one, too.
00:22:17.060 It was the third parade was a little much for you guys.
00:22:20.440 I mean, that's all right.
00:22:21.320 I mean, I thought the ticker tape parade was nice.
00:22:23.740 The first one.
00:22:24.280 But, I mean, it gets old after a while.
00:22:25.900 Yeah, it does.
00:22:26.300 Just a lot of cleanup at that point.
00:22:28.240 The Iranian thing, I think, is going to continue. 1.00
00:22:30.980 I think there's going to be a lot of dog barking that's going to continue.
00:22:33.460 I do not see a full-on, like, military, you know, engagement happen.
00:22:37.560 I will tell you they're desperate.
00:22:39.780 They are desperate.
00:22:40.960 We have, because Donald Trump has taken the lead on this, he has crippled their economy.
00:22:49.200 He has taken their, what is it, the yak or whatever they're using over there.
00:22:54.380 Yes, it's the yak.
00:22:55.240 The real.
00:22:56.320 Yeah, the real.
00:22:57.640 It is, it has, he has collapsed their monetary system, collapsed it.
00:23:03.660 It went down by, what, 74% as soon as we applied the sanctions, and it's not getting better.
00:23:10.880 Those went back in November, and that's only going to get worse.
00:23:13.860 They, the Trump administration put waivers on, I think, eight countries that were still receiving Iranian oil.
00:23:19.800 He just announced last week, coincidentally, when all these tensions started to ramp up, he said those are going away.
00:23:25.320 Now, for the past two years, the European Union has been telling Iran, no, don't do anything.
00:23:32.340 Trump is going to be out, you know, there's going to be a new president.
00:23:35.080 He's a one-termer.
00:23:36.260 And not only the European Union, but John Kerry, for crying out loud, has been over there telling the Iranians the same thing.
00:23:42.860 Right.
00:23:43.280 So he's been colluding with the Iranians to say, look, don't worry about it. 1.00
00:23:46.980 Keep everything in check.
00:23:48.000 We're going to get a new administration in there. 1.00
00:23:49.360 We're going to do it a different way.
00:23:50.800 It's crazy.
00:23:51.540 It's absolutely insane.
00:23:53.140 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. 0.78
00:23:58.920 Yes.
00:23:59.460 Severe recession, a collapsing economy, their currency in free fall.
00:24:04.420 They are going to be forced to the table.
00:24:06.120 We don't have to give them all this stuff.
00:24:08.180 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.
00:24:15.620 We didn't have to do those things.
00:24:16.900 They were already at the negotiating table on their knees.
00:24:19.680 Here's the thing.
00:24:20.360 And I said this in 2005 about Iran and South Korea.
00:24:24.860 And I said, South Korea is going to happen first. 1.00
00:24:27.960 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.
00:24:38.980 You can't you can't be as tough.
00:24:41.600 And look at it.
00:24:43.400 What are we going to do about South Korea or North Korea?
00:24:46.200 Nothing.
00:24:47.420 We have nothing we can do because all options at this point are horrific.
00:24:53.480 You cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon because once they do, you have no more good options left. 0.98
00:25:03.060 You're always left with do nothing or possibly engage in a nuclear war.
00:25:09.180 You can't do that.
00:25:11.260 Now is the time.
00:25:12.560 And once they get this weapon, it's too late.
00:25:16.200 You've got to be tough on sanctions and do everything you can to collapse them.
00:25:22.540 Look, the people want it.
00:25:24.320 The people there.
00:25:25.560 This is not Iraq. 0.87
00:25:27.920 Iran, the people, it's different. 0.97
00:25:30.480 Those people are different than the people were in Iraq.
00:25:36.340 And you have a chance because the people want revolution, but they want a stabilized, more westernized state.
00:25:47.960 Iran was a westernized state.
00:25:51.460 It was a successful state.
00:25:53.200 It was, you know, had bad leadership, but it was a successful state.
00:25:58.040 They have experience having that kind of rule.
00:26:01.320 Most people point to ISIS as having the first caliphate type country or, you know, terrorist, you know, Islamist state.
00:26:10.060 No, it was Iran.
00:26:11.280 Iran was taken over by Islamists and terrorists run that country. 0.97
00:26:16.480 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.
00:26:21.100 They are surrounding the nation of Israel.
00:26:22.840 You can't think in conventional terms with a country like that.
00:26:28.040 And they are, they're behind the attacks on Israel. 0.88
00:26:31.420 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?
00:26:43.340 I mean, Israel.
00:26:44.740 I think, I think it was probably both.
00:26:47.520 It does, it's, that coincided right with the flare ups in Gaza.
00:26:51.900 Yeah, exactly the same time that all that started.
00:26:54.680 And again, it started with an Iranian funded group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:26:59.080 They are the ones that kicked it off by firing at Israeli soldiers.
00:27:02.040 And the two oil tankers that were blown up or had sabotage happened to them.
00:27:08.140 They were both on the way to the United States.
00:27:10.880 So they are trying to cripple our economy as well.
00:27:15.960 And that fits right with the intelligence as well.
00:27:18.420 That's an American asset on its way over here to the United States.
00:27:22.940 Thank you so much, Jason.
00:27:24.060 I appreciate it.
00:27:24.620 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:27:32.720 Thank you.
00:27:44.940 Thank you for asking.
00:27:46.360 Because this is the theme song.
00:27:47.460 If you don't know, this is the exact theme song from the episode.
00:27:49.740 No, this is not.
00:27:50.720 This is a, this is like some 13-year-old, you know, with their phone playing the theme song.
00:27:58.460 You think?
00:27:58.940 Yeah.
00:27:59.160 So it's a game, episode, one more episode after this, right?
00:28:05.240 This is the second to last episode.
00:28:06.840 This is it.
00:28:07.200 I've only seen three episodes of the show, so I don't know a lot about the show.
00:28:10.480 Yeah.
00:28:10.840 But this is what I learned from this most recent episode.
00:28:13.820 And I think I missed the last week's episode.
00:28:16.200 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.
00:28:22.900 Right.
00:28:23.180 So I don't know.
00:28:23.700 Maybe I didn't miss one.
00:28:24.520 All right.
00:28:24.700 Uh, so Uncle Fester is a new character that, that joined this week.
00:28:28.140 Uh, he's, no, it's not Uncle, it's not Uncle Fester, but.
00:28:32.660 He looks just like Uncle Fester.
00:28:34.180 And he's been there since the beginning.
00:28:35.500 I've never seen him before.
00:28:36.860 Okay.
00:28:37.200 Um, but he was writing a letter.
00:28:38.440 You weren't looking.
00:28:39.020 We learned that the angry elf is still alive, which is good because I missed last week's episode.
00:28:43.320 Um, Uncle Fester and Jon Snow, who's a name I actually know now.
00:28:47.560 I used to call him, I think, Goatee Guy.
00:28:49.100 Yes.
00:28:49.460 He's now Jon Snow.
00:28:50.740 Mm-hmm.
00:28:51.520 Is that one of the spoilers?
00:28:53.380 No, that was last, that was last time's spoilers.
00:28:54.900 I learned that last time.
00:28:55.740 All right.
00:28:55.960 Okay.
00:28:56.220 Uh, they're saying the queen doesn't want to eat and shouldn't be left alone, which could
00:29:00.320 be an anorexia thing.
00:29:01.340 I don't know exactly what's going on.
00:29:02.400 You know which queen?
00:29:03.320 The blonde, the blondie, I think. 1.00
00:29:04.480 The blondie. 1.00
00:29:04.740 I think Queen Blondie.
00:29:05.680 Okay.
00:29:05.880 Yes.
00:29:06.220 All right.
00:29:06.560 Um, and Jon Snow apparently does not want to be king, which is something I learned here.
00:29:10.800 Mm-hmm.
00:29:11.260 Queen Blondie, though, a nice open air balcony with a sweet view.
00:29:15.420 I mean, I don't know.
00:29:16.040 Queen Blondie. 0.90
00:29:16.980 Queen Blondie. 0.90
00:29:17.540 She's, she's living in a place, I, looks like a loft of some sort.
00:29:20.680 It's beautiful, overlooks the entire mountain situation.
00:29:24.000 It's very nice.
00:29:24.800 Probably very expensive real estate.
00:29:26.400 So, that's Queen Blondie from last night? 0.95
00:29:32.120 I think so.
00:29:33.440 Okay.
00:29:33.860 Okay, I think so.
00:29:34.440 All right.
00:29:35.480 But this is, you're leading to me one of these big spoilers.
00:29:37.960 All right.
00:29:38.200 So let me get to this.
00:29:39.080 Okay.
00:29:39.500 Uncle Fester, he burns his letter and he hides his ring and then he's brought to the beach
00:29:43.860 at night.
00:29:44.340 But that's when we got this huge reveal.
00:29:45.680 This is a big moment, I think, in the entire series where we, it is revealed that Queen
00:29:49.580 Blondie's name is Daenerys or something similar because they said it and they, they called
00:29:56.340 her Daenerys, which I think is her name.
00:29:58.820 Not a, yes.
00:29:59.600 And again, not a, not something new if you're watching it.
00:30:02.540 It's not.
00:30:02.640 Huge to me.
00:30:04.020 And.
00:30:04.280 There was, there was something last night that I did see about the dragon and the dragon's
00:30:11.420 name.
00:30:12.560 Did you catch that yet?
00:30:14.060 I did not catch anything about a dragon's name.
00:30:16.660 No.
00:30:16.860 Okay.
00:30:17.420 Because you, you, you, you've already said the name of the dragon was, do you remember?
00:30:25.040 The name of the, no, I don't remember the name.
00:30:27.300 There was a name that came up with the dragon.
00:30:29.080 Yeah.
00:30:30.080 I don't remember.
00:30:30.900 Okay.
00:30:31.160 Well, you'll have to watch for it.
00:30:32.320 I'm not going to spoil it for you.
00:30:33.680 Okay.
00:30:34.400 There is some hidden truth about Jon Snow.
00:30:37.500 We don't know what it is.
00:30:38.780 Something hidden.
00:30:39.780 He's possible he transitioned.
00:30:41.960 Maybe it was.
00:30:42.940 No, I don't think so.
00:30:43.680 Was it Jon Snow at some point previously in the series?
00:30:46.400 No.
00:30:46.500 Okay.
00:30:47.400 Queen Blondie and Jon Snow then make out, which you'd say, well, if, you know, why are you
00:30:52.160 saying the transition thing?
00:30:52.960 But again, we're open here.
00:30:53.940 This is a, there's always these characters changing these, these stereotypes.
00:30:57.280 You're kind of missing the big parts of last night's episode, but go ahead.
00:31:03.440 Okay.
00:31:04.700 It's a little disturbing because I thought I did well on this one.
00:31:07.440 I thought I really nailed this one, actually.
00:31:09.320 Okay.
00:31:09.760 So if a city rings its bells, that means Queen Blondie is going to, or Daenerys is going to
00:31:15.960 stop an attack that might happen.
00:31:18.100 Okay.
00:31:19.980 And then one of them says next, Queen Blondie says to the angry elf, next time you fail me
00:31:25.560 will be the last time you fail me.
00:31:27.000 Um, so it's a pretty intense part, right?
00:31:30.460 I don't know what the relationship is, but they have some tension there, right?
00:31:33.340 Uh, there I've noticed just generally in this region of wherever this is taking place, there's
00:31:37.540 just not a lot of smiling.
00:31:38.560 There's just not a lot of happy times.
00:31:40.420 They don't ever seem to enjoy each other's company.
00:31:42.820 Well, you're kind of joining the series at the worst part.
00:31:46.820 Okay.
00:31:47.060 Although I will tell you, reflecting on it, I don't recall a lot of smiling ever.
00:31:54.300 Okay.
00:31:54.480 So another big revelation that I think I got right.
00:31:57.440 Yeah.
00:31:57.640 All right.
00:31:57.960 Um, angry elf tries to tell an Obi-Wan Kenobi character, uh, some sort of secret.
00:32:03.280 And I noticed this is just pragmatically.
00:32:05.560 I don't even know what you're talking about at this point.
00:32:06.980 Well, he said, he said he was going to tell this Obi-Wan Kenobi guy a secret, but just
00:32:11.720 pragmatically, logistically, it's difficult because he's just so much shorter.
00:32:15.060 How do you tell, if you're three feet tall, how do you tell a six foot tall person a secret?
00:32:20.020 It's difficult.
00:32:20.780 There's a lot of at least bending involved.
00:32:23.040 Right.
00:32:23.180 But he just tries to basically just say it in a crowd, which is not a good, not a good
00:32:27.000 idea.
00:32:27.420 Okay.
00:32:27.960 Um, uh, the frumpy girl, she's back in this one. 1.00
00:32:30.780 Yeah.
00:32:30.980 She wants to kill someone named Cersei. 0.79
00:32:33.260 Mm-hmm.
00:32:33.880 Is what I've, uh, and then someone known as the stupidest Lannister is in prison.
00:32:38.700 Hmm.
00:32:39.240 Uh, that's what they called himself, the stupidest Lannister.
00:32:41.780 Yeah.
00:32:41.980 So then Angry Elf, uh, gives an emotional speech to stupid Lannister about, um, basically
00:32:46.940 who was the only person, or he was the only person around who was nice to him as a kid
00:32:50.340 or something.
00:32:50.720 There's some like, I don't know, middle school drama going on between the two.
00:32:54.060 Uh, then stupid Lannister also has a gold hand, which seems like it would be limiting
00:32:58.540 in battle.
00:32:59.340 Yeah.
00:32:59.660 But an odd choice.
00:33:01.060 Uh, and then there's a castle they show that may be attacked or something.
00:33:04.120 Um, and the doors to break into the castle have an odd gap in between the doors.
00:33:09.180 Can I tell you something?
00:33:09.920 Which is really, this is something I noticed too last night.
00:33:13.020 Really?
00:33:13.280 I'm like, they close the door and there's like a three inch or four inch gap.
00:33:17.360 And I'm like, what, what is that?
00:33:20.280 You're trying to protect the castle.
00:33:21.540 It's like, it reminded me of like the, like, uh, you're in a, a public bathroom and like
00:33:26.160 the, the stall, the stall has that odd gap.
00:33:28.720 And you're like, why would they design it that way?
00:33:30.600 Right.
00:33:31.060 Cause anyone can look in or in this case break in.
00:33:33.840 Right.
00:33:34.240 Which is not a good idea.
00:33:35.300 Right.
00:33:35.640 Um, so there's two big armies kind of staring each other down.
00:33:38.900 Um, and at this point I did note that I don't know why it's important or who they
00:33:43.420 are.
00:33:44.080 So there, but there's two armies facing each other.
00:33:46.840 Okay.
00:33:47.080 Um, then, um, and I will say this, you know, there's a lot, I'm not giving anything away
00:33:52.080 about the battle or anything.
00:33:53.100 There's a lot of the stuff going on in the series where a lot of people prepare a lot
00:33:57.200 of big weapons and they're fighting and everything and they're getting all excited.
00:34:00.040 And then a dragon just flies in and the dragon wins.
00:34:03.380 Like, it's very powerful.
00:34:04.720 I don't know if anyone's noticed this.
00:34:06.160 Right.
00:34:06.400 Instead of building all of the like axes and stuff that they have, they should probably
00:34:11.560 have just worked on dragon recruitment.
00:34:14.060 Right.
00:34:14.300 Like really does zip recruiter have a dragon recruiter?
00:34:16.960 There's no dragons.
00:34:18.240 This is the only one left and they've killed two of the three.
00:34:22.800 It just seems like that's, that's unlikely.
00:34:24.740 There's probably other dragons.
00:34:25.540 They just haven't looked hard enough.
00:34:26.740 Right.
00:34:27.140 Get on zip recruiter.
00:34:28.200 Okay.
00:34:28.760 Look for dragons.
00:34:29.760 So that's what they should have been doing.
00:34:31.060 Yes.
00:34:31.540 Because they, I was thinking about maybe fire extinguishers or another good option.
00:34:35.980 You know, another good, some sort of asbestos suits that, that would be good.
00:34:40.980 That would be good.
00:34:41.560 Okay.
00:34:41.680 Yeah.
00:34:41.840 Uh, now considering all the stabbing and beheading that goes on, um, just to die by
00:34:48.120 the dragon's flame may be preferable.
00:34:49.840 I would say, I, you know, that you just get a kind of like, you just get dissolved seemingly
00:34:55.280 in an instant.
00:34:56.420 Um, the stupid Lannister then got in a fight with the lead singer of Coldplay who apparently
00:35:00.260 is in the series.
00:35:01.020 No, it's not.
00:35:01.960 That's not.
00:35:02.380 That's, uh, I, he didn't have a piano that said fair trade now or anything, but it looked
00:35:07.500 like him.
00:35:08.120 Okay.
00:35:08.300 Uh, and then the stupid Lannister's name.
00:35:10.520 This is another big reveal.
00:35:11.340 I think the stupid Lannister revealed his name.
00:35:13.580 I believe it's Jim Lannister.
00:35:16.040 Uh, no, it's not Jim.
00:35:18.340 That's not Jim, but it's, I can't even do it for you.
00:35:21.900 It's difficult to trust you on something like this.
00:35:24.560 Really?
00:35:24.860 Yes.
00:35:25.060 Because you, you, you may be misleading me now.
00:35:27.000 I don't know.
00:35:27.800 Um, how about the next guy, the big tall guy, uh, he's with frumpy girl and then he
00:35:32.120 goes and he's going to have a fight or something.
00:35:33.560 And his name is like Sandal Sandor or Sandal.
00:35:36.820 No.
00:35:37.180 Something like that.
00:35:37.640 No, no.
00:35:39.020 Well, he goes and he fights a giant helmetless Darth Vader in a big battle.
00:35:43.340 And that was a pretty exciting scene.
00:35:45.280 That was, that was really good.
00:35:46.780 Okay.
00:35:47.000 Uh, and he keeps stabbing the guy.
00:35:49.020 The guys just, you pretty much enjoy it.
00:35:51.040 Um, I've also noticed that there's just the environmentally.
00:35:53.640 I have some concerns about this.
00:35:54.900 It's very dusty throughout this entire region.
00:35:57.480 Um, I think if all of this, there's a follow-up series, it may just focus on the
00:36:02.020 mesothelioma lawyers that can kind of come in and take advantage because there's got,
00:36:06.820 they're breathing all sorts of crazy things.
00:36:08.680 Yeah.
00:36:09.020 You gotta get, I mean, bring a face mask.
00:36:11.160 So do you think that's where it started?
00:36:13.040 Maybe.
00:36:13.720 It's possible.
00:36:14.360 I do feel like they've, those ads have run enough that they may have started back in
00:36:17.660 this dark age.
00:36:18.380 Right.
00:36:18.580 But I would say the two big takeaways are, uh, Queen Blondie's name is Daenerys.
00:36:22.920 Mm-hmm.
00:36:23.380 Uh, there's a guy named Sandal and a guy named Jim Lannister.
00:36:26.640 So you got those three big giveaways on Game of Thrones last night.
00:36:29.660 Thank you very much.
00:36:30.240 In case you missed her.
00:36:33.540 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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
00:37:06.340 his crew many, many years ago.
00:37:08.980 Uh, and what they do is they just get people's stories, uh, and you go into a booth and you
00:37:15.560 record it.
00:37:16.060 Well, he's starting something different.
00:37:18.620 Uh, it's the one small step initiative.
00:37:21.460 And when does this actually, when do we start to hear the results on this, Dave?
00:37:26.020 Hi, Glenn.
00:37:26.680 It's great.
00:37:27.020 It's great to talk to you.
00:37:28.040 We, um, we are, um, we're in full action.
00:37:31.320 We can, we, we have results coming in all the time, you know, as, as, as you said, the,
00:37:36.460 that StoryCorps, the standard StoryCorps is two people and we're, we're a nonprofit, um,
00:37:41.300 in every possible way.
00:37:42.360 It's two people coming to talk to each other who know and love each other.
00:37:44.900 And with one small step, we're putting people across the political divides in a booth to,
00:37:49.100 you know, remind us that, um, people we disagree with are actually human beings and we don't,
00:37:53.580 we don't want them dead.
00:37:54.560 And when you're seeing, when you're seeing these people go in, there's a difference.
00:37:58.660 People are, people say horrible things, uh, to each other online and, uh, you know, on
00:38:04.600 social media.
00:38:05.760 But when you're face to face, it changes.
00:38:08.480 And the second thing that changes is this is being preserved by the library of Congress.
00:38:13.940 So these voices will last in our national archives forever.
00:38:19.380 And people don't want to be, you know, able to have their grandkids, look them up and find
00:38:26.800 their audio of them being a jerk.
00:38:29.000 That's you, you, you nailed it.
00:38:30.700 That's exactly why this thing works.
00:38:32.220 It's, it's kind of the opposite of the impermanence of social media.
00:38:35.220 People are aware that their future generations are going to hear it.
00:38:39.000 Um, and you know, and I mean, you know, this is, you know, this very well when you're face
00:38:43.740 to face with someone, you know, you can build up all kinds of things in your head and social
00:38:47.320 media is just a, it's a, it's a dumpster fire, you know, for what it does to our brains.
00:38:52.320 But when you look at someone in the face and realize, you know, that you have families,
00:38:56.220 you, you, you love your families.
00:38:58.040 We love this country.
00:38:58.960 You know, I saw, there was a survey that I saw since I was on last time, um, 42% of
00:39:04.100 people in each party view the opposition as downright evil.
00:39:07.180 20% of Republicans and Democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries
00:39:11.140 lack the traits to be considered fully human.
00:39:14.040 And these numbers, wait, wait, what was that last one?
00:39:16.260 Yep.
00:39:17.420 20% of Republicans and Democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries
00:39:22.540 lack the traits to be considered fully human.
00:39:25.600 20%.
00:39:25.900 Oh my gosh.
00:39:26.980 20% think that the country would be better off if large numbers of the opposition died.
00:39:31.060 And these numbers are skyrocketing.
00:39:34.200 And that's what one of my gosh, well, this is, you know, this is a very, very serious
00:39:38.540 problem that we're facing.
00:39:39.620 This is, you know, this goes back to, this goes back to what I've been saying for, for
00:39:44.200 quite some time now.
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
00:40:00.680 side, I don't care what side it is, your side wins everything and you get everything
00:40:06.200 that you want.
00:40:07.780 You know, 50% of the country is not going to be for that and not want to do that.
00:40:13.360 What's your solution?
00:40:14.600 And if we're starting to look at each other as not human, we're in trouble.
00:40:21.620 We know how this ends.
00:40:23.420 We do.
00:40:23.760 Because we know about Nazi Germany.
00:40:25.480 We know about Rwanda.
00:40:27.020 You know, when people were called cockroaches.
00:40:28.920 I mean, it's, it's, there's an extreme danger in dehumanizing other human beings.
00:40:33.700 And we've seen it before.
00:40:34.880 We've seen it in slavery.
00:40:35.860 We've seen it in Nazi Germany.
00:40:37.240 We've seen it before.
00:40:38.140 We cannot let the country go down this path.
00:40:40.940 We can't.
00:40:41.780 It is, you know, it's, it's an extermination level.
00:40:44.860 It is.
00:40:45.880 Potentially.
00:40:46.460 And we have the power.
00:40:48.480 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
00:41:05.680 this.
00:41:06.000 That's the, that's the amazing thing.
00:41:08.020 We keep arguing in Congress and we're missing the point when it comes to Russia, Russia.
00:41:16.160 I was on the air three years prior saying, here's their plan.
00:41:20.260 They stated it.
00:41:21.700 They were looking to cause dissent between each other and to cause conflict.
00:41:27.060 They, the only winner in this whole last two years, uh, when, uh, when Russia is involved
00:41:34.600 is Russia.
00:41:36.100 They've gotten everything they've wanted and more.
00:41:39.560 Yep.
00:41:40.580 Yep.
00:41:40.920 No, I mean, it's, it's, um, it's perfectly executed and we've, we've, um, acted exactly
00:41:46.960 as, as, you know, our, our enemies, Russia and otherwise would hope we would.
00:41:50.780 Um, so, you know, it's our choice and, you know, I hope that, I hope that people will
00:41:55.680 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.
00:42:00.360 Um, and if they're coming down for the museum, do you know?
00:42:03.160 I don't know.
00:42:04.080 Okay.
00:42:04.560 Let us know when you're here.
00:42:06.260 I, I definitely will.
00:42:07.380 Um, and, um, we're going to be recording one small step interviews and if there are any,
00:42:10.940 I know you have a lot of listeners everywhere, but, uh, Dallas is a, is, is a strong spot
00:42:15.960 for you.
00:42:16.360 Uh, right to, um, one small, uh, uh, sorry.
00:42:20.560 Um, uh, one small step at story core.org and one small step at story core.org.
00:42:29.800 Okay.
00:42:30.280 S T O R Y C O R P S.org. 1.00
00:42:31.980 If you're in Dallas, let us know if you want to participate.
00:42:34.140 We'll match you with someone who has a different political ideology than you.
00:42:37.740 And you'll just, but they want to politics, but they want to talk decently to you.
00:42:43.800 Right.
00:42:44.100 And you're just going to talk about your lives.
00:42:45.920 It's not about arguing issues.
00:42:47.800 It's not about politics.
00:42:49.220 It's not about finding common ground.
00:42:50.840 It's just remembering the humanity and people we disagree with.
00:42:53.620 All right.
00:42:53.780 So what is the, um, uh, what is the story you're going to bring to us today?
00:42:58.440 So, um, today is just a standard story core story.
00:43:01.240 Um, and it's great to be able to come on and play a story every month.
00:43:04.680 This is just what happens in the booth.
00:43:06.760 This is not one small step.
00:43:08.060 It's the other half million people who participated, who just know and love each other.
00:43:12.180 And this is a dad and a son from Jackson, Mississippi, not too long ago.
00:43:16.860 Um, uh, they're the family's name is Sykes and they came to story core just to talk.
00:43:21.760 So here's the nine year old with his father.
00:43:24.580 Do you remember what was going through your head when you first saw me?
00:43:30.200 I remember when the doctor pulled you out.
00:43:32.460 The first thing I thought was that he was being too rough with you and he actually held you like a little Sprite bottle.
00:43:39.020 And he was like, here's your baby.
00:43:41.620 That was the most proud moment of my life.
00:43:44.060 Don't tell your brothers because it's three of y'all.
00:43:46.080 But it was like looking at a blank canvas and just imagining what you want their painting to look like at the end.
00:43:54.720 But also knowing you can't control the paint strokes.
00:43:58.160 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.
00:44:05.860 But there are statistics that say black boys born after the year 2002 have a one in three chance of going to prison.
00:44:15.860 And all three of my sons were born after the year 2002.
00:44:20.500 So, Dad, why do you take me to protest so much?
00:44:25.680 I think I take you for a bunch of reasons.
00:44:28.740 One is that I want you to see what it looks like when people come together.
00:44:33.620 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?
00:44:47.120 Yes, I understand that.
00:44:48.880 Yeah.
00:44:49.480 So that's how you got to think.
00:44:51.040 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.
00:44:58.940 Are you proud of me?
00:45:00.360 Of course.
00:45:01.560 You my man.
00:45:02.560 I just love everything about you, period.
00:45:07.220 The thing I love about you, you never gives up on me.
00:45:11.640 That's one of the things I will always remember by my dad.
00:45:16.200 You said it like I'm on the way out of here or like I'm already gone.
00:45:20.440 So, Dad, what are your dreams for me?
00:45:22.960 My dream is for you to live out your dreams.
00:45:25.060 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.
00:45:33.000 And as you grow, your hands learn to unfold because you're learning to release your gifts to the world.
00:45:39.560 And so for the rest of your life, I want to see you live with your hands unfolded.
00:45:43.880 That is such a remarkable piece of audio.
00:45:49.480 Dave, thank you so much.
00:45:51.300 That's great.
00:45:52.000 Talk to you.
00:45:52.540 Good to talk to you.
00:45:53.540 And again, if you would like to be involved, just go to One Small Step.
00:45:58.940 Please email onesmallstepatstorycore.org.
00:46:05.580 That's story, C-O-R-P-S, storycore.org.
00:46:11.660 Thank you so much, Dave.
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