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00:00:30.000 On today's podcast, we talk a little bit about immigration.

00:00:33.460 We start with Joe Biden and the crazy things that he is saying.

00:00:38.620 Also, we look to campus reform to go to the campus and ask people,

00:00:46.320 hey, who do you think said this?

00:00:48.500 They're all racist statements.

00:00:50.500 Little do they know, they all claim all of them are from Donald Trump when they're all from Joe Biden.

00:00:57.540 What does that mean to them?

00:00:59.500 Also, we have Brad Thor on today's show.

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00:01:45.680 I hate that Joe Biden. 0.72

00:01:46.680 The one I love is the crazy one that says things like, Obama just didn't have any time to explain it. 0.98

00:01:54.160 You know, and if you go into a 7-Eleven, you're going to find nothing but Indians running the joints. 1.00

00:02:00.320 Yeah.

00:02:00.460 I mean, I love that Joe Biden.

00:02:02.840 It's the same Joe Biden that explained to us that it was that going to get Osama bin Laden was the most difficult decision in 500 years.

00:02:10.020 Yes.

00:02:10.540 Like, first of all, like the one that makes everybody, the one that is not left or right, makes everybody go, wait a minute.

00:02:16.900 I thought that was a pretty easy decision.

00:02:18.780 I don't know what he's talking about.

00:02:19.920 Hey, the world's most dangerous terrorist.

00:02:21.880 Should we get him? 0.78

00:02:23.180 Come back to me in five centuries.

00:02:25.440 Like, that's not it.

00:02:26.240 Oh, man.

00:02:27.740 We've been looking for him for five years.

00:02:29.820 We've been at war.

00:02:31.140 We've spent about a trillion dollars.

00:02:34.040 I don't know.

00:02:35.900 I don't know.

00:02:37.540 I'm you know what?

00:02:38.700 You know why this is so hard?

00:02:39.800 I'm trying to figure out how to explain health care. 1.00

00:02:44.900 That's why I should we kill. 1.00

00:02:47.300 Should we kill Obama or Osama bin Laden when I'm trying to work on Obamacare? 1.00

00:02:52.240 I don't know. 0.99

00:02:53.160 I don't know.

00:02:53.760 It's a tough decision.

00:02:54.920 Okay.

00:02:55.140 So yesterday and I love this because this is truly Joe Biden and it's going to be interesting

00:03:03.660 to see the two of these guys go head to head and also to see the press.

00:03:10.600 Remember, the press was all upset.

00:03:12.500 All of the violence, any violence, any violence that happens anywhere in the world is going

00:03:18.920 to be Donald Trump's fault.

00:03:20.200 Did you hear him?

00:03:21.540 What he's saying? 0.84

00:03:22.520 He's he's he's encouraging people to punch people. 0.77

00:03:26.680 Okay. 0.82

00:03:27.280 All right.

00:03:27.820 I was with you on that.

00:03:29.020 I didn't like that when the president was like, you know what? 0.99

00:03:31.840 Take him out and beat the crap out of him. 0.99

00:03:33.340 I didn't like that. 0.96

00:03:36.560 However, he was not calling for a revolution, which Joe Biden, let's see if anybody in the

00:03:43.400 press notices this one.

00:03:46.100 Here's what he said yesterday about a brass knuckle fight.

00:03:51.220 Joy, I know you're one of the ones that think it's naive to think we have to work together.

00:03:55.480 The fact of the matter is that we can't get a consensus.

00:03:58.000 Nothing happens except the abuse of power by the executive.

00:04:01.040 Zero.

00:04:01.700 Number one.

00:04:02.340 Number two, there are certain things where it just takes a brass knuckle fight.

00:04:06.020 There's no way to do it.

00:04:07.060 You have to go out and beat these folks if you don't if they don't agree with you by

00:04:10.720 making your case.

00:04:12.320 And that's what presidents are supposed to do.

00:04:14.520 Persuade the public.

00:04:16.420 Move people as to what's going on.

00:04:18.600 If you start off with a notion there's nothing you can do.

00:04:21.680 Well, why don't you all go home then, man?

00:04:23.480 Or let's start a real physical revolution if you're talking about it, because we have to

00:04:28.140 be able to change what we're doing within our system.

00:04:32.340 So I'm trying to decide, because he's talking to religious leaders, which I love.

00:04:42.140 I just love the fact that he's having this conversation with religious leaders.

00:04:46.460 So is he calling for revolution or is he?

00:04:51.780 Because if we don't give him the benefit of the doubt, he was calling for revolution.

00:04:55.940 But if we give him the benefit of the doubt, he was saying what?

00:05:01.980 Look, there's there's no other option.

00:05:04.440 If you can't make the case, there's no other option.

00:05:07.580 Right.

00:05:08.400 Right.

00:05:08.880 He's saying that not necessarily he's rooting for some sort of, you know, physical revolution.

00:05:14.260 He's just saying, like, you know, we can we can convince them.

00:05:18.120 And if we can convince them, we don't need that.

00:05:19.640 That's never going to happen.

00:05:20.780 He's not he's not advocating for it.

00:05:22.180 And of course, this is the type of analysis that the left would never give to Donald Trump

00:05:26.240 or anyone on the right.

00:05:27.440 But I mean, the bottom line is that you can make a fair point that he's not calling for

00:05:30.800 it.

00:05:30.900 He's saying he's saying, like, I'm warning you of it.

00:05:34.620 Right.

00:05:35.200 There is there are people who will go.

00:05:37.100 So he's a conspiracy theory.

00:05:38.520 So I so what they would say about you for sure.

00:05:40.980 Yeah.

00:05:41.620 Right.

00:05:42.020 I just want to say that the the headlines that are wrong, the headlines should be that

00:05:46.900 he's a conspiracy theorist saying that a revolution is coming.

00:05:51.060 I mean, that's what they would say about you and did, by the way, say about you when you

00:05:55.540 said this, because, I mean, you've said multiple times a very similar brand of analysis, which

00:06:01.740 is, look, we can't you know, they're going to be people coming and taking people out of

00:06:06.720 buildings and and and beating them in the streets.

00:06:11.200 And we're going to see real strife.

00:06:12.700 How many times we were watching a clip of Andrew Wilkow from Blaze TV, who was highlighting

00:06:17.740 all of these incidents where people are now walking up to women on the streets who happen

00:06:23.020 to be Trump supporters and kicking them and punching them in the face because they're quote 0.97

00:06:26.660 unquote Nazis. 0.99

00:06:28.340 In fact, let's play that, because I think this is really important, because what he's saying

00:06:32.060 is, if you can't convince, well, they're done convincing.

00:06:36.120 Remember, the left is the one that's saying the conversation is over.

00:06:40.620 There is no there's no more dialogue on things like global warming.

00:06:44.700 There's there's a you are a denier or you're standing in the way of progress because of X,

00:06:51.780 Y and Z.

00:06:52.640 Remember, yesterday we played the audio that I want a would you call it?

00:06:59.520 I mean, really, a communist government.

00:07:02.560 This is the the city councilwoman from Denver says she wants all shared property, all shared

00:07:08.700 everything.

00:07:09.120 She was looking at a communist kind of way of life.

00:07:11.920 And she said, and I'm willing to fight for it any means necessary.

00:07:17.820 So they are there.

00:07:20.060 Many of these revolutionaries are already there.

00:07:22.860 But let's just not say that without backing it up.

00:07:27.420 This is from Andrew Wilkow and his program on Blaze TV just last night.

00:07:32.540 You know, barely a day goes by where we don't see some sort of incident of violence or threat

00:07:38.380 of violence from progressives.

00:07:40.300 Here's a quick reminder.

00:07:42.040 Highlight reel, if you will.

00:07:43.000 I asked the guy, I said, who did you vote for?

00:07:47.680 He said he voted for Trump.

00:07:49.420 So I took his time.

00:07:53.680 Yes.

00:07:55.500 Then we in the game.

00:08:01.400 We stopped Trump.

00:08:02.600 We stopped Trump.

00:08:03.840 We stopped Trump.

00:08:04.980 We stopped Trump.

00:08:06.140 We stopped Trump.

00:08:07.280 We stopped Trump. 1.00

00:08:08.120 We just killed her three-year-old child. 1.00

00:08:12.180 Look at this. 0.63

00:08:13.260 I meant to get your phone.

00:08:15.220 This woman just... 1.00

00:08:16.220 It's always nice to highlight pillars of the community.

00:08:21.560 It's remarkable what is happening.

00:08:25.440 And then I want to show you the reason why a lot of this is happening is because, and I'm 1.00

00:08:30.720 going to just be real frank with you, people are stupid. 1.00

00:08:33.980 That's why. 1.00

00:08:34.480 People think they know more than they do.

00:08:38.500 They think they're so smart, and nobody has...

00:08:41.700 Everybody is filled with hubris, and they have absolutely no humility.

00:08:47.000 They think they know, and as soon as they are corrected, they don't know what to do because

00:08:53.400 their whole world is about to fall apart.

00:08:55.580 We'll go there.

00:08:56.480 So there's a couple of things here.

00:08:58.640 We have Ami Horowitz going inside the Muslim Brotherhood, which we have to get into in 0.98

00:09:04.520 a little while.

00:09:05.720 But we also have, from Campus Reform, they went to Marymount University, Cabot Phillips

00:09:14.980 did, and he said, I just want to read some statements to you, and you tell me, is this

00:09:20.800 Joe Biden or Donald Trump?

00:09:23.260 And he was posing as Students Against Racist Trump Quotes.

00:09:29.440 Listen to this.

00:09:31.140 First quote, you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian 1.00

00:09:35.700 accent.

00:09:36.420 Who do you think said that? 0.90

00:09:38.220 Trump.

00:09:39.300 Uh, Trump.

00:09:40.460 That sounds like a Trump quote.

00:09:42.120 Oh, that's a big yikes.

00:09:44.680 But, uh, I might say Donald Trump.

00:09:48.780 Uh, Donald Trump.

00:09:50.080 Donald Trump.

00:09:50.660 I'll go Trump.

00:10:20.640 What if I told you that all of those are actually Joe Biden?

00:10:27.860 All right, there it is.

00:10:29.320 Is that surprising?

00:10:30.160 Yeah, very.

00:10:32.440 That's crazy.

00:10:33.620 Is that surprising?

00:10:34.320 Yeah.

00:10:34.840 Oh, snap. 0.99

00:10:35.780 Oh, that's bad.

00:10:37.720 Is that surprising to you?

00:10:39.040 Yeah, I mean, they're all pretty racist, so it's not really good.

00:10:44.340 Ah, well, that's surprising.

00:10:46.600 That's really surprising.

00:10:47.600 Why is that surprising?

00:10:50.020 I've never heard any of those things before. 0.93

00:10:52.380 So, the fact that you told me that, now I'm like, damn, is he really who he say he is?

00:10:58.640 I don't think that's something I want to really support.

00:11:01.960 Would this potentially impact your vote?

00:11:04.380 Of course.

00:11:05.500 Why is that?

00:11:06.400 Well, I mean, like, since I thought all that was Trump, like, I thought, like, that was going to be a slam dunk, but apparently, you know, I got to reconsider that.

00:11:13.780 So, I'll just look more in-depth, really.

00:11:15.960 Would these quotes potentially lead you to another candidate?

00:11:18.580 Yeah, definitely, absolutely.

00:11:21.740 Personally, probably.

00:11:23.820 I would have to really do my research.

00:11:25.700 Yeah, I think it would.

00:11:30.120 Interesting.

00:11:31.480 At least they're being consistent there.

00:11:34.960 So, what does that show you?

00:11:38.640 What do you take away from that, besides the, oh, that was fun. 0.96

00:11:43.020 Look at the dummies.

00:11:44.520 Well, first of all, it was fun. 0.98

00:11:45.460 Look at the dummies.

00:11:46.420 But second of all, I would say, you know, it's one of those things where, forget the fact that, obviously, like, the double standard on what is racist, speak or not, is a big problem here.

00:11:58.480 I mean, you know, this is a great example, you brought up as well, the talk about revolution, and this is one of the most clear ways the media is actually biased, in which they believe Joe Biden is a good guy, so therefore, they don't assign negative intent to his statements.

00:12:15.380 And the same thing here with the racism stuff.

00:12:18.280 They believe Joe Biden isn't racist because they like him, and they think he's a good guy, so therefore, those statements aren't problematic.

00:12:24.800 May I disagree with you just a bit, and I'd like to hear your opinion on this.

00:12:28.760 I'm not sure that they do like him.

00:12:30.520 I think they like him as much as they liked Hillary Clinton, you know, in 2006.

00:12:35.900 He's just a vehicle.

00:12:38.400 He's not.

00:12:39.680 They'll take him down the minute they feel they can because they have another option.

00:12:45.820 I think you're right on that.

00:12:46.640 I think that they don't want to destroy him right now because they think he might win.

00:12:51.760 And they see, and this is not how I feel, obviously, but they see the media.

00:12:56.980 The media, like, the media, it sees itself as a problem as to how it treated Hillary Clinton.

00:13:02.680 They think they, this is serious, they think they were too tough on Hillary Clinton in 2016, and it's one of the reasons why Trump won.

00:13:09.680 Now, I know that feels like a completely different world, and it is.

00:13:13.520 It's D.C.

00:13:14.300 It's New York.

00:13:15.160 It's the media.

00:13:16.520 But that's how they see that and how it played out, so they're very careful here.

00:13:21.340 They will destroy Joe Biden if they can get someone else who they see as better, more to the left than Joe Biden.

00:13:28.680 They don't want Biden to be the candidate.

00:13:30.420 Isn't it, Joe, if Joe Biden were close to everybody else, they would be torpedoing him right now.

00:13:38.340 But because he's so far ahead in the polls and looks to be the only guy that could beat Donald Trump, they are not going to go after him.

00:13:46.840 Yeah.

00:13:47.120 They did a little bit, and his poll numbers really are the same, and it doesn't look like Joe Biden's going anywhere.

00:13:53.720 And so they're going to back off on him.

00:13:55.960 Yeah.

00:13:56.200 But what I found was the most important part of this was when she said, I haven't heard any of that.

00:14:03.840 Yeah.

00:14:05.200 I haven't heard any of that.

00:14:06.860 Yeah, that's fascinating.

00:14:08.020 And again, these are not even new quotes.

00:14:09.600 Now, the media gave him a huge break because he was essentially Barack Obama's vice president, so he had a clear ride through a lot of that.

00:14:17.000 But I think piggybacking on what you're saying is the most important thing, Glenn, the fact that they didn't know this,

00:14:21.500 is another thing which shows why they're all Democrats, why they're all socialists, why they believe every Republican is a racist.

00:14:28.240 Yes.

00:14:28.540 The second they hear the quote, they actually all change their minds about Joe Biden.

00:14:34.680 And that's, I think, actually worse.

00:14:36.980 Like, you don't know the context.

00:14:38.160 You have no idea what's going on.

00:14:39.600 You're going to change your opinion on a man from a quote that's completely out of context from a person you don't know who does have an agenda?

00:14:47.300 Like, that's a huge problem.

00:14:49.440 The research needs to be done.

00:14:51.540 You need to have principles.

00:14:52.600 These things can't just be these flippant decisions, and that's the bigger problem.

00:14:56.180 So here's the thing.

00:14:58.900 This is why they're silencing voices.

00:15:01.700 This is why they must put Steven Crowder out.

00:15:04.640 They must put, you know, Mark Levin or anybody else.

00:15:08.500 They must put them out of business.

00:15:10.940 Because once you hear the facts, you change.

00:15:17.300 Once you hear, I mean, look at what's happening with Bridget Phetasy. 1.00

00:15:21.400 If you've been watching her or following her transition, it's remarkable.

00:15:28.040 She tweeted yesterday, I always hated myself, and now I realize, because I was liberal, she is really, she's doing the work, and she's realizing, I'm not that.

00:15:47.640 I'm not sure what I am, but I'm not that.

00:15:49.540 But that's why you've got to shut down speech and thinking.

00:15:54.160 If you hit critical thinking, it all falls apart.

00:15:57.460 Pat Gray from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup, which you can hear as a podcast every day, live as it records it.

00:16:15.740 Pat Gray Unleashed, and that's happening on The Blaze every day, precedes this program.

00:16:21.060 6 to 8 Central.

00:16:21.680 You can also download it as a Posca.

00:16:23.000 7 to 9 Eastern.

00:16:25.160 What is it, Mountain?

00:16:25.980 Thank you.

00:16:26.300 It's 5 to 7, Mountain, and 4 to 6, Pacific.

00:16:29.580 I'm in Hawaii.

00:16:30.520 When do I tune in?

00:16:31.240 I think 3 in the morning.

00:16:32.300 Okay.

00:16:32.700 Yeah.

00:16:33.140 And a lot of Hawaiians get up to listen to it live.

00:16:36.260 If I were in Tibet, and I was the one with the outlet.

00:16:39.080 Okay.

00:16:39.720 It's going to be 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:16:42.640 3 o'clock in the afternoon?

00:16:43.600 Yeah, you don't even have to get up early.

00:16:45.080 You bet.

00:16:45.800 Wow, that's great.

00:16:46.820 That's where you should do the show.

00:16:47.460 Actually, Tibet, it's going to be 3.15, because they're...

00:16:51.660 Really?

00:16:52.700 Yeah.

00:16:53.160 Like, 9 hours and 15 minutes ahead of us.

00:16:56.020 Oh, okay.

00:16:56.300 15 minutes.

00:16:56.920 Yeah, yeah.

00:16:58.320 So let me ask you this.

00:17:02.160 Is...

00:17:02.560 Because God seems to target, you know, like trailer parks and things like that when he,

00:17:09.720 you know, throws down a tornado.

00:17:14.100 Is God trying to kill Jeffy?

00:17:16.240 That's what I'd like to know.

00:17:17.560 There does seem to be a lot of evidence pointing this direction.

00:17:20.720 Oh, man.

00:17:21.720 Yeah.

00:17:22.140 They really got hammered.

00:17:23.140 So, Jeffy, I got an email from him, what, yesterday, I think, that said, hey, really

00:17:30.600 bad storm, you know, and a tornado in our neighborhood, and I lost part of my roof.

00:17:36.920 And I was like, oh, man, you need anything, blah, blah, blah.

00:17:39.320 And then I never hear from him again, and I stopped thinking about it, because I've lost

00:17:44.320 part of my roof in, you know, in a storm here in Texas, too.

00:17:47.660 Like, you know, they'll have to come and replace some of the shingles. 0.93

00:17:50.280 Apparently, that's not the kind of, I lost part of my roof.

00:17:56.740 He literally had the tornado rip part of his house off of his house.

00:18:02.820 Yeah, where the elements were pouring in.

00:18:04.920 Yeah, the elements poured into the rooms where they lost the house, and those are all severely

00:18:10.320 damaged.

00:18:11.060 And then a tree fell across his neighbor's driveway, and he lost his fence.

00:18:17.460 They're living in a hotel.

00:18:18.540 It's not even livable.

00:18:20.220 So, yeah, they got hit hard.

00:18:22.360 Well, he sent a picture this morning where a board from his fence blew apparently so hard,

00:18:29.300 it went through the wall of his bedroom, right by his headboard.

00:18:34.500 Again, God sending messages.

00:18:37.160 And you can actually, from the inside, see the hole that was made by a board coming through

00:18:42.900 the wall.

00:18:44.120 That is, like, twister-level crazy.

00:18:47.080 Yeah, I remember my grandfather talking about, you know, he lived in Nebraska and Iowa, and

00:18:52.760 he said, we talked about the tornadoes, and he said, I saw hay driven through telephone

00:18:59.080 poles.

00:19:00.500 And it's an amazing, tornadoes are just frightening as heck.

00:19:05.900 And they will do, I mean, we've seen it when we went up to Moore, Oklahoma.

00:19:09.480 You remember that?

00:19:09.900 It, like, takes a house and just makes it into a mulch.

00:19:14.840 I mean, it's an incredible force of nature.

00:19:18.880 And it met its match with Jeff Fisher.

00:19:21.560 It could not lift him out of the house, though.

00:19:26.020 That is the good news.

00:19:27.000 It could not lift him.

00:19:28.720 His entire family clung to him, and so they were all safe.

00:19:32.840 Wow, that's amazing.

00:19:34.200 Yeah, it's incredible.

00:19:35.320 It's an amazing story.

00:19:36.900 So that's good.

00:19:37.700 Did they cling to him, or did he just say, take one of my shirts or a pair of my underpants

00:19:43.000 and use it as a safety shelter?

00:19:44.900 You know, I didn't get the gory details.

00:19:47.440 I just know that because the tornado couldn't lift him, everybody was hanging on to him for

00:19:53.000 dear life.

00:19:53.840 Okay.

00:19:58.240 Can you share the picture?

00:19:59.600 Because I didn't get the picture.

00:20:01.740 I can't download any pictures up here in the mountains.

00:20:05.140 You know, God forbid that you could actually have communication systems in a place like this.

00:20:09.720 I doubt he has some.

00:20:10.320 We have a satellite.

00:20:10.960 We have a giant satellite sitting in our front yard, and yet I can't.

00:20:17.720 So we can be on television and radio, but I can't download a single picture.

00:20:23.380 So maybe you should put it on television so I can see it.

00:20:28.700 Well, yeah, okay.

00:20:29.680 I can try to do that.

00:20:30.460 I don't know that we have approval, but again, Jeffy's sort of an overture, so I don't care.

00:20:35.640 Yeah, who cares?

00:20:37.600 So we have to get him on the air.

00:20:39.880 In fact, why don't we take a quick break and see if we can get him on the air?

00:20:42.520 Do we know where he's staying?

00:20:44.100 I don't, but he's got a cell phone, so it doesn't matter.

00:20:46.720 Okay.

00:20:46.960 So, yeah, so let's call him, because I'd like to know where were they when this happened

00:20:52.020 and what did it sound like?

00:20:53.300 So Jeffy was not sucked up in a tornado, but his house was.

00:20:59.980 He was in the house.

00:21:00.920 Lucky for him, he has gained all of that weight back and then some.

00:21:06.540 Wait, what?

00:21:07.260 Welcome, Jeff Fisher.

00:21:09.040 Wait, what?

00:21:10.020 What does that mean?

00:21:10.980 Well, it means that you had enough girth to be, you know, sort of anchored as the tornado

00:21:17.780 blew through your home.

00:21:19.840 Now, I don't have a picture.

00:21:21.600 I know you sent a picture, but I don't have a picture.

00:21:24.720 I don't have it in color.

00:21:25.940 I was able to download this picture of the scene, and you see his family hanging on his

00:21:33.600 belt and the tornado with the house and even the witch on the bicycle behind him.

00:21:38.220 Wow.

00:21:40.040 That's the scene as captured by Kodak.

00:21:45.100 I'm sure that's an authentic picture.

00:21:47.400 Yeah.

00:21:47.980 Well, it's not in color, obviously, because he's in the mountains and can't download it

00:21:51.900 completely in color.

00:21:53.760 Yeah.

00:21:55.820 So, anyway, how are you, Jeffy?

00:21:58.720 I'm fine, thank you.

00:21:59.940 Everybody's fine.

00:22:00.920 It was, you know, it was certainly scary at the time, that's for sure.

00:22:05.080 I haven't seen where they were.

00:22:06.040 I bet it was.

00:22:06.440 Actually, I haven't seen where they actually said it was a tornado in my area.

00:22:13.940 It was up and down this entire swath that the storm went, and it was definitely a tornado.

00:22:20.040 I mean, I watched it out my back door, standing in the kitchen with my daughter, as the rain

00:22:26.740 went left, as it went from going straight down to left, and then went back to the right,

00:22:35.260 and then went back to the left.

00:22:37.440 And between that time, my partial roof blew off.

00:22:39.540 Sounds like Joe Biden.

00:22:40.260 And then it blew off.

00:22:41.160 Yeah.

00:22:42.520 Yeah.

00:22:43.220 And then between that time, the roof fell off, so he doesn't have any hair, so it's absolutely

00:22:47.140 Joe Biden.

00:22:48.960 So, Jeffy, I mean, were you guys just in the kitchen, or did you go into a safe place?

00:22:56.060 No, we were backing up into a safe place.

00:22:58.760 I mean, during the whole time, I mean, it was just like, this is a tornado, and it's not

00:23:02.580 good, and then it was over.

00:23:04.680 I mean, if it was a bigger tornado, you know, I mean, more of the house would have been torn

00:23:09.620 up, no question.

00:23:10.480 But, I mean, all the fences in the neighborhood has blown up.

00:23:13.480 A tree in the front yard snapped about four feet from the ground.

00:23:17.940 That's in the neighbor's front yard.

00:23:20.300 But that wind could not move you.

00:23:24.060 No, you're absolutely correct.

00:23:25.940 It did not.

00:23:26.580 Yeah.

00:23:26.840 The room that I was in is fine.

00:23:28.320 That's important.

00:23:29.040 There's no leaky.

00:23:29.860 There's nothing there.

00:23:30.680 Everything is fine.

00:23:31.740 And my daughter was saying, boy, it's good.

00:23:33.760 I'm with you.

00:23:34.780 Right.

00:23:35.360 Hanging on to you.

00:23:36.260 Right.

00:23:36.780 Yeah.

00:23:37.080 Hanging on to your belt, because it's like that scene in...

00:23:39.960 Apparently you saw the photo, yeah.

00:23:40.780 Yeah.

00:23:41.540 Yes.

00:23:42.140 Yes.

00:23:42.540 It's like that scene in Twister, where they're hanging on to...

00:23:46.100 They put a belt around that pipe.

00:23:48.740 They put a belt around the pipe, yeah.

00:23:50.280 It was good to be called the pipe.

00:23:51.160 Except it was a bigger pipe.

00:23:52.220 Yeah.

00:23:52.660 It was you.

00:23:53.360 Yeah.

00:23:54.280 So what did it sound like, Jeff?

00:23:56.580 It was just...

00:23:57.500 It was more...

00:23:58.300 I mean, I know a lot of people talk about sounding like a train or whatever, but it was just

00:24:03.220 loud wind.

00:24:03.920 You know what I mean?

00:24:04.500 It was just...

00:24:05.000 You feel that...

00:24:06.100 You hear that loud wind.

00:24:07.220 And it's gone in...

00:24:08.200 I mean, it was not a minute.

00:24:11.780 You know what I mean?

00:24:12.140 Maybe.

00:24:12.500 It was maybe a minute.

00:24:13.320 I mean, not even for the main part of that, the wind and the storm was maybe a minute.

00:24:19.200 I mean, I guess maybe two.

00:24:20.960 It just seemed like it went on and then it was gone.

00:24:24.180 Then it was just raining.

00:24:25.600 And water started to leak through the upper roof, upper rooms.

00:24:30.900 I mean, the ceiling has fallen through in one room and the other room is about ready

00:24:35.440 to go.

00:24:36.480 Jeez.

00:24:37.240 Oh, man.

00:24:37.380 That is terrible because you had just gone to Best Buy and bought all those really expensive

00:24:41.780 electronics, remember?

00:24:43.700 I do.

00:24:44.620 As a matter of fact.

00:24:45.660 And all that new bedroom furniture and all the...

00:24:48.380 What happened to that really expensive piece of art that you just bought?

00:24:52.300 That was blown out, right?

00:24:53.900 It's gone.

00:24:54.980 Wow.

00:24:55.300 Wow.

00:24:55.520 Wow.

00:24:55.760 Everything under the insulation is all brand new electronics.

00:25:00.400 So...

00:25:00.800 Sorry.

00:25:01.660 All brand new.

00:25:02.980 Wow.

00:25:03.640 Wow.

00:25:04.480 Wow.

00:25:04.880 How unfortunate for you.

00:25:05.980 You sent a photo of what appears to be a board sneaking its way almost through your

00:25:11.240 head while you were sleeping.

00:25:15.420 We have this picture.

00:25:16.800 I mean, like legitimately, you can see a board pushing its way through the edge of the wall

00:25:21.440 from the outside.

00:25:23.080 I mean, it looks like something from Twister.

00:25:26.720 Yeah.

00:25:27.440 The behind the...

00:25:28.600 Behind our side wall of our bedroom is, you know, obviously just fencing and yard.

00:25:33.340 And you can see where pieces of wood, I'm guessing pieces of fence, were slammed up against the

00:25:39.000 side of the bedroom, and two or three of the pieces smashed through the wall.

00:25:45.580 One was...

00:25:46.300 One came all the way through, smashing into the headboard of our bed.

00:25:49.560 I mean, that's what stopped it from coming all the way in.

00:25:52.260 So, I tell you, Jeffy, and I mean this sincerely, I mean, you've had...

00:25:55.740 You had a heart attack earlier this year.

00:25:59.220 Now you're going through this.

00:26:01.800 I thought God was probably trying to kill you with a heart attack, but is it just possible

00:26:06.760 that he's just trying to stop you from procreating anymore?

00:26:10.520 It is possible, yeah.

00:26:12.040 It is possible, Glenn.

00:26:13.400 You could be right.

00:26:14.540 Yes.

00:26:15.360 I could be.

00:26:15.940 Okay, great.

00:26:17.000 It's been a really tough year for you, Jeffy.

00:26:19.400 Sincerely.

00:26:19.900 It's been an awful year for you.

00:26:23.200 You know, it's fine.

00:26:25.360 Don't worry about it.

00:26:25.980 Everything's fine, Glenn.

00:26:27.120 Don't worry about it.

00:26:28.100 Oh, none of us.

00:26:28.960 None of us were worried at all.

00:26:31.000 I hate to give you that impression.

00:26:32.860 We're just noticing.

00:26:34.120 Did I misinterpret that?

00:26:36.580 I'm sorry.

00:26:37.560 I apologize.

00:26:38.480 Yeah, no, there's no concern here on our part.

00:26:41.320 Okay.

00:26:42.040 Yeah, no, the house is fine.

00:26:44.140 After they fix it and the foundation is fixed, it'll be fine.

00:26:47.580 There's one big pillar that goes to the top of the trailer that's completely off.

00:26:53.580 I mean, it's about halfway down, and I'm not even sure how long the house will be livable

00:26:58.680 for a while.

00:26:59.220 I will say, Jeffy, this is one of those moments where you celebrate the joys of renting.

00:27:04.820 I know.

00:27:05.520 I mean, because, Jeffy, because I would rent for the rest of my life if I could, and I

00:27:10.220 swear, like, renting, and you have one of these things come down.

00:27:13.860 You, I mean, look, you've got a situation to deal with, you know, with no doubt, but

00:27:18.360 not having to go through and deal with all the insurance companies, all this other stuff.

00:27:22.140 At least you have some of that shielded from you in this particular situation.

00:27:25.340 Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.

00:27:26.920 There's no question about that.

00:27:28.120 But, I mean, you still have to go through it and try to, you know, get the house livable

00:27:32.340 or move again.

00:27:33.940 Yeah.

00:27:34.340 Well, the fact that you bought, you just bought 320 Apple iPads and, you know, iPhones and

00:27:41.440 flat screen TVs, and you put them all under where that water was.

00:27:43.700 It didn't suck up all that gold that you just purchased, did it?

00:27:47.460 But, I will say, the Liberty Safe did stand tall, so no problem.

00:27:53.580 It did it.

00:27:54.420 It did it.

00:27:55.000 Yes, it did.

00:27:55.640 Yes, it did.

00:27:55.780 Yes, it did.

00:27:56.360 Now, Jeffy, this is not going to prevent you.

00:27:57.180 Was it hanging on to you as well?

00:28:00.820 Liberty Safe.

00:28:03.480 That's funny.

00:28:04.660 It is funny, right?

00:28:05.860 That's funny.

00:28:06.980 It's funny.

00:28:07.660 Yeah, it is funny.

00:28:08.460 Now, Jeffy, this is not going to prevent you from hosting this tour of the museum that we're

00:28:13.760 doing together coming up in only 11 days, right?

00:28:16.640 I can still depend on you for that.

00:28:20.100 Sure.

00:28:21.380 Good, because I won't be able to make it, so if you don't mind taking the lead on it,

00:28:24.420 I'd appreciate that.

00:28:25.880 Yeah, sure.

00:28:26.920 Absolutely.

00:28:27.440 I should be back to that.

00:28:28.380 I should be back to, you know, one of the fastest growing podcasts in America, Chewing

00:28:32.340 the Fat, very soon.

00:28:33.940 Take your time.

00:28:34.600 I appreciate it.

00:28:35.060 Take your time.

00:28:35.940 Don't rush.

00:28:37.080 Don't rush to get back.

00:28:38.440 You sure?

00:28:39.400 Any idea how long it's going to take to get the house livable again?

00:28:43.080 I really, no.

00:28:44.280 No?

00:28:44.500 Really, no.

00:28:44.880 I mean, I have the electricians were out yesterday, and he was like, eh, you can turn

00:28:49.920 the AC on.

00:28:50.680 I mean, I would if I lived here, but you probably shouldn't.

00:28:53.840 Oh, okay.

00:28:55.700 Okay.

00:28:56.100 Thanks.

00:28:56.380 Sincerely, Jeff, we have, I mean, sincerely, we have extra rooms at our house that are sadly

00:29:04.760 in use, but Pat has plenty of room.

00:29:07.820 Which I told him last night.

00:29:09.040 Which I told him, and he's, uh, no, uh, we'd rather be at the Motel 6, that's, uh, or something

00:29:20.260 to that effect.

00:29:20.880 Well, sincerely, Jeffy, you know, you can stay at our place.

00:29:24.600 I know Pat is sincere about that as well.

00:29:26.780 Yep, absolutely.

00:29:27.320 Stu doesn't want you anywhere near his place.

00:29:29.180 Oh, no.

00:29:29.420 No, no.

00:29:29.800 I would rather, no.

00:29:30.720 Yeah, I'm not even off, I'm not even going to play the game.

00:29:32.640 I'm not offering it under any circumstance.

00:29:36.780 That's good, because I-

00:29:37.720 We're not going to feed you.

00:29:38.860 No.

00:29:39.220 We're not going to feed you.

00:29:40.080 No.

00:29:40.360 I mean, you know, it's not like we're built gates.

00:29:42.920 That was part of the deal.

00:29:43.260 And you'd have to bring your own sheets, because I don't want you laying on pine, you know.

00:29:47.920 But, uh.

00:29:51.500 But I have a covered area for my carport that you guys could live under for a while.

00:29:57.160 You guys are so thoughtful.

00:29:59.680 I really appreciate it.

00:30:00.500 Thank you so much.

00:30:01.520 Oh, that's us.

00:30:02.500 It means a lot.

00:30:03.600 Yeah.

00:30:03.940 My family really appreciates it.

00:30:05.240 And it's so typical, your luck, for this to happen right after you buy the Picasso. 0.99

00:30:09.440 I mean, it sucks. 0.55

00:30:11.180 What are the odds of that? 0.92

00:30:12.180 Thank you.

00:30:12.360 What did you pay for that?

00:30:13.320 And there's no record of that, except-

00:30:15.280 There's no record of that, except for the three of us.

00:30:20.580 But I will testify on your behalf.

00:30:24.880 Thank you.

00:30:25.360 All right.

00:30:25.580 Thank you very much.

00:30:26.120 Thank you so much, Jeff.

00:30:26.620 I appreciate it.

00:30:29.980 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:30:32.280 Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:30:50.320 It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts.

00:30:53.600 We welcome a good friend, Brad Thor, back to the program.

00:30:58.520 Hello, Brad.

00:30:59.060 How are you?

00:30:59.980 Good morning.

00:31:00.820 I'm doing well, thank you.

00:31:03.020 Good.

00:31:03.440 Long time no talk.

00:31:04.780 It has been a while.

00:31:05.780 I've been writing a new book, so I've been in the bunker.

00:31:08.880 I know.

00:31:09.260 So when is the book out?

00:31:11.620 It's called, my new thriller's called Backlash, and it debuts a week from today.

00:31:16.040 Week from today.

00:31:16.840 Okay, so we'll have you on to talk about the book.

00:31:19.820 It's about Russia, is it not?

00:31:22.980 It is.

00:31:23.660 It is about Russia.

00:31:24.480 It's a real fun thriller, something I've never done before, and a topic I haven't done before,

00:31:30.360 and I think I've come at the book with something nobody has actually ever written before, and I think they're going to love it.

00:31:36.220 Okay, great.

00:31:37.420 Let me just, while we're here on Russia, tell me what you think about the cyber war between the United States and Russia,

00:31:46.380 and what came out in the New York Times, I think this was a good thing that we're doing.

00:31:51.020 I think it's a good thing.

00:31:53.480 No, I agree with you 100%.

00:31:55.140 And, you know, what we see is only the tip of the iceberg out there.

00:31:58.480 So this is probably meant to be a very obvious shot across their bow, and they wouldn't do that if there wasn't something in the background that they were concerned about.

00:32:07.720 So we'd say, hey, don't mess with us because this is what's going to happen sort of a thing.

00:32:11.880 So I'm glad that we have the capability and that we're, you know, flexing our muscles a little bit just to let the Russians know,

00:32:18.780 don't think about messing with our power grid or anything like that.

00:32:21.500 You're going to be in big trouble.

00:32:23.320 So do you know anything about the Cyber Warfare Command and how it's just been given all of these new powers that were apparently slipped in,

00:32:35.040 I love this, slipped in on the defense bill, the last defense bill?

00:32:41.040 So I know a little bit about the organization, less about the defense bill.

00:32:45.540 You know, we've been under a state of emergency that's been renewed.

00:32:48.920 You and I have talked about this every single year since 9-11.

00:32:52.100 So there's a lot of powers the government is granting.

00:32:56.300 It's granting itself through this kind of continuing ongoing resolution that it renews every 365 days.

00:33:03.600 So my big thing is, you know, Frank Church in the 70s warned us that when the NSA turned its giant listening ears inward,

00:33:11.480 that will have been a Rubicon that we can't cross back over.

00:33:15.120 And that's what happened after 9-11.

00:33:16.520 We got with the Patriot Act and collecting all the metadata and the NSA outgrowing Fort Meade, Maryland

00:33:22.440 and having to build the big server farms in, what is it, south of Salt Lake City in Utah.

00:33:28.240 Anytime the stories are about them spying or surveilling outside the United States, I'm a happy camper.

00:33:36.280 So, Brad, it's been a while since we've really talked.

00:33:40.500 What do you think the State of the Union is?

00:33:42.740 Well, I think we're really toxic, and I think we've become very tribal in how we approach our politics.

00:33:52.320 The rise of nationalism has been very concerning to me.

00:33:56.560 I grew up wondering how so much could happen.

00:33:59.200 Good and decent German people could be physically and intellectually intimidated into silence in the 1930s,

00:34:06.220 and bad things could happen in that country.

00:34:07.980 I'm not saying we've got the rise of Nazism here, but we've got people who are piping up in the public square

00:34:13.840 that never, ever – we never would have found that socially acceptable as a culture.

00:34:19.640 First Amendment rights notwithstanding, there's just – there's stuff.

00:34:23.720 There are people that are empowered today to spew some absolutely vile stuff, and I think this goes back to us.

00:34:29.360 You know, we used to say, what will the neighbors think?

00:34:31.040 And now we don't even know the neighbors' names, and I think it's a symptom of a much deeper sickness.

00:34:38.220 By sickness, I mean kind of a wasting away of our culture and our unity as Americans.

00:34:43.540 We see ourselves in these silos, these subgroups, well before we see each other as fellow Americans, 0.87

00:34:49.020 and that's not good for a republic.

00:34:51.280 So, we're not only seeing people say crazy things, but we're at the same time seeing voices silenced.

00:35:02.680 And to me, that is just as concerning that the – you know, these organizations, they can do whatever they want

00:35:11.260 because, after all, they're not part of the government.

00:35:13.680 The First Amendment applies really to the government.

00:35:16.100 We are seeing an organization or several organizations that are getting so massive that you could lose freedom of speech

00:35:28.280 and the Constitution would have nothing to say about it.

00:35:32.700 Yeah, I've seen a lot of comparisons made to kind of the monopolies of railroads and steel and all of those titans of industry.

00:35:43.160 And that argument is one that resonates to a certain degree with me.

00:35:47.940 We see people thrown off of Facebook, thrown off of Twitter, thrown off of YouTube.

00:35:52.200 We always said in this country that the answer to bad speech is not less speech.

00:35:58.000 It's more speech.

00:35:59.160 It's a competition of ideas and whose ideas are better.

00:36:04.900 It concerns me that some people – again, this siloing.

00:36:08.260 I am concerned that we have people who are only getting their news from Facebook.

00:36:12.000 And I don't care if you're left, right, or center.

00:36:14.160 That's not a good idea to gather all your news from Facebook, regardless of what your politics are.

00:36:19.900 We've become lazy.

00:36:21.200 We've become spiritually lazy.

00:36:23.000 We've become civically lazy, and we've become intellectually lazy in this country.

00:36:27.180 We have it better.

00:36:28.320 Jonah Goldberg's book, Suicide of the West, was so fantastic because he said we're at the top of the mountain.

00:36:32.820 And if we're not careful, if you lean too far forward, too far back, too far left, too far right, you fall off the top of the mountain.

00:36:39.820 This is the best point in the history of the world to be alive, and we're in the greatest country to be alive in.

00:36:46.560 But if we aren't careful, we are going to lose it.

00:36:49.520 And so this laziness across those areas that I just explained really does concern me because we are not fighting enough for free speech.

00:36:57.380 Glenn, I put a self-destruct program on my Twitter account.

00:37:02.080 My tweets don't last more than two weeks now because I don't want somebody bringing up a great joke I made after a back-and-forth with Pat or Stu on Twitter and dragging it up from five years ago and saying, hey, wait a second.

00:37:14.220 This sounds terrible.

00:37:15.420 Well, in the context of five years ago, it was really funny because I'd been on the show with Glenn, and we had joked about this, and I made the joke on Twitter afterwards.

00:37:23.780 That kind of stuff really as an author, someone who makes his living by expressing himself and with words, it freaks the hell out of me.

00:37:31.140 So yesterday, I've been feeling this for a while, that we're living in a digital age, and when you look at, for instance, the movies you buy, you don't actually buy them.

00:37:49.080 You're still renting them.

00:37:50.740 You're leasing them from Apple or anybody else because they don't own the rights.

00:37:56.620 They lease the rights.

00:37:57.900 And so when Disney comes out with their own platform, most likely Disney is going to say, okay, you can only get our movies from our platform.

00:38:08.660 So if you bought all those Disney movies digitally, when that license expires with Disney, if Disney decides not to continue the license with Apple, you lose all of that.

00:38:23.000 And it is amazing to me how we could silence somebody who has a lifetime of work, and all of their work could be gone almost overnight.

00:38:38.600 You could take back all of the books, unless they're in print.

00:38:42.720 You could take back all of the books.

00:38:44.300 You could take back all of their videos.

00:38:46.040 They're gone.

00:38:46.960 You could silence their voice and put them behind a wall.

00:38:50.640 Does this concern you at all, or is this just me being too paranoid?

00:38:55.380 No.

00:38:55.720 Listen, I agree 100%.

00:38:57.340 It's a push-pull, right?

00:38:58.740 Remember when U2 had that album and everybody was forced to receive the album?

00:39:03.780 Yes.

00:39:04.320 It's a two-way street, so stuff can be pushed on you and it can be removed.

00:39:08.620 You could have the version on your Kindle of a book replaced with an edited version.

00:39:13.180 So without your permission, they can do something like that via not just Kindle but any e-platform at all.

00:39:19.540 So when you're dealing with digital, listen, the smartest thing my wife ever did was she went out and bought all Mel Brooks' movies on DVD because we didn't want to lose them.

00:39:28.780 You know, there's movies that I think are very funny that Mel Brooks did that if you tried to do them today, you'd never be able to get them done.

00:39:36.200 In fact, you know, Mel Brooks would be the public pillory, he'd be dragged to it.

00:39:42.100 So, yes, that is a concern.

00:39:43.660 The more we are reliant on digital, this is precisely why I don't do online banking.

00:39:48.420 I don't like the idea of somebody being able – and, yeah, you have to give your permission to pay bills and all this kind of stuff.

00:39:54.760 I still do paper checks.

00:39:56.060 It's just the way I am.

00:39:57.620 I just don't like surrendering everything to digital.

00:40:01.200 I think it comes with a lot of risk, and you couple that with the story you opened up this segment with about the article in the New York Times about us, you know, flexing our muscles with Russia in cyberspace with threatening their grid system.

00:40:16.400 This is pretty serious, and the more reliant we are on digital, the more susceptible we are to great havoc.

00:40:23.520 And I don't think that Russia is the – I think they will be deterred with mutually assured destruction. 0.98

00:40:33.000 But places like Iran and North Korea, they will not be deterred by mutually assured destruction. 1.00

00:40:40.340 Do you agree with that?

00:40:41.000 Correct.

00:40:41.180 They won't, and you also need to keep in mind with Russia that they've got a very active propaganda outlet, Russia Today, where they are pushing stories about 5G causing cancer because the U.S. is so far behind in that technology, and Russia is trying to rush their own version of it ahead.

00:41:01.560 So there's a lot happening with Russia beyond just what they could do electronically from kind of a cyber warfare standpoint.

00:41:09.640 They're also running a very active cyber warfare propaganda campaign.

00:41:13.420 I don't know if you've noticed this, but all of the stuff that has come out recently about deep fakes, it's all coming from the Samsung Center in Moscow.

00:41:26.860 And that concerns me that, you know, the Samsung Center in Moscow is the one leading the way on this because you know that the Russians will use that.

00:41:39.140 All right, back with Brad Thor here in just a second.

00:41:41.240 I want to get his list of things that he thinks we should preserve, books that he thinks we should have in paper form.

00:41:47.920 What I'm doing is I'm putting a whole list together, and I ask for your help.

00:41:50.840 Go to glennbeck.com slash save books, and give me a list of what you think is important culturally, is important to show the progress and the bad side of America.

00:42:03.600 What would you want if you needed a library that said, this is what the West was, this is how it worked, and this is its faults, this is how you would restart it.

00:42:15.000 Go to glennbeck.com slash save books.

00:42:17.740 All right, we are back with Brad Thor.

00:42:20.420 So yesterday, we asked people, and we got a lot of responses online.

00:42:26.300 Just go to glennbeck.com slash save books.

00:42:28.700 We got a lot of repeats, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, The Bible of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, Brave New World, a lot of Calvin and Hobbes, believe it or not.

00:42:44.680 I don't know about that.

00:42:46.300 But I wanted to get Brad Thor on because I wanted to get his list, and then I want to ask him another question about books we should preserve.

00:42:57.520 But first, let's get your list, Brad.

00:43:00.060 All right.

00:43:00.660 So my list, I kind of have it broken into groups.

00:43:04.260 It would be the Bible, the Summa Theological by St. Thomas Aquinas, the Federalist Papers, complete with the founding documents, the Constitution, Declaration of Independence,

00:43:14.060 The Road to Serfdom, The Gulag Archipelago, and Cinderella Story, My Life in Golf by Bill Murray.

00:43:24.100 The Bill Murray one took me by surprise.

00:43:30.060 So, Brad, I think actually it's important to preserve culture as well, both good and bad, to show where we were as a people.

00:43:39.660 Brad, I was thinking about, on my list, putting perhaps you or Tom Clancy or some Vince Flynn onto my list because you are not only part of the culture,

00:43:56.880 but you have, there's so much truth in the books that you guys write.

00:44:01.700 It has to make sense, and it has to be based in fact.

00:44:05.580 Otherwise, you guys couldn't sell a book.

00:44:07.220 Well, if you were going to preserve...

00:44:10.220 If you coined the phrase, you called it faction, Glenn.

00:44:12.980 You said, you know, you don't know where the facts end and the fiction begins.

00:44:16.380 That's your phrase.

00:44:17.560 I mean, I've done thrillers about the Federal Reserve, about the threat of too much technology.

00:44:22.700 I mean, with each book I do, my job is to give people a white-knuckle thrill ride, a fun, you know, take it to the beach, take it to the lake kind of book.

00:44:29.580 But when you close it, you're smarter about the threats the country faces and what your role is as a citizen.

00:44:35.520 So, I mean, I'm thrilled that you put me in that group with Vince and with Clancy.

00:44:39.860 But I think that's probably not a bad idea if you want to get a current snapshot of the threats the country faces.

00:44:47.240 Well, I did include Michael Crichton's Some of All Fears.

00:44:53.260 I think that's...

00:44:53.980 Isn't that it?

00:44:54.540 Some of All Fears about the...

00:44:57.240 Climate of Fear.

00:44:57.960 Global warming.

00:44:59.400 What is it still?

00:45:00.320 Climate of Fear.

00:45:01.120 Climate of Fear.

00:45:01.860 Climate of Fear.

00:45:02.300 Some of All Fears was Clancy.

00:45:04.420 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:45:05.240 So, Climate of Fear, which was fantastic on its truth.

00:45:11.360 It tells the story of what's happening with global warming.

00:45:15.300 He started to write it as a pro-global warming thing.

00:45:19.320 He got into the facts and he realized this is hogwash.

00:45:22.620 So he wrote it all.

00:45:23.740 And then the last part of the book is all about here are the facts.

00:45:26.960 Here's everything that I said in this book.

00:45:28.860 It is happening right now.

00:45:31.260 And I think that's a really important thing, especially when it comes to global warming.

00:45:37.580 Listen, there's a reason they come for the academics.

00:45:40.040 It's the journalists and the authors first, right?

00:45:42.680 When they want to silence truth.

00:45:44.160 Those tend to be the three groups of people whose job it is to get the word out there.

00:45:49.440 We can talk about journalism today and whether they're really living up to that standard.

00:45:54.300 But I think that if you really want to see what's happening in a society at any given point in time,

00:46:00.680 look at what's being written.

00:46:02.040 Look at the written word.

00:46:04.900 If you had to save one Clancy book and one Thor book, what would it be?

00:46:10.040 If you had to save one Clancy book and one Thor book, I think the hunt for Red October is always going to be the best.

00:46:19.440 Yeah.

00:46:19.880 Yeah.

00:46:20.220 I just think that we're not learning anything about the Soviet era anymore.

00:46:24.180 And it would be it's culturally important and important globally as well to remember that and to remember what the Cold War felt like.

00:46:31.940 How about a Thor book?

00:46:32.960 Well, so if I had to pick a Thor book, I'd probably, considering everything that we're going under, we're dealing with right now, would be my book, Blacklist.

00:46:44.920 Blacklist.

00:46:46.060 Blacklist, which had to do with total surveillance of the population.

00:46:49.340 What you and I talked about earlier, the warning from Frank Church in the 70s, that if the NSA ever turned its giant listening ears inward on the U.S., we would have crossed the Rubicon.

00:46:58.180 And I actually opened Blacklist, my thriller Blacklist, with Frank Church, with a direct quote from him on the Today Show, talking about his earrings and what he learned about the NSA.

00:47:07.840 That was one of my favorite books of yours, and I can't wait to read Backlash.

00:47:12.820 It comes out, Backlash, comes out next week, next Tuesday.

00:47:16.540 Brad, I'm sure we'll talk to you again, hopefully next week when that book comes out.

00:47:20.720 You can order it now in advance.

00:47:22.380 Brad Thor and Backlash.

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